whether you’re familiar with the work of Kevin Smith,then you’ve most certainly heard the yarn of his encounter with Jon Peters. When Smith was offered the chance to pen the script for a Superman movie in the ‘90s, he met with the notorious Oscar-winning producer to make his case. Peters, or the former boyfriend and hairdresser of Barbra Streisand who went on to produce Tim Burton’s Batman,was a wildly divisive figure and the very epitome of the mad Hollywood producer stereotype, as evidenced in his meetings with Smith.
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