Also credited on2 works
Bonnie and Clyde
“It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman”
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In the literature8 passages
- “When we took out the music, for starters, it flew.…”—DAVID NEWMAN , who with Robert Benton wrote It’s a Bird … and then the 1978 hit movie Superman (starring Christopher Reeve)ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- Produced at a time when “Batman” was all the rage on TV and pop art and comic-book heroes were popular, Superman ’s book, by David Newman and Robert Benton, told of its hero’s being threatened by the jealous Dr. Abner Sedgwick, a ten-time Nobel Prize loser seeking revenge by attempting to destroy the world’s symbol of good, and Max Menken…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- Some of the rumors: that so many play-doctors (including Robert Benton and David Newman) were being implored to come down and patch up the book, they were bumping into one another on the Metroliner; that equal numbers of songwriters were being invited to create new songs; that Debbie had called Sir John "a hack;" and that Peter Gennaro ha…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- When he got home, Herr found a message on his answering machine. It was Cohn. He wanted Robert Benton to produce the Winchell movie and suggested they meet again to talk further. Back in New York, in Cohn’s office, Herr turned the conversation to directors. Did Sam like the idea of Coppola? “There was silence,” Herr recalled. “It was like…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
- youths—nor the adults—bothered with Superman. Librettists David Newman and Robert Benton came out best of all, parlaying their contact (and contract) with the Man of Steel into the 1978 motion picturetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman and _ Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, oo ees and Sherman Yellentheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
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