However this was no 'lark' - he won £8k in a karaoke in '99, paid for singing lessons with the proceeds and went to Italy and sang in front of pavarotti. He had a variety of roles in theatre productions during the following years, has done pieces with the National Phillharmonic and toured Italy solo.

I hope they do pay attention to these years of graft, or at least acknowledge them, in this movie (which I probably wont see anyway). It really pisses me off in films and tv they pimp the whole 'oh they just walked in off the street fully realized' when in fact years of dedicated training was involved to reach that level. It's important and incidentally makes the reward and end result all the more powerful - and is a good moral message to kids (as opposed to the implied 'hey kids, look - instant fame for no effort')

Welcome to network TV.

But in fact, I'd rather watch 90 minutes of Asian's talking in "Engrish" than watch this Simon shit.

ps this moive looks like a pile of dog shit

In Superman 2 there is a scene near the beginning in the small town where the "Please mr general, put my father down" kid goes galloping off on a horse. As he gets out of sight Non throws the police car light in that direction, and there is a large explosion just over the hill. Some woman screams "He was just a boy!" and Ursa replies "Now he will never be a man."

So yes, you can kill a kid in a superman movie.

Not my cup of tea.

We humbly await thy word....