The late Gene Hackman leaves a legacy of cinematic grasping, of striving for more. What's more common—or more American—than that?

Smallville’s Lex Luthor actor Michael Rosenbaum shared a personal tribute to Gene Hackman following his death last week.

Writer Elliot S! Maggin brought a certain humanity to Lex Luthor in his Superman stories that few other writers tapped into ...