Confidential

Superman Confidential is a monthly comic book series from DC Comics, which debuted on November 1st, 2006. Superman Confidential will feature stories of the superhero Superman by rotating creative teams and is set in the early years of the character’s career. The stories will illustrate key moments in the character’s past such as first meetings, critical decisions, alliances, confrontations and events that would shape him as the character he is today. The stories in Confidential will be more in continuity than previous efforts like Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and Legends of the DC Universe. The events of the DC Comics storyline Infinite Crisis helped in cleaning up the character’s history and open it up for further interpretations.

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Karlson and Payne teamed up a year later for another dark black-and-white noir, 99 River Street and again in 1955, this time in color, for the noir Hell’s Island. Perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play the film’s heavies. Although the title would suggest that the story takes place in Kansas City, most of the film takes place in Mexico. This was director Karlson’s second film noir. He also directed Scandal Sheet, a modest success, also released in 1952. The tag line for the film was, “Exploding like a gun in your face!”

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door.In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.

1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and producer offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.