A friend of mine, who has no e-mail yet, wants to write a paper about Alan Smithee. This is a pseudonym first used in 1967 by a director who didn't want to be held responsible for a movie he had (partly) directed (it was the reason why he didn't want to put his name on it). Since then, if a director doesn't want to be responsible for a movie he had directed, the director was named Alan/Allen Smithee. My friend would like to have answers to these questions: 1) Who knows more about this name. 2) Who knows about directors who directed, and put the name A> Alan/Allen Smithee on their movie. 3) Who knows titles of movies directed by A.S.. 4) A documentary film was made about this phenomenon. Does anybody know the title, name of director, name of producer/production company, anyway info that leads to this documentary. Well that it. It's quite a lot. On behalf of Gijs, the friend mentioned above, TIA. Sorry for my bad English, I am not a native speaker. Regards Daniel Salo Regards Daniel Salomons