For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76FXY)
For three decades, a Hollywood director who wanted to disown a film could take his name off it and replace it with one man: Alan Smithee. According to Wikipedia, the name was "an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project," coined by the Directors Guild of America in 1968. - Read the rest
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