If you watch the Tiger preview video of Apple's controversial Dashboard, you will see an address book entry for an Apple employee named Alan Smithee. The demo could have shown the name Steve Jobs and no one would have questioned it. So why Alan Smithee? According to the Internet Movie Database, Alan Smithee is "a common pseudonym for directors whose film was clearly taken away from her/him and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film...So if you notice a film directed by Alan Smithee, it is certain it is not what its director intended, and likely that it is not any good."




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