Here is Newsday's review from June 15, 1995 of "Batman Forever" by our then-movie critic Jack Mathews: Riddle me this, Bat fan: What was dark is light, what was hip is flip, what was old is new ...

“I was friends with Joel Schumacher, the director, who I thought of this morning because it was he and Val Kilmer that pulled me into Batman Forever ... on Broadway in 1983 alongside fellow ...