It's taken 50 years, 29 movies and, owing to one monster-sized tail, who-knows-how-many accidentally knocked over craft-service tables, but Godzilla is finally getting his Hollywood coming-out party. In the coming days, the made-in-Japan leading lizard will ride in a parade, get starred on Hollywood Boulevard and storm the red carpet for a Grauman's Chinese Theatre movie premiere. He'll also say goodbye. Or so it's been said. "It's the latest last movie," says Ed Godziszewski, publisher of Japanese Giants magazine. "It" is Godzilla Final Wars, billed as "the last Godzilla film." Well-versed in kaiju eiga (that's Japanese for "monster movie"), Godziszewski...
