Christopher Reeve has died

[spunkygirl]

OMG please don't be true. I haven't read anything about him getting worse, he seemed to be getting better

(please don't be true)

[Brian]

Originally posted by Jack Be Quick 101
use a little tact?? huh, lol, what do you mean?

This is a condolence thread. It probably isn't a good idea to ask if he's hot.


RIP Chris. You were born to be Superman and you have been him until the day you passed on.

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

It just doesn't seem like it is. Usually that stuff is all over places like yahoo and IMDB...i don't know, though :/

[AKA]

Yahoo! News doesn't have anything on this. At least, not yet.

But in doing a search there, I found out that he was making appearances just last week. So if this is true, it really is sudden.

[Krankenschwester]

Originally posted by *A TV People*
I checked IMDB, and if that doesn't have it...I don't know what the hell will. That'd be sad, though

The IMDB is one of THE most unreliable sources out there. It survives only on contributions from "people like us." It is not updated properly. Please do not use that as a source of solid information for your own sake. Janet should not be posting this nonsense until there's decent media attention or mention.

Edit...it's true...so I retract the major portion of my post.

[AKA]

Originally posted by *A TV People*
It just doesn't seem like it is. Usually that stuff is all over places like yahoo and IMDB...i don't know, though :/

IMDB usually only updates their front page once or twice a day.

[Jack Be Quick 101]

Originally posted by Brian
This is a condolence thread. It probably isn't a good idea to ask if he's hot.


RIP Chris. You were born to be Superman and you have been him until the day you passed on.

i'm sorry, but i have always considered superman to be hot. i mean ... the suit, the cape, his face and all .... purrr, turns me on.

[Krankenschwester]

Well...I take my passionate plea back....he's gone, it seems!

[Mr. Stefani]

Source: ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...=101123&page=1

Christopher Reeve XXX at XX
Superman actor Christopher Reeve XX at XX
Valerie Reiss

XX The world's beloved superman XX today in XX from XX according to XX.

[Christopher Reeve Born: September 25, 1952, New York, NY]

With an "S" emblazoned on his broad chest, the young, chiseled Christopher Reeve smacked down villains, stopped natural disasters and rescued damsels in distress (when he wasn't X-Ray-visioning their dresses or flying them to his crystal lair). Women swooned, men ran to the gym, kids tied on tablecloths and leaped around their backyards: Reeve's Superman epitomized Ivory-soap goodness, heroic sex appeal and super-human strength.

Ironically, though, Reeve's real-life Herculean bravery emerged after a riding accident paralyzed him from the neck down in 1995.

Though he contemplated "pulling the plug" when he first realized he could not move or breathe on his own, with the support of his wife Dana and others, his despair turned to determination. He became a passionate advocate for spinal cord injury research, raising funds, writing books, testifying before Congress and giving motivational speeches all over the country.


Superboy

Reeve was born in Manhattan to two intellectuals - his mother was a newspaper writer and his father a novelist, translator and professor. At age four, his parents divorced and he moved with his mother and younger brother to Princeton, New Jersey. There Reeve found relief from family turmoil and adolescent awkwardness through acting. Starring in virtually every stage production at his private high school, by the time he was 16 he had an Actors' Equity membership card and an agent.

After graduating from Cornell University in 1974 with a degree in English and music theory - he was an avid pianist - he observed backstage at the Old Vic in London and the Comedie-Franciase in Paris. He went on to the Julliard School for Drama in New York City, where he met his roommate and lifelong friend-to-be, Robin Williams.

Reeve got a break when he debuted on Broadway in the short-lived A Matter of Gravity with Katherine Hepburn in 1975. Reeves soon made his film debut - a bit part in a nuclear submarine disaster movie, Gray Lady Down. His career finally took off in a red cape when he was offered an audition for Superman.

Though at first, he thought the role beneath him. "I was sort of a snob about it," he told Barbara Walters. "I thought it would be kind of hokey and I didn't quite get it that this guy is a cultural icon." But after falling in love with the script, he prepared with gusto, lifting weights and rehearsing in costume, gaining 30 pounds for the role. By the time he had his screen test, he was Superman, wiping out 200 other wannabe Men of Steel.

When Superman came out, its instant, wild success slammed Reeve with all the blessings and curses of celebrity. Appearing in three more Superman movies - the last two considerably less successful than the first two - Reeve struggled not to be typecast, continuing to act on stage in between films. Though he was deluged with scripts, to some Reeve chose strangely - his first film after Superman was the low-budget, poorly received Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer. He also turned down Richard Gere's role in American Gigolo and "chickened out" of doing Body Heat. He did appear, though, in Deathtrap, Noises Off, The Remains of the Day, Speechless and Village of the Damned.


Overcoming Tragedy of "Absolute Freak" Accident

Everything changed on May 27, 1995. During an equestrian competition in Virginia, Reeve's horse, Eastern Express, came to an inexplicable halt before an easy three-foot jump. Reeve's hands were tangled in the reins and he flew from the horse, landing on his head and smashing two vertebrae. If a bystander had not quickly opened his airway, he would have died instantly.

Reeve later told Barbara Walters it was an "absolute freak" accident that could not have been prevented.

At first, doctors gave Reeve a 50 percent chance of survival. When he was still in shock and unsure if he would make it, Robin Williams came into his hospital room in a blue scrub hat and yellow gown. "I'm a proctologist here to examine you," he said in a Russian accent, snapping his rubber gloves. "For the first time after the accident, I laughed," Reeve told ABC. "And with that, I knew I was going to be okay."

Reeve fought depression for months, though. "You look out the window, and you can't believe where you are. And the thought that keeps going through your mind is, `This can't be my life. There's been a mistake,'" he later recalled.

Before the accident, he was physical as Superman. An experienced equestrian, he had won many ribbons. He also piloted a plane over the Atlantic - twice; skippered his own sailboat; played ice hockey in the winter; soccer in summer.


He struggled through physical therapy with astounding grit and dedication: he was determined to one day walk again. "When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon," Reeve once said, "everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal cord injuries too, if there's a will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space."

Reeve was also determined not to be a vegetable. He wrote two best-selling memoirs; directed the well-received television movie, In the Gloaming and though he was already involved in a number of charities and the National Endowment for the Arts, he upped the ante. One of his many legacies is the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which raises funds for biomedical research and advocates for the disabled. He and his wife have given over $22 million for paralysis research. And in May 2002, he and his wife opened the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, a center devoted to teaching paralyzed people to live more independently.

The Superman ideal allowed Reeve to help himself and others. "I've seen first hand how Superman actually transforms people's lives," he once said. "I have seen children dying of brain tumors who wanted as their last request to be able to talk to me? They're connecting with something very basic: the ability to overcome obstacles, the ability to persevere, the ability to understand difficulty and to turn your back on it."

Reeve is survived by his wife, Dana Reeve and two sons and a daughter: Alexandra, Will and Matthew.

[Krankenschwester]

[Brian]

Originally posted by Krankenschwester
Janet should not be posting this nonsense until there's decent media attention or mention. Of which at this hour, there is none. At least put a question mark in the header for chrissakes!

I disagree. She can post this if she wants to. If it turns out to be false, she can always edit it out and close it.

[Jack Be Quick 101]

Originally posted by Mr. Stefani
Source: ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...=101123&page=1

Christopher Reeve XXX at XX
Superman actor Christopher Reeve XX at XX
Valerie Reiss

XX The world's beloved superman XX today in XX from XX according to XX.

[Christopher Reeve Born: September 25, 1952, New York, NY]

With an "S" emblazoned on his broad chest, the young, chiseled Christopher Reeve smacked down villains, stopped natural disasters and rescued damsels in distress (when he wasn't X-Ray-visioning their dresses or flying them to his crystal lair). Women swooned, men ran to the gym, kids tied on tablecloths and leaped around their backyards: Reeve's Superman epitomized Ivory-soap goodness, heroic sex appeal and super-human strength.

Ironically, though, Reeve's real-life Herculean bravery emerged after a riding accident paralyzed him from the neck down in 1995.

Though he contemplated "pulling the plug" when he first realized he could not move or breathe on his own, with the support of his wife Dana and others, his despair turned to determination. He became a passionate advocate for spinal cord injury research, raising funds, writing books, testifying before Congress and giving motivational speeches all over the country.


Superboy

Reeve was born in Manhattan to two intellectuals - his mother was a newspaper writer and his father a novelist, translator and professor. At age four, his parents divorced and he moved with his mother and younger brother to Princeton, New Jersey. There Reeve found relief from family turmoil and adolescent awkwardness through acting. Starring in virtually every stage production at his private high school, by the time he was 16 he had an Actors' Equity membership card and an agent.

After graduating from Cornell University in 1974 with a degree in English and music theory - he was an avid pianist - he observed backstage at the Old Vic in London and the Comedie-Franciase in Paris. He went on to the Julliard School for Drama in New York City, where he met his roommate and lifelong friend-to-be, Robin Williams.

Reeve got a break when he debuted on Broadway in the short-lived A Matter of Gravity with Katherine Hepburn in 1975. Reeves soon made his film debut - a bit part in a nuclear submarine disaster movie, Gray Lady Down. His career finally took off in a red cape when he was offered an audition for Superman.

Though at first, he thought the role beneath him. "I was sort of a snob about it," he told Barbara Walters. "I thought it would be kind of hokey and I didn't quite get it that this guy is a cultural icon." But after falling in love with the script, he prepared with gusto, lifting weights and rehearsing in costume, gaining 30 pounds for the role. By the time he had his screen test, he was Superman, wiping out 200 other wannabe Men of Steel.

When Superman came out, its instant, wild success slammed Reeve with all the blessings and curses of celebrity. Appearing in three more Superman movies - the last two considerably less successful than the first two - Reeve struggled not to be typecast, continuing to act on stage in between films. Though he was deluged with scripts, to some Reeve chose strangely - his first film after Superman was the low-budget, poorly received Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer. He also turned down Richard Gere's role in American Gigolo and "chickened out" of doing Body Heat. He did appear, though, in Deathtrap, Noises Off, The Remains of the Day, Speechless and Village of the Damned.


Overcoming Tragedy of "Absolute Freak" Accident

Everything changed on May 27, 1995. During an equestrian competition in Virginia, Reeve's horse, Eastern Express, came to an inexplicable halt before an easy three-foot jump. Reeve's hands were tangled in the reins and he flew from the horse, landing on his head and smashing two vertebrae. If a bystander had not quickly opened his airway, he would have died instantly.

Reeve later told Barbara Walters it was an "absolute freak" accident that could not have been prevented.

At first, doctors gave Reeve a 50 percent chance of survival. When he was still in shock and unsure if he would make it, Robin Williams came into his hospital room in a blue scrub hat and yellow gown. "I'm a proctologist here to examine you," he said in a Russian accent, snapping his rubber gloves. "For the first time after the accident, I laughed," Reeve told ABC. "And with that, I knew I was going to be okay."

Reeve fought depression for months, though. "You look out the window, and you can't believe where you are. And the thought that keeps going through your mind is, `This can't be my life. There's been a mistake,'" he later recalled.

Before the accident, he was physical as Superman. An experienced equestrian, he had won many ribbons. He also piloted a plane over the Atlantic - twice; skippered his own sailboat; played ice hockey in the winter; soccer in summer.


He struggled through physical therapy with astounding grit and dedication: he was determined to one day walk again. "When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon," Reeve once said, "everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal cord injuries too, if there's a will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space."

Reeve was also determined not to be a vegetable. He wrote two best-selling memoirs; directed the well-received television movie, In the Gloaming and though he was already involved in a number of charities and the National Endowment for the Arts, he upped the ante. One of his many legacies is the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which raises funds for biomedical research and advocates for the disabled. He and his wife have given over $22 million for paralysis research. And in May 2002, he and his wife opened the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, a center devoted to teaching paralyzed people to live more independently.

The Superman ideal allowed Reeve to help himself and others. "I've seen first hand how Superman actually transforms people's lives," he once said. "I have seen children dying of brain tumors who wanted as their last request to be able to talk to me? They're connecting with something very basic: the ability to overcome obstacles, the ability to persevere, the ability to understand difficulty and to turn your back on it."

Reeve is survived by his wife, Dana Reeve and two sons and a daughter: Alexandra, Will and Matthew.

aww, that's sad.
he will be forever missed.

r.i.p. christopher (aka my hero of my dreams when i was little)

[Krankenschwester]

As it turns out it may be true. Still....I disagree about posting stuff from ONE source. It UPSETS people.

[Mr. Stefani]

I'm guessing the xxx is since his family has yet to confirm it?

[dandelion wine]

I.. am in absolute shock and am deeply saddened by this. He fought so hard, he never felt sorry for himself and I always had admiration for him.

May you rest in peace, Superman.