This is such a bummer! The Superman movie occupies a big place in my childhood. I went to see it with my birthday party when I was like seven years old. I, too, expected Reeve to walk again some day. Damn.
Williams also donated millions to research into stemcell and other technologies that might help Reeve walk again.
How unbelievably sad. This is the first time that I can think of that a celebrity death has gotten me so down. Poor Superman.
You know, as far as I’m concerned, he and George Reeves are the only actors suitable to play Supes. I realize plenty of people will disagree with me on this, but those are the guys I grew up watching, and anyone else in the role just seems wrong, IMHO.
Rest well, Mr. Reeve.
Everybody remembers him as Superman, but for some reason I remember him as Lewis, the American businessman in Remains of the Day. It wasn’t a major role in the film, but he played it well, conveying an air of decency and honor that contrasted sharply with Lord Darlington’s German guests.
Note to all other saddened folk: Apparently " For those who care to do so, the family has requested that donations be made in his honor to the Foundation. Cards may be sent to the family in care of the Foundation at 500 Morris Avenue, Springfield, New Jersey 07081" - from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation website, http://www.christopherreeve.org/
i was shocked and sadden to hear of mr. reeve’s passing.
if not for the very quick response after his accident, he would have passed 9 years ago. the way he would have been remembered then, so very, very, different than now.
he did more with 9 years with a disabled body than many people do in 90 years in an able body. he changed the way many people look at a person in a chair. he gave hope to so many people. he showed so much dignity dealing with a condition that strips you of so much.
i’m very grateful he got 9 years with his family, esp. his youngest son. his friends, esp. robin williams. and with us who watched from afar.
I just this minute found out. We were talking on the phone about his death (and the fact that Mom is well enough to talk on the phone is a huge boost to my day, by the way) and she said, “Oh, I got to know him quite well through National Transplant.”
After she retired, Mom volunteered at several charities, including National Transplant Assistance Fund, which was one of Chris Reeve’s many causes. “He was a very nice guy, but I’m surprised he lived this long,” she says.
I knew Mom knows Kobe Bryant, but this was a total surprise! Hmmm, Mom knew him, I was sorta in a movie with him . . . Practically makes us related!
I’m sure this is just one of many similar cartoons to be published in the days to come, but PvP Online had a pretty good tribute to him today.
Here’s hoping DC Comics gives him a proper tribute.
"And sometimes I despair
the world will never see
Another man like him"
Superman’s Song
by Crash Test Dummies
Fly away, big man.
I was crying and crying for about half an hour today. And I felt so dumb, but-- He was a good man.
For Christmas last year, I gave my dad a Superman toy as a present. Dad was one of the kids who would go out every month and buy the new DC Comics issue at the drugstore, and he used to sit down with us when we were really little and watch the old movies with my brother and I, too. This toy was really neat – it was a little 8" Superman action figure that was chained to this brick wall, and you could stack the bricks on top of each other and push a button, and then the bricks would crash down and Superman would fly off the stand. And I kept thinking about that toy this afternoon, and I was looking at pictures of Christopher Reeve in costume, and I was just crying and crying and crying.
Too beautiful and too courageous a man to die, too young and too loved by so many.
From the New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/national/11CND-REEV.html?hp&ex=1097553600&en=67047ac2f3ebd876&ei=5094&partner=homepage:
Hasten the day Reeve worked so hard to bring about, when that cause-of-death will seem as much a thing of the past as polio!
There was a promo for a local news program that’s supposed to air tomorrow a segment on a new three step procedure which can cure some forms of paralysis.
If you want to know what type of person Christopher Reeve was, here’s a story from Talking Broadway’s “All that Chat” message board:
I’ll say. I had tickets with my family to see “The Fifth Of July” at The New Appollo at a Saturday matinee. I was waiting by the stage door with the window card and was hoping he’d be cool enough to sign it. He was a huge international star by then. Well lo and behold Mr. Reeve walks up and sees the window card and flips out… he hadn’t seen it yet and was thrilled with it. He wanted to know where I got and as I tried to give him directions to Triton he says, hey take a walk with me and off we went up 8th towards 45th. We got up to the corner of 8th and 45th, I pointed out the store and back we went to the matinee. He was lovely and funny and I have the first lobby card he signed from the show.