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Excellent tribute Scott, thanks for sharing this. It just about moved me to tears, and I'm at work right now...

I did break him out for a few minutes, but I
wasn't happy with him, so I decided to make a
version of a fanfic character I created years
ago ... a guy who did his utmost to live up
to the legend of Superman.

Reeve had skill, fortitude, charisma, and more acting talent than most gave him credit for, and I'm very sorry for his not seeing more years pass toward finding a cure for his affliction.

I also feel for his wife, who stuck by him, when so many spouses these days cut and run after encountering one-one-hundredth of that amount of strain in their marriages.

As to noting where I do demur about his acting -- or his activism -- now is not the time. In a couple weeks, perhaps.

I don't have the word to say how sorry I feel at this news.

On tv today they ran a bit of one of his interviews. He was asked what he would want to hear if God spoke to him. "Welcome." was Reeves reply.

May he get the welcome he so truly deserved.

i was really sad to hear this news !!! Christopher truly was a SUPERMAN !!! it's a terrible that he didn't live longer to use the medical advances that he was campaigning for !!!

although, hopefully these advances will becoma available at some point in the future .....

the death of someone you grew up with always hits home more, like some other people have said "SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE" was probably one of the first films i remember going to see at the cinema !!!

and it had such a masive impact on my life !!! i believed ..... a man could fly !!! the wonder and amazement has stayed with through my life !!!

a sad loss for uss all ....

Matthew.

From Ain\'t It Cool News :

Christopher Reeve 1952-2004

by Ali Knievel

What makes a hero? I won’t mince words here with childhood remembrances of spending most of the 5th year of my life running around in the same blue Superman pajamas (with red cape, snow boots in August and added red Underoos with yellow lining to complete the effect). Nor will I spend more than this sentence relating back to the time, 14 years ago, when my brother and I went to a free Earth Day concert in Central Park where Christopher Reeve made a crack to a bunch of hippies sitting up in trees to “get down from those trees before I have to fly over there and take you out of them myself”. Those kinds of personal anecdotes and experiences are fine, but they’ve been shared by far better writers with much cooler stories than mine over the past few days. I just want to take this opportunity, not to mince words or relate personal anecdotes of a man I never actually knew, but to pay a fitting tribute to my hero Christopher Reeve, Superman.

It’s not merely about believing a man can fly. Truth-be-told, even as a 5 year old kid watching Superman II in the theater I knew a process shot when I saw one. What makes Christopher Reeve’s Superman so precious is that he made us believe a man could deal. Sure, so did Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, or even Han Solo for that matter. Christopher Reeve showed us that we all had it in us to do what is right even when worldly circumstance would have us fold or turn against our better nature and he did it with a confidence, what some have referred to as a “swagger” that made it near impossible to dismiss him as another out of touch cornball in tights telling us to drink our milk and do our homework, like Jackson Bostwick, Adam West, or even his predecessor George Reeves. I feel sorry for anyone cynical enough to merely dismiss him as such. He embodied an ideal and made what was merely a familiar piece of childhood Americana into a living, breathing, personified icon. No other representation of the character in any medium will ever come close to this level of realization. The only comic book Superman that even feels remotely like it is Byrne’s version (which explains its huge popularity). For me, it really feels like Superman died over the weekend too and I don’t think I can shake it.

I think Jon Quixote once said that when you see someone wearing a Superman T-Shirt (whether they be a comic book fan or not) it means that they see themselves as, at the very least, a good person or at best a hero. We have Christopher Reeve to thank for that. No matter how many times I see the 1st two SUPERMAN movies, I always walk away from them wanting to be that good; wanting to be that confident about doing what’s right. There’s a chill I will always get at the end of Superman II where he brings the flag back to the White House and tells the President that he’ll never let him down again. A hero means what he says and does what he means with equal parts passion and intelligence. In this day and age, it seems like we have to choose between the two when it comes to our leaders. In the role of Superman and in his real-life battle with paralysis, Christopher Reeve showed time and again, with the greatest confidence and humility, just how absurd such a choice is.

They did a nice tribute/dedication at the start of last nights Smallville.

And at the end. I'm glad that Lost was pushed back because of the debate. It let me catch Smallville.

According to Kryptonsite , Alfred Gough (Smallville producer) says they will deal with Dr. Swann passing on the show. They had plans to have Chris show up later this season and share a scene with Margot Kidder and Tom Welling. He was supposed to provide Clark with some key info so now they'll have Kidder's character do it.

I was really looking forward to seeing the Reeves/Kidder scene when they got to it this season. Having Chris show up in Smallville playing a Stephen Hawkings like character was inspired, it made the season for me.

Superman may be the only property that regularly pays tribute to what has come before. It's one of those touching things they do with Kal-el's stories. I don't remember them doing it during Dean Caine's run in the suit but there's probably something there if I were to watch more of them. In a way it connects ALL Superman fans together no matter which era and no matter how old the fan we all have moments to share.

I don't know if that's a DC policy (I doubt it) but it's something that touches us all. In a day when the American public is so bitterly divided something that brings us closer together is a rare thing indeed. Reeves had a way of doing that. Everybody respects Superman and like so many have said Chris was indeed Superman.

Jeepers H Tutu Pov, are those stories really true about Byrne?

Making those comments about Reeve were crass, insensitive and really made at the worse possible time and place. Although he is entitled to his thoughts and right or wrong to speak his mind, He needs to be careful about putting them out in cyberspace like that.

I'm more worried about that last post from SpakerDave. In this day and age, if thats true, the guy needs to be avoided like the plague. No one can claim not to know how insulting such a word is, and to use it in public and in front of the person is really really worrying.

S'funny you know, I thought Byrne was Canadian and that Canadians were known for their tolerance. (Well compared to us Englishmen being know for xenophobia)

Both comments leave a nasty taste in the mouth.

The funniest comment about this "debate" was made on Millarworld:

Too true, Froggy... too true!

Cool, POV, How do you do that?

Unbelieveable! and to THINK i once admired Mr. Byrne. *shakes head*

May Mr. Reeve rest in eternal peace.

AA

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