Christopher Reeve dead?
www.drudgereport.com
please say it ain't so.
edit: confirmed by CNN. died in a coma after going into cardiac arrest in his home in NY
please say it ain't so.
edit: confirmed by CNN. died in a coma after going into cardiac arrest in his home in NY
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I had a lot of respect for this man, and his fighting spirit. He gave to us a lesson of life.
RIP
So long Superman.
Originally posted by Placebo
I don't know about his acting abilities, but what is certain is that he was a catalyst in starting a new wave of paralysis research. He did a lot in life.
what would you do if you had millions to spend and an incurable disease?
CNN: Reeve was Real-life "Superman"
The official foundation: http://www.christopherreeve.org/
I've heard his work in the remade Rear Window was excellent, but haven't seen it.
If his red cape and boots were your sole impressions of this generation's Superman, it'll always be his role, but I think his cameo's in TV's latest retelling of the tale, Smallville, will tie him to the Kal-el mythos for a new generation of fans.
And while I don't really want to get too political (save that for PO)...
I would expect that any future questions on stem cells in the Presidential race will find Kerry gets a much more sympathetic audience.
CNN's Obituary includes the following quote:
Reeve himself was vocal on the subject. In 2001, while President Bush considered a decision on stem cell research -- he eventually allowed federal funding of research using existing stem cell lines -- Reeve spoke to CNN's John King about the impact of delaying study.
"That would be a big mistake because you could spend the next five years doing research on the adult stem cells and find that they are not capable of doing what we know that embryonic cells can do now," he said. "And five years of unnecessary research to try to create something that we already have would cause -- well, a lot of people are going to die while we wait."
Some might consider it gauche or insensitive to 'capitalize' or 'leverage' this issue, but if Reeve's widow finds that Chris specifically asked for his message to get airtime in order to help others (much like Yul Brynner's posthumous anti-smoking ads ran film of him explicitly blaming his cancer and death on smoking) or his will reveals Reeve left instructions and similar film to make his personal campaign into a larger/continuing campaign issue...
It would sure be hard to argue with a commercial of that CNN interview followed by a note that three years later, this hero was gone.
*wipes tear*
Originally posted by 123
what would you do if you had millions to spend and an incurable disease?
Okay, I was trying to keep it civilized in here, and then you came in.
Originally posted by Scott
At least I wont have to watch the Scott Peterson trial on the news so much now.
You revealed your true identity, Mr. Cable-Newscast Watcher of the Fox Variety. Having purused the offerings of cable television, other than the obvious, Fox News offers so much more of the irrelevent S Peterson trial than any other cable station. So much so -- it was as if I was choosing whether to be bored to tears with their inept political or inept trial analysis.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Some might consider it gauche or insensitive to 'capitalize' or 'leverage' this issue....
On the contrary, from the interviews I've seen with him in recent years where he's talked about stem cell research and the degree of passion he's displayed for the subject, I tend to think he'd be delighted if people were to use his death to capitalize or leverage the issue.
Mourning is, after all, an indulgence of the living not the dead.