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Actor Christopher Reeve Dead at 52
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| October 11, 2004
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Posted on 10/11/2004 1:42:46 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
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What a shame. A lousy pressure sore. Preventable.
To: daylate-dollarshort
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:46:34 AM PDT
by
ActionNewsBill
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act")
To: daylate-dollarshort
This particular subject has not the greatest survival record tonite...it might not last too long before the plug gets pulled.
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:49:32 AM PDT
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Keith in Iowa
(At CBS - "We don't just report news - we make it - up.")
To: daylate-dollarshort
Reason #1 why I don't ride horses. RIP, CR.
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:50:07 AM PDT
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: daylate-dollarshort
His portrayal of Superman was wonderful, he brought my childhood hero to life. I also loved Somewhere In Time. Rest in peace, Christopher Reeve.
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:52:51 AM PDT
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BonnieJ
To: BonnieJ
Christopher Reeve
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:58:40 AM PDT
by
Woliff
To: BonnieJ
I too thought he did a splendid job in the Superman movies. The one thing that really bothered me though, was his choice to do the movie "Deathtrap" He had a pretty passionate kiss in there with another man...I believe it was Michael Caine (sp?).
RIP
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:58:58 AM PDT
by
codyjacksmom
(Attention All Girlie-men...Please don't forget your foo foo's on the way out the door.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
If posters use common sense it stays, if not it will go. These eulogy threads are not appropriate places for hard edged political issues or cheap shots.
To: daylate-dollarshort
Active in many sports, Reeve owned several horses and competed in equestrian events regularly. Witnesses to the May 1995 accident said Reeve's horse had cleared two of 15 fences during the jumping event and stopped abruptly at the third, flinging the actor headlong to the ground.
Doctors said he fractured the top two vertebrae in his neck and damaged his spinal cord. When he finally was released from a rehabilitation institute in December 1995, he thanked staffed members "who have set the stage for my continued journey." He underwent further rehabilitation at his home in upstate New York.
While filming "Superman" in London, Reeve met modeling agency co-founder Gae Exton, and the two began a relationship that lasted several years. The couple had two sons, but were never wed.
Reeve later married Dana Morosini; they had one son, Will, 11. His wife became his frequent spokeswoman after the accident.
Reeve also is survived by his mother, Barbara Johnson; his father, Franklin Reeve; his brother, Benjamin Reeve; and his two children from his relationship with Exton, Matthew, 25, and Alexandra, 21.
No plans for a funeral were immediately announced.
A few months after the accident, he told interviewer Barbara Walters that he considered suicide in the first dark days after he was injured. But he quickly overcame such thoughts when he saw his children.
"I could see how much they needed me and wanted me ... and how lucky we all are and that my brain is on straight."
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posted on
10/11/2004 2:07:06 AM PDT
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kcvl
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>>>If posters use common sense it stays, if not it will go. These eulogy threads are not appropriate places for hard edged political issues or cheap shots
Amen. I hope the perpetrators of the ugliness on the other threads have gone to bed and will let this be.
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posted on
10/11/2004 2:07:30 AM PDT
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Keith in Iowa
(At CBS - "We don't just report news - we make it - up.")
To: kcvl
My heavens, what a shock. I didn't expect this.
To: Admin Moderator
These eulogy threads are not appropriate places for hard edged political issues or cheap shots.De mortuis nil nisi bono. May he rest in peace.
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10/11/2004 2:11:04 AM PDT
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maryz
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To: daylate-dollarshort
I recently saw Superman for the first time since I saw it when it came out. I gained a new respect for him. Rest in peace, Mr. Reeve.
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To: daylate-dollarshort
Such a shame. Decubitis ulcers ( pressure sores ) and urinary-tract complications are big issues with chair-bound patients... I was able to spare my first wife from these things, but there was a certain element of dumb luck involved, and it helped that she had been blessed with an iron constitution. And in those days, 180lb. me had no trouble picking up 123lb. her. A normal, or large-sized man is quite a handful to move, even for a strong person.
I enjoyed Mr. Reeve's roles, and was shocked when he was injured so severely. May he be in a better place.
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posted on
10/11/2004 2:27:31 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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