BREAKING NEWS***Christopher Reeve died!!!***

[CADsortaGUY]

Breaking on Drudge's radio program via Nikki Finke.
Edit: He has now posted it on his website

RIP Reeve

CsG

 

[joshw10]

The good news is...

ITS ON DRUDGE!

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
RIP Reeves

 

[jjzelinski]

That's f#$ing horrible... guy put up a hell of a fight though. :beer:

 

[magomago]

is he that genoius who had some disease that made him lose control of his body?

 

[joshw10]

i hope this isnt true....save the RIPs until its on a credible source people!

 

[conjur]

R.I.P., Superman.

 

[NeoV]

gee magomago, that was funny.......NOT

nice spelling btw

nice heatware link too

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: magomago
is he that genoius who had some disease that made him lose control of his body?

lol, that shouldn't be as funny as it was to me But no, that was Steven Hawkings. He's alive and ticking.

 

[ntdz]

RIP Superman

 

[sandorski]

 

[Perknose]

That man fought doggedly and with a dignity and simple courage I salute from my soul. Life is gift, health is a gift, and we are all just visitors here.

 

[Sultan]

here's praying this news is not true.

 

[phonemonkey]

I think Reeve was a great example of the human spirit to fight on. I mean, he was a quadriplegic, yet was able to fight his way back to having some control over his body (like being able to breathe on his own again).

I know, it's very rare for someone that's paralyzed to regain movement in their bodies, but you have to admit that it would be near impossible to be able to keep up that hope for so long!

for Christopher Reeve and many :beer::beer::beer:'s for everyone else that might someday be able to gain the use of their limbs again!

 

[Miramonti]

confirmation?

It would be very unfortunate. He was a tremendous fighter and an inspiration for very many people.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Should make a donation to his foundation Link

In his honor......

 

[Genesys]

Originally posted by: conjur


R.I.P., Superman.

 

[daveshel]

It was on my local news. They said he had a cardiac arrest yesterday. But they also said his equestrian accident was in 1996 - wasn't it more like 1986?

 

[cKGunslinger]

 

[GoPackGo]

I was always sad that the man I grew up knowing as Superman ended up in a wheel chair.

He put up a brave fight and gave a face to spinal cord injuries.

Now Superman flies with the Angels.

:brokenheart:

 

[alphatarget1]

i can't stand to fly... i'm not that naive... i'm just down to find, the better part of me

RIP

 

[conjur]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBI...it.reeve.ap/index.html

BEDFORD, New York (AP) -- Christopher Reeve, the star of the "Superman" movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52.

Reeve fell into a coma Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home, his publicist, Wesley Combs, told The Associated Press by phone from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night.

Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection.

"On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank Northern Westchester Hospital for the excellent care they provided to my husband," Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, said in a statement. "I also want to thank his personal staff of nurses and aides, as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years."

Reeve broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia.

Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.

He returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of "Rear Window," a modern update of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who becomes convinced a neighbor has been murdered. Reeve won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor in a television movie or miniseries.

"I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story," Reeve said. "But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face. With so many close-ups, I knew that my every thought would count."

In his public appearances, he was as handsome as ever, his blue eyes bright and his voice clear.

"Hollywood needs to do more," he said in the March 1996 Oscar awards appearance. "Let's continue to take risks. Let's tackle the issues. In many ways our film community can do it better than anyone else. There is no challenge, artistic or otherwise, that we can't meet."

In 2000, Reeve was able to move his index finger, and a specialized workout regimen has made his legs and arms stronger. He has also regained sensation in other parts of his body.

http://www.aktv.lt/~skrusna/ku...perman/images/dead.jpg

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: NeoV
gee magomago, that was funny.......NOT

nice spelling btw

nice heatware link too

who said i was making a joke? It was actually a legitimate question, but jjzelinski hit what i was thinking: hawkings...

 

[jjzelinski]

and since I'm on a roll right now, the accident was in 96. I think superman 3 was made after 86.

 

[AnImuS]

Originally posted by: conjur


R.I.P., Superman.