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...metal alloy in my knee is called kryptonite," Parker laughs. "So in hand-to-hand combat, I think I could take Superman...
...worked with Reeve on the first two films in the Superman series. And as the uncle of a 27-year-old quadriplegic who crushed his spinal cord in a teenage diving tragedy, I am all too aware of the unspeakable horrors attendant on this kind of catastrophic injury. I know that Chris will bring the same intensity, energy and intelligence he displayed as an actor to his efforts to reverse paralysis from spinal-cord trauma. I pray that I will live to see the day when Chris and my nephew Adam will walk again. DAVID M. PETROU Washington
...know, it's easier to live as an illusion than as a real person. When you are cast as a larger-than-life figure like Superman, there's no place to turn to from people's expectations. At the moment, people are investing a great deal of hope in me. That's very kind, very flattering. But it's more difficult for me to accept that because I'm more real to them than the fictional version was in the past. Even the injury creates a role...
...hills with picture-book views.) After graduating from Cornell in 1974, he studied acting at Juilliard with John Houseman. He made his first Broadway appearance with Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity, an odd play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically, he wanted to work hard to do the part right. On the set he approached the veteran Gene Hackman, who was playing Superman's comic-villain archenemy, and asked if he wanted to rehearse...
Reeve often speaks of the accident as a "failure," an instant of "humiliation and embarrassment." He says, "I used to worry when I was making Superman that I'd mess up. You know: SUPERMAN HIT BY BUS. That in a headline." He is inclined to be hard on himself. "In the first days," he says, "I kept thinking, 'I've ruined my life.' But you only get one. You can't say, 'I've spoiled this one. Can I have another, please?' You feel as though you're a creature from another planet. Because here on earth people walk around...