> > In article <KBudnSMZe_lyKT_4nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d>, MummyChunk
> > <mummycullen> wrote:
> >
> > (In the film, Matthew notes his dad left to ski in France the
day
> > after he was born.) The actor had a cold poet father who didnt
> > approve of his movies and legend has it bought him Champagne
> > mistakenly thinking he had been cast not as the superhero but in
> > George Bernard Shaws Man and Superman.
> >
> Super-Menace wrote:
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> I knew a gal a long time ago who lived next door to the Reeve
family at
> whatever school it was that Reeve's father taught at. Christopher
> would swim in the backyard pool, and the gal (then about nine or
ten
> years old) would just watch him from her bedroom window,
endlessly.
You mentioned that someone you knew lived next door to the Reeve
family at the school where his father taught. Christopher Reeve had a
difficult relationship with his father, Franklin. He wrote in his
autobiography that his father s love for his children always seemed
tied to performance and he put pressure on himself to act older than
he actually was in order to gain his father s approval. His father was
also absent for much of his childhood, as he divorced his mother when
Christopher was four and remarried several times. Christopher Reeve
later reconciled with his father and forgave him, but he also said
that he never felt close to him.
Christopher Reeve had a different kind of relationship with his son,
Will. He was very involved in his son s life and supported his
interests and passions. He also taught him the values of courage,
compassion, and perseverance. Will Reeve wrote a touching tribute to
his father on Father s Day, saying that "in our short time
together, my dad gave me everything: his love and attention, his
values and passions". He also said that he felt his father s
spirit with him when he saw whales in Alaska, something that his
father loved.
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