Christopher Reeve, R.I.P.

I feel saddened by the news of Christopher Reeve’s death. A courageous man and a good actor. While he was a perfect Superman/Clark Kent, the “Superman” movies were, for the most part, a major disappointment. His best role was in the movie version of Henry James’s The Bostonians. He played Basil Ransom, an uprooted former Confederate officer and traditional man trying to make his way as a lawyer in New York and Boston in the post Civil War years, and confronting the hyper-liberal, feminist society of the Northeast of that time. Reeve perfectly conveyed the dignity, and the dark depths of power, of Ransom’s character.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 11, 2004 10:17 AM | Send