Hi!

Does anyone know where I might find a transcrip of the Christopher
Reeve interview online?

Thanks-Gary


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Betty B wrote:

> In a message dated 3/25/2002 5:10:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > I just listened to this interview with Christopher Reeve. It was actually
> > good. The guy seems to be getting it.
>
> I've heard him speak elsewhere.  It does appear that he is beginning to grasp
> that his position gives him the foundation to avoid being bought off with
> crumbs.
>
> I feel sorry for him.  He was thrown into a horrendous disability and had no
> way of knowing what his new fight needed to be about.  Money and fame -- even
> in small amounts -- can confuse any person.  He had every reason to act as he
> did.  What could he have known in the beginning but that cure should be our
> primary concern?   How could he not have wanted that for himself, and as
> quickly as possible?
>
> This man has been patronized by one corner of the universe and vilified by
> another.  I've said one or a couple of disparaging things about him myself.
>
> He could be a superman yet, who knows.  As famous disabled people go though,
> the one I'd want backing me up in on a firefighting handline would still be
> Harriet Tubman.  She didn't have Internet or television or the ADA or the
> Civil Rights Act of 1964.  All she had was her disability and her blackness
> -- a legally supported sentence in her day -- and the sheer guts it took to
> return to the scene of the crimes committed against her, over and over again,
> in order to free others still held against their will under a terrible
> persecution.
>
> She proved that she couldn't be bought when nobody was looking.  Let them
> look now, and learn.
>
> Betty Alfred
>