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Originally posted by Centurion
And KRL..if it was just another "celebrity", I probably wouldn't disagree with you that much. But in Reeve's case, with his determination and example he was setting in his fight to walk again and to overcome the terrible accident he had, I grew to have so much respect for that man that had NOTHING whatsoever to do with him being a hollywood star.
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It's fine to create stars and so on. I think KRL is just pointing out that we prop some persons up soooo high when they're merely entertainers and we give them more credit than we would your average joe with the same problem.
When you say he was so 'determined' to 'fight' to walk, everybody that is in a wheelchair who used to walk is determined to do that. That's not extraordinary. If you became crippled today, you'd do everything in your power to try and walk again. The difference is that Reeves used his star status to bring more attention to it to fund research. That has everything to do with him being a star. If you were a star you'd bring as much awareness to YOUR problem as you could. All stars that come down with illnesses do it. Michael J. Fox and so on. It makes perfect sense. I don't think we should elevate them to an incredible status for doing what all of us would do if we had star power behind us.