After Christopher Reeve became paralyzed, I could not watch his movies. I tried, but I could not do it. The contrast between the Man of Steel and the Man in the Chair was just too terrible; I could not deal with it.

This was very immature of me; I realize that. I’m sorry. And I also believe that even in that chair, Chris was a Man of Steel, even more so than most able-bodied people.

I own the movie ‘Superman.’ I have not been able to even look at the disc for years.

Last night, I put that disc into the player and pressed ‘play.’ I watched part of the movie last night, and the rest of it this morning.

And it was good.

Now that I know he is truly flying, I could watch him pretend to fly.