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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002
ENTERTAINMENT
Filmshows Reeves' progress
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — "What we're trying to show is that conventional wisdom is now falling by the wayside," said Christopher Reeve, describing a new documentary that chronicles remarkable progress in his fight to regain movement and walk again.
Airing Wednesday at 10 p.m. EDT on ABC, Christopher Reeve: Courageous Steps shows the Superman star moving his right wrist, left fingers and both legs - developments few in the scientific community predicted after he was paralyzed in a riding accident in 1995.
The film was directed by Reeve's 22-year-old son Matthew, who "enabled the documentary to give what I call a fly-on-the-wall, warts-and-all look at my life, which I would not have been willing to reveal to some other documentary-maker."
"In the past, people have seen me when I'm all put together in
the (wheel)chair, dressed and groomed," Reeve said during a telephone conference Monday. "This is what really goes on daily."
The film, narrated by Reeve, shows his intensive exercise regimen, as well as his home life with his family, including actress-wife Dana Reeve, near New York City.
It covers a yearlong period from May 27, 2001, the sixth anniversary of his accident, and includes his attendance at Matthew's graduation from Brown University on May 27 this year.
Making the film drew father and son even closer, Matthew Reeve said, adding, "We plan to continue filming as long as it takes." He envisions additional specials for the future.
The elder Reeve, who starred in a TV remake of the Hitchcock thriller *Rear Window* in 1998, hopes to direct a film next spring.
"It's difficult logistically, as well as physically and emotionally," he said, "so I only want to do projects I'm passionate about."
Reeve's recovery thus far defies medical theory because it didn't occur until five years after his injury.
mortality. "There's tremendous potential for harnessing the body's desire to heal itself," he said.
But his regained motion and sensation (he can feel a pinch on the majority of his body) falls short of his widely quoted pledge to walk by his 50th birthday, which arrives Sept. 25.
That vow, said Reeve, "was meant to motivate researchers to move more quickly, and I think that it did have that effect."
More recent controversy over embryonic stem cell research which could help people with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or spinal-cord injuries has delayed important work. Reeve said.
"I feel that we've lost almost four years of significant progress," he said.
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