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(Continual front pane ID that continues to he a good one, he continues, "and I think sn/H-nmtn III is going to he the hest yet We re not just taking up space with these movies, cranking out a series like / litre hay I don't just get up in the morning and phone it in Everyone involved keeps refining the concepts and in each film I think there’s a dts tinn shift of tone, style and point of view Part One really emphasized Americana and all the mythological overtones of the pop hero Part Two was more tongue-in-cheek, more like a comic hook Part Three is going to he more complex psycho logical!} We re going to call it Superman vs Superman Imagine that Superman comes apart at the seams that he is somehow trap ped in a schizoid split and the two sides of his personality battle each other It s sort of an id versus super ego idea, taking the Clark Kent/ Superman notion and magnifying it intensely. It's going to give me a lot to do A real challenge and a chance to break some new' ground." As sympatico as Reeve seems to lx with ihe i ll.trader he has brought to screen and to life, the idea of an open ended Superman saga leaves him decidedly non plussed "I've signeil no contract,’ he remarks I did Part Three because it seemed like a good idea I define a good idea rather narrowly. A good idea for making a film is not to bank three million bucks After awhile money really does lose its meaning. There's such a thing as being too rich. Superman was a chance to do some thing better than people expected, and I think both films were a hell of a lot better than what was antici pated. I thrill at the chance lo exceed people's expectations, and as long as that element is present, I II do the films." Sandwiched before and after the releases of Superman 1 and II were a pair of Reeve vehicles that did as much to induce yawns from filmgoers as the tremendously sue cessful super hero series did to ex cite thrills Somewhere in lime, a dismal romance, cast Reeve as a maudlin time traveler pining for a turn-of-the-century Jane Seymour A near complete box office abortion, it fared only slightly worse than the thin film version of Ira Levin's talks Broadway mystery Deathtrap, which squandered Reeve’s considerable on-screen charm on a static bad guy ultimately more dull than dangerous. As richly deserved as both flicks' plunge to late night cable fare might be, Reeve refuses to pronounce the post mortem I don't praise or put down any of my past work, he in sists "Why should I? It doesn’t suit my purpose simply to provide a good quote Everything I've done seemed like a gtxxl idea at the time and I refuse to be lured into critiqu irig my work in public. 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Suddenly Reeve's sunny nature seems clouded more than a little hostile, as if the very suggestion that his nearly overpowering association with the character of Superman — evident even here, sitting around in old clothes in a badly decorated office — might prove a professional liability To assume that type casting is a danger with any actor is to be totally out of touch with what's possible to day." Even the fact that the last actor to play the Man of Steel — George Reeves on the popular television series—committed suicide when the show's cancellation effectively ended ! his acting career, doesn't seem to faze Reeve. In fact, lie's getting an grier. "The Fifties and the Eighties are just not the same. I’m delighted that children will think I’m Super man from now until I’m 90. But chil dren don’t cast movies. Audiences are more sophisticated than they used to be. They want actors first and stars second The movie industry understands that. Only the media lags behind. I mean, Robin Williams does Popeye and then does The Work! According to (imp Sylvester Stallone does Rocky and then he hesitates, lus voice trailing off. Whatever the potential for Reeve to become a one role actor, he’s ab solutely convinced that his upcoming lead role in Monsignor will put the issue to rest — and in the process muzzle the media hounds — once and for all "Christopher Reeve," trumpets the press handout, stars as Monsignor, the priest who knows the streets as well as he knows Ills God " It's a line only a publicist could love and one that points up what may be a particularly sticky marketing problem lot the Frank Perry directed film concerning the life and times of an American priest rising through the Vatican hierarchy "This is not a religious movie." in ststs Reeve as if aware already of |xi tential problems in accessibility at fuelled to the subject matter It could take place on a submarine It's alxiut a pure man in a corrupt sys tern, trying to learn how to lx- true lo himself and still play by the rules It's about lining religious and lining a human Iming at the same time and discovering it's not always possible " It's also alxiut the mafia, Vatican political intrigue and a tragic love at fait between the Monstgiior and an Italian nun. played by Genevieve llujold "It’s the Ix'st part I've seen lot an actor in a long, long time," Rnnvn remarks "A lot ol bankable stars were ready to kill toi the role I consider myself fortunate to have gotten the part I studied hard to learn specifically what it was like to walk, talk and art like a priest. To feel comfortable in the vestments, lo know how to deliver the liturgy All that I turd work is perhaps why Reeve feels especially sensitive to crass media puns, stu b as a recent Time Magazine photo blurh that be gan, "Able to preach long sermons in a single breath look, up in the sky, it's Superpriest! It’s no wonder there is precious little love lost be tween Reeve and the at-large press. “If someone is rude and vulgar you can respond in the same way or you can turn your back and talk to someone more pleasant. I simply turn my back. The press has proven time and again that it doesn’t respect entertainment figures ... any human being, no matter how visible, de serves respect. It’s a high wire act at the best of times and they're always there, wishing you’d fall off instead of hoping you’ll make it to the other side." Part of making it to the other side for Reeve is to rigorously protea his private life. His tight-lipped precau lions are understandable — as an unwed father he considers any intru sums on his off screen time as poten tially damaging to his son, Matthew (The fact that Reeve and the child's mother, Gay Easton, continue to live in unwedded bliss, seems to unsettle a great many people.) “When Matthew w as born I tried to head off w hat I knew w as going to come, ” he sighs "I made the announcement and hoped that would lx* it I should have known better. A year later People Magazine did a cover story on me, and the reporter spent seven hours in interviews, waiting until my guard was down and then springing some questions about Matthew and ,t lot of other things he had no bust ness knowing. What was given out as off-handed remarks became the focus of the story. 1 mean, a lot of people thought it was as cute as the dickens, but I realized then that if you give up your private life, you're left with nothing I’m not going to let that happen again.” Matthew, Reeve claims is the most important thing in my life,” before .ulding in quick contradiction, "of course, work comes first I )ust don’t have a lot of time I took my first va cation in three years (his year. I s(xmuI whatever off time I have play ing with Matthew, practicing my piano, living gliders, sailing and ski ing I also run a tw in engine airplane charter service out in New Jersey which gives me a lot ol pleasure, but I guess you could say I’m not suffl cicntlv mellow to consider chucking it all and flouting down a river on a raft with my son I think it s reason able and lair that a voting man with just oik* shot to create some kind ol identity for himself should give his career lop priority I want to ac complish something that later on 1 can remember when I’m sitting on the porch in tin* rocking chair " He pauses liefore adding, "My life has got to add up to something more than |ust txiing a good daddy That’s easy you don't have to lx* purlieu latlv gifted to see w hat a child needs In life Only a dummy could miss the love and playfulness that you give and get from a kill There's no rea son why you can't have txvth My son understands, when I’m working everyone has to buck off until 1 get the Job done, I’m concentrating on acting and 1 don’t consider myself a freak for giving it everything I've got
