Christopher Reeve, courageous activist for stem cell research and male screen icon, is dead at 52.
A true Superman, he was as heroic in life as the characters he played on screen. Reeve, like plenty of screen hunks, at times also fought rumors that he was gay. Yet rather than deny those rumors, he played into them. Who can forget the (at the time) shocking scene in Deathtrap when he went to kiss Michael Caine? Caine famously said afterward, “I can tell you that Christopher Reeve is not homosexual. When we kissed in Deathtrap, he didn’t close his eyes.”