{"id":1812,"date":"2009-09-25T22:48:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T22:48:21","slug":"happy_birthday_chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/happy_birthday_chris\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Chris…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a strange thought: today would’ve been Christopher Reeve’s 57th birthday. And in only a few days, on October 10, it will be five years since his death. Time flies, eh?<\/p>\n

I don’t intend to make a habit of observing celebrity birthdays here, especially those of celebrities who are no longer with us, but, well… Chris is kind of a special case<\/a> for me. Besides, marking this particular date gives me an excuse to post a real treasure of a video, a clip of Chris’ first appearance on The Tonight Show<\/i> way back in 1978, when he was promoting Superman: The Movie<\/i>. He comes across as very young, very earnest, more than a little nervous, and kinda goofy, especially when a couple of his jokes fall completely flat. Johnny Carson, though, is gracious as always and helps this up-and-coming young star through what must have been an incredibly nerve-wracking experience:<\/p>\n

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Strange to think that all three of the men featured in this clip — Chris, Johnny, and Rodney Dangerfield — are now gone. Without getting too maudlin about it, let me just say that realizations like this are what make me feel increasingly out of touch with the present.<\/p>\n

Hat tip to LA Times<\/i>‘ Hero Complex<\/a> blog for the clip…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a strange thought: today would’ve been Christopher Reeve’s 57th birthday. And in only a few days, on October 10, it will be five years since his death. Time flies, eh? I don’t intend to make a habit of observing celebrity birthdays here, especially those of celebrities who are no longer with us, but, well… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}