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Robin Williams Was the First Person to Visit Christopher Reeve in the Hospital and Made Him Laugh by Pretending to Be a Russian Colon Doctor
Robin Williams was the first person to visit Christopher Reeve in the hospital after the "Superman" actor was paralyzed, and Williams made him laugh.
Williams also managed to make Reeve laugh for the first time since the accident by pretending to be a Russian proctologist. “He wore tie-dyed shirts with tracksuit bottoms and talked a mile a minute,” Reeve wrote. “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” the acclaimed documentary that premiered at Sundance and will open in theaters later this month, follows the late actor’s rise to superstardom as Superman, as well as his fight to find a cure for spinal cord injuries after he became a quadriplegic following a horse riding accident.
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