Margot Kidder 1948-2018
 

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One of the huge crushes of my life — certainly the biggest one I had when I was a kid.

:(

She *was* Lois Lane... Not that she played the role from the comics perfectly (bit too much of a Woody Allen humor to her delivery) — rather, she improved upon it. She just plain WAS Lois Lane. At least for the first two films. No need to discuss III and IV.

Sad day.

I remember watching her get rescued from a falling Eiffel Tower elevator like a million times, over and over, on my family’s first VCR. Actually that’s probably a super loaded memory, but still... I watched the shit out of Superman when I was a kid.

That's one of her most inconic scenes as Lois Lane! Except not when she gets rescued, but right before, when she climbs under the elevator and holds on to a bar underneath, going, "Pulitzer Prize. Capital P, small u, l, i, t, z, e, r. Capital P, small r, i..."

Anyway, Margot did some great work besides portraying Lois Lane. If you haven't seen 1973's Sisters, DO IT. It scared the living crap out of me when I first watched it, ages ago.

Yes yes! I remember, “Capital P...” Awesome.

Her Lois wasn't the typical tied-to-the-railroad-tracks damsel in distress. She was ambitious, daring, sly. Amy Adams picked up on this as well — check out her smirk on Man Of Steel when she's escaping from her apartment building and she thinks she's outsmarted the Feds (until Colonel Christopher law-&-order Meloni stops her, that is :)).

Kate Bosworth, on the other hand, was a complete bore. Can't say I blame it entirely on her, though, as Superman Returns was fucking unacceptable.

Let's take this opportunity to give it up for Christopher Reeve as well. With one "simple" move he goes from Clark Kent to Kal-El like *this* [snaps fingers]: