2001 Movie News Archives

Kidder and Reeve

September 9, 2001: "Superman" Stars Join to Honor Margot Kidder in L.A.

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) -- On Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001, at 7:30pm, actress Margot Kidder will be honored at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles for her humanitarian work in the field of mental health.

Superman himself, Christopher Reeve, has forwarded a heartfelt letter of congratulations, and Marc McClure, "Superman"'s Jimmy Olsen, will speak.

Congratulatory messages will be read from numerous other celebrities, including Suzanne Somers, Ed Asner, and Dr. Abram Hoffer, the world's leading authority on nutritional mental health treatments.

Safe Harbor, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group, will establish an annual award in Margot Kidder's name. Kidder will be the first recipient. The Margot Kidder Award will honor those who have advanced the use of alternative mental health treatments. It is the first award recognizing the alternative mental health field.

In 1996 Margot Kidder made world headlines when the media placed a spotlight on her highly public episode of nervous exhaustion in Los Angeles.

Rejecting offers of drugs for her problems, Kidder researched the causes behind her troubles and found she had hidden nutritional imbalances that no doctor had ever looked for. After treating these nutritional issues, she started on her road to wellness.

Today the actress, often called "The Woman of Steel," has not only recovered without drugs and restored her career, but has become the nation's most vocal advocate for alternative mental health treatments.

Although known best for her role as Lois Lane, Kidder has appeared in over 100 television shows and 55 feature films, including "The Amityville Horror" and "The Great Waldo Pepper." Her most recent film, "The Annihilation of Fish," with James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, will appear in theaters later this year. Variety reports the film is "aimed for Oscar nominations."

Other speakers will include Safe Harbor founder Dan Stradford and Dr. Hyla Cass, nutritional author and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA.

Safe Harbor is the nation's leading organization educating on non-drug alternatives for mental health. They sponsor the Internet's largest site on this subject at AlternativeMentalHealth.com

Requests for interviews are welcomed. Media are invited to the event. For more information, contact Safe Harbor at (818) 890 1862 or at SafeHarborProj@aol.com. Tickets -- $60 in advance and $75 at the door -- can also be purchased online at www.AlternativeMentalHealth.com.

SOURCE: Safe Harbor



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