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Haha that would freak me out.
I said it before, but Bale's Batman will definitely be topped. His performance as Batman was really inconsistant. Sometimes he's amazing, but sometimes he's pretty terrible. All in all, his Batman will be beaten, but I doubt his Bruce will.
Also, I love Bale's chin.![]()
Jayden Meets Batman
A 4-year-old Boardman boy with terminal cancer and his family were flown to California this week to meet Batman.
Jayden Barber, who was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, and his family spent Wednesday with superstar actor Christian Bale, according to a Facebook page post by the family.
“Finally can share!!! Christian sent us to LA and we had lunch at Disney club 33 on wed!! He and his family were so awesome and down to earth!!!,” said a post on Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden page.
The family also posted pictures of Bale posing with the family on the site.
Jayden’s favorite character is Batman, and on Aug. 23 the Caped Crusader visited Jayden at the Boardman football stadium. That day was declared Jayden Barber Day in Youngstown.
Last week, Barber’s family said Jayden was in remission.
The community first learned of Jayden and his family in February 2010. Jayden was at Akron Children's Hospital in Boardman battling bone cancer. One year later, Jayden's parents learned the chemotherapy for the first cancer had caused a second, different form of cancer called MDS leukemia and this time, it was attacking Jayden's blood and bone marrow.
Jayden got a bone marrow transplant in February from a female donor, but it was not working well enough. And July 19, doctors told Jayden's parents their son was terminally ill.
Then last week, new test results showed Jayden's blood is 99.6 percent donor T-cells, meaning he's in remission.
Jayden will celebrate his 5th birthday Sept. 17.
I agree 100%. I loved him as Wayne, but sometimes his Batman could get downright laughable.
Very touching. Glad to hear that the kid is in remission.
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He's not anymore. That's why a lot of this was able to get fulfilled. He's got 6 more weeks until he's bed-ridden for 6 months, then.....![]()
He's not anymore. That's why a lot of this was able to get fulfilled. He's got 6 more weeks until he's bed-ridden for 6 months, then.....![]()
Absolutely. Great heart warming story.Very touching. Glad to hear that the kid is in remission.
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“Can I help you beat up bad guys?”
That’s what Youngstown’s Jayden Barber asked actor Christian Bale in California’s Disneyland this week.
His mom, Charlee Barber, said it was one among many special moments in a whirlwind trip for Jayden and his family.
The 5-year-old has captured the hearts of Mahoning Valley residents with his cancer battle.
He was diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient in July, and while his most recent tests have shown some remission, Jayden’s been there before.
The family is happy, but cautious.
His diagnosis, however, launched Charlee and dad, Tim, on a pursuit of Jayden’s wishes.
One of those wishes was to meet the real Batman.
The community joined the effort as 30,000-plus supporters took part in Facebook’s “Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden” page.
The Barbers flew this week to California to spend a few days at Disneyland in Anaheim.
Part of their stay was spending three hours Wednesday with Bale, the star of this summer’s hit film “The Dark Knight Rises.”
“We talked about lots of stuff,” Charlee said. “But a lot of it was Jayden and Christian talking the whole time. It was just really awesome. He genuinely cared about Jayden and our situation.”
Bale and Jayden chatted about costumes, the movie and more, Charlee added.
Bale, a native of England, even explained to Jayden why his voice is different in person than in the movie.
The three hours with Bale and his wife and daughter was special, Charlee said. But Bale made sure their entire four days was special, too.
As a guest of Bale, the family:
Had airfare for seven people.
Stayed in a top suite in the Grand Californian.
Had all food and extras paid for, including a $500 gift store account.
Saw the “Batman Live” stage performance and went backstage to meet the cast.
“We were treated like royalty, and it was all because of Christian,” Charlee said.
Their biggest challenge: Not being able to say a word for two weeks.
The family found out about the trip not long after the Aug. 23 Batman special event at Boardman Middle School, where a team of well-wishers put on a super-heroes show for Jayden and a stadium full of people.
It was complete with a lighted bat signal in the sky.
“[Bale] strictly wanted no publicity during or before but said we could share afterward. He went to great lengths to keep it private. It was just like old friends visiting,” Charlee said.
The trip actually was launched by one of “Jayden’s Warriors,” the many people who follow the Jayden story.
Lisa Lewis Wallace of Greenford Christian Church, who has yet to meet the Barbers, read about them just before the Boardman event.
She’s part of a ministry within her church — Big Reach Center of Hope — and has done plenty of celebrity contacting to get autographed memorabilia. So she was comfortable calling celebrity offices.
But asking for a celebrity visit was a first.
“I honestly was not going to call his office,” Wallace said. “Everyone on [the “Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden”] Facebook page was calling, and I did not want to harass them.”
So she called actress Anne Hathaway’s publicist first. Hathaway portrayed Catwoman in the film.
“They were so nice; it gave me the courage to call Christian’s publicist,” she said.
It actually helped that hundreds of “Jayden’s Warriors” had called.
Wallace said by the time she called, they were eager to help so as to curtail the phone calls.
A week later, Bale’s office called back with the plan.
The Barbers returned to the Valley this weekend, and back to Jayden’s regimen.
His last bone-marrow test showed 99.6 percent donor source, Charlee said. The goal is 100 percent.
Last spring, he had hit 99.8 percent, only to have cancer take over again.
He will have weekly blood-work tests that will monitor his health.
“We’re very skeptical at this point,” Charlee added.
^That really does melt my heart, reading more about that.
But...but....Nolan's Batman isn't for children!!!!!!
^ In the words of Pat Hingle's Commissioner Gordon...
"Oh. My. God"