Reeves’s fans have assumed a sort of protective affection for the 55-year-old movie star, hoping he’d find his own happy ending after years of personal anguish. It led to Reeves’ living a rootless existence, at one point holing up at Chateau Marmont, the Hollywood hotel, for some years. Two years later Syme died in a car crash, at the age of 28. Yet there was nothing funny about his reported reasons for singledom: he and his partner, Jennifer Syme, were awaiting the arrival of a daughter, Ava, when the baby was stillborn, on Christmas Eve in 1999. Reportedly single for close to two decades, and fiercely mindful of his privacy, Reeves became instantly memeworthy when he was papped eating a sandwich disconsolately by himself.
If poor Jennifer Aniston had a male equivalent it would probably be poor Keanu Reeves.
