Bad day for celebrities

I know- what a sad day. :( I didn't know Jerri Fitzgerald died until later in the day (she was an incredible "normal" person like most of us).

I loved both Farrah and MJ. I wanted that feathered hairdo like she had so bad when I was younger. Charlies Angels was THE show when I was a kid (I think it was re-runs when I saw it- but I didn't care). If only I could have been like those butt kickin' women...

MJ was incredibly talented and a real musical genius (I liken him to Mozart and Beethoven in modern times). He totally changed music and seemed to unite people with his music. He also let Weird Al have a good career parodying him (who I love, too). He put MTV on the map and was the real creator of music videos as entertainment. Remember that moon walk for the first time. Woot! Remember "We are the World?"
He had a rough life and hopefully is at peace now- something I don't think he had here on Earth.

I've been watching videos on MTV today. They rarely play them anymore. It brings back such fun memories as a young person. I could never afford the red jacket and glove, but I had posters galore of him in my room.

a few days ago something about him was on TV and I thought along the lines... when will he crack and he'll never find the peace he is looking for.

poor guy. maybe he's found it now.
his soul was gone a long time ago. the machinery around him had been killing it since he was 6 - his genius endured longer. it's surprising his body held out this long.

Am I the only person on the planet that is tired of the news of both deaths overtaking more important issues facing the world today?


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I can't claim to not have found Michael bizarre & to not have mocked him in the last however many years - but I couldn't listen to Jackson 5 songs (abc 123, whatever), without reflecting on what a pure sweet innocent voice he had (or looks in the pics) and what 40 some years in the public eye corrupted him into.

I was reading the New York times yesterday - and one of the articles on Farrah Fawcett's death really irked me. Well, maybe it was 2 of them... one was about how she'd been very public with her anal cancer and how NBC or CBS (whoever did the tv show on it) had been glad to exploit it... but they'd both missed the real public safety message, which was to get the HPV vaccine because anal cancer is usually sexually transmitted. The second was...."Let's remember Farrah as someone who TRIED" ... she tried to be something other than a sex pot, and she tried very hard. Then it summarized her career & her various efforts at trying to be taken seriously.

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Originally Posted by crazycanuck

Am I the only person on the planet that is tired of the news of both deaths overtaking more important issues facing the world today?


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Not the only one... I'm just glad for a break from all the economy talk.
But yes, there ARE more pressing issues to talk about...

yeah like people like Madonna "can't stop crying": She's just shopped herself a child from Malawi. Can she stop crying about the other children who die? Obviously with ease.

It's like swine flu. It turns the attention away from the real issues.

I think MJ & FF can have a day or two to be remembered. The economy'll still be there & still screwed up whether or not we pay attention to it, and paying attention to it has yet to result in it actually being fixed.

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Originally Posted by alpinerabbit

yeah like people like Madonna "can't stop crying": She's just shopped herself a child from Malawi. Can she stop crying about the other children who die? Obviously with ease.

It's like swine flu. It turns the attention away from the real issues.

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Maybe she can adopt one of MJ's kids. Angelina Jolie can have a 2nd of them.

What other celebrity collects underprivileged kids that can adopt the 3rd?

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Originally Posted by Catriona

Maybe she can adopt one of MJ's kids. Angelina Jolie can have a 2nd of them.

What other celebrity collects underprivileged kids that can adopt the 3rd?

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Not sure all will get a chuckly out of your comment...but I did.
Yes, it is sad they died.
Yes, it is sad it is such big news.
But it is, and here some of us are interested!

It is just want of those OMG moments...media stars that have been part of my life for most of my life.

I never, ever could stand Michael Jackson's music except a few things ;) Disco beats aggravate me. Still, lots of folks will be grieving... makes one ponder the nature of idolization... humans are weird in how we channel our energies and griefs.
Yasmine... ouch. Ouch.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I feel horrible for MJ's kids. and Farrah's... But I can't help mocking Madonna and Angelina Jolie a bit...



As for swine flu distracting people from the real issues... It's a real issue that the world is ripe for a flu epidemic and our current system of vaccines, etc. is too cumbersome to really respond to one... And that some of our farming practices are contributing to it.

My mom called to remind me of my 5th birthday party when they hired the Michael Jackson impersonator to "sing" at my party. Then we all watched the Thriller movie.

Great times...

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Originally Posted by Catriona

Maybe she can adopt one of MJ's kids. Angelina Jolie can have a 2nd of them.

What other celebrity collects underprivileged kids that can adopt the 3rd?

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You should listen to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK26ojnNtW4

It's about the 'new fashions'...

Well I'm not going to rip anyone apart, but I really don't care and I really do resent the front page of my morning paper taken over by all this.

and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

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Originally Posted by Catriona

As for swine flu distracting people from the real issues... It's a real issue that the world is ripe for a flu epidemic and our current system of vaccines, etc. is too cumbersome to really respond to one... And that some of our farming practices are contributing to it.

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yeah yeah. Except that it's hardly more dangerous than other strains and that it did not come from pigs. I still don't buy it.

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and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

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Well that was probably worth investigating. What was she doing with Tylenol in her panties??!!