I can just imagine the hardline view some of you would have taken if you'd known some of the people killed on September 11.

It never hurts anyone to show some compassion. Whether they're famous or not.

I'm begging please please please close this thread

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I'm begging please please please close this thread

You just bumped it.

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I'm begging please please please close this thread

we're not breaking any rules. is this china? get over yourself. you don't like the topic, don't open the thread.

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What is it about the death of a human being that brings out the bad in people on this board? I try not to take this place so seriously but then I see some people that seem to act as if their day is ruined because people are discussing Whitney Houston and they want to devalue her life as if she was a talentless nobody to no one and it leaves me scratching my head that fans of a band that I love can sometimes be so crass. But then I remind myself that this is the internet and people will say things under the cloak of anonymity that they normally wouldn't say.

Happens with anyone famous dies. I was at work at the office when MJ died, the tv was one...and barely three hours later one coworker grumbled, 'I'm sick of hearing about him already - he wasn't that great.'
That kind of 'Ehh...who cares..' is part of some people's nature. I don't think they're mean people or necessarily cold - just cynical and blasé, shortsighted. They don't seem the grasp the cultural impact (yes, impact) of certain celebrity deaths...and they think they're removed from it. They are. That' can't relate to a general grief or sense of sadness.
With WH and others, part of the tragedy was how we watched her life unravel...it reminds some of us of people we may know, or it just reminds of us of that fame does not protect someone from self-destruction..reminding us that these celebrities are indeed human. And its just human to care., to be touched. Some people do, others don't.

What kills me is the group that 'devalue' her by suggesting that the substance abuse was 'her own fault', implying in some way she deserved it.

I don't hear that same feeling towards Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis or any other number of musicians that have travelled down this path. A bit of hyprocrisy if you ask me (which I understand no one is!).

Yeah, I've found that rock fans in particular, love to deride artists like Houston, Courtney Love, Amy Winehouse... or love to make jokes about Lindsey Lohan regarding her drug/party issues.
Very hypocritcal.

well...hypocritical true, but how about a bit sexist as well. Look at the list you quoted..

treaclefingers - geez...wear your feelings on your sleeve?

I'm saying threads like this go on and on, and yes while it's true people have a right to comment (myself included), after a few weeks shut it down

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treaclefingers - geez...wear your feelings on your sleeve?

I'm saying threads like this go on and on, and yes while it's true people have a right to comment (myself included), after a few weeks shut it down

You keep bumping it up...I had suggest a couple of days ago we wind it down actually, if you roll back a few pages. How exactly do you feel I'm wearing my 'feelings on my sleeve'?

peace

I remember turning up for work the day Jacko died. A girl I worked with was 'OMG, it's like, Michael Jacksons dead, and like, it's terrible'. I responded 'good dancer, mediocre singer but lets face it he was hardly Morrissey'. Her face was a picture.

Whitney Houston Biopic: Rihanna frontrunner to play the late singer

Los Angeles : CA : USA | Feb 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM PST

Singer Whitney Houston who passed away recently, is soon to be immortalized on
screen in the form of her biopic. The grapevine is already buzzing with news as
to who will star in the movie chronicling the legendary singer’s life.

As per sources just before Whitney passed away, the pop icon was ready to tell
her life through a biopic. According to AOL Music, Actress Meagan GoodMeagan
Good (30) was in contention for the role and is said to have been in talks with
Whitney Houston. The actress even had a meeting scheduled for this month to
discuss the project; however, with the pop icon’s premature death on Feb 11, the
film never left the planning stage.

With the project revived again, according to reports, some of Hollywood’s top
female artistes are said to be in the running to bag this project. However, a
new front-runner appears to be emerging, barely a few days after Whitney's
funeral. It is none other than singer/actress Rihanna. After her role in
Battleship, Rihanna is said to be on the shortlist of actresses who is in mind
to portray the late legend, Whitney Houston.

(just add chris brown as bobby brown, and its a guaranteed blockbuster! here's
some pics of rih in the soon to be released Battleship. She reportedly turned
down the lead girly part for one of the action parts...)







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What's the German Imperial Eagle doing on her cap?