Celebrity Death

[mbarrick]

So a couple people who were famous decades ago died today. Neither one had done any new work in more than a decade - even the tabloids hadn't bothered with them for ages. Everything they did that people knew them for was recoded and will remain available ad nauseam. I've seen dozens of people tweeting, making Facebook status updates and blogging about how they will "miss" these people they only know through their recorded works. Nothing has changed. The ditzy nurse on my Logan's Run DVD is still there. Frighteningly tacky "Charlie's Angels" reruns have not vanished. The cassettes and vinyl left over from the 80's are still collecting dust. Nothing has changed. Please STFU now about "missing" these people.

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[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Yes, let's all have a moment of silence in honor of the passing of Farrah Faucet, I mean Fawcett. I'm sure she was a nice lady & all but that's the cycle of life. I know she had a very nasty battle against cancer and I'm just glad that she is no longer in pain.

And what a thrill it will be when we are no longer bombarded with the tabloid rumors about the King of Pop MJ. What am I saying? That's like saying the sun won't rise but now the "Truth" will be told, now that he is dead. Ya right...lmao

I couldn't believe the fever that was running wild regarding the news of these 2 celebrities while I was out shopping @ Deluxe Junk today. The sales clerks were reminiscing about just how much they LOVED these 2 and I thought to myself, you weren't even a thought in your daddy's sperm bank when these two were popular, what are you 10?

I kid you not, someone walked in to New World & announced MJ is dead & then walked right out again. Everyone on the street was talking about it.

What a day.

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Well, let's just say that FF had an unremarkable career despite having a brief but powerful stint as a global icon, and MJ, a long-time global icon, ended up making an embarrassing charicature of himself. An ignominious end for both, I think.

Ya know, I think I'll miss Farrah more. She may have been the proverbial airhead blonde, but she came by it honestly - at least she couldn't (and didn't) become a parody of her former self.

blessed are those who are unplugged

[heevoling.livejournal.com]

i might still be ignorant to the news, but my cubicle neighbor had to tell me this afternoon. she could not fathom how i could not know, or promptly resume working after becoming informed. thereafter she seemed to be calling friends for "grief processing".

i may need bigger headphones.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

I bet these people who "miss him" were the same ones holding the proverbial torches and pitchforks at his child-molestation trial

The media that shunned his life is now trying to honor his life

I bet when OJ Simpson passes on the media will flipflop on that one too