With the recent deaths of Ed, Farrah and Michael it makes me wonder which celebrity death in the past has surprised you the most? Which one did you not see coming? Which one affected you, if any. Do you care if a celebrity dies?
I think the death of Heath Ledger was definitely, shocking, sudden and tragic. Such talent gone at such a young age.
Kurt Cobain because I was living only about a mile away from him at the time. I was a Seattle high schooler so he was music to everyone it seemed.
Natacha Richardson because her death seemed so odd(tiny fall on a ski slope)
Bill Cosby's son being a victim of random violence
Other than that, none surprise me, though some sadden. Plane crashes, drug overdoses, car crash while being chased...they seem to go along with the territory of their lavish lifestyles.
Quite honestly there are MANY celebs that surprise me that they live so long(Michael Jackson being one of them). Mary Kate Olsen, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, the Playboy Bunnies, practically every boy band... Their eating habits are dreadful, their stress levels are high, they recklessly speed around Hollywood in Ferraris, and they drink and do drugs(legal and non) constantly. How they manage to stay alive baffles me.
There are many regular folk that die from partying much less.
I agree Lindsay - only the good die young.
I remember when Elvis died, and what a huge shock and big deal it was, especially because I was living in Tennessee. It was an enormously big deal, but I was about 8 years old so it didn't impress me personally quite as much.
But when John Belushi died in 1982, that really hit me, I guess because I was about 13 and I really liked him, had seen The Blues Brothers about a dozen times. I was innocent and uninformed about life and celebrities, etc, so I was SHOCKED about the drugs and the lifestyle and all that shit. I guess I could say it was the end of my innocent and naive way of looking at life and people, it was my first realization that adults didn't live their lives like I was taught they were supposed to---all good and smart and free from drugs and stupid shit. I didn't know anything, and it seemed with his useless death I knew everything, and I stopped looking up to adults as examples of intelligence. I guess I knew I was on my own.
Between the three celebs that passed away recently, I would say I was shocked at Michael Jackson the most. When someone first told me that (I was told before I saw it on the news), I thought that he was pulling my leg. I saw it coming with Ed and I was shocked with Farah.
In the past for me, the most shocking deaths were Princess Diana and John Lennon. I remembered very well when John Lennon was shot because I was watching Monday Night Football and then Howard Cosell announced that John was shot outside of his apartment.
Shocking deaths -- definitely Michael Jackson, of the recent ones. Natasha Richardson, too. And Princess Di of course.
I totally forget about Princess Diana. A shock for sure.
Without a doubt, Princess Diana. That was so senseless. She herself said she was "thick as a plank," and quite often didn't think things through. If she had, she'd still be here. With her passing, her boys had no adult supervision, and the elder has turned into his dithering father while the other has turned into a pratt to rival two of his uncles, one on each side.
Another loss for the whole world. Unlike Jackson, the walking human waste.
Oh yes, Princess Diana. It just about gutted me.
I'll echo what many said here, such as Natasha Richardson, Princess Diana, and Heath Ledger. But I'm also going to add Phil Hartman. That was a big shock. I was a fan of the show Newsradio at the time (and had watched him on SNL a lot too). That he was murdered by his wife was so sad and shocking!
Vanessa
anastasia Wrote:Oh yes, Princess Diana. It just about gutted me.
I cried for days. BJ went out to get the paper and was so shocked by the headline she actually sat down on the sidewalk! Then she came in and woke me up, and for days we watched it and cried. I still wonder if it wa sa conspiracy by her lout of an ex-husband.
The death of Princess Diana baffled me. My opinion is she was just a useless celebrity but when I expressed that on another board the people got really enraged.
Eddy Wrote:The death of Princess Diana baffled me. My opinion is she was just a useless celebrity but when I expressed that on another board the people got really enraged.
In many ways she was a useless celebrity, but her sons had no one else, and that's what bothered me. They turned out crappy, too.
She also attached her name to many good causes, and encouraged others to get involved. In that way, her celebrity wasn't useless. When she was in the news for sexcapades and crazy health scams and stupid fashion and what else have you, that was pretty useless. But having seen what happens to children when they lose an involved and loving parent, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, and I mourn that every time it happens.
vanessa915 Wrote:But I'm also going to add Phil Hartman. That was a big shock. I was a fan of the show Newsradio at the time (and had watched him on SNL a lot too). That he was murdered by his wife was so sad and shocking!
Vanessa
Yes, I adored Phil Hartman, and when he was murdered I was so upset I couldn't talk about it for years. I remember a friend of mine from the UK was visiting me in New Orleans about 2 years after Hartman was murdered and there was an SNL rerun he was on that we happened to see playing on a TV in a bar, and I had a very hard time even then telling him who Hartman was and how he died. I think about his kids and how fucked up they will be forever. How do you grow up into a normal and happy person when you have to tell people that you have no parents because your druggie/alcoholic mother murdered your father for no good reason and then committed suicide?
One that shocked me was John Ritter. I so did not expect that one. Also Stevie Ray Vaugh's death was tragic. such am amazing guitarist. Chris Farley while not too shocking, was sad. and one of the big ones that saddened me but wasnt really shocking was George Carlin (moment of silence). So many of these life's were ended too soon. At least George Carlin lead a full life.
I agree about John Ritter. And some other guy, an impressionist, I think, just now died. I never heard of him, but that's not unusual.
John Lennon and Kurt Cobain affected me the most.
MJ's blew me out of the water. I'm still kind of shocked by it. I was really stunned when Princess Di died, too. I guess the ones that shock me the most are the ones that completely come out of nowhere.
I didn't see Jackson as coming out of nowhere. He looked like hell for a long time. Maybe people just got used to that.
eslbee Wrote:I didn't see Jackson as coming out of nowhere. he looked like hell for a long time. Maybe people just got used to that.
Exactly. He was bald, his face was falling off, he weighed 112 pounds, his chin was square with a clef that came and went seemingly on command, his deer-in-headlights eyes, the clown makeup, the albino white skin, his dreadful taste in clothes...eek! What a freakshow.
What did surprise me is that he was even alive. I got so used to his robot like looks that it was easy to forget he was even human. I half expected some day his face would fall off and we'd all see a computer chip or something. May he rest in peace