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8846. arkymalarky - 2/12/2012 3:34:47 AM Whitney Houston has died. 8847. wabbit - 2/12/2012 5:38:17 PM 48 years old. She looked fairly healthy in the last year, not like Michael Jackson or Amy Winehouse. We'll see if the drowning rumors are true. 8848. Ms. No - 2/12/2012 8:26:29 PM I had forgotten how truly amazing her voice was. Check out her Star Spangled Banner in this link. Effortless and joyful it's like she's channeling the sound from some holy realm.
Whitney sings the Star Spangled Banner 8849. arkymalarky - 2/13/2012 5:54:38 AM Nice Grammy tributes. I don't know how Glen Campbell is managing on his farewell tour. 8850. wabbit - 2/19/2012 4:29:00 PM Dear god, enough already. Whitney Houston was a great singer, but was she a great role model? Was she a world leader, or any kind of leader? Flags at half staff in NJ? Other than her magnificent voice, which was lost years ago, and her age, what is the deal? Michael Jackson might have been a whackjob, but he threw money at a lot of charities over the years. Did Whitney? Get a grip people. We have gone over the edge.
< /meanie > 8851. vonKreedon - 2/20/2012 8:44:42 PM Buckwheat has been shot! 8852. wabbit - 2/21/2012 1:17:58 AM hmm, I sure hope I don't have to explain that I don't mean this as a racial comment. I would be equally put off if it was Madonna, or Boy George, or George Clooney, or any celebrity. The media whips people up into a frenzy over something that happens to families every day, and to them is just as tragic, if not more so.
I'm just out of touch with popular culture, that much is clear. 8853. wabbit - 2/21/2012 2:06:32 AM I didn't get the big deal over Princess Di either. Still don't. 8854. wabbit - 2/21/2012 2:17:55 AM
'Nuff said? 8855. thoughtful - 2/21/2012 3:36:23 PM Go Granny go!
Not only did I love her spirit but I have the same perpetual calendar that she had on her wall!
8856. judithathome - 2/21/2012 4:59:37 PM I am SOOOOO with you, wabbit, on this "perpetual Whitney angst". I don't think the last 3 dead popes got this much ink. 8857. bhelpuri - 2/23/2012 10:52:56 AM what's the difficulty in understanding that whitney houston meant different things to black america + white america (to choose only one such categorization that could work for this example)? to the latter, particularly over 35, the singer was just one of the big voices of her time. to the former, she was a connection to the show-biz greats of the previous generation, a vibrant musical ambassador from the black church tradition, and rare crossover to global success. I don't understand why this is so hard to acknowledge. 8858. wabbit - 2/24/2012 5:53:33 PM What I don't understand how you could have so clearly missed my point. But I suppose it was inevitable that someone would make this out to be a racial thing. 8859. judithathome - 2/24/2012 8:44:23 PM It isn't difficult to acknowledge, it's just that some of us are tired of it being done to death. If you'll pardon my pun.
But thank you so much for explaining it as that black/white thing never would have occured to me. Not even after hearing some of my black friends express fatigue with all the coverage her death has engendered. 8860. thoughtful - 2/26/2012 9:22:37 PM I'm surprised at all of you...while Whitney's death treatment was overdone, IMO, it wasn't so OTT as others you mentioned like princess di and michael Jackson...or maybe I just don't hear it so much now that 90% of my tv watching is DVR'd....or maybe I was just expecting it to be even worse.
Its always a wonder to me tho how Hollywood types can obtain so much and end up so screwed up by it. I guess it is a rare grounded few who can enjoy their success yet not let it destroy them....
Or is it that they just have the spotlight on them.....while other poor bastards die similarly but silently in small tragedies... 8861. arkymalarky - 2/26/2012 10:24:05 PM I looked at it as a state thing. I don't know if AR will fly flags at half staff when glen campbell dies, but I wouldn't be surprised. 8862. wabbit - 2/26/2012 10:44:00 PM Princess Di was the most photographed person on the planet. The poor woman had virtually no privacy, even after the divorce. But royalty fascination has always been there. We've lightened up on Kate.
Michael Jackson was not only a musical icon, with one of the top selling albums of all time, and a suspected pedophile, his death was suspicious from the start and ended up with a doctor on trial for murder.
Whitney Houston was the voice. THE voice. I don't know when we'll hear another like her. Maybe Christina Aguilera, but I wouldn't want to make the case. I understand the public reaction. It was tragic to lose her at her age, especially when it seemed she might be getting her life back on track. I absolutely understand the reaction in Newark. I don't have any quarrel with her community's sorrow or her church's celebration. What I cannot get my head around is why, once all of that is acknowledged, the press can't let the poor woman's family, friends and fans mourn her in whatever way *they* choose, without having to dig crap up and find any way they can to keep her death in the news so they can make another buck. At some point it just isn't real news anymore and the media is prolonging the agony for those who don't need to be told what to feel and how they should react. And Chris Christie flying flags at half mast? Pandering, imho. But that's politics in what he correctly recognizes as a 24/7-with-pictures news environment.
OTT media was the point. I'm surprised that needed explanation. 8863. wabbit - 2/26/2012 11:20:34 PM And so, anyone have Oscar favorites? Having seen none of the films, I'll post my predictions: - Best Picture: The Artist
- Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist or Martin Scorsese for Hugo, Scorsese wins
- Actor: Brad Pitt
- Actress: Viola Davis
- Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer
- Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer
Woody Allen will win original screenplay and maybe something else, The Descendants will get adapted screenplay, Hugo will win cinematography.
I did see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but Rooney Mara's family already won the Super Bowl and she's young enough to be around for years. Maybe she'll win for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Mind you, except for picking The Hurt Locker, I am rarely good at this.8864. judithathome - 3/3/2012 9:13:03 PM Woody Allen will win original screenplay
And deservedly so...that movie is one of my all time faves. Granted, my list of faves is long and has catagories and sub-catagories but that movie is there in one of them, regardless. 8865. Jenerator - 3/9/2012 11:58:20 PM I haven't seen The Artist yet, but I have a feeling I will be hugely disappointed. I can't believe that it was better than any of the other nominees that had *sound*. Sound is such a magnificent component to movies and is an artform by itself.
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