The Dead Celebrity Thread - Page 99

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Originally Posted by Dross 

http://www.thesuperficial.com/whitney-houstons-sobrietys-going-well-02-2012

Perverse, isn't it? The media (traditional, internet and otherwise) will gleefully report on every moment of people's downward spiral right up to the actual moment of their death at which point they'll turn on a dime and start saying the nicest possible things about them with the focus on their most successful years. They really don't have any sense of shame at all, do they?

We could all use a little sexual chocolate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRERLEM2eE

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Originally Posted by Leonard 

 

Very sad (if true). I didn't pay attention to her recent stuff, but "Shoop" (the Waiting to Exhale song) was fucking everywhere for years, and this is one of the all-time great pop songs:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA

 

"Don'tchawannadancesayyouwannadance." Twenty-three when she recorded that. Jesus. (It also features one of my favorite backing vocalists, the guy that goes "Dance!")

 

Grantland writer Jay Caspian Kang did a piece a while back where he named Whitney the greatest diva of the last twenty-five years. He had this to say about her rendition of the National Anthem:

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkHs7Kuido&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for that post, Rath.

Whitney was the girl-next-door diva when she first broke. Very crush worthy. And with "I'm Your Baby Tonight" she was the new queen of R & B. Her voice was amazing. I remember the chills that "National Anthem" rendition brought. This is so sad.

Not that I'm volunteering for the task, but who won last year's Dead Pool, and has this year's been started yet? I'd have never called some of the names that have already died in the past month-and-a-quarter.

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Originally Posted by Leto II 

Not that I'm volunteering for the task, but who won last year's Dead Pool, and has this year's been started yet? I'd have never called some of the names that have already died in the past month-and-a-quarter.

http://www.chud.com/community/t/141541/celebrity-dead-pool-2012

you missed out on Paterno but can pick Home Alone kid.
 

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

Wanda Sykes is dead?

I can only hope Art was going for ironic racial commentary there.

Saturday night boredom + a celebrity's passing x the internet = awful humor

[that pic cracked me up, what can I say?]

I think what Art meant to say was "Debra Wilson's Schtick RIP"

Very creepy that there's a pre-Grammys party going on at the Beverly Hilton right now as Whitney Houston's body is four floors up.

Kevin Costner failed.

Are people seriously blaming Bobby Brown for this?  

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Originally Posted by Ambler 

Are people seriously blaming Bobby Brown for this?  

Gotta blame someone and it couldn't have been her fault.

Is Conrad Murray still on the street?

Of course Bobby Brown is to blame. There's a pretty clear before Bobby/after Bobby story of decline there.

OK, does anybody have a twenty on Courtney Love?

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Originally Posted by Ben W 

OK, does anybody have a twenty on Courtney Love?

 

 

Funny as I just watching Kurt and Courtney today.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

Of course Bobby Brown is to blame. There's a pretty clear before Bobby/after Bobby story of decline there.

I hope you're not serious.

Well then, enlighten us, O biographer to the stars.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

Well then, enlighten us, O biographer to the stars.

You must be the same type who blame their parents for their problems later in life.

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Originally Posted by Ambler 

You must be the same type who blame their parents for their problems later in life.

No, I'm the kind of person that asks another person to elaborate on an opinion that differs from my own.

BB might of introduced her to drugs but she hadn't been married to him for 5 years.  

If his presence fueled her drug intake then his absence should have led her to stop; unfortunately, that's not how things work. Perhaps she would have never gotten on that train if she had never met Brown but he didn't put the addict trait in her. And, like Michael Jackson, the throngs of hanger-ons, acolytes and sycophants probably were a huge factor in her not receiving the help that she needed.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

No, I'm the kind of person that asks another person to elaborate on an opinion that differs from my own.

Why should I elaborate on an obvious point?  I guess I respect you too much to break it down like I'm talking to my four year old niece.  

RIP the peace and harmony in the CHUD Dead Celebrity Thread!

And Love died years ago. She barely blinked.

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Originally Posted by Nardo 

RIP the peace and harmony in the CHUD Dead Celebrity Thread!

Blame me. I went to a funeral earlier today & have been in a crazy weird negative funk all evening. My apologies.

Carry on.

TMZ's been all over this.  She was found in the bathtub, and prescription pills have been found in the room.  She may have drowned in the tub. 

Also, eight hours after she died, they JUST removed the body from the room.

Wow, VH1 is showing Whitney videos in place of Mob Wives. VH1 must really care.

How the hell do you drown in a tub? 

She once asked Barbara Walters "If I bought crack, where are the reciepts? Show me the reciepts!"

Reciepts for crack? She was destined to drown in the bathtub.

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Originally Posted by Bitches Leave 

How the hell do you drown in a tub? 

Easier than you think. Usually when people are also intoxicated or incapacitated in some fashion and slide under the water without waking up.

In my case, I had food poisoning at work and spent the day in one of the baths in the staff accommodation because the heat of the water brought some relief to the terrible cramping in my abdomen which just seemed to be going on forever. I then went on to fall asleep, which was very dangerous and I should have known better even before I got in. I woke up finding my head several hours later with my head far too close to waterline for my liking.

edit: to clarify, so my later post makes sense, my workplace was a hospital.

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Originally Posted by Shan 

Easier than you think. Usually when people are also intoxicated or incapacitated in some fashion and slide under the water without waking up.

 

In my case, I had food poisoning at work and spent the day in one of the baths in the staff accommodation because the heat of the water brought some relief to the terrible cramping in my abdomen which just seemed to be going on forever. I then went on to fall asleep, which was very dangerous and I should have known better even before I got in. I woke up finding my head several hours later with my head far too close to waterline for my liking.

...anyone else read that as "...Finding my head severed hours later..."

Just me then?

Hell of a party that would have been.

Anyway, wasn't that ultimately how Heath Ledger went?  Drug depressed breathing and he effectively suffocated on the duvet.

In any case I don't think you even need water.

Anydbody see the oddly random "tribute" SNL did last night?  It was pretty deep in the show, almost 12:30, and after a sketch they just flashed a still photo of Whitney in a Mary Katherine sketch with Molly Shannon.  No caption, no explanation, didn't even show a clip, just this photo up for a few seconds then a fade to commercial.  Seemed oddly half-assed.  

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Originally Posted by Graham 

...anyone else read that as "...Finding my head severed hours later..."

 

Just me then?

 

Well fortunately, it wasn't that bad a hospital ...

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Originally Posted by Graham 

...anyone else read that as "...Finding my head severed hours later..."

 

Just me then?

 

P.S just noticed how horribly I murdered the syntax in my post that you quoted when I reread what I'd written. I really don't know how I keep managing to do that.

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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 

TMZ's been all over this.  She was found in the bathtub, and prescription pills have been found in the room.  She may have drowned in the tub. 

 

Also, eight hours after she died, they JUST removed the body from the room.

So Whitney has become this generation's Elvis....dying in the bathroom is no way to end a star's career. 

As for Bobby Brown and what part he played in introducing her to hard drugs, we can let history show his drastic effect upon her life and career. Sure, they divorced five years ago. If a terrible fire flares up time and time again despite the efforts of firefighters, you still blame the arsonist that started it. Sure, Whitney is responsible at the end of the day, but to discount his influence is curious at best.

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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector 

 Sure, Whitney is responsible at the end of the day, but to discount his influence is curious at best.

This. No one's arguing WH is someone responsibility-free for her drug use. But saying Brown has no culpability, either, seems a weird stance. As pointed out, there's a clear line of demarcation in her life, and Brown is that line.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

 

Blame me. I went to a funeral earlier today & have been in a crazy weird negative funk all evening. My apologies.

Carry on.

Art: sorry for your loss. 

Unless Bobby Brown held her down and forced drugs into her while she howled in protest, Whitney Houston is responsible for Whitney Houston's drug problems.

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Originally Posted by Shan 

P.S just noticed how horribly I murdered the syntax in my post that you quoted when I reread what I'd written. I really don't know how I keep managing to do that.

 

Hey, I give people with severed heads a pass, in THAT regard...

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Originally Posted by Graham 

Hey, I give people with severed heads a pass, in THAT regard...

Well, what might explain my poor sentence construction is that I do have a headache for some reason which does seem to make it hard to think and type properly ...

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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson 

Unless Bobby Brown held her down and forced drugs into her while she howled in protest, Whitney Houston is responsible for Whitney Houston's drug problems.

So you don't think people can be influenced by other people, either in good directions or bad? Interesting. As a parent, I pay careful attention to the friends my son has in his life. We all make our own choices, but the idea that others do not sway us in certain directions is curious.

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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector 

So you don't think people can be influenced by other people, either in good directions or bad? Interesting. As a parent, I pay careful attention to the friends my son has in his life. We all make our own choices, but the idea that others do not sway us in certain directions is curious.

If we're swayed in one direction or another, it's our own fault as we make our own decisions.  Some of the kids I grew up with were, shall we say, "bad influences", but they never got to me because I knew what they were doing was WRONG.  And I made the decision not to do what they did and I was close with some of them.  Even in adulthood I've had drugs offered to me, but I chose not to do them, for the most part, and if I tried something I tried it because I wanted to try it, no one made me.  I hate it when people blame everyone but the perpetrator.  We are ultimately responsible for every decision we make in our lives.  We live in a society of blame, and lack of responsibility which promotes laziness and bad behavior, and the Bobby Brown stuff just feeds this nonsense.
 

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

 

Blame me. I went to a funeral earlier today & have been in a crazy weird negative funk all evening. My apologies.

Carry on.

For what it's worth, I apologize for being a smart ass, and I'm sorry for your loss.

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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector 

So you don't think people can be influenced by other people, either in good directions or bad? Interesting. As a parent, I pay careful attention to the friends my son has in his life. We all make our own choices, but the idea that others do not sway us in certain directions is curious.

Didn't say that.  He may have been an influence, but she had a large say in how much influence he had.

People who were in the room say she was found underwater in the tub, says TMZ.  Her head was underwater and her legs were sticking up, indicating that she fell asleep and slid underwater.  Fucked up.

Fucked up...but if I had a choice...

I feel bad for every winner at the Grammy's tonight who is going to have their moment overshadowed by all this.  

Also, Maya Rudolph is hosting SNL next week.  Bet they're damned glad it wasn't this week.  

I thought it was a very tastefully done Grammys all things considered. Most moving moment was this stirring rendition of Whitney's signature song:

Not. One. Dry. Eye.

Didn't see the Grammys, but I hear the death montage skipped Don Cornelius and Etta James. Is that true? If so, awful.