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| NJ lowers flags. Street and airport names coming soon. |
| 2012-02-22 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 industry which sells a culture of decadence and false-imagry whose prominant members make millions. This applies to other parts of American culture outside of the entertainment industry. The housing bubble got its impetus from the same mechanism. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-22 15:14 |
| #11 "East Crackhead Avenue?" |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-02-22 14:55 |
| #10 JohnQC, I did debate a sarc tag, though the entertainment bloc not only advocates regulation of people to protect people from themselves, it also tends to make boucoup bucks from when its members rehab and/or die, invariably blamed upon the inheirant stress of the industry. I would wager heavy that the total amount of TV time devoted to simply explaining celebrity deaths over the last year would overshadow all other occupations combined. I think its high-time they self-regulate their industry, and also cut energy usage by 50% (no outsourcing!), within the next 5 years, then come back and tell us plebes whats what. It is an industry which sells a culture of decadence and false-imagry whose prominant members make millions. It is unfortunate that genuine talent gets ground up and instead are sold barely legal coke heads who dry hump the camera until they gain 15lbs. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-02-22 13:10 |
| #9 Have been for quite a while, CF. Jannis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix are just two. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2012-02-22 12:15 |
| #8 Are you freaking kidding me? She was good once - even great. But in the end she was just another hollywood junkie. Are we celebrating junkiehood now? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-02-22 11:54 |
| #7 Apparently celebrity is a high-stress high-risk vocation and should probably be banned. There are many high-stress jobs that don't necessarily lead to drug abuse. Police, firemen, soldiers in combat, surgeons, teachers in some schools, and many other high-risk jobs. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-02-22 10:38 |
| #6 Not to disparage a talent, but remove the celebrity and "Single African-American mother with history of drug abuse found dead in hotel bathtub" does not have the same impact. But I didn't have much sympathy for Heath Ledger, MJ, etc. either. Apparently celebrity is a high-stress high-risk vocation and should probably be banned. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-02-22 10:34 |
| #5 That's New Jersey, keeping it... New Jersey. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-02-22 10:10 |
| #4 Museum of modern art, too. |
| Posted by: lotp 2012-02-22 10:04 |
| #3 I think many are celebrity-obsessed in this country. |
| Posted by: Anginetle Bumble1516 2012-02-22 09:41 |
#2 Isn't naming a city in Texas after her enough?
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| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-02-22 09:09 |
| #1 "I am disturbed by people..... we don't know what is the cause of her death yet.....," said the governor during a briefing in northern New Jersey. "I just reject that on a human level." The |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-02-22 09:08 |