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That’s just… weird. Sad, too, of course - my heart goes out to their family and friends. But still… I practically grew up with MJ. Oh, I didn’t know him (unless you believe the rumor that was going around my jr high school at the time that that was him spending a semester there), but he’s just a few months younger than me so many of the milestones of his life, including turning 50, were mine as well. Kinda makes you think. I was sad at what he’d become in the later years but just recently I caught an old video of him, with the Jackson Five, and was just amazed at how talented he was, even then. And Farrah - I tried and tried to get The Flip but wasn’t really able to do it. And even though she had more serious roles later, my favorite was still Charlie’s Angels. Sure there were issues with it, but for that period of time pretty groundbreaking. The Charlies Angels women almost replaced Emma Peel in the “cool women who kick butt that I want to be” category in my mind. Anyway, nothing deep to say. May they both rest in peace.
Nanette says...
Yep, I know what you mean but with people who are famous - especially those who are weird as well, like Jackson, some people do feel like they know them. In one way or another. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of others dying daily, or whatever. Mind you, I haven’t watched TV in ages because I don’t have my digital converter box yet, so I’ve missed most of the hoopla. Anyway, Farrah was sort of expected cuz she’s been so ill, but Jackson was a bit of a shock - although considering all the medical interventions he’s had, for all his surgeries and stuff, it probably shouldn’t be. Still, it’s weird. Next article: Mad Michael Previous article: What Will Be Remembered? |
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I’m not trying to be nasty, but I just struggle to bring myself to care much, 100,000s of people die every day, these are just more folk that I don’t know, dieing. Yet for some reason, there is a massive outpouring of seeming upset at people dieing of seemingly natural causes, people vast majority have never met. Yet there are killings of innocent people etc that go unnoticed all the time. I just find it a bit twisted, yet I find myself caught up in the hype enough to comment?