Here is the story.
Like the news of Michael Jackson's death, I'm not surprised.
But it is very sad that another very talented entertainer has died for no good reason.
I'm signing off for the night and wondering who will be next...
Whitney Houston Dead
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I was never a fan, but RIP Ms Houston.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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She had a beautiful voice once.
RIP
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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I just have to say: it should have been Bobby Brown instead.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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What a waste of talent. She had it all and pissed it all away.
She had it all and pissed it all away.Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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She is the most awarded female vocalist in the history of the music industry, so she didn't exactly waste her talent. One does wonder how much more she could have accomplished had she not gotten into drug use.
It will be interesting to learn the cause of death. If she wasn't back to using and it wasn't drug related, I would suspect heart failure. As a 48 year old black woman, that is the odds on favorite. A history of drug abuse just adds to the odds.
It will be interesting to learn the cause of death. If she wasn't back to using and it wasn't drug related, I would suspect heart failure. As a 48 year old black woman, that is the odds on favorite. A history of drug abuse just adds to the odds.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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$10,000,000 voice and ten-cent head. I'm not a fan but you have to respect that level of talent.
A shame. A lot of people can't handle unlimited access to everything they want; fortunately very few get it.
yrs,
rubato
A shame. A lot of people can't handle unlimited access to everything they want; fortunately very few get it.
yrs,
rubato
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And in addition to a great voice and wonderful expression, it certainly never hurt her that she is nice to look at.
From all indications her career was rightly spoken of in the past tense, even before Saturday.
"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all..."
I think she got that one covered.
From all indications her career was rightly spoken of in the past tense, even before Saturday.
"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all..."
I think she got that one covered.
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As in so many things, you are completely wrong. If anything, she didn't love herself enough, certainly not enough to think that she could do better than the trashy husband she ended up with, who mistreated her and was largely responsible for bringing her down.
It is unfortunate that too many performers get stuck at the emotional age they were when they became famous, and reacting to life as if she were still a 21 year old girl scared out of her wits at all of the demands suddenly thrust upon her is the only fathomable reason that could explain how she could attach herself to such a useless POS like Bobby Brown.
It is unfortunate that too many performers get stuck at the emotional age they were when they became famous, and reacting to life as if she were still a 21 year old girl scared out of her wits at all of the demands suddenly thrust upon her is the only fathomable reason that could explain how she could attach herself to such a useless POS like Bobby Brown.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
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And in further news...........
Tony (I Left my Heart in San Francisco) chimes in:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/201 ... ouston.php
Tony (I Left my Heart in San Francisco) chimes in:
Mere hours after Houston was found dead in a Beverly Hilton hotel bathroom on Saturday afternoon, Bennett took the stage at a pre-Grammy Awards party that Houston, 48, was to attend. Drugs must have already been on Bennett's mind -- the next night, he would accept an award for a duo he did with Amy Winehouse, who died last summer at 27 -- for the ageless crooner used his stage time to beg the assembled glitterati to dedicate themselves to a preventative cause: outright legalization.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/201 ... ouston.php
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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At least she wasn't 27...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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She was once.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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ExactlyGob wrote:She was once.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Self love (indulgence) is not the same as self-respect.
Not everyone with infinite financial resources acts like a self-indulgent idiot.
Not everyone with infinite financial resources acts like a self-indulgent idiot.
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it's disturbing that you would equate love and indulgence
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Precisely. There can be no real love (of self or others) without respect. Indulgence (of self or others) isn't love.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
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Record label Sony has apologised for increasing the price of two Whitney Houston albums in the UK, hours after her death on Saturday.
The wholesale cost of the two LPs - Houston's Ultimate Collection and Greatest Hits - went up by about £3 each, causing an automatic price increase on iTunes.
In a statement, Sony said the albums had been "mistakenly mispriced".
It added the error was "immediately corrected" once it had been discovered.
Houston fans had taken to Twitter describing the price hike as "greedy" and "shameful".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17039076
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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"Learning to love yourself..." is mindless 80's psycho-babble, and amounts to little more than encouraging self-indulgence.
It is analogous to "building self-esteem," another idiotic, counterproductive campaign of the Education Establishment that tried to trick kids into thinking that mediocrity was worthy of praise. Everyone gets a TROPHY! Right.
It has resulted in a generation of lazy, worthless kids who know nothing and can do nothing of value, but feel GREAT about themselves.
Predictably, many of them are still living at home, unemployed or underemployed and single, at age 30 and beyond.
"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all."
Gag.
It is analogous to "building self-esteem," another idiotic, counterproductive campaign of the Education Establishment that tried to trick kids into thinking that mediocrity was worthy of praise. Everyone gets a TROPHY! Right.
It has resulted in a generation of lazy, worthless kids who know nothing and can do nothing of value, but feel GREAT about themselves.
Predictably, many of them are still living at home, unemployed or underemployed and single, at age 30 and beyond.
"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all."
Gag.