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Aug 13, 2014 - 8:35 AM
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CinemaScope
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Besides his death, what particularly bothers me is reading about his financial problems, due to XYZ (documented in various articles over the past year). It cannot have helped matters, to say the least.
Yeah, financial problems, alcoholism & chronic depression. It's funny, when you think of someone famous & quite brilliant, you think of them leading a charmed & oh so happy life, but it's rarely the case, with anyone really.
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"Yeah, financial problems, alcoholism & chronic depression. It's funny, when you think of someone famous & quite brilliant, you think of them leading a charmed & oh so happy life, but it's rarely the case, with anyone really."
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SUGGESTED FURTHER READING
(For those who may remember their high school English class poems):
"Richard Cory," by Edward Arlington Robinson
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Posted: |
Aug 14, 2014 - 1:01 AM
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Francis
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I previously posted how heartbroken I was over the loss of this brilliant gem of a man. But now I am boiling over with anger at the media circus that surrounds his passing. I am sick to my stomach when I catch a snippet of the vulturistic behavior of the media. With every untimely passing of a famous person, the media stoops lower and lower in covering it. They have a right to cover the story. They do not have a right to dissect and incinerate the memory of the deceased. There have been some lovely tributes but there have been ghoulish stories as well. Shame on the ghouls.
Please keep in mind - I am referring to the public media, NOT anything posted here on FSM.
I can't say I agree, From what I've been exposed to I think they've been holding back and being more celebrative of the actor/comedian that was Robin Williams as opposed to lynching him for being a celebrity who by their own coverage committed suicide over drug use. Same with the general public's reactions, had this been an upcoming actor/comedian, I wont make the analogy out of respect to the tone of this thread, but it wouldn't have been a tenth as pretty. Perhaps British press is a bit more invasive in this aspect or I just haven't bothered to read up on it over here.
I have seen an immense boost of his movies being broadcasted as well as popping up in top viewed lists in the last couple of days, also a tsunami of 'people in the industry' commenting via twitter or any camera they could get hold off. I do think most of them just want to pay tribute. I liked seeing Williams being payed respect to by cyclist legend Eddy Merckx, who apparently went to ride with him in the States. I've always found it peculiar that Williams had such a strong interest in cycling.
Anyway, the media attention will shift to something or someone else as it always does.
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