What Was The First Celebrity Death That Affected You?
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I think the celebrity death that hit me the hardest was John Phillips. He was behind a lot of my all time favorite music and I broke my heart to hear that he'd died.
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Then I'd have to say Jim Henson.
There might be people in between... but those are the two that stick out most.
Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:00pm
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Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:03pm
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As a kid, it was simply and sadly, "Dorothy died today." I remember watching "Over the Rainbow" playing throughout the day on the news.
But her death affected me (and a lot of us) for years to come in other ways... many of which I didn't realize until I was an "out" gay man, only beginning to understand what had gone on before me... in that secretive, dark, oppressive time before her death triggered the Stonewall Riots.
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Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:15pm
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Robert F. Kennedy
I was 15, and I learned then that the world was not a nice place....and my childhood ended.
Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:38pm
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The celebrity death that has actually had the most tangible impact on my life was David Gemmell's. My co-worker ordered in TONS of his books for an "In Memoriam" display, and it took about three months to sell through them and get back down to a normal amount again. Madness!
Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:59pm
I honestly don't know if I have completely gotten over it.
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:04pm
And when Pedro Zamora died I think I actually cried.
Also, Princess Diana upset me.
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"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofuPosted: 7/15/07 at 7:41pm
Marlon Brando's death kind of bothered me too, but that was mostly because it hit my Dad kind of hard, he's a big godfather fan.
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:50pm
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Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:55pm
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I'd also have to add Natalie Wood, too. She died on a Saturday night...the same night my Mother and I saw Elizabeth Taylor in "The Little Foxes" at The Ahmanson Theatre, here in LA. The night that we saw it, The Ahmanson announced their new season...which included "Anatastia" with Natalie Wood. I picked up 3 posters that they were giving away.
The next morning, on the Sunday news, it was announced that Natalie Wood died the night before. It was so shocking.
I held on to those posters.........the show that never was. I sold them about 4 years ago on ebay for $1,500....each!
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It's been downhill ever since. When 'reality' was supplanted by the 'surreality' that pop culture provides, I barely survived. We can choose to accept that which is handed us as 'important,' or we can choose to define those things for ourselves.
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