RIP Whitney Houston

@mismi,

mismi wrote:

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So it feels personal in a way that some of these other celebrity deaths don't.

So true

I have to say that i just don't get this. I'm not immune to the tragedy, but it is no more personal to me than the death of any other performer, be it from a life badly lived, or just old age.

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@Setanta,

Well that was the "so" part.

I explained why it felt more personal, to me, in the section of the post before the part that mismi quoted.

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@aidan,

Ok, that made me sob. (whadda marshmallow - I cried when I heard Joan Baez sing a cappella in person too, not that I've ever seen Whitney.)

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It's also sad because she was recently trying to revive her acting career and she might have been trying to point her life in a new direction.

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Whitney Houston comeback movie 'Sparkle' to be released in August, possibly earlier
February 13, 2012

The movie "Sparkle" was expected to be Whitney Houston's onscreen comeback -- she not only acted in the film but also served as an executive producer and contributed two songs to the soundtrack. But in the wake of the singer's untimely death on Saturday, the movie's meaning has changed dramatically.

“Like all those who knew and loved her, we are shocked and saddened and the world has lost an incomparable talent,” read a statement from Sony Pictures to Billboard.

Howard Rosenman, also a producer on the film, shared with Gossip Cop that he had seen a rough cut and that Houston was "unbelievably fantastic" in it.

Sparkle" is a remake of a 1976 movie, loosely based on the story of The Supremes. In the film, Houston plays a mother whose three daughters compose a musical group...

While the studio says that they are on track for an August release date, a source tells Radar Online that the studio is actually considering pushing up the movie's outting.

"Dates are being discussed," an insider tells the site. "It's still early, but the reasoning is that Whitney's fans will want to see her in this movie, in which she gives a remarkable performance."

The insider furthers that the movie could be released as soon as Memorial Day.

"This absolutely isn't being done to make money," the source says. "The studio bosses want the public to remember Whitney as a brilliant performer and stunning actress. The execs are going to be sensitive to her death."
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/whitney_houston_comeback_movie_sparkle_uKOYJnf6GDC54fzssbkLWJ

The cause of her death may well turn out to be not the illegal drugs which helped to side-track her career, but rather prescription drugs, like Xanax, possibly mixed with alcohol, which either directly caused her death or contributed to her drowning in the bathtub. Regardless of the cause, her death has put Whitney once again back on the top of the charts and it has reminded everyone of just how glorious that voice was.

I do feel sorry for her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, whose two trips to a hospital indicate just how distraught she is over her mother's sudden death. Bobby Brown is trying to help her--he left his tour to go to L.A. so he could be with his daughter and accompany her back to New Jersey for the funeral. I hope that he is a source of support for her. Grieving in the glare of such enormous publicity can't be easy at all. I can only imagine what this must be like for Whitney's mother. If the family wants a private funeral, I hope the media will leave them alone.

I think Whitney will be remembered for her enormous talent. That voice eclipses everything else that went on in her private life.

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@Setanta,

Soz wrote:

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So it feels personal in a way that some of these other celebrity deaths don't.

mismi wrote:

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So true

Set wrote:

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I have to say that i just don't get this. I'm not immune to the tragedy, but it is no more personal to me than the death of any other performer, be it from a life badly lived, or just old age.

Soz wrote:

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Well that was the "so" part.

I explained why it felt more personal, to me, in the section of the post before the part that mismi quoted.

I probably should have explained that it feels very personal to me for the same reason. For whatever reason I connected with her and her music.

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OK, that's fine. I wasn't looking for an explanation, i had read both posts. I was just sayin' . . . ya know?

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@mismi,

I was just coming back to say that! (That I assumed you meant it's more personal than usual for you, too, but that neither of us were making some sort of universal statement.)

Anyway, minor point, but was niggling a little.

Sigh.

Have had Whitney Houston songs going through my head on endless loop. And again, I really wouldn't have said she was one of my favorite singers before she died. But I think there's something about the soundtrack to your teenage years -- the links that are made in a very music-heavy and emotional time.

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@Setanta,

Set wrote:

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OK, that's fine. I wasn't looking for an explanation, i had read both posts. I was just sayin' . . . ya know?

Alrighty. Maybe it is a chick thing. I know the hubs thinks I am a lunatic when I get all weepy over folks I don't know. This has only happened one other time that I remember - and that was Princess Diana. I think that was because I was just so enamoured of her when I was young.

Anyway. Wink

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@mismi,

I was pretty schocked by Diana's death, especially as it was so gruesome. But once again, i had no personal connection. The musical group with which i had the closest identification as a kid were the Beatles. When Lennon was shot almost 20 years later, i was shocked and saddened, but still, i didn't feel a personal connection--i'd never met any of them, and didn't know them. Maybe that's your husband's take, too, that these are people he didn't personally know.

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@Setanta,

Oh it definitely is his take. But seriously - I take way too much personally - so it's not so surprising. Flawed I am.

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I'm not signing on to that. I see no reason to see you as "flawed." Goofy, sure . . . after all you are a girl.

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@Setanta,

I like goofy. Think it is a great quality in folks. And you used girl.

You are so sweet.

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I didn't feel bad when I heard the news. I thought all that beauty and talent thrown away for crack. I would be shocked if her early death wasn't somehow related to her addictions. I do feel sorry for her daughter. What a childhood she must of had.

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@Green Witch,

Advertiser News - Adelaide , Australia.

"Doctors have raised the alarm about the prescription drug which has been linked to the death of music diva Whitney Houston.

They say use of the drug Xanax, also known by its generic name alprazolam, has skyrocketed in Australia in the past decade.

Percriptions for the antidepressant believed to have led to the death of Whitney Houston. It is used to decrease panic and agitation.

Houston reportedly had a prescription for Xanax but toxicology results of her deather are not expected to take place for four to six weeks .

It went on to say that it is known if taken with alcohol, or painkillers there is a risk that the drug could stop the user breathing.

It is suggested that she became drousy in the bath-tup and drowned.

Her daughter was transported by ambulance to Los Angeles Hospital and later released, she was treated for stress and anxiety."

To me there is drug over-dose and there is using the drugs in-correctly but not deliberately, if she did drown, purely from taking anti-depressents, perhaps a drink, or a painkiller as well, (not hard drugs) then she falls into the same category as Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and I am wondering when it is going to be so evident that you can not mix things..

That, I feel sad for outside of the situation.

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TXe345uMqaQ/Tzjwt5V2muI/AAAAAAAAEU0/BTMQTlUvtLA/s400/whitney-houston%2B2010%2BBLOATED%252C%2BSINGING%2BDRNG%2BNOTHING%2BBUT%2BLOVE%2BTOUR.jpg

"I'm bigger than the Beatles."

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20099318,00.html

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Aretha "wrote" a poem:

"Twinkle, twinkle superstar,

We don't wonder where you are.

Up above the world so bright,

Like a diamond in the night.

Twinkle, twinkle, she stood alone.

I can't believe that she's gone."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/aretha-franklin-whitney-houston-death_n_1284862.html

Oh, dear. It sounds like this was written by 4 years old child.

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@Pamela Rosa,

I find it amazing that a Boer of all people,should be concerned about notions of racial superiority. If there is one group of people who have done absolutely nothing to advance human civilisation it's the Boers. No figures of any note in Science or the Arts. All they're known for is hatred, gluttony and pig ignorance. If the Boers could produce a singer half as talented as Houston, or even someone we might have heard of, that would be something. All you can do is sit on your fat yarpie arse pouring out your hatred and ignorance.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhokmWtWOXk&feature=related
BeBe and CeCe Winans at the funeral.

Really sweet funeral. Love BeBe's story about Whitney.
Here's the story - they cut it off in my first link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyOnq6YHfrw&feature=related

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@izzythepush,

I can, and mine conform with those found in Webster's.

The way you used them in your jibe directed at hawkeye suggests to me that your definitions are not in conformance with mine and Webster's, and so I asked the question you've declined to answer.

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RIP Whitney Houston

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