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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Rest in peace, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. You both were awesome
I'm watching Fox News and would have to agree with Geraldo Rivera. An early death for Jackson should have been expected. He was a great talent, great entertainer ......... but a troubled soul. A person who grew up in the limelight and never had an ounce of a private life.
I was just settling down from the shock of Farrah's sad, though not entirely unsurprising passing when I got hit with the news of Jackson'sd death, which prompted the kind of 'What the FUCK?" reaction one gets from such out-of-blue news. (I hadn't heard about him being taken to the hospitasl in the afternoon.) Two vastly different pop culture icons dying on the same day. It's easy to lose sight of what an incredible talent Michael Jackson truly was-the needless plastic surgery (he was so much handsomer before), the legal troubles, the general eccentricity. But, like Elvis Presley, when MJ was at his peak, he was great. As for Farrah, she and her fellow "Charlie's Angels" castmates hold a special place in my adolescenet life: they were the litmus test of whether I was truly gay or not, because if those fabulous women couldn't spark anything in me, what other woman could. Actually, that's not entirely true-but the fact that what they sparked in me was, "Wow! Those women are fabulous!" was , well, the "wromng" reaction. I wanted to BE them, not date them. Farrah did prove she was more than a cute smile and a stack of great hair-in "Murder In Texas", "The Burning Bed", and "The Apostle", to name a few examples. Not to mention she proved Ryan O'Neal wasn't a total creep, since it was obvious they were truly in love with one another. What can you say about a 62 year old girl who died?
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I'm watching Fox News and would have to agree with Geraldo Rivera. An early death for Jackson should have been expected. He was a great talent, great entertainer ......... but a troubled soul. A person who grew up in the limelight and never had an ounce of a private life.
I was just settling down from the shock of Farrah's sad, though not entirely unsurprising passing when I got hit with the news of Jackson'sd death, which prompted the kind of 'What the FUCK?" reaction one gets from such out-of-blue news. (I hadn't heard about him being taken to the hospitasl in the afternoon.)
Two vastly different pop culture icons dying on the same day.
It's easy to lose sight of what an incredible talent Michael Jackson truly was-the needless plastic surgery (he was so much handsomer before), the legal troubles, the general eccentricity. But, like Elvis Presley, when MJ was at his peak, he was great.
As for Farrah, she and her fellow "Charlie's Angels" castmates hold a special place in my adolescenet life: they were the litmus test of whether I was truly gay or not, because if those fabulous women couldn't spark anything in me, what other woman could.
Actually, that's not entirely true-but the fact that what they sparked in me was, "Wow! Those women are fabulous!" was , well, the "wromng" reaction. I wanted to BE them, not date them.
Farrah did prove she was more than a cute smile and a stack of great hair-in "Murder In Texas", "The Burning Bed", and "The Apostle", to name a few examples.
Not to mention she proved Ryan O'Neal wasn't a total creep, since it was obvious they were truly in love with one another.
What can you say about a 62 year old girl who died?
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