Over the top reactions to celebrity deaths

During the award season, Blanchett said she didn't want to talk to the press because she was too upset about Phillip Seymour Hoffman. My ass. She didn't want to face questions about Dylan Farrow's essay.

OP is bitter. STFU.

Overrated? OP had no clue what acting is.

Cue the Princess Diana scream video.

OP, Cate Blanchett actually knew and worked with PSH,. They did movies together,. He was an actual friend of hers.

PSH was overrated. He just did a lot of character roles, which impresses Millennials because they'd rather look hot and cool.

He was just an actor.

Good God, does the name "Diana" ring a bell?!

I had a friend once who got upset with me because I said, "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that" at the news that Dana Reeve, Christopher's widow, had passed away. He said he didn't understand why I would feel that way because I did not know her. I told him true, I didn't know her but just thought it was sad news to hear given it wasn't that long after her husband had died (plus I added that she was a person after all, so knowing her wasn't exactly required to find her dying to be awful news). But this explanation did not move him. He said (a) we all die, including celebrities, so what's the big deal, but most of all, (b) I did not know her and therefore had no personal reason to care.

Most bizarre thing for me is that he was a very nice person (and one of the first people I got to know after moving to New York). He just had no regard for celebrities when they die.

Druggie Heath Ledger got an Oscar because he died.

MJ

Maybe she liked her.

Celebrity deaths affect people and it's a normal reaction because the celebrity is part of the life of those persons but in this case she knew him and probably liked him so it affect her on a personal level.

There are celebrities that use other celebrities deaths to promote themselves but i don't think this is one of those cases

[quote]Celebrity deaths affect people and it's a normal reaction because the celebrity is part of the life of those persons but in this case she knew him and probably liked him so it affect her on a personal level.

When Ken Osmond died last year, a few people posted that they couldn't understand why Tony Dow hadn't made any comment about it (perhaps he did later, I don't know). I was thinking maybe it was just too painful for him to talk about? Or if not that, simply that it's just not everyone's desire to express their feelings publicly about everything. It's okay to remain silent.

r12=Susan Dey

Chadwick Boseman. Classy guy and he died far too young and tragically but my God they dragged that thing out for far too long.

OK, the least OTT reaction to a celeb's death was when some media type on a red carpet asked McConaughey about Sam Shepard's death (which had just occured). McBongo hadn't heard about it and was absolutely stunned to get the news. He looked like he was going to cry.

Hoffman was far from overrated. I truly miss him, actually.

R16, I'm still here, dork.

R17, I think R16 was referring to PSH.

I'm still crying so hard about Amy Winehouse I can't breathe

She skillfully made all her speeches about other things and didn't even mention Woody Allen much until she had the Oscar in her hands.

R20 I always remember when uber-phony Cate Blanchett got the Oscar from the previous year's winner Daniel Day Lewis and said "getting this from your hands exacerbates the honor!" Dummy.

Kobe Bryant owns this thread.

I was in a college class when George Carlin died, some girl was bawling and saying she had to go home because she was so upset. She wasn't just trying to get out of class either, she seemed to be legitimately having some kind of mental breakdown over the news.

Meryl wept and wept over John Cazale's death but got over it so quick she was able to marry Gummer 6 months later.

OP, how do you know what her relationship is to him? That is the problem with social media and celebrity. People see the famous and think they know them.

My sister was heartbroken when Robert Palmer died. Never got that. I have been searching forever for the clip of a man prostrate before the gates of Kensington Palace on the day or two after Diana died. He wore a colorful ensemble, possibly an African print, with a brimless hat. Guuurl, she was a mess! I mean Tituss Burgess could have taken lessons in overreacting, and possibly did!

when olivia newton-john died

Kobe AND Gianna, R22.

Cate Blanchett had a financial stake in Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Blanchett and husband run a theatre down in Sydney and she uses movies stars like Hoffman, Bill Hurt and Isable Huppert to do shows in Sydney as a try-out to convince financiers to bring the Sydney productions to New York.

Blanchett appears in a lot of rubbish movies to bring in the dough. Blanchett has commercial deal with some perfume com-any (Versace? I don't know).

Blanchett's got 3 homes and one in England with palsy-walsy SJW socialist-millionaires Clooney and Clooney.

Cate Blanchett is such a poor overrated cunt to start with. And what R1 said.

Blanchett's a total bitch. She was making a movie in Austin - Terrence Malick's last disaster. She got interviewed by the Austin paper which asked her about her father who was from Texas and died when she was a kid.

She rambled on about how he was bedridden for a couple of years before he died (of cancer I think) when he was in his late 30s, and did nothing but watch cowboy movies on TV. And how she hated cowboy movies because of him and how her poor sainted Ma had to work her ass off to support the family because the loser was dying and then died leaving her and her Ma broke. The nerve of that man!

Excuse me, R17?

Tony Dow worked with Ken Osmond many many decades ago. Would you be that upset about the death of somebody you worked with as a teen half a century ago?

R33, they also did the LITB reboot series together in the '80s, though that too was nearly 40 years ago.

Maybe Tony and Ken had a lovers’ quarrel.

I used to meet a friend on certain nights at the gym and one of those nights was when Robin Williams died. She said she was surprised i showed up that night because she thought I would be too distraught to leave home. I realized then that she really didn't know me even though we had been friends for years. Williams was not a favorite of mine and although very sad for his family I was not affected in the least by his death. Do people really fall apart over celebrities' deaths?

The hysteria when that weird little man Prince died was absurd! (Excellent thread idea btw, OP!)

R14 and the people bitching after the Oscars only added to it.

JLo got seriously hammered on Twitter for tweeting about her disappointment in losing a bid to buy a baseball team when Chadwick Boseman died.

Sis was forced into tweeting a perfunctory RIP post.

I always get a little choked up on Good Friday.

I’m amused by some celebrity deaths. Like when that animal planet guy was stung by a stingray.

Buh-bye, idiot!

Cate Blanchett didn’t owe Dylan Farrow anything. Mia was pissed that Jasmine was a thinly veiled version of her and, to add insult to injury, Blanchett started winning all the industry awards for which Mia was never even nominated. Dylan finally found a way to win her mother’s attention again after her usefulness during the custody trial played out.

Cate Blanchett’s acting in Blue Jasmine and the academy’s embrace of her performance in it was a slap in the face to survivors of child sexual abuse.

Never guilty of. For instance, I didn't react at all when Natalie Wood died.

Same here.

People went off the rails when Heath Ledger died.

Thirteen years later, and I’m still getting dragged into it.

Didn't give a shit either

r43, I sincerely and genuinely wish someone would slap you in the face.

HARD.

When Rudolph Valentino died, his fans were hysterical. There were numerous reports of suicides and attempted suicide.

All Cate showed was how desperate she was to win awards. Jumping on PSH's tragedy to shy away from the Dylan Farrow story was grotesque behavior even by Hollywood standards.

The good news is that she's done with winning oscars. No fucking way will that cow get a third one.

Sharon Tate. What was the fuss all about ? bitch deserved to die. Can we have parole now ?

When Naya Rivera died, her fans took to Twitter to announce that they were going to be away from Twitter for a while as they needed to grieve in private.

R39 I wonder if JLo is glad/relieved that the baseball deal with A-Rod fell through. I wouldn’t want to co-own a baseball team with my ex.

When Carrie Fisher died. I just didn't want to live anymore

I was inconsolable when I learned that Boy George was still alive!

everything that happened after the 22th june 1969, down to here

[quote] Over the top reactions to celebrity deaths

When Bogart died, my mother grabbed Frank's cock , rode it like he was seabiscuit and came all over him

Is this the guy R26?

[quote] [R20] I always remember when uber-phony Cate Blanchett got the Oscar from the previous year's winner Daniel Day Lewis and said "getting this from your hands exacerbates the honor!" Dummy.

Wow, she really did say "exacerbates"! I'm posting her acceptance speech. She says "exacerbates" at around 1:10. It's not even a malaprop. What would be the closest word - "exasperate"? Yes, what a fucking dummy!

Cate Blanchett is a bad actress. saw her in PLENTY in London and she wasn't even competent

She's a cunt

PSH was a great actor. We are poorer culturally for having lost him. There was something insincere about the Heath Ledger and Chadwick Boseman reactions. I don't remember a big fuss being made over those guys while they were still alive.

Another vote for Chadwick Boseman. His death was treated like it was comparable to the deaths of James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, but, honestly, he had only one notable film in his resume. I laughed hysterically when he lost the expected Oscar to Anthony Hopkins.

When Jesus died ! THE DRAMA ! Puh-lease

When Glenn passed away it was if my own spinster sister had died. I condole any of her family that is still alive, although given her age I assume there are few. RIP.

Blanchett must have meant "enhance"

“Exacerbates” IS a word, R59. Who’s the dummy now?

Although whether she was using it correctly is a matter of conjecture.

“Exacerbates” isn't wrong but it's often used to describe negative behaviour.

I use the word visceral to describe non-intellectual behaviour but people assume I'm referring to the body's internal organs.

Cate Blanchett tries too hard to come across as intellectual in her public appearances, and her attempts at humor often fall flat. She’s a very good actress (though not as brilliant as she’s made out to be) but smug and kind of weird.

The thirst for the Blue Jasmine Oscar comes with the territory of modern day awards campaigns. Actors treat those things like Nobel Prizes these days and tend to make their speeches as grand as possible (“It exacerbates the honor!”).

Cate meant “enhances” or “exemplifies” but wanted to sound smart. Then again, Aussies are… well, Aussie.

Oh man. The Heath Ledger death threads were epic! That was such a crazy time to be a DLer.

To the Kobe haters: If you're from LA (I am) and a basketball nerd (I am)? It was a huge deal. Kobe is the most famous Los Angeles athlete - and it's not even close - in a city that loves its stars. It was basically our Princess Diana. Or Madonna, whenever she goes. Or Cher. Or Gaga.

And the fact it was so unexpected and gruesome didn't help. So cut us some slack.

[quote]Another vote for Chadwick Boseman. His death was treated like it was comparable to the deaths of James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, but, honestly, he had only one notable film in his resume.

R63, I respect the point you're making but think you undercut it somewhat by using James Dean and Marilyn Monroe as your points of comparison to Boseman. Dean nor Monroe had very lengthy resumes themselves, yet have been beloved as deities of the silver screen for decades. That's not to say they didn't do good work, just that they've enjoyed iconic status for at least two generations without a long list of credits to back it up. (According to IMDb, Dean had 32, Monroe had 33 and Boseman had 34.)

Always thought it was weird a TV actor at the time George Clooney holding a press conference to rage against the paparazzi for Princess Diana's death. I always thought he was injecting himself into something that had absolutely nothing to do with him. It wasn't like he was overwhelmingly famous at the time where he could relate. He just hitched his wagon to it.

America lost it's shit when John Ritter and Johnny Cash died on the same day.

HAY I'M DEAD !!! PEOPLE !!!! youyouououououo I AM FUCKING DEAD!

Kobe Bryant, anyone? Tragic accident especially because kids were involved, but the world seemed to have stopped for weeks. Totally over the top for anyone but the victims’ family and friends.

Prince. Died in an elevator!

R75 sorry sweetie but you're timing just wasn't great.

r72, I could possibly agree with your contention re James Dean, as he'd had only 1 major leading role film (East of Eden) released prior to his death (Rebel Without a Cause was released a month after he died, Giant over a year later); but with Monroe, she'd been a major star for over a decade, with lead roles in a string of blockbuster hits and whose every move and romances were covered exhaustively by the press. Chadwick Boseman may have had 34 credits, but the general public knew him from a single film and knew next to nothing about his personal life. The media response to his tragic death was embarrassingly absurd.

Her use of the word exacerbate is not a matter of conjecture. It was simply wrong.

[quote]but the general public knew him from a single film and knew next to nothing about his personal life.

They didn't know him from a single film, stop with the nonsense Both 42 and Get on Up were hits at the box office. Black Panther was the biggest grossing movie of all time. He also appeared as T'Challa in the other Black Panther movies.

And as far as his personal life, so what? Because he wasn't drugging it up every night, that makes him some bad person? He was good guy who died free of scandal and had a promising future ahead of him.

[quote]Oh man. The Heath Ledger death threads were epic! That was such a crazy time to be a DLer.

I agree. It was completely over the top and downright unhinged. And people acting like The Dark Knight was some huge cultural milestone in moviemaking instead of the subpar action movie it was.

His performance in that film is on par with Faye Dunaway's in Supergirl, yet for a year we had to listen to how the Academy OWED him the award.

I recall Edyie Gorme upon hearing the death of Frank Sinatra said it was the saddest day of her life. I suppose when her parents died, it was the happiest day.

I miss Brittany Murphy and Joan Rivers.

I’ll add Aaliyah- yes, her death was tragic and she was too young BUT the white horse drawn carriage procession along with releasing 22 white doves was a bit much (and quite tacky).

I was on 8th Ave. and 54th St. when the news of Michael Jackson’s death hit. A woman fell to the ground in front of Pick A Bagel and started screaming. Another woman and a guy coming from opposite directions started weeping and held each other. It was surreal. For a drug addict pedophile.

Heath Ledger's competition wasn't particularly strong. He probably would have won if he had lived as a makeup for Brokeback.

Josh Brolin Dan White Milk Robert Downey Jr. Kirk Lazarus Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman Father Brendan Flynn Doubt Michael Shannon John Givings, Jr. Revolutionary Road

How about a celebrity overacting to a death?

I remember Debra Messing posting frantically after a school shooting.

Every sentence was about herself: I can't take this anymore. What do I tell my son. She even tagged Dr. Drew and asked if he could help her deal with it.

I posted that she was making the tragedy all about herself. She then blocked me so she must have read it and not liked it.

Not a celeb reaction, but my mother’s friend had to leave work, in tears, when Jett Travolta died. Her son has epilepsy too & it really got to her.

R59, I don’t think Cate Blanchett is that smart, TBH. She’s a great networker and quite funny but her horsy patrician looks and elegance gives her the affect of intelligence. Whether the intelligence is there is another matter.

Blanchett dropped out of college after one year. Funny same as Gwyneth. They were pitted against each other and Cate always seemed like the smart one. (actually she probably is smarter than goop but who isn't?)

The Kobe reaction was over-the-top in my situation. I was in class and everyone was freaking out and glued to their phones as if their entire family had just died.

Some were even wondering if the class would be canceled. I don't understand people like this who have such emotional reactions to people they have never met, likely will never meet, and don't know in any sort of personal capacity.

[quote] I was on 8th Ave. and 54th St. when the news of Michael Jackson’s death hit.

I was in a Sephora (Mary!) and a makeup wrist queen pulled me aside and hissed, “did you hear that Michael a Jackson died?”.

“Really? Was it suicide?” I asked.

He gave me an irritated look and stalked off. Clearly I was not the one to be reminiscing about Wacko with him.

I then entered a music store to pick up viola strings (Mary!!) and the music employees were gathered around a guy in his 50s who telling them that he had personally heard from Diana Ross’ own lips (Mary!!!) how embarrassed she was when Joe Jackson slapped little Michael in front of a studio full of crew members when he blanked on lyrics.

People under, say, 35 don’t realise what a hasbeen Michael Jackson was between the mid-90s and his death. No one would admit to listening to him, though clearly many did, because of the molestation stories and even moreso because of his psycho fans.

As for Cate Blanchett, she probably looked up “increases” in the thesaurus and thought “exacerbates” sounded fancier.

I was at a birthday party in Spokane when somebody came into the room and said he heard that John Lennon had been shot, and there were rumors that he was dead. I was working as a reporter in NY at the time, and it was about midnight (?) there, so I called my newsroom, and my editor confirmed his death.

I think you can imagine what happened to the party at that point. People crying everywhere.

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R88 Deborah Messing's death is one that I would be over-the-top happy about.

I used to live near PSH back when he died and I used to see both Cate and her ugly husband often visiting/hanging out with PSH when she was doing her Sydney theater tours at BAM. So they were indeed more than just colleagues.

Also if I remember PSH death was years before she did Blue Jasmine and won for it.

R97, I correct myself. Indeed PSH death was around Blue Jasmine time.

A friend moved to the South shortly before Dale Earnhardt died. She said she had never seen adults cry and carry on about a celebrity death as people did for him. She said, literally, she saw people sobbing in the grocery store well after the original announcement.

"Exacerbate" is most often used as a negative - exacerbating a problem, for instance.

Receiving an award would be amplified, or magnified, by receiving it from a member of the group whom you particularly admire. The fact that that the person handing you the award is obligated, by tradition, to perform that task somewhat tempers the honor.

The only celebrity death that truly made me cry was when John Lennon was murdered. I felt a huge sense of loss...

I’ve been a huge Queen fan for a very long time and I still can’t get over the fact that Freddie Mercury is gone. I miss him so much like losing a close friend.

And I know he’s not well received amongst the gay community and DLer’s on here but his death …I still cry at times when I hear him sing. He was one of the best and cut down far too short in life.

Miss you Freddie.

R.I.P. my darling….

The odd thing about reactions to Kobe's death is that anybody who brought up the sexual assault case was crucified. Gayle King, whom I'd be loathe to defend in any other context, received ridiculous backlash for bringing it up in an interview and a Washington Post reporter was suspended after tweeting a link to an earlier news story about the case. His accuser was harassed, slut-shamed, threatened and had her identity leaked etc. despite there being physical evidence of an assault; she eventually sued him in civil court and won. Meanwhile there was zero physical evidence of any sexual contact when Dylan Farrow's claims were investigated and she never tried to bring a civil suit against Allen, yet when he dies I bet the NY Times will probably make his obit all about her allegations.

PSH wasn’t overrated OP. He was a terrific actor.

I think it’s particularly sad when someone is murdered so Lennon and Marvin Gaye (murdered by his father ffs) were particularly upsetting.

The house Marvin bought for his parents is occasionally open during historic homes tours in West Adams, though they don't let you upstairs where the shooting happened. His father was a thoroughly wretched man who physically and emotionally abused Marvin his whole life; that he was only handed a suspended sentence and allowed to live out his days comfortably in a nursing home still rankles me.

Two Marvin Gaye tribute songs were "Missing You" (Diana Ross) and "Nightshift" (The Commodores, without Lionel Richie). Love them both!

James Gandolfini. He died a year before Philip Seymour Hoffman. Its been 8 years since Gandolfini died.

Hugh Hefner. So glad somebody famous died right after him so we didn’t have to read any more crap about what a champion for women he was.

Ted Kennedy and John McCain. Yes they were politicians but so well known and revered that they were pretty much celebs. Both were truly horrible and vile individuals who lived way too long. Kennedy wasn't even good in the sense of passing decent laws. He was instrumental in blocking Jimmy Carter's universal healthcare plan. But journalists adored them both so the passing of two 80 something slimebags was portrayed as some monumental tragedy.

Nothing beats the Michael Jackson hysteria. I was 15 at the time so I was very upset.

I'm just now discovering Michael K Williams because I'm watching Season 1 of The Wire. He's good, but not anything particularly memorable. Even a teenage Michael B Jordan does a better job acting...however, the over the top reactions to his death have been ridiculous.

Does this count?

R14 nobody know who the fuck that is. You created all of that shit in your own mind.

I was relieved MJ died. He stopped molesting that day.

R94 you all must have been so naive and young to have overreacted like that.

Tupac

Gabby Petito.

PSH was a lapsed junkie who got back on the stuff. Cry me a river NOT.

Aretha. That funeral went on for over a MONTH.

She was morbidly obese, 100 years old, and had been rumored to be dying for years. It wasn't a shock to anyone.

Ex presidents

Anthony Bourdain. Some people had an over-the-top reaction to his death (suicide), blaming it on his girlfriend, etc. He was a self-proclaimed heroin addict who still, somehow, could drink alcohol however much he wanted.

[quote] Chadwick Boseman. Classy guy and he died far too young and tragically but my God they dragged that thing out for far too long.

Don't forget all the people crying "injustice!" when he lost the Oscar. Or even claiming racism. Reminds me that there was some "frau" article in the NYT about how nobody should tell women how to fell due Elizabeth Warren losing in the primaries lol.

[quote] George Clooney holding a press conference to rage against the paparazzi for Princess Diana's death.

"Well, I hope you are all HAPPY now!". George, that's a weird way to refer to ONE DRUNK DRIVER, dont you think?

[quote] The Dark Knight was some huge cultural milestone in moviemaking instead of the subpar action movie it was.

Very off topic here, but this is exactly why I will always prefer Batman: The Animated Series to any of these shitty live-action superhero movies. I'm actually rewatching the show on HBO Max and you really don't get shows like this anymore. And best of all, it is a mix of a few genres, it's not strictly about the action. I hate that Nolan's movies stress the "action" part of Batman but hey, I guess that's why he makes the big bucks and I don't.

Remember when "Sophie" died a few months ago? People on twitter were acting like they deserved a moment of silence or something. It's not like Sophie was as famous as Madonna or something.

Sophie who?

R127, some musician.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman would have been an excellent choice to play Paw Murdaugh

I thought the Heath Ledger thing was over the top. And people treated his Joker like Olivier’s Hamlet.

R130, it was very one-note. It felt like a cameo performance.

I’m deeply sorry. I feel so out of sorts about Glenn’s death. The whirlwind of all the Emmys coming so soon after my Oscar and how overwhelmed I’ve been with all this work, even during the pandemic… but, there’s those old films for us to see Glenn, so that’s nice. I will always miss her presence.

R83, Odd that she would say that, since two years before Sinatra's death her 23-year-old son died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition.

Nick Cordero

R57, How would you know, Sam, since you weren't born yet?

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but fucking P. Diddy owns this thread. His over the top reaction to Biggie made him look like he was mourning a lover.

Michael Jackson

The reaction to Nipsey Hussle's death really confused me.

I work in music production (including some hip hop artists) so maybe it's more the community i'm in that I was so surrounded by the hoopla, but people acted like it was a PERSONAL loss or that all of Los Angeles would never be the same (lol). I lost track of the number of murals and public mournings people had for him. It was sad but I felt the reaction far outweighed his actual fame or impact when he was alive. Even my sister (who lives under a rock) messaged me saying she'd heard about it and was sorry, although she admitted she had no idea who he was...

Cate Blanchett made a movie in Cincinnati some years back, and her stretch limo was seen in many fast food drive ins. She loved Frisch's Big Boy, ordering multiple milk shakes and burgers.

Exacerbate can mean intensify or heighten. I’m sure that’s what she meant when accepting the award.

I asked Santa to bring back John Lennon, because my parents kept crying about it. I was 5, I made Santa cry.

River Phoenix, ( complete fraud of a person) and all of that "he was too sensitive to live in this World" BS, - most of it coming from his celebrity junkie pals who helped him into the ground, namely the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

That's thing about us humans. We consist of organic matter which has a duration. I've never felt grief for a celebrity's death. I reserve grief for people I actually was related to and knew, who are now dead.

Still, I'll cop to it. When, of all people, Farrah Fawcett died, I surprised myself. I did have a reaction (and I was only, and barely, a casual fan of hers).

Not because she died, but because her death reminded me of my mortality. There are some celebrities whose stardom was such a pop phenomenon, they take on an immortal aspect.

Ultimately, and in keeping with being being selfish bitch that I am, yes, I managed to make Fawcett's death about me. But isn't that how all of us react to any death?

If you weren't born yet when she was at the apex of her popularity, it was truly a thing to behold. That poster was EVERYWHERE.

White, Blonde, Beautiful, Young, Nipples, Smile. Hair.

All of the status signifiers that still are, unjustly, held to have the most value, although we don't like to acknowledge that truth ( and let me hasten to add, I don't blame Fawcett for that).

So, yeah, "Wait, Fawcett's dead? Wow." Death. The Great Equalizer.

Too bad the poor thing died the same day as Michael Jackson, R143.

I'll be sad when I hear that Dolly Parton has died. That's the only celebrity I think I would even give a second thought. My sadness will not last long since I do not know her.

I barely care when relatives die, why the hell would I care when a complete stranger dies? We're all going to anyway at some point.

I’ll also be sad when Dolly dies. And Olivia Newton John.

I was 8 or 9 and living in Memphis when Elvis died on the shitter, and even as a kid I thought the reaction was over the top. Sure, he was our most famous citizen, but come on. One of our neighbors fainted when she heard the news.

[quote]Cate Blanchett made a movie in Cincinnati some years back

"A movie"? Not just any movie. It's CAROL!

Don't worry, incels. When you die we'll just drag you to a corner and throw dirt on you. We'll be sure to make minimal fuss.

John Lewis(D-GA)

Whitney Houston. By the time she died, she had ruined her voice, was washed up, and even her comeback wasn’t going great.

They tried to make her death like the female Michael Jackson. But she wasn’t. She had s powerful voice and some great songs, but she wasn’t the visionary or cultural phenomenon that Michael was. I think had she died first, she wouldn’t have had the televised funeral, the TV specials, ect. But since Michael died first and set the bar, everyone else had to follow it.

Why does it seem like when a Black celebrity dies, the entire world is supposed to mourn.

I thought the very long funeral service for Aretha Franklin, complete with multiple 'costume' changes, reached the cringe-worthy point about 3/4 way in. For Pete's sake!

MAGAs were so pained when Herman Cain died.

R152, Because twitter controls the news cycle now and “black twitter” is very prominent .

George Floyd. He was not a celebrity until he died and the media turned him into a martyr. Now has statues, streets, squares, foundations, and scholarships in his name.

I was a total Mary about Carrie Fisher’s death. Sue me, I love her

Me too, R157. I binged on all her audiobooks and performances. Still miss her.

The reactions to Michael Jackson were a real pain in the ass!

R156, And the numerous porn videos he made displaying his huge cock are still all over the Internet.

Thankfully ONJ made it to her 73rd birthday this past Sunday. The cherry on top is her Physical album is getting 40th Deluxe edition release this October.

R9 = RDJ

When G. passes I doubt anybody will notice.....or care.

Unlike myself which will see the out pouring of grief by the public unlike anything seen before.

It was a big deal for me when John Candy died. I think it was for a lot of Canadians. He was like family!

I remember when Whitney Houston died. On one of her videos YouTube (I think it might be How Will I Know) someone wrote "Enjoy your dirt nap, Monkey"

I was shocked because I didn't know what a dirt nap was.

R15 I have to say the best "reaction" like that, regardless of how one feels about any of the people involved, was Trump on RBG's death. You couldn't have scripted it better. Especially with Elton's song playing in the background.

All the dead Glee actors.

I feel like the most over the top had to be the Tila Tequila and Casey Johnson saga.

It was 2010. Paparazzi / tabloid / blogs were declining but still around and social media and live streaming and Twitter was just starting to pick up.

Without using Google to tell the story, Tila and Casey had met through a mutual friend and went to a few parties together. And what seemed like a publicity stunt, they got engaged and took videos with this big fake ring.

Casey was the “heiress” to Johnson & Johnson and was friends with Paris Hilton and that crew. However, she was actually a washed up junkie who had been cut off from the family.

So she overdoses like 2 months after her meeting Tila and Tila used her death to her full advantage. She was on every entertainment show doing interviews, she was doing tabloid magazines, she did a live stream memorial where she sang and played piano, she released a song, all this shit.

The paparazzi showed up at her house and she did a topless photo shoot outside for them.

It was such a mess. And then when the story started to die down, she said she was pregnant and tried to stretch that out.

Trash entertainment at its peak.

When Justin Bieber OD'd I couldn't believe how upset people were.

Oh.. sorry, not yet? My bad, I'll just wait.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, fueled by her phony 8th husband, Prince Freddy.

I think Whitney was the most over the top. Sure she was a big star but not important enough for the amount of coverage she got. It was very odd.

Anna Nicole Smith. All the news stations had breaking news coverage when the news broke.

How did Anna Nicole die? Boob job gone wrong?

Tyrese making a damn fool of himself over Paul. I doubt they were close friends.

Years ago I went to an Evening with Quentin Crisp and the second half was questions and answers. This wasn't too long after Diana died. Somebody in the audience asked(now I wonder if it was a plant) if he thought the reaction to her death was overdone. He said, "Oh god yes! She was trash. I mean running around Paris, with Arabs!"

Mickey Mantle

When he was near death from a lifetime of alcohol abuse, they gave him a new liver just because he was famous, a liver that might have saved the life of someone else.

His funeral was undeservedly broadcast "live" on C-SPAN.

Michael Jackson

Betty White

Aaliyah and the UES funeral procession fit for a princess.

R157, you don’t have to say “Mary!” In a post where you say, “sue me.” It’s more than implied.

Bob Fosse