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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 25, 2008, 10:53:45 am ---Thanks for these reports, Leslie.
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Thanks, Jeff. I hope folks find them helpful.
L
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 25, 2008, 12:36:57 pm ---Thanks, Jeff. I hope folks find them helpful.
L
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I sure do.
I've been wondering how the Australian press would treat him, and the funeral, now. I seem to remember that between Brokeback and Candy, they gave him a pretty hard time in the past.
Still seems unreal, doesn't it?
Lumière:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 25, 2008, 12:36:57 pm ---Thanks, Jeff. I hope folks find them helpful.
L
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Indeed they are. Thanks.
~M
serious crayons:
Yes, thanks Leslie. Your posts really help me keep up with things.
I think I might disagree with this:
--- Quote ---Outside the funeral home, the police stood watch in anticipation of crowds. Their mission was to prevent anything approaching the turmoil that surrounded the funeral of a far more famous movie star, Rudolph Valentino, in the Roaring Twenties. Thirty thousand fans swarmed the funeral home, then on the Upper West Side, hoping for a last glimpse of the matinee idol. In the chaos, more than 100 people were injured.
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Rudolph Valentino was famous and popular because he was THE heartthrob of his day. There were only a handful of movie stars back then, period. You could list them: Valentino, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Pola Negri, Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle (until he was brought down by scandal) ... and maybe a few others.
But "far more famous"? Maybe not, in the age of celebrity culture, global film distribution, the internet, People Magazine and its ilk, tabloids, ET, EW, E! and all of their ilk, movie stars gracing every magazine cover on the racks, etc., etc., etc. ...
Anybody who knew anything at all about movies back then knew Rudolph Valentino, whereas there are probably people now who, before this week, wouldn't have known Heath from Christian Bale or Orlando Bloom. But I would guess Heath is far more widely known.
Back when I was about 12, I was a Valentinophile (Valentinohaalic?). Yes, I know, I was kind of a strange girl.
opinionista:
Anderson Cooper Says No to Heath Ledger Coverage
Fri, 25 January 2008 at 9:01 am
CNN host Anderson Cooper set his foot down last night, refusing to cover the death of Heath Ledger until hard facts and new evidence turns up. Here’s what he had to say on the 360 blog:
“For the last two nights we have reported on actor Heath Ledger. His shocking death is clearly a story a lot of people are interested in, but tonight we will not be reporting more on it. The truth is there is not really anything new to report.
The full results of the various tests done on Mr. Ledger will not be ready for perhaps a few weeks and there is very little new information. I have no doubt other networks will spend a lot of time tonight discussing his death and the various rumors about what might have caused it, but I am not a fan of speculation, so unless there is something really new to discuss we probably won’t be covering it anymore anytime soon.”
Star Jones also wrote a similar piece about Heath on HuffingtonPost.com.
Says Star, “Might I suggest that we in the media, instead of reporting on the dead based on gossip, rumor, innuendo and anonymous sources, choose to honor this man’s memory based on his talent and the good taste we all should be exercising. My heart goes out to the family of Heath Ledger.”
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/01/25/anderson-cooper-heath-ledger/
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