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Mikaela:
OK.... Now I'm just horribly depressed. This is so shitty. Some TV program called Entertainment Tonight or The Insider are actually battling with Perez Hilton concerning the legal rights to who will be first to show a video said to be showing Heath doing drugs and saying stupid things back in -06.
Just how low is it possible to sink? Selling that tape to the press... Bringing this forward and fighting over it, legal rights in hand - when he hasn''t even been buried yet and there's a family grieving. I'm pretty sure Dante wrote of a special circle in hell for these people to enjoy themselves warmly with the Phelps family. >:(
I don't think I'll venture outside of this Board at all.
(No I didn't go to any of their web sites to find out this - it's spreading even into places dedicated to honouring Heath. :-\ )
serious crayons:
That's awful. And a sobering reminder of what our culture has become.
If I'd been a movie star in my 20s, and if everybody'd had video phones back then, I shudder to think of what would be out there.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on January 30, 2008, 05:20:00 pm ---OK.... Now I'm just horribly depressed. This is so shitty. Some TV program called Entertainment Tonight or The Insider are actually battling with Perez Hilton concerning the legal rights to who will be first to show a video said to be showing Heath doing drugs and saying stupid things back in -06.
I don't think I'll venture outside of this Board at all.
--- End quote ---
And the saddest thing about this silly fight over the video is that whether Heath did drugs doesn't really matter anymore. He's gone and nothing will change that. What matters are the good things he left behind.
Meryl:
Entertainment Tonight showed a teaser of that video tonight, promising more tomorrow. Some Australian TV station, Channel 9, appears to have scored the exclusive on it. ET had some doctor "expert" saying he'd seen it and it was "heartbreaking" and if even one life was saved by watching it, it was worth it. ::) The worst part? They showed Heath saying something about how his girlfriend would kill him if she knew. Then he must have been asked about his daughter, because he said "Matilda. Matilda Rose." :( They wound up the piece by saying how that was all 2 years ago, and now he was (cue the shot of the body bag being wheeled out) DEAD. :-\
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 30, 2008, 09:04:09 pm ---Entertainment Tonight showed a teaser of that video tonight, promising more tomorrow. Some Australian TV station, Channel 9, appears to have scored the exclusive on it. ET had some doctor "expert" saying he'd seen it and it was "heartbreaking" and if even one life was saved by watching it, it was worth it. ::) The worst part? They showed Heath saying something about how his girlfriend would kill him if she knew. Then he must have been asked about his daughter, because he said "Matilda. Matilda Rose." :( They wound up the piece by saying how that was all 2 years ago, and now he was (cue the shot of the body bag being wheeled out) DEAD. :-\
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Geez, that reporting sounds just dreadful. :o >:(
I have a horrible feeling we're going to have to endure some ramped-up tabloid-style sensationalized reporting for at least a little while to come.... If People and Us really run with the awful-sounding stories that they apparently have set to come out.
>:( >:( >:(
It's almost like the tabloid/entertainment media has sort of moved out of a "respectful" mourning phase and are sort of giving each other a green light to start running with sensationalized/ scandal stories. The whole culture of this type of entertainment reporting makes my stomach turn at the moment.
Poor Heath. :(
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