I do not believe I have lowered myself to needing a fix of celebrity nor of writing about them and will not do so again, but for the recent (last couple weeks) events.
I liked Heath Ledger. I thought he was a good actor, better than many who are touted as superstars. He did not die accidentally - taking 1 too many of anything. He was an addict and he died from an addiction that went too far. He left a daughter who will never know her father but for the few films he made and they only showed the fictional side of Ledger, not the father. She will never remember him, will not have any memory of his holding her, but for a photo. He will not be there for her first day of school or graduation. His addiction took him and his daughter suffers.
Chad Butler - nothing dramatic like Marilyn, but addiction again. Whatever the music and whatever the form, his addiction took him away and left a void for a family that mourns.
Brad Renfro - 25 years old. I cannot say I thought him a great actor, but he was far from the worst. He was taken by his addiction to heroin. It took him and left a family that mourns.
Three in the last six weeks. So many others, you could fill a page from the Chateau Marmont to the Viper room, singers and actors taken away by addiction. Anna Nicole Smith, perhaps not the best at anything, but still undeserving of death at her age or in the way she died. Addiction took her and left a daughter who will never know her mother. A daughter who will suffer her entire life with a loss that will never be filled by a sperm donor and his friend. What a bloody tragedy for that baby girl - to have a grandmother who is next to certifiable, and a biological sperm donor who has little interest in his daughter compared to how he is perceived. What happens to her is on his hands AND on Anna Nicole Smith's soul. She is equally responsible. Tragically, when history repeats itself the media will play up every angle but the one they should.
Britney Spears - I will admit, I liked most of what I heard from her. She was an entertainer and that is what singers and actors are supposed to do - entertain. I do not need nor want them to lecture or educate me. They would have a difficult time, all of them together, coming close to being useful enough to paint your house properly - but they do serve a purpose - to entertain, and Britney did that. Where and when it all went haywire will be what future biographies try to explicate. I make no pretense at knowing anything, but what we hear and read and maybe infer from what we see unfold on our screens nearly every day with her unhealthy behavior. What bothers me the most is two little boys will never know their mother, and her addictions and illness will take her away from the only two people who really could and would love her unconditionally. That angers me more than the fact she will be taken away as the others were - because she could be helped, intervention could be managed, and it could be remedied. In a year or two, she could be healthy enough to see her children and within a year or two after that, she could, while still young, stage a halfhearted comeback and earn enough to tide her over for the rest of her life if she lived modestly. She would have her children and they would have her. that is all they would ever want - their unfulfilled pleas in the darkest of night, broken hearts, empty lives.
Instead, an addiction and foolish, feckless, immoral, repugnant people manipulate her for gain. From the media who would not leave you alone. When you were on top the mainstream media referenced you, but when you fell apart on the world stage, they played it up to the hilt. The magazines and paparazzi who followed you everywhere, were directed or instigated in their pursuit of you - whatever the case, you were hounded and instead of respecting your very real need for privacy, they fed off your carcass long before you or they knew you were dead.
Shame on them, on the poodle and the rasputin, on your lawyers, managers, and parents - shame on all of them. You cannot hide behind the law when God reveals all. Lawyers have responsibilities but they also have hearts and families and understand what death is. They should understand their role in your demise, for their Judge will not let them forget.
There are moments, brief that they may be, when I pray that God is real and is the very angry God of the Bible for in those moments I know these people who feed the addictions and manipulate the innocent, feign their legal duties and or obligations - will understand the warmth of hell's embrace for eternity.
Goodbye Britney. I know I am a little bit early (a month, a year, or maybe a couple) with this, but you have resumed your erratic lifestyle within minutes of being set lose on Los Angeles. It's back to Rite-Aid for lipstick and the gas stations for the paparazzi. You have become a joke and the world knows it. The poodle who is sucking off you now - he can make all the interviews he may wish, the world knows what he is and his protests will make no difference. The rasputin reptile will face the same - the world knows what they are and while they may live the rest of their lives in the gutter, no one will let them stick their dirty, smelly heads above the sewer line.
Goodbye and I am sorry for your sons.
Post script: Few people would have guessed the changes that occured in Britney's life between February and April, but, as a result of the actions taken by people (parents), she is doing much better and hopefully ... the positive changes will continue.
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