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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:19 PM Original message |
Who here was affected emotionally by news of Heath Ledger's death? |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Shocked...but not like when John Lennon died |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Mostly indifferent |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. My husband is dead. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I'm so sorry |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. I am really very sorry. |
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RFKHumphreyObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Again, I'm so sorry Laura |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
44. Yep |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Who's laughing? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. You go first. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Don't forget alert? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #52 |
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GCP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's a shame - he was so young and all that |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. I was. That man had a lot of talent and energy. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. With someone famous and/or talented, there are always going to be two sides to it. |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. That's an excellent point--potential. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. The only ones I was really around for that affected me at all were Kurt and Phil. |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Didn't care one or another for Kurt, |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Well, you're entitled to your own (wrong) opinion... |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. I was stunned. |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I was shocked. I thought about "Brokeback Mountain", which I voted for the best movie. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. River Phoenix |
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Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. I was 10 years old when James Dean died |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
48. For those who do not recall him, here are some Wikipedia facts: |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. I was quite saddened, yes. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
11. A few celebrity deaths have gotten to me - Kurt Cobain was one |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
14. Shock and the feeling of the loss of a great talent |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. I was just shocked, you never hear about him out on the party circuit, he just seems |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. I was. It makes me quite upset, actually. He was an artist...gone too soon. |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
19. I am stunned and very shocked by this |
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blonndee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
21. I am. Not like I was with Kurt Cobain, but much more so than |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
22. Yeah, it's messing with me a little. |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm always sad when I hear of a life ended too young and tragically |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
26. I didn't know him nor was he some kind of identity manque for me... |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. I was affected very deeply emotionally about Kurt Cobain and Steve Irwin. |
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Tresalisa (537 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
28. I was affected only in that he was so young, and he left a young daughter |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-22-08 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
29. i think because of Brokeback Mountain |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
30. I felt shock and disbelief and incredible sadness at learning of Heath's death. I didn't |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
31. Yes, shock but sadness is somewhere else. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
32. I'd never heard of him |
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RFKHumphreyObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:54 AM Response to Original message |
33. I was very emotionally affected |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:43 AM Response to Original message |
35. I was shocked, since he's so young. THen thought "That sucks", but that's about it. |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
36. Indifferent.. Before today I had never heard of him. |
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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
37. I'd been outside Graceland two days before Elvis died... with a promise for tickets to see him live |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
38. I am not sure I could NOT be affected... |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
39. Didn't care. Don't know him. People die everyday. nt |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
40. Me |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
41. I completely fell apart |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
42. January 22nd is always an emotion day for my - my father died on this day |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:45 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. What a coincidence. It's my dad's birthday. He would have been 84. |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
45. I think it will be nearly impossilbe for me to watch BBMountain again |
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youthere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
46. I'm probably where you are Bicoastal. I was shocked.. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
47. Saddened by a young man dying, but not emotionally affected. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
49. Couldn't care less. |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. then stop posting on the subject if you do not care |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:12 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Tell it to the OP. |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. you were affected emotionally? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Couldn't care less. |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
59. Yes, I have been. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
60. Not me, but then again, I barely know who he is/was. |
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