RIP Bernie Mac
RIP Bernie Mac
I won't lie, I was never the biggest Bernie Mac fan. I mean he is a funny guy and I loved him in the Oceans movies, but I wasn't a die hard fan by any means. But this is still depressing.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008 ... ml?ref=rss
This year has been pretty rough for celebrity deaths and they are finally starting to effect me. 15 Years ago when an actor died my parents would talk about it like they knew him/her and I couldn't really wrap my head around how they felt that strongly about someone they had never met. But now that I am older and movies/tv shows are such a big part of who I am I am starting to understand. Its going to be weird to hear over the next 30 or so years that actors that i grew up watching and loving are going to start dying.
Lame.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008 ... ml?ref=rss
This year has been pretty rough for celebrity deaths and they are finally starting to effect me. 15 Years ago when an actor died my parents would talk about it like they knew him/her and I couldn't really wrap my head around how they felt that strongly about someone they had never met. But now that I am older and movies/tv shows are such a big part of who I am I am starting to understand. Its going to be weird to hear over the next 30 or so years that actors that i grew up watching and loving are going to start dying.
Lame.
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Whoa - he wasn't very 'old'. I agree on the 'bummer' vibe coming off of this year.
I was eight when Peter Sellers died and it didn't click in my head at all, even when I watched "Trail of the Pink Panther" on TV, and my dad explained it was...'slapdash' because Mr. S. had died during filming and they adapted it into this 'homage of interviews'. I remember being kinda sad that there'd be no more films from him, but it didn't sink in.
Almost two decades later, when that biopic Geoffrey Rush was in, I'd seen a LOT more of Sellers' work and I remember feeling the loss at that point.
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Re: RIP Bernie Mac
James wrote:I won't lie, I was never the biggest Bernie Mac fan. I mean he is a funny guy and I loved him in the Oceans movies, but I wasn't a die hard fan by any means. But this is still depressing
My feelings exactly. I loved him in the Oceans, but was never a huge fan of him. Nevertheless, he was definitely a charismatic guy and a good actor, and it's really too bad.
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wow... thats sad... he wasn't really that old... i mean, really i hope to live past 50
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CyberTractor wrote:It's at least good to see a celebrity die from an illness rather than drug overdosage.
For me, it's worse...
When firstly they have more to live for than their next hit, and secondly pneumonia is something people shouldn't die from nowadays.
You have to wonder how Winehouse keeps going and BM has to go.
Re: RIP Bernie Mac
James wrote: ... now that I am older and movies/tv shows are such a big part of who I am I am starting to understand. Its going to be weird to hear over the next 30 or so years that actors that i grew up watching and loving are going to start dying.
Lame.
QFT
spartanhelmet, I would trade Winehouse and the cast of Entourage for one BM and five Heath Ledger films.
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Android wrote:James wrote: ... now that I am older and movies/tv shows are such a big part of who I am I am starting to understand. Its going to be weird to hear over the next 30 or so years that actors that i grew up watching and loving are going to start dying.
Lame.
QFT
spartanhelmet, I would trade Winehouse and the cast of Entourage for one BM and five Heath Ledger films.
QFT all of the above.
That said, drugs were a problem for Heath from what I've heard. I went to the same school as he once did, so I've heard things that you don't get from the media.
Heath was a state hockey player, which is quite an achievement. He wasn't the most academic, and he was into marijuana. With a friend of his, he left school before his graduation year to try a TV acting career on the other side of the country which ultimately got him into movies.
So he wasn't the model student, but he was who he was. If he hadn't had a shaky start, he might have not been as motivated to shoot for that dream of acting or his experiences to draw on in acting might have not been so extensive or at least the same. I believe strongly in the butterfly effect, so I think we wouldn't have got him otherwise.
There's always the hidden part of people, but the fact is nobody's perfect. Actors, comedians and anyone in the public eye has it hard, period... and most of them are decent people. Heath and Bernie being two.
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