Celebrity Dead Pool 2016
Discussion
oobster said:
Sad times 
Guy who wrote Watership Down, Richard Adams, has also passed away.
We live in a small village at the foot of Watership Down and took a Boxing Day walk past Nuthanger Farm yesterday. It is absolutely stunning up there, overlooking the Down and the house he lived in when he wrote the book sits nestled into the side of the Down and is stunning in its isolation. Guy who wrote Watership Down, Richard Adams, has also passed away.
Edited by schmalex on Tuesday 27th December 19:52
k.garyhun said:
loughran said:
Which role would you say you enjoyed her playing the most ?
Stop please - you really are making yourself look a complete fool.If you feel such a personal loss at Carrie Fishers passing, then go and read Postcards From The Edge and see how you feel then.
loughran said:
She had famous parents, she played Princess Leia, she spent most of the rest of her adult life wasted.
She played a major part in the most iconic trilogy ever put to film, spawning a series which was and still is loved my hundreds of millions of people the world over. People who grew up with those movies have them deeply etched into their memory and looked back on with amazing fondness. That love for many has continued throughout the years into adulthood. She, along with pretty much the rest of the cast, have become icons in peoples' hearts and minds. Her openness in speaking about her mental health issues also managed to break the taboo of not wanting to be tarred with the mad brush and in doing so most likely helped a great number of people.
Couple that with excellent, underrated wit and humour, which was often dealt out in a self-deprecating way, made her appear to be honest and interesting to be around.
Oh, and she was a human being.
That's why a lot of people are upset about her passing.
Funkycoldribena said:
Ooo..dodgy ground..
Go and have a nose at website feedback, no posts unless wearing a black armband or you'll be accused of being an internet hard man.
Quite. The Lounge is packed with hypocrites.Go and have a nose at website feedback, no posts unless wearing a black armband or you'll be accused of being an internet hard man.
You are allowed to "banter" / abuse / call out as liars / tell them to man up / etc... in almost every Lounge thread, but to suggest anything about a dead B (or in this case, Z) list celebrity is apparently beyond the pale and there is a collective Princess Diana moment...
Vaud said:
Quite. The Lounge is packed with hypocrites.
You are allowed to "banter" / abuse / call out as liars / tell them to man up / etc... in almost every Lounge thread, but to suggest anything about a dead B (or in this case, Z) list celebrity is apparently beyond the pale and there is a collective Princess Diana moment...
Fair point. Clearly Ms. Fisher's achievements are open to inspection with very different outputs. Apart from a couple of smaller parts she was Princess Leah to many and Star Wars' fans (do they have a collective noun?) are much like Trekkies and the National Rifle Association (NRA) in that they wield enormous power able to skew a collective view - in this case, as to whether she was "any good" You are allowed to "banter" / abuse / call out as liars / tell them to man up / etc... in almost every Lounge thread, but to suggest anything about a dead B (or in this case, Z) list celebrity is apparently beyond the pale and there is a collective Princess Diana moment...
Me, I'm shocked and saddened at her passing but thought she a mediocre actress and celebrity.
AMG Merc said:
Me, I'm shocked and saddened at her passing but thought she a mediocre actress and celebrity.
Pretty much my view.We lost Piers Sellers this week, an amazing British born scientist, astronaut and lovely person - who and has had a huge impact on the globally important topic of climate change - but a fraction of the coverage in the press... typical of our "celeb" focused society.
Vaud said:
Pretty much my view.
We lost Piers Sellers this week, an amazing British born scientist, astronaut and lovely person - who and has had a huge impact on the globally important topic of climate change - but a fraction of the coverage in the press... typical of our "celeb" focused society.
True enough, however, 98% plus of people wouldn't have had a clue who he was. And most of the rest would have thought he was the actor that played inspector cleuseu (however you spell it). We lost Piers Sellers this week, an amazing British born scientist, astronaut and lovely person - who and has had a huge impact on the globally important topic of climate change - but a fraction of the coverage in the press... typical of our "celeb" focused society.
Vaud said:
AMG Merc said:
Me, I'm shocked and saddened at her passing but thought she a mediocre actress and celebrity.
Pretty much my view.We lost Piers Sellers this week, an amazing British born scientist, astronaut and lovely person - who and has had a huge impact on the globally important topic of climate change - but a fraction of the coverage in the press... typical of our "celeb" focused society.
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