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nakedthinker -> RE: What celebrity death would rock your world? (6/30/2009 12:57:19 AM)
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Unless I was at least personal friends with a celebrity, the death of NONE of them have much impact on my life at all. People come, and people go. The life of a typical celebrity is so far removed from my reality that they may just as well be on another planet. If any of them have a body of work that qualifies as noteworthy, that body of work will remain after they are gone, so there is no loss to me there; everything that I might like about them is still intact. Everything else beyond their body of work is not relevant because their body of work is the only reason anyone cares about them in the first place.
If Michael Jackson had not been just a good singer and dancer, when he died, the only thing that people would have noted about him is that some black man with some bad plastic surgery had died. Realistically, his death would have, at best, been a 10 second story on the local news in L.A., but probably not even that. Lots of people die everyday, and the only place where it is publicly recorded is the obituary page of the local newspaper... if one of their friends or family actually submit the required information. The fact is that Jackson's music and videos survive him, and if we are each honest, that is really all most of us truly care about.
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