The Wonderful World of Show Buzz
posted in Heath Ledger, celebrities, children left behind, freedom, other people's sins, vicious gossip out of Christian concern |Heath Ledger 1979 – 2008
Heath ledger is dead. And for the most foreseeable cause possible for a young celebrity: drugs. Everyone in the entertainment industry knows about the heroin, the coke, the excess. But no one cares, just as long as an entertaining junkie doesn’t get so strung out he loses the studio or network cash. Then, and only then, will the concept of intervention be bandied about. And rehab? Don’t be quaint; that’s something your agent tells you to do only after you get caught.
When Britney Spears smashes a car with a golf club in a meth-fueled rage, TMZ gleefully prints the pics, Mary Hart exclaims “Goodness!” with a delighted smile and Britney rushes to the nearest nightclub bathroom for another bump of blow. If you’re pretty like Kate Moss, talented like Amy Winehouse or just merely famous like Paris Hilton, you can snort your way through a buffet of illegal pills and powders without ever worrying about those pesky things the little people call laws, much less a tap on the shoulder from a friend or coworker telling to you slow down.
Naturally, I absolve myself of any responsibility to intervene. I don’t know these show biz druggies – and, besides, talking to narcissists only invites tedious, relentless monologues. But, surely, the “friends” and coworkers who do know them have some opportunities, if not power, to at least try to help. All but for the sycophantic impulse never to risk exile. Maybe finally getting rid of that annoying nuisance Anna Nicole Smith lulled everyone into thinking that sitting back and watching the famous teeter so shamelessly on the edge of overdose had its benefits. But it’s sad to lose someone with talent. And even sadder when it was so foreseeable.
posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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