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Don't understand how you can have an emotional connection to someone you never met or spoke to either in writing or on telephone. I think some of you get wrapped up in the lives of celebrities to escape the life you live.
In a way I agree with you sailordave. I am not a television watcher and I could care less about movies too. To me these people are just like anyone else who is doing a job. However, with the cult of celebrity that exists in this country, I can understand why sometimes people feel an emotional connection to people they have seen on television.
It's kind of a sick testament to our culture in a way. Sometimes people will cry for celebrities and not for their own family members. I think that America (and probably other countries too) really need to examine our priorities.
I'm an emotional person, so it does take much these days to move me to tears.
Got choked up about JFK Jr.
I too am like you, I connect with famous people, look at them, get used to them being there and when they die, I feel an empty space, but alas, life has to go on. The celebrities that I mourn wouldn't want me to feel depressed over their passing.
I too cried a little over JFK JR, as my dad pointed out that he was the little boy who saluted his dad at the funeral, after the Dallas 1963 shooting.
I have not actually shed a tear over a celebrities death. But I have been shocked or upset. Micheal Landon was one of them, what can I say I loved little house on the prairie. John Ritter was another, and MJ was a shock, it sounds funny but I always thought he would be "there" KWIM? Princess Diana was a huge shock to me. (not exactly a celebrity per say but still well known)
You can have a connection to these people because they are a part of your life. Like I said, Michael Landon was in my living room from the time I was born until I was 30 years old. No, I did not know him but I felt like I had a connection to him because I watched him as a kid and then my youngest kid watched him (he was one actor that you could safely leave your children to watch without worrying about what they might see). So there was a connection even though I did not personally know him.
He wasn't in your living room. Your television was in your living room.
yeah Michael Landon's death upset me because of the role he played for so many years, the perfect dad(used to wish he was mine)...but I didn't know him as a person of course...
Jerry Garcia's death..no idea why, I wasn't a deadhead (I had a pint of Cherry Garcia icecream that day in his honor LOL)
And pincess Diana's death, that was sad..she was a role model and a beautiful (yet sad) person IMO, I shed a tear or two seeing her funeral on TV...
Gosh, yeah we identify with stars and especially when they go before their time, it does something to us.
and John Ritter, yeah I cried a tear over his death too, so unexpected (was in love with him when he was in Three's Company)
oh and Neil Diamond was my huge hero when I was growing up, his death's gonna be sad for me I just know it...
yeah Michael Landon's death upset me because of the role he played for so many years, the perfect dad(used to wish he was mine)...but I didn't know him as a person of course.....
I've never seen the show. It must have been very good to have made such an impression on so many.
Don't understand how you can have an emotional connection to someone you never met or spoke to either in writing or on telephone. I think some of you get wrapped up in the lives of celebrities to escape the life you live.
I agree with you 100%. I can never bring myself to cry for someone that I have never met upclose in my entire life, let alone know personally.
Johnny Depp for example is one of my favorite actors of all time, but when he eventually passes away I am not going to act like my mother just died and start breaking down and cry a river. Why should I when I do not know the guy personally. Sure I will feel a little sad, but not to the point of crying and acting like my life will never be the same again without his presence on this planet.
It's kind of a sick testament to our culture in a way. Sometimes people will cry for celebrities and not for their own family members. I think that America (and probably other countries too) really need to examine our priorities.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the majority of people who started crying over the death of Michael Jackson, did not shed a single tear when they found out that little 2 year old Caylee Anthony was found dead and wrapped up in duct tape in a wooded area.
Since Caylee Anthony was never in a music video with people dressed as dancing zombies, her death is not considered tragic or important by the masses.
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