Who's celebrity death effected you the most? t?

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 12:34AM

thomur wrote: »

John Wayne. The man was a legend. He was dead before I was born but would have loved to live when his films came out. Life seemed much simpler then although it wasnt. The Quiet Man - brilliant film, tense, laughter, angry, love, and happiness at the end

So you're saying that John Wayne's death affected you, even though he was dead before you were born?

How does that work, Ted?

thomur · 01-10-2010 12:42AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

So you're saying that John Wayne's death affected you, even though he was dead before you were born?

How does that work, Ted?

Mate :It works because good/fun people existed before we were born and thanks to the benefit of moving pictures, we can still enjoy what they had to offer

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 12:44AM

thomur wrote: »

Mate :It works because good/fun people existed before we were born and thanks to the benefit of moving pictures, we can still enjoy what they had to offer

So his life, and not his death, is what actually affected you.

I hate to be pedantic, but, I am pedantic.

google faps · 01-10-2010 12:45AM

Diana's death got the Newcastle - Liverpool game cancelled, so probably that

or

Fat Gerry Ryan's which got me a 1 week ban from AH for not changing my opinion on him.

wonton · 01-10-2010 12:57AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

So his life, and not his death, is what actually affected you.

I hate to be pedantic, but, I am pedantic.

The thread title says effected, not affected.

I hate to be pendantic...................actually no I don't

tdv123 · 01-10-2010 12:59AM

James Dean.

ascanbe · 01-10-2010 01:04AM

Confab wrote: »

Nothing. Celebrities always fail to move me in life or death. They're a meaningless, artificial irrelevance. I'll cheer when Bono snuffs it though.

Obviously, celebrities don't fail to 'move' you, if you're moved to express that kind of schandenfreude at the mere thought of a particular 'celebrity' death.

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 01:05AM

wonton wrote: »

The thread title says effected, not affected.

I hate to be pendantic...................actually no I don't

Not my fault the OP can't spell.

tippspur · 01-10-2010 01:05AM

john lennon......

Millicent · 01-10-2010 01:07AM

Dimebag Darrell. I'm not one for caring too much about celebrities but that was senseless. Always struck me as a good guy and a great musician. Was upset for about a week after that.

sheesh · 01-10-2010 01:13AM

kurt cobain I thought it was a pity, I had hoped he would go one to a solo career.

Hunter S thompson

Sonnenblumen · 01-10-2010 01:19AM

Ziggy Stardust

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 01:21AM

Eddie Hobbs.

His death caused the global economic meltdown.

ascanbe · 01-10-2010 01:25AM

Was never overly affected by a celebrity death; was kinda by some, though.
Kurt Cobain; was a big fan and was of the age where the concept of someone like that, or anyone, taking their own life, came as a shock.
River Pheonix, around the same time; brilliant young actor and his death seemed hard to get your head around.
Recently, Darren Sutherland; again, hard to get your head around why someone like that could see no other option.
Was never one to get too affected by such things, though; a simple look at the kind of **** that is happening to people in this world every minute puts things in perspective.

ascanbe · 01-10-2010 01:31AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Eddie Hobbs.

His death caused the global economic meltdown.

Eddie Hobbs just got in touch with me; he wishes to convey the message that you're being entirely too tough on Eddie Hobbs tonight and that the role of Eddie Hobbs in situations, both financial and in relation to mortality, is being exaggerated to an outrageous extent here tonight and has no bearing on the possible future plans of Eddie Hobbs, going forward.

Duggy747 · 01-10-2010 01:32AM

Michael Jackson - Always loved his music growing up as did most people I know. Many a great night we had pumping his tunes out on the jukebox in the local or house party. Was actually really looking forward to his 1st concert to see how it all panned out, be the whole tour good or bad that 1st concert would've been epic.

Steve Irwin - I love my nature programs and he was one of the more entertaining ones. Seemed like a genuine nice bloke who loved his work, still can't help the irony of his death though.

Dimebag Darrell - I was gutted when I heard how he was killed. At 1st I thought it was some internet joke until I'd seen it up on the news sites. Brother took it worse than me as he was the bigger Pantera fan.

Patrick Swayze - I'm not exactly his biggest fan but what happened to him was pretty bad. He was never the scrawniest of guys so to see cancer wither him away to a skeleton was fairly shocking. Respect to him though for working all the way up to the end and going out like a champ.

01-10-2010 01:35AM

Princess Diana. They cancelled Sabrina The Teenage Witch on Network 2 that day because of it :mad:

staker · 01-10-2010 01:39AM

Bobby Robson,dunno why,suppose it was the way he had a kind of inpenetrable charm which the media could never break down.
No effect on me overall,just a kinda sadness.
Freddie Mercury was a talent taken too early too.

Xavi6 · 01-10-2010 02:10AM

Marc Vivien Foe

take everything · 01-10-2010 02:22AM

Marvin Monroe.

Ave Nocturna · 01-10-2010 02:24AM

Dimebag Darrell, definitely.

Also, Pete Steele... Thought it was another prank but alas, no.

ascanbe · 01-10-2010 02:27AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Marc Vivien Foe

That was very sad/tragic, alright; incomprehensible when you see a young, fit athlete die in their prime on the field of play.
Reminds me also of both Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers; American basketball players who died in the same circumstances.
Also, Cormac McAnallen; Tyrone captain, great player and all-around sound, great man who passed away in his sleep.

Saganist · 01-10-2010 02:35AM

John for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4

ballsymchugh · 01-10-2010 02:45AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Princess Diana. They cancelled Sabrina The Teenage Witch on Network 2 that day because of it :mad:

really? are you sure it wasn't just because the all-ireland semi final was on? mayo won that day, completely unexpected.

digme · 01-10-2010 02:53AM

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

For me it was Bill Hicks. I also witnessed a lot of sorrow when Kurt Kobain died.

Why did their passing on mean that much to you?

They were real.

The Gibzilla · 01-10-2010 02:59AM

Saganist wrote: »

John for me.

Don't worry like the man says "we all shine on":p

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 03:00AM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

really? are you sure it wasn't just because the all-ireland semi final was on? mayo won that day, completely unexpected.

Was it the shock of Mayo actually wining something that killed Diana?

Handsome Bob · 01-10-2010 03:05AM

Weirdly, Pope John Paul II, for anyone who was religious at the time he was just a kind of universal lovable granddad, unlike you're man now!

I understand the Heath Ledger love and glad to see so many say that they were effected by his death. Every time I watch Brokeback Mountain I get chills, especially at the end when he says the infamous "Jack, I swear..." line. I think he kind of summed up everyone's fear of wasting a life with that line you know?

h8scobes · 01-10-2010 03:08AM

STEVE IRWIN
EDDIE GUERRERO
MIRKO FEHER
MARC VIVIEN FOE
PEURTA(SEVILLA)
CHRIS BENOIT

starbelgrade · 01-10-2010 03:08AM

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Weirdly, Pope John Paul II, for anyone who was religious at the time he was just a kind of universal lovable granddad, unlike you're man now!

I understand the Heath Ledger love and glad to see so many say that they were effected by his death. Every time I watch Brokeback Mountain I get chills, especially at the end when he says the infamous "Jack, I swear..." line. I think he kind of summed up everyone's fear of wasting a life with that line you know?

I couldn't understand a f*cking word of Brokeback Mountain. The whole film was like one big mumble.

Who's celebrity death effected you the most? t?

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