What Celebrity's Death really hit home?

[rockmom]

Well, I think it's because we want to identify with a certain celebrity, and when they die, we feel like we knew them. Take me! I always knew growing up that I had been stolen at birth and given to a poor family. I always knew that I was, in reality, a princess. That's why Diana's death devestated me.

[GaViking]

Well, I think it's because we want to identify with a certain celebrity, and when they die, we feel like we knew them. Take me! I always knew growing up that I had been stolen at birth and given to a poor family. I always knew that I was, in reality, a princess. That's why Diana's death devestated me.

 

I have always loved Princess Diana. Remember the night it came across the new's.

[ladiesbballcoach]

The death of a celebrity has never "hit home" with me. Too many others dying in this world to get all bent out of shape over some coddled, over-paid, entertainer's death. Especially the suicides, ODs and other behaviors that cause an early death. I'll save my grief for those I know and love and for the little ones that leave far too early.

 

I agree with HHSdad.

[rockmom]

I have always loved Princess Diana. Remember the night it came across the new's.

 

 

Me too. I also remember watching her wedding to Prince Charles.

[MSU-70]

Chris Farley....he was a funny dude that fell into drugs and the sad side of being a celebrity.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Chris Farley....he was a funny dude that fell into drugs and the sad side of being a celebrity.

 

Seems like there have been far to many of those.

[saint4]

Really no celebs that have died have made me think long and hard and made me sort of sad. I am shocked, but not saddened or reflectant. If someone I know dies, even if I do not know them well, that does make he think and hits home.

[racer4life]

Dale Earnhart...

[statmanhensley]

Call me cruel but I slept through the 9/11 stuff. I was tired and wanted to go back to sleep. I had nobody close to me be directly affected so I guess thats why it had never affected me like it has many others. Sorry.

[oldrambler]

All of the 9/11 vitims

Cawood Ledford

Bill Keightly

Joe Nuxhall

Bear Bryant

Woody Hayes

Ronald Reagan

 

 

May they all R.I.P., Mr. Wildcat (Keightly) along with Cawood really affected me and hit home. Being a lifetime U.K fan, those two guys WERE the University of Kentucky.

Nuxhall was another that I had listend to since my youth, Nuxhall and Cawood.....by far the two best broadcasters ever. :thumb:

Bear Bryant........well, nothing more needs to be said other than "simply the best ever" to walk a sideline and coach college football.

Woody Hayes......Being a long time college football and OSU fan I couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Ronald Reagan.....Never mind if one agrees or disagrees with his politics, just a great man and great American.

As for 9/11/01, nothing else needs to be said.......horrrible day in American history.

 

 

As for some of the Hollywood type celebs that die of drug overdose, abuse,etc.. I don't mean to sound cruel and I feel sorry about the deaths and sympathy for the families left behind but I have to remember that they were the ones that did that to themselves. No one made them abuse drugs. Those deaths just did not affect me like the ones that I mentioned above and others like them. I just am not a big Hollywood, movie star, music star fan.

Edited July 8, 2008 by oldrambler

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Chris Farley

 

Same. Growing up as the "big kid" in the neighborhood, I always liked how Chris Farley managed to be the fat guy that everyone liked and laughed at. Made me really sad when he died.

 

I'd add in Jack Lemmon. He always seemed like he could be my grandpa.

[lawildcat]

I was upset when Andy Griffith died but I got over it....until he died again!

 

http://bluegrasspreps.com/television-films-music/andy-griffith-dies-280170.html

[coldweatherfan]

I remember the Challenger explosion like it was yesterday. I had grown up watching launches with my dad. He was facinated by the space program and so was I. It hurt to see that.

 

9/11 was the same way for me. I was home from work recovering from knee surgery. I watched it non stop the entire day. Couldn't take my eyes off of it. My heart was crushed for the people in the towers. I felt violated as an American.

[TheDeuce]

I remember the Challenger explosion like it was yesterday. I had grown up watching launches with my dad. He was facinated by the space program and so was I. It hurt to see that.

 

9/11 was the same way for me. I was home from work recovering from knee surgery. I watched it non stop the entire day. Couldn't take my eyes off of it. My heart was crushed for the people in the towers. I felt violated as an American.

 

I've watched that several times on YouTube, I couldn't imagine watching it live.

[mcpapa]

Not counting politicians as celebrities, although I was old enough for Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King to hit pretty hard; in 3rd grade when JFK was assassinated..

 

I'll go with John Lennon.