The week-long media frenzy over the unexpected demise of Whitney Houston continues today with her funeral in Newark, NJ. While I am generally saddened by news of anyone’s untimely passing, this time, uncharacteristically, I seem to be completely unaffected. Buddy Holly, Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson. Perhaps I’m still in mourning for all the unfortunate celebrities who preceded Whitney Houston in death, or maybe I’ve just got a problem these days, at age 68, with all obituaries and memorial services.
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BEING A PERSONAL MEMOIR IN FLUX
18 February 2012: “Houston, we’ve got a problem.”
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No I don’t think it has to do with your age at all. I think it has to do with the overwhelming absurdity of it. There have been thousands of men and women dying for our country in the past eleven years and none of them have been honored in this way. Whitney is just another celebrity with serious problems that have been ignored in lieu of her celebrity and yet she is over-honored at this time just because of her death which also appears to have been due to her drug problems. As a role model she is wrong, wrong, wrong and to put her on the pedestal that everyone is putting her on right now is not right. So…if it were up to me I would like to have seen it as a second page article stating that she had passed and the funeral would be held in New Jersey and let it go at that. Enough with the accolades.
I’m Houston’s age — hope I die a diva never having killed anybody and inspired many! “I wanna dance with somebody . . . “
And from yet another diva: “Do you…do you…do you…wanna dance…?”
— BVM (Blessed Vette Middler)