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Rosaxé
07/10/09

In reply to Michael Proposed To Brooke Shields; Reese Explains Her Black Eye
That is such a sweet picture of Brooke & MJ. I thought her going with him to the Grammys was just a publicity stunt, but her speech at the memorial obviously negates that. I wonder if was still in touch with him up until his death...
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VoxPopuli
07/10/09

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Brooke sounds like she's talking about her best gay friend, not a guy who she supposedly dated (so the mags said at hte time, I recall). I thought the same thing when listening to her speak at his memorial. If he were in the closet, I wish he would have just come out. I think he just felt so misunderstood in so many ways.
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Nun Shall Pass
07/10/09

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That picture of Brooke and Michael just warms my heart. They look so sweet and happy and innocent and I kind of wish they could have just stayed like that forever.

That's the way that I want to think of Michael, whenever I think of him in the future. Just like that, caught in that happy moment. It's lovely.
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mbot says Spock yeah!
07/10/09

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The fact that Lauren Conrad's book is a bestseller makes my soul hurt.
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Rosaxé
07/10/09

@mbot says Spock yeah!: I bet there's a lot of struggling writers who are feeling pretty stabby right now.
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Bunsen Honeydew
07/10/09

@mbot says Spock yeah!: I think I'm just going to go buy a book written by someone who... I don't know, tries at life tomorrow. You can't get me, LC.
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tankearae
07/10/09

@mbot says Spock yeah!: the fact that her fans can read scares me.
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Mafalda para Presidente
07/10/09

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I don't know if I could be a roommate to one of the Harry Potter kids. Imagine how hard it would be to stop yourself from blurting incantations at random times:

You broke a lamp: "Reparo!"

To your loud neighbors: "Avada Kadavra!"

To your homework: "Incendio!"

Well, that, and the fact that I'm pretty sure I'd try to convince them to dress up like HP characters for Halloween.
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jemandtheholograms
07/10/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: And every time they'd complain about an assignment, you'd have to make a joke about how many lengths of parchment it needs to be or say something snotty like, "oh, its not like you're fighting the dark lord, it's only an econ problem set".
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Pearls
07/10/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: I'm pretty sure that if I ever met Daniel Radcliffe, I'd slip up and ask him about Quidditch. "So, how about them Ballycastle Bats?"
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i'vemadeahugemistake
07/10/09

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I think I'd rather watch Katie Holmes star in the new series "So I Married a Scientologist"
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erinna
07/10/09

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I hope this doesn't come across as crude, but if I had to put up with that circus in the TMZ video every freakin day, I'd wanna be hopped up on some heavy duty painkillers as well. I was watching something where MJ talked about how he can't even go to a grocery store and just walk around and fill up a cart & he just wanted to know what normal life is like. I can't even imagine the loneliness and isolation, it ripped my heart out.

I wish at some point there would be a greater discussion of how we treat our celebrities as if we own them, and the reverence we show doesn't contain respect for their lives.
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RainbowBrite
07/11/09

@erinna: I thought the same thing. I couldn't even watch those TMZ videos the whole way through. The man is at the doctor's office and hundreds of people are blocking the exit, screaming at him. I can't even imagine what that was like. No wonder he abused medication.

The whole thing just makes me so sad.
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sonofabiscuit is sprinkling greatness
07/10/09

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Daniel Radcliffe joked, "I really hope they are a really massive Harry Potter fan. I hope you walk in and the first thing you see is your face on a duvet."
I think her roommate is going to shit her pants when she walks in the room, thus warranting a clothes change, thus revealing her Hermione panties.
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solidbrassfasteners
07/10/09

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The fact that Daniel Radcliffe used the word "duvet" in a joke entertains me greatly. And I so wish Emma Watson had been my freshman year roommate ... not that she would have slummed it at NYU. But oh, the fun we would have had. She probably would have been neater than my freshman year roommate, too.
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Nun Shall Pass
07/10/09

@solidbrassfasteners: I imagine it would also be super awkward at first though, no? Even if Emma's as nice as she comes across in interviews and the like, it's gonna be like...."Hi, I'm wildly famous. Prepare to have be chased down by random people in the street wanting to ask you about me. Sorry about that!"
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TheGuvnah
07/10/09

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That jennifer aniston thing sounds like such a crock. They're trying to get in the news after Angelina's secret trip to visit soldiers made the news.
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ucelluccia
07/10/09

@TheGuvnah: Yes, because it's impossible that Jennifer Aniston could do something nice.

/sarcasm
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Penny
07/10/09

@ucelluccia: Also, I am sure she schedules her comings/goings and press releases around one woman.

That said, I don't believe anything publicists say.
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Bunsen Honeydew
07/10/09

@TheGuvnah: You know what's exciting? This isn't 2005 anymore, it's now cool if you don't pick a side in an imagined feud between two women you don't know.
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TheGuvnah
07/11/09

@Bunsen Honeydew: I wasn't exactly calling which "team" i was on...just saying this piece sounds like total bullshit.

Of course JA could do something nice - but this? sounds really odd. And something really stupid to brag about.
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TurtleWexlerKickedMe
07/11/09

@Bunsen Honeydew: It's pretty well known that Aniston's pr team will do anything to keep her in the news. See: the recent Bradley Cooper "date", which wasn't a date at all, yet has now become a new storyline we're all supposed to fall for.

So tiring.
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Mafalda para Presidente
07/10/09

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I'm secretly wishing that the first thing Daniel Radcliffe sees when he walks into his college dormitory on Christmas Day is hundreds of posters with his face saying "Have a Harry Christmas!"

Better yet, a whole cafeteria full of them.
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gangey
07/10/09

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Shit, even Emma Watson can't afford a single room at college anymore? Higher ed costs thru the roof, indeed.
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smallc
07/10/09

@gangey: a lot of schools don't allow freshmen to have single rooms. And a lot of schools charge the same fees regardless of roommates, too.
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Copper
07/10/09

@gangey: She may not want a single room. She's said that she wants to try to get a normal education and most people live in the dorms with a roommate. It's fun. Or it can be.
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maggeimerc
07/11/09

@gangey: Some schools won't allow single rooms your freshman year. They don't want anyone to think they're special.
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Eric Northman is mine
07/10/09

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Looks like the MJ love fest is over, i thought they'd at least wait till the autopsy results to dredge up the past drug history. I'm totally flashing back to Heath Ledger, sad stuff.
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PreposterousHypothesis
07/10/09

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Oh geez, Ryan Reynolds. "Over the moon?" You have been reading too many celebrity pregnancy announcements.

Also, Brooke Shields's quote is kind of sweet and sad...and revelatory. I sometimes wonder just how alone MJ felt.
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Santos L Halper
07/10/09

@PreposterousHypothesis: No, no. They're just so happy that he's a bit rate actor, that they've rocketed themselves into outer space with joyous farts. It was literal!
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HereComesMyBaby
07/11/09

@PreposterousHypothesis: Is that you, Michael K?
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Texpat
07/08/09

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My dad died a little over a year ago, and his funeral was the hardest fucking thing I've ever been through in my life. I'm 23, and there was no way I was in a state to get up and talk at his funeral.

The fact that Paris is 11, and got up there in front of everyone to say something about her father....in front of ALL of those people...on probably the most painful and scary day of her life...speaks VOLUMES about the kind of person she is.

I definitely cried when I saw her speech. I obviously don't know exactly what she's going through, but I can relate on a certain level. Those kids' entire world just fell apart, and they get my deepest and most sincere sympathy.
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brendastarlet is on it
07/08/09

@Texpat: agreed. My dad's funeral remains a fog in my brain. I just remember sitting in the front row with my mom and brother and that the priest had a big smile on his face talking about my dad.

It is the fashion now to have the children speak at funerals -- the last funeral I went to, the kids all spoke (16, 14, 10). Paris made me cry, too, and she does look like him, around the eyes and nose.
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HarpMadness
07/08/09

@Texpat: I was in my mid-20s when my dad died and there was no way I would have been able to get out even two words. I have a lot of respect and admiration for Paris for having the courage to express her love for her dad in that situation. As others have said, no matter what anybody thinks of MJ, good or bad, to those kids, he was Dad.

I was just trying to get coffee this morning and they had all the papers out and most of them had a picture of Paris at the memorial service, so I of course I got all teary like a sap. Poor kids.
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