> > Yeah well, he kinda brought it on himself catching herpes from an affair and then > infecting his wife. > > Gets back to the insanely narcissistic culture of entertainers: > > Shit! My ex is ruining my life (translation- taking all my money) because she didn't > approve of me having affairs, and this depresses me to no end. This is bullshit. Why > can't I have everything I want where I come in first all the time. That would make me > happy. > > And the whole "don't want to do this work" thing... still not buying it. He wanted > the money... didn't want to do the work. You don't have to do the work, but then you > have to accept that you don't get the money that work brings. Simple as that. > > Uh. It rips out my soul and makes me sooo sad to do this work... why do I have to > work to make this fabulous money. This is bullshit. > > See, if my job situation sucked so bad it was ripping my soul out, I'd find a new job > (which is what I did, by the way). Now Robin had a new gig... Broadway... but > Broadway doesn't reap the megamillions Hollywood does... so he had to do the > soul-ripping part to make the money he wanted... his real problem was he liked the > money more than he liked his soul. Sure, she's in college, but stripping pays the > bling bling. "Don't judge me." > > Again... I'm not bashing on Robin, per se. We don't know his real motives... we just > know the motives people are projecting on to him. But people wouldn't offer up these > "excuses" if they didn't, in their mind, sound reasonable. And these "reasons" only > sound reasonable to people who buy into that culture. > > Yeah, his ex and having to "sell out" were tearing his soul out. Sounds reasonable... > I can understand that-only if I ignore the fact that both of those situations are his > own doing and choices. > > > > Now if the talking heads simply just said "He suffered from manic depression" that's > enough right there to understand how he came to commit suicide. The rest is just > society thinking "stars" are entitled to so much more than they deserve, and pity > them when their world isn't the fairytale anymore.
Oh for Pete's sake.
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