MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> > 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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