Another year has passed into the mists of time, one that has become much - maligned thanks to a spate
of celebrity deaths, elections and division about leaving the EU.
With an array
of celebrity deaths and shifts in the political landscape across the world, this year has been...
Not exact matches
From David Bowie in January to this week's back - to - back
deaths of mother and daughter Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, 2016 saw the passing
of many notable people — politicians,
celebrities and heroes.
Fentanyl, a drug that's 30 times stronger than heroin and claimed the lives
of more than 20,000 Americans last year, has been implicated in the
deaths of celebrities including Prince and Tom Petty.
There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with
celebrity, his sense
of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's
death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.
Instead
of misappropriating
celebrity death as a gospel opportunity, I believe we should use it to demonstrate that we understand and relate, not to our culture, but to human beings.
One application
of this might be to suggest that
celebrity deaths present a fantastic gospel opportunity.
But — and this is a key point — so do the
deaths of those
celebrities for whom I have no attachment.
So, what is the «best
celebrity death match» — Sarah Palin versus Peabody, or Sean Avery (formerly
of the NY Rangers) versus Peabody
GiGi Eats
Celebrities recently posted... The Deck
of Death
From
celebrity opinions to sad accounts
of infant and maternal
deaths, the media has brought this to societies attention.
But
death is part
of life, and expected, even, whisper it,
of celebrities.
Barely months after popular Ghanaian Prophet Nigel Gaisie prophesied about the
death of two Ghanaian
celebrities, his prophecy about the
death of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has come to pass.
At the end
of 2016, the annus horribilis
of premature
celebrity and political
death, we feared that 2017 would be worse.
Insomnia and prescription medication have even been implicated in some high - profile
celebrity deaths, raising the issue
of how dangerous sleep problems can be if not treated responsibly.
This led to
celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy taking up the no - vaccine cause and directly leading to several children's
deaths due to outbreaks
of measles.
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Celebration organized by
celebrity wedding planner who Clayton Whittemore, 21,
of New Hartford, New York, told police he «just snapped» and beat his high school Alexandra Kogut (pictured) sweetheart to
death
This trope — an actor playing a surlier, fictional version
of himself — has been done to
death already, and Don't Trust the B — leans too heavily on the actor's state
of celebrity limbo, filling in late -»90s jokes and references where the real laughs ought to be.
More sad news as related to
celebrity deaths, with the passing
of John Hurt, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Tyler Moore, among others...
While it may seem a slightly morbid way to start, the deepest «
celebrity»
death that I have felt is that
of Neil Armstrong.
When people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, they could be referring to any number
of things, from virus scares to the
death of beloved
celebrities to whatever the fuck happened on November 8.
She endured through her
death in 1994 as a mysterious shadow in the hot glare
of the public spotlight, a
celebrity that revealed nothing.
Profoundly magical, funny, unsettling, and gorgeous — a love letter to Los Angeles and provocative satire
of America's fascination with itself, its cult
of celebrity; a vision
of the
death of Old Hollywood.
This Week: Kevin wraps up his
celebrity death eulogies with memories
of John Heard and June Foray.
However, things become dangerous for Harry when he ends up investigating some
celebrity deaths in the area, discovering that some
of the suspects are involved in an insidious game called «The Dead Pool», whereby the contestants must have a list
of celebrities they feel will die within a certain length
of time, the winner being the one with the most dead
celebrities on his list.
2016 will likely go down as one
of the most depressing years in recent history, but that has more to do with a certain reality TV host being elected President
of the United States, not to mention some particularly hard - hitting
celebrity deaths, than the movies we watched along the way.
What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream
celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness
of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent
death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.
It almost becomes fun for the viewer to sit back and guess which
celebrity cameo was awkward to schedule in, because
of the clumsy editing
of the
death.
But the few times Greek does hit, it gets off some pointed, witty zingers at the expense
of the degradation
of pop culture,
celebrity self - involvement, and the
death throes
of corporate music.
Some people put him on their
Celebrity Death Watch every year because
of the coughing, even though he wasn't an official
celebrity.
At the time
of Princess Diana's
death, she was probably the world's most famous
celebrity.
Celebrities joined MPs and campaigners for an exhibition
of powerful images and inspiring stories
of some
of the 850 dogs that HSI has rescued from «
death row» on South Korea's dog meat farms.
Beyond the
celebrity, though, the Vick dogs were — and today continue to be — champions for every dog trapped in dogfighting misery who finally gets rescued, only to face the bitter irony
of a policy that deems them deserving only
death.
While everyone is saying good riddance to 2016 because
of all the
celebrity deaths, 2016 was one my best years
of my life!
More frustrating still is that like a teenage girl chasing a
celebrity crush they just won't stop running after the retreating enemy so it can be surprisingly easy to lose a bunch
of troops because they charged straight into the maws
of death with naught but a cheerful smile.
Ah, 2011; a year
of further monetary recession, tragic
celebrity deaths, continued conflict in the Middle East, and the veiled threat
of nuclear war in Korea.
There's his famous hypercolor, hypercontrast prints
of hibiscus flowers; his tabloid «
Death and Disaster» series from the early 1960s; square
celebrity portraits
of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Jean - Michel Basquiat; a 1986 self - portrait
of the aging artist in his «fright wig»; a grouping
of massive Pop - ified Chairman Maos; and stacks
of Brillo boxes.
For these works, Bijl uses images from daily news reports
of important events or the
deaths of celebrities and modifies them to become almost unrecognizable.
This is the gallery that, in 2009, turned the
death of Dash Snow into a
celebrity event and showcased Kehinde Wiley, with his cross between street art and fashion magazine on top
of his Obama state portraits.
Some
of the most notable artworks include 1960s pop art paintings
of consumer products, including Campbell's Soup Cans and Coke, and
celebrities portraits
of stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley; 1970s series, such as
Death and Disaster, Mao, and abstract Oxidations; and works from the 1980s, including The Last Supper and collaborative paintings made with younger artists, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
Curated by Myriam Ben Salah, the exhibition features 20 artists and collectives — Dora Budor, Fischli & Weiss, Martine Syms, Mélanie Matranga, Caroline Mesquita and Katja Novitskova among them — and comes accompanied by a piece
of prose comparing global
celebrity Kim Kardashian's Snapchat to a «Near
Death Experience».
True to the undertaking Hirst gave Burn, there is no off - limits: here are Hirst's thoughts on
celebrity, money, art, alcohol, sex,
death, the North
of England, class, crime and cocaine; his views on Marco Pierre White, Charles Saatchi, David Bowie, Gilbert and George and Lucian Freud.
Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his
death, is best known for appropriations
of images from popular culture — advertisements, mass - media photographs and
celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects
of art.
His iconic works include the 1966 screenprint Jackie II, a haunting image that uses a widely circulated image from John F. Kennedy's funeral to reflect on the nature
of mass media,
celebrity and
death.
The shockwaves that reverberated through America have come into focus again with Manson's recent
death, making Helter Skelter I a timely piece that addresses the persistent issues
of race, crime and
celebrity culture that continue to structure urban America.
Today, with vastly expanded channels for the propagation
of images, events as varied as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the
deaths of celebrities such as Princess Diana and Michael Jackson have the ability to become traumatic on a global scale.
For Control Room (2011) Demand used a photograph
of the inside
of Japan's Fukishima Daiichi power plant, which became known to the world after a devastating earthquake and tsunami left the nuclear plant badly damaged in 2011; Demand's Junior Suite (2012) is based on a photograph that was originally posted on the
celebrity news website TMZ shortly after Whitney Houston's
death, which showed the singer's last room service meal in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The series also refers to Truman Capote, the writer who veered from the bittersweet romance «Breakfast at Tiffany's» to the harsh reality
of «In Cold Blood» and, finally, to talk - show
celebrity — i.e., the
death of the author.
Here we return to Warhol's enduring aesthetic — the artist's concerns with
death are again suppressed by that
of celebrity, as we leave behind Warhol's obsessive electric chairs, or car crashes, and swiftly return to the artist's fascination with the mass production
of the image, repetition, and commercial cultural value.