Suzanne

What is it with us and celebrities? People die every day; girls go missing, just the other day a border guard was killed. Hardly a bleep on the news. He who was trying to protect our border.

Suzanne Pleshette
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/television/tv-news-story/ar/_a/newhart-actress-suzanne-pleshette-dies/20080120093809990001

Back when he was a cop, my father knew someone who knew her father and I remember him saying “Her father was so proud of her”. She was a local girl who had made it big.
She was a darling on our t.v. screens on Bob Newhart. I used to think my father had a secret crush on Suzanne Pleshette. I remember her role as Annie in The Birds. When Suzanne Pleshette dies it is the end of an era. She lived a long life and died from natural causes.
When Heath Ledger dies it is more like Hollywierd has taken another young soul.

This Heath Ledger story was all over the news like crazy. Just the other night I was in a bar and a conversation was struck with someone older whereas he brought this up and said it reminded him of the day that Marilyn Monroe was found dead with pills near her bed. Sort of eerily similar circumstances. I don’t remember the day Monroe died but I do remember where I was when John Lennon was killed and when Princess Diana died and also the exact time when JFK Junior went missing on his plane. In all three instances I cried as if I knew them. In a strange way I felt as if I did know them because in essence we had grown up together as they were always in the spotlight and I admired them.
We call them stars but in effect we are all stars for are we not all stardust?
Icons is the term I prefer. It seems we need our icons.

I believe this Heath Ledger was working non stop and was just simply exhausted. Maybe he needed sleeping pills, who knows?
Maybe it is time for us to stop this dependence on believing that our “icons” (no not heroes) are not gods but mere mortals like us.
Movies especially take us away from reality and from our problems. They bring us to a different place to escape. Maybe some actors break with reality to where their roles take them and they lose touch with the real world. When they are gone so suddenly it reminds us of our own mortality

I find myself gravitating more and more towards the comfort of old t.v shows and movies. Our world is so scary today but it must be faced. And as Penny says to her mother in an episode on Lost In Space, “We all have to grow up sometime, don’t we?”