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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06:05 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Shiite, if you can't even claim a relation on the Mayflower, why bother to claim anyone?
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    Image of semiserious semiserious
    05:53 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    In film school I always imagined I'd base a film on my mother one day and cast Murphy in the main role. There was a strong resemblance and her best roles were along those unhinged-yet-sympathetic-and-humorous lines. I was going to help her win that Oscar, oh yes I was.

    And this is when a celebrity death is the most emotional: when that star is caught up in your delusional narcissistic fantasies.

    This isn't on the "I used to have pictures of her all over my wall, and doodle Mr. Brittany Murphey on my notebooks" level, but I got a little sad.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    06:42 PM

    @semiserious: My friend wanted to write a Batman movie and cast her as Harley Quinn, so you're not alone.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    05:50 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    I hate to hear about people losing loved ones at such a young age and this happening during the holidays makes it even worse. Her poor mother. It is being reported that she is the one who found the body. So sad.
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    05:25 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Nothing against Kristen (well, except Dax Shepard, I mean really Kristen?), but here's another trailer that's way too long and interchangeable every other C-grade rom com (People fall down! Lots of things break! A wedding singing and dancing scene! Good looking guy has fat friend!...ugh--I do like you on SNL though, Bobby.) So I've actually got to sit through Avatar for some originality?
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    05:16 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    No matter what happened here, expect the gossip industry to turn its focus onto her husband, Simon Monjack, but fast. Been reading old newspaper articles, etc. and his past shadiness is gonna haunt whatever investigation there is into this death.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    05:11 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    Damn girl, I love you. Please Higher Being, let this not be true. Or else, bring her back so we can start a religion better than Scientology.
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    Edited by miss_msry at 12/20/09 5:14 PM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
    Image of Airvault Airvault
    04:43 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    An honest shame. I didn't know she was "troubled." Someone else who lost it all at thirty-two:
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    04:33 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    She'll always be Mrs. Slim Shady to me.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    04:23 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    I was going to throw off a comment like 'She probably has two King Charles spaniels, one named Empress Duchess and the other Tart' but actually the truth is a lot better than that:

    [www.empressduchesstart.com]
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    04:17 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    not buying that fuller story. no one under 50 "loves" nancy meyers flicks.

    just got over the nausea induced by reading the meyers piece in the magazine, and now this? oy.
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    Edited by thatgirlinnewyork at 12/20/09 4:18 PM thatgirlinnewyork was starred thatgirlinnewyork was unstarred
    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04:32 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Baby Boom is one of my favorite movies though!
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:03 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: I was 35 when Something's Gotta Give came out in 2003, and I loved it - probably because the love of my life is 31 years older than me and he had quite a rep as a ladies' man before we met in 1994. I also love the movie because Keanu Reeves can do no wrong... even though he can't really act.

    But SGTG is also the only Nancy Meyers film I've ever seen, so... grain of salt and all.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:04 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: yeah, yeah, but if i hear you say you're buying the retrospective box set, i'll be sending you the support package, containing two cats, a rabbit (the batter-powered sort), and a case of fat-free haagen-dazs.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:06 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Ha! You're on a roll...
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:09 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: unfortunately, i had a lot of work-related travel for a good chunk of meyers' career, so i've been unfortunate enough to endure the great lot of them. if you've see one...really, it's the boomer film equivalent of lite fm.
    true--reeves was as good a piece of arm candy as they could manage to cast in SGTG.
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    Edited by thatgirlinnewyork at 12/20/09 5:12 PM thatgirlinnewyork was starred thatgirlinnewyork was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:15 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Well, I've seen enough of the trailers to know forced humor when I see it. I won't bother delving further into her oeuvre...

    (although Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin has got to be the most intriguing couples' casting ever.)
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    05:23 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: streep/baldwin casting follows the foolproof formula that smart, organically good looking fifty-ish woman works magically with self-effacing, admitted womanizer. lady gets the upper hand, and, one assumes, the chutzpah to demand he serve her needs.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:14 PM

    @thatgirlinnewyork: Yes, but: when was the last time there was a female lead 10 years older than the male lead, if ever? (I know his character still has the 25-year-old girlfriend, I'm just thinking this might be some teeny progress.)
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    06:35 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: where the female character lead is 10 years older than the male character lead, or are you referring to the actors' real ages? i think there have been plenty since sunset boulevard, but it would take some time to accurately list them. i don't really associate meyers' work with progress--it's simply female boomer wet dream fantasy stuff.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    04:14 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    Quasha? You'd have to machete your way into deep congo to come across a name like that again. Or sled to the land of the little people in Northern Finland?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    04:16 PM

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Well of course it's african-american, and it means "tenacious"
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04:11 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    The one thing I have learned from watching "Intervention" is how insidious but mostly well intentioned the enablers are, including family and friends.
    Surprising she made it to 32.
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    Image of honey's dead honey's dead
    04:17 PM

    @Novaload: I haven't seen intervention, but have dealt with a recent death in the family due to drugs. We tried everything, including "tough love," but it's so hard to watch someone you love suffer. So, we failed, obviously. I don't know...ultimately people make their own choices. But the medical system doesn't help--he was hospitalized twice the week before he died for OD.
    They kept kicking him out once he was "clean" because he didn't have insurance.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment honey's dead was starred honey's dead was unstarred
    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    04:36 PM

    @honey's dead: No, you didn't fail, just as, if your relative had gotten clean, it wouldn't have been your success. It was a situation over which you had little to no control. We do the best we can with the people we love, but you're right, we can't make their choices for them. It's easy to second-guess our own and other people's actions, but so hard in the moment to know what's best. I'm sorry for what you had to go through.

    [Edited to add] Also, you're right, the medical system with respect to any kind of mental health issue (which is what addiction is, ultimately) is completely fucked up.
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    Edited by MissNormaDesmond at 12/20/09 4:38 PM MissNormaDesmond was starred MissNormaDesmond was unstarred
    Image of honey's dead honey's dead
    04:39 PM

    @MissNormaDesmond: Thanks--I didn't mean to make this about me. Some people just can't cut it in this world. Extra sensitive. Murphy struck me as that type--frail and sad.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    04:45 PM

    @honey's dead: Yes, she struck me that way, too.
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    Image of honey's dead honey's dead
    04:55 PM

    @MissNormaDesmond: Yes it is. You cannot hold a person in the hospital for more than 72 hours without court order, and at any point, if they are of legal age, they can check themselves out. And the hospitals are way too happy to comply. Obviously, Murphy wouldn't have had a problem with insurance, but unless she wanted to get help, no one could force her. Physically and pyschologically.
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    honey's dead was starred honey's dead was unstarred
    Image of rubyruby rubyruby
    05:31 PM

    @honey's dead: Oh you didn't fail. Absolutely not. I've been there with a friend, and it's not your failure. I'm so sorry you lost someone in your family. Peace to you.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment rubyruby was starred rubyruby was unstarred
    Image of honey's dead honey's dead
    05:56 PM

    @rubyruby: Thank you. That's kind. Totally OT, but he was cleaning up his life and had just quit smoking, thanks to Chantix. Very scary thought.
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    04:10 PM

    In reply to Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32
    I worked on a film in which Ms. Murphy played the role of the titular character, "The Dead Girl." Her work, albeit as a hot mess of human being who was addled in ways that drugs only touch on, was harrowing. And from what I recall, she was a consummate professional. Faint praise in the wake of such needless loss...
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    04:00 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    ALSO NEF um hello Kristen Bell (who I've actually met! and kind of am in love with and no she didn't steal my coin from the Trevi Fountain or whatever fucking dumb Roman fountain that is) and Dax Shepard (who plays the model in the movie who used to be Ashton Koosher's brossistant on PUNK'D) are together. Maybe they met on the set?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    04:35 PM

    @Foster Kamer: Pretty sure this is so. Also, this movie is stupid because if everyone would just watch Veronica Mars like they're supposed to, then everyone would fall in love with Kristen Bell anyway. And then be forced to fight me to the death for her affections.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:07 PM

    @Foster Kamer: I saw Josh Duhamel at the Soho Equinox once. My feelings on Kristin Bell are best summed up by Lorrie Moore:

    "The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem."
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    03:54 PM

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
    I want there to be a site where you can create a Will Ferrell photobomb for any photo you choose. That should be the man's destiny. It's perfect.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:48 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Speaking of the brilliance of Will Ferrell, have you seen this interview with Jim Caviezel from "Anchorman"? While watching this, you have to remember than Caviezel is a very devout Christian... but he obviously has an amazing sense of humor, judging by this clip (below the pic).
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    Edited by Lysergic Asset at 12/20/09 4:56 PM Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:51 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Also: you might want an avatar at some point, so...
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    Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:52 PM

    @RandomLunatic: Trying again to embed the video clip...
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    Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:00 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: This was on the other day.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:11 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: I'm not that well-versed in the Ferrell canon... perhaps a clue?
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    Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    05:47 PM

    @Lysergic Asset
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    Phyllis Nefler was starred Phyllis Nefler was unstarred
    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    06:11 PM

    @Phyllis Nefler: What a great trip down memory lane. Thanks!
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