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Their deaths were predicted weeks in advance. And...

2008-08-18T11:46:00.000-07:00

Their deaths were predicted weeks in advance. And that's the real story here.

Q: But really who cares?

A: Nobody.

Stella!!

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The Vanity Fair piece is tainted by Nancy Jo Sales...

2008-07-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Vanity Fair piece is tainted by Nancy Jo Sales relationship with the creepy priest Father Frank Morales. The CO$ connection to their deaths is negligible and the "child sex rings" stuff is a joke. Heavy drugs and drinking.

Wow, that IS some cool faith-leaping, Movieman, an...

2008-07-24T06:52:00.000-07:00

Wow, that IS some cool faith-leaping, Movieman, and I dig your blog.

I agree about never taking leaps of faith too seriously. I'm all about speculation though, and I believe all conspiracy theories the way I believe a movie I'm watching is "really happening" at the time I'm watching it. We all are able to do that split of "pretend belief" otherwise we'd only ever watch documentaries... the thing is, we don't all realize we can apply the same principle to real life.

The problem with all the paranoia is where to stop...

2008-07-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

The problem with all the paranoia is where to stop. The Scientologists themselves are essentially paranoid conspirarcy theorists, but the more suspicious and paranoid you become ABOUT them, the more you become LIKE them, even if that voice you're listening to isn't L. Ron Hubbard but the one in your head. To avoid slipping down the rabbit hole, I'd say skepticism in matters of factual assertion is always the way to go (in other words, questioning is fine but when you start to make leaps of faith about facts that you can't quite back up, you're in for a world of trouble).

I don't buy the Ledger's death-by-overdose-of-Joker-thing too seriously. For one, it seems like something drummed up to increase the hype and mystique surrounding the film (and hell, in that sense it worked, on me no less than others). Which leads one to wonder if the whole thing was planned...perhaps Katie Holms, driven equally by a secret Scientologist cabal run by her husband and resentment at losing her part to Maggie Gyllenhal, poisoned Ledger. Why not poison Maggie instead, you ask? Too obvious...clearly you wouldn't make much of a conspiracy theorist.

For what it's worth, I believe their claims about ...

2008-07-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

For what it's worth, I believe their claims about Beck and the Scientologists... (though they and Beck deny it, of course they would)... that would drive me into paranoid insanity too.

One of my least commendatory moments was when I he...

2008-07-22T18:01:00.000-07:00

One of my least commendatory moments was when I heard about Duncan's suicide.

First thought (and I am not proud of this):

'Geez. And she was a fan of my blog . . . '

Pitiful.

The Duncan/Blake Suicides are the stuff of myth. I...

2008-07-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

The Duncan/Blake Suicides are the stuff of myth. I see their story becoming some kind of early 21rst Century touchstone in the decades to come. There will be novels and songs and movies, maybe even some kind of avante-garde Robert Wilson-type opera-multi-media spectacle, or, even better, a large corner of the net dedicated to their life and work.

At first, when I heard about these two, I thought, Oh well, who cares, but then I delved a little deeper into their story, and the ingredients sucked me right in; drug use, paranoia, Hollywood, Scientology, child sex rings, New York in the mid-90's during the boom, Venice Beach, more drugs, D.C. Punk, and much, much more.