The Samaritans have a list of guidelines for reporting on suicide - http://www.samaritans.org/media-cent...hings-remember
you would do well to bear them in mind when you read and watch coverage of Robin Williams' death over the next few days
I read back through his body of work earlier and was struck by how many scenes and quotes from his films I remembered clearly, from Mork and Mindy right up to Night at the Museum, August Rush and License to Wed.
One of his lesser known films is one of my favourites, Death To Smoochy, where he plays a disgraced children's entertainer who's out to destroy his replacement.
RIP
The Guardian is reporting tonight that Lauren Bacall has passed away, aged 89. She absolutely sizzled opposite Bogie in The Big Sleep.
On Robin Williams, it seems that when a celebrity takes their own life the media get in a frenzy because they want so desperately to be utterly salacious and scandalised, but there is hardly a reader, viewer or listener who hasn't known somebody who has taken that choice and, perhaps, it's wariness of the masses that keeps much of the reporting in check.
I'd go left of field for a good RW film and put an early one of his out there - Moscow on the Hudson.
David Foster Wallace (who took his own life) wrote in Infinite Jest:
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
Very true - the BBC takes a look at some of the reporting. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28772923Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
If there is ever an excerpt to demonstrate to those of us who don't suffer from depression what it could feel like then that is it. Thank you.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
James Alexander Gordon, the voice of Saturday tea-time.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28844131
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Ah, that's very sad. The voice of many a Saturday afternoon as a youngster.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
You always knew the result before he completed reading the score of a game by the way he would alter his tone of voice to indicate whether a result was a home win, an away win, or a draw. Those familiar with him will know what I mean (I think!!!)
Last edited by Roberto; 19/08/2014 at 8:05 AM.
http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-30525335.html
Cue ironic twist.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
How is this only getting reported now? Were they waiting on the craze to take off in Ireland first?
I read about your man's death over the weekend on US sites. Weird.
Only Liamo C left of the old-school now!
He has a serious deal with the devil going on it must be said.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Richard Attenborough. RIP.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
wow thats a shock
Not really? He was 90 and living in a home.
Checked himself in when the wife needed assisted living, I think.
ha ha true,but I get most of who is dead in the celeb world from this site!
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Apologies if this was covered elsewhere but only noticed it in the Oman match programme:
former Shamrock Rovers (and Shels) player Eric Barber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Barber I saw him play for the Hoops on many an occasion. Don't remember the cap against Spain.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Himself and Ben Hannigan were a lethel force back then at Shels.
Joan Rivers has tipped on this evening too.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Ben was of course a Rovers man as well.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
He was indeed but had 3 separate spells at Shels
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