Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 21:39:46 +1000
> > How about James Dean?
>
> Car too fast, around corner, dead rebel.
OK, I concede that, but :
> >Marilyn Monroe?
>
> Too many pills= Dead past her prime sex symbol.
How about:
a series of asshole husbands, mental instability, constant media
attention=too many pills first of all.
And that jolly old cliche
> >Kurt Cobain?
>
> derriviative musician
???
> with a heroin habit to cure tummy ache+ shotgun=
> dead media whore
Let's alter this very simplistic little occasion
mental instability+some idiot journalist causing his child to be taken
away+childhood traumas from selfish parents+constant media attention =
death
>
> An argument could
> > be made that these people died as a result of fame and media
> > exploitation.
>
> You know who I think deserves this designation? Lennon. He's the only
> one in recent times I can think of to actually earn the title of artistic
> martyr. Saying that any of these other self destructive megalomaniacs as
> suffered the pressures of media and the public turns my stomach.
Now, I think that's something you can only say if you're famous. And you're
not famous, cause I never heard of you.
Camille
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