It’s not often I say GOOD FORM, especially to like, The White House, but…
The death of actor Heath Ledger prompted the White House to postpone President Bush’s event on Wednesday promoting an ad campaign aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse.Ledger, 28, who was nominated for an Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain,” was found dead Tuesday in his New York apartment. There were sleeping pills near him, but the cause of his death remains under investigation.The president was to make a statement in the Roosevelt Room… on the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s television advertisement about preventing prescription drug abuse. A federally financed study released in December at the White House showed illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but the use of prescription painkillers remained popular among young people. White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush’s event had been scheduled for a while.“We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue,” she said.
Wanna see some BAD FORM? See the jerks who are saying Heath
deserved to die,
because he played a gay man in Brokeback Mountain.
There is a Hearts for Heath group if you’d like to pay your respects to him here on Buzznet.
Lastly– I know a few of you addressed this already, but– in response to queries as to why a “famous person’s death” affects so many people versus the people that die every day… isn’t it obvious?
It’s hard to mourn for people we have no attachment to or investment in. With celebrities and public figures, we witness their LIFE. We spend time with their characters, their personalities. They (like someone else had mentioned) make us feel. We read about them, we look at pictues of them, we anticipate their upcoming roles. We appreciate them. I’m not saying they’re more important than the average person, but they OBVIOUSLY have a more widespread effect. Panasonicyouth brings up this very topic in the Question of the Day — weigh in.
Am I making sense?
