Tag: Suicide
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Both were doomed
Pier Angeli mystery death Pier Angeli was a sweetheart. James Dean loved her. Kirk Douglas loved her, as did singer Vic Damone, Italian film composer Armando Trovajoli, and Paul Newman. “The most beautiful Italian actress of the century,” Paul Newman said. “She was an extremely complex and gifted woman.” In the 1956 boxing movie Somebody…
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Anthem for the American worker
UPDATE — The new hero of the American blue collar worker Oliver Anthony’s real name is Christopher Lunsford. Oliver Anthony was his grandfather’s name. He used the pseudonym to try and remain a private troubadour. That’s impossible now since his anthem has become an overnight sensation. The singer lives with his dog in a…
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One by one they go
When old friends die. I sure miss Baxter. He was an old curmudgeon like me, but a huge cut above me in that he was a retired English professor and a published poet as opposed to me being a retired bum with a transient string of forgettable newspaper stories to my name. Like me he…
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Before you kill yourself…
…listen up! Words to live by for anyone contemplating suicide: “The dead know only one thing — it’s better to be alive.” — Mathew Modine’s character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket. The movie follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training to the 1968 Tet Offensive, one of the…
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Life in a parallel universe
In the parallel universe a young would-be poet named Will had his first poem published in a little-known literary magazine when he was seventeen. It was an amazing event in his life and promised a brilliant future. He went on to having more poems published in better known publications and by the age of twenty…
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Death by broken heart
Lisa Marie died of a broken heart. The only daughter of Elvis was still grieving over her son Ben’s suicide when she died this week at 54.
Mary Saves the Day 