The glimmer and glitz of Hollywood has never seemed closer to our adulation for the stars that fill our big screen TV’s and multiplex cinemas, however for all the wrong reasons. It’s at this time in the world of entertainment that we take stock of those celebrities that have disembarked our plane of existence to live on in the celluloid world of the latest technological advances of the next hot DVD format.
The conundrum however, that has taken place with the passing of our media darlings in 2009 is not due to the expected death from advancing age nor the varied number of illness’s that are accredited to death from longevity but the cheated life of those who died in the very same ways that take place in the very mainstream of society. From the early part of this year that saw a young and talented Natasha Richardson die from the freakish accident she suffered on a ski slope to the recent departure of Brittany Murphy from natural causes.
Only in this past year with the subsequent deaths of Patrick Swayze, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and David Carradine …etc the list goes on, we have now witnessed the exposed cracks in the long hallowed veneer of stardom and wealth in the once omnipotent world of fame on the Hollywood Walk of Stars.
This year of 2009 has shown us that fame and fortune on the film screens of an adoring public do not preclude celebrities with the best part of life ahead of them from succumbing to the very hardship and pain that the everyday person must also deal with. We as the fans that drive stardom take no solace from the deaths of our hero’s but are haunted by the fact that if tragedy can so easily knock on our actors doors then how vulnerable we all must be, fan and celebrity, walking, not the walk of fame, but simply the walk of life.
The upside can only be of a desperate vitality that we as fans can now share with our screen stars which helps us to exist within the moment and garner all we can from performances that are here today and on special collectors DVD tomorrow.
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