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Sometimes I end up hearing about some famous actor celeb type death as a thing people are talking about online and it feels weird to watch because they'll be all sad about it and I'm just sitting there thinking like "ok." Like it's not that I don't sympathize about loss, but at some point some years back, I decided I didn't want to have anything to do with celeb stuff anymore. And as a result of that and class consciousness and such, what I see when I hear about X famous celebrity death is "some rich person I don't know died." They probably weren't an overtly terrible person or a notably good one, but then again, in the Yankee celebrity sphere, they could have easily been a lowkey zionist. So all the more reason not to put them on a pedestal. They may have done some good work as an entertainer, but if that's reason for me to mourn them, there's a long list of nurses and teachers and so on whose names I don't know who I feel I should be mourning the loss of long before I ever bother with the sympathy for an entertainer celeb death.
I mean, I value the arts as a medium and I value the work people put into entertaining others, but mourning the loss of some entertainers who got a bougie life off of being popular as an entertainer doesn't seem like a good use of my energy.
Lately there's been a string of celebrity deaths who were child actors. Those are always tragic because of how much growing up as a working actor instead of a normal child harms a person. In terms of education, finances, socialization, sex abuse, addiction, and everything really, it's plain horrific. It's barbaric how there's still a giant exemption to child labor laws for the entertainment industry.
Hayden Panettiere, Carla Jeffery, and RJ Mitte all died in their homes in their thirties. The reported details are understandably vague for the most part, but I'm pretty sure they were all suicides by overdose.
I hadn't heard of those, that is sad. I've long felt that child actors shouldn't even be a thing. There is really no need for entertainment to have child actors. If someone really wants to do media with children characters, especially in modern day it's perfectly feasible to do animation and have an adult do the voice.
Oh, if you were referring to Patrick Stewart as the recent celeb that died, that one is an interesting case. He interpreted Lenin in Fall of Eagles. Some scenes are very good.
He's one among more than one I've heard mentioned recently-ish (I forget who the others were). But that is cool to know.