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LNC
02-09-2008, 07:30 AM
I shared before that I'm really not a celebrity watcher. After I saw this couple on Oprah for Brokeback Mountain, I was charmed by them. I really rooted for them and I was surprised and sad when I read they broke up.

When I heard of his death I felt so sorry for Michelle Williams - as many do I know. The media circus is worse because she and his family aren't courting it as is so often the case. I feel guilty being a part of it by reading stories about them :(

Anyway, I read about his funeral this morning. He had another memorial service this morning in Perth. Then a funeral with Williams and 10 members of his immediate family. For this service she read this:

SONNET 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

So sad...

Michelle in MO
02-09-2008, 07:36 AM
I did not see Brokeback Mountain, but it grieves my heart any time I hear of such an early death. I'm not a big celebrity watcher, either, but it does trouble me that some of them have such tremendous success on the one hand, but so little personal peace on the other hand. :(

3lilreds in NC
02-09-2008, 11:45 AM
I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, but dh and I really enjoy "A Knight's Tale."

He must have been feeling awful to take the drugs he did - I can envision a major panic attack. That's what made me feel sorry for him; how badly he must have felt to take all that stuff.

I am not a celebrity watcher either but I have experienced anxiety and know how that feels. His poor family; his poor daughter.

Audrey
02-09-2008, 01:57 PM
I don't usually get emotional, but that's one of my favourite sonnets. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/sad007.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

cricket1178
02-09-2008, 02:51 PM
I did not see Brokeback Mountain, but it grieves my heart any time I hear of such an early death. I'm not a big celebrity watcher, either, but it does trouble me that some of them have such tremendous success on the one hand, but so little personal peace on the other hand. :(

My sentiments exactly.