Keywords: Celebrity Death
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 July 2011
4 Comments
It sometimes seems celebrities are public property. News of the death of British singer Amy Winehouse was met with both grief and jokes. Hearing her father Mitch speak of her as any father would about a child who has died prematurely, grounds her.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 January 2011
4 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves better than this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 August 2010
7 Comments
Ben Cousins is no angel, but neither is he a
demon; just a man with a problem that he's fought to contain.
His story has mirrors in the lives of many people who have battled
addiction. Seven's treatment of it borders on exploitative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 07 July 2010
10 Comments
When you love, you must be prepared to die another death before you die
your own. Five minutes before 19-year-old Aristomenis died, he called in at his mother's place of work
to tell her he thought the exam had gone well.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2010
13 Comments
The arrival of Jessica Watson back in Australia was small news in
cosmic terms, but provoked a great deal of discussion around the
coffee pot. Most had to do with values. Some questions said more about the questioners than about the sailor.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 April 2010
43 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer
themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an
expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an
episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves
better than this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 April 2010
In comics, the X-Men's 'mutant' powers make them the target of bigotry. They function as a metaphor for homosexuals and other persecuted minorities. In Micmacs, Bazil, ostracised from his 'normal' life by a bizarre crisis, also finds himself on the margins of society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 January 2010
1 Comment
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound. June 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 January 2010
1 Comment
The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep
perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly
discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps
breaking through.' February 2009
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sarah McKenzie
- 06 January 2010
10 Comments
Vegetarians are still seen as antagonistic and
self-centred, as if they'd made a selfish decision purely to sabotage dinner parties. Vegetarians have been too polite, and too careful not to offend carnivores, for too long. November 2009
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sarah McKenzie
- 09 November 2009
26 Comments
Vegetarians are still seen as antagonistic and
self-centred, as if they'd made a selfish decision purely to sabotage dinner parties. Vegetarians have been too polite, and too careful not to offend carnivores, for too long.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 June 2009
6 Comments
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound.
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