40-Somethings' adolescence.
From The Daily Telegraph:
Michael Jackson dead at 50
MICHAEL Jackson has died after suffering what is believed to have been a heart attack in Los Angeles.
The singer, 50, was pronounced dead soon after he arrived at an LA hospital.
The LA Coroner has confirmed his death.
Lieutenant Fred Corral told CNN Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26pm (7.26am) local time after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest.
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From The New York Times:
Farrah Fawcett Dies
Farrah Fawcett, an actress, television star and pop-culture phenomenon whose good looks and signature leonine hairstyle influenced a generation of women and, beginning with a celebrated pinup poster, bewitched a generation of men, died on Thursday in Santa Monica, California, according to Paul Bloch, her spokesman. She was 62 and had been battling cancer since late 2006.
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4 comments:
Got the hair icon, the macabre professional "medical", the empty glorification, the decadence, the infantilism, the worshipped public skull and personal tragedy too grotesque for public tragedy, the - - that little picture is fucking brilliant.
Drifty, you are a FUUKING GENIUS with that photo-shopper thingy. That death-mask rendering is PERFECT! There was, as I now think of it, something vaguely 'pharoahonic' about MJ. I think now he should be mummified and entombed in a special, transparent crypt somewhere near the Albert Hall--cuz he's WAY more popular with the Brits than with USers.
Rock on, Dg.
I can't even begin to gauge a comment about how magnificent that PS is: talk about capturing the moment.
Unbelievable on so many levels - I believe iceaura has targeted many of them, and Woody's "death mask" only makes me realize how his ongoing plastic surgeries provided him with it waaay ahead of time.
I'll have to give this one a lot more time to mull over. Like in a museum.
Brilliant!
S
as usual but even more so ~
Damn, the Tut exhibit just opened in SF.
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