I felt very sorry that Mother Teresa's death got totally swamped by all the Diana hysteria. It was mentioned almost as an afterthought on the news. I know she was old, so it didn't have the shocking suddeness of Diana's death, or the sense of tragedy, but, still...
I was in America when Frank Sinatra died, and I saw TV crews stopping people in the street and asking them how they felt. I thought that was very strange. I don't like it when people have been famous, but then fall out of the limelight for some years, and then suddenly the news breaks that they've died. Suddenly they get famous again, and everyone starts paying tributes to them, and their music/films are suddenly everywhere again. It seems quite hypocritical. While they're alive, but ageing, people can forget about them, but suddenly they revere them when they're dead.
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Date: 2007-06-27 10:08 pm (UTC)I was in America when Frank Sinatra died, and I saw TV crews stopping people in the street and asking them how they felt. I thought that was very strange. I don't like it when people have been famous, but then fall out of the limelight for some years, and then suddenly the news breaks that they've died. Suddenly they get famous again, and everyone starts paying tributes to them, and their music/films are suddenly everywhere again. It seems quite hypocritical. While they're alive, but ageing, people can forget about them, but suddenly they revere them when they're dead.