Ivy wrote:

I just read that sentence "I didn't know he was ill" too often these past days so I got a bit irritated. It's just my private shitstorm against the negative sites of social media and that everyone is "on" all the time and it suggests nothing is really secret anymore. And therefore the fact that they were famous means that of course every private stuff has to be known.

I'm sure a lot of people don't mean anything by saying that. Like you said just a sentence of shock.


 

 
I also don't think it is meant that "negative way" you've mentioned. It's not meant like "Hey, we weren't informed, although we have a right to being informed, we are the fans!!"
It is the shock.
You also say things like that when "suddenly" some private person, which you've known for a pretty long time, dies, don't you? "Oh, what??? I had no idea she/he was that ill!"

Normal reaction, not always a social media thing.

I think saying "I didn't know he/she was ill" is more or less just a way to figure out what happened when being confronted with such a sudden incident.
It's like thinking aloud, trying to grasp the incomprehensible. A normal human reaction to find out: How could that happen, how could I not know about it?

Vhanja wrote:

Yes, when I say "I didn't even know he was ill" about celebrities, it's because I'm used to media letting us know.

But that's exactly what I meant, Vhanja. Everyone is so used to it.
I read that sentence by people who rarely know who those two are. Those reality TV fans who have "celebrities" as role models that don't really do anything. And there is a twitter posts after every fart they did.

@Mattlocked: I think it's a different with people that I know personally, because that "oh I didn't know"makes more sense, because they also don't have to tell anyone of course, but that a celebrity is not an acquaintance or friend.
By the way,  if I were David Bowies or Alan Rickmans neighbour I probably would have said "didn't know he was ill" in the meaning that "he didn't looked ill, I saw him regularly"

Everyone has a different perception of things and feelings towards them. And that it's also just a bit my sadness that makes me so sensitive.

In general It's never my intention to offend or criticize someone here, if I have a problem with anything I try to clear that up by pm or block/ignore that person.
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Amanda retweeted a wonderful quote





 

Wow, that must've been absolutely awesome! 

I love Daniel Radcliffes statement

tonnaree wrote:

On a lighter note, I swear this story is true!  It's too weird not to be.

In 2000 my best friend, Kim, and I took a nice little trip to the UK.  On the last day of the tour we woke up in our London hotel room and Kim turned to me and said "I had the strangest dream.  I dreamed I married Alan Rickman!  And he was dressed in his costume from Robin Hood!"    We laughed.  We were both fans of Rickman but it wasn't like either of us had fangirl crushes.  At least not yet.

Our main plan for the day was to tour the New Globe Theater so we headed for the tube.  After we got on the tube we discovered that the station you would normally get off on for the Globe was closed and we would have to get off one stop earlier and walk a few blocks.  Not a big deal but you could say it put our day on a slightly different path.

As we were walking we ran across this lovely open air market and decided to look around.  We are browsing when suddenly I hear Kim desperately whispering my name.  "Tonya"!  "Tonya!"  "Quietly look to your right."  So I did.  And almost *thudded.*  There, in all his glory stood Alan Rickman himself. To say we were stunned was the world's biggest understatement.

He was already chatting with another fan so we approached politely.  I don't even really remember what words were said, I just remember that voice, live in my ears.  He was calm and charming and very gracious.  I had been carrying around my journal on the trip so I ask him if he would sign a page and of course he did.

So, Kim dreams about him, an unexpected tube stop closing changes our direction and we get distracted by the market.  All these little things added up to a wonderful memory.

As we were walking away from Mr. Rickman, Kim turned to me and said "I am so glad you were with me and so glad you got his autograph, because no one would've believed me!"

 

What a lovely story, thank you for sharing! 
 

@tonnaree, I absolutely love that story full of those weird coincides. Thank you for sharing it with us. 
@Mattlocked, love your new avatar and signature. 

It was pretty amazing.  *giggle*   At the time I was desperately in love with a different celebrity and I told Kim "Tonight would you please dream about David Duchovny"?!?!?!?

Also, for ever after our encounter, Kim referred to Alan Rickman as her husband. 

Hopefully Ivy won't hate me, but I stumbled over another article tonight....

So apparently it was pancreatic cancer. And it was quite quick. That is... good, right?
And he watched a musical in New York in December. That is... also good, right?
And he "kept an upbeat demeanour", Which is also... good? 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400946/Alan-Rickman-died-pancreatic-cancer-say-sources.html

Patrick Swayze also died of pancreatic cancer, which for him took 1,5 years.

I have to say, I've never been particularly fond of the media writing about "he/she lost the battle...". As if there was a battle - as if the victim has anything they can do themselves to fight it, and as if they "lose" because they are too weak to win.

It doesn't sit right with me. You can't fight a disease. You can get treatment, and either you survive or you don't. It says nothing about the qualities of a person if he survives or dies form cancer, it has nothing to do with "winning" or "losing" a battle.