Posted on 12/09/2007 6:32:42 PM PST by Checkers
Rhiannon Meier, vp Red Wagon Prods., and Sam Cassel, vp Scott Rudin Prods., were killed early Saturday morning in Hollywood when their car was hit by an alleged drunk driver.
The pair died instantly.
Jose Luis Vargas, the driver said to have caused the crash at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, was arrested for driving under the influence and booked on suspicion of murder.
Meier was named vp creative affairs at Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher's Red Wagon in June. She previously held posts at Blue Star Pictures, Catch 23, MGM and the Motion Picture Corporation of America.
Cassel had spent his entire career at Rudin's company.
Funeral details were not available.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Very good point.
I agree with you completely, of course. I was merely commenting on the state of affairs in California, where there is concern for some people, but not for the mass of others.
” Bush has EMPATHY for these people, the Democrats just want to use them.”
How about having some empathy for the 70% + of Americans who are against amnesty and want something done about illegal aliens ruining what’s left of our country ???
They look like people who had interesting lives ahead of them. What a waste.
If they were liberal democrats, there is a good chance they didn’t believe in Jesus.
I’m sorry, I realize that this is a conservative site, but I feel the need to comment. Sam was my mom’s best friend’s son. They are good people. Reading these comments was horrifying and I could barely keep myself together at work. My father is performing the funeral and he is trying his hardest to pull himself together for the family. Sam’s mother is a wonderful, supportive person who has now had to endure a pain that no mother should. Liberal, Conservative, Democrat, Republican - it shouldn’t matter. Sam was a good person. a REAL person - not just some hollywood exec you read about. Immigrant, legal, whatever - the drunk driver has destroyed a family. Please don’t turn this tragedy into a political talking point. Please just take it to heart and never EVER drive under the influence.
As someone who knew Rhiannon, I don’t even know how to react to this thread. I recognize how easy it is to generalize someone else’s tragedy— to make light of it, to hijack it for an agenda, to twist it into something “humorous,” whatever. I’m sure I’ve done it myself. But this time time I knew one of the people involved, so I find it impossible to passively tolerate some of these comments.
First, as to whether or not the drunk driver allegedly responsible is an illegal immigrant... given that this disaster happened in Los Angeles, he probably isn’t, and even if he is, it doesn’t matter. Legitimate citizens beyond counting drive under the influence on a daily basis; to point to one person’s dreadful lapse in judgment and conflate it with his citizenship is a logical flaw I can’t even begin to calculate.
Moreover, even if there were some sort of causal link between illegal immigration and criminal recklessness, I can’t believe how quick some people were to appropriate this story - to effectively turn two people into THINGS - for some political commentary.
As for charges that this story has been over-reported because Rhiannon and Sam were Hollywood figures... I admit that even I found it odd when reports showed up in publications far removed from Southern California. Even so, Rhiannon was important in ways that don’t include her Hollywood affiliations. Yes, everyone is important, but she was incredible, a compassionate, intelligent person who was genuinely driven to do things with her life— and she did, founding student groups at Stanford, working in community programs in Los Angeles. Step back and assess your own accomplishments and your own drive to achieve things before assuming her death is unworthy of attention. She was an extraordinary young woman who would have done remarkable things.
Paris Hilton?
Inasmuch as Kiefer Sutherland is doing time in jail for repeat DUI's, I'd say little difference *under the law*. However, the media is a law unto themselves, as perhaps you may have noticed. This tragedy had no real business being plastered on headlines nationwide, nor more than any similar tragedy, involving fatalities of people of lesser prominence would be. This is what has irked folks, and provoked some of the commentary, including my own...
the infowarrior
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