Checking out: Why celebrities die in hotel rooms

Toronto Sun ^ | July 20, 2013 | Thane Burnett

[njslim]

Why do celebrities check out in hotel rooms...?

Probably so dont hurt the resale value of their mansions....

[kabumpo]

I was just thinking of that great movie. But in Dinner at Eight, he sets up the lamp to light his face in the chair. It’s very dignified.

[Trentamj]

I can sort of understand the motivation of Barrymore's character in Dinner at Eight, especially if one becomes too addicted to the attention and adoration aspects of celebrity. Jane Russell, thanks to her exceedingly nice figure, was a white-hot Hollywood starlet for a few moments, and then settled into a long, yet fulfilling obscurity as wife and mother. Obviously, Ms. Russell did not get too addicted to all the excessive attention and adoration as her friend Marilyn did. Poor Marilyn: However, she at least had the sense of dignity to not end up being another Hollywood-hotel-death cliché. The Moral is: Everyone needs a home (and not merely a house), with all the annoyances and obligations that go with it; otherwise, one is just practicing to be a ghost.

[InvisibleChurch]

Proof reading today means spellcheck didnt catch anything.

[mikrofon]

Then down the hall, past the ice machine and then a key-card swipe that welcomes you with a green light

I thought it was a bright white light??

[OldPossum]

Re the name of the author (post #12), many thanks.

I was thinking it was Faulkner.

[waxer1]

I heard that line is a reference to Jackson Brown’s wife who committed suicide.

[melsec]

I heard that line is a reference to Jackson Brown’s wife who committed suicide.

OK - had not heard that!

[waxer1]

Cannot remember where I read/heard it though. There are alot of symbolic meanings in that great song.

[headsonpikes]

“Don’t people proofread anymore?”

Apparently not - I noticed these at first reading down the page:

“TV remote waiting patently by the bed....the usual rouges gallery of celebrity hotel deaths.”

I rarely complain about this appalling trend. ;^)

[Gefn]

It’s O’Neill

Actual quote is

“I knew it, I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and G-d damn it-died in a hotel room”