4 Comments on “Whitney Houston, 1963-2012”

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   lois said at 7:53 am on February 12th, 2012:

   sooooooo sad…. What an unbelievable gift was her voice…..—her music to us…

   Thanks Art for choosing this one for us—a truly magnificent rendition.

   R.I.P. Whitney… Now you are free to sing with the angels

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   Proud Republican said at 10:47 am on February 12th, 2012:

   A terrible waste of a remarkable talent, but in the end, she got what she wanted. Anyone who does the amount and types of drugs for the length of time she did, obviously wanted to die. She just accomplished what she wanted to accomplish. In a sense, if an addict’s life is so horrible and unbearable that they must anesthesize themselves daily to get through it, then they are better off ending it.

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   Joe Wedick said at 3:04 pm on February 12th, 2012:

   On Whitney:
   I’m sorry to hear about Whitney Houston and her too early death. While she was very talented, she made choices that took that talent and wasted it. She also made choices that did not help in reversing that situation. She was after all human and like the rest of us, fallible in every sense of the word. It’s hard to stand-by and watch someone devolve to the gutter, to watch it all wasted.
   That said, she was only one human being who has had the good fortune to leave behind a lot of recorded evidence of greatness in her field, something that the rest of us can visit whenever we want.
   I don’t think she deserves 24 hour, wall to wall coverage given what else is happening in the rest of the world. I just don’t. Not when I see people in the streets of some far off country, fighting for freedom & their own dignity, armed with only a rock, going toe to toe with a tank. In the instance I’m thinking of, Syria in this case, some 7,000 have died already while the wording of reprimands are worked on by the UN.
   A measure of these two scenarios side by side and I’m scratching my head as to what is “news” and therefore what gets the time to draw peoples’ attention.
   Give Whitney her due, yes, but spare me the overindulgence of pop culture icons over those who literally have nothing to lose to get what we have and take for granted everyday – freedom and democracy.

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   Agree with the above, said at 3:37 pm on February 13th, 2012:

   a marvelous and truly rare, natural voice, ( perfect,melodious, unlike the screaming nonsense that passes for talent, these days,which she so unfortunately squandered, for many years.. I do wonder why persons like the ex, who got her hooked in the beginning, will never see any punishment: the reports of him crying hysterically at her death are jokes: he started her, (obviously a rather sweet, naive girl in the beginning), on that horrid path to self-destruction.. with all the successes, the demons of aging and constatntly being under the microscope, by this gossip-driven culture, must have been too painful, for such a fragile sense of self, to bear..additionally, it’s also amazing that NO ONE ever gets arrested out there, for being these wealthy celebrities’ drug dealers, do they? : is it, perhaps, because business is so good, and no one else wants their own supplies cut off?.. here’s yet another glaring lesson to our youth: Nancy Reagan’s program as First Lady, of :”Just Say NO!” is, sadly, just as urgent and valid today, as it was back in the ’80’s.. the scourge of illegal drugs goes on..and, while it appears this time, it was over-indulgence in legal tranquilizers and booze which led to this death, the fact remains, it was the addictive personality, so often changed/ruined by the cocaine and crack, that set her on that impossible path.. am just very sad to see yet another one go, this way..