AP - Brittany Murphy, who gained fame in such movies as "8 Mile" and "Just Married" before giving voice to popular animated characters, has died at age 32.
AP - Brittany Murphy, who gained fame in such movies as "8 Mile" and "Just Married" before giving voice to popular animated characters, has died at age 32.
Reuters - If there's one thing the producers of the Academy Awards should have learned from the 2009 telecast, it's that Hollywood loves a hit.
The Senate just voted 60-40 to end debate on the Democrats' health care bill, setting the stage for a straight up-or-down vote later this week. Cloture passed with all Senate Democrats and the two Independents voting yes and all of the Senate Republicans voting no. Now that Democrats know they have 60 votes, the bill's passage is pretty much a forgone conclusion and it should happen by Christmas Eve.
Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes [NYT]
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Cooked!: Kevin Bacon has joined Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Liv Tyler in the cast of Super. The film revolves around a regular guy (Wilson) whose wife (Liv Tyler) falls for a swarthy drug dealer (Bacon). He responds by taking on the alter-ago of a superhero named Crimson Bolt. Since he doesn't have super powers, he hits people with a wrench, which would probably be a pretty painful thing to be hit with. [Screen Daily]
21 With a Chance of Meatballs: Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, are in discussions with Columbia Pictures to helm a film based on the TV show 21 Jump Street. The film will have the same name and revolve around a group of young cops who go undercover at a high school. This will be the duo's first live action feature, but Jonah Hill is starring and he couldn't really look more like a cartoon. So, easy transition! [Variety]
What to Watch While Drunk: CBS' reality show Undercover Boss has landed the coveted post-Super Bowl slot on February 7th. The show follows business executives as they go undercover in entry-level positions at their companies. White Castle, 7-Eleven, Hooters, Waste Management and Churchill Downs have signed up for the first season. It's a rare move to place a new show in the highly rated position, but it's a testament to how confident CBS is that people will want to see this guy in little orange shorts. [THR]
Order Up: USA has renewed dramedy White Collar for a second season. There are no details about the size of the order for the show, which is about a white collar criminal who starts working as an FBI consultant. Bernie Madoff is psyched. [THR]
Curbbe Your Enthusiasm: ABC has given a pilot order to Awkward Situations for Men, a comedy starring British funnyman Danny Wallace. The project is based on Wallace's upcoming book of the same name. It's about him and his wife moving to the U.S., where they discover that his behavior is not kosher in our fair nation. Why this show isn't starring Ricky Gervais is a mystery. [THR]
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Brittany Murphy's career was marked by transformations—from child actor to Clueless teen to "It" girl to Saturday Night Live punchline. One thing, however, never changed,...
After 39 days as virtual pawns in the hands of Survivor's most cunning strategist, Texas oilman Russell Hantz, the votes cast in Samoa by the nine jury members—all but one of them from...
Ashton Kutcher was among the first celebrities to offer his heartfelt condolences to the family of his former girlfriend Brittany Murphy. Now the rest of Hollywood is weighing in: there are those who worked with her (Alicia Silverstone), those who reviewed her work (Richard Roeper) and those who admitted they never met her (Kevin Smith). Meanwhile, the L.A. County Coroner's Office tells TMZ that foul play is not suspected. [MTV News]
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Who is the man behind the curtains?
Before the shocking death of Brittany Murphy threw him into the spotlight Sunday as a grieving husband, Simon Monjack, was a only known as a...
Eliot Spitzer would like AIG to release reams of its emails because they might reveal more about the insurance giant's collapse and who profitted from the enormous government bailout it received. We'd like Eliot Spitzer to release his emails because they might reveal more about why he kept his socks on. [NYT]
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One thing is for certain: Brittany Murphy was sweet.
When so many celebrities use that specific word to describe the fallen star, we know it's not only a matter of opinion, but pure...
On December 31 the contract that allows Time Warner Cable to air Fox and all of its stations will expire. After nine months of negotiations the two companies still haven't agreed on a contract. The debate is over how much money Time Warner should give Fox for allowing it to carry the network's signals. Fox wants $1 per subscriber. Time Warner wants to pay half that.
Both companies have launched PR campaigns blasting the other and warning of the potential catastrophes of failure. Time Warner says that the extra charge will be passed on to the customer. Fox is warning that if an agreement isn't reached viewers will miss precious NFL games and the even more precious American Idol premiere. It definitely sounds like Fox has the stronger case here (what's 50 cents more when you're already paying $120?), but we can't help but wonder if it wouldn't have more success reminding people that no agreement means no more Saturday nights of Cops and America's Most Wanted. That would be worth writing a letter about.
Fox says Time Warner Cable may drop Fox TV shows [Reuters]
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Clueless star Brittany Murphy has died, E! News has confirmed.
The 32-year-old actress went into full cardiac arrest early Sunday morning following a 911 call from her husband,...
If Representative John Carter doesn't see Charlie Rangel's tax returns soon, the Texas Republican will lead another charge to have Rangel removed from his post atop the House Ways and Means Committee. Carter is the same Texas Republican who tried and failed to oust Rangel in October. "Every tax attorney in the country will tell you that if a normal taxpayer committed the violations of Chairman Rangel, they would be assessed serious penalties and interest, if not charged with criminal tax evasion," Carter said. Obviously, his mistake is assuming Rangel is normal.
GOPer sets new push to oust tax-challenged Rangel [NYP]
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Four movies in the history of movies have made more than $1 billion. Avatar may very well become the fifth. James Cameron's homage to the Blue Man Group has made $232 million worldwide in just one weekend and there are at least three reasons to believe that number may reach a billion.
First, a nasty winter storm kept many Northeastern movie goers standing next to the oven, dreaming of life in magical California. Once roads clear, those people will give the HMFIC their money. Second, the movie hasn't yet opened in China or Japan, two countries that love over-the-top special effects. And third, people love Avatar so far. And when people love movies, they tell their friends about them. Sheep that they are, people go see movies their friends like.
Could 'Avatar' hit $1 billion? [Company Town/LA Times]
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Every December, thousands of letters to the North Pole pile up inside the grand and mostly vacant Farley Post Office building on Eighth Avenue, where they wait for generous New Yorkers to answer their wishes. Thanks to the grim economy, this year's batch was already guaranteed to be particularly wrenching: Pleas for basics, especially clothing in tiny sizes, greatly outnumber the requests for toys. But other depressing modern realities have intruded as well, and now the program — one of the most authentically New York expressions of holiday goodwill — is becoming too costly to maintain across the five boroughs.
Last year the Postal Service abruptly suspended the program after a registered sex offender in Maryland "adopted" one of the children's letters. To increase privacy and security, postal workers now deliver the gifts; they also black out surnames, addresses, and any other identifying details. The wishes for Spider-Man action figures and princess-doll sets are still written in the wobbly scrawl of small children, but when their sentiments are interspersed with redacting slashes of ink, the letters look more like Guantánamo documents.
The Postal Service, meanwhile, has a a deficit of $7 billion, which has forced it to shed thousands of employees through early retirement buyouts and to consider shutting down two days a week. And the increased labor involved in blotting out the Santa letters and delivering the gifts is one reason the central post offices in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island decided to skip the program this year.
Manhattan and the Bronx supply plenty of heartbreak and hope all by themselves, however. Carolina, a single mom, tells Santa she's thrilled to have just moved into her first apartment after a year living in a shelter with her 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter; her next goal is to find a job, a task that's even tougher when you're still something of a kid yourself: Carolina is 20. Her daughter, Alexandra, "loves dresses and skirts in all shades of pink, purple, light blue, and green." Thousands of other kids write the letters themselves, asking for snow boots and a winter coat — and they don't care about the color, as long as they can stay warm.
Winter and poverty aren't going away, even if technology eventually kills the postal service — and there are no shortage of ways to be charitable. But should this tradition end, be it because of degenerates or debt, "Texts to Santa" somehow won't have the same weight as holding a needy child's penciled wish list in your hand.
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President Obama, if you ask Senator Russ Feingold. The outspoken Wisconsinite says he will support the Senate's current health care bill, but he's not pleased about the White House's unwillingness to go to bat for the public option:
"Unfortunately, the lack of support from the administration made keeping the public option in the bill an uphill struggle. Removing the public option from the Senate bill is the wrong move, and eliminates $25 billion in savings. I will be urging members of the House and Senate who draft the final bill to make sure this essential provision is included," he said in a statement.
Of course, a revival of the public option is unlikely, so the best way to get Feingold to shut up is to fill his office with cash. It worked with Ben Nelson!
Feingold: Obama Responsible For Loss Of Public Option [HuffPo]
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New Year’s Eve in New York. Some things never change — by the time the ball drops, most New Yorkers are safely out of town — but each year is always a little different.
Mustique, the classic New Year's scene for the city's chicest residents, this year has been decimated by one Lady Gaga, whose December 31 performance at the Fontainebleau has become this year's definitive New Year's experience. Peter Davis says he is going to see what she’s wearing; Ally Hilfiger because she’s “a really interesting creature to watch, it’s like seeing Madonna in the eighties.” It will be Hilfiger's first New Year's not spent in Mustique, where she's become accustomed to watching the sunrise with everyone lined up on Macaroni beach. But this year, everyone's going to be in Miami anyhow: “My friend Harif Guzman, Sabrina Bacon, all the D.J.’s that I know, Mark [Ronson], I think Lindsay Lohan, I think everybody’s going," she says.
Gaga's not the only reason to hit Miami: Answering the call of jet-set elders left cold by the phenomenon of the Lady but eager to get in on the A-list poolside action is none other than ... Phish. No word on whether the aging jam band will rock the vacuum machine for the encore.
Another New Year's hot spot will be relocating to colder climes: It will be below freezing in Moscow, where Simon Hammerstein is transporting his nightclub the Box for the season, maybe longer. The Box in Russia? It’s all very mysterious. "I guess I just know that it's happening,” chirped fashion writer Derek Blasberg, who sometimes visits his friend Princess Dasha Zhuvkova. "And that in and of itself scares me!" The Moscow Box, designed to suck up oligarch dollars, is said to be less raunchy than the American version, which is easy to imagine. It may be the first installment in Hammerstein's vision of a worldwide chain.
Elsewhere abroad: "London Call…" read the subject line of the e-mail Amy Sacco sent out Friday, inviting anyone who might happen to be in London to stop by her Vegas-themed party at Bungalow 8 over there. “PS.,” it blared on, “SAVE FEB FASHION WEEK FOR THE GRAND RE-OPENING OF THE NEW BUNGALOW 8 NYC!”
Less chipper is the yachting set, whose New Year's fleet week in St. Barts is on the wane: The dismal economy has taken the gas out of the conversation and put a bit of a pinch in the pose. “I’m hearing a lot less about people chartering yachts and renting private planes,” said Jamie Mulholland, CEO of Cain Leisure, which manages various clubs and is a leading purveyor of high-end entertainment across the globe. “People just aren’t feeling it.”
All this might make for the best New Year's in New York in years, however. The reason? It's cheaper, comparatively. At Goldbar, Mulholland's club downtown, all twelve tables — which begin at $2,000 and go up from there — have already sold out. The Boom Boom Room is expecting the landlocked masses to pony up for the musical stylings of Courtney Love — tickets went on sale Friday and range from $250 to $1,000. André Balazs, who typically is in St. Barts, is said to be staying for the occasion.
“Usually everyone leaves,” Mulholland says.
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Kevin Jonas married former hairdresser Danielle Deleasa in a Long Island castle yesterday. Nick and Joe served as their brother's best men and went to bed dreaming of the day they get to lose their purity rings. [People]
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The traditionally outdoor Brooklyn Flea is moving indoors to some sweet digs in the New Year. Come January 9, the market is moving to One Hanson Place, or the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where it will remain every weekend through March. The space is the perfect place to trade vintage goods, as it's an antique in itself — a landmarked building that houses vaulted ceilings and tiled murals, as well as visual remnants of a bank, such as kiosks, teller rooms, and even a vault with three-ton doors. "It's a really amazing space that hasn't been open to the public for a really long time," says Brooklyn Flea founder Eric Demby. "I think it's one of the most beautiful and historic interior spaces in Brooklyn." The location allows for more than 100 vendors to operate, including food (Demby wants to have the eating area inside the vault). And the larger floor area makes it seem "more like the regular flea," he adds, only it's inside.
Brooklyn Flea Winter Market, 1 Hanson Pl., at Flatbush Ave. Saturdays and Sundays from 1/9 to 3/28.
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Designers want more than peace, love, and happiness this holiday season. Like material things! So we asked several designers: If you could receive one item this Christmas, what would it be? Scroll down for their answers.
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AP - American R&B pioneers Kool & the Gang helped Cuba get its funk on, bringing their eclectic mix of sounds Sunday to an open-air stage a stone's throw from the sparkling waters of the Caribbean.
Sure, everyone loved Meryl as Julia, and Morgan Freeman as Mandela, and Mo'Nique as the worst mother in the history of ever. But Great Performances don't just come from big movie stars in awards-bait flicks. They come from everywhere: stunt-bikers, Broadway actors, rappers, a guy who shoves a $100 bill down his pants, even Ryan Reynolds. Anyone who moves us, makes us laugh, or fascinates us for one concert, one television episode, one song, one viral video. Check out Vulture's 30 Great Performances of 2009.
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This week, design editor Wendy Goodman rediscovers Tiffany's peerless designer Elsa Peretti, finds delight in a new West Village apartment building, roams Charlotte Moss's elegant and comfortable townhouse, hangs out in Red Hook with some giant teak logs, and floats on the Hudson with Catherine Malandrino.
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We’d preface this look back at the year in music with an attempt to connect it to the wider world, but frankly, we’re not well-versed enough in our Greil Marcus to fake it. (Someone more clever than us can draw the proper parallels between Lady Gaga and President Obama.) Surely no reminder of the record label death spiral is needed, although it’s worth noting that, even against this backdrop, music remains super-abundant, and fresh stars keep strutting into our lives. If it wasn’t a terrifically exciting year, that probably owes to the fact that in rap, the most fertile form of music for as long as Justin Bieber can remember, the up-and-comers simply lacked swagger. (Having Kanye West as a spiritual-leader-by-default isn’t helping hip hop.) Narrowing to ten our already short list* of important artists — not best per se , but somehow key to 2009’s musical landscape — proved a special challenge of a parlor game, in any case. Here’s a ranking of the artists New York’s music folks — Hugo Lindgren, Lizzy Goodman, Amos Barshad , and myself — found most memorable. If it pleases you, imagine these selections as some left-liberal commentary on war and/or health care.
*Runners-up: Adam Lambert, Animal Collective, Blk Jks, Built to Spill, Bill Callahan, Clipse, Eminem, Florence & the Machine, Grizzly Bear, Jarvis Cocker, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Keith Urban, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Mariah Carey, Maxwell, Miranda Lambert, Owl City (just kidding), Paramore, Passion Pit, Pearl Jam, Darius Rucker (who won a new artist of the year CMA in November), Raekwon, Susan Boyle, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the xx.
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Filed Under: best of 2009, black eyed peas, dirty projectors, drake, gucci mane, julian casablancas, lady gaga, monsters of folk, music, phoenix, r. kelly, taylor swift
Was this a great year for movies? Much of Hollywood thought so. In 2009, studios made record profits with fewer movies — “event” movies — while specialty divisions and indie distributors contracted or folded altogether. Meanwhile, many small and foreign-language films (including some listed below) showed up for a fee on cable in the same week they opened in New York and Los Angeles. I watched many of these films on my big-screen TV and felt sad over the lack of company. Sometimes I put the remote on the other side of the room to force myself to pay as much attention as I would in a theater, without the possibility of pausing or rewinding.
I gave up winnowing the list to ten at a certain point because there were simply too many wonderful films. (You'll find the rest of my list on my blog, The Projectionist.) The number is annoying anyway. Why should I count on my fingers and stop there? Why not my toes? Why not other extremities? As it is, I’ve left off too many docs (Under My Skin, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers), maligned socially conscious dramas (Mammoth), and maligned comedies (Observe and Report). Enough woolgathering. To the list!
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Filed Under: best of 2009, a serious man, avatar, brothers, coraline, fantastic mr. fox, food inc., in the loop, movies, of time and the city, summer hours
A group of angry bicyclists who planned a naked bike ride through Williamsburg yesterday to protest the removal of a Bedford Ave. bike lane wussed out and rode in their jackets instead. Their excuse? It was too nippy. [AP]
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Filed Under: brrrr, bike lanes, bikes, hipsters, holy wars, nudity, williamsburg
Let me state this upfront: I enter the realm of top ten lists unwillingly. Composing one makes me feel like a pompous clerk in High Fidelity, and I hate the implied distinctions in the numbering: "Which is better, a slapdash-but-ambitious HBO melodrama, or a supertight, witty network sitcom?" So, since this is my first year as TV critic, I rebelled and made what I fully acknowledge is a random list of ten shows that are excellent, with a bunch of other great shows wedged willy-nilly in the sides, like spare coins stuck in the sofa cushions of my critical judgment.
For those who want some mathematical rigor (or for me to have watched every episode), I apologize. Choices two through ten are arbitrarily ordered — read nothing into their rank! My Number One is a true top pick: Mad Men, we miss you and we love you, all is forgiven, please come home.
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The year ends with a sobered month for fashion magazines, as December's editorials err on the side of beauty rather than absolute craziness. Take, for instance, 10 magazine's accessories editorial starring Daul Kim, the Korean model who recently took her own life — it's gorgeous. Of course the month included its fair share of raunch, most notably Leighton Meester wearing a black leather leotard in GQ. Elsewhere, Daria Werbowy struck an interesting (to say the least) pose in Vogue, Paul Rudd visited a convenience store in a pink bathrobe for GQ, and Sarah Jessica Parker stripped down and tried on hipster clothes for Elle. See those images and more from this month's issues in the slideshow.
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Filed Under: tear sheets, 10, british vogue, cate blanchett, daria werbowy, daul kim, dazed and confused, designers, details, elle, fashion magazine awards, flair, french vogue, givenchy, glamour, gq, hair, id, jamie dornan, leighton meester, mariah carey, models, paper, paul rudd, sarah jessica parker, slideshow, taylor jacobson, tom ford, vogue, w, Yves St Laurent
In 2009, change came to the art world; batons were passed. Sculpture moved away from room-filling installations to explore the substrata of recombining strategies, appropriation, and found objects in individual works. Painting became more pliable, viable, and visual. Video explored the world as a living specimen, looking into culture, ethnography, anthropology, and sociology. Performance went beyond its own belly button to look at the belly buttons of the world. Meanwhile, mid-career older artists and underknowns made their presence felt. The Metropolitan Museum had a yearlong field day of rotating shows; the Guggenheim started to shake off the horror of twenty years under the recently retired Thomas Krens. If audiences can handle the uncertainty of not knowing what's next in art, the coming year will be rich indeed. In the meantime, let's celebrate what just passed. (Note that pictures six and seven are NSFW.)
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Even Hollywood's bubbliest stars are weeping over the sudden death of Clueless actress Brittany Murphy.
And, needless to say, they're Twittering those (often misspelled)...
Comedy is all in the timing. As a Saturday Night Live bit about Brittany Murphy, who died Sunday, sadly proves.
Two weekends ago, SNL used Murphy's reported firing from the thriller...
 Voice of America | Christmas 2009 in America: A Joyful Season in Not So Joyful Times Voice of America Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, our subject is Christmas in America. This Friday, millions of American Christians will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, their lord. ... The Origins of Christmas Resonance of the East in Christ's teachings Guest Column: What Christmas means to me |
James Cameron launched his sci-fi epic 'Avatar' into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million domestically and $159.2 million overseas, for a $232.2 million worldwide total.
Yesterday's news that the Senate was close to approving their health care bill thanks to Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson's last-minute compromise is drawing ire from Republicans today calling it "the cornhusker kickback":
"Critics by Sunday were heavily questioning Nelson's motivations, given that the abortion restrictions he sought and won did not satisfy several major anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a major federal payoff to his state to seal the deal.""It's pretty obvious that votes have been bought," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said.
This is the first time in history that a congressperson has changed his vote after being offered additional benefits to his own constituents. Just kidding.
Nelson Accused of Selling Vote on Health Care Bill for State Pay-off [FoxNews]
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A quick look at actress Brittany Murphy's life.
AP - Roman Polanski is finishing the edit of his latest movie "Ghost" from his house arrest in Switzerland, surrounded by family and bombarded by telephone calls of support, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy said in an interview Sunday.
Bo Obama was captured frolicking in the snow outside the West Wing yesterday. Another cute Bo Snow Day pic after the jump.
Photo: Getty Images
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AP - James Cameron launched his science-fiction epic "Avatar" into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million domestically and $159.2 million overseas, for a $232.2 million worldwide total.
Shane Sparks is dancing his way right into a courtroom battle.
One of the most influential hip-hop choreographers on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, and judge of MTV's...
Production assistant couple Jessie Fuller and Buck Rodgers have upped the ante for all future couples desperate to get their wedding announcements in the paper of record. It's no longer sufficient simply to see your names in that hallowed section, you now have to be funny, preferably with the help of one of the world's most beloved comedians. The couple, who met on a movie set, got the privilege of Mr. Ferrell's cooperation in their stunt because the groom happened to be working with the actor on the upcoming movie The Other Guys. Ferrell also makes an appearance in the couple's video -- though he's not even the funniest part of what has to be the most hilarious and unconventional Times wedding video so far. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers!
Jessie Fuller and Buck Rodgers [NYT]
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It looks like Avatar's going to be all right. So long as it doesn't turn into New Moon.
Hollywood's most expensive movie ever launched with an estimated $73 million...
Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit “Clueless” and rose to stardom in “8 Mile,” died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 32.
Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Sally Stewart said. Stewart would not provide a cause of death or any other information.
It’d be easy to react to this story with another “Celebrity in 2009, crazy right??” reaction, but without attempting to overblow a situation that we still don’t know anything specific about, this news is beyond shocking. Thirty-two??? I mean, not that the Michael Jackson or Billy Mays situations weren’t completely surprising when they occurred, nor are they related to this at all other than also being recent, but when anyone goes at 32, it’s a whole other level of just outright bewilderment.
I’m sure more details will come out in the next couple days as TMZ aggressively blackmails her housekeeper’s mother, or however else they usually get their information, but for now, there’s not much else to say about this story other than just confusion. Feel free to react in the comments, Clueless generation.
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