TMZ: Actress Brittany Murphy dies overnight in Los Angeles

[decay]

http://www.allaboutaddiction.com/brittan...-drugs-or/

[testcase]

" I will wait for the toxicology report..."


My first thoughts too.


Death cures drug abuse.


:oldfogey:

[M A V I C]

I couldn't put a face to the name so I searched. This image seems to tell a story...

[Doc]

> This image seems to tell a story...

A story of botched collagen injections. Yes.

Also, keep in mind that she was paid very well to look like an anorexic cocaine addict.

Her acting generally surmounted the image... so long as she wasn't playing the lead. She was always better in supporting roles.

Anyway, you have a choice. You can remember her like that, or like this:

[SDGuy]

Doc wrote:
> This image seems to tell a story...
A story of botched collagen injections...

Geez - haven't seen recent photos of her. She was quite a cutie - wonder why she felt the need to become a candidate for awfulplasticsurgery.com...

[RAMd®d]

Anyway, you have a choice. You can remember her like that, or like this:

Don't waste your time.

When Hollywood female personalities die, there is never a shortage of people who want to pick the meat off their bones.

But that was a nice sentiment, Doc.

[IronMac]

Wow...someone dies and all of sudden people start to speculate on her death and/or attribute all sorts of causes. How would you like it if you died and we all started talking about "yeah, he was a lardball, bound to happen what with him sitting at his comp in the basement all day"?

[Gutenberg]

People who live in public tend to die in public. It's unfortunate but true.

[IronMac]

Maybe it's time to restrain yourselves?

[guitarist]

I just watched a project she appeared in, "The Ramen Girl", on Netflix Instant, a small independent movie that nearly escaped attention, I loved it.

It's about a broken-hearted American girl in Japan who, instead of going back to the U.S. after her boyfriend dumps her, ends up crying in her soup in a local noodle shop, uncertain about her future. Lost and alone in Tokyo, she finds solace and redemption, eating there regularly, then convincing the family to let he her apprentice there. Then devoting herself learning the humble art of making ramen. Something Japanese patrons take seriously, not easy to master.



Ramen Girl of course submits to endless verbal abuse, but eventually prevails, as the crabby (soup nazi-type) shop owner and his wife become surrogate parental figures, taking in this combative young American, sharing the secrets of their delicious noodle soup. Ramen girl gets past her grief, finds herself, eventually returning to the U.S. to open her own noodle shop.

It's a melancholy, screwball version of "Lost in Translation". She carries the movie, awkwardly. It's not a great film, but it felt original, and heartfelt. I thought it was one of her most winning performances. Then I connected her to the other roles she's been in, and looked up her filmography (I liked her in 8 Mile) and bio on IMDB. She was funny, sexy, and talented. 32 is too young to die. So sad!