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Debbie and Carrie were just the type of people we needed to help us get through this shitty year, so of course they're gone. Debbie was the first celebrity I remember meeting and she's been one of my favorite actresses my whole life- just last week I watched her in one of my favorite movies, The Gazebo, from 1959. If you're looking for something to cheer you up, I'd reccomend that.

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Shared this on Facebook a moment ago. Otherwise, I am completely at a loss for words -- unexpectedly devastated. I can't imagine what poor Billie and Todd are going through.

 

When I had the chance encounter with the great Debbie Reynolds in Toronto in the summer of 2010, I was completely starstruck. After a brief chat lasting a second or two, she grabbed me by the shoulders, turned me in the direction of the camera and said, "Darling, look up and into the air!" (Pronounced "aihh.") I thought that might simply have been just a trick she learned at Metro to get a good photo but the more I learned about her and read her own work I like to think it is how the #unsinkable Debbie made her way through life, not with her head in the clouds but with her eyes firmly on the horizon. Sadly, I suppose that horizon became all to bleak yesterday. Six years on -- and still no clearer on just what Debbie was going for that summer night -- I'm making "looking up and into the aihh" a New Year's Resolution.

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This has really got me thinking. 2016 hasn't just been a record year for celebrity deaths. Six people who played a major part in my personal life at one time or another have all died this year. But, as a certain someone once said: "I figure whenever you're down and out, the only way is up", and while I ain't down yet, I'm sure going to have a hard time smiling tomorrow. At some point we have to stop grieving and start celebrating how our lives were changed by all these wonderful people. I really do believe that the legacies of people like Debbie, Carrie, Gene Wilder, David Bowie, etc, etc, etc, will be carried on through the work they left on film and in music, and, more importantly, by the people they inspired. Even though those we love are no longer here physically, their spirits are alive and thriving in every song, every laugh, and every time step that comes our way. I look forward to a new year, a new day, and a fresh start. Boy, do we need it now!

 

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Debbie and Carrie were just the type of people we needed to help us get through this shitty year, so of course they're gone. Debbie was the first celebrity I remember meeting and she's been one of my favorite actresses my whole life- just last week I watched her in one of my favorite movies, The Gazebo, from 1959. If you're looking for something to cheer you up, I'd reccomend that.

Debbie always spoke badly about The Gazebo and I can never understand why. It's a great movie and she's great in it. Perhaps she was unhappy when they were filming it and it colored her opinion of it. Has anyone seen The Rat Race? Debbie plays a tough-as-nails dance hall hostess doing almost anything to survive in New York. It's completely unlike her usual persona and she's terrific in it.

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This has really got me thinking. 2016 hasn't just been a record year for celebrity deaths. Six people who played a major part in my personal life at one time or another have all died this year. But, as a certain someone once said: "I figure whenever you're down and out, the only way is up", and while I ain't down yet, I'm sure going to have a hard time smiling tomorrow. At some point we have to stop grieving and start celebrating how our lives were changed by all these wonderful people. I really do believe that the legacies of people like Debbie, Carrie, Gene Wilder, David Bowie, etc, etc, etc, will be carried on through the work they left on film and in music, and, more importantly, by the people they inspired. Even though those we love are no longer here physically, their spirits are alive and thriving in every song, every laugh, and every time step that comes our way. I look forward to a new year, a new day, and a fresh start. Boy, do we need it now!

 

 

EXTREMELY WELL-SAID, FREDDIE; and...thanks for doing it!  Loving you, JK :fabrary: 

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A comment from Billie Lourd:

 

Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a time I thought strength could not exist. There are no words to express how much I will miss my Abadaba and my one and only Momby. Your love and support means the world to me.

 
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