Monday, February 18, 2013
Country Star Mindy McCready Dies
(www.nytimes.com)
Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday in Arkansas in an apparent suicide. She was 37.
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1. depletion posted on February 18, 2013 at 09:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Funny how those three letters haunt you, Roger. You big bear, you.
Indeed. She had children, too.
The NY Daily News had a dumb headline yesterday, "Is Celebrity Rehab Cursed?" in the wake of the McCready suicide. 5 of the 40 celebrity participants have died.
First, this isn't a random sampling of the population -- they are people who come to the show with major problems and issues. So the question really to be asking is, "Does Dr. Drew Suck At His Job?" But I don't think we can conclude that without more information because of point 1.
Second, not all of the deaths have been suicides. Some have been OD's, etc.
But I suppose it is kind of problematic for him that five of his participants have died. It's probably better to ask whether the show overall helps or hurts these people.
Per MLBlogs, Clemens for some reason felt the need to "meet with the media" and "hand out a typed statement" about McCready.
He is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.
How was he going to come out looking good here? What should he have done?
He is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.
It was not a great statement, but I agree with what Ray said.
Generally speaking, anyone claiming to address deep seated emotional and chemical dependency issues by broadcasting rehab to millions is a grifter and snake-oil salesman who needs to be nut punched repeatedly until dead.
Agreed as well. If he stays silent, he gets asked a question in an unsympathetic manner as he's walking off the spring training back fields or something. Then the big complaint is that he was heartless and didn't say something earlier. The written notice is about the best option of many bad options here.
Are the rehab participants paid for their appearance on the show? If so, doubly or even triply disgusting.
Sam, I would otherwise agree with this, but lately I've been agreeing with you far more often than the Surgeon General recommends.
The millions to whom they're broadcasting -- i.e. anyone watching such crap -- probably have a few things to answer for, too.
If he indeed did have a personal relationship with McCready--and I don't know if he did, there seems to be a dispute about that--then this is a completely inadequate response.
Well, she has a 10 month old child she left behind too.
Endorsement here about what has been said about Drew Pinsky. What a scumbag. He completely violates his Hippocratic oath and Dr./patient relationship by exploiting troubled persons who have severe emotional problems. Considering the 12.5% mortality rate of his practice, somebody ought to sue that ############'s ass.
Since his job seems to be parlaying a very limited skill set into several million dollars, I'd say no.
Heh, last night on ME TV, I saw a Newhart where the group session was shown on the local PBS station. Bob refuses request, group hears about it, convinces Bob to go ahead, group clams up on TV, Bob babbles for a disastrous hour. Bob Newhart, world's greatest villian!
I agree with this. His response is terrible. Handing out a prepared response is fine -- he's going to get asked about and having a typed up response is better than rambling incoherently for a few minutes or saying no comment. But his comment that "the few times that I had met her and her manager/agent they were extremely nice" is amazingly self-serving. So you only met her a few times, and her manager/agent was present? I guess that clears things up.
Just say "she was an amazing person and this is a terrible tragedy." How hard is that?
Clemens specifically denied the sex - at least, he denied that any sex occurred when she was 15. His statement was something like "Now people are saying I had a relationship with a fifteen year old girl. Nothing could be further from the truth."
I agree that the "few times" isn't a strong enough statement, and is very misleading, since it appears that even if they didn't sleep together when she was 15, there was a continual relationship there.
McCready's public statements at the time were kind of odd too. She was interviewed on the air and said something like "I can't refute anything in the story," rather than simply "The story is true."
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And for comedy value:
Now Ray is channeling Billy Crystal in "When Harry Met Sally".
I hope that you don't tell your wife that you have close female friends that you work with in your office.......
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