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[LQ]

A heart attack?? That is really sad.

[domino harvey]

I hate to say it, but based on her public appearances, I suspect this one'll turn up drug related. It's just ridiculous and upsetting when someone so young dies. I can't speak for much of her film work but she was a tremendous voice actress on King of the Hill.

[knives]

I hate to say it, but based on her public appearances, I suspect this one'll turn up drug related. It's just ridiculous and upsetting when someone so young dies. I can't speak for much of her film work but she was a tremendous voice actress on King of the Hill.

She also looks terribly thin in the photo in the article. No one deserves to die so young. Too terrible.

[tajmahal]

Brittany Murphy

Given the chance, she could have done really good screwball comedy. I could imagine her with Amy Adams in a zany, old-fashioned, comedy full of clever dialogue and beautifully performed histrionics.

32. How very sad.

[swo17]

Am I allowed to say here that I really liked her in Sin City? (I could totally see her in an old fashioned screwball role based on this.) And King of the Hill of course. She'll be missed.

[Feego]

She was great in Clueless, so bright and lively. In her interviews, she always came across to me as one of the happiest celebrities. Very sad and shocking.

[dx23]

Am I allowed to say here that I really liked her in Sin City? (I could totally see her in an old fashioned screwball role based on this.) And King of the Hill of course. She'll be missed.

She was really good in that and several other films like Clueless and even Don't Say a Word. From what I've read and heard, she was fired from a film a couple of days ago. She was filming in Puerto Rico and rumors are that she was acting erratic, being unprofessional and unreliable. Really sad to see such a young person die.

[colinr0380]

That's awful. I agree with domino that she voiced her role in King of the Hill perfectly. She also did one of the recent Futurama films too. Perhaps her best (or at least biggest) film role was in the one of the best of the cycle of post modern slasher films that followed Scream, Cherry Falls - she was excellent in the main role in that picture and it was also one of the few films where she wasn't in the shadow of a more acclaimed leading lady, part of a good sized ensemble cast or second foil to someone like Eminem or that chap who played tricks on people.

Sadly if it turns out that her death was drug related that will put a grim cast over one of her her other most notable performances in the film Spun.

[knives]

Sadly if it turns out that her death was drug related that will put a grim cast over one of her her other most notable performances in the film Spun.

It would make Freeway unfortunately awkward too. This thread's made me remember she actually did knock out a few really good films.

[Polybius]

If I have to guess on this, I'm thinking eating disorder rather than drugs. If that's the case, then her role in Girl, Interrupted (which she was terrific in) will be the one that causes people to squirm in the future.

[tavernier]

SNL's Brittany Murphy skit disappears.

[Mr Sausage]

Wow. I haven't seen this much blithering idiocy in a while:

many bloggers noted that what seemed like a curiously timed sketch two weeks ago...seemed to be in especially poor taste given her sudden demise and the uncertain circumstances surrounding it.

As Michael Roston wrote at TrueSlant.com: "This is looking sort of extra-unkind.

What do you think? Was "Saturday Night Live" wrong to satirize Brittany Murphy? Did sites like hulu.com compound the mistake by pulling video of the skit?

Ok, so it was a mistake and in bad taste to satirize her because--and let me know if I'm getting this straight--SNL should have been more sensitive to the fact that a 32 year old woman was going to suddenly and inexplicably die 15 days later? Are people actually blaming SNL for not being good fortune tellers? It's terrible that she died so young, yes, but this is just insane.

[Napier]

How would they feel if Tiger Woods inexplicably died today?

[domino harvey]

Mods, please ban Napier when Tiger Woods dies later today

[Andre Jurieu]

Robin Wood

Terrible news. I hope he finished his book on Michael Haneke.

This is such sad news.

She was great in Clueless, so bright and lively.

I thought she did great work on King of the Hill, but as soon as I heard the news of her death, the first thing I thought of was her lines from Clueless, specifically "And my buns: they don't feel nothin' like steel." I'm in total agreement that she would have been great in a old-fashioned screwball comedy, though I think that probably means modern Hollywood would somehow try to involve Ashton Kutcher, which would doom the entire project.

Ok, so it was a mistake and in bad taste to satirize her because--and let me know if I'm getting this straight--SNL should have been more sensitive to the fact that a 32 year old woman was going to suddenly and inexplicably die 15 days later? Are people actually blaming SNL for not being good fortune tellers? It's terrible that she died so young, yes, but this is just insane.

I'm honestly starting to believe that a large portion of our society would have to list "irrational outrage" as their favourite hobby.

[Fiery Angel]

I'm in total agreement that she would have been great in a old-fashioned screwball comedy, though I think that probably means modern Hollywood would somehow try to involve Ashton Kutcher, which would doom the entire project.

That movie came out in 2003:

[MichaelB]

Arnold Stang.

(If you don't recognise the name, you'll certainly recognise the voice)

[Andre Jurieu]

I'm in total agreement that she would have been great in a old-fashioned screwball comedy, though I think that probably means modern Hollywood would somehow try to involve Ashton Kutcher, which would doom the entire project.

That movie came out in 2003:

Hence, my previous comments. I have no idea why they keep allowing Kutcher to work. Even his commercials for cameras are annoying.

[domino harvey]

He was good in That 70s Show, but by all accounts he was playing himself and never exhibited anything approaching "range"

[Andre Jurieu]

He was good in That 70s Show, but by all accounts he was playing himself and never exhibited anything approaching "range"

Wait, are you saying that yelling your lines at gradually increasing decibel levels doesn't exhibit "range"?

[domino harvey]

He is a Brando for our times-- Christian Brando

[Antares]

Connie Hines played Wilbur's wife on Mister Ed.

[Matt]

Sesame Street's Olivia and 227's Rose, Alaina Reed-Amini.

[Jeff]

eerily prescient DVD cover art

[knives]

Maybe Vic Chesnutt