i MUST know how shell kepler died! she was only 49!!! how can i find out? i haven't watched GH since the 80s, but i remember amy vining being a big waste of space. she never got any good storylines but, rather, was just filler. i felt sorry for her. how the heck did she die??

oh, nevermind. a quick google search lead to soapcentral.com, which says she died suddenly of renal failure. how bizarre. glad to hear she made millions on the home shopping network!

Brittany Murphy is preggers? I totally missed and/or forgot about that bit o' news!

How much do you want to bet that Posh quit because they weren't selling out arenas?

...but what did they expect? When the cheapest tix at Verizon are $72.50 before Ticketmaster charges, it's unlikely to be a sell-out.

I'd totally have been there if tix were cheaper. Yeah... I'm disappointed. So sue me.

I read the article, and she sounds utterly realistic about it. Posh was barely a singer in the group...the number of times she got solo parts was a fraction of the others, and she never dressed loosely enough to be a real dancer. From the start, she was in the group to play that "posh" role, and that's all she really ever did. I can't imagine that the reunion tour was helping out her self-confidence any, and she had other plans to get going on.

I guess the responses yesterday -- the many requests to stop the Britney harassment -- had no impact. The coverage continues. Why else would you ask for everyone's opinion?

Liz, I am not riding you, really. I just want you to see that you are actively contributing to a bad situation by continuing to post about her. It's not "them." It's these posts right here! It's gotta stop somewhere.

Pregnant women can be stylish and comfortable at the same time but these pregnant celebs wear four inch heels are too much.

Is Brittany pregnant or is the photo from a strange angle?

Nice -- I appreciate your opinion. I continue to maintain that there is a difference between invasive, often photo-assisted, saturation and dispassionately reporting an update on Spears condition, the latest in her multiple court proceedings or any other actual news related to the singer. I think today's inclusion falls in the second category. Don't you?

I have to go with Liz on this one. That article was quite like reading any other court related story on non-celebs. I just wish they used better pictures instead of blood shot eyed Jamie Spears but at least it wasn't a bald pic of Britney.

Pompous, I would've been right there with you at the Spice Girls show. But I just couldn't justify paying nearly $100 for the cheap seats.

R.I.P., Shell. You were NOT a waste of space, but rather severely under-utilized and misused like so many other GH veterans. Playing Laura's sister, you should have had plenty of storyline opportunities, but you were robbed. Way too young to die.

Liz Kelly -- kudos for the timely & thoughtful response to Nice, but I have to take exception with his/her premise that the responses to the polls are supposed to drive content; while I appreciate that you seek consumer input, last I checked (and to paraphrase "Bring it On"), this isn't a Celebritocracy and Liz Kelly is the (benevolent) Celebtator. And I'm okay with that.

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http://gawker.com/5002849/let-gay-australian-lifeguards-dance-your-morning-blues-away

I agree about the difference in Britney coverage. This is not information gained from the paparazzi. The LA court system has a government employee who relays legal information to the news media at large, including updates on the Spears case following each hearing. No one is stalking, or confronting, or bothering. The stories Celebritology has been linking to are often culled from press releases and or these types of publicly released statements from lawyers and government officials. If we can't report this type of news, what can we report? I agree to drawing a line, but not that the line should be no coverage at all.

Omg, Anon@10:03. You are not lying.

"That's not to say I'll never go to a club again, because I'd be lying."

So true. Just last week, for instance, Lilo joined the Hair Club for Dysfunctional Celebrities, Club Med(ications), Club Soda (with vodka and lime wedge), and the Mile-High Club.

Coverage is coverage. You can split hairs and justify all you want, but you all know the media is actively harming her at this point. I genuinely don't understand it; where is the compassion? She's having a nervous breakdown! What more could anyone possibly want to know? And why? As another singer wrote, would it be enough if "I commit suicide right on the stage?"

"Spears Watch" -- that's not invasive saturation? Literally tracking her every move? Shall we scroll through and note that there's something posted about her every single day? That's not saturation? Would this blog really suffer by the exclusion? I don't think so.

But I also don't think -- in a million years -- that you will ever see it this way, Liz. That you'll see that you are not at all removed from what has happened to her, that you are an active participant, a producer of this media attention. You poll about the media as if it's something separate from what you are doing. It isn't. A blog by definition is not dispassionate reporting. You are not obligated to continue posting "news" about her. (I don't think it's news at all.)

I'm sure that you will though, so I'm done. Again, I'm not riding you; I just really am disgusted and disappointed. Most told you yesterday that they too were disgusted. That's not to say that others vote on what's posted, just that I thought you might take it into consideration. Otherwise, why ask?

Rock on if you're going to keep doing it. Just don't pretend that you're a disinterested bystander. You're throwing gas all over this fire. "Network" anyone?

Actually most of us said what is private should remain private, but public information is okay. Court records ARE public information. But, go ahead and be judgmental about us, which is actually the thing you are accusing us of being.

Nice and done have good points. News about Spears from now on seems like news about anyone else in a hospital - intrusive, unneccesary and not conducive to the patient's treatment.

And you can't blame Spears anymore for inviting us to watch. It is almost impossible in this country to have someone forced into psychiatric treatment against her will - and CA has one of the strictest laws on the books AGAINST forced psy. treatment.

For Spears to be involuntarily committed means that she has no ability whatsoever to care for herself or to understand that she is sick.

We now understand she is sick. She's not acting odd b/c she wants attention or her latest album is doing poorly or b/c she is proud of herself. She is acting odd b/c she can't control herself. Let's leave her alone.

Or pick on someone who can take it:

What's Tom Cruise's opinion of all of this?

I side with Liz. This isn't invasive, many of these items are in a public space (courts), involving court documents. Given everything that has occurred, it would be unrealistic to expect Liz or any reporter would not cover this issue. I'm sorry she's sick. I sorry the Paps took advantage of her. But before she went off the deep end, she and her family totally courted the public, and now their lives are in a public space. Even if the paps never took anothr photo of Brit, she will continue to remain news and I don't believe Liz is wrong in linking to tasteful stories.

Khloe, Kourtney and Kim? And the boys are Robert J. and Ray J.? Boy, those Kardashians are as dumb as they look and act.

I was totally nauseous after reading about the Brandy-Kardashian thing. Let's see. The Kardashian father was a friend of OJ Simpson and destroyed his bloody clothes and murder weapon. Brandy killed someone. The Kardashian kids worked for Brandy. Brandy's brother made a sex tape with major skank Kim K. Ewwwwww! The whole thing is just ... incestuous.

I think the media coverage of Spears should continue specifically in regard to her financial affairs.

The media would be doing her a service to keep a light shining on the cast of characters around Spears. Her "boyfriend, " her ex-manager, her parents.

All of them are vying for influence. Who is alighned with whom? The boyfriend seems to have joined with the parents and the manager is on the outs. Why?

I think the media should follow the money.

Anyone who thinks Angelina Jolie looked more voluptuous/healthy at the SAGs, check out this picture. Gaunt and skeletal as ever ... check out those hands. Yikes.

http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20176060,00.html

guys, Posh makes $30m a year selling designer jeans with her name on it (for $250 a pair). Why should she waste her time singing when there are so many who will line up at nordstroms to empty their wallets.

these consumers are very sad people who dont know they're being pitied. it's best if we just ignore them - so i'd suggest avoiding the sex in the city film (since that's likely where they'll congregate)

Wow, this conversational thread went from frothy, light and warm to dark, tepid and unsatisfying in a hurry!

Could someone please bring the funny tomorrow? Thanx

Here, MisterBear. Here's your funny:
http://gawker.com/5002849/let-gay-australian-lifeguards-dance-your-morning-blues-away

Already saw it, Anon@2:42pm. More ridiculous than funny. Thanx, just the same.

ok, then, here's your funny:
http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/02/the-fuggie-and.html

though it might blind you.

re: that Go Fug picture linked above, has anyone proved that overuse of spray tan causes loss of brain cells? It would explain a lot.

I don't understand how nice/done (same person, yes?) thinks we should now just ignore Britney. The girls is news. She is a story. She is huge. We're just supposed to pretend that whole story doesn't exist? The poll yesterday wasn't about ignoring all Britney news, it was specifically about icky paparazzi photos. At least, that was how *I* read it.

She is huge, and has been for some time now. She also happens to be well known. :-P

At this point, if not long before, saying that Britney Spears courts attention is like saying that a crazy person yelling on a corner in New York is courting attention. They are mentally ill. They aren't responsible for their actions. They don't have enough sanity to act with intention.

It's not a question of the media's legal rights. It's a question of humanity. We all know the media will flunk that test.

Meow to Quintilus Varus. Some of us like designer jeans. It doesn't make us bad people.

Well said, Eric.

I'm over Britney. Sam Lutfi, however, strikes me as something awfully close to a criminal. I think Lynne has a good cause to suspect kidnapping or at least, fraud.

While I'm not sure I believe everything she says about him, if Britney has been under his control over this past year, he's doing a horrible, horrible job.

Lutfi is this year's Howard K. Stern.

I agree with Eric.

I also partially agree with MoCoSnarky - who is Sam Lufti? Where did he come from? How does he become her manager/best friend, etc. after meeting her in Oct or nov?

I guess I didn't follow B.S. very well, but I thought she was still hanging out with a small circle of "friends" she'd had for years that were losers and hangers-on but not predatory and creepy.

How does a Sam Lufti get this involved in some super-star's life so quickly and take over absolute control?

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