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August 27, 2007
Owen Wilson
I am not really interestes in covering the Owen Wilson story... sad if it's truly what's been reported.
However, I am fascinated by the dance between The National Enquirer, where the news apparently broke, The Star, which followed, Perez Hilton, who some credited with the story, even though he was quoting the editor of The National Enquirer, and TMZ.com, who seems to have added nothing but (and I have no idea if they were first to get it) a non-comment comment from the police.
At the moment 47 stories come up on Google on the subject and looking through a few, each outlet covering the covering is bending into all different directions when sourcing the info.
Defamer even posted the extremely rare weekend post, in its case, crediting The Star and not the others at all.
Nice to have a competition in which I hope everyone loses.
Posted by poland at August 27, 2007 12:27 AM
Comments
I get the reason why you put this here Heat because everyone will be discussing it. Yet, really, does anyone want to speculate on what led him to this point? I sure as fuck do not. Sure; I have some sort of conjecture on this, but conjecture does not even work when you know the person. So... may he get pass what got him to this point and may he never come by that point again.
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at August 27, 2007 02:22 AM
Strangely enough: While the Drudge Report site continues to prominently feature the Owen Wilson story, the much bigger story of the day -- Alberto Gonzalez's resignation -- has yet to be posted as of 8:50 am CDT. Read into that what you will.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at August 27, 2007 06:50 AM
To be fair, CNN seems to be more interested in the Michael Vick story than Gonzales as well.
Posted by: jeffmcm at August 27, 2007 09:50 AM
NPR Had nothing this morning as I drove in to work on Wilson.
Posted by: teambanzai at August 27, 2007 10:43 AM
Man, that's crazy about Owen Wilson if that's true. Here's hoping the guy pulls through. It's always shocking when you hear something like that about someone who is so out-of-nowhere successful, and hugely so. Just goes to show success has little to do with it. Life can be a motherfucker, no matter who you are or how much money you have.
Posted by: The Carpetmuncher at August 27, 2007 10:45 AM
It's possible that, having slept with every woman on the face of the planet, he felt he had nothing left to live for.
Posted by: Cadavra at August 27, 2007 01:07 PM
Get well soon Owen.
Posted by: Dr Wally at August 27, 2007 01:15 PM
Wow Cadavra. That was fast.
Suicide is always a much more upsetting for whatever reasons and it seems unthinkable that someone such as Wilson would want to do it, but I hope he gets better and just takes some time off from Hollywood.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at August 28, 2007 12:53 AM
Too-soon joke aside, I do enjoy Wilson very much and hope he recovers physically and emotionally.
Posted by: Cadavra at August 28, 2007 01:45 PM
I'm usually not about the celebrity trainwrecks myself, but I think in this case--while it's rude to be so invasive about it, I do think down the line it will probably be a discussion cinephles have--the scene that his brother played in The Royal Tenenbaums was heartrending and poignant, and it's kind of chilling to think about how it compares to the co-writer, and his need to send the role off to someone else, while he played the airhead.
Posted by: Skyblade at August 28, 2007 08:56 PM
Someone posted an interesting poll about whether Owen Wilson needs to be left alone by the media.
Posted by: daniel34 at August 30, 2007 08:15 AM
Someone posted an interesting poll about whether Owen Wilson needs to be left alone by the media.
Posted by: daniel34 at August 30, 2007 08:16 AM
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