Gay movie star Rupert Everett wants Sir Elton John to give up his newest pastime: slagging other celebs, especially Rupert’s pal Madonna. Everett says, “I think Elton has lost it completely. He loves to tell you how he overcame addictions - drugs, bulimia... He did not overcome addictions. He went from one to another. All these shopping sprees, and not controlling his mouth.”
[Sir Elton was married at St Marks Darling Point a place were Imrich angels are christened and many wild men of Sydney are buried ...]
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In brilliant festivals and noisy entertainments, there is always, at bottom, a sense of emptiness prevalent. A false tone is there: such gatherings are in strange contrast with the misery and barrenness of our existence.
-Schopenhauer
That's life. You get old, then you die. In between hopefully you had a laugh, had a cry, heard a good story, told one, had a friend, was a friend, took a walk, read a book, invented something, thanked someone for something, remembered someone you loved and eventually -- was remembered by someone who loved you.
I tell my friends that I feel lucky, I've lived to see what life was like after my own death. Really. Every day is like that. It's really a blessing, because it's easy to shed the angst that accumulates by living. "I'm just a ghost," I think to myself. That adds a special quality to life.
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• · · · · · The events of the past week tend to bear out the proposition advanced by these great thinkers - we do have a deep streak of generosity within our natures. But that impulse is not, on its own, enough. It must become an on-going part of our lives, a commitment permanent enough to sustain those who will continue suffering long after the media has turned its attention elsewhere