omg owen wilson tried 2 commit suicide

what does Kate Hudson have to say about this?

lol? you're a fucking dick

What a terribly childish way to get us to make him a RIP thread.

well he's not dead yet dogg! go eat an orange, it'll make u feel better

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/08/26/report_actor_owen_wilson_in_suicide_try/9736/

sounds like bullshit to me. more likely: he got wasted, fell over and cut himself.

good riddance
-- Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier)

Shit. I like O.W.

:[

Actor Owen Wilson was hospitalized after attempting suicide, sources tell the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and Star magazine exclusively.

Wilson was transported to St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica , Calif. on Sunday, August 26, by ambulance. Sources tell the ENQUIRER and Star that he sliced his left wrists and took an indeterminate amount of pills.

He was discovered by a family member who summoned help.

Police and an ambulance responded to a 911 call from Owen’s house around noon on Sunday.

His wrist was sutured and bandaged at the hospital.

The ENQUIRER and Star broke the story of Owen’s hospitalization earlier Sunday and revealed that he was being transferred from St. John’s after being stabilized. The publications learned that he was going to be detoxed.

Owen was brought in to St. John’s in very serious condition. Police were on the scene immediately as was a criminal defense attorney, believed to be working for Wilson. Some of Owen’s family was with him.

Wilson was stabilized at St. John’s.

More on this story as it develops…

he sliced his left wrists

what, all of them?

You can never hammer in the last nail.

Or something.

Steely Dan's bullying takes its inevitable toll

he sliced his left wrists

what, all of them?

I keep imagining he used this:

http://www.vandenborre.be/WEB/images/products/200/417459_0.jpg

bump! No one cares?!!! I'm disappointed in you people. I guess we need to wait for the bulk of the west coast to wake up?

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/06/38/royal_tenenbaums5.jpg

good riddance
-- Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier)

-- gershy, Monday, August 27, 2007 2:00 AM (7 hours ago)

lool

xpost Now if it was Luke then I'd probably care. But just a little.

yeah, who cares about human beings.

ack.

playing the same part yr entire career takes a toll

I can only hope playing the same part on this message board over and over leads you to attempt suicide one day, too.

Woah!

He played a different kinda role in "Meet the Parents". I mean, Owen Wilson.

Play nice, you assholes.

honestly u cant be that surprised

no Alex, only living in Balt wd push me over the edge

honestly u cant be that surprised

what? y'mean about his suicide attempt? 'cos i'm surprised.

no abt ilxorz being diks

especially on monday morning

also I haven't even had any coffee yet and I'm calling bullshit on this one

remember when TO tried to kill himself?

i was only being a dik in response to someone else being a dik, i'll probably leave this thread alone now.

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hah, oh yeah. i'm just shocked when people treat each other decently here.

bright, reasonably privileged people does not necessarily equal kind people. but i am naive

er, who's TO?

some football idiot.

relax guys, you still have the cinema genius of APATOW.

depressed or misunderstood average folk slit their wrists. hollywood stars pull fassbinders.

i don't buy this at all.

i'm also half tempted to head over to the knocked up thread and see if morbs had something to say, but i'm thinking it would be better not to.

I like Owen Wilson and his one role, tho I only will see him in the Wes movies now. Celeb "news" is not worth the bandwidth it eats tho.

Dr. Morbid

it's a national enquirer piece...

hopefully bullshit.

makes my left wrists hurt just thinking about it.

the inqruirer broke lewinsky...

I can't decide what's more sad: that someone who's had a very financially successful life would still be unable to get the help needed to prevent a suicide attempt, or that a tabloid would lie about a suicide attempt to sell papers.

If it's not true they'll probably get a doozy of a libel suit.

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2007/08/0827_kate_dax_flynet.jpg
Celebuspawn Kate Hudson was groped and smooched in a supermarket in Malibu on Saturday, by new BF, actor Dax Shepard. Off the market and gettin' down in the market!

morbius, stop clicking on the fucking thread if it offends you so much.

Obligatory styrofoam coffee cup, tattoo and, if my eyes don't deceive me, those are Diesel jeans. She probably picked that dude from a rack at Hipsters R Us.

the inqruirer broke lewinsky...

-- gff, Monday, August 27, 2007 2:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i thought Clinton did that?

and shes got the dreaded "winter hat in summer" xp

that tattoo is beyond ugly.

xpost Hey, aircon is a bitch.

I can't decide what's more sad: that someone who's had a very financially successful life would still be unable to get the help needed to prevent a suicide attempt

I would think pressure, alienation and *shit* create other (though not less/more serious) psychological problems.

I mean, shit, I do find it sad, but, that said, why should I really care?

Jessie, that tattoo reflects the inner child being unhappy being named Dax. Don't mock him!

and he never replied to my letter. i knew something was up :(

actually owen wilson strikes me as the kind of actor who would attempt to commit suicide.

In a sad-clown way?

hahaha Dax Shephard, as the dude from Idiocracy, starring Luke Wilson? I guess that's gotta hurt.

Yes, that tenuous connection must be very painful.

xpost *as in

in all seriousness, I'm kind of bummed about this. I like Owen Wilson.

maybe i should put this another way: Dax Shephard's that douche who was ashton's sidekick on Punk'd.

What's that "for display" box say? Jet rufeed?

http://www.kraftfoods.com/jetpuffed/

ah. cool, thx! Nothing that calls for a quick romantic moment then.

LOL @ the TMZ.com headline:

http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/27/kate-hudson-mauled-in-market/

Update:

National Enquirer editor-in-chief David Perel tells PerezHilton.com….

“Owen Wilson has now been transferred from St. John’s to another Los Angeles area hospital. His brothers Andrew and Luke are with him.

“Andrew found him after the suicide attempt and called an ambulance. Both of Owen’s wrists were slashed superficially and Owen had taken an overdose of pills.

“Owen was found with a nearly empty bottle of pills next to him. He was at his house in Santa Monica.”

owened

distraught over castro's death no doubt

driven to suicide by the double whammy of losing lou reed and fidel castro

Aww, Future Man found him. Shame he couldn't have predicted that.

I was gonna say that even the Defamer comments weren't as tasteless as this thread, but they've caught up since this morning.

future man, bro city

Maybe all that stuff we wrote for "Royal Tennenbaums" was for real. Poor guy.

Get better, Butterscotch Stallion

i like this dude. get well soon owen.

not that you read this board.

I keep seeing the thread title and hoping it's "Joe Wilson" instead.

man i hope he didn't do it because of goldie hawn's wombflower, she is grossssss and not worth it ):

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/9/5/6/956eb87d4aa695e90c60be857fa2f95c.jpg

if this is true it makes me very sad

yeah, zoolander and bottle rocket alone make up for the crap. and shanghai noon! poor dude.

I thought she was married to the scarecrow guy from The Black Crows. Now she's already moved on past Wilson Superior to the guy who said "GO AWAY...BATIN'". I just can't keep up with celebutante shenanigens like I used to.

I hope everything's okay, OW seems like such a bro.

he needs to make another action movie with gene hackman

She divorced the Black Crowes dude and went to Owen Wilson. Don't know who that other guy is. Don't really care.

Depression/suicide sucks.

guys, it seems like it is true, you don't release a "leave me alone" completely non-denying press statement for a thing like this if it isn't true :\

this is really very sad. get well, owen wilson.

How many million reasons does Owen Wilson have to live? More or less than TO?

this is surreal. Owen Wilson? Really?

ya that's what i was thinkin ally. idk, i bought into it a lot faster than say TO, cuz cut up wrists are a lot less ambiguous than a potential OD

i cant say i dont feel for buddy, i recently had my heart stomped on by a deceitful harpy and i have mostly been wanting to wander into the woods and be eaten by a bear (no homo) since then

dude i'm sorry to hear that :\

srsly. Desiring to die at the claws of a bear is some v violent stuff.

thanks dogg :] i really had it coming tho if only for all the times i've been a turd to past girlfriends, kind of a "oh so that's what it feels like" moment of clarity, too bad it came at the expense of the most special woman i've ever known lolol

http://www.gildedserpent.com/articles24/graphics24/pencil.GIF

http://www.qwantz.com/shirt_failure_large.png

awww dude :(

shit happens it sucks etc etc but if you ever need someone to tell you not to go get ate by a bear feel free to e-mail me.

But bears have to eat too.

there's a theory now that it was just an OD, but they added some suicide stuff in there to keep him from looking like a risky, druggy actor. Suicide is more insurable than drug addiction, I guess.

Well if it seems like a clever behind-the-scenes thing to know then it MUST be true.

hey, i didn't make it up. LaineyGossip did.

Terrell Owenz Wilson

This story makes me sad. It's very hard to feel anything at all about the private lives/deaths of TV people, but on the other hand, it's awful damn hard not to like Owen Wilson. Hope things work out okay-ish for him.

I feel really bad/sympathetic towards him just due to the fact that having your suicide attempt be public knowledge must SUCK.

From ABC News "nicknamed "The Butterscotch Stallion" for his womanizing ways,"

Well of course. That's what you always call womanizers.

there's a theory now that it was just an OD, but they added some suicide stuff in there to keep him from looking like a risky, druggy actor. Suicide is more insurable than drug addiction, I guess.

did you just copy/paste this from a defamer commenter y/n

also this is complete horseshit, i mean ffs think about it from the standpoint of shooting a film. you can reschedule a shoot for tomorrow if lindsay etc is too drunk. hard to do so if she is too DEAD.

basically either way is going to guarantee major issues but what the hell kind of insurance company wants to insure someone who is going to PURPOSEFULLY off themselves?

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Hmm, I dunno. It seems like people get pretty worked up over celebrities' deaths; more so then say, some guy who lives down the street from you and you know by sight but never talk to.

Ultimately, why should he care if his suicide attempt is public knowledge? People need to start being human.

although you could also die from a drug overdose. I still think it's bullshit, if "lol we'll just call it a suicide!" was a for-real option we wouldn't see so many starlets hospitalized for "exhaustion".

xpost, obv.

there is also absolutely no background to the idea that wilson is much of a drug user at all. he's well known as an alcoholic but i've never heard him referenced as doing anything harder than weed. and this shit's usually everwhere, secretly, about these pplz.

i think that pplz would just rather think of him as a party bro than as a sad dude which is why rumors like that get started.

could very well be.

sorry to feed the rumor mill... i'll try to be more responsible. :(

"lol we'll just call it a suicide!" was a for-real option we wouldn't see so many starlets hospitalized for "exhaustion".

"exhaustion" is usually code for a cokehead/drunk going into rehab. Not an OD.

that's kind of not at all true and has been used many, many, many times in relation to ppl od'ing.

also kenan not trying to pile on you, i actually literally just read that comment on defamer like 10 minutes ago and was like all o_O about it so the fact you reposted it made my day cos hell if i'm going to post a response on fucking defamer.

defamer's comments are open now? oh lawd.

i do not read defamer. But shit like that spreads like wildfire.

In the recent past I can only think of such a case with Amy Winehouse. Which seemed more of an accidental OD rather than deliberate. You could certainly argue that the drug lifestyle is a slow form of suicide but when Lindsay Lohan is being put in the hospital for exhaustion I don't think anyone believes there was a suicide attempt.

I dunno if I'm sure what you're getting at? My point was just that "exhaustion" is usually the go-to OD cover up (I would call any overdose accidental, an intentional overdose IS a suicide attempt), not "suicide attempt". I'm pretty sure it received some record-breaking use by Lohan's people.

I was disagreeing with you that exhaustion was the go-to coverup. That's all.

you guys really need to go back and read each of each other's posts, and your own, before you go any further with this.

please don't tell me you don't both know the other one is thinking that you aren't actually disagreeing

i recently had my heart stomped on by a deceitful harpy and i have mostly been wanting to wander into the woods and be eaten by a bear (no homo) since then

-- cankles, Monday, August 27, 2007 4:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

sorry to hear it, but your juxtaposition of getting killed by a bear and no homo reminded me of this old onion piece:

Black Bear Attacks, Rapes Zookeeper

Here's a little dog-bites-man tale we couldn't resist! Except replace "dog" with "850-pound black bear"! And "bites" with "anally violate"!

Yes, last Saturday a zookeeper at the Metropolitan Zoo had "claws" for alarm when he was attacked and raped by the same black bear he had raised from a cub! Geez, talk about gratitude!

"It was horrible, just horrible," sobbed an eyewitness. Guess she sure got an eyeful!

The bear, named "Barry," attacked zookeeper Chris Byrne as Byrne entered the cage to give him dinner. Barry lunged at his throat, goring him with his huge claws and razor-sharp teeth. Some of the claw marks were three-quarters of an inch deep. Ouch!

Then, astonished onlookers could "bearly" believe what happened next--Barry began to brutally rape zookeeper Byrne!

Frantic zookeepers rushed for rifles as others tried to divert the bear. But there was no stopping Barry! This bear kept "bearing down," and Byrne just had to grin and "bear" it! Maybe Barry was mistaking him for his "honey"! Byrne was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. A full quart of bear semen was extracted from his ruptured chest cavity. And that's no small Boo-Boo!

Barry's 27-inch phallus, armed with guard hairs as sharp as red-hot needles, shot through Byrne' rectum, shattered his lower spine and skewered his colon, causing his entire lower torso to "cave" in! Yikes! Bet that wasn't the type of "cave" you had in mind when you took up zookeeping, Mr. Byrne!

And can you imagine Byrne' surprise when Barry's putrid ursine semen flooded his ruptured chest cavity? (By the way, Mr. Byrne, whatever cologne you've been wearing, where can the public get some?)

Finally, zookeeper Eric Pulliam shot Barry with a tranquilizer gun and pulled Byrne from the cage. The unconscious bear was later destroyed. Hey, this "Yogi" made a major "Boo-Boo"!

"I have worked with dangerous animals before," zoo director Kate Donegal said. "But never have I seen any animal sexually assault a human being." "Barry"? Try "Scary"!

Meanwhile, Byrne was pronounced dead at an area hospital--but at least he died grinning and bearing it! No doubt, this episode gives new meaning to the term, "Do not feed the bears!"

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It doesn't really matter that much to me to re-read anything. Jessie asked what I was getting 10 posts ago, I told her. End of story.

xpost

Well yes: people would be way quicker to accept an attempted-suicide narrative if the star involved were a major comedian (bonus points if overweight), a wild-and-reckless starlet, or a craggy, intense-looking actor (like a Nolte or Busey or something), so there's some kind of shock when it's a seemingly well-adjusted, solidly established, mid-level star (whose roles tend to be pretty businesslike, and aren't dredging up any kind of intense personal emotion that would make us think of him as having a turbulent inner life) --

-- i.e., it's like just a few steps away from if you heard Ben Stiller attempted suicide, which you won't, which is one of about 10,000 reasons why watching Permanent Midnight in retrospect is really, really hilarious.

(xpost - I think "exhaustion" covers a wide range of stuff, right down to what, in some cases, probably verges on public understanding of "exhaustion," except that in this case it means "star is just generally too fucked up on drugs/alcohol/emotionally to work or be seen right now, but we can't just say 'she's, umm, in the bathroom for the next two weeks,' so let's just say she's suffering from 'exhaustion' and needs a rest.")

I'm done with it, just needed clarification. :D this would get way too morbid if it continued on!

Somehow, miraculously, I read that article's headline as "Black Bear Attacks, Rapes Zoroaster".

xxxposts

arrrgh xxxpost.

xxpost

Despite the light-hearted "omg" and "2" in the title, this thread is doomed to be nothing but morbid.

Clearly we should just have a knifefight in the alley over the meaning of "exhaustion" in PR-speak.

I think I would prefer a knife-fight to most of the bitchiness on ILx. It's much more to the point and entertaining to boot. (although I don't think this issue is worth a knife-fight. We can save it for something else.)

Alternately: name actors/actresses where if they were suddenly down with "exhaustion," you were 100% believe that they were genuinely overworked and needed bed-rest.

Christian Bale

Brian Dennehy.

From ABC News "nicknamed "The Butterscotch Stallion" for his womanizing ways,"

I can't remember - did he get the Butterscotch name from the two-hour rimjob story, or did it exist before that?

I'm pretty sure Defamer gave it to him due to some article that called him a stallion??

^^^I am pretty ashamed of myself right now.

no more ashamed than I am at remembering his predilection for tossing salad

Two hour rimjob story...?

LOCK THREAD.

i know this is a sensitive issue, and many people are polarized on the points, but why are we supposed to feel sorry for him again?

feeling sorry for people who (may) have attempted suicide is just the nice thing to do. you don't have to.

WHICH blond stud, nicknamed the "Butterscotch Stallion," has a perverse sexual bent? He recently picked up a girl at a wedding and the two went back to his hotel room. When the woman asked if he had a condom, the actor replied: "I don't want to have sex with you, but I do want to do something else" — and proceeded to lick her buttocks for "over two hours."

oh owen wilson's almost-RIP thread, you have hit that turning point.

butterscotch. . .I think I heard it via Howard Stern. I thought his buddies were calling him this b/c of his analingus fetish?

but he's owen wilson. he lives better than all of us. he pretends to be other people for a living. he got dumped.

Srsly I feel sorry for anyone who gets to where they seriously attempt suicide. It reminds me that full-on hell is never further away than our own skulls.

You can feel sorry for him because apart from some elderly people with painful and debilitating terminal diseases, most people who try to kill themselves are suffering from unpleasant illnesses like clinical depression or bipolar disorder or at least the kinds of dysfunctional personalities that you can consider a unfortunate affliction for a person to have to deal with.

defamer gave him that nickname like two years ago. I think it wasn't even the editors, some commenter e-mailed it in and they ran with it.

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Unpleasant is putting it mildly. I felt feeling sorry for him went without saying on a thread like this. Obv. a couple of people don't feel that way but luckily it's easy to ignore posts.

is a broken heart in the medical books yet ;_;

yeah, pain is pain, rich or poor, "good" person or "bad" person

cutty let me look into it

and I love when people get stupid nicknames that the media feels necessary to repeat and explain in the worst way - "nicknamed 'platinum bathtub' for his indecipherable pillow patois"

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cutty, c'mon. Emotional pain is often more torturous than physical pain. Aspirin will not make a grieving heart feel better.

I feel sorry for anybody who's famous, unless they're assholes, and then I think it serves them right.

i'm not trying to be insensitive and i am really trying to see both sides

Ha, yeah. Big-time fame is a curse unto itself.

y do u humans cry

¯\(°_o)/¯

hah, perfect

i know this is a sensitive issue, and many people are polarized on the points, but why are we supposed to feel sorry for him again?

-- cutty, Monday, August 27, 2007 11:20 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

coz he was sad enough to try to kill himself...?

let's start a thread mourning all the depressed suicide attempts out there

oh wait, not everyone's rich and famous

we've all had this suicide argument before, i remember it

i'm not trying to be controversial, i just don't feel terribly sorry for him

MAYBE I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE OWEN WILSON

Ok, I see where you're coming from...I thought you were just outright hating.

cutty has some opinions4u

I HAVE SO MANY BELIEFS

i'll be sure to note the pathos in the darjeeling whatever its called

This is a losing provocation, Cutty. Suicide is bad. You point out that someone attempted suicide, and people will say "that's too bad" and "I hope he/she is okay." They'll say that if you say "my friend attempted suicide," even if they don't know your friend. Even if you made up the friend, they'll say that. And if it's someone a lot of people have chuckled at in movies and whose face they can picture, maybe you'll hear it a little more. Big surprise. This also works with cancer, MS, and more or less any major disease except for alcoholism. It's not a referendum on whose life is better: you feel bad for the people because having diseases and suffering severe depressions and being mortal are such basic, sucky things that nearly everyone in the world can agree to be half-decent to one another about them.

It's not a referendum on whose life is better...

yes a thousand times over.

By that I mean otm.

it's lonely at the top.

whatever the true story i wish him well.

xp watering the desert for shame. otm denied

ok then.

nabisco hates alcoholics

heh-heh

yeah what nabisco said, it is like you are wondering why ppl experience empathy for others. ppl feel bad for him not bcz he is more worthy of it than other, less famous ppl, it's because this is the only case that's been brought to everyone's attn! you can't have a rational discussion with your reptilian brain abt the inequity of the situation, it doesnt work like that!

DR MORBIUS RIP

I'm all for having the sympathy-priorities thing when you're talking about, like, socio-political sympathies, in stuff where that's at issue, but when it's just some random guy with problems, there's no good argument against saying you hope he gets better.

I feel like I've seen the alcoholism thing in some stand-up routine, or something -- "the only disease you get yelled at for having." Plus drug addiction and minor personality disorders, but once you get into minor personality disorders everything gets really vexed and people can start saying "I'm not an asshole, I have a congenital behavioral syndrome." Whatever.

if karl rove tried to kill himself nobody would feel sorry for him except for me, because his boss used to call him turd blossom, and he was always ugly, which seems like a bit of a burden.

i feel sorry for karl rove right now - i mean waht a turd blossom

I feel like I've seen the alcoholism thing in some stand-up routine, or something -- "the only disease you get yelled at for having."

I think that's Patton Oswalt.

It's Mitch Hedberg.

xp - oh, no, it was Mitch Hedberg

My mom called me three times in a row about this today.

"Damnit Dave, you have lupus!"

YEAH WELL U GUYZ U CANT LIKE STOP DOING LUPUS GOD

haha yeah i don't take any self-diagnosed personality disorder seriously, bitch i know u dont have any kind of 'functional psychosis' gtfo

owen wilson takes his morning dump in his own bathroom, lighten up!

OH MAN, thanks for posting that Onion article, Sanskrit! I've been looking for it for months, couldn't find it on the search engine. It's my favorite one.

Guys, no one knows if Nick Darke was a suicide or an OD, and look at how people react to him.

(OTOH he did OD, deliberately or not, on hella powerful antidepressants.)

Nick Drake, too, had that controversy.

Nick Darke will never die

That sounds like some kind of goth kid pseudonym =)

Daughny Darque-oh

when kate h. dumped chris robinson, he just took another bonghit

He might not even know she left him yet.

I take two bong hits in a breakup
I take two bong hits afterward
I take two bong hits when I'm in the Counting Crows
I take two bong hits to feel mellow, even when I step on a turd

I take two bong hits in the Black Crowes
or at a Counting Crows concert
I take two bong hits when I play with the band
Or just think I am and pass out in the dirt

Kate Hudson is neither suicidal hot nor two bonghits forgettable. I'd say she's 'week-long bender hot.'

That's what I always tell my bros when a depressing breakup comes down the pipe. "Dude she was like spring break drunk hot, if that. You know you should have quit hitting it after a week."

anyway it's not because of kate hudson, it's because he hasn't written anything in five years

i think all of ilx has congenital behavioral syndrome

my last breakup was like half an oz of w33d + 2 handles of popov + 4 30 racks + some vicodin and other unspecified drugs

i dont know why im sharing that on a thread about poor dead owen wilson

he alive yet methinks

http://news.google.com.pk/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/1-0&fp=46d30ea797f5b1c6&ei=iNHTRom_L4SioAOTwuDxBw&url=http%3A//seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2003856101_artsbriefs28.html&cid=0

anyway it's not because of kate hudson, it's because he hasn't written anything in five years

-- El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 03:58 (4 hours ago) Link

^^^this

although i did read last year he was taking time out writing with... woody harrelson? and i think it said "in amsterdam". so that might have been a joke i guess.

Is he going to do any more writing, I wonder, because his scripts are very good, and he says he's meeting up with Woody Harrelson in the next few days. 'We're going to write for a couple of weeks in Europe.'

What about? 'Well, there's not been so much discussion about what we're going to write, there's been a little more thought into where the writing's going to take place. Some people would say you should go write some place where there's not a lot of distractions, but we're going the other way. Anybody can do that! We're thinking of Amsterdam. Let's prove that we really are disciplined! Everyone's betting against us, but we're confident ...' And he twinkles like a man who doesn't know what worry means.

argh that last sentence. :(

who looks like he's lost the plot entirely.

fixed?

cutty, c'mon. Emotional pain is often more torturous than physical pain. Aspirin will not make a grieving heart feel better.

Uh, how can you say physical pain is easier to cure than emotional pain? It all depends, really.

I'm not completely with Cutty on this but I can understand up to a point. I do find it sad that he tried to commit suicide, but at the end of the day it doesn't do him much good and why should I lose sleep over this? It alters my perception of him, I guess.

I feel far more if I found out if an ILXor (or anyone else I know, even if it's vaguely) is in deep pain. In a way I find it sad that so many people will say:"Oh crap, Owen's depressed." but are oblivious to, say, their neighbours' state of mind.

I said "often", so not in all cases, obviously. What I mean is that physical pain is more tangible, and in most instances there is some sort of analgesic that one can take. However, in the case of emotional pain, it's not something that is as easy to pin down as nerve endings being irritated or whatever. Hence psychology and psychiatry still being in their infancy, in comparison to medical science dealing with the physical body. One may take psychoactive substances ranging from alcohol to anti-depressants in an attempt to "cure" emotional pain, but as most of us know, it doesn't seem to work as neatly or as reliably as does taking a tylenol for a headache.

...It alters my perception of him, I guess.
It alters my perception of him as well, and humanizes him, and reminds me that that having x amount of $$$ and/or success would not guarantee me "happiness".

I agree with your final paragraph completely, and I think I said pretty much the same thing somewhere upthread.

Uh I don't think anyone here is losing sleep over this - I think most of us are just expressing our sympathies, in probably pretty much the same way that we would if we found out our neighbour was depressed.

I dunno, I'm kinda two ways about this - I feel a bit bad about it because I generally quite like what I know of the guy, and wish him well, but that doesn't mean I didn't also roffle at some of the things people have said here, as mean-spirited as they were heh. (And if he was in better shape, some of the joeks here would probably be stuff OW himself would have appreciated, dude having partly written one of the most emotionally touching AND morbidly funny suicide scenes in film).

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Really, the main sticking point for me when this kind of thing gets discussed, is that sometimes people have this kneejerk callous attitude towards celebrities who are going through some sort of grief...as if having money and/or being famous somehow makes the pain that such a one feels different from the pain that anyone else feels. Granted, if filmstar x were to be diagnosed with terminal cancer tomorrow, at least they might be able to console themselves with the thought that they could afford the most prestigious medical care, or that the fact of them having money means that their illness wouldn't be a financial burden to their family. But that wouldn't take away from the fact that they would still have to go through the painful and scary experiences of suffering and dying. Peoples' sometime gleeful reaction to miseries encountered by the famous reminds me of The Day of the Locust or something.

I'm certainly no impartial saint, by any means, and I tend to harbor my own set of prejudices which leads me to be indifferent to or even secretly glad upon learning of others' misfortunes...but at the same time, I realize that as much of an incredible jerk that I think someone like Dick Cheney is, and as much karmic payback as he has coming to him, the nobler part of me doesn't really wanna see him suffer various agonies, anymore than I would want to undergo miserable experiences myself.

Like, what bugs me is that we all seem to go through this mental process when we hear about something terrible happening to someone, where if we "like" the person (even if it's a celebrity, who, realistically speaking, we probably know next-to-nothing about) then we say "man, that sucks; I like him a lot!"...whereas, if it's someone that we are indifferent to, or find obnoxious, then it's as if we are suddenly too stingy to be able to afford that person any sympathy.

I realize that this is just very basic human nature...but it still bugs me for some reason! Why do we have to make these grand judgements as to who is "deserving" or not of our sympathies?

(And if he was in better shape, some of the joeks here would probably be stuff OW himself would have appreciated, dude having partly written one of the most emotionally touching AND morbidly funny suicide scenes in film).

I have no idea what scene or what movie that is (The Royal Tenenbaums? ...I've never seen that one) but I completely agree with you. I think that people underestimate peoples' sense of humors in situations like this. I can't see his friends or family finding some of the comments here to be very funny, but it is easy to imagine OW himself being amused by some of them.

yeah Tenenbaums.

i wonder what the steely dan boys are thinking

haha!

I mean good point

i am going to write a screenplay about a pair of aging musicians who force a successful actor to kill himself :/

meh

I like the new ruthless cutty.

it's the lawyering what did it.

i like the new ruthless cutty's screenplay

I'd see it.

they totally gaslighted him

guys guys we're missing the real gem here, which is that Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson are apparently writing a movie together. can you imagine what kind of EPIC and TOTALLY LAID BACK tale of two BROS they'd come up with if they joined forces for a buddy flick? you wouldn't be able to fit all that drawling, easygoing charisma on the screen at once!

i know... they should recruit mcconaughey too

That's kinda pigeonholing Harrelson just by his most 'commercial' roles (Big ILX Surprise)... he's playing a gay escort for Washington women in an imminent Paul Schrader film.

There is one petite solid we can do for Owen at this point.

That's kinda pigeonholing Harrelson just by his most 'commercial' roles (Big ILX Surprise)... he's playing a gay escort for Washington women in an imminent Paul Schrader film.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:55 PM (Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:55 PM) Bookmark Link

OK that sounds pretty awesome.

Also I think the whole point of this fiasco is that Owen is NOT the bro we previously thought.

my last breakup was like half an oz of w33d + 2 handles of popov + 4 30 racks + some vicodin and other unspecified drugs

-- max, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:15 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i dont know why im sharing that on a thread about poor dead owen wilson

-- max, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:17 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

luriqua??

also more gossip rag fodder: story is now that he had a big fight with an "unidentified friend" before events. Which bromance has ended??

how do you know it was a bromance and not a "special" friend?

well I suppose I don't.

Vince Vaughn, why u brake hart?

Boston Herald's headline: "Reports of Owen suicide try rock Hudson"

niiiice.

"suicide try"?

I meant the weird "Rock Hudson" semi-pun, but yeah, you'd think "attempt" would be the more obvious wording.

if the hudson's a rockin', don't come-a knockin'

"try" makes for a bigger font size than "attempt"

that also explains using "Owen" instead of "Wilson" when they used the other person's last name.

"Reps of O's die-try rock Hud"

I should be a journalist.

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1229/8302_0005.jpg

I only just noticed he's supposed to be starring opposite Jennifer Aniston in a filming of Marley and Me. That screams 'indefensible cutesy treacle.'

you me and dupree and marley and me

and Irene.

I think it's at least even odds that whoever composed that headline doesn't know who "rock Hudson" was.

A few days ago I made the assumption that Marley and Me was another remake of A Christmas Carol.

http://48facets.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/tired-yawn.jpg

I think it's at least even odds that whoever composed that headline doesn't know who "rock Hudson" was.

are you serious? there's no reason for that headline to exist if that were the case.

You may be making a Being There-style assumption.

I'm not.

Yeah, if there's two things subeditors hate it's shoving in unnecessary puns and showing off their pop cultural knowledge.

xp

what about domeditors?

what other reason would there be?? do other celebrity fracases (fraci?) regularly "rock the Hudson"?

xp

Wow, Morbius's joke works on, like, three levels.

well, I see what you mean and that was accidental.

Can your spreadsheet display that?
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he's playing a gay escort for Washington women in an imminent Paul Schrader film.

i don't get it. are you saying he wouldn't be a TOTALLY LAID BACK gay escort? the dude is TOTALLY LAID BACK even when he's like really pissed-off.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/drillbittaylor/

i haven't really been following this but today i saw that Steve Coogan supplied him with heroin?!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294996,00.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&safe=off&q=coogan+wilson&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

woah

well now my luke/owen wilson v steve coogan thread makes sense!

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061006/244.coogan.steve.100506.jpg
hi!

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http://www.makemeheal.com/gossip/images/courtney-love-rhinoplasty.jpg
i'd like to take this opportunity to slander my ex-boyfriend

wait a fucking cocksucking goddamn fucking puss-sucking second. Courtney Love is accusing someone of enabling someone else's drug habit?

absurd, yes. but if youre hanging around courtney you are probably on tons of drugz.

Wow, serious allegations naming names. I guess Coogan and his lawyers are deciding on how many careers to ruin with defamation suits?

kenan you're so bad at cussing

I wonder how much cocaine and heroin jackie chan is on right now

apparently all his rush hour 3 stunts were done CGI

that's how much

he's so out of it he can't even talk right

can u undrsta tha words comin out my mouf

chinese_rocks.mp3

kenan you're so bad at cussing

:)

Momma raised me rioght. I sleep at night.

wha dat haf to do wit hong kong?

hong kaine

I read that as Coog supplying T Wilson w/ H.

oops.

6/28/14

wrong thread?

nope!

Courtney Love is accusing someone of enabling someone else's drug habit?

She has FORM on pulling this shit: during the US tour of a group we shall call 'Rubber Band', the bassist asked one of the Hole roadies for a hookup. When it got back to La Love, she threw a hissy fit and insisted the bassist be sacked - a bit rich, all things considered. Rather than keep this problem on the d-l so the person could solve their own problems she seemed perfectly happy to allow the individual to be abandoned, possibly in an attempt to undermine Rubber Band.

Closer to home I have reason to believe she hastened the demise of one of her own band members.

omg suszy waht band was it plllllzzzz !!!! :D

Oh, you mean Ela---ahhhhh!!!

during the US tour of a group we shall call 'Rubber Band', the bassist asked one of the Hole roadies for a hookup

IT'S BOOTSY, BABY!

during the US tour of a group we shall call 'Bootsy's Rubber Band', the bassist asked one of the Hole roadies for a hookup

i figured she meant the "rubberband man" t.i.p.

http://www.newfarm.org/newsletter/041905/images/GUMBY.jpg

during the US tour of a group we shall call 'The Rapper T.I.', the bassist asked one of the Hole roadies for a hookup

it was the beatles u noobs

during the US tour of a group we shall call 'The Beatles', Paul Mccartney asked one of the Hole roadies for a hookup

is it true courtney love named her band after kurt cobain's head?

I hope this happened the same day she punched Kath Hanna

Did this Love group's name start with a B and end with a D? (Cause if so, OMG I know that bass player.)

there is a group we'll call 'Punching Chickens' who's lead singer is rumored to have written Hole's first album.

the guy from, shall we say, 'a state of perfect harmony with the universe' wrote the second.

I want to know if people frequenting this thread know that Steve Coogan has died and who he was. Thanx

i believe we actually refer to that group as "Nevada".

Did this Love group's name start with a "The"? (Cause if so, OMG I know that bass player.)

I don't mean to spread innuendo but there's a certain british comedian we'll call "Steve Coogan" who was murdered by Courtney Love today.

what does all this have to do with bill murray and his runaway golf cart bender?

is he 'neutral'?

seriously how come nobody's shot courtney love?

Chaotic Neutral, obv.

Dunno Tom. It's a good question.

Kathleen said something very, very provocative to CL. It seems to have been redacted from Wiki.

Xposts HAHA Cudditouuuuut. This was in '95 and the Rubber Band were my friends. I think it was a terrible thing to do to them under the circumstances of the times because it made them become even more furtive and paranoid than most drug users, to have been shopped by the world's biggest drug hypocrite.

CL has a great way of going "LOOK! Look at the DRUGGIE!" while pointing as far away from herself as possible and avoiding mirrors. Actually she does that with any weakness.

As to Owen Wilson, what great 'friends' he has.

omg wahtre they like !!!

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/love.png

I love it when Suzy chimes in with some choice gossip.

seriously how come nobody's shot courtney love?

because that's no fun. We're waiting for the Chris-Farley-esque postmortem photos of her having drowned in her own vomit and mediocrity.

we love it when you love it, milo

http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/onion/assets/custom/oscars_2007/harvey_head_big.jpg

o u bith

why does Courtney makes better records than Smashing Pupkin and A Perfect Cercla?

wrong thread dom. search 'wdyll august'.

We're waiting for the Chris-Farley-esque postmortem photos of her having drowned in her own vomit and mediocrity.

it will never happen

I know. The world is a cold, godless place.

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ashlee is the best advertisment for plastic surgery i have ever seen

i thought that was brooke hogan

you forgot to include a picture of cameron diaz

ALL DIS PIX GIVE NEW DEFINITION OF 'SILICON VALLEY'. NO MORE PICTURES OF UGLY LADY OK?

you could carve a melon on that chin.

"Oh, you mean Ela---ahhhhh!!!"

Ella Ella? Or Umbrella-ella-ella? I'm HELLAconfused now.

Elaine Stritch

geddit? "Stritch"?

Ela? Fitzgerald?

we're about to collide with the MIA thread

Eloy Fitzgerald

Nath: somehow a vital connection was NOT made...

The Butterscotch Triangle!

IN OTHER NEWS
Hollywood's view of Wilson: 'He's loved'

somebody say yeah

How far down the Rolodex do you have to go before calling TOM ARNOLD?

Ela? Fitzgerald?

-- stevienixed, Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:41 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Maybe if she got robbed at gunpoint... you know, if there was some sort of "Ella Stick Up."

I feel convinced all this must involve a member of the Mentors in some way.

Poor Owen Wilson, poor Amy Winehouse, they are the Parker and Coletrane of our age.

Annie / told me
If you want drugs, don't ask Courtney
Vodka, gin -- you're good to go
But no drugs while you tour with Hole

omg you guys are such bitches on this thread! i love it!
this is better than jossip

you were horrible on this thread

Don't tie that noose, it's just abuse
don't take that ride, it's suicide
you cut your wrists, you tried and missed

You're in a rut, Owen Wilson, gotta get out of it out of it out of it.

owen wilson is so much cuter and funnier than Bird though

elastica.

I watched Zoolander last night and got all misty.

(note: not really.)

Hey you little rich kid, what's your beef?
Come and tell the Grym Reaper all of your grief
You asked for a Benz and you only got a Jeep
Your pop's got endz, but yo he's mad cheap
Maybe you're a bastard child you think
Mom and dad are white and you're dark as ink
Maybe you're Sicilian with a tan
But you hate lasagna and the pizza man
Now you stand on the grave digga locked and
You're singing the blues about the rough life you've got
Not
You don't wanna live no more
I guess you're really ready for the grave yard tour
When you get home just fill up your windows and you doors
Turn your oven on high for about four hours
Light you a blunt, kiss your ass goodbye
You gassed yourself 'cause it's a suicide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q53xjyRwBqc

Let's anticipate the recovery interview the poor guy is gonna have to do, even if things turn out well.

He could of course just refuse to do interviews or answers questions about it. Which will probably be the case.

Yeah, right.