http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/12/11/obit.stan.rice.ap/index.html
Where will the Queen of Necro-Porno strike next? :eek:
Sounds like a talented guy, and like they had a good marriage.
Oh, I thought this was another Courtney Love thread.
Carry on.
That’s OK Lola, I thought it was about Anna Nicole.
Hmmm … my first thought was Madonna and Guy Ritchie … .
The poor woman. 
Now, now LunaSea.
Don’t be upset. Just because the man is dead doesn’t mean the poor woman’s marriage is over.
After all, this is Ann Rice were’re talking about. She might even think her “conjugal relations” have improved…
You know one of my pet peeves? When people use a person’s death as a source of humor. Her husband just died. It isn’t fucking funny.
Luna…context. To someone who is remotely familiar with Anne Rice it can in fact be amusing in an admittedly morbid way.
It’s how human beings deal with that final prospect, otherwaise we all just lurch around grimly awaiting our own mortality.
I do know who Anne Rice is, I was a fan of hers. Suggesting that she’s going to engage in necrophilia with her husband of 41 years is grotesque.
I agree with LunaSea, the OP is neither funny, nor clever, and in very bad taste.
Alas, what’s grim and grotesque and horrific to one person is perverse and amusing to the next. I can assure you I’ve heard jokes about intrinsically ‘unfunny’ things (like the Holocaust for example) that still manage to illicit that sense of ironic amusement that gets a chuckle.
When people react with seeming ‘Righteous indignation’ I always get a warning flag popping up. The term ‘How dare you’ almost invariably comes from someone in a perceived position of moral authority. Frankly, that kind of morality sucks.
Ann Rice has made her whole career, such as it is, writing about necrophilia in her various trashy vampire novels. And whatever her fans may say, that is the vulgar basis for her “success”, which is more financial than literary.
Rice’s books have been vulgar trash from the begining, and she has deliberately portrayed herself in a grotesque manner during the promotion of her books, even putting on silly “vampire clothes” for her back cover photos.** You are defending the dignity of a woman who has deliberately destroyed her own dignity.** Elvira has more self-respect.
Your defence is an absurdity.
So, she writes crap and dresses funny. She’s still a person.
Yes, but she wants to give that up! :eek:
OK, cite? Has she ever actually said she wants to be a vampire?
Well, yeah, of course it’s grotesque. That’s why it’s funny. <shrug> Not like she’s ever going to read this thread, so what’s the harm?
Bosda, the claims you’re making about Anne Rice sound like the ramblings of somebody with an irrational hatred of her to me. Fiery assertions, zero evidence. I particularly question your omniscient knowledge about what Anne Rice fans really like about her work.
I’m no expert on Anne Rice, don’t particularly like her novels, but IIRC the vampires in her novels were uninterested in sex. I mean, you have actually read them, right?
-fh
Except, of course, when they’re molesting young boys.
Yes but are they dead young boys?