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2/12/2012 12:37:28 AM

Three things now no longer exist in that Super Bowl Star Spangled Banner video.
56th Tactical Fighter Wing
Tampa Houlihan's Stadium
Whitney Houston

She was really dead years ago and living on borrowed time. Horrible waste of talent.

2/12/2012 3:24:03 AM

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"this thread is all wrong should have been an RIP thread poorly done"

Is it wrong that whenever a celebrity passes away my first thought is "Can I correctly guess the Goodnight, sweet prince picture on TWW?

2/12/2012 10:58:15 AM

2/12/2012 11:38:29 AM

RIP whitney... hate to see you go

but love to watch you leave

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:17 PM. Reason : wtf]

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:18 PM. Reason : double wtf]

2/12/2012 12:16:45 PM

whitney

2/12/2012 12:23:04 PM

whitney

WHITNEY?

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM. Reason : ?]

2/12/2012 12:23:24 PM

lol wtf

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM. Reason : ]

2/12/2012 12:24:04 PM

rip whitney

2/12/2012 12:25:15 PM

rip dnl

i tried typing dnl that time

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

2/12/2012 12:28:53 PM

you know you'll never love that way again

i'm really bummin about this today you guise

2/12/2012 12:37:37 PM

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM. Reason : busted maybe?]

2/12/2012 12:41:08 PM

this thread is broke

[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM. Reason : lol]

2/12/2012 12:41:48 PM

Krallum strolled em all

2/12/2012 12:45:29 PM

Anyone who'd followed reports of Whitney Houston's bizarre behavior in the days leading up to the Grammys had to have been "shocked, but not surprised" at reports of her demise, as the saying goes. Thursday in particular had been an obviously rough day in public for the troubled singer, whose appearance and behavior raised eyebrows among reporters, photographers, and regular folks who witnessed her erratic rounds.

First she first visited Brandy, Monica, and Clive Davis at rehearsals for the mogul's pre-Grammys party, where a Los Angeles Times reporter described her as reeking of alcohol, "visibly bloated," and "disheveled in mismatched clothes and hair that was dripping wet with either sweat or water." According to the Times, when Houston wasn't mugging and gesticulating wildly for Brandy and Monica — who were doing a media junket, as well as preparing a duet — she was alternately skipping around the lobby or "wandering aimlessly" around the Beverly Hills Hotel grounds. Reportedly, guests had even called security to report the singer doing handstands by the hotel pool.

Houston's Thursday was about to get worse… way worse. That evening, she attended a party headlined by Kelly Price at the Tru nightclub in Hollywood. As she exited, seeming intoxicated, photographers took close-ups of her legs, which appeared to be spotted with blood streaks, along with scratches on her wrists.

Wherever the blood and scratches came from, it wasn't from any publicly visible scuffle — although that had reportedly narrowly been avoided. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Houston got into a loud argument at the party with "X Factor" finalist Stacy Francis in the club's VIP section, shortly after they appeared on stage together. A source told THR that Houston got "belligerent" and that Houston's boyfriend, Ray J, actually stepped in to defend Francis' intentions. "Hands were raised" in anger, it was claimed.

Whitney Houston's moving national anthem at Super Bowl XXV inspired America

Houston's final public performance happened at the club that night. It lasted just under a minute, as she sang "Jesus Loves Me" with Price in an impromptu, ramshackle duet captured by any number of videographers in the crowd. Perhaps needless to say, she wasn't in her very best voice for what turned out to be her swansong appearance.

Houston had a much quieter Friday and early Saturday, at least publicly, even as photos of a not-so-hot mess circulated around the web. Whether the singer knew she was the butt of jokes and dire speculation or was oblivious to it in her final hours is unknown.

Just two months ago, "Saturday Night Live" had spoofed the star as out-of-touch and out-of-it in a sketch where alumnus Maya Rudolph reprised her famous Houston impression. In the skit, a hyperactive Rudolph/Houston was brought in to give Miley Cyrus some drug counseling, bragging, "I've been clean and sober since 2013."

Coming to be regarded as a lush or addict in her last months had to be a harsh rebuke for someone who'd claimed to have cleaned up while attempting a comeback a few years earlier. But the events of the past year made it clear that, in contrast to celebrated redemption stories like Robert Downey Jr.'s, rehab hadn't really taken for Houston.

Her sobriety had been a matter of public concern since the late '90s. A common public misassumption had been that if she ever got out from under the sway of husband Bobby Brown, she would be all right. "He was my drug," she told Oprah in 2009, two years after their divorce, after apparently cleaning up. "I didn't do anything without him. I wasn't getting high by myself."

Whitney Houston remembered at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy gala

But more recently, it'd started to look like her ex-husband was no longer the sole driving force of her substance abuse, if ever he had been. Last May, a Houston rep acknowledged that the singer was involve in outpatient rehab for ongoing drug and alcohol problems.

That was right around the time Houston and her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, made the news for getting a little too boisterous in the front row at a series of Prince concerts in L.A. Although Prince's reps later denied there was any dispute, it was reported at the time that Prince was so fed up with Houston's behavior and requests to get up on stage that he supposedly banned her from coming to the rest of his run.

All that was just a couple of months after the March 2011 edition of the National Enquirer that featured a double-page photo spread of Bobbi Kristina allegedly snorting lines of cocaine at a party (albeit with her mom nowhere in sight).

The tabloids also reported last year that Houston's fortune had run out. With no new albums on the horizon, her best hope for career renewal was the movie Sparkle, in which she played a supporting role as Jordin Sparks' mom. The film — her first since The Preacher's Wife in 1996 — was shot late last year and will come out in August, accompanied by a soundtrack that includes two new Houston tunes.

Otherwise, Houston didn't have much of a career going at the time of her death. Her should've-been comeback album, 2009's I Look to You, sold about a million copies in the U.S. — far from a shameful number, but also far from the 13 million copies for which her 1985 debut had been certified. The most embarrassing factor was that none of the singles from the album rose above No. 70 on the Hot 100. (Houston's only top 10 single of the 2000s was a re-release of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the patriotic days following 9/11.)

Whitney's life in photos

Houston's only major tours in the last decade were overseas, far away from the critical eyes of the American media. In September 2009, she did a short comeback concert for "Good Morning America" in Central Park. The blurring of the line between entertainment and news on morning shows became apparent as hosts Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts lauded Houston's performance on their show, even as every other media outlet was reporting on how the voice of a generation could no longer handle the demands of even an abridged show, clean or not.

The reports of ongoing trouble for Houston never served her image the way they might have, say, Amy Winehouse's. America never wanted to think of her as a bad girl, just a perhaps more grown-up version of the Girl Next Door who'd seemed so wholesome wanting to dance with somebody who loved her. But with the chops as well as the image failing her, there wasn't much left to make a thriving recording or certainly touring career out of.

In recent days, one solution for returning Houston to the limelight without subjecting her singing voice to harsh scrutiny had seemingly been arrived at. Rumors had been floated — and published by the Hollywood Reporter — that she was up for contention as a judge on "The X Factor." Simon Cowell told Piers Morgan that Houston had not actually been approached, but that in response to the news reports (which he implied might have been instigated by Houston's camp), his team had planned to have a meeting about considering her on Monday.

Bobby Brown breaks down

But getting in that public scuffle Thursday night with Stacy Francis, an admirer who was one of the Season 1 "X Factor" finalists, might not have done Houston any favors, had she lived to come up for contention with Cowell and his producers this week.

Even in as high-profile a period as Grammy week, Houston couldn't seem to shy away from small acts of self-sabotage. Her fans can only hope it's the years when pride predominated that ultimately define her legacy.

2/12/2012 1:34:58 PM

i only care about her death because i have to keep hearing about it and i don't want to

2/12/2012 2:20:15 PM

whitney's daughter just rushed to the hospital.

2/12/2012 2:20:37 PM

arsenic poisoning, they said

2/12/2012 2:21:08 PM

who, what, where?

2/12/2012 2:24:26 PM

Like mother, like daughter

2/12/2012 2:25:28 PM

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"who"

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"whitney's daughter"

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"what"

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"arsenic poisoning"

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"where"

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"the hospital"

2/12/2012 2:26:27 PM

^^^^ for real.. were did you read/hear that? source please

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2/12/2012 2:27:41 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/12/showbiz/whitney-houston-daughter-arsenic-poison/index.html

2/12/2012 2:30:21 PM

whitney dies and we finally get snow. yep she was hogging it all...

2/12/2012 2:54:46 PM

^ my 14 year old cousin texted me that this morning... how old are you?

2/12/2012 3:10:09 PM

Why do you talk to your 14 yr old cousin? That's a little odd.



[Edited on February 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM. Reason : the picture below is just a joke]

2/12/2012 3:11:27 PM

^ if that is best responce you can come up with, im just walking away..

2/12/2012 3:15:12 PM

gross dude. just gross

2/12/2012 3:16:32 PM

does no one else talk to there extended family or anything? lol.. my 3 cousins on my moms side we all hang out, fish, drink, chill,. wtfs wrong with that

2/12/2012 3:19:13 PM

Goodnight, sweet princess!

2/12/2012 3:21:19 PM

Holy shit, this is the scene in Texas this morning of car lining up for Houston's funeral

2/12/2012 3:24:39 PM

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"does no one else talk to there extended family or anything? lol.. my 3 cousins on my moms side we all hang out, fish, drink, chill,. wtfs wrong with that"

I like to hang out with my little cousin. He's 15 and when he comes to Raleigh he'd rather stay at my place than my parents. I actually took him to the last State home game. We also keep up on Facebook and Xbox Live. I don't think it's weird at all. My sister is 14 and I hang out with her too. Geniusboy is just trolling you.

2/12/2012 3:48:55 PM

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

2/12/2012 3:52:32 PM

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"I like to hang out with my little cousin. He's 15 and when he comes to Raleigh he'd rather stay at my place than my parents. I actually took him to the last State home game. We also keep up on Facebook and Xbox Live. I don't think it's weird at all. My sister is 14 and I hang out with her too. Geniusboy is just trolling you."

Does your little cousin text you whitney houston jokes for fun?

2/12/2012 3:53:04 PM

What a horrible person.

2/12/2012 5:21:49 PM

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"whitney dies and we finally get snow. yep she was hogging it all..."

I've seen a few variations of that on my FB too.

2/12/2012 5:24:40 PM

So are we taking bets on how?
Says she was in the tub....

2/12/2012 5:28:38 PM

Filled the tub to take a bath.
Was pilled up out of her mind.
Fell and hit head and drown.

2/12/2012 5:43:17 PM

dnl got to her

2/12/2012 5:44:00 PM

Breaking news from PigPen

Bobby Brown found shot dead in home

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc/story/9260972/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/sports/pro/basketball&id=8009971
http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/2/105445084.html

2/12/2012 5:50:27 PM

if you hadn't have put PigPen, I would have said it for you

2/12/2012 5:50:57 PM

no need for harmless hijinx to get my a day in the box

2/12/2012 5:51:37 PM

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"Filled the tub to take a bath. Was pilled up out of her mind. Fell and hit head and drown."

Filled the tub to take a bath.
Was pilled up out of her mind.
Took a deep breathe and went under water.
Waited to exhale.
Forgot.

2/12/2012 5:58:11 PM

We were watching Be My Valentine Charlie Brown with our kid when they came in with late breaking news. I was expecting a terrorist attack, outbreak of war, a presidential assassination, or something. Nope, Whitney Houston died.

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2/12/2012 6:54:45 PM

I heard she finally got revenge on Bobby Brown











She beat him to death

2/12/2012 7:45:30 PM

-2/10

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

2/12/2012 7:46:36 PM

whitney more like shitney

2/12/2012 7:48:12 PM

how many times will she be mentioned tonight?

2/12/2012 8:07:38 PM

Play a drinking game.

A sip of beer everytime they show a pic/video of her, or mention her name.

You won't make it till hour 2.

That answer your question?

2/12/2012 8:09:29 PM

ll cool j is annoying me
too much energy

2/12/2012 8:11:32 PM