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Suicide: Jar Jar Binks actor reveals he contemplated suicide following ‘Star Wars: Episode I’ backlash

submitted by Nick Jul 4th 2018 08:00 am (www.nme.com)

Ahmed Best played the much-maligned character for the first time in 'The Phantom Menace' back in 1999Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I, has opened up about the impact that the role had on his mental health, revealing that he even contemplated suicide following the backlash his character received nearly 20 years ago. Best portrayed the Gungan character for the first time in the 1999 film, […]The post Jar Jar Binks actor reveals he contemplated suicide following ‘Star Wars: Episode I’ backlash appeared first on NME.

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Courtney Love: Calls Off Hole Reunion

submitted by Nick Jul 24th 2014 02:00 am (stereogum.com)

Earlier this year, right before the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide and Hole’s classic album Live Through This, Courtney Love said that she was reuniting with Melissa Auf Der Maur, Eric Erlandson, and Patty Schemel and that they were working on new material. A few weeks later, she tapered expectations by saying that...

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Ozzy Osbourne: on his and wife's 'suicide pact': 'I've said to Sharon 'Just turn the machine off''

submitted by Nick Jul 5th 2014 12:00 pm (www.nme.com)

'If I had a stroke and was paralysed I don't want to be here,' said the Black Sabbath frontman

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Suicide: Searching For Sugar Man Star Faces Legal Trouble, Director Commits Suicide

submitted by Nick May 29th 2014 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)

In the early ’70s, a Detroit singer-songwriter named Sixto Rodriguez released two albums that didn’t sell much, and he promptly faded into extreme obscurity. But those two albums, for whatever reason, went on to become tremendous cult successes in South Africa, and decades later, South African fans set out to find Rodriguez a...

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David Byrne: Anna Calvi & David Byrne – “Strange Weather” Video

submitted by Nick May 28th 2014 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)

When we found out that Anna Calvi would release Strange Weather, an EP of cover songs ranging from Suicide to fka Twigs (the latter of which you can already listen to), one of the most exciting details was that it contained a pair of duets with David Byrne. Now Alan Del Rio Ortiz has directed [...]

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Freeway: Girl Talk & Freeway – “Suicide (Remix)” (Feat. A$AP Ferg)

submitted by Nick May 19th 2014 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Last month, Girl Talk teamed with the Roc-A-Fella veteran Freeway to release Broken Ankles, a surprisingly smooth EP-length mixtape that did a nice job finding a midpoint between both guys’ disparate aesthetics. And now they’ve roped a game A$AP Ferg into adding a verse to “Suicide,” one of the stronger tr...

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