“This is like Lindsay Lohan dying.”

As was mentioned here yesterday, Brittany Murphy had a long history of drug rumors and erratic behavior. Now Gerald Posner of the Daily Beast writes that her sad and pointless death was pretty much the worlds least surprising surprise.

“This is like Lindsay Lohan dying,” a studio executive told me. “It really doesn’t come, unfortunately, as a shock.”
Virtually everyone I spoke with who knew her suggested that it was a given that she had a drug problem, involving both heroin and cocaine, though none admitted to directly seeing her use or abuse narcotics. “She had too many drugs and too little food,” said a makeup artist who had worked with her, adding that she sometimes “nodded off” in front of her.
“She was a space cadet most of the time when I saw her,” added the studio executive. Others echoed that privately.

This whole thing reminds me of the time my friend brought me a sandwich. It was a meatball sandwich, and it was very good. I also had a coke, but my coke had too much ice and I don’t like ice so I would have to say my coke was not as good as my sandwich. Then my friend left and then I read that thing on the Daily Beast comparing Brittany to Lindsay and then I wrote this. It’s funny how the mind works, how two unrelated memories can blend together like that.