>>>>>>The news really bummed me out. Great actor, great humanitarian ... and no one has even mentioned his race car driving! ;-) Second place overall in LeMans in 1979 (first in class).
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>>>>>>He will definitely be missed ... but will at least "live on" because of his movies. If I were at home, I'd watch one tonite.
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>>>>>Bummer, though... and the day before Serbia lost her James Dean - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Savi%C4%87
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>>>>Sad. It appears that drugs are a problem in the entertainment industry worldwide.
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>>>This girl was too smart, from what I read (and from what I remember seeing). She obviously couldn't stand it all.
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>>>BTW, she was one of those who think, just like most of our actors, that film is art first, entertainment maybe, and who would not like to be thought of as an industrial production plant.
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>>She may have been creative, an artist, and talented, but "too smart" and dying of a heroin overdose don't jive Dragan.
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>Welcome to Serbia :).
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>"Too smart for where she was" may not have meant "smart enough" in general. I guess at some point this way of slow and colorful suicide was the choice. I wouldn't know - I never tried anything weirder than alcohol.

I get your meaning now. It is sad, even sadder when you think of it that way.