>>>A terrible loss.
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>>A sad postscript, linked from CNN's main page. Pictures of Whitney Houston at 17. You ask yourself how it could have gone so wrong.
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>May it be noted that the price of her disks was about $5, and went back to $12 withing 30 minutes of the news.
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>Plain old show biz. They did the same spiel on Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Cobain... the list goes on and on.

Dolly Parton wrote many of those hit songs, so she'll be gettin much of the extra $$$$..

I say we have a National Whitney Houston Memorial day (just to peeve off the Teapublicans!!!)