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[quote=Anonymous]I used to watch the Thanksgiving episode of Friends with my cousins every Thanksgiving. It was the one time each year that. we watched tv together. When I was older, I'd come home from work and watch two reruns of Friends while eating dinner. I saw Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, etc. I read his book a few months ago.

After a while you get comfortable seeing someone over the course of years (decades, in this case), and if you like them you start rooting for them. So you're sad when they die.

I never cared about Steve Irwin. I think it's a little weird how neither of his kids have ever really explored other careers, and were basically brought up to spend their lives orbiting around their dead father. Who the son can't possibly even remember at all. It strikes me as a tiny cult. They wear their all tan clothes, if you date or marry one of the kids you have to eventually also wear tan clothes, you go on dates AT the zoo, etc. It just doesn't seem like there's any balance.

But I grew up in NY and Billy Joel songs were the first recognizable songs I ever played on the piano, and remember being devastated when the news broke he and Christie Brinkley were getting divorced. I remember saying to my mom "They're the first people I've ever known to get divorced," even though I didn't ACTUALLY know them. But we listened to Billy Joel records, heard his songs on the radio,, played them on the piano, etc. [/quote]

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