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Irene Cara's cause of death has been revealed
Irene Cara, who died last year at the age of 63 years old, passed away due to arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, reports indicate, citing documents from the Pinellas County Florida medical examiner, which also note that the woman was diabetic.
Cara was known for her role in the 1980's film "Fame." She was also known for the song "Flashdance ... What a Feeling." According to the Academy, Cara shared a best original song Oscar for that song with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. The Associated Press indicated that Cara cowrote the lyrics with Forsey, while Moroder wrote the music.
"It is with profound sadness that on behalf of her family I announce the passing of Irene Cara. The Academy Award winning actress, singer, songwriter, and producer passed away in her Florida home," Cara's publicist, Judith A. Moose, noted in a statement in November 2022. "Irene's family has requested privacy as they process their grief. She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films. Funeral services are pending and a memorial for her fans will be planned at a future date."
\u201cThis is the absolute worst part of being a publicist. I can't believe I've had to write this, let alone release the news. Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene. I'll be reading each and every one of them and know she'll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her fans. - JM\u201d— Irene Cara (@Irene Cara) 1669444693
People on social media paid tribute to Cara in response to the news of her death last year.
"Irene Cara, you inspired me more than you could ever know. Your songwriting and vocals created pure energy that will never cease. You also defined an era that is so close to my heart," Lenny Kravitz tweeted. "Your portrayal of 'Coco' in Alan Parker's 'Fame' is immortal and know that I was madly in love with her. Thank you Irene. You’re gonna live forever," he added.
"So shocking and sad. I feel like I grew up with her. Deepest condolences to Ms Cara’s family. Her memory will truly bless us all," MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted.
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Whitlock: Kanye West’s ‘Thanksgiving prayer’ illustrates the dangers of marrying a feminist
Kanye West married the wrong whore. I’m not talking about Kim Kardashian. I’m referring to fame. Kardashian is the other F-word — feminist, which is just as bad.
Fame is Kanye’s true love, the addiction that alternately tortures and pleases him, the obsession that has turned his life into “The Truman Show,” the fixation that caused him to abandon the name his mother gave him and relentlessly pursue a woman who loves transactionally.
Kanye West is a fame whore and a cuck. His relationship with Kardashian is emblematic of an American male culture that chases social media approval and disavows man’s natural leadership instincts to maintain peace at home with a feminist spouse.
A seductive tramp brought a billionaire rapper to his knees.
But Kim Kardashian is really just a symptom of Ye’s fame addiction. She’s the crack pipe lost beneath the driver’s seat of his car. She’s a clue to the depth of his descent and addiction. At 19, while high on ecstasy, she married a music producer. At 26, she fueled her celebrity with a leaked sex tape. At 31, she married a journeyman NBA player. By age 33, she was married to West. Today, as of this writing, the mother of four is in a relationship with a 28-year-old comedian.
On Thanksgiving Day, Kanye released a five-minute self-emasculating video begging Kim Kardashian to take him back and copping to a laundry list of wrongdoings. He called the video a prayer, and a choir sang in the background.
It was not a prayer. It was a confession to a false God — the fame whore — delivered at the altar of social media.
“All I think about every day is how I get my family back together and how I heal the pain that I’ve caused,” he said. “I take accountability for my actions.”
As far as celebrities go, Kanye West is a darling of conservatives. He supported President Donald Trump. He professes Christian faith. From the single “Jesus Walks” to the album “Jesus Is King,” West is one of the few commercial rappers who explores Christian themes.
I’ve always defended Kanye. But his Thanksgiving prayer and his work with Lil Nas X on the song “Industry Baby” make me suspicious of Kanye’s true motive and unable to sympathize with his journey.
Religion is just another tool Kanye is using to pursue fame.
Any heterosexual man can relate to being madly in love with the wrong woman. What’s unrelatable — or at least grossly unsavory — is using God, a choir, and prayer in pursuit of that woman.
Kanye’s Thanksgiving prayer should be retitled “Kim Is King.”
“My wife did not like me wearing the red hat,” Kanye confessed. “Being a good wife, she just wanted to protect me and our family. I made me and our family a target not aligning with Hollywood’s political stance, and that was hard for our marriage.”
Kanye just explained why many men, particularly black men, are reluctant to support Trump and/or admit that they reject the left’s undermining of the patriarchy. Men fear losing their wives and girlfriends. It’s the brilliance of the Democratic Party and corporate media painting Trump as the second coming of Adolf Hitler and Ted Bundy rolled into one U.S. president.
Trump is a wedge issue inside a marriage or relationship. Women see him as a racist predator. Weak men go along with the charade. Trump support is a lethal issue within a relationship dependent on fame. Kim Kardashian has no issue with Trump. In her quest to defend people she deemed wrongfully convicted of crime, Kardashian rolled in and out of the White House whenever she felt like it. She wanted Kanye to keep a safe distance and not publicly wear his true political views.
It sounds like a reasonable request. However, it’s not reasonable when you believe the political opposition is attempting to rewrite the Constitution, dismantle Western civilization and the nuclear family, stir racial animus, define heterosexual Christian men as evil, and surrender power to China.
Conservatives want the same freedoms liberals enjoy. Under the guise of stopping climate change and preventing white supremacists from overthrowing our government with flagpoles, liberals proudly wear their political views and affiliation. Conservatives believe they’re saving the world, too.
Kanye wants his family back. He should be praying for a return of his balls. He can’t see that Kim stole them. His addiction to fame clouds his vision.
Don’t make the mistake Kanye made. Don’t marry, date, or bed a feminist. Don’t let a woman blind you to the truth.Whitlock: The social media trap house won’t let Simone Biles escape her fame addiction
Fame is a drug. It's the most addictive and destructive drug known to man.
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has suffered an accidental overdose. She's experiencing "twisties," which is another way of saying she's twisted and tweaking, a common side effect of excessive fame. A child star of the 2016 Olympics, Biles' fame dealers, aka corporate sponsors, convinced her to increase her popularity with a second appearance at the Summer Games. Unfortunately, her tolerance level is too low. She's flatlining at Woodstock for athletes.
Friday night Biles withdrew from two more Olympic events, the vault and uneven bars. She previously pulled out of the all-around competition. Earlier in the Games, after a bad vault in the team competition, she showed initial signs of an overdose, inexplicably quitting mid-competition.
"After further consultation with medical staff, Simone Biles has decided to withdraw from the event finals for vault and the uneven bars," USA Gymnastics announced in a statement. "She will continue to be evaluated daily to determine whether to compete in the finals for floor exercise and balance beam."
Biles is done. If she competes in Monday's floor competition or Tuesday's beam and injures herself, USA Gymnastics, the United States Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Committee, and NBC could all face colossal lawsuits.
The face of the Tokyo Olympics died of an accidental overdose. Same as Prince, Amy Winehouse, River Phoenix, Whitney Houston, Chris Farley, and Kurt Cobain. Biles is more like Michael Jackson, whose doctor overloaded his body with sedatives. Visa, Athletha, Nabisco, and Core Power — Biles' corporate sponsors — prescribed more fame than the tiny, 24-year-old gymnast could handle. They all issued statements supporting Biles' decision to focus on her mental health. They had no choice. It's good public relations. It's the equivalent of New Jack City drug dealer Nino Brown passing out turkeys at Thanksgiving.
But it's unfair to single out major corporations for this particular societal plague. We're all responsible for America's fame addiction. We all promote the lie that life is more enjoyable when our minds are disconnected from reality by alcohol and other drugs. We think fame is a perfectly legitimate and reasonable aspiration. We envy the people who have it. We genuflect in their presence and pretend they have an air that normal people lack. The people uninterested in the high produced by fame are squares or nerds. They're too uptight.
Fame is the cocaine of idolatry, the worship of idols, the foundation of all sin.
Secular culture installs singers, actors, rappers, models, athletes, politicians, and the rich as Gods worthy of emulation, reverence, and protection. Fame used to be a drug sold only to the elites. Technology cheapened it, turned it into crack rocks available to anyone with a smartphone, a social media app, and a willingness to twerk, troll, or virtue signal. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok unleashed the idolatry variant — self-worship.
Drug users and social media users chase the same dopamine high.
Simone Biles is awash in likes, retweets, and followers. She's chasing. I feel sorry for her. I have genuine empathy, not dismissive pity, for her plight. The modern athlete is pulled in far more directions than previous generations. The corporate purse strings simultaneously bless you financially and compromise you mentally. The sponsors subtly dictate that you indulge — at least recreationally — in social media. You can't be popular and influential without a strong social media brand.
Social media is the trap house, the drug haven that exposes you to humanity at its worst. In order to survive, you need the thick skin of a rhinoceros. In order to thrive, you must tame your mind and adhere to the groupthink coded by Silicon Valley. The stench and stain of the trap house follow you wherever you go. It's difficult to purge the toxins and intoxicants you ingest daily. Your body and mind crave what's already inside them.
Step one in Simone Biles' recovery is admitting she has a problem. She's done that. Step two is diagnosing the problem properly. We'll know she's done that when she leaves the trap house and deletes her social accounts.
I wish her luck. I'm more than twice her age and have never made it to step two.
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