Skip to content

A thing to be famous for

Anne Heche obituary
Actress who got her breakthrough in Donnie Brasco and dated Ellen DeGeneres

Famous for who you date?

24 thoughts on “A thing to be famous for”

  1. Ottokring

    Six Days, Seven nights – something of a turkey. As it happens she was pretty good in ‘Donnie Brasco’, ‘Wag the Dog’ and ‘I know what you did last summer’ so on the basis of previous actresses who I have seen in the obituaries columns she probably does merit some consideration. Of course her travails (for the MSM driven by a combination of gender and sexuality which always helps strengthen the narratives around insitutionalized ‘-phobia’ and ‘The patriarchy) and divorce from Degeneres have massively amplified her prominence. A sign of the Times….

  2. I know what you did last summer’

    Can’t remember her in that. But then I was concentrating on the teens getting sliced up.

  3. Famous for who you date?

    Until now. Ramming her car into a house whilst ripped to the tits on charlie will be what she’s remembered for.

  4. If anything, dating Ellen seemed to put a damper on her career. She had a pretty good career going before that. There’s still a bit of a thing in movies about gays playing straights. You can play gays, or non-romantic characters (like Wizards or oddballs) but not straights.

    Although it may have just been choices of films. She had a run of turkeys like that one with Harrison Ford and Volcano.

    I didn’t realise it was her in Donnie Brasco. But it is a top film and she seemed to do well in it.

  5. ‘In the USA “dating”is a euphemism for “fucking.”’

    Thank you; that’s helpful. Now, what does “partying” mean?

  6. Well, her entire life revolved around spiting her mother. She had reason to, but still, she never moved on. Focused more on her lesbianism and alphabet activism than her acting. Shame, she was cute to look at. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  7. @asiaseen

    Party = booze and drugs. Anne was a woman who worships the Columbian marching powder.

    USA is the worlds biggest junkie and they are very tolerant of the wealthy enjoying their parties.

  8. From the video of her speeding prior to the crash, it looked like she was driving an electric mini. No wonder it burst into flames when she crashed. Drugs + virtue signalling – not a good combi.

  9. Like the Duke of Edinburgh – more famous for who their partner is than for anything they did themselves.

  10. Dennis, Your Guide To True Love

    ‘In the USA “dating”is a euphemism for “fucking.”’

    Not when I did it.

  11. . . . an electric mini. No wonder it burst into flames when she crashed.

    Don’t know the powertrain, but the mostly intact passenger cab appears to have burnt from without not from within (it’s where the Lithium is, normally). Heche seems to have died from the effects of (hot) smoke inhalation; aerial shots of her final rally (?) on the stretcher show her without major burns to the upper body.

    Drugs . . .

    Either being fucked and bombed on cocaine and booze plus high speed impact plus various fire damage isn’t particularly harmful, or the organ donation angle is somewhat exaggerated.

    I’m another who fancied her from a distance (yup, another lesbian). Hopefully she and her two boys shared family joy, and her bonkersnessness isn’t inheritable.

  12. @Ottokring

    Judging by her convulsing and flailing, she very well could have been completely out of it and reacting instinctively to pain in her legs or wherever. They said she was brain dead, so a wonky brain plus certain substances can have this result. Not sure what that sheet is all about, though. Better off asking an EMT or someone well versed in burn trauma.

    That said, it’s more common than you would think for someone to be conscious/semi-conscious and then dead moments later. You can be talking and joking in the hospital bed and then flatline after two minutes.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *