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[DR76]

I know that she brought this upon herself, but I feel sorry for her.

[danslittlefinger]

Amy had it in the bag. Bang goes that then.

Over to Duffy and Leona..let them cat fight this one out.

[Righty007]

Amy Winehouse has emphysema... Apparently her doctors have warned her that if she continues smoking drugs, she won't only just ruin her voice, but she will also die! Man I am actually feeling really bad for her.. Nevermind whether her career is in jeopardy, this is now a life or death situation!! This is just sad!

http://omg.yahoo.com...a/news/10052?nc

Why do you feel bad for her? Do you know her personally?

So, you're saying that a human being can't have compassion for someone they don't know personally?

[The Dove]

Thanks Righty!! Yeah I guess I was saying that I feel sorry for how bad her situation has become, but I agree that she has no-one to blame but herself for getting hooked on drugs in the first place.

[DaveBond21]

Ha! Unless the drug dealers are Winehouse fans, I doubt they're going to be willing to stop supplying her with drugs.

Drug dealers are well-known advocates of healthy living.

[Qwerty]

Amy had it in the bag. Bang goes that then.

Over to Duffy and Leona..let them cat fight this one out.

I have trouble believing the Leona Lewis rumours. One wonders what other names we'll see named before we finally get an official announcement.

[Captain Tightpants]

Amy had it in the bag.

Did she? All we know was that she produced a demo tape. We don't know how well it was received with the producers or whether they even had her in mind from the beginning. The only thing Winehouse had was the support of the tabloid newspapers, which - if the British variety are anything like their Australian counterpats - counts fr nothing.

[doubler83]

Amy Winehouse has emphysema... Apparently her doctors have warned her that if she continues smoking drugs, she won't only just ruin her voice, but she will also die! Man I am actually feeling really bad for her.. Nevermind whether her career is in jeopardy, this is now a life or death situation!! This is just sad!

http://omg.yahoo.com...a/news/10052?nc

Why do you feel bad for her? Do you know her personally?

So, you're saying that a human being can't have compassion for someone they don't know personally?

Why have compassion for somebody who seems so hell-bent on destroying their own life through something that's self-inflicted? Last time I checked, she was still an adult. Everybody knows the dangers of doing drugs. Yet she still chose to dabble in it and look where it's got her. Nobody told her to start doing drugs. She did them of her own free will. You choose a path to walk down, you've got to face the consequences that that path will bring. Amy Winehouse is facing those consequences now.

She's just another celebrity with too much money and too little sense. I just don't understand how you can have compassion for a person who seems to have no respect for her own life.

I have no sympathy for this woman whatsoever.

Edited by doubler83, 24 June 2008 - 09:23 AM.

[frankwalker]

...
... I just don't understand how you can have compassion for a person who seems to have no respect for her own life.

Last time I checked, she was an adult. Everybody knows the dangers of doing drugs. Yet she still chose to dabble in it and look where it's got her. I have no sympathy for this woman whatsoever.

I've come to the conclusion that people with drug problems are not making these decisions rationally, the way we would. They know drugs are bad for them, but the pull is too strong and their thinking is distorted.

Just recently I picked up a friend who was released from a few days in the psychiatric ward of the local hospital after a breakdown from using self-made LSD-type drugs and deliberate sleep deprivation. Within minutes he was talking about getting ripped as soon as he got home! Very frustrating to all who know the guy. He is definitely irrational in these decisions - yet the guy is capable of logical thinking as he's a working professional with a couple of advanced degrees. He runs a business that is rapidly going down the tubes due to his drug "hobby".

[Skudor]

Amy had it in the bag. Bang goes that then.

Over to Duffy and Leona..let them cat fight this one out.

I have trouble believing the Leona Lewis rumours. One wonders what other names we'll see named before we finally get an official announcement.

Ditto. Stinks of self-promotion / promotion by her ... promoters. The Duffy stuff sounds plausible, but doesn't really have any inside rumours to it.

[Loomis]

At the risk of seeming insensitive, I'm getting very bored by how Winehouse is always portrayed as being constantly at death's door. I know that she has her problems, but then again she's a millionaire celebrity to whom the best care on earth is readily available, and I strongly suspect that she'll outlive most of CBn.

Could it be that her health issues are being endlessly exaggerated in the media in order to shift her CDs? In any case, with, for example, the death toll of the Burma cyclone currently standing at 84,500, with 54,000 still missing (and those are just the Burmese government's figures), the media's obsession with how Winehouse is allegedly dying on her feet 24/7 is stomach-churning. If I'm not mistaken, she gave a press conference the other day (to apologise for that racist home video) and is scheduled to play the Nelson Mandela concert and the Glastonbury Festival in the coming days, so she can't really be the virtual corpse she's made out to be, can she?

http://www.nme.com/n...winehouse/37577

As far as her music goes, I'm beginning to like her stuff and hope she'll do the Bond theme.

[Skudor]

Talking of her music, I'm beginning to like her stuff and hope she'll do the Bond theme.

It's a good fit, isn't it.

[Loomis]

It would be an amazing fit. I can't really put this into words, but she has by far the best voice for a Bond theme of anyone I can think of, and it would also seem tailor-made for the Craig era.

[Skudor]

Precisely - I wouldn't put her on a PB Bond film, but for the follow up to CR someone with that melancholic sound is perfect.

I'm thinking it's looking pretty improbable at the moment though.

[dodge]

Poor girl has her demons. Now reported she's suffering from...'traces of emphysema'. Busy trying to quit smoking as well as this and that. Be a kick if she came back as a Vegan vegetarian and fitness freak, stripped of her tatoos if not her taboos. Can't wait for her next album and am glad to know I'm not alone.

[danslittlefinger]

http://news.yahoo.co...eople_winehouse

Apparently Amy does NOT have disease.

[The Dove]

While she may not have full blown emphysema, she does show early signs of contracting it.

[Fro]

Winehouse still singing Friday... apparently checked out of the hospital to rehearse.
http://www.eurweb.co...ry/eur44684.cfm

[dee-bee-five]

I know there are some who are wholly against Amy Winehouse being associated with the franchise (lest it sullies the clean-living, wholesome image of a hard drinking, hard smoking, hard sh*gging professonial assassin), but surely even they will accept that if Leona Lewis is selected, it will be a massive step backwards creatively for the series.

I am with you on that one. Though I found Chris Cornell a bit eighties power rock for me. Someone mentioned Goldfrapp, I know they were touted for Casino Royale but I still think a heavy contender. Didn't Portishead recently bring out a new album. Maybe. I still think rather than go with someone who will appeal to the american market go for someone who is right. All the time they try and second guess getting a hit they are onto a loser. Hell they took enough risks with Casino Royale in so many things and yet it paid off in spades. I am sure if they had listened to some studio exec we would have ended up with another DAD.

I agree with you. Casino Royale succeeded because it took risks, not in spite of them. I really don't expect to see QoS playing it safe and that includes the theme song.

[Fro]

So Winehouse isn't dead yet or "lost her voice", so it's safe to say she's back in the running if she can stay sober.

[Captain Tightpants]

So Winehouse isn't dead yet or "lost her voice", so it's safe to say she's back in the running if she can stay sober.

Do you really think so? I mean, with all the health problems, assault charges, controversial videos, her problems in perofrming live shows, word from her producer saying she's not ready to record new material and her terrible reputation, do you seriously think EON are going to have the patience to keep trying to get her? If it were another case of Die Another Day, where Madonna was the first and only choice for the theme, then they might press ahead with it, but the fact that they're accepting demo tapes from any artit interested in performing the theme is evidence enough that they're not. I know a lot of the pro bono wino crowd - the Ardent Amy brigade - have given up on her, and I can't imagine EON are going to wait forever. They're making a film here, and they're sticking to a tight schedule. Amy Winehouse has to work with that, not the other way around. Besides, the tabloids have moved on, and while they're no indicator of anything, if they're losing faith in the person they think should do the theme and have pushed for (unaware that they have no influence) since she emerged on the music scene ... well, it's little more than a pipe dream.

[CallMeRotten]

Amy Winehouse would be a great choice. I've always thought Beth Gibbons of Portishead fame or even Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp.

[killkenny kid]

After reading this weeks ROLLING STONE, all I can say is.... Amy, I still love you. But, this isn't a game anymore. GET WELL. And here is my new wild card for the theme song............Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan.

[Jim]

Slightly erratic performance last night, but at least the poor sod's still alive.

[DamnCoffee]

Why? What happened last night?

[Jim]

Why? What happened last night?

She played Glastonbury; it was on BBC2 for about an hour and it was... fascinating.

[DamnCoffee]

Winehouse 'scuffles' with fan at Glasto
Sunday, June 29 2008, 09:27 BST
By Daniel Kilkelly, Entertainment Reporter


Amy Winehouse was at the centre of a fresh controversy last night after she appeared to lash out at a fan at the Glastonbury festival.

As her hour-long set on the Pyramid Stage drew to a close, Winehouse climbed down into the pit to interact with the crowd while she performed her hit song 'Rehab'. It was at this point that she was spotted scuffling with an unseen audience member.

The troubled singer also scolded the crowd after they booed when she mentioned her jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

Amy warned: "Don't boo. I'll find your phone and ring your mum and tell them about your bad manners. Manners cost you nothing."

Some audience members felt that Amy was not yet back on top form, criticising her rambling between songs.

Greg Milsted, 26, told The Telegraph: "I thought her singing voice excellent as always but between songs, the way she led into them seemed a bit confused."

Fellow audience member Laura Bradley added: "It is a shame the crowd didn't appreciate her - they were slagging her off."

Winehouse is expected to check back into the London Clinic today, where she has been receiving treatment. Her father Mitch recently revealed that she is suffering from the early stages of lung condition emphysema.

Poor girl.

[Harry Fawkes]

I am afraid I have gone off her now. I know that's a cruel thing to say but the things I've read...Nah, I wouldn't like her to sing QOS. Dame Shirley please step forward.

[Santa]

Apparently she punched someone because they grabbed her hair. Frankly, if I were trying to sing to the crowd and one of them grabbed my hair, I think I'd punch them too.

[Harry Fawkes]

I agree Santa. I would have done the same. But what I was referring to was her drug problem. I was sick of what I read about her and the video I saw of her doing drugs with her estranged boyfriend. Good voice and lovely music but I am genuinely turned off.