RIP Amy Winehouse!

i agree she was a waste of space and a junkie, she was playing with fire and by god she got burned lol,,   I hear george best and alex higgins are said to be over the moon, theve just heard theres a winehouse on its way to heaven :)

From the BBC website:

Sacha Baron Cohen to play Amy Winehouse.

Baron Cohen had been on board for two years
Mitch Winehouse said Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Amy Winehouse in a film about her, the blues singer's father Mitch Winehouse has confirmed to the BBC.

"We have Sacha Baron Cohen, which will probably be a shock to a lot of people, but he's been talking with us for a long time," Winehouse told the HARDtalk show.

Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan is writing the screenplay, he added.

The film, which will focus on the period leading up to her car crash gig in Belgrade last month, will begin shooting next year.

"I think we'll try and keep ourselves out of it as much as we can," Winehouse said.

Baron Cohen had been "on this project since we started talking about it seriously with Peter Morgan a couple of years ago," he added.

Winehouse Snr and long time friend Ex Libertine frontman Peter Doherty will oversee music featured in the film, which will include songs by Winehouse as a solo performer and also some of her famous duets, including her performance with Charlotte Church in 2007.

Graham King, of GK Films, which is co-producing the movie along with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's production company Tribeca, said Winehouse was "a music brand all unto itself".

"Amy Winehouse was an awe-inspiring performer so with Sacha in the starring role, coupled with Peter's screenplay and the support of her father, we have the perfect combination to tell the real story behind her success."

Morgan, whose previous works include the Oscar-nominated screenplays for The Queen and Frost/Nixon, is already working on the script for the as-yet-untitled project.

Winehouse's 90-minute appearance at the Belgrade concert in Serbia featured Valerie, Rehab, and Back In Black. It is considered to be one of the worst rock performances.

The HARDtalk interview with Mitch Winehouse will be broadcast on BBC World News on Thursday 28 July and the BBC News Channel on Friday 29 September.

I guess Freddie Mercury deserved to get Aids then as he was a homosexual!

Eh?...oh i get it, you're trying to be humourous.  Maybe next time.

There are some SICK FUCKS on here, get a life!

The only person she ever hurt was herself.  I don't get the hate.

RIP Amy

My comment about Freddie Mercury is a go at all those here that think Amy Winehouse deserved to die due to being addicted to drugs.Aids is an illness as is addiction to drugs/alcohol.Neither deserved to die early.

A few thoughts, not all are specifically about Winehouse...

It's sad when anyone dies young, avoidable (drugs, alcohol, etc.) or not (terminal illness).

I never really cared for Winehouse's music or the cult of celebrity that surrounded her. She had her fans, and that's fair. They feel the feel the loss they way we feel the loss of Freddie. Her music gave them something. 

Here's where it gets a little tricky, because nobody likes truth bombs in the midst of sorrow, but what I can't wrap my brain around is how any artist can be taken by surprise by the pressures of fame and fortune. In the modern era there are so many examples of musicians, actors and other celebrities getting swept up in it and meeting an untimely end. I often wonder when I hear a "woe is me" from a pop star if they had ever heard of stars like Joplin, Presley, Morrison or Cobain. I have to ask, what did they expect could happen? Just the good stuff (money, travel, independence)?

I can sympathize, but only to a point. Everyone must take responsibility for their actions, be they the artist pressured by their own talent, the hordes of fans dying to know everything about them or the journalists who hound them endlessly. The artists who chose to cope with life via drugs and alcohol shouldn't be surprised if it all falls apart. The fans should understand that just because you like the music, it doesn't mean you're entitled to invade that person's life. Journalists need to remember that their job is to tell us what we *need* to know, not necessarily what we *want* to know (or what they think we want to know).

It's too bad that she died. I was a little surprised that it happened so suddenly, but I can't say I didn't see this coming. However, I really can't understand the flood of ridiculous attempts at compliments - musicians comparing her voice to Billie Holiday's, with whom she had very little in common except a degree of "unpolishedness". Sure, she contributed to music - I didn't like her music, but that's really not very important - but the way they make it appear as if she was the most influential thing to happen in the world of music since the invention of polyphony is just ridiculous - and it makes a mockery out of her, which I don't really think she deserved.

I think it is sad that the person died, and I especially feel sorry for her parents, but I don't think it's right to overstate her contribution to music. I hope I don't offend anyone with this, but I sincerely doubt whether her name will still be known fifty years from now.

RIP Amy

One of the few real talented musicians of this century.

"Yes, my thoughts go out to her family and friends ...."

No, they don't.  You can't seriously be such a callous turd and actually expect such a trite phrase as 'my thoughts go out to...' to have any currency at all, can you?  

"...she was a waste of a human being"

I think she contributed more to the economy than you or I have.  That's just off the top of my head.

"What we really should be sad about is the 90 people killed in the Norway massacre, the 35 dead in the China train crash, and the death of Paul Watkin, one of the 9/12 lancers in Afghanistan. "

Oh, get real.  If you can't appreciate the loss of one human life, who are you to lecture anyone on mass casualties?  I probably shouldn't bother arguing with you; your post is that absurd that I have to wonder if you're just trolling.

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Oh, get real.  If you can't appreciate the loss of one human life, who are you to lecture anyone on mass casualties?  I probably shouldn't bother arguing with you; your post is that absurd that I have to wonder if you're just trolling.
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I know we're talking about this elsewhere, Zeb, but the thing is, he's right.  The people killed in Norway, China etc over the last few days never asked to be taken away.  That is a real tragedy.  As for Winehouse, she knew what could happen, and wasted every chance she had.  I bet if she had a near-death experience and was given a reprieve, she'd still be wasting herself away as we speak.

The issue of whether they wanted to die is kind of irrelevant.  The post I was addressing was (and is) blatantly a dick post.  No class, no understanding of human emotion, no real value placed on human life (1 death is still a sad thing even when you stack it up against larger tragedies - there is no real 'scale' of grief).  People like this don't have any business writing about grieving when (in the space of a single sentence) they can go from 'my thoughts go out to ...' to 'waste of a human being'.  I mean, I'm not making that up.  The post is there for you to see.  

I will stick to what I said in the other post in saying that I probably shouldn't have bothered answering it.  You can't fix some people, and it sounds like this poor sod has homework to do or something so I shall probably leave it alone.

Zebonka12 is 'turd' and other comments aimed at me???

If you don't like the post, don't commment on it!

GOATHEAD1985 wrote: Zebonka12 is 'turd' and other comments aimed at me???

If you don't like the post, don't commment on it!

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I think you have somewhat missed the point of a messageboard. And really, you need to work out your anger issues.