Note Ali (Muhammad Ali), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Major Tom (David Bowie), Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder), Prince, and Brady's Mom (? - Florence Henderson?), all recent celebrity deaths.

Lyrics from https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/perfectcircle/solongandthanksforallthefish.html :

Time is money and money is time
We wasted every second dime
On diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps
And flags, and plastic surgery
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom
Ali and Leia have moved on
Signal the final curtain call
In all this atomic pageantry

Bravissimo, hip-hip hooray
For this fireworks display
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo

Ticker tape parade
Our hair and skin like
Like Marilyn Monroe
In an empty wind

Time is money and money is time
We wasted every second dime
On politicians, fancy water
And guns, and plastic surgery
Like old Prince and Brady's mom
All the dolphins have moved on
Signaling the final curtain call
In all this atomic pageantry

Bravissimo, hip-hip hooray
What a glorious display
Melt our joyous hearts away
Under the mushroom cloud confetti

Hip-hip hooray
For this fireworks display
Mind and body blown away
What a radiant crescendo

Hip-hip hooray
Hip-hip hooray

Ticker tape parade
Our hair and skin like
Like Marilyn Monroe
In an empty wind

Time is money and money is time
We wasted every second dime
On diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps
And flags, and plastic surgery
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom
Ali and Leia have moved on
Signal the final curtain call
In all this atomic pageantry

This.

Think Goldie Hawn on Laugh In. Marilyn Monroe. Tommy Smothers.

Playing dumb takes a very smart person.

I see Einstein while sitting at my desk, but when I pause it and look at it from a distance, it looks like Marilyn Monroe with a beard.

>> ^ant:

I thought this was about drugs.


Well now ... sez a lot about YOU doesn't it! heheheh =o)

Don't fook with Marilyn Monroe, b1tches!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dice, Art, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe' to 'Dice, Art, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, david alvarez, mosaic' - edited by looris

>> ^dannym3141:
He's saying working class people don't moan about it, they try and get on with it. They don't whine to the papers about feeling disconnected, they don't call their publicist before they call the rehab centre. They don't even call the rehab centre. They get up, and get their kids to school, and get the fuck on with it, and do the best they can.


Ah, but many working class people do moan about it, just not to the media. And yes some do just get on with their lives but many don't. Some get help with therapy or anti-depressants (not just for the rich btw). Some also "get up and get their kids to school" and then go home and blow their brains out because life is too crushingly miserable to cope with anymore.>> ^dannym3141:
Gervais is slagging off these people who don't have depression, they have 'oh i feel a bit meh' or 'i'm a bit upset', or worst still "oh i need some publicity". And he's slagging off people who need to put a label on everything so that there's an excuse. No i'm not a bit of a whore, i'm addicted to sex. Oh please. I agree with him, i know what he means.


I don't really follow celebrities much so I don't know who he's referring to. If that is what he is saying then by all means, I agree with you. *If* he were to paint them all with the same brush however then I think he would be doing a disservice to the ones that are really suffering. And yes it is possible to have fame and money and still suffer, just ask Kurt Cobain or Marilyn Monroe.

And I agree with brycewi19 and 00Scud00 that the attitude of "just suck it up" or "just get over it" is a pretty ignorant view of something as serious as depression. If only it were that simple.

>> ^Enzoblue:
WTF are they color blind though?


I believe they are doing one of Warhol's Marilyn's.

i suppose 'death by finger up the bum' is the only way for her to go that i can come up with

apparently a 37min cut of film from the surviving footage was made to companion the documentary Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0286809/

>> ^gwiz665:
Hehe, love the Roy Orbison glasses.


They're just your standard Wayfarers... Audrey Hepburn, Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Roy Orbison, Andy Warhol, the Blues Brothers, etc....

>> ^bcglorf:
I was just thinking about how JFK was the last president to get this kind of response when he gave his nods to VP Biden. If that doesn't send a shiver down your back nothing will, here's hoping Obama lives a good long life.


And what exactly did JFK do for this country? (besides Marilyn Monroe, backing down from Russia, and running corrupt campaigns)

>> ^Trancecoach:
anyone else see that recently discovered stag film, featuring marilyn that's been making its way around the intertubes? Kinda loses the allure, don't it?


Except that it's not her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3A230HRffw (safe for work)

The title indeed comes from a painting. The original artist was Edward Hopper and his painting "Nighthawks," was of a diner in Greenwich village:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/street/hopper.nighthawks.jpg

That painting was adapted into "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," by Gottfried Helnwein and featured Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Elvis Presley and James Dean.

Here:

http://angel.enredados.com/images/bbd.jpg

Thanks for all the GREAT comments, everyone.

I personally believe that we should try to empathize with everyone, regardless of how trivial we perceive their problems to be, because maybe their problems really aren't so trivial. Yes, I can think of worse problems to have than being sexually objectified. Being horribly maimed or disfigured is just one example that I consider to be worse. Having severe mental illness is yet another, IMHO. However, we're in the 21st century and yet sexual harassment and the "glass ceiling" for women are still very real problems in the workplace, and pretty women are often the ones who find themselves in those situations. Also consider Marilyn Monroe. She struggled to get serious acting roles because she was often just considered "a face", and all her good looks didn't prevent her from taking her own life.

If you don't want to consider beautiful people as having any disadvantages, that's fine. However, I hope that after you've seen this video you'll look past the looks and try to learn more about attractive people you meet before you simply categorize them as "a face".

I'm also adding this to the *Canada channel, as I noticed that it was directed by KITH alumnus Mark McKinney, and it was also produced in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada.