Nope. Let’s keep our mind on the real victim here: Hills Got Mail, on behalf of Val Kilmer.

I think it’s becoming quite clear that you just want to go after Jezebel here. The Joni Mitchell article deals with a different situation - her health problems were on the record, Kilmer’s aren’t, and that’s clearly how he wants it. I also don’t think there’s a huge difference in tone, as Bobby is also pretty snarky…

even if they’re BFFs he’s stepping over boundaries, if Val has denied that he has cancer, and Michael is telling people that he does, he’s totally out of line.

Nice Val Kilmer denied that he is ill he clearly either doesn’t need the empathy (because he’s not sick) or he doesn’t want it (because he denied). While you seem to have this burning need to treat him as poor dying Val he apparently doesn’t want or need it. I had someone blab about personal medical problems before…

Val kilmer told the press he doesn’t have cancer. Michael Douglas tells the press Val Kilmer is dying of cancer. Either Michael Douglas is lying or he revealed things Val Kilmer told him in confidence. Both options make Michael Douglas a huge asshole. which is why the author makes fun of him.

It absolutely was not Michael Douglas’ story to break. Don’t sell your co-workers personal medical issues with the press. That’s despicable.

The snark is meant for Douglas, not Kilmer. That’s how I read it anyway.

She looks professionally dead inside

Did it take anyone else a minute to get the Taylor Swift costume joke? I kept staring at it like, “Okay, I see Beyoncé and Rihanna and the baby is Prince but where is Taylor?”

Kylie looks great as Christina, she’s used to looking like somebody else.

I read it too, and I struggle to have sympathy for the mother. Her POV hits so many of my triggers (very similar situation with family members) that I felt breathless with the same anger I get over the situation in my family. It felt so...dismissive of the daughter’s viewpoint. Brittany was negative, she was angry,…

I read the excerpt from “Good Housekeeping,” and there’s not one mention of Dan. Interesting.

It doesn’t mean you’re an evil person if you behave selfishly when your child is sick. It does mean you’re a selfish person and I’ve seen this in my own family.

The mother does not have any of my sympathy here. Grief doesn’t give you a free pass in my book, especially when you’re shitting on all the other grieving…

He isn’t really fighting. He’s just repeated the words from the Will and he is legally and morally obligated to do so. He’s not pursuing her in any other way apart from making a public statement of fact.

Did you even read the article? The husband isn’t fighting over money. He released a statement, following his wife’s wishes. She specifically didn’t want her mother to do this.

i dont think that is the case at all here? brittany obviously had the foresight to know her mom would betray her wishes, and her husband is just trying to protect brittany’s legacy

I agree but I don’t think the husband is being illogical in this situation, I think he’s trying his very best to deal with it calmly but I imagine he’s probably a bit angry as well.

I don’t agree that his anger is “illogical”

Thank you for writing about this!

ugh. sad for both the mother and the widower, but Maynard’s statement (hinting that she KNEW her mother might do something like this) raises a lot of red flags. was her mother already handling this inappropriately? it’s distressing to think that Maynard even had to consider that during her last days.