Deb Curreen Author

Hasn't this blog got a great title? You will want to read it,either to avoid dancing with the devil or because you want to see how audacious I can be when writing on such a loaded subject. We have all heard the saying, "dance with the devil", and it seems to imply courting danger, running close to a risky and perilous wind, perching on the knife edge of death and similar metaphorical catch phrases. All explanations intended to extend caution or glamourise a more risky evil, flying in the face of God, intentionally sinning. One of the creepiest but insanely best lines was uttered by Jack Nicholson playing the The Joker, in the 1989 Tim Burton, Batman movie. "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?" He chuckles into the ear of a weak and fainting, Vicky Vale, played most excellently by Kim Basinger. To me, he seems to be implying, "Well Honey, if you haven't before you sure are now !!!   "Argh, argh, argh !" Bad Joker, ...

Phillip Seymour Hoffman died from a heroin overdose. He was found dead with a hypodermic needle in his arm. It's hard to put an end on this sad story. It may have been suicide or an accidental overdose or a heart attack.The autopsy is not yet complete. It was death and it was sudden and uncalled for. I have to say that every time you put a needle full of heroin in your arm you are playing hypodermic roulette. And you are not just playing with one bullet when you push that plunger, your odds are possibly  more like two or three to that one blast. He left behind a wife and three children, a bucket full of fantastic movies, limousines of friends, truck loads of fans and unfulfilled roles that will never grace our screens. Like thousands the world over, I was shocked to hear that he had died of a heroin overdose but somehow I could not picture him falling off a luxury yacht and drowning or having a car accident in a Porsche. A simple and quick death from a heart attack or bra...