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Miley Cyrus song Party In The USA new bin Laden celebrity death anthem?

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Miley Cyrus song Party In The USA new Osama bin Laden celebrity death anthem?

[May 7]

Add to the list of the accomplish for Miley Cyrus the title of Osama bin Laden killer. At least that’s what some fans are suggesting after hearing the teen star celeb singer’s hit, Party in the USA. There’s a Facebook fan page with over 14,000 likes recommending the hit song to be the theme song for Osama bin Laden’s funeral, according to website Zimbio.

Columbian Missourian has reported on student celebrations at Missouri University:

Soon after [Osama bin Laden’s death], students started celebrating all across campus, from outside Ellis Library to Greektown. Students in Johnston Hall cheered out windows at people passing below on Rollins Street, where cars packed with cheering students rolled by — more than one of them playing Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” from their windows.

Miley herself hasn’t had anything to say about the phenomenon. Certainly she didn’t intend for the summer pop song to be associated with the death of the world’s most notorious terrorist. But fans across the country have adapted the song to be the de facto theme song for the funeral of Osama bin Laden.

The YouTube page for the song has been flooded with Osama bin Laden comments, ranging from “Miley Rocks!!” to “Miley killed Osama!” Another was a bit more realistic, although one could detect the excitement in the air surrounding the pop song. “LIKE THIS COMMENT IF WATCHING THIS VIDEO IS LITERALLY THE FIRST THING YOU DID AFTER YOU LEARNED OSAMA WAS DEAD,” one poster wrote.

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Green Celebrity Death: Who was Tim Hetherington, the dead Oscar nominee?

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Who was Tim Hetherington, the Oscar nominee killed in Lybia in 2011?

[Apr. 24]

Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK, on December 5, 1970. He originally studied literature at Oxford University, but he went back to school to get a degree in photojournalism. He had been living in New York, and had been sharing his time there with time in London. He maintained dual citizenship. He contributed regularly to Vanity Fair magazine, for which much of his photojournalism work in Afghanistan was done.

Over the course of his career, Tim Hetherington, a green celebrity player behind the camera, became active in humanitarian circles, using his skills with still frame photography and video camera equipment to capture the social and political impact that war had on regions abroad, including Afghanistan, Liberia, and most recently in Libya, where he was killed by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade, fired by Qaddafi forces.

Tim Hetherington was best known for his work on Restrepo (2010), a documentary film covering a year with a platoon in one of the most dangerous areas in Afghanistan. Hetherington was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary this past January, but lost to Exit Through the Gift Shop with the notoriously world-renowned street artist, Banksy.

However, Tim Hetherington was the recipient of many awards, according to his website, prior to the hit Restrepo. He was a cameraman for Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004) and for The Devil Came on Horseback (2007). He also wrote two books — Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, capturing the history of present-day Liberia, and Infidel (2010) about the soldiers in Aghanistan, studying the effects on conflict on the young men at the front. His most recent project, a short film called Diary he called highly experimental and it currently is being shown at multiple film festivals.

While this green celebrity author, photojournalist, and filmmaker was not beholden to one side or the other, he did work hard as a humanitarian to expose the effects of war and conflict on societies and individuals alike, and he has received numerous awards for his efforts. He had a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts from 2000 to 2004. He received a grant from the Hasselblad Foundation for photography in 2002. He received four awards from World Press Photo, which aims to promote excellence in photojournalism. Ultimately he won Photo of the Year from World Press Photo in 2007. From the Rory Peck Trust, named after an Irish freelance cameraman killed in Russia while covering the constitutional crisis there, Tim Hetherington won the Rory Peck Features (rather than shorts) award in 2008. And he won an Alfred I. Dupont award, recognizing excellence in broadcast journalism, in 2009.

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Celebrity Death: Final tweet of Tim Hetherington about Libya haunting?

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Qaddafi craze killed Oscar nominee Tim Hetherington in Libya?

[Apr. 20]

Tim Hetherington, who along with Sebastian Junger helped direct the Academy Award nominated documentary Restrepo (2009), a film covering one Platoon in one of the most dangerous areas in Afghanistan, was killed April 20 in Libya, according to TMZ. Hetherington is a trained photojournalist from Liverpool and also is known for his camera work on Liberia: an Uncivil War (2004) and The Devil Came on Horseback (2007).

The green celebrity director and photojournalist was covering the conflict in Libya for the Panos photo agency when he came under attack from rocket propelled grenades, according to The last communication over Twitter from Tim Hetherington was on April 19. It read: “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”

Tim Hetherington had worked for Vanity Fair magazine, doing much of his work in Afghanistan for the magazine. Vanity Fair reports that Hetherington seemed interested in working with friend and co-director Sebastian Junger on another project highlighting the fighting in Misrata, Libya.