Just re-watch the movie "The Bodyguard" done in 1992. The "specials" very interesting. Kevin Costner wanted to do the movie, had much to say in the flow of it, and it was he who wanted Whitney Houston to be the "famous singing gal" he was to be hired to protect. It was Kevin who gave Whitney her start in movies. She asked the director if she should go for acting lessons before starting to shoot the movie; he said no way, that was the worst thing she could do. Well Kevin, Whitney said was always humming and singing to himself....she helped him with his singing and he helped her with her acting. The Director said the "chemistry" between the two of them was terrific.
So Whitney was 28 - pretty and sure did a fine acting job. Oh that famous song also came from the movie "I Will Always Love You" - certainly a great song for Whitney to sing, and was a hit all over the world, they say it was actually a bigger hit outside the USA than in the USA. Well I guess she will always be remembered with that song.
Whitney played a self-centered head strong naive pop singer, that was going with the crowd, following the gang we shall say - singing, parties, boos. She finally gets a real serious scare, crazy fans going wild over her. Kevin rescues her being her bodyguard. The next day he's going to quit, she says she was really scared and needed him. She says, "I will do anything you say."
They do fall in love in the movie, but their lives are too different for it to ever work.
I thought .... Whitney you were 28 at this time, you should have found a man strong enough and right enough, for you to have said to him, "I will do anything you say." A man who could have loved her and guided her as the bodyguard in the movie was doing. She needed that kind of man and that kind of love, and if she had found that, she would not have crashed her life in the way she did after 1992, to end it all 20 years later after trashing herself into a shadow of the young woman she was at age 28.
What a WASTE! My Readers Digest thesaurus gives in part under "waste" - throw away, fritter away, use up fruitlessly, burn up, deplete, devour, misuse, misapply, destroy, spoil, wreck, pillage, wither, crumble, decay.
What indeed a decayed life Whitney got into after age 28. Grew up in the "church" - obviously she never turned to the Bible for help, obviously it would seem nobody was there to strongly help her, if they tried, she never took them too serious. She obviously never found that true bodyguard to love and protect her as in the movie she was part of.
Sad tale - much like Elvis in many ways, only he threw away his lovely bodyguard wife, till she had to leave him to his own drug indicted world that killed him also in the end.
Whoever you are reading this - an average Joe or Jane or someone famous in a small way or big way, take all this as one BIG LESSON, and do not let it happen to YOU!
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