celiafarber.substack.com 
Aug 6, NY Post, article quotes Heche’s rep and boyfriend, saying she was expected to make it.
Coverage was mostly focused on condemnation of Heche, then it turned to reportage that she was not “expected” to survive, then that she had died.
But something is off. The sheer intensity— the propaganda smoked burnish and zeal of the coverage.
Why?
It’s been pressing on me since yesterday morning, the way certain stories do, though I know almost nothing about actors, actresses, or movies. This event seemed to actually represent a visible tear, or opening, in the simulacrum-continuum, or Truman Show…
