Aussie Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead
 

No details as yet, well, none down here...its only just hitting the headlines.

How sad :(

Ok, drug overdose apparently.

Holy shit. I haven't even turned on the news yet.

Wow!

I started a thread in Entertainment....suppose I need to go erase it.

waaah!! :(
Sad...

Who?

Edit: Never mind. I Googled him.

Why is the death of some actor that you never met any more important than the death of someone else that you never met?

The new Joker. I wonder if he'll be recast in any sequels.

Because even though you haven't met them, you know about them.

You could apply the same reasoning to how you feel when the parent of a friend passes away. You didn't actually know them, but because there's knowledge about them in your mind, you have an emotional response.

Hey HLJ, I was never comparing the importance of deaths. That would be offensive. I enjoyed watching Heath Ledger in films. K? Now I won't see new HL films. I bet you know of a couple actors that you would be disappointed about if they had died. Just think for a moment.


By my internal chart I'd say the quality of my movie experiences just dropped by 1 percent. That's a lot for me.
:yelsick:

I have never formally met you or Heath Ledger.


Song:
I've never met HL or HLJ- and I'm not comparing the importance of their deaths today!! (supposed to rhyme here)
:)



Ok better luck with the song the next celebrity death that I actually care 'bout!

I'm not dead.

I'm getting better.

I feel fine.

I think I'll go for a walk.

I feel happy. I feel happy.

Heath Ledger just turned himself into the next James Dean.

Only if he were more talented.

I thought he was pretty talented. I don't think James Dean was ever nominated for an Oscar. At least not while he was alive.

Only living people miss the point! And get to sing about it!!

So... you must be alive! (I am grateful of that, even though I have never formally met you)
:)

'coz they arent as hot as Heath?

150,000 people die every day.

I'm sure at least a few of them you would find attractive.

perhaps before they died

True HLJ. So true.
:)

Should I make a thread for them all and name them...then can I declare that I am sad that someone I knew of and appreciated died?

I have met HLJ but not HL. I know I care that Heath Ledger died, and I am sure I would care if HLJ died. Does that make things any more confusing for anyone?

They won't, however, cause character appearance continuity problems, should the Joker appear in any Batman sequels.

Well caser...his initial question was about people you have never met vs. people you have never met....(dying) and why is one more important than the other.

I care that Hitler is dead. (I prefer it) Never met him. Yes I do care if people I do not know personally are dead or not.

Because I care. :D

I don't think you are confusing caser. I think HLJ is trying snuff out "celebrity hype" when people really are disappointed. I think he was an awesome actor and will be disappointed to not see him in new films.

I have always liked Jack Nicholson and will disappointed when he kicks the bucket too. He's getting old.

I wish Susan Sontag and Hannah Arendt were alive too though...so I'm not the best to speak to about these things.

I think it's just a shame. He was only 28, with a young baby, and would have had a great long career. I've liked him ever since he came out in Roar. And for anyone who doesn't think he was talented, compare his roles in Brokeback Mountain and the Brothers Grimm. Amazing range there.

I'm more angry that he carried on the way he did and basically killed himself, albeit not intentionally. Especially with such a bright future and a young child. The acceptance of this type of behavior is maddening. Talented? - absolutely,so what? He fucked up & now he's dead. All that talent wasted, just like Belushi, Candy, Hartman and several others.

that's why people are disappointed when celebs die. it's selfish. they will not be entertaining us anymore. it's kind of cold to think of it that way....but really....it's the truth.

Apparently he had pneumonia. It's possible it was an accidental overdose. People will know more tomorrow after the autopsy.

It's very sad that he's left behind a beautiful daughter, especially considering the way he spoke about her in interviews.

I still find it less surprising when a celeb dies of an OD, but that doesn't make the circumstances any less sad.

Hmm, lessee...there's about a hundred or so relatively active Cellarites. If each of us wrote a little something about everyone who died each day, that'd only be 1500 brief obits we'd each need to cover. Tough, but doable. :)

pneumonia? where are you coming up with that?

If it's not on CNN, I don't believe it. ;)

Actually, what rang true for me were the comments about the effect of playing the joker, and how he wasn't sleeping at all because of it. Easy to make a mistake; or think, well one pill works okay, more pills would work better.

Easy, but dumb. He never struck me as being the brightest bulb.

I am with you. I liked the Heath Ledger that I have seen acting out characters on a screen. A limited view of who he probably was as a person, but I liked it, nonetheless. All of us limit the amount of ourselves that we present to the world.

The point being: I won't get to use those brokeback jokes with my husband anymore...which sucks because that usually got under his skin pretty well.

I nicknamed my husband "Brokeback _his name______"

It was good while it lasted....
:)

I never saw Brokeback. But I loved HL in A Knights Tale.

Monty Python!

Truly sad. I think he was a fine actor. I too really enjoyed 'A Knight's Tale'.

There are a lot of good ones out there!

They'll just have be necrophiliac brokeback jokes now, that's all.

You're dead on there. :D

About lunchtime yesterday the *amusing* txt messages started hitting my phone....

"Did you hear Heath Ledger died? Apparently he did one too many cowboys"

No drugs were found at his apartment, but the police did find a rolled up $20 bill.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_8055673

Thats about what I did.

thanks UT

definitely spam. quite sad, indeed

Spam - he has surf to find in every post he has made

I don't know if this is true or not but I heard that the church that started godhatesfags.com are going to protest his funeral because of his role in Brokeback Mountain.

Fuckin' idiots if it is true.

Corrected your post. No problemo.

True.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...wbc_ledger.jpg

I love how they skip around to form a sentence. Apparently, that's how they read the Bible, as well: just flipping to random pages and picking a few words here, a few words there, and hoping that an idea will form. The result of such a reading technique is that this amazing book will support any preconceived notion you were hoping to have reinforced!

I read the Bible and it told me that free weights are better than machines. Case closed. God hates circuit trainers.

i wasn't watching the news yesterday, but jinx was saying that they are going to great pains to make this seem like an accidental overdose.

I read that too

So, even God saw "Brokeback Mountain"??

maybe Hollywood will shut him down. someone sure needs to.

if he did, he cried for Ennis' soul; a man who never had a single speck of joy in his life, except for what he denied.

I don't think vomit would work as a seasoning, at all.

Maybe it was accidental? Probably the only person who will ever really know is dead.

Let him rest in peace is what I think should happen now, and as for those religious idiots, all I can say is; fuck them right up the arse with a big fat knobbly stick.

Thank you.

I think we could even cut it down to fuckin' idiots if we wanted. Its not like they were rational before this...

Apparently, one of the drugs he was on can make you do crazy stuff in your sleep. It would suck if he sleep-OD'd.

He seemed like a pretty down to earth nice guy from what I've seen. First noticed him in "10 Things I Hate About You" a teeny flick which was actually a pretty cute modern day "Taming of the Shrew."

Hennyhoo, why shouldn't we at least think it's a damn shame? Fucking bleeding hearts, caring about the life of someone you've never met. Spit. Snort. Shoot.

Hey Shawnee, where have you been?

I don't give much of a fecal smear about Ledger's death, other than the normal "it sucks when anyone dies, particularly when they are young and reek of great potential" reaction.
But the Westboro Baptist Cult has got me more than a bit pissy.
Brokeback Mountain may indeed have been a "tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit," but that's just because it was a pretentious, boring movie.
Gay people are awesome.
I know, because I see shimmering, golden awesomeness in the mirror every single day.

Bigots.