Heath Ledger is Dead

[lady amarant]

Damn. This is just so sad.

http://www.wnbc.com/entertainment/15113586/detail.html

[tekla]

looks like suicide

[Diane]

Never heard of this person until just now.

[VeryGnawty]

He was a really talented actor.  It's a pity he died just before his acting career took off to new heights.  We will miss him.

I wonder if this will change the new Batman movie, where he was supposed to play the Joker?

[tekla]

He was one of the two stars in Brokeback Mountain.  (Not really, the real star of BBM was, Michelle Williams who's slow disintegration is one of the most remarkable performances I've ever seen on film.)

[Rachael]

sucide? NYPD found drugs..... but hey, wait for the MDs report methinks


i shall take this oportuinity to say what a tallented actor he was, and an insipration to many....
oh yeah, and it wasnt me....
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[Keira]

He's not a top star. but he was big enough.
Brokeback mountain is his most well known role.
In that movie, he was the more closeted one of the two,
while the other had a double life.

[tekla]

?

[tinkerbell]

That's very sad indeed!  According to recent police reports, it appears to have been a drug overdose which killed him...

tink

[lady amarant]

He was a really talented actor.  It's a pity he died just before his acting career took off to new heights.  We will miss him.

I wonder if this will change the new Batman movie, where he was supposed to play the Joker?

Hope not. The clips I have seen are amazing. He is SO intense as the Joker - I would not have been surprised at another Oscar nomination - were the academy actually in the habit of handing those out to big summer action films.

Posted on: 22 January 2008, 23:50:48

He's not a top star. but he was big enough.
Brokeback mountain is his most well known role...

I've been a fan of his ever since he did Roar - a fantasy TV series in the mid 90's set in the period just after the Roman empire had retreated from Brittania. He played the prince of a Celtic tribe, and even back then, he was already a very good actor.

But yeah, the role he will be remembered for is BBM - unless the new batman movie does for him what The Crow did for Brandon Lee.

[tekla]

In a very weird way & I get to vote on that stuff, does an award make.  And it would not have been him at any rate.  And wining awards does not - in Hollywierd, a life make.

[lady amarant]

In a very weird way & I get to vote on that stuff, does an award make.  And it would not have been him at any rate.  And wining awards does not - in Hollywierd, a life make.

Yeah, I suppose not, but I found his performance, in the clips I've seen anyway, as intense as Charlize Theron in Monster. Then again, I might be badly biased - I'm an absolute Batman fangirl since reading The Killing Joke and A Death in the Family, and the portrayal of the Joker in those graphic novels are how I imagine him.

[tekla]

Nothing (NOTHING) in Hollywood is as hard as what they asked Charlize Theron to do in MONSTER, which is to ask a very drop dead pretty women to be really, really ugly.  It's how Liz Taylor won the award for Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe. 

[lady amarant]

Nothing (NOTHING) in Hollywood is as hard as what they asked Charlize Theron to do in MONSTER, which is to ask a very drop dead pretty women to be really, really ugly.  It's how Liz Taylor won the award for Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe. 

Her performance in Monster was absolutely amazing - I think it brilliant how she managed to evoke such sympathy for a very scary person.

Charlize. Woohoo!!!

Won't even hold it a against her that she's from Benoni. (A REALLY unsavoury part of South Africa - think mullets and too much beer)

As to Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker - I suppose I'm biased, but I'll hold off on a final call till I've seen the movie.



Posted on: 23 January 2008, 00:53:12Please note that South Africans have a thing against mullets - mainly the other South Africans who wear them... no offense meant to any mullet-sporting folk out there.

[tekla]

Rent Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe, and think that Liz Taylor - almost the seminal ideal of beauty in her age- could be so ugly, so horrid, so miserable.  How the icon of love could make you think that being single for the rest of you life might not be such a bad idea, and that, that, is Academy Award country.

[lady amarant]

Rent Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe, and think that Liz Taylor - almost the seminal ideal of beauty in her age- could be so ugly, so horrid, so miserable.  How the icon of love could make you think that being single for the rest of you life might not be such a bad idea, and that, that, is Academy Award country.

I'll do that. What year did she win in?

[tekla]

1966

[lady amarant]

Thanks Tekla.

[VeryGnawty]

Hope not.

I've heard that the movie is already in post-production, meaning that there is an extremely likely chance that he will still be the Joker in the next Batman movie.

[Rachael]

jokes on him then.
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