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In keeping with the forum guidelines that wish to preserve clarity and cohesion in the various threads, this topic has been created for members to post and read news articles and tributes dealing with Heath.
Henceforth, please use the thread Heath Ledger - In Loving Memory to share your feelings and/or to commiserate with other members.
Use this thread to post and comment on news updates and tribute articles pertaining to Heath.
Out of respect for Heath, we ask members to please be very selective when posting articles on this thread. Specifically, we do not want this place to be used as a launching pad for articles that seek to foster gossip, rumors, and innuendoes that would be hurtful to the memory of Heath and to the feelings of his family, friends, and -- most especially -- other fans and members of this forum.
We discourage the posting of articles that foster hate, division, and the brand of intolerance that is so alien to the legacy of Heath and BBM.
We ask the members not to take it against the moderators if they intervene every once in a while in the interest of these aims. Likewise, we do not hold any mistakes made against the members who post here.
We only seek to encourage a friendly and sympathetic exchange of information.
It is only through this that we can clarify Heath's legacy to us -- a legacy free from malicious speculation and/or outright lies. He deserves no less.
Thank you!
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Heath's last project may yet be saved. Apparently, Johnny Depp has tapped to fill in for Heath. The article also notes that the scenes with Heath that had already been shot may yet be saved by a sleight of hand.
I consider this a tribute from one great actor to another.
http://movies.hollyscoop.com/johnny-depp/johnny-depp-to-replace-heath-ledger_296.aspx
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Heath Ledger In Retrospect: '10 Things' You Didn't Know About The Actor
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580272/story.jhtml (http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580272/story.jhtml)
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"Live with Dan Abrams" (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22812984#22812984
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"Live with Dan Abrams" (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22813005#22813005
1.) The show discusses the funeral picket plans of the Westboro Baptist Church.
2.) Dan Abrams also criticizes Fox News commentator John Gibson's ridicule of Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, etc. in Brokeback Mountain on a recent broadcast of his radio show.
3.) An interesting comment was made by one of the commentators during "Live with Dan Abrams" about how much Heath Ledger's preparation for his role as the Joker in the lastest Batman movie, "Dark Knight," took its toll on his inability to sleep.
John Gibson Radio
http://www.foxnews.com/radio/johngibsonradio/index.html
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"Live with Dan Abrams" (MSNBC): Heath Ledger found dead
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22793527#22793527
Dan Abrams discusses the November 2007 New York Times article/interview with Heath Ledger (about his role as the Joker in the "Dark Knight") in which Heath Ledger mentions in his sleep problems. Dan Abrams also provides other information that was available to the press just after reports of Heath Ledger's death first appeared.
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An excellent tribute from the San Francisco Chronicle
Heath Ledger - short career, lasting images
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/23/MNG6UJRN4.DTL&hw=heath+ledger&sn=009&sc=440
Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
On a seemingly routine Tuesday afternoon, word came that 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger, best known for his Oscar-nominated role as a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead in a downtown New York apartment. Apparently, a masseuse showed up for an appointment and was led in by a housekeeper, who discovered Ledger's body about 3:30 p.m. The police found pills near his naked body.
The news spread fast, and crowds gathered outside the building and watched as the body was taken away on a gurney. According to the Associated Press, people in the crowd snapped pictures with camera phones and rolled videos and said, "He's coming out!"
There was no obvious indication of suicide, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. An autopsy is planned for Wednesday.
In a little while, perhaps, the rest of the details will become known. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Was there an unknown history of drug abuse? The answers to these questions will become part of the legend, and Ledger will be enlisted into that ghoulish gallery of movie stars who, for one reason or another, died a good half-century ahead of schedule.
But before that happens - before the false hand-wringing begins on the nightly entertainment shows, before the interviews with ex-girlfriends reveal unknown truths that are probably false, and before the media show up with their microphones and cameras - it might be worthwhile to take a moment to remember why the death of this particular 28-year-old rates all the press attention today.
Like few who ever lived, much less lived to be 28, Ledger left behind moments and images that were guaranteed even Tuesday - even a week ago, when he was presumably healthy and had the world before him - to outlive his mortal life. When I got the news, I immediately flashed on one of them.
In "Brokeback Mountain," having said goodbye to Jake Gyllenhaal's character after their summer together - which is the only thing they'll ever have in their lives, and they seem to know it - he walks stoically away, then enters the frame as he passes an alley. In the background is the sky. Limitless. He stops, enters the alley and becomes a silhouette. He puts his head against the wall and sobs, struggling to hide his face with his hat. He curses. He punches the wall. He yells angrily at someone who passes by and stops to look. And two seconds later, we see him in close-up, looking boyish and yet somehow like the world has just closed up, standing at the altar getting married.
The portrayal of the secret male relationship made Ledger an instant icon in the gay community, according to Neil G. Giuliano, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
"His powerful portrayal changed hearts and minds in immeasurable ways," Giuliano said in a statement.
"Brokeback Mountain" also was where he met actress Michelle Williams, with whom he lived until the two split up last year. The couple had a daughter, Matilda. Ledger also had relationships with actresses Heather Graham and Naomi Watts.
Ledger was born in Perth, Australia, in 1979 to a mining engineer and a French teacher, according to the Associated Press. At 16, he began appearing in independent films in Sydney. When he was 19, he came to Los Angeles and landed a part in "10 Things I Hate About You," a modern-day version of "The Taming of the Shrew."
His roles in "The Patriot" (2000) and "A Knight's Tale" (2001) earned him heartthrob stature. But his career path steered him back to the independent movies, including "Monster's Ball" in 2001, and "The Lords of Dogtown" and "Brokeback Mountain" in 2005.
In 2007, Ledger was seen in "I'm Not There," where he played one of the Bob Dylans, and had finished filming "The Dark Knight," a sequel to "Batman Begins" in which he plays the Joker. He was in production for the movie "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
"I had such great hope for him," Mel Gibson, who played Ledger's vengeful father in "The Patriot," said in a statement, the Associated Press reported. "He was just taking off, and to lose his life at such a young age is a tragic loss."
In an interview published in November in the New York Times, Ledger said he was "stressed out a little too much" while making "I'm Not There" and had trouble sleeping during the filming of "The Dark Knight."
"Last week, I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told the Times. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which worked for only an hour.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ledger had an old-fashioned manliness - the kind that seems to have fled America and gone south in recent years, as far south as Australia. But unlike most of the old-fashioned manly stars of America's macho period, Ledger was at his best playing men in turmoil, men in trouble, men suffering from deep wounds to the spirit. At 28, he had 25 prime casting years ahead of him. Just to be selfish for a minute, think of how that talent may have grown.
The Hollywood of today doesn't nurture acting talent. That is, it doesn't look for roles that explore the actor's soul. But even accepting that, just by chance and the law of averages, just with a little dumb luck, Ledger should have had two or three or five or six more films in his life that challenged him the way "Brokeback Mountain" challenged him. I think that would have been Ledger's career, from here on out: a combination of OK movies in which he played men who were as magnificent as he looked. And better movies, in which he played men whose imposing physical presence and locked-down stoicism were a facade for an emotional life of desperation and helplessness.
Instead of looking forward, we're forced to look back - to the fragile young man he played in "Monster's Ball," who shoots himself in a fit of anguish. Or to "Casanova" and those scenes when the great seducer discovers his capacity to love one woman. Or to movies like "Ned Kelly," those ones with nothing much to recommend them besides what I once called Ledger's "big-slab-of-a-guy magnetism."
There's no way to make sense of this. No way to end an appreciation like this on an up note when the news is so sad. If there's something positive to be said, it's that the best work Ledger left behind will last forever, and the rest is already forgotten.
Filmography
Some of the films in which Heath Ledger starred:
-- "I'm Not There" (2007)
-- "Brokeback Mountain" (2005)
-- "Casanova" (2005)
-- "The Brothers Grimm" (2005)
-- "Lords of Dogtown" (2005)
-- "Ned Kelly" (2003)
-- "The Four Feathers" (2002)
-- "Monster's Ball" (2001)
-- "A Knight's Tale" (2001)
-- "The Patriot" (2000)
-- "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999)
Scheduled for release this year or in 2009:
-- "The Dark Knight"
-- "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
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This is the latest on aol.
Police Sort Out Clues Into Ledger's Death
Six Different Prescription Drugs Found in Home; Autopsy Inconclusive
By TOM HAYS AND KAREN MATTHEWS, AP
Posted: 2008-01-24 16:21:39
Filed Under: Star Obituaries, Movie News
NEW YORK (Jan. 24) - Six different types of prescription drugs were found in Heath Ledger's apartment - including anti-anxiety medications and sleeping pills - though the cause of his death won't be known for several days after a preliminary autopsy Wednesday came back inconclusive, authorities said.
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James Devaney, WireImage.com The Life and Loss
Of a Young Talent1 of 21 Tokens of tribute pile up outside the Manhattan apartment where actor Heath Ledger was found dead on Tuesday. An autopsy performed on Wednesday revealed few clues into the cause of death. Six different types of prescription medication were in the apartment, but police say no illegal drugs were found.
A rolled-up $20 bill was also found on the floor near the Australian actor's bed, but lab tests detected no traces of drug residue. Police also said no illegal drugs were found in the apartment.
Among the prescription medications found were pills to treat insomnia and anxiety, and an antihistamine, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Three of the drugs were prescribed in Europe, the sources said. Ledger had recently been filming in London.
The $20 bill was found on the floor near Ledger's bed, and New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said lab tests found nothing to indicate it had been used to snort drugs.
The actor was found dead Tuesday by his housekeeper and a massage therapist - lying naked and face-down on his bed, police said. The pills were found in bottles in Ledger's bedroom and bathroom, and police said the death was caused by a possible drug overdose and appeared to be accidental.
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I'm not keeping up with the forum's posts, but here's a clip of Daniel Day Lewis talking about Heath on Oprah's programme while promoting his Oscar nomination. He was very emotional and compassionate, yet he didn't even know Heath. Here's the link if it still worked:
http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1389981778
P.S. Not sure if this is the right thread to post this, please feel free to move it to whichever thread is more suitable.
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An excellent tribute from the San Francisco Chronicle
Heath Ledger - short career, lasting images
Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
thank Chameau for this awesome post
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Death notices reveal family's grief http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=371686 (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=371686)
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Oh god, carefree wind, I read the tribute from Heath's family and burst into tears. :\'( :\'( :\'( They all loved him so much.
Here's a more detailed transcript of what they said....
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/heaths-family-writes-of-devistation-of.html
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I am moving here Christie's link to Theresa's wonderful memorial blog for Heath. Do take time to check out the many wonderful and moving articles therein:
Thomas has given me permission to post a link to a wonderful memorial blog set up by Theresa, who some of you may remember. She used to run Heath Ledger Central which was a fantastic and very well respected site for Heath fans. She was also a good friend to ennisjack, as well as to Heath himself. Please visit if you can.
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
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Our hearts are broken, say Ledger's family
Press Association
Friday January 25, 2008
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2246962,00.html
"You dreamed your dreams and lived them with passion and intelligent commitment. We have been privileged to accompany you on a ride through life that has simply been amazing and, through it all, we have loved each other beyond imagination.
"Your true legacy lives on in beautiful little Matilda, who will always remain in the greatest of care. Our hearts are broken."
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It's reading these tributes from Heath's family that has finally broken me. However much we love and miss him, they're doing it a million times more - and their words are heartbreaking.
From his dad
"No more chess games, mate... this is it. Couldn't beat you anyway!
"My body aches for the sound of your voice, our chats, our laughs and our life and times together."
My heart goes out to all of them.
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NoReins, I find this especially poigniant:
"I will continue to talk with you everyday and love you just as if you were here."
For them as for us, he is still very much alive.
As some of you may have already read from yesterday, it is unlikely that there will be a public funeral in NYC for Heath. It will be kept private, and I do think that Heath would have liked it this way.
As much as some of us would want a more public ceremony, I am sure that the family's wishes are for the best.
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/heath.ledger.timeline.2.637605.html
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People magazine has reconstructed the last day of Heath, but I personally feel that Heath would not have appreciated being followed around that way. So I am not posting a link to the article, except to say that those of you who are interested can read it yourselves.
But I would like to quote here a testimony of one of the employees at the grocery Heath visited Monday evening. It speaks volumes of the simplicity of the man and his aversion to fame:
"He had three bags of groceries, mainly produce like fruits and vegetables. I remember he had organic chicken sausages," says catering sales manager Liz Bullis, 22. "He packed his own groceries. About half of our customers help out like that. He was always very friendly and pretty quiet."
From People Magazine, Heath Ledger's Final Days
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From Columbia University's daily paper: a wonderful tribute:
Tragic Death of Brokeback Star Stuns the Acting World
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/28752
Excerpt:
"Though Ledger’s photo doubtlessly adorns the walls of as many tween girls as Brad Pitt’s, Ledger was able to transcend the label of Hollywood heartthrob through his careful choice of roles. He was something of an anomaly in that sense: a bona fide, sincere, and talented actor universally respected by his colleagues. A sign in the makeshift shrine that has sprung up in front of his apartment building reads, “I couldn’t find anything bad about you.” This sentiment seems universal in and out of the film world.
Ledger was a true artist, a master of his craft. We all wish he could have lived longer and continued to amaze and entertain us with his unmistakable smile and seemingly bottomless depth, and that he could have seen his infant daughter grow up. It’s a tragedy for that little girl who will have to live without a father, and for the world, which has lost a great actor."
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Death notices reveal family's grief http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=371686 (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=371686)
Oh, his poor family...I weep for them, and Michelle, and little Matilda. And Jake.
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NoReins, I find this especially poigniant:
"I will continue to talk with you everyday and love you just as if you were here."
For them as for us, he is still very much alive.
As some of you may have already read from yesterday, it is unlikely that there will be a public funeral in NYC for Heath. It will be kept private, and I do think that Heath would have liked it this way.
As much as some of us would want a more public ceremony, I am sure that the family's wishes are for the best.
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/heath.ledger.timeline.2.637605.html
There are times when I think I'm ok, and then I read Heath's families beautiful and heartbreaking tributes, and I fall apart again.
I'm glad his memorial service and funeral will be private. That's as it should be.
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Like Jake, Heath valued his privacy very much. I am glad this forum made a conscious effort to try to honor this desire in so many ways while he lived. I don't regret any of it for one moment.
We will continue to do so.
Ledger Thanks Aussie Media in Haunting Voicemail
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Ledger_Thanks_Aussie_Media_in_Haunting_Voicemail/5052041
"I don't know whether it's a conscious thing or an unconscious thing, giving me space and respecting my privacy. It's just been awesome, and I've had the most beautiful time back here and being able to see all my friends and family, let alone the press and the people within the community of Perth, it's been so lovely."
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Oh god, carefree wind, I read the tribute from Heath's family and burst into tears. :\'( :\'( :\'( They all loved him so much.
Here's a more detailed transcript of what they said....
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/heaths-family-writes-of-devistation-of.html
"You dreamed your dreams and lived them with passion and intelligent commitment. We have been priviledged to accompany you on a ride through life that has simply been amazing and through it all, we have loved each other beyond imagination.
Ledger's father Kim added: "Heatho'', "Beef'', . . . my beautiful boy, so loving, so talented, so independent, so caring, so young . . . no more chess games mate . . . this is it, couldn't beat you anyway!
"My body aches for the sound of your voice, our chats, our laughs and our life and times together.
We were one, in soul and commitment. Just . . . Father and Son. I will love you forever, Dad.''
Elder sister Kate wrote: "I can hardly breathe when I try to write this . . . we were the ultimate in soul mates. I feel both my heart and life have been torn apart. I loved our special talks, our daily chats from where ever you were in the world.
"I especially loved all the precious time we spent together. We were so fortunate to have you as long as we did. You were so many things to so many people, but to me you were just my little brother.
"There will never, ever be another "Heath'' and I think that in itself is the greatest tragedy.
"I will continue to talk with you everyday and love you just as if you were here. You will never leave my thoughts "Roast'', ever.''
Oh my.... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This is just heartbreaking. I'm crying so bad reading this. Heath's family pain must be just unbearable. My heart aches for them.
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http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/heath-ledgers-bad-boy-image-was-unfair.html
THE photographer, along with others, later sprayed Ledger and Williams with water at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain, an attack Ledger said left him in tears.
It's not fair; poor Heath.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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This tribute was written by someone who was admittedly NOT a fan of BBM, but who appreciated the way Heath and Jake took on the challenging roles:
Heath Ledger: More than that Gay Cowboy
His life tragically cut short, the brave 'Brokeback Mountain' star's legacy will live on
By Miles Christian Daniels
http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=28974
Excerpt:
But, beyond the accolades and whether he meant to or not, Ledger also helped those like my father, three brothers, and friends I've known since grade school, come one step closer to understanding that being gay has nothing to do with stereotypes and everything to do with love.
Because of this, my hope is that Heath Ledger be remembered as an individual who made life just a little bit easier for folks like me.
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Excerpt:
But, beyond the accolades and whether he meant to or not, Ledger also helped those like my father, three brothers, and friends I've known since grade school, come one step closer to understanding that being gay has nothing to do with stereotypes and everything to do with love.
Because of this, my hope is that Heath Ledger be remembered as an individual who made life just a little bit easier for folks like me.
Another very touching epitaph.
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Heath's last project may yet be saved. Apparently, Johnny Depp has tapped to fill in for Heath. The article also notes that the scenes with Heath that had already been shot may yet be saved by a sleight of hand.
I consider this a tribute from one great actor to another.
http://movies.hollyscoop.com/johnny-depp/johnny-depp-to-replace-heath-ledger_296.aspx
I'm so grateful to hear that the movie will not be suspended and will have the chance to Heath in more yet another new movie and surly he will be amazing in that movie..!
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Just look up the way he took care of Michelle, how he looked at her, like she were the most beautiful treasure in the world. He was a very tender, sweet, adorable fine man. He loved his family so much and he believed in true love. I'm a sea of tears right now. :\'( :\'(
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-AU&brand=ninemsn&vid=cee7c897-6e44-4f52-902e-0222f032c553&wa=wsignin1.0
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Thank you a lot dear Thomas to have opened this new thread ^f^
So we can see and read a lot about our beloved Heath.
:ghug:
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Legacy
Heath Ledger: The Roles of A Lifetime
EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum remembers the highlights of a promising star's far-too-short career
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20173196,00.html
Excerpt:
His Ennis moved economically, with a minimum of talk that masked a maximum of hunger.
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Contrary to what had been widely reported by the press, Heath was ill with the flu, and NOT pneumonia.
The source of the correction is the Associated Press. You can read the correction as posted inTheresa's Memorial blog.
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
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Dark Knight Producer On Ledger's Death
Posted by Ashish on 01.25.2008
http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/67771/%5BMovies%5D-Dark-Knight-Producer-On-Ledger%5C%5Cs-Death.htm
"I just want to say one thing about Heath Ledger and that'll just sort of sum up everything I want to say about it. He was a good friend of mine both personally and professionally. We did two films together, one of which is The Dark Knight, and he was really a great guy and an incredibly brilliant actor. Wherever he is in the universe right now, I hope he's happy."
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In short time, Ledger had a lasting impact
Dead at 28, actor was never content to take the safe career road
Friday, January 25, 2008 12:03 PM CST
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2008/01/25/detour/44ledger.txt
Tribute from Dann Gire, president of the Chicago Film Critics Association:
Ledger was a rare and still untapped asset to the movies, and we are all the poorer for his passing.
And the author of the said article agrees beautifully:
I agree. He was truly ahead of his times, a Brando-esque role model to his generation of actors. Ledger personified a sect of young actors who weren't afraid to let it all out, emotionally and physically, for the better of future generations of actors who can look back and learn about a young man, taken ever so soon, who was fearless and uncontained.
Ledger's ability was no laughing matter, and, as much as we've lost, he helped us gain a sense of acting pride and bravery that will be felt forever.
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A beautiful appreciation of Heath, from the LA Times. Exquisitely written. One of the best I have read so far...
AN APPRECIATION
Heath Ledger, vulnerable male
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 24, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-heath24jan24,0,7037712.story
Quotes:
COURAGEOUS: In his films, Heath Ledger wrestled, painfully and often very movingly, with trying to reconcile the competing claims on a man.
The actor redefined what it means to be masculine
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From Theresa's Memorial Blog.
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
I am writing mine now...
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Leave Your Condolences Directly To The Family Via The Funeral Home At The Link Below
If you wish to leave your condolences to the Ledger family, you may do so at the condolences link for the Campbell Funeral Home. At the appropriate time the messages will be given to the family. The link is below:
http://www.frankecampbell.com/condolences.asp
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In short time, Ledger had a lasting impact
Dead at 28, actor was never content to take the safe career road
Friday, January 25, 2008 12:03 PM CST
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2008/01/25/detour/44ledger.txt
Tribute from Dann Gire, president of the Chicago Film Critics Association:
Ledger was a rare and still untapped asset to the movies, and we are all the poorer for his passing.
And the author of the said article agrees beautifully:
I agree. He was truly ahead of his times, a Brando-esque role model to his generation of actors. Ledger personified a sect of young actors who weren't afraid to let it all out, emotionally and physically, for the better of future generations of actors who can look back and learn about a young man, taken ever so soon, who was fearless and uncontained.
Ledger's ability was no laughing matter, and, as much as we've lost, he helped us gain a sense of acting pride and bravery that will be felt forever.
A beautiful appreciation of Heath, from the LA Times. Exquisitely written. One of the best I have read so far...
AN APPRECIATION
Heath Ledger, vulnerable male
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 24, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-heath24jan24,0,7037712.story
Quotes:
COURAGEOUS: In his films, Heath Ledger wrestled, painfully and often very movingly, with trying to reconcile the competing claims on a man.
The actor redefined what it means to be masculine
So beautiful Thomas. Thank you so much for this.
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Leave Your Condolences Directly To The Family Via The Funeral Home At The Link Below
If you wish to leave your condolences to the Ledger family, you may do so at the condolences link for the Campbell Funeral Home. At the appropriate time the messages will be given to the family. The link is below:
http://www.frankecampbell.com/condolences.asp
I have sent my condolences. My heart breaks for them.
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Heath Ledger's Death: Awards Shows Struggling With How To Pay Tribute
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580366/story.jhtml
Excerpt:
"Something's gonna be done," a representative for the Independent Spirit Awards, who did not want to be named, told MTV News. "We just don't yet know what."
A previous ISA Best Male Lead nominee for "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger was slated to receive the Robert Altman Award with director Todd Haynes and the cast of "I'm Not There," a film in which Ledger was one of six actors to play the role of Bob Dylan. The 28-year-old actor was to be among the very first recipients of the award, named last year in honor of director Robert Altman.
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Tpe, or anybody who would know, was it just enough to fill out the information and message, or were we supposed to wait on-line?
The screen said it was submitted, and to wait to be contacted, and I supposed that meant by e-mail. Or are we supposed to wait for
an additional screen or on-line message? Anybody know?
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Tpe, or anybody who would know, was it just enough to fill out the information and message, or were we supposed to wait on-line?
The screen said it was submitted, and to wait to be contacted, and I supposed that meant by e-mail. Or are we supposed to wait for
an additional screen or on-line message? Anybody know?
Do you mean the funeral home link?
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Heath Ledger's Death: Awards Shows Struggling With How To Pay Tribute
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580366/story.jhtml
Excerpt:
"Something's gonna be done," a representative for the Independent Spirit Awards, who did not want to be named, told MTV News. "We just don't yet know what."
A previous ISA Best Male Lead nominee for "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger was slated to receive the Robert Altman Award with director Todd Haynes and the cast of "I'm Not There," a film in which Ledger was one of six actors to play the role of Bob Dylan. The 28-year-old actor was to be among the very first recipients of the award, named last year in honor of director Robert Altman.
Oh my goodness...I'm not going to be able to watch any of those shows, seeing Heath being mentioned with the others who have passed away. I couldn't bear it.
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"You dreamed your dreams and lived them with passion and intelligent commitment. We have been priviledged to accompany you on a ride through life that has simply been amazing and through it all, we have loved each other beyond imagination.
Ledger's father Kim added: "Heatho'', "Beef'', . . . my beautiful boy, so loving, so talented, so independent, so caring, so young . . . no more chess games mate . . . this is it, couldn't beat you anyway!
"My body aches for the sound of your voice, our chats, our laughs and our life and times together.
We were one, in soul and commitment. Just . . . Father and Son. I will love you forever, Dad.''
Elder sister Kate wrote: "I can hardly breathe when I try to write this . . . we were the ultimate in soul mates. I feel both my heart and life have been torn apart. I loved our special talks, our daily chats from where ever you were in the world.
"I especially loved all the precious time we spent together. We were so fortunate to have you as long as we did. You were so many things to so many people, but to me you were just my little brother.
"There will never, ever be another "Heath'' and I think that in itself is the greatest tragedy.
"I will continue to talk with you everyday and love you just as if you were here. You will never leave my thoughts "Roast'', ever.''
Oh my.... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This is just heartbreaking. I'm crying so bad reading this. Heath's family pain must be just unbearable. My heart aches for them.
I'm so thankful for the posting of tributes by the Ledger Family. I didn't realize how much they appreciated, respected and deeply loved him. It's obvious that they knew what a unique and gifted person he was. They knew him first before the rest of us ever heard of him. I feel so much better that he came from such a loving and supportive family. I also feel that they know how best to care for him at the end of his life as they did throughout his life. This whole thread has brought me peace.
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Chameau, yes. Do you know?
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Chameau, yes. Do you know?
The only mandatory fields are your message and your name. Your mailing and Email addresses are optional. I filled them all but to be honnest, I don't expect any reply at all. They'll be bombed with messages and I'm afraid the usual trolls will send their usual insanities too. It might take them a lot of time to sort everything.
Just don't hold your breath and don't be disapointed, I made it for his family, daughter & friends & expect nothing in return.
If I ever get anything, I will post it for sure.
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Chameau-thanks very much. I don't expect anything back either, but, like you, wanted to let them know how much he was loved. Thanks again,
and thanks also for being a part of giving us all a place to be together. Especially, now.
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From Theresa's Memorial Blog.
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
I am writing mine now...
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Leave Your Condolences Directly To The Family Via The Funeral Home At The Link Below
If you wish to leave your condolences to the Ledger family, you may do so at the condolences link for the Campbell Funeral Home. At the appropriate time the messages will be given to the family. The link is below:
http://www.frankecampbell.com/condolences.asp
Thanks, Thomas. I sent mine just now.
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I still can't believe he's gone. This all still so raw. Reading all the remembrances and tributes are so heartwarming , to know that he was so well loved all over the world, especially the ones from his family. :\'( :(
God, I'm so in tears right now. Don't know if and when it will get any better, but I do own all of his films so this weekend in honor of him, I will draw the drapes, unplug the phone , and watch each one consecutively. This will be my "lost weekend" in tribute to his great work. There is no doubt more tears will fall over his death, but he will live on in the wonderful characters and work he left behind. This weekend , he will live once again and forever in my heart. Thank You Heath .Love and miss you. Rest in peace.
I feel that way too, aintfoolin. Sometimes I still can't believe he gone, but we have to accept the fact. He is our angel now. Rest in peace, our sweet Heath.
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Thank you for a place to post news information, however, I will be careful what I say and post only MY opinions, not hearsay or gossip.
At Yahoo.com there is an article about The Dark Knight being released. I will post the link at the end of my post. When you go to the link click on the bottom where it says "comments" and you can read what people are saying about releasing the film. I almost couldn't do it but after a few hours I finally got the "guts" (so to speak) to watch the trailer. It gave me a stomachache and then a glass of wine was next. The voice of the Joker does not even sound like Heath. It's difficult to determine from watching the trailer what the movie will be like but I got the distinct impression that this is not the type of role that Heath would accept. It is MY opinion that maybe Heath did not realize how sinister and dark this role would be; and we all know how it affected him. Maybe once he got into the role he realized what he had to do and in true Heath fashion he gave it all he had considering what was required even though (maybe) he realized he got himself into something that he was not that happy about.
I will never, ever watch this film because this is not the Heath I want to remember. Anyway, all the info and links to everything, the trailer, comments, etc are here:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/87285/the-fate-of-the-dark-knight
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CoraJack--I feel fairly close to the same--I may not see the film. He did intend to play the role on a darker level--I've read that he made
that choice in 5 seconds, and then found everyone else was in agreement. Still, believing you can do it as a role, and not be affected, is one
thing; what happens later is another. He has said he never had more fun in his life, and yet prop people and extras said he just sat there, numbly,
between scenes. Part of that may have been exhaustion. Strange as it sounds, the opposites can both be true.
But, like you, I may just avoid this one, at least for awhile. He did an excellent job, it will be a great movie, but the timing, for me, is bad.
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Thank you for a place to post news information, however, I will be careful what I say and post only MY opinions, not hearsay or gossip.
At Yahoo.com there is an article about The Dark Knight being released. I will post the link at the end of my post. When you go to the link click on the bottom where it says "comments" and you can read what people are saying about releasing the film. I almost couldn't do it but after a few hours I finally got the "guts" (so to speak) to watch the trailer. It gave me a stomachache and then a glass of wine was next. The voice of the Joker does not even sound like Heath. It's difficult to determine from watching the trailer what the movie will be like but I got the distinct impression that this is not the type of role that Heath would accept. It is MY opinion that maybe Heath did not realize how sinister and dark this role would be; and we all know how it affected him. Maybe once he got into the role he realized what he had to do and in true Heath fashion he gave it all he had considering what was required even though (maybe) he realized he got himself into something that he was not that happy about.
I will never, ever watch this film because this is not the Heath I want to remember. Anyway, all the info and links to everything, the trailer, comments, etc are here:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/87285/the-fate-of-the-dark-knight
As I very much respect your views on this matter at this sad time, I feel as with any great actor Heath made the choice to make the role his own. When I first heard that he was going to play the role of the Joker, I knew he was going to leave his personal stamp on it even though the role of "Joker" has been done before by others. It was his vision of the character as in his unforgettable portrayal of Ennis. This is not his first dark sinister role he's gravitated toward and I feel he chose them conciously and carefully. ( see Monster's ball, and the Order) I believe he did the research before taking it. I did not know him personally of course but he did invest the time away to complete it. News reports of personal conflicts I feel contributed to the stress and anxiety in his young life. I hate the speculation, but underneath all the makeup and theatrical stuff there was a down to earth, sweet ,shy,gentle soul , Heath A. Ledger, the man. Therefore , I for one am waitng to see this film. I feel he would have wanted people to see his work and appreciate his sacrifice. As for his death, I am truly saddened and will leave it's cause for the proper authority's to sort out, but I am of the belief that Heath could seperate the man from the character and show his fans believable talent as an actor.
I will be front and center to see this film. Respectfully, Thanx.
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I just found this:
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it's a memorial site including a forum and a section for messages to Heath and family.
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Zelinda, could you check again, please? Searching with what you posted, on Yahoo, only brings up Perez Hilton, which is pretty gross.
Maybe Yahoo hasn't gotten it listed yet. What search engine did you use?
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Guys, please make sure you post in the proper threads, we have a thread concerning the Dark Knight, related links and comments should be posted there:
Heath THE Joker
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.msg205345#msg205345
Finaly, please don't post links to webpages and magazines known for their gossip, they could be edited.
Thanks Brokies!
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Hey, fellow distraught Brokies...
I just found this at sandiego.com ... the city's newspaper, I think.
Willie Nelson's performance of "He Was a Friend of Mine" seems appropriate ...
UNION-TRIBUNE
January 25, 2008
Ennis Del Mar was a man of few words, but powerful passions.
It required an actor possessed of uncommon instinct and courage to bring to the screen the vulnerable and conflicted hero of Annie Proulx's short story, “Brokeback Mountain.”
Heath Ledger was that actor. Without emotional eruptions or cowboy clichés, he inhabited a character whose struggle with a profound love and loss – both beyond his comprehension – was unforgettable.
He died Tuesday at 28. Rarely has the announcement of the Academy Award nominations, made the same day, seemed so unimportant.
An internalizing actor whose film roles consistently defied the leading-man expectations assumed of him, Ledger chose to follow his conscience and his muse. Before “Brokeback,” for which he received an Oscar nomination in 2006, Ledger appeared in “Monster's Ball” and “Lords of Dogtown.” We saw him last year in Todd Haynes' out-there “I'm Not There.” For a movie star, he worked – and lived – about as quietly as did Ennis Del Mar.
How unfitting, then, that the hours following the discovery of Ledger's body in his New York apartment were consumed by a paparazzi-and Internet “media”-feeding frenzy. Among the worst offenders: TMZ.com, which boasts the stink of respectability because it has a TV show and because its managing editor, Harvey Levin, is a recurring talking head on “Today,” among other shows. The site may as well have changed its name to “All Heath All the Time,” updating viewers seemingly by the second with grainy photos and lurid tidbits like: “The People Who Found Heath,” “Jack (as in Nicholson) on Heath: I Warned Him!”, “How Heath's Body Was Discovered,” “Michelle Williams (Ledger's ex-fiance'e and the mother of their child) – Devastated,” and “Inside the Building Where Heath Died.”
There was more: Lindsey (as in Lohan) was distraught at Ledger's death. Ledger was not at the apartment of Mary-Kate Olsen. And photos, photos and more photos of Ledger's body being removed from the building.
TMZ was not alone in – I don't know any other way to say this – the fine art of ghoulish reporting. Culprits abounded – in both mainstream and tabloid coverage.
This isn't the first time we've seen this, and it won't be the last.
I just didn't expect Heath Ledger to be in the middle. Silly, naive me.
Sorry me, too. Sorry for a child named Matilda, now without a father. Sorry for those who read and watch and listen, who deserve better. Sorry for those whom I must accept, like it or not, are my colleagues in the media.
Sorry, most of all, for Heath Ledger, who deserved at least as much dignity as he gave Ennis Del Mar.
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People magazine has reconstructed the last day of Heath, but I personally feel that Heath would not have appreciated being followed around that way. So I am not posting a link to the article, except to say that those of you who are interested can read it yourselves.
But I would like to quote here a testimony of one of the employees at the grocery Heath visited Monday evening. It speaks volumes of the simplicity of the man and his aversion to fame:
"He had three bags of groceries, mainly produce like fruits and vegetables. I remember he had organic chicken sausages," says catering sales manager Liz Bullis, 22. "He packed his own groceries. About half of our customers help out like that. He was always very friendly and pretty quiet."
From People Magazine, Heath Ledger's Final Days
The issue they put out on stands on Friday doesn't have this. They got it out like the next day. Maybe there are two editions, or there is the on-line version. Anyway...not that I need to know everything he did, but I do like hearing from people around town there who knew him.
kathy
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A beautiful appreciation of Heath, from the LA Times. Exquisitely written. One of the best I have read so far...
AN APPRECIATION
Heath Ledger, vulnerable male
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 24, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-heath24jan24,0,7037712.story
Quotes:
COURAGEOUS: In his films, Heath Ledger wrestled, painfully and often very movingly, with trying to reconcile the competing claims on a man.
The actor redefined what it means to be masculine
I really loved this article, too, Thomas, which I read on Theresa's blog. I think of young men like Heath, and it makes me feel there is hope for the world...
kathy
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As I very much respect your views on this matter at this sad time, I feel as with any great actor Heath made the choice to make the role his own. When I first heard that he was going to play the role of the Joker, I knew he was going to leave his personal stamp on it even though the role of "Joker" has been done before by others. It was his vision of the character as in his unforgettable portrayal of Ennis. This is not his first dark sinister role he's gravitated toward and I feel he chose them conciously and carefully. ( see Monster's ball, and the Order) I believe he did the research before taking it. I did not know him personally of course but he did invest the time away to complete it. News reports of personal conflicts I feel contributed to the stress and anxiety in his young life. I hate the speculation, but underneath all the makeup and theatrical stuff there was a down to earth, sweet ,shy,gentle soul , Heath A. Ledger, the man. Therefore , I for one am waitng to see this film. I feel he would have wanted people to see his work and appreciate his sacrifice. As for his death, I am truly saddened and will leave it's cause for the proper authority's to sort out, but I am of the belief that Heath could seperate the man from the character and show his fans believable talent as an actor.
I will be front and center to see this film. Respectfully, Thanx.
I want to see this movie, though it will be painful. My main problem is that I don't want it to be Heath's last film. I mean, not the role I want to remember him by. Though I have no doubt it is an amazing performance. Anyway, that's why I'm really glad there will still be his parts, presumably, in The Imaginarium.
kathy
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Zelinda, could you check again, please? Searching with what you posted, on Yahoo, only brings up Perez Hilton, which is pretty gross.
Maybe Yahoo hasn't gotten it listed yet. What search engine did you use?
I'm sorry, I thought the link was fine!! I found it on a livejournal community and it wasn't a gossip page or anything, just a memorial site. Something must have gone wrong.
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Not to worry--no harm done. Be sure to note what Chameau said, if you find anything that proves OK. Thanks for trying.
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Has there been any mention of a statement by Jake Gyllenhaal? I've been following the news (and so-called news) and haven't heard anything. :-\\
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I know it's private but i admit to being curious. what do you suppose the funeral plans are in LA?
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Nancy Grace on CNN/Headline News is doing an hour show on Heath right now. I just caught it. It will replay tonight at 1AM EST. So far it seems like a good analysis of the situation. And there are a lot of updates being given right now on the show
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Guys, please make sure you post in the proper threads, we have a thread concerning the Dark Knight, related links and comments should be posted there:
Heath THE Joker
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.msg205345#msg205345
Finaly, please don't post links to webpages and magazines known for their gossip, they could be edited.
Thanks Brokies!
This is totally crazy. I am being reprimanded for everything I post. I think with this death affecting everyone in such a deep way that some things can be overlooked. I had NO idea there was a "Dark Knight" thread. I have been in the memorial section only. Have a wonderful time, friends. But lighten up a little here on your "fellow brokies" we are doing the best we can here and the constant reprimands will make people not want to post, which is obvious by the emails I keep getting from people complaining about the nitpicking that is going on on this site now.
Ta ta...enjoy.
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Thanks for the info about the CNN/Headline news special. Just ran up to program my DVR
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oh darn. I missed it and here i am in front of the tv. 1am should find me long asleep!
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Here I am 1:17 am but I can't find this program anywhere. Ah well, I have my dreams!
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omg you guys i can't believe it, i dunno if there are discussions about this thing somewhere else, or if this should be somewhere else, but I just saw this thing on youtube and i'm like crying I can't believe it how pathetic and idiotic some people can be.
This news program is basically talking about how the Phelps, Those "God Hates Fags" people, are gonna picket Heath's funeral because he played a gay character in BBM, they are gonna picket and they are saying he's "burning in hell" and he died because he played a gay character, God killed him because of that or something like that, and stuff like that, UGH omg i hate those people OMG!!! :\'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I951yZtS564
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From Theresa's Memorial Blog.
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
I am writing mine now...
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Leave Your Condolences Directly To The Family Via The Funeral Home At The Link Below
If you wish to leave your condolences to the Ledger family, you may do so at the condolences link for the Campbell Funeral Home. At the appropriate time the messages will be given to the family. The link is below:
http://www.frankecampbell.com/condolences.asp
Thanks, tpe, I sent mine. This is much appreciated.
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omg you guys i can't believe it, i dunno if there are discussions about this thing somewhere else, or if this should be somewhere else, but I just saw this thing on youtube and i'm like crying I can't believe it how pathetic and idiotic some people can be.
This news program is basically talking about how the Phelps, Those "God Hates Fags" people, are gonna picket Heath's funeral because he played a gay character in BBM, they are gonna picket and they are saying he's "burning in hell" and he died because he played a gay character, God killed him because of that or something like that, and stuff like that, UGH omg i hate those people OMG!!! :\'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I951yZtS564
this is just SICK, what can one say ignorance from such people are not worthy of our attention!
The USA extremist far right pundit are always going to try to cash on the sadness of other, they thrive on this and at the end of the day I send them more forgiveness for I know they do not know what true love is!
We live for love, they live for hate :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
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Heath was 'just a boy on a skateboard'
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23119110-10388,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23119110-10388,00.html)
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Ledger Honored At USA Australia Day Ball
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/ledger-honored-at-usa-australia-day.html
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Source: News.com Australia
HEATH Ledger adored Australia, loved helping his friends and never became an actor "for fame or fortune", his father Kim said in a message read to a large gathering of Australians and Hollywood stars in Manhattan tonight.
The unexpected letter sent chills through the 1000 guests inside New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel grand ballroom for the G'Day USA Australia Day Ball.
Kim Ledger asked Australia's consul-general in New York John Olsen to read the letter.
"Heath is, and always will be, an Australian," wrote Kim, who arrived in the US on Friday to escort his son's body back to Perth.
"He adored his home.
"His last two weeks with us over Christmas in Perth were just bliss.
"Heath did not become an actor for the fame or fortune.
"He loved his craft and he loved helping his friends.
"He loved chess and skateboarding too.
"My image of Heath in New York is him with his skateboard, a canvas bag and his beanie.
"That was Heath to me."
The ball was designed as a glamour event to celebrate the end of the two week G'Day USA festival in the US.
The death last Tuesday of one of Australia's great young actors shook the large Australian contingent of celebrities, politicians, trade officials and entertainers in the US as part of G'Day USA.
Organisers altered tonight's program to honour Ledger.
There also were chills and tears when a minute's silence was held in Ledger's honour.
One of 28-year-old actor's iconic photos, a Brokeback Mountain promotional shot of him in a cowboy hat leaning back smiling, was projected on a screen during the tribute.
"The response we have received here in New York about Heath's tragic passing is certainly an indication that Heath is held in high esteem as an exceptionally talented actor," Olsen told AAP.
Ledger would have cracked a smile if he attended the G'Day Ball as the historic Manhattan hotel looked, tasted and smelt like Australia.
Hilary, a merino sheep wearing a G'Day USA designer shirt, shared the Waldorf red carpet with Hollywood glamour girl Jessica Alba, Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr, Australian Transformers star Rachael Taylor and actors Julian McMahon and Jack Thompson.
Inside the Waldorf's grand ballroom, the guests sipped Jacob's Creek wine and feasted on a menu co-created by Australian celebrity chefs Luke Mangan and Neil Perry.
Entertainment included performances by Shannon Noll, Christine Anu, the Qantas Choir and, undoubtedly a first for the Waldorf and continuing the sheep theme, a shearing demonstration.
Ledger also will be honoured by famous friends at tomorrow's Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium.
Ledger, a two-time SAG nominee in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain and an actor revered by his peers, will be honoured with a tribute.
Secrecy also surrounds a memorial service for Ledger in Los Angeles.
Ledger's parents, Kim and Sally, and sister Kate, were in Los Angeles today awaiting the arrival of his body from New York.
Ledger's US publicist Mara Buxbaum ruled out a public memorial service for the late actor, although it is believed a private service will take place in coming days.
"There are no plans for a public service," Buxbaum wrote in an email to The New York Times newspaper.
Ledger's former fiancee, Michelle Williams and two-year-old daughter, Matilda, left their Brooklyn home today for one of New York's airports with several bags of luggage.
It is expected they will meet Ledger's family in LA and then continue on to Perth for a funeral.
Ledger's family has reason to hold its memorial services in private as some US religious groups have vowed to picket any service to protest the actor's portrayal of a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
They also would be hoping to avoid a similar media scene to the one outside the New York funeral home yesterday when a large group of photographers fought to take photos of Ledger's body being loaded into a hearse.
Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday.
An autopsy on Wednesday failed to find a cause of death. It will take at least a week for the results of toxicology tests to be known, although police sources have said they believe he died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
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this is just SICK, what can one say ignorance from such people are not worthy of our attention!
The USA extremist far right pundit are always going to try to cash on the sadness of other, they thrive on this and at the end of the day I send them more forgiveness for I know they do not know what true love is!
We live for love, they live for hate :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
I agree :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
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OMG I have to go out and get this...I have the people magazine, but I feel like I have to get everything [legitimate] out there. Oh I'm still so sad :\'(
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does anybody know if there will be something on the SAGs tonight?
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does anybody know if there will be something on the SAGs tonight?
Fausta, I definitely read somewhere that Heath would be honoured at the SAGs - I don't think the article said how.
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i hope that someeone will post it here tonight... so we have it tomorrow morning.
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I just found a few links talking about Jake, through his fan site. There are no statements from him as of yet.
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An article written by Chris Nolan for Newsweek:
Charisma As Natural As Gravity
By Christopher Nolan
Heath Ledger, 28, Actor
Best known for his haunting, Oscar-nominated performance as Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in 2005 ' s "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger was a massive young talent on the cusp of greatness when he died last week in New York. The native Australian, who is survived by his 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, had recently finished work on this summer's "Batman" sequel, "The Dark Knight," in which he plays a villain, the Joker. Christopher Nolan, the film's director, shared these memories:
One night, as I'm standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for "The Dark Knight," a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight. Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup. I'd fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a proliferation of skateboards among the younger crew members. If you'd asked those kids why they had chosen to bring their boards to work, they would have answered honestly that they didn't know. That's real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That's what Heath had.
Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren't many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.
One time he and another actor were shooting a complex scene. We had two days to shoot it, and at the end of the first day, they'd really found something and Heath was worried that he might not have it if we stopped. He wanted to carry on and finish. It's tough to ask the crew to work late when we all know there's plenty of time to finish the next day. But everyone seemed to understand that Heath had something special and that we had to capture it before it disappeared. Months later, I learned that as Heath left the set that night, he quietly thanked each crew member for working late. Quietly. Not trying to make a point, just grateful for the chance to create that they'd given him.
Those nights on the streets of Chicago were filled with stunts. These can be boring times for an actor, but Heath was fascinated, eagerly accepting our invitation to ride in the camera car as we chased vehicles through movie traffic—not just for the thrill ride, but to be a part of it. Of everything. He'd brought his laptop along in the car, and we had a high-speed screening of two of his works-in-progress: short films he'd made that were exciting and haunting. Their exuberance made me feel jaded and leaden. I've never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents. That night I made him an offer—knowing he wouldn't take me up on it—that he should feel free to come by the set when he had a night off so he could see what we were up to.
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we'd have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we'd done with all that he'd given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.
Back on LaSalle Street, I turn to my assistant director and I tell him to clear the skateboarding kid out of my line of sight when I realize—it's Heath, woolly hat pulled low over his eyes, here on his night off to take me up on my offer. I can't help but smile.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105580
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An article written by Chris Nolan for Newsweek:
omg...more tears.
thank you for this article.
I know someone else who is going to love this article too...
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Fabulous article - thanks for sharing. It's so fun to read what he was up to!!!! I hope we can find more stories like this.
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Watching the SAG awards right now. They just did the "In Memorium" piece. Heath's was the last picture. Didn't say anything - just an image of him in his cowboy hat with his name underneath.
Maybe there will be something else but I kind of doubt it. I remember seeing a clip from a spokesperson that they don't do tributes to anyone in particular - just group it into that piece of the show....
I'll keep watching...
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SAG award update: Daniel Day Lewis just won for Best Actor. he said his quick thank you's and then talked about how much he admired Heath. It was really nice - spoke about how in awe he was with his work in characters in Monsters Ball and BBM. He dedicated his award to Heath before leaving.
I'm sure it will up on video somewhere. It was really touching. He sounded a little choked to me.
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I think there's only one thing to say: God bless Daniel Day Lewis!
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Stars remember Heath Ledger at SAG awards
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,23120866-7485,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,23120866-7485,00.html)
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From AwardsDaily.com:
ONTD has posted http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19780184.html#cutid1 (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19780184.html#cutid1) Daniel Day Lewis’ tribute to Heath Ledger in his acceptance speech, from the SAG site, they’ve also posted a link to a clip http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168762_20174052,00.html (http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168762_20174052,00.html):
Thank you. I’m very, very proud of this. Thank you so much for giving it to me. And I’m very proud to be included in that group of wonderful actors this year.
You know, for as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment, of renewal, the thing that teased me with the question, how is such a thing possible, and then dare you to go back into the arena of one more time, with longing and self-doubt, jostling in the balance. It’s always been the work of other actors, and there are many actors in this room tonight, including my fellow nominees who have given that sense of regeneration and…
Heath Ledger gave it to me. [applause] In “Monster’s Ball,” that character that he created, it seemed to be almost like an unformed being, retreating from themselves, retreating from his father, from his life, even retreating from us, and yet we wanted to follow him, and yet we’re scared to follow him almost. It was unique. And then, of course, in “Brokeback Mountain,” he was unique, he was perfect. [applause] And that scene in the trailer at the end of the film is as moving as anything that I think I’ve ever seen. And I’d like to dedicate this to Heath Ledger. So, thank you very much. Thank you so much.
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FLWCHILD send me the link, it is truly poignant it touched me in the core of my being :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Hi. :)
I just wanted you to know that I found a link to Daniel Day Lewis's SAG awards speech on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5DlfrtZRM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5DlfrtZRM)
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Barb
From BARB
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Thank you for posting this link. It moves me to tears. Thank you, DDL.
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7:10am and I'm sitting here in tears after watching that clip from the SAG awards. What a tribute.
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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What an incredible tribute. What a wonderful thing for DDL to do. It was such a moving speech. :\'( :\'( But all so so true.
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January 27, 2008, 10:03 pm
Aiming Point
Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Day-Lewis accepts his award for “There Will Be Blood.” (Evan Agostini/Associated Press)
In the least surprising win of the night, Daniel Day-Lewis was named the best leading actor in a dramatic role. He was halting, smashing and effecting in receiving the award. Instead of merely saying he was humbled, he clearly demonstrated. “It has always been the work of my fellow actors, including my fellow nominees, who have given me a sense of regeneration.”
“Heath Ledger gave it to me,” he said. “We wanted to follow him and yet we were afraid to follow him.”
“In Brokeback Mountain, he was unique. He was perfect. The scene in the trailer at the end of the movie was as moving as anything we have ever seen. I’d like to dedicate this award to him.”
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?action=post;msg=677361;topic=12695.60;sesc=ef7f399131f58932060043fae9c66865
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Heath Ledger Remembered at SAG Awards
Outstanding Male Performance winner Daniel Day-Lewis dedicated his trophy to Heath, who was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday, telling the crowd, "It's always been the work of other actors... that's given me that sense of regeneration. Heath Ledger gave it to me." He then went on to praise Heath's work in Monster's Ball ("unique") and Brokeback Mountain, saying, " He was perfect. And that scene in the trailer in the end of the film is as moving as anything I think I've ever ever seen."
Nominee Ryan Gosling and his sister Mandy wore black ribbons in honor of Heath. "Mandy made them for Heath," Ryan said on the red carpet, adding later, "I admired him a lot."
And in the evening's official In Memoriam video tribute, Heath's image was the last one seen. As the clip's soundtrack faded out, the audience applauded the 28-year-old actor who still had so many great roles in front of him.
http://www.pagesix.com/story/heath+ledger+remembered+sag+awards
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From AwardsDaily.com:
ONTD has posted http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19780184.html#cutid1 (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19780184.html#cutid1) Daniel Day Lewis’ tribute to Heath Ledger in his acceptance speech, from the SAG site, they’ve also posted a link to a clip http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168762_20174052,00.html (http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168762_20174052,00.html):
This is extremely moving :\'( :\'(. I'll admire Daniel Day Lewis forever for doing it.
I'm just slowly catching up on this thread... thank you everybody for the links.
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Michelle's sorrow for Heath
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23119658-948,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23119658-948,00.html)
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Today I must be a little masochist,because not only did I see the beautiful video by Orangetruck in homage to Heath;I've just seen Daniel Day-Lewis words as tribute to his fellow...The second time I'm able to listen,see or read this kind of stuff these days¡As I imagined,I've begun to cry,but it doesn't matter...The most important thing is that DDL is not only a good actor,but a better,a wonderful,fellow and man.Seeing him so touched by Heath's death is touching also for anybody who has a heart inside...I propose to send him a letter of congratulation and friendship from the forum for his loyalty to a companion. :ghug:
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Froggy alluded to Nolan's tribute in the Memorial thread.
I have a link to the full tribute, but it is posted in an unacceptable location, so I will try to find another link to it.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23124810-5001021,00.html
How Heath skated into hearts
January 29, 2008 12:00am
Excerpts:
CHRISTOPHER Nolan, who directed Heath Ledger as the Joker in the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, has written a moving tribute to the departed Australian actor.
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"That’s real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That’s what Heath had."
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that is an amazing tribute to Heath. Heartfelt and moving.
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that is an amazing tribute to Heath. Heartfelt and moving.
Oh Christie, it reduced me to tears.
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What an incredible tribute. What a wonderful thing for DDL to do. It was such a moving speech. :\'( :\'( But all so so true.
I couldn't agree more, Christie and others...
DDL is also very similar to Heath in many ways: an actor's actor, totally devoted to his craft, choosing challenging roles (think of DDL's miracle performance in My Left Foot), not chasing glamour or fame or money for its own sake, a very private and restrained individual...
and now my respect for him couldn't be higher...
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An article written by Chris Nolan for Newsweek:
Charisma As Natural As Gravity
By Christopher Nolan
Thank you so much yb for posting this.
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2247439,00.html
Philip French: 'He was a delight'
Our chief film critic reflects on Heath Ledger's career
Philip French
Sunday January 27, 2008
The Observer
The visit to the home of his dead lover's parents, where he silently inspects Jack's old bedroom, is among the most poignant, delicately understated sequences in movie history.
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Michelle's sorrow for Heath
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23119658-948,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23119658-948,00.html)
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God, my heart breaks for her, and the little girl who will never know her daddy... :\'(
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I loved that Chris Nolan piece. It gives such insight into Heath as a man and confirms all the things I think about him.
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I loved that Chris Nolan piece. It gives such insight into Heath as a man and confirms all the things I think about him.
This is exactly how I felt.
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Not sure if this was posted before, but here're a couple of articles that mention Jake's grief. I found the links from his official jakegyllenhaal.com site. Jake's site also linked to the article about FoxNews Radio John Gibson mocking Heath's death.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23105747-5001021,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.pagesix.com/celebrities/Jake+Gyllenhaal
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Heath Ledger: The death of an innocent?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/25/ledger.drugs/index.html
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As depressing as it may seem, it is not an unusual story. A young, talented actor who seems to have the world at their feet is discovered dead from an apparent overdose.
The deaths of stars such as Marilyn Monroe and John Belushi were mourned throughout the film industry and sent shockwaves across world, but they were, in a sense, part of a hedonistic tradition.
Neither of these past stars were strangers to the drugs that killed them, nor to the lifestyle that went with that substance abuse -- Monroe was known for attending wild parties with the Rat Pack and Belushi regularly hit the headlines with his drug use.
But the discovery of Australian actor Heath Ledger dead in his New York apartment, Tuesday, has come as a major shock to people across the world.
His career was reaching new heights in the years up to his death -- most notably a best actor nomination at the Oscars for his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain in 2005 -- and he had made a positive step into the A-list, playing The Joker in the latest installment in the regenerated Batman franchise.
Dying at the peak of your fame is not unusual: Belushi was lined up to follow successes in "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers" with a starring role in "Ghostbusters"; Monroe was planning to star alongside Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon and Frank Sinatra in future projects; and River Phoenix was following up his own Oscar nomination with roles in hard-hitting, mature films such as "The Basketball Diaries."
So why are we so surprised? He follows in a long tradition of celebrities crashing under the pressure of the spotlight -- save for one major difference: he wasn't known as an outgoing party-boy. As Howard Bragman, founder of the Fifteen Minutes PR agency said on CNN, "Nobody saw this coming."
He went on: "There's probably 25 or 50 people you could name if this happened to (them), including Brad Renfro, you'd say 'Well, that was an accident waiting to happen.'"
Renfro, who was found dead at the age of 25 in his Los Angeles apartment one week before Ledger's death, had suffered a decline in his career after initial success as a child actor. He had struggled with alcohol and drug abuse. But his story hasn't captured the same international media attention as Ledger's.
Although they are not the easiest comparison, since Renfro had had less attention in the preceding years, it may be that his lifestyle off-screen made his untimely death less of a shock to the public.
Figures like Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse are closest to perpetuating the image of self-destructive hedonism that characters like John Belushi embodied. It is hard to predict the reaction of a celebrity's death, but it seems likely that if a modern hell-raiser died there would be at least one section of society suggesting that it was always on the cards.
The bottom line is, Ledger doesn't fit into the same category as any of these people. He was a quiet, well-respected man, who was the father of a two-year-old girl, Matilda, by his long-term partner Michelle Williams. The pair split late 2007.
The shock that this has inspired seems to be a combination of his youth; his sensitivity in the roles he has chosen and the way he has brought them to life; and the fact that he seemed to live a largely vice-free existence, away from the headline grabbing exploits of Spears and Winehouse.
Heath Ledger was a star on the way up, his touching performance in "Brokeback Mountain" demonstrated his immense maturity as an actor, and his death has robbed us of a great talent.
And, although there seems to be a long list of actors who have died young in drug-related incidents, this has left much of the world feeling that it isn't fair, simply because he seemed to do nothing to deserve his sudden and untimely death.
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So true, it is totally unfair, I feel so angry and sad :\'(
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/27/entertainment/e200512S50.DTL&tsp=1&type=entertainment
Daniel Day Lewis dedicated his screen actors award to Heath, called his scene in the trailor
in Brokeback perfect.
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John Gibson's (FoxNews Radio) feeble attempt at an apology:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325371,00.html
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http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23120116-5015791,00.html
Cate Blanchett tribute to Heath Ledger
January 28, 2008 12:00am
"I'd like to pay special tribute to Heath Ledger who I think was an extraordinary actor and was well on his way to being a master himself," she said.
"We will all miss you enormously."
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Goodness - this sends me into a sweat. They are reporting in the paramedics log that Heath's body was recorded as still warm. Well his torso specifically. So they are saying that he could have died within 20 minutes of them arriving. Which means, nearly 10 were spent calling Mary Kate Olsen. (australian news)
I have to stop reading b.c. somewhere else I read that they noticed his jaw had morbi ridigity (something like that) which means he passed about 3 hours prior.
Not that any of this matters in the long run but I pay attention b.c I can't help but think, did he have a chance at being saved then?????
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John Gibson's (FoxNews Radio) feeble attempt at an apology:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325371,00.html
It's not so much but at least he said I'm sorry, and now I feel a little bit better after all the crying and pain and anger I had after listening to his previous words.
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It's not so much but at least he said I'm sorry, and now I feel I little bit better after all the crying and pain and anger I had after listening to his previous words.
I'm glad you're feeling better now, BT. I have a sneaky suspicion that he made that statement because of the pressure from the outpouring of emails that was sent to him and the executives at FN (better known as Fake News)
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Does anyone have any vid links to DDL's backstage comments and/or Ryan Gosling's lovely tribute to Heath? Thanks. x
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Does anyone have any vid links to DDL's backstage comments and/or Ryan Gosling's lovely tribute to Heath? Thanks. x
Ryan Gosling:
I mentioned yesterday that Ryan Gosling talked about Heath on the red carpet. I thought it was very sweet. Here's the video if anyone cares to watch:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1378342403?bclid=1326153012&bctid=1392526755
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Ryan Gosling
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1378342403?bclid=1326153012&bctid=1392526755
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Thanks Froggy. xx And believer for posting it originally. ^f^
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DAniel Day Lewis backstage
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxNOxOKB9oM
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Ryan Gosling
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1378342403?bclid=1326153012&bctid=1392526755
Oh what a lovely thing for Ryan Gosling and his sister to do. That was very very moving, I thought.
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DAniel Day Lewis backstage
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxNOxOKB9oM
Thanks Froggy. DDL speaks for all of us I think. xx
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He does indeed.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_8087071?nclick_check=1
Redford reflects on Heath Ledger's death
By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer
Article Launched: 01/26/2008 09:47:52 AM PST
"I just think he was one of those actors that was very, very special because he played so many different kinds of roles, and much of his work was more in the independent area," Redford said.
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I couldn't believe this when I read it in the Daily Mirror here in the UK today. Tony Parsons can be a bit brutal and this tribute from a straight columnist really moved me.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/parsons/2008/01/28/death-of-heath-ledger-broke-my-heart-89520-20301408/
Death of Heath Ledger broke my heart
Tony Parsons 28/01/2008
I have an amazing number of mates who have never seen Brokeback Mountain because it's "that movie about two gay cowboys". What they are missing is an almost perfect storm of talent.
Brokeback Mountain was directed by the great Ang Lee from a classic short story by Annie Proulx. It has an Oscar-winning screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry (a great novelist himself and author of The Last Picture Show), and Jake Gyllenhaal will never be better than he was as rodeo cowboy Jack Twist.
Most of all, what my friends are missing is the portrayal of ranch hand Ennis Del Mar by Heath Ledger. A performance that ranks up there with Al Pacino in the first Godfather film, Robert de Niro in the second Godfather, Brando when he was young and thin, Montgomery Clift in From Here To Eternity, and James Dean in the three films he made before his early death.
Heath Ledger truly was as good as that, and nobody who has seen Brokeback Mountain could ever doubt it.
Heath Ledger had the kind of talent that only comes along once every 20 years and his death is a horrible waste.
It makes me laugh to read that the French trader who lost £3.6billion for Societe Generale was driven by two tragedies - splitting up with his wife and the death of his father.
Splitting up with someone is not a tragedy. Nor is burying a parent when you are in your 30s a tragedy. These are the knocks we all suffer in everyday life. Calling them tragedies is overkill.
Look at the faces of Heath Ledger's devastated parents - burying your child is a tragedy.
Think about Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda - that little girl never knowing her father is a tragedy.
Heath Ledger was an incredible young actor with talent to burn. Losing him at the heartbreakingly early age of 28 is what a real tragedy looks like.
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Wow, Tom - that's quite a piece from Tony Parsons. Nice to see the Mirror printing something as touching as that - puts them well above the other tabloids.
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Wow, Tom - that's quite a piece from Tony Parsons. Nice to see the Mirror printing something as touching as that - puts them well above the other tabloids.
I know,
I usually like Tony Parsons anyway, but as I said he can be a bit scathing and it took my breath away to read the wonderful things he said about Heath. This is one of the nicest things I have read about this sad affair in the British press to date.
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Ryan Gosling
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1378342403?bclid=1326153012&bctid=1392526755
That was so sweet of them. I agreed with what Ryan said about leaving Heath's family alone- Amen to that.
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This is long, but some beautiful insight into Heath as Ennis.
Eric Patterson is associate professor of American studies and American literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of an upcoming book On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film.
kathy
http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html (http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html)
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Heathbaby.com news
Melbourne artist Vincent Fantauzzo created the last painting of late actor HEATH LEDGER, just one day before he died.
The painting is so real!
http://www.heathbaby.com/k2news/example1.php?Action=Full&NewsID=612
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Thank you so much Kathy for that wonderful article by Patterson.
A lucid and impassionate analysis of Heath's performance in BBM if ever there was one.
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Apologies if it's been posted already...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/heath-ledger/softly-spoken-actor-promised-so-much/2008/01/25/1201157663318.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 (http://www.smh.com.au/news/heath-ledger/softly-spoken-actor-promised-so-much/2008/01/25/1201157663318.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1)
Neil Armfield - director of Candy - reflects on working with Heath.
Wonderful stuff.
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Great article, Kathy
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Tom, thank you so much for this. I am grateful that Heath is loved and appreciated so much. :\'( :ghug:
I couldn't believe this when I read it in the Daily Mirror here in the UK today. Tony Parsons can be a bit brutal and this tribute from a straight columnist really moved me.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/parsons/2008/01/28/death-of-heath-ledger-broke-my-heart-89520-20301408/
Death of Heath Ledger broke my heart
Tony Parsons 28/01/2008
I have an amazing number of mates who have never seen Brokeback Mountain because it's "that movie about two gay cowboys". What they are missing is an almost perfect storm of talent.
Brokeback Mountain was directed by the great Ang Lee from a classic short story by Annie Proulx. It has an Oscar-winning screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry (a great novelist himself and author of The Last Picture Show), and Jake Gyllenhaal will never be better than he was as rodeo cowboy Jack Twist.
Most of all, what my friends are missing is the portrayal of ranch hand Ennis Del Mar by Heath Ledger. A performance that ranks up there with Al Pacino in the first Godfather film, Robert de Niro in the second Godfather, Brando when he was young and thin, Montgomery Clift in From Here To Eternity, and James Dean in the three films he made before his early death.
Heath Ledger truly was as good as that, and nobody who has seen Brokeback Mountain could ever doubt it.
Heath Ledger had the kind of talent that only comes along once every 20 years and his death is a horrible waste.
It makes me laugh to read that the French trader who lost £3.6billion for Societe Generale was driven by two tragedies - splitting up with his wife and the death of his father.
Splitting up with someone is not a tragedy. Nor is burying a parent when you are in your 30s a tragedy. These are the knocks we all suffer in everyday life. Calling them tragedies is overkill.
Look at the faces of Heath Ledger's devastated parents - burying your child is a tragedy.
Think about Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda - that little girl never knowing her father is a tragedy.
Heath Ledger was an incredible young actor with talent to burn. Losing him at the heartbreakingly early age of 28 is what a real tragedy looks like.
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Apologies if it's been posted already...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/heath-ledger/softly-spoken-actor-promised-so-much/2008/01/25/1201157663318.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 (http://www.smh.com.au/news/heath-ledger/softly-spoken-actor-promised-so-much/2008/01/25/1201157663318.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1)
Neil Armfield - director of Candy - reflects on working with Heath.
Wonderful stuff.
Thank you freetraveller. I read most of the beginning at Therese's blog, but the last portion when Niel described what happened at the filming of Candy in Sydney, that made me seething mad, so angry! Guy Finlay --- remember that vile name, brokies. He hated Heath and ruined a great creative moment on purpose, with a flash camera. Then he squirted Heath and Michelle at that infamous premiere in Synday, along with Peter Carette. These two should be ashamed of themselves. And Guy, if I hate anyone, it's this man. ^^) ^^) ^^) How can ANYONE be so vindictive against a man like Heath?
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This is just so wrong >:(
Conman exploits Heath Ledger's friends
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Please Brokies post here only articles with proved and confirmed facts as respect for Heath.
Otherwise links could be edited
*** In the love of Heath, his family and friends, please no gossip here
Just put yourselves in their place, huh?***
Thank you!
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Thanks for all the wonderful articles and tributes here. Just read the one from Tony Parsons, what a fantastic article, very heartfelt and moving. No sensationalist journalism there, just speaking from the heart.
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Heath Ledger internet tributes
January 29, 2008 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23126701-5001026,00.html
Excerpt:
GRIEVING Fans have posted thousands of video tributes to Aussie actor heath Ledger on YouTube since his tragic death a week ago.
Within hours, web sites were created to remember Ledger and more than 6,000 video tributes to the actor sprang up on YouTube and other Internet video destinations.
His sad, untimely end triggered almost instantaneous reactions in the online media, social networks and just about anywhere users could post their thoughts and multimedia memorials.
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Celebrating Ledger
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
By Monica Haynes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Excerpts:
A public memorial service will be held for Heath Ledger next week in Los Angeles, according to World Entertainment Network News.
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Asked why, Day-Lewis said, "I suppose that's all I've been thinking about for the last few days. I never met him. I thought he was beautiful. I just have a very strong feeling that I would have liked him very much as a man. ... I admired him very much."
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This is a collection of TeenHollywood interviews with Heath:
Heath Ledger: We Look Back
Jan 28, 2008 - Lynn Barker
http://www.teenhollywood.com/d/168257/1038/heath-ledger-we-look-back.html
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This is long, but some beautiful insight into Heath as Ennis.
Eric Patterson is associate professor of American studies and American literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of an upcoming book On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film.
kathy
http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html (http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html)
What a wonderful tribute to the man and his (IMO) greatest role. Thank you for that link!
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Heath Ledger internet tributes
January 29, 2008 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23126701-5001026,00.html
Excerpt:
GRIEVING Fans have posted thousands of video tributes to Aussie actor heath Ledger on YouTube since his tragic death a week ago.
Within hours, web sites were created to remember Ledger and more than 6,000 video tributes to the actor sprang up on YouTube and other Internet video destinations.
His sad, untimely end triggered almost instantaneous reactions in the online media, social networks and just about anywhere users could post their thoughts and multimedia memorials.
Thank you Thomas to keep us informed O0
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I couldn't believe this when I read it in the Daily Mirror here in the UK today. Tony Parsons can be a bit brutal and this tribute from a straight columnist really moved me.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/parsons/2008/01/28/death-of-heath-ledger-broke-my-heart-89520-20301408/
Death of Heath Ledger broke my heart
Tony Parsons 28/01/2008
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Heath Ledger was an incredible young actor with talent to burn. Losing him at the heartbreakingly early age of 28 is what a real tragedy looks like.
Wonderful article! That last paragraph is so painfully true, ..... :\'(
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Heath Ledger internet tributes
January 29, 2008 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23126701-5001026,00.html
Excerpt:
GRIEVING Fans have posted thousands of video tributes to Aussie actor heath Ledger on YouTube since his tragic death a week ago.
Within hours, web sites were created to remember Ledger and more than 6,000 video tributes to the actor sprang up on YouTube and other Internet video destinations.
His sad, untimely end triggered almost instantaneous reactions in the online media, social networks and just about anywhere users could post their thoughts and multimedia memorials.
A legend has died, it is only fitting there is an outpouring of grief and despair and support
Linda
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This is long, but some beautiful insight into Heath as Ennis.
Eric Patterson is associate professor of American studies and American literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of an upcoming book On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film.
kathy
http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html (http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html)
That's an incredible article. You know, maybe it's daft, but every time I read something like this - where someone says how important Brokeback, and in particular, Heath's performance in it was to them personally, for whatever reason - I just feel an enormous amount of pride in our boy. So many people pass through life without ever making a difference to anyone but Heath (along with Annie and Ang and Jake and the rest of course) achieved so much and made a difference to so many lives by telling this story. I hope one day articles like this one - and the love and comradeship fostered amongst those of us who were open to the story of Brokeback - will be of some comfort to Heath's family.
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That's an incredible article. You know, maybe it's daft, but every time I read something like this - where someone says how important Brokeback, and in particular, Heath's performance in it was to them personally, for whatever reason - I just feel an enormous amount of pride in our boy. So many people pass through life without ever making a difference to anyone but Heath (along with Annie and Ang and Jake and the rest of course) achieved so much and made a difference to so many lives by telling this story. I hope one day articles like this one - and the love and comradeship fostered amongst those of us who were open to the story of Brokeback - will be of some comfort to Heath's family.
http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/01/elegy-for-heath.html
I thought so too, how wonderful was his detailed description of Heath's performance on BBM!
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Remembering Heath Ledger
Young star's bright future was cut short
By Amy Friedman and Nilam Patel
http://www.roanoke.com/wb/148852
Show respect for his family
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He touched many lives
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Thank you very much for the update. I think this article is worth quoting, in particular. Thanks, guyinjax.
How unfitting, then, that the hours following the discovery of Ledger's body in his New York apartment were consumed by a paparazzi-and Internet “media”-feeding frenzy. Among the worst offenders: TMZ.com, which boasts the stink of respectability because it has a TV show and because its managing editor, Harvey Levin, is a recurring talking head on “Today,” among other shows. The site may as well have changed its name to “All Heath All the Time,” updating viewers seemingly by the second with grainy photos and lurid tidbits like: “The People Who Found Heath,” “Jack (as in Nicholson) on Heath: I Warned Him!”, “How Heath's Body Was Discovered,” “Michelle Williams (Ledger's ex-fiance'e and the mother of their child) – Devastated,” and “Inside the Building Where Heath Died.”
There was more: Lindsey (as in Lohan) was distraught at Ledger's death. Ledger was not at the apartment of Mary-Kate Olsen. And photos, photos and more photos of Ledger's body being removed from the building.
TMZ was not alone in – I don't know any other way to say this – the fine art of ghoulish reporting. Culprits abounded – in both mainstream and tabloid coverage.
This isn't the first time we've seen this, and it won't be the last.
I just didn't expect Heath Ledger to be in the middle. Silly, naive me.
Sorry me, too. Sorry for a child named Matilda, now without a father. Sorry for those who read and watch and listen, who deserve better. Sorry for those whom I must accept, like it or not, are my colleagues in the media.
Sorry, most of all, for Heath Ledger, who deserved at least as much dignity as he gave Ennis Del Mar.
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*Edited 1/29/08*
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I see no reason to edit my post. Some people might not even known of the subject matter. There is nothing wrong with discussion now though we may never know exactly what happened even when we do receive the autopsy report.
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A similar post was already deleted from this thread and others. This forum does not allow speculation out of respect for all involved with BBM and their right to privacy.
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Why don't you want to discuss important issues? I have as much or more respect for this young man I imagine than either of many.
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I'm sorry if this action seemed in any way arbitrary. Please refer to PM for further explanation. Let's keep it out of the threads. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about the moderating team's decisions and policies. Thank you for your cooperation. :)
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Respect of each other is the rule number one here, may I kindly remind everyone the right to post is a privilege.
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Why don't you want to discuss important issues? I have as much or more respect for this young man I imagine than either of many.
Hi, EthanFrome, I don't know what was edited, and I am also a relatively new comer to this forum.
I understand your pain at losing someone you admire so, and I appreciate your wish to learn as much as you can about the circumstance that took away so much from you. I did, too, and still do.
Having said that, I think it is important to remember that there are many lies floating around in the world, and it is unfair to people who loves Heath so much, that a single lie can be devastatingly painful to overcome.
I trust the moderators of this forum to be compassionate, and has the best interest of every member in their consideration. You are not alone in having a post edited. I myself have been warned on numerous occasions. It is out of respect for Heath, who we all love, and consideration for others that we tread carefully, and speak softly. There is no need to rush to judgment on what happened. Does it matter what really happened? Does it change the fact that we lost a great gifted man, an actor with talents to burn, with sensitivity that can touch many souls?
No "truth" can set us free from this tragedy. Sometimes, if you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.
Time will tell the truth eventually. Whatever happened, it was tragic, and with any tragedy, compassion is the first order of business. Fact finding has its place, and time.
I hope you find comfort here, eventually.
:ghug:
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20173197,00.html
I have found this link in my "Google alerts about Jake Gyllenhaal". Hope I doesn't offended someone :s)
Simone
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An article about Jake coping....
Hope this is the right place to post it, if not, please edit!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174820,00.html
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A small excerpt from the story Koka just posted - hope no-one minds, it just seemed kinda sweet and worth posting.
The 27-year-old's somber mood is a sharp contrast to the happier times on the set of Brothers. During one intense early prison scene, Gyllenhaal jokingly reached into his pocket and took out a picture of his Brokeback beau to stick on the prison wall. "Like those prisoners put [loved ones] on the wall, but Jake's was Heath Ledger," one set source recalls. "That was hilarious. It was a nice moment."
The source adds, "When you think back on it now, it's touching."
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Friends, I quote here the first post of this thread, and ask all members to take heed of what was initially requested.
Again, please note that moderating actions are made in order to account for everyone's feelings. Please don't take such actions personally, as they are never intended to shame any member who posts something that is edited later on.
We thank everyone for their contributions and request your patience and understanding in this time of grief.
In keeping with the forum guidelines that wish to preserve clarity and cohesion in the various threads, this topic has been created for members to post and read news articles and tributes dealing with Heath.
Henceforth, please use the thread Heath Ledger - In Loving Memory to share your feelings and/or to commiserate with other members.
Use this thread to post and comment on news updates and tribute articles pertaining to Heath.
Out of respect for Heath, we ask members to please be very selective when posting articles on this thread. Specifically, we do not want this place to be used as a launching pad for articles that seek to foster gossip, rumors, and innuendoes that would be hurtful to the memory of Heath and to the feelings of his family, friends, and -- most especially -- other fans and members of this forum.
We discourage the posting of articles that foster hate, division, and the brand of intolerance that is so alien to the legacy of Heath and BBM.
We ask the members not to take it against the moderators if they intervene every once in a while in the interest of these aims. Likewise, we do not hold any mistakes made against the members who post here.
We only seek to encourage a friendly and sympathetic exchange of information.
It is only through this that we can clarify Heath's legacy to us -- a legacy free from malicious speculation and/or outright lies. He deserves no less.
Thank you!
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A small excerpt from the story Koka just posted - hope no-one minds, it just seemed kinda sweet and worth posting.
The 27-year-old's somber mood is a sharp contrast to the happier times on the set of Brothers. During one intense early prison scene, Gyllenhaal jokingly reached into his pocket and took out a picture of his Brokeback beau to stick on the prison wall. "Like those prisoners put [loved ones] on the wall, but Jake's was Heath Ledger," one set source recalls. "That was hilarious. It was a nice moment."
The source adds, "When you think back on it now, it's touching."
That is sweet, and very very touching. I feel so bad for Jake. :\'(
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Ditto. :\'(
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20174829,00.html
HEATH LEDGER
The Mourning After
As his peers and fans make sense of a tragic loss, questions remain about the actor's final projects
By Nicole Sperling
Excerpt:
Ledger's loyal fan base, meanwhile, keeps replenishing the makeshift memorial that has sprung up outside the Broome St. apartment in New York City where the actor was found on Jan. 22... Dozens of brightly colored origami cranes have been sprinkled on piles of flowers, while passersby dropped handwritten messages like ''Yesterday you were a star, today you are a legend for New York. Thank you for being a member of our Brooklyn family.''
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An article about Jake coping....
Hope this is the right place to post it, if not, please edit!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174820,00.html
Well, my report about Jake Gyllenhaal has been edited, too. I admit it was taken from an improper source. But I would like to emphasize that I am not interested in gossips and speculations about how JG is feeling right now. Everybody can just imagine that!
Anyway, what really warms me and what I have needed to hear is that he really cares, that he stopped the shooting and went immediately back. In the article above (although the source is unknown) are beautiful words which help me bear this sorrow a little.
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An article about Jake coping....
Hope this is the right place to post it, if not, please edit!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174820,00.html
We knew that Jake would take the news very hard; this proves it. It also proves that the production crew of Brothers was *not* preventing him from leaving, he in fact was given time to grieve. (I've read stories that claimed the exact opposite. I'm glad they are not true.)
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A small excerpt from the story Koka just posted - hope no-one minds, it just seemed kinda sweet and worth posting.
The 27-year-old's somber mood is a sharp contrast to the happier times on the set of Brothers. During one intense early prison scene, Gyllenhaal jokingly reached into his pocket and took out a picture of his Brokeback beau to stick on the prison wall. "Like those prisoners put [loved ones] on the wall, but Jake's was Heath Ledger," one set source recalls.
This is so wonderful. It must have been hilarious when Jake did this, what, more than two years later? To me it shows how he'll never forget what a shining moment it was. And how he must be torn up inside now. As Godfather to Matilda it will certainly be bittersweet for him in future years to watch her grow up in the image of her father (and mother). How fortunate he is, and will be, to have this living reminder of their time and friendship together.
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Hi all,
I just posted this on a different thread, but maybe it should have gone here. I hope you don't mind the re-post:
Hello everyone,
My name is Loretta. I am a new member and this is my first post. I am a heterosexual female, but Brokeback Mountain had a profound affect on me…for lots of reasons and on many levels. The first time I saw the movie I sobbed uncontrollably…the second time my eyes remained dry, but I was left with a clenching in my chest that I could not loosen. It was then that – hoping to purge some of the heartache – I wrote a poem called “Jack, I Swear”. It remained a poem for almost 2 years until a good friend wrote some music. I went to Nashville in early December and had it recorded as a demo (sung by my co-writer.) It was written in honor of Brokeback Mountain, Heath and Jake for playing those parts so beautifully, 2 of my very dear gay friends and for equality for everyone. I would love everyone here to hear it as my special tribute to Heath Ledger at this incredibly sad time. I am absolutely devastated by the news. We have lost an actor with integrity...a very rare thing these days. His performance as Ennis has affected me like no other in my lifetime. . I am going though my days with a lump in my throat, a pain in my heart and a whole in my spirit.
Anyway...if you’d like to listen, you can hear it uploaded on:
http://www.myspace.com/ret4 -- and it is set as the first song to auto play.
This isn't about promoting a song -- it never was from the start -- It's more about promoting change and touching hearts. I hope Heath can hear it and knows just how much his performance as Ennis has meant to so many people. He changed minds and hearts -- not to mention lives.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you’ll listen.
Loretta
http://www.myspace.com/ret4
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A small excerpt from the story Koka just posted - hope no-one minds, it just seemed kinda sweet and worth posting.
The 27-year-old's somber mood is a sharp contrast to the happier times on the set of Brothers. During one intense early prison scene, Gyllenhaal jokingly reached into his pocket and took out a picture of his Brokeback beau to stick on the prison wall. "Like those prisoners put [loved ones] on the wall, but Jake's was Heath Ledger," one set source recalls. "That was hilarious. It was a nice moment."
The source adds, "When you think back on it now, it's touching."
That's utterly beautiful and sweet. Oh my, one week ago I'd laughted a lot but now I only can cry. :\'( :\'( Poor Jake.
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An article about Jake coping....
Hope this is the right place to post it, if not, please edit!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174820,00.html
thanks for this. :t) interesting read and makes me smile the end bit :) even if i do feel sorrow at the same time! :(
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Wes Bentley Remembers Ledger as a 'Vibrant Man'
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174775,00.html
The reclusive actor Wes Bentley made a rare public statement Tuesday to remember his friend Heath Ledger as a "man who spread so much spark to so many people."
Capitalizing letters for emphasis, the American Beauty star described Ledger, who was found dead last week, as "a Vibrant Man, a Brave Actor, a Passionate Father and a Friend Forever."
"Heath was an essential piece of my Life," wrote Bentley, 29, who costarred with Ledger in 2002's Four Feathers. "At one point we were as close as two people could get without being blood. That closeness came from sharing a similar, life-altering experience in life at a young age where very few could relate and those who could often were pre-occupied with competition. It would have been isolating, not to mention boring, without him."
Added Bentley, who didn't make another film until five years after Four Feathers, "I don't know if I could have come back without him."
In fact it was because of Bentley turning down a part that Ledger got one of his breakthrough roles: that of the suicidal prison guard's son in Monster's Ball.
"(Wes) was signed up to play that part and he pulled out in the last minute because he really doesn't like to work that much," Ledger said in 2005. "I think they were threatening to sue him. So he asked me to do this for him to get him out of trouble. It was a great opportunity for me and I took it. It was a nice gift from Wes."
In his statement, Bentley urged people to "resist our routine chore of dwelling on a celebrities moments at Death, taking what is essentially inconsequential to a man's definition and making it his Legacy."
"While most of us forget we're alive and are dead on our feet, Heath woke up everyday excited about what was out there to enjoy," wrote Bentley. "He lived in a way that spread so much spark to so many people every day he had. Heath not only lived for himself, if he could've he would Lived for all of us as well. That was his way."
The Arkansas-born Bentley, who parents are both Methodist Ministers, concluded his statement with, "My Prayers are with all who loved him, his Family, Michelle, and Matilda."
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In his statement, Bentley urged people to "resist our routine chore of dwelling on a celebrities moments at Death, taking what is essentially inconsequential to a man's definition and making it his Legacy."
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A very moving fairwell from director Shekhar Kapur.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173473,00.html
Lamenting his loss, Kapur writes, "In Heath I have lost a younger brother He was one the most gentle, the most honest, most caring and most compassionate persons I had met. And one of the most honest actors I worked with."
Of Ledger's talent," I often told him that he had the ability to completely bare his soul in front of the camera, and all I needed to do was make sure the camera could look into his eyes, and through his eyes, the audience could clearly look into his soul," says Kapur.
The moviemaker concludes, "Farewell Heath. I always knew you had an ancient soul. I always said you had a wisdom beyond your years. And somehow I always knew that your spirit was too restless. Goodbye, my brother."
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A very moving fairwell from director Shekhar Kapur.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173473,00.html
Lamenting his loss, Kapur writes, "In Heath I have lost a younger brother He was one the most gentle, the most honest, most caring and most compassionate persons I had met. And one of the most honest actors I worked with."
Of Ledger's talent," I often told him that he had the ability to completely bare his soul in front of the camera, and all I needed to do was make sure the camera could look into his eyes, and through his eyes, the audience could clearly look into his soul," says Kapur.
The moviemaker concludes, "Farewell Heath. I always knew you had an ancient soul. I always said you had a wisdom beyond your years. And somehow I always knew that your spirit was too restless. Goodbye, my brother."
Very touching....So beautiful words.
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A small excerpt from the story Koka just posted - hope no-one minds, it just seemed kinda sweet and worth posting.
The 27-year-old's somber mood is a sharp contrast to the happier times on the set of Brothers. During one intense early prison scene, Gyllenhaal jokingly reached into his pocket and took out a picture of his Brokeback beau to stick on the prison wall. "Like those prisoners put [loved ones] on the wall, but Jake's was Heath Ledger," one set source recalls. "That was hilarious. It was a nice moment."
The source adds, "When you think back on it now, it's touching."
This was so touching. Jake using Heath's photo for the prison scene, clowning around. I bet there was plenty of clowning around moments between him and Heath on BBM.
It will be so sad for him to watch Matilda grow up without her father but I assume also comforting to know he can help her and let her know about her father.
Step into the role of godfather. I know Heath would be glad Jake is there.
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This is so wonderful. It must have been hilarious when Jake did this, what, more than two years later? To me it shows how he'll never forget what a shining moment it was. And how he must be torn up inside now. As Godfather to Matilda it will certainly be bittersweet for him in future years to watch her grow up in the image of her father (and mother). How fortunate he is, and will be, to have this living reminder of their time and friendship together.
How fortunate we all are that he had a child! I do feel it would have been sadder if he had not.
kathy
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Wes Bentley Remembers Ledger as a 'Vibrant Man'
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174775,00.html
"While most of us forget we're alive and are dead on our feet, Heath woke up everyday excited about what was out there to enjoy," wrote Bentley. "He lived in a way that spread so much spark to so many people every day he had. Heath not only lived for himself, if he could've he would Lived for all of us as well. That was his way."
What a wonderful state!!! <^( <^(
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A friend has just sent me an article in an Australian newpapers about Heath´s passing.She says that in her opinion it really picture why lot of people who didn´t know him and were not gans of him,have been grieving now.
http://search.smh.com.au/click.ac?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnews%2Fheath-ledger%2Fheath-ledgers-death-strikes-a-chord%2F2008%2F01%2F24%2F1201025047245.html& (http://search.smh.com.au/click.ac?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnews%2Fheath-ledger%2Fheath-ledgers-death-strikes-a-chord%2F2008%2F01%2F24%2F1201025047245.html&)
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News from the Santa Barbara Film Festival
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jan/31/our-midfest-report-sbiff-2008/
Specifically:
The best moment on opening night was Executive Director Roger Durling’s tearful dedication of the fest to the memory of Heath Ledger, who appeared here for a post-Brokeback Mountain tribute only two years ago.
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I'm so glad Heath's passing has been recognised by the SBFF. I loved his speech when he accepted his award there for BBM.
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The best moment on opening night was Executive Director Roger Durling’s tearful dedication of the fest to the memory of Heath Ledger, who appeared here for a post-Brokeback Mountain tribute only two years ago.
I'm so touched! And yes Christie, Heath's speech at Santa Barbara was really amazing.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OdaWA2OBALI
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I'm so touched! And yes Christie, Heath's speech at Santa Barbara was really amazing.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OdaWA2OBALI
OMG...over a week now, and I still cry
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OMG...over a week now, and I still cry
I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
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An article about Jake coping....
Hope this is the right place to post it, if not, please edit!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174820,00.html
Thanks for this article! This is kind of bitter sweet.
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I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
You've quoted beautifully, Karen! It was a wonderful speech. He was a modest and sincere man. God, I miss him. :\'(
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I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Thank you keren! :\'( :^^)
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I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
Oh god,..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Keren, this is one of the most beautiful acceptance speeches I've ever heard too. I actually was in desperate need to hear this speech the other day, and went on youtube to find it, and hadn't had the chance to actually listen to it....even though I've listened to it many,many, many times before.....and when I read the transcript (which is perfect Keren, ^f^), I could hear Heath's voice coming through loud and clear, and that line, the one you highlighted, about screaming out loud to hear a whisper, is one of my favourite lines EVER, and I remember having that in my sig line for the longest time, and seeing it again, now that Heath has gone, has just broke my heart all over again. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper.
Oh my God!!! Really, TRULY wise beyond his age....
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I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
Thank you for this Keren, it's a lovely speech. Especially the part you bolded..
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I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
Thank you so much Keren. This is amazingly beautiful. Heath was all wise, humble, sweet and grateful. I'm so touched now. What a wonderful man he was, just a treasure..... :\'( :\'(
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keren_b, thank you so much for taking the time to write this beautiful, no, sublime speech that demonstrates Heath's wisdom beyond his years, his humility, and his openness to show vulnerability, even his mistakes. :\'( I need a love emoticon with tears.
This speech embodies everything that we have been admiring Heath as an actor. I've bolded and colored red the sections.
I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
"I guess... where's my sheet of paper thing... I guess I'd like to take the shine away from myself for a minute and acknowledge the directors who have helped and continue to help me understand what it means to be an actor (and here he goes to mention all the directors that he'd worked with up till then). I trully feel that if anything, I should be honoring them tonight. I'm greatful that these directors have given me the opportunity to discover that to be an actor has nothing to do with the way you live your life and the choices you make while living, but rather the way you live and the choices you make in between "action" and "cut". And these directors gave me the opportunity to be bad, to make mistakes, and to study and learn from my mistakes. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never exposed to the safe environment of an acting school and a black pair of pyjamas, no I didn't have a black room to experiment in, to privately dance within my dances on the film. And these directors trusted me and offered me their film set and their friendship as the safe environment for me to study and make discoveries on. So I apologise for the bad discoveries made along the way, but I do stand by the theory that in order to evolve and further yourself as an actor, you have to be fearless enough to allow yourself room for error. Sometimes you must scream out loud in order to discover a whisper. So I thank all these beautiful minds and... (I missed a part here) for putting up with my screams, and I thank everyone for their patience in waiting for me to find the whisper within the words. And here's to making more mistakes."
:ghug: :\'(
Thank you, Heath. Thank you keren_b.
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I know froggy, I know.
I've managed to write down Heath's speech... forgive me for any mistakes made, I couldn't hear all of it very clearly and I have English limitations. Feel free to correct me and fill in the blanks. In my opinion this is the most beautiful acceptance speech I've ever heard.
Heath's speech at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
"... Thank you very very much for this and it's extremely generous of the Santa Barbara International film festival to be honoring my work so far, and I really am sincerily touched by this gesture."
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Thank you, Keren. Heath's beautiful physical self, his voice... I can't say anything, my eyes filled with tears.
kathy
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Many thanks to you all brokies for all the articles, videos and links. Here in Belgium, the medias doesn't tell a lot about Heath :(. Even the movie's magazines are silent >:(
:ghug: :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: ^f^ ^f^ ^f^ ^f^ ^f^ :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
Simone
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keren_b, thank you so much for taking the time to write this beautiful, no, sublime speech that demonstrates Heath's wisdom beyond his years, his humility, and his openness to show vulnerability, even his mistakes. :\'( I need a love emoticon with tears.
This speech embodies everything that we have been admiring Heath as an actor.
No need to thank me, it was all Heath. I've listened to this speech over and over again and Heath's sincerity and sensitivity had simply overwhelmed me every time.
I agree with all that you said lancecowboy, and as for the part I bolded, let me add... not only as an actor, but as a person as well.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-to.kaltenbach01feb01,0,4544149.story
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Could Heath Ledger be screen legend?
By Chris Kaltenbach | Sun Movie Critic
February 1, 2008
Excerpt:
Ledger's death hasn't achieved that garish level, despite the attempts of various TV celebrity magazines and entertainment show hosts to fan the flames. His fans' affections seem genuine, their respect for his work well-earned, their grief over his sad fate heartfelt.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-to.kaltenbach01feb01,0,4544149.story
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Could Heath Ledger be screen legend?
By Chris Kaltenbach | Sun Movie Critic
February 1, 2008
Excerpt:
Ledger's death hasn't achieved that garish level, despite the attempts of various TV celebrity magazines and entertainment show hosts to fan the flames. His fans' affections seem genuine, their respect for his work well-earned, their grief over his sad fate heartfelt.
Yes,Thomas,in spite of some idiots who don´t have any respect for persons and feelings; he seems to have never became an idol,but a very close and humble man.IMO, for this reason now some many people feel his death as something very personal in their lives.
And Keren,thank you also for the video and the translation;without it I wouldn´t have understand not only his words,but these qualities in him... ^f^
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Here's a much better quality audio recording of the speach.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173623,00.html
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Keren, thank you so much. :^^)
I really appreciated you printing the text before, because I found it difficult to listen to the audio from that video link. But to be able to hear it in his own voice was an extra gift.
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I am going to have to get caught up on this thread. I haven't been reading much news or anything but I think I may sit down this weekend and read through this thread.
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Here's a much better quality audio recording of the speach.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173623,00.html
Thank you for that Keren, it was superb quality and a superb speech. ^f^
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Here's a much better quality audio recording of the speach.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173623,00.html
Thank you so much Keren. I've listened to this amazing speech five times this evening. Every time I've cried. I was on my 3 time when my father heard that Heath's deep voice. He liked it a lot and asked me to play it once again, and then one more time. We both were so stunned and touched with the magical timbre of Heath's voice.
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Here's a very nice article by Josh Horowitz for MTV, remembering his brief, but memorable, interview with Heath.
Heath Ledger Remembered: You can learn a lot in ten minutes
I’m not going to talk about the acting here. Critics wiser than I will have plenty of time to dissect his clearly impressive albeit all too small body of work.
I do want to talk about the man — the man I encountered — and why I, like many, am truly heartbroken today.I didn’t know Heath Ledger. The sum of our time together was about 10 minutes at a junket two months ago in New York. Still, for good or for bad I often make snap judgments about actors based on these quick interactions. You can tell a lot in a few moments, and I remember telling my girlfriend how much I genuinely liked Heath that day.
I remember when I sat down we talked about chess a bit. Heath told me he was obsessed with it, played every day since he was a kid. He said he often played in Washington Square Park. The thought of an actor of Ledger’s fame mingling among the other chess fanatics made me smile.
He was smoking up a storm and we laughed about his two addictions: nicotine and chess. Now I wince at the memory, hoping those were the only two compulsions he truly had. Ledger was jittery during the interview. He moved around a bit and laughed easily. He struck me as a man almost ill at ease with his own body. But it all came off as charming, none of the self-possessed bullsh– cocky facade so many actors show. He was what he was sitting there: raw, uneasy, but fiercely intelligent and sweet.
We talked about New York that day. He told me he had left Brooklyn for Manhattan. When he asked me where I was from I told him I was a born and bred New Yorker. He gave me a thumbs up and smiled. It’s a moment now burned into my memory and sadly suddenly feels horribly bittersweet.[/i]
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Thank you so much Keren. I've listened to this amazing speech five times this evening. Every time I've cried. I was on my 3 time when my father heard that Heath's deep voice. He liked it a lot and asked me to play it once again, and then one more time. We both were so stunned and touched with the magical timbre of Heath's voice.
Oh Tammy I know what you mean. His voice is just beautiful. Keren and I discussed this today, because we love this acceptance speech so much...it is the essence of Heath in so many ways.
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
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He struck me as a man almost ill at ease with his own body. But it all came off as charming, none of the self-possessed bullish– cocky facade so many actors show. He was what he was sitting there: raw, uneasy, but fiercely intelligent and sweet.
OMG, this is EXACTLY (!) the way in which I perceived Heath...wow! I was actually planning on writing a post about it somewhere, about how he struck me....but this sums it up perfectly in a way. There was just so much to Heath. So many....layers. Incredible!
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
this is simply heart-wrenching! Now I just want to crawl up somewhere and cry my heart out!!! :\'( :\'( :\'(
thank you for posting!
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
How so very sweet ans yet so sad...
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Here's a very nice article by Josh Horowitz for MTV, remembering his brief, but memorable, interview with Heath.
Heath Ledger Remembered: You can learn a lot in ten minutes
I’m not going to talk about the acting here. Critics wiser than I will have plenty of time to dissect his clearly impressive albeit all too small body of work.
I do want to talk about the man — the man I encountered — and why I, like many, am truly heartbroken today.I didn’t know Heath Ledger. The sum of our time together was about 10 minutes at a junket two months ago in New York. Still, for good or for bad I often make snap judgments about actors based on these quick interactions. You can tell a lot in a few moments, and I remember telling my girlfriend how much I genuinely liked Heath that day.
I remember when I sat down we talked about chess a bit. Heath told me he was obsessed with it, played every day since he was a kid. He said he often played in Washington Square Park. The thought of an actor of Ledger’s fame mingling among the other chess fanatics made me smile.
He was smoking up a storm and we laughed about his two addictions: nicotine and chess. Now I wince at the memory, hoping those were the only two compulsions he truly had. Ledger was jittery during the interview. He moved around a bit and laughed easily. He struck me as a man almost ill at ease with his own body. But it all came off as charming, none of the self-possessed bullsh– cocky facade so many actors show. He was what he was sitting there: raw, uneasy, but fiercely intelligent and sweet.
We talked about New York that day. He told me he had left Brooklyn for Manhattan. When he asked me where I was from I told him I was a born and bred New Yorker. He gave me a thumbs up and smiled. It’s a moment now burned into my memory and sadly suddenly feels horribly bittersweet.[/i]
Thank you so much Christie. This is beautiful and touching.
From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
Oh my.... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( I'm dying of sadness here. I can't stop crying.
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
oh my god, poor Michelle.... :\'( :\'( :\'( To hear her talk of how Matilda is the spitting image of her father and that he is still with them...well, it just breaks my heart. :\'(
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
Thank you gambrinus.
Here is the one from AP:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i656mzspARejipy3excFuRo0gFtgD8UHMQO01
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Michelle Williams: `My Heart Is Broken'
33 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Williams broke her silence Friday, saying her "heart is broken" over Heath Ledger in her first statement since the "Brokeback Mountain" actor's death.
The 27-year-old actress and Ledger became a couple during filming of 2005's "Brokeback," in which they costarred as husband and wife. They later settled in New York, and had a daughter, Matilda, born October 2005.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement. "My heart is broken. I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day."
Ledger, 28, died in his Manhattan apartment Jan. 22. Authorities suspect a possible drug overdose, but the cause of his death is still pending the outcome of toxicology tests. Police said several prescription drugs were found in the Manhattan apartment where the actor's body was found.
"His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still," Williams said. "She will be brought up in the best memories of him."
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Thank you gambrinus.
Here is the one from AP:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i656mzspARejipy3excFuRo0gFtgD8UHMQO01
Thanks tpe.
Although Reuters is reputable, it's good to have confirmation from another agency.
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Thanks tpe.
Although Reuters is reputable, it's good to have confirmation from another agency.
Yes, the AP article is redundant. But I couldn't resist posting it also, for the different details.
It is so sad, but I think many of the fans understand the need for privacy in the case of Michelle and the rest of the BBM cast. As I had said many times, I think they treat this as a personal loss.
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Yes, the AP article is redundant. But I couldn't resist posting it also, for the different details.
It is so sad, but I think many of the fans understand the need for privacy in the case of Michelle and the rest of the BBM cast. As I had said many times, I think they treat this as a personal loss.
They do Thomas. And I can understand that. I hope Michelle gets the privacy she craves.
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I think you know what I mean when I say that I wish the preponderance of Heath news at this very moment would just stop and take a break.
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I think you know what I mean when I say that I wish the preponderance of Heath news at this very moment would just stop and take a break.
I do. ^f^
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Sorry I originally posted this on the In Loving Memory board then realised this board was more appropriate.
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed and already posted but in the UK Now magazine on the feature about Heath there is a picture, and it's the same picture that's in the banner at the top - the tribute left for Heath outside his apartment. Thought it was nice how that picture was shown! x
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From Reuters:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (Reuters) - In her first statement since the death of her former companion Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams said she is suffering from a broken heart and asked for privacy for her and daughter Matilda.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said in a statement released on Friday by Ledger's spokeswoman. "My heart is broken."
"I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father," Williams said in her statement.
"All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him."
Oh God. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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From Reuters: Hooray for those with enough sensitivity to raise their voices and put a stop to this invasion of the family's grieving and exploitation of a sweet, generous young spirit.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN314768820080201
Here's part of the article: By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a rare display of unity, Hollywood rallied to the side of Heath Ledger to protest the airing of a two-year-old video showing the deceased actor at a drug-fueled hotel party that was yanked off U.S. airwaves.
"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," which feature interviews with Hollywood stars about their new TV shows and movies, had planned to air the video on Thursday.
After they had aired portions of the video on the U.S. East Coast, a spokeswoman for the TV shows said in a statement released on Wednesday evening that they decided against playing the video "out of respect for Heath Ledger's family."
But the decision followed a campaign by Ledger's publicity firm, Los Angeles-based ID-PR, to rally Hollywood's creative community against the shows.
ID-PR sent an e-mail to public relations companies, talent agencies, management firms and studio executives, calling into question the "common decency" of the programs' producers.
"This is not journalism, it is sensationalism. It is a shameful exploitation of the lowest kind, to a talented and gentle soul, undeserving of such treatment," said the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
"We are asking the Hollywood community to pressure 'Entertainment Tonight' to pull the segment," the e-mail said.
Mara Buxbaum, chief operating officer of ID-PR, said, "there were a lot of people who were so appalled ... they stood up for what was right." Continued...
CYN
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Jesus. I thought I was over the tears...and then I read that statement from Michelle.
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
I hope that her request is granted. It's time for the press to leave this alone and let Heath's family and close friends grieve in peace.
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oh my god, poor Michelle.... :\'( :\'( :\'( To hear her talk of how Matilda is the spitting image of her father and that he is still with them...well, it just breaks my heart. :\'(
I bought a few magazines today...since they are People and TV Guide, I expect some dignity, which I think they have given. Anyway, there is a close-up pic of Michelle and Matilda. She is the spitting image of him...it's uncanny.
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Hello friends. I am sure many of you are aware by now of some unpleasant things circulating in the news media pertaining to Heath and a particular video. cynical21's post of course references this controversy.
For now, let us try to pass over the said controversy, as so many of Heath's friends and fellow actors want us to do, out of respect for the family. Instead, we can focus more on Heath's more substantial artistic legacy, and the things about him as a man and as an artist that we most definitely want to remember him by. :)
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I am wondering, has anyone heard any news about the toxocology report? officlal cause of death?
also has Heath been laid to rest? I know that the family wanted a private service. I was just wondering if there was any news?
(gosh I can't believe I am talking about this, that he is gone)
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I am wondering, has anyone heard any news about the toxocology report? officlal cause of death?
also has Heath been laid to rest? I know that the family wanted a private service. I was just wondering if there was any news?
(gosh I can't believe I am talking about this, that he is gone)
Nothing new on both subjects and I don't expect news about the service in Australia
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No news. I think the fact that the family intends to keep this private is probably a strong hint to all of us that they would rather not have it talked about. As much as I know how we all wish some form of public memorial, let us honor the wishes of Heath's family first and foremost.
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No news. I think the fact that the family intends to keep this private is probably a strong hint to all of us that they would rather not have it talked about. As much as I know how we all wish some form of public memorial, let us honor the wishes of Heath's family first and foremost.
I have heard he was laid to rest Fri Feb 1st Perth time (which was yesterday our time) somehow that gives me some peace to know he is home at last.
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CYN, thanks for this. I am in tears, to know that love for Heath does triumph over all.
Thank you.
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ID-PR sent an e-mail to public relations companies, talent agencies, management firms and studio executives, calling into question the "common decency" of the programs' producers.
"This is not journalism, it is sensationalism. It is a shameful exploitation of the lowest kind, to a talented and gentle soul, undeserving of such treatment," said the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
"We are asking the Hollywood community to pressure 'Entertainment Tonight' to pull the segment," the e-mail said.
Mara Buxbaum, chief operating officer of ID-PR, said, "there were a lot of people who were so appalled ... they stood up for what was right." Continued...[/i]
CYN
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Thank you, christie wood. Anecdotes like this are priceless and I treasure everyone. Moments like I bolded below and colored red, bring me to tears, because they speak to the character of Heath that is so lovable, so genuine, that is the core reason that Heath touched so many people. He connected with people because he truly believed in knowing them, and loving them. :\'(
Thank you. :ghug: :ghug:
Here's a very nice article by Josh Horowitz for MTV, remembering his brief, but memorable, interview with Heath.
Heath Ledger Remembered: You can learn a lot in ten minutes
I’m not going to talk about the acting here. Critics wiser than I will have plenty of time to dissect his clearly impressive albeit all too small body of work.
I do want to talk about the man — the man I encountered — and why I, like many, am truly heartbroken today.I didn’t know Heath Ledger. The sum of our time together was about 10 minutes at a junket two months ago in New York. Still, for good or for bad I often make snap judgments about actors based on these quick interactions. You can tell a lot in a few moments, and I remember telling my girlfriend how much I genuinely liked Heath that day.
I remember when I sat down we talked about chess a bit. Heath told me he was obsessed with it, played every day since he was a kid. He said he often played in Washington Square Park. The thought of an actor of Ledger’s fame mingling among the other chess fanatics made me smile.
He was smoking up a storm and we laughed about his two addictions: nicotine and chess. Now I wince at the memory, hoping those were the only two compulsions he truly had. Ledger was jittery during the interview. He moved around a bit and laughed easily. He struck me as a man almost ill at ease with his own body. But it all came off as charming, none of the self-possessed bullsh– cocky facade so many actors show. He was what he was sitting there: raw, uneasy, but fiercely intelligent and sweet.
We talked about New York that day. He told me he had left Brooklyn for Manhattan. When he asked me where I was from I told him I was a born and bred New Yorker. He gave me a thumbs up and smiled. It’s a moment now burned into my memory and sadly suddenly feels horribly bittersweet.
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I agree, thank you Christie ^f^
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I have heard he was laid to rest Fri Feb 1st Perth time (which was yesterday our time) somehow that gives me some peace to know he is home at last.
I have only just heard, on the evening news tonight, that it is expected Michelle Williams will fly here, into Perth, for Heath's funeral. So, with that, it seems quite possible, that his funeral has yet to happen.
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Hello friends. I am sure many of you are aware by now of some unpleasant things circulating in the news media pertaining to Heath and a particular video. cynical21's post of course references this controversy.
For now, let us try to pass over the said controversy, as so many of Heath's friends and fellow actors want us to do, out of respect for the family. Instead, we can focus more on Heath's more substantial artistic legacy, and the things about him as a man and as an artist that we most definitely want to remember him by. :)
Hey, tpe - and I agree that the focus should be on good memories of this fine young man, but I disagree - just a little - that my post was meant to explore the controversy. I felt that the article was meant to point out how well-loved and respected he was by his peers, and how so many of them came together to protect the privacy and dignity of his family's mourning. Nevertheless, I do see your point and will refrain from further reference to this very said situation.
CYN
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Hey, tpe - and I agree that the focus should be on good memories of this fine young man, but I disagree - just a little - that my post was meant to explore the controversy. I felt that the article was meant to point out how well-loved and respected he was by his peers, and how so many of them came together to protect the privacy and dignity of his family's mourning. Nevertheless, I do see your point and will refrain from further reference to this very said situation.
CYN
We thought so too, which is why the post wasn't edited, and I'm sure that was your intention as well. We'd just like to ask members not to get into discussions about the said video out of respect for Heath and his family. Thank you for your understanding. ^f^
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CNN Video: In His Own Words
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/24/nat.ledger.in.his.words.cnn?iref=videosearch
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A lovely post Ethan, thank you so much for it.
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Thank you so much Keren. I've listened to this amazing speech five times this evening. Every time I've cried. I was on my 3 time when my father heard that Heath's deep voice. He liked it a lot and asked me to play it once again, and then one more time. We both were so stunned and touched with the magical timbre of Heath's voice.
Sigh... No breaking news to this group, but Heath's voice was an extraordinary part of his beauty.
kathy
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Here's a very nice article by Josh Horowitz for MTV, remembering his brief, but memorable, interview with Heath.
Heath Ledger Remembered: You can learn a lot in ten minutes
He was smoking up a storm and we laughed about his two addictions: nicotine and chess. Now I wince at the memory, hoping those were the only two compulsions he truly had. Ledger was jittery during the interview. He moved around a bit and laughed easily. He struck me as a man almost ill at ease with his own body. But it all came off as charming, none of the self-possessed bullsh– cocky facade so many actors show. He was what he was sitting there: raw, uneasy, but fiercely intelligent and sweet.
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I really never saw it as ill-at-ease in his body, not at all. What he could do with it, the discipline he had, in his acting, even dancing -- this is not a man ill-at-ease in his body. It's just that he had so much energy inside always bursting to get out.
kathy
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CNN Video: In His Own Words
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/24/nat.ledger.in.his.words.cnn?iref=videosearch
What a wonderful tribute from CNN. Thank you for posting it Ethan.
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I really never saw it as ill-at-ease in his body, not at all. What he could do with it, the discipline he had, in his acting, even dancing -- this is not a man ill-at-ease in his body. It's just that he had so much energy inside always bursting to get out.
kathy
hm, I would have to disagree. I was always under the impression that Heath felt very uncomfortable in his body. I noticed this on Oprah and while watching several other interviews- his body language gave him away. BUT I think that the fact that his acting is so amazing can very much be attributed to that unease. Because you see, it always seemed to me as if he wanted- out. As if he felt that his body was 'holding him down' or 'holding him prisoner' in a way, and when acting, he could TOTALLY let himself go, allow himself to become someone else and express himself in the most beautiful of ways. That's the discipline you mentioned ksxks. And I think that the feeling of discomfiture was the reason why he COULD have so much discipline.
I dunno if any of this makes sense to you guys ( it is a kind of paradox in itself ), but that's the way I see it.
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hm, I would have to disagree. I was always under the impression that Heath felt very uncomfortable in his body. I noticed this on Oprah and while watching several other interviews- his body language gave him away. BUT I think that the fact that his acting is so amazing can very much be attributed to that unease. Because you see, it always seemed to me as if he wanted- out. As if he felt that his body was 'holding him down' or 'holding him prisoner' in a way, and when acting, he could TOTALLY let himself go, allow himself to become someone else and express himself in the most beautiful of ways. That's the discipline you mentioned ksxks. And I think that the feeling of discomfiture was the reason why he COULD have so much discipline.
I dunno if any of this makes sense to you guys ( it is a kind of paradox in itself ), but that's the way I see it.
I know what you mean. I like the way you think about him.
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CNN Video: In His Own Words
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/24/nat.ledger.in.his.words.cnn?iref=videosearch
Up till now, I wasn't able to bring myself to watch or listen to any old interviews. I just knew it would break my heart to hear that beautiful voice so full of life - and I was right. This is a lovely tribute video, but it's so hard to see how adorable he was in interviews - all nervy and fidgety - and know that we'll never see any new ones.
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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The words from Michelle W are hearbreaking, and the CNN video too.
x
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Here are two articles about Heath's funeral
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ledgers-family-to-hold-private-funeral/2008/02/04/1201973773493.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23155373-5012974,00.html
I had thought they flew him home and had already buried him. Apparently his family was at the memorial service yesterday (Sat) at the Sony Studio lot
I guess they will fly him back home this week
it's all so sad any way you look at it. :\'(
Linda
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CNN Video: In His Own Words
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/24/nat.ledger.in.his.words.cnn?iref=videosearch
:\'( Thank you!
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Here are two articles about Heath's funeral
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ledgers-family-to-hold-private-funeral/2008/02/04/1201973773493.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23155373-5012974,00.html
I had thought they flew him home and had already buried him. Apparently his family was at the memorial service yesterday (Sat) at the Sony Studio lot
I guess they will fly him back home this week
it's all so sad any way you look at it. :\'(
Linda
Thanks for these updates trekfan. They men a lot to me. :ghug:
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*Edited by the Moderating team*
Please remember that pap pictures are not allowed. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Here are some excerpts, from mtv, of people who knew Heath, remembering him:
Ang Lee: In a statement to People.com, the director said, "Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life. He brought to the role of Ennis more than any of us could have imagined — a thirst for life, for love and for truth, and a vulnerability that made everyone who knew him love him. His death is heartbreaking."
Marcia Ross: Back in 1999, Heath had his first starring role in Hollywood with the teen romantic comedy "10 Things I Hate About You." Casting director Marcia Ross recently recalled to MTV News the younger Heath coming in to read for the part of bad boy Patrick Verona: "He had just arrived in L.A. and came in to read for us, like any actor. He just had this great quality, and was gorgeous and funny. Very charming. He hadn't been there so long — I think it might have been one of his first film auditions. He tested with Julia Stiles, and they had great chemistry."
"10 Things" might have given Ledger his first starring role, but the Shakespearean adaptation set at a high school was considered fluffier fare. " '10 Things,' he didn't want it to be lightweight," Ross remembered. "He did not treat it lightly."
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Heath talked about his acting with mtv: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1580086/20080122/story.jhtml
Ledger himself was in many ways the opposite of the character [Ennis] — by all accounts, he was a man of astonishing intelligence and self-awareness. Nowhere is that more evident than in an interview the actor did with MTV News' John Norris in 2005 to discuss the landmark film.
John Norris: I want to ask you first about the different paths that Ennis and Jack take in sort of dealing with this situation. It strikes me that Ennis is really the tragic figure in this film. Even though Jack pays the ultimate price, at least he has moments in his life where he sort of realizes who he is. Do you agree?
Heath Ledger: That's true. I think that's part of Ennis' problem — that he has no self-realization. I, as the actor playing him, took the time to investigate him and to discover what exactly his battles were. What was preventing him to express and to love? And one of the conclusions I came to was that he's battling himself. Like he's battling his genetic structure, if you will, and all the beliefs, fears and traditions that were passed down from his father, and so on. And that was so deeply embedded and installed in him.
So then I wanted to physicalize it in his walk and into his speech. ... Ennis, he wasn't as self-aware as to ask himself these questions, so he didn't really know what I knew about him. Essentially, as an actor, I had to go in front of the camera and think ... less.
Norris: Certainly when most gay Americans, and probably a lot of straight Americans, hear the word "Wyoming," one of the first things that comes to mind is Matthew Shepard and what happened to Matthew. ... Was the name Matthew Shepard something you guys even talked about in shooting this film?
Ledger: We certainly, um, were aware of it. But we were definitely trying not to mimic or portray any story outside of the short story of Annie Proulx's [on which "Brokeback" was based] and the script that we'd been given. And we certainly didn't want to be making any political statements. We kept ourselves on a fairly strict budget of the information we were given in pre-production and just tried to create something from that.
Norris: Yours, as is everyone's, is an incredible performance. ... When you hear people say ... "Who knew this was in Heath Ledger?," is that flattering? How do you feel about that?
Ledger: I don't know. I just hope I get to continue to do that. I mature as an actor as I mature as a person, and ... I'm hoping to continue to evolve in both areas.
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Plans for Heath Ledger's Perth funeral revealed
By Ryan Emery and Paige Taylor February 04, 2008 07:30am
Heath Ledger / AP
Goodbye ... Heath will be laid to rest in Perth
* School's offer to farewell Heath declined
* Family seeks "dignity" of private funeral
* Michelle in doubt, but Jake to fly in
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23155393-5015787,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23155393-5015787,00.html)
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Hey, tpe - and I agree that the focus should be on good memories of this fine young man, but I disagree - just a little - that my post was meant to explore the controversy. I felt that the article was meant to point out how well-loved and respected he was by his peers, and how so many of them came together to protect the privacy and dignity of his family's mourning. Nevertheless, I do see your point and will refrain from further reference to this very said situation.
CYN
Hello CYN. I did not mean to imply that you intended to start a discussion on the controversial subject. I apologize if my post came out that way. I posted the reminder to make sure none of the other members would take the article as a strating point for such a discussion. In any event, I am sure that most members do see your true intent, and are most appreciative.
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We thought so too, which is why the post wasn't edited, and I'm sure that was your intention as well. We'd just like to ask members not to get into discussions about the said video out of respect for Heath and his family. Thank you for your understanding. ^f^
Thanks keren for clarifying our intent.
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The memorial in LA:
Stars mourn Ledger
By Peta Hellard in Los Angeles
February 03, 2008 04:10pm
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23152624-661,00.html?from=mostpop
HEATH Ledger's family and A-list friends gathered to pay tribute the actor in a moving private service at a Hollywood studio yesterday.
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wonderful article, lancecowboy. It is a shame we will never see Heath evolve further. He was already mature beyond his years. Sometimes I could easily forget he was only 28
Linda
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wonderful article, lancecowboy. It is a shame we will never see Heath evolve further. He was already mature beyond his years. Sometimes I could easily forget he was only 28
Linda
Hi, Linda. It's kinda funny with me. I don't see him as 28, or 18, or whatever age. It's like when he played the role of Ennis, and aged from 19 to 39. I did not see him as 19 in the beginning, kept thinking he was older, and then seeing him at different ages, kept seeing him as the same man, with different haircuts. What will stay with me forever, is the last scene of Ennis with tears in his eyes. So I guess Heath will be forever 39 in my heart. They really did a good job with make up and costumes in Brokeback Mountain. Heck, they did a really good job with EVERYTHING in Brokeback Mountain.
Yes, it is a tragic loss to the acting community that we will never know what Heath would have done with the long years... :\'( I try hard to focus on the positive nowadays, to keep myself from breaking down and crying all day. I am thankful, grateful, indeed, I feel blessed to have been given what ever movies that Heath had already made. I am especially grateful for all the interviews and quotes. As you said, and everyone else, too, Heath was an old soul with wisdom to spare and talents to burn. I will miss that. So I treasure what ever come my way of his. Every interview, every anecdote, every quotation, every photo. I am not quite obsessed, but I am certainly a fan, in the sense of a person with a fanatical fascination of an idol, a hero, a legend.
<^(
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Here is a short video of Sean Coombs (aka P Diddy) talking about meeting Heath for the first time, on the set of Monster's Ball.
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=208539#videoid=208539
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This is really lovely.
Source: Access Hollywood
by Matt Smith, Access staffer
Imagine for a moment, if you will, a world without actors or actresses.
Imagine a world without entertainment.
Imagine a world where you couldn't forget your troubles.
Every now and then a great actor or a great actress comes along and wows us with an extraordinary performance, and us ordinary folk are lucky enough to witness the true magic of movies or television.
What they do is all powerful.
Though I'm pretty sure they'll be the first ones to tell you that they're not saving lives with their acting or that they're not coming up with a cure for cancer or a cure for aids by delivering the next great line.
But without actors, without actresses, we wouldn't cry, we wouldn't laugh, we wouldn't smile.
Heath Ledger, the actor.
Heath Ledger, the father.
Heath Ledger, the person.
Heath Ledger, a human being.[/i]
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This is really lovely.
Source: Access Hollywood
by Matt Smith, Access staffer
Imagine for a moment, if you will, a world without actors or actresses.
Imagine a world without entertainment.
Imagine a world where you couldn't forget your troubles.
Every now and then a great actor or a great actress comes along and wows us with an extraordinary performance, and us ordinary folk are lucky enough to witness the true magic of movies or television.
What they do is all powerful.
Though I'm pretty sure they'll be the first ones to tell you that they're not saving lives with their acting or that they're not coming up with a cure for cancer or a cure for aids by delivering the next great line.
But without actors, without actresses, we wouldn't cry, we wouldn't laugh, we wouldn't smile.
Heath Ledger, the actor.
Heath Ledger, the father.
Heath Ledger, the person.
Heath Ledger, a human being.[/i]
Oh, that is lovely
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I don't know if these links have already been posted but here are links to two memorial sites for Heath. One is the blog that is run by a personal friend of his. She has been posting articles. and the other is a Live Journal community where fans can post their own thoughts and feelings
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/inmemoryofheath/
how is everyone doing. I can't believe it's been two weeks since that wonderful man left us! :\'(
:ghug:
Linda
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I don't know if these links have already been posted but here are links to two memorial sites for Heath. One is the blog that is run by a personal friend of his. She has been posting articles. and the other is a Live Journal community where fans can post their own thoughts and feelings
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/inmemoryofheath/
how is everyone doing. I can't believe it's been two weeks since that wonderful man left us! :\'(
:ghug:
Linda
Hi,Linda¡ and thanks for the links,that I didn't know. :^^) Yes,today it's been two weeks since Heath is gone and-although I've already accepted and the grief is no so shocked as the first moments-sometimes I think that everything is a cruel joke.As if he was hidden somewhere to run away from his problems and stardom system for a while...What a nonsense¡,isn't it?Or maybe it's just a way of self-protection...Take care¡ :ghug:
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I don't know if these links have already been posted but here are links to two memorial sites for Heath. One is the blog that is run by a personal friend of his. She has been posting articles. and the other is a Live Journal community where fans can post their own thoughts and feelings
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/inmemoryofheath/
how is everyone doing. I can't believe it's been two weeks since that wonderful man left us! :\'(
:ghug:
Linda
Thanks Linda. :ghug: I have the link for the blogspot- haven't been able to bring myself to really go there yet and I didn't even know of the link for LJ. I've been there once since this happened and that was only because I was directed to a certain post- not in a fic kind of mood. But I'll keep the link for when I do feel up to it.
And MPJ- I had the same thought swirling in my brain from time to time too- so it's not nonsense, I think it is a form of self protection. Hang in there. :ghug:
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Thanks Linda. :ghug: I have the link for the blogspot- haven't been able to bring myself to really go there yet and I didn't even know of the link for LJ. I've been there once since this happened and that was only because I was directed to a certain post- not in a fic kind of mood. But I'll keep the link for when I do feel up to it.
And MPJ- I had the same thought swirling in my brain from time to time too- so it's not nonsense, I think it is a form of self protection. Hang in there. :ghug:
Yes,I think so,as I said before...It´s good to know that your own feelings and sensations,even the ones you think as most "crazy",are shared for someone else...Thanks. :ghug:
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Yes,I think so,as I said before...It´s good to know that your own feelings and sensations,even the ones you think as most "crazy",are shared for someone else...Thanks. :ghug:
it's not nonsense. It is a way of coping with something this traumatic. Heath was always traveling here and there making movies. It isn't too far fetched to think he is out there somewhere traveling.
Also might interest those who might not know. Heath was going to venture into directing. He was going to direct a movie called "Queens Gambit" He had been in contact with the screenwriter and he had approached Ellen Page (star of Juno) to be in it. Heath loved chess and this movie is about chess. (title is a movie in chess I believe) he was also going to act in it as well. He'd already done some directing, music vids and someone mentioned commercials (not sure) so he was going to take his challenge to the next level and direct
his passing makes this all the more sadder that we'll never get to see how talented a director he would have been
Linda
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Also might interest those who might not know. Heath was going to venture into directing. He was going to direct a movie called "Queens Gambit" He had been in contact with the screenwriter and he had approached Ellen Page (star of Juno) to be in it. Heath loved chess and this movie is about chess. (title is a movie in chess I believe) he was also going to act in it as well. He'd already done some directing, music vids and someone mentioned commercials (not sure) so he was going to take his challenge to the next level and direct
his passing makes this all the more sadder that we'll never get to see how talented a director he would have been
Linda
If all of the above is true Linda, it's comforting to know he was looking toward the future. O0
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Thank you Linda. I haven't seen these links before. I love the memorialblog. It has so many touching anecdotes. I was in tears after Jackster's and Tony's amazing posts. Reading the memorialblog was difficult at first, then I felt better, learning more about Heath...like he was playing chess at the grandmaster level, or his path crossing Eric Bana's, and his death moved Eric and shocked him "to the core". I remember being impressed by Eric's performance in Black Hawk Down, and followed his career for a while. I am grateful that so many of his peers with real talents all mourn his death. I hope Jake is holding up alright. It must be really difficult for him.
Thanks again Linda.
I don't know if these links have already been posted but here are links to two memorial sites for Heath. One is the blog that is run by a personal friend of his. She has been posting articles. and the other is a Live Journal community where fans can post their own thoughts and feelings
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/inmemoryofheath/
how is everyone doing. I can't believe it's been two weeks since that wonderful man left us! :\'(
:ghug:
Linda
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it's not nonsense. It is a way of coping with something this traumatic. Heath was always traveling here and there making movies. It isn't too far fetched to think he is out there somewhere traveling.
Also might interest those who might not know. Heath was going to venture into directing. He was going to direct a movie called "Queens Gambit" He had been in contact with the screenwriter and he had approached Ellen Page (star of Juno) to be in it. Heath loved chess and this movie is about chess. (title is a movie in chess I believe) he was also going to act in it as well. He'd already done some directing, music vids and someone mentioned commercials (not sure) so he was going to take his challenge to the next level and direct
his passing makes this all the more sadder that we'll never get to see how talented a director he would have been
Linda
Yes, I've heard that and that he was very excited about it. He had also discussed his directing ambitions with Terry Gilliam, and Terry said something like "he would be a brilliant director, more than I will ever be able to be". A praise like that from Terry Gilliam, well, that says something.
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Ledger's ex Williams arrives in Perth
Heath Ledger's former fiancee Michelle Williams and the couple's two-year-old daughter Matilda have arrived in Perth for the Australian actor's funeral.
News Limited reports a black-clad Williams, 27, carried Matilda on her left hip as she arrived in Perth today on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles via Melbourne.
Matilda clutched a white stuffed rabbit as she and her mother were escorted from Perth's domestic terminal.
Earlier this week the distraught Williams pleaded for privacy.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said.
"My heart is broken."
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Ledger's ex Williams arrives in Perth
Heath Ledger's former fiancee Michelle Williams and the couple's two-year-old daughter Matilda have arrived in Perth for the Australian actor's funeral.
News Limited reports a black-clad Williams, 27, carried Matilda on her left hip as she arrived in Perth today on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles via Melbourne.
Matilda clutched a white stuffed rabbit as she and her mother were escorted from Perth's domestic terminal.
Earlier this week the distraught Williams pleaded for privacy.
"Please respect our need to grieve privately," Williams said.
"My heart is broken."
This must be the most horrible journey of her life. :\'( :\'(
The thought about the funeral is quite unbearable to me. It makes everything even more final.
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This must be the most horrible journey of her life. :\'( :\'(
The thought about the funeral is quite unbearable to me. It makes everything even more final.
I totally agree Keren. I can't bear to think on their grief, and the thought of the funeral just breaks my heart.
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I totally agree Keren. I can't bear to think on their grief, and the thought of the funeral just breaks my heart.
Me too. :ghug:
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"Accidental overdose of prescription drugs." I guess we'll get accustomed to hearing that phrase now. One more step in this long process of losing and remembering Heath.
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Our poor Heath died of a prescription overdose. See the story at CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/heath.ledger/index.html
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I feel so unbelievably sad. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( I just don't know what to say.
I just read Kim Ledger's beautifully worded statement, and it just made me cry. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a wonderful and loving family Heath came from. These words are just so heartbreaking. Don't know why, but "our boy" just got to me.....
We remain humble as parents and a family, among millions of people worldwide who may have suffered the tragic loss of a child. Few can understand the hollow, wrenching, and enduring agony parents silently suffer when a child predeceases them. Today's results put an end to speculation, but our son's beautiful spirit and enduring memory will forever remain in our hearts.
While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.
Our family enjoyed an extremely happy two week visit with Heath just prior to the New Year. Those recent precious days will stay with us forever. We as a family feel privileged to have some of his amazing magic moments captured in film. To most of the world Heath was an actor of immeasurable talent and promise. To those who knew him personally, Heath was a consummate artist whose passions also included photography, music, chess and directing. We knew Heath as a loving father, as our devoted son, and as a loyal and generous brother and friend.
We treasure our beautiful granddaughter Matilda (to our dear Michelle) as well as an unbelievably wonderful network of close friends, forever, around the world. Families rarely experience the uplifting, warm and massive outpouring of grief and support as have we, from every corner of the planet. This has deeply and profoundly touched our hearts and lives. We are eternally grateful.
At this moment we respectfully request the worldwide media allow us time to grieve privately, without the intrusions associated with press and photography.
I really do hope that the press and media give this incredible and devastated family time to grieve in private and to allow to let Heath rest in peace.
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Our poor Heath died of a prescription overdose. See the story at CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/heath.ledger/index.html
Thanks for the link,afhickman.Well,it's what we supposed,but knowing now for sure makes me cry again before the unavoidable.I don't know if it happens the same to you,but it's as knowing he's gone completely-it´s a stupidity,I know...-. :\'(
But I don't understand why must he take so many pills,even if prescribed,and what kind of doctor can prescribe such a great number of legal drugs that is a potential "clockwork bomb" in a human body...Nor if he took them together, or it was the result of an accumulative amount of drugs in his organism that caused the decease in the end.I know you're saying to yourselves that it doesn't mind,but it does for me,because it had could be avoided according to the circumstances.Somebody can feel relieved that it had not been a suicide,but the only important thing-besides he's not here...-is that he was in a great pain,maybe both physically and emotionally;and that all these legal drugs were a solution for him,if he took them consciously the same that it was an accident-although I don't understand either how someone can take so many pills "by accident"...-.It's so sad¡.I feel awful now that we know it.But maybe I have been rambling,so I apologise if I´ve offended somebody with my appreciations.
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afhickman, christie, MPJ :ghug: :ghug:
I came here as soon as I heard. You've said nothing stupid, nothing rambling. We feel the way we feel, and this news, while leading to a sense of closure, is also difficult to hear.
Christie, I felt the same way when I read "our boy." :\'(
His family made a very gracious statement and I think they have been very generous all along in sharing their feelings with us. I hope that they will be given some measure of peace and privacy while they grieve.
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:ghug: "Our boy" got to me too. :\'(
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the results just made me sad again :\'( it is a testament to how easy it is to take to many prescription drugs. People know the dangers of illegal drugs but too many think that if you have prescription drugs it's okay.
It's all so sad and to me senseless. We lost a fine man, someone with his whole life ahead of him. And Matilda lost her devoted father :\'(
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I have no words. "Our boy". :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Oh god - that statement from Heath's dad is so heartbreaking :\'(
A tragic accident that will have a profound effect on those who loved him for the rest of their lives :\'(
I, too, hope that the media now leave them in peace - and perhaps that some of them offer an apology.
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LJN, trekfan, Tammy, NoReins :ghug: :ghug:
An apology seems unlikely, but wouldn't it be nice? Meanwhile, giving his family and friends some well deserved privacy would do. We can all hope for that.
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I, too, hope that the media now leave them in peace - and perhaps that some of them offer an apology.
yes; the family asked for the same.
Heath Ledger's father, Kim, has released the below statement following the news of the late actor's cause of death:
We remain humble as parents and a family, among millions of people worldwide who may have suffered the tragic loss of a child. Few can understand the hollow, wrenching, and enduring agony parents silently suffer when a child predeceases them. Today's results put an end to speculation, but our son's beautiful spirit and enduring memory will forever remain in our hearts.
While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.
Our family enjoyed an extremely happy two week visit with Heath just prior to the New Year. Those recent precious days will stay with us forever. We as a family feel privileged to have some of his amazing magic moments captured in film. To most of the world Heath was an actor of immeasurable talent and promise. To those who knew him personally, Heath was a consummate artist whose passions also included photography, music, chess and directing. We knew Heath as a loving father, as our devoted son, and as a loyal and generous brother and friend.
We treasure our beautiful granddaughter Matilda (to our dear Michelle) as well as an unbelievably wonderful network of close friends, forever, around the world. Families rarely experience the uplifting, warm and massive outpouring of grief and support as have we, from every corner of the planet. This has deeply and profoundly touched our hearts and lives. We are eternally grateful.
At this moment we respectfully request the worldwide media allow us time to grieve privately, without the intrusions associated with press and photography.
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Our poor Heath died of a prescription overdose. See the story at CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/heath.ledger/index.html
I've just read it and I feel devestated all over again. Even though that was my guess, it's still so hard to hear it. I can't begin to describe how awful I feel. Our boy. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I just heard on the radio that Heath's funeral will be held today or tomorrow depending on when Michelle Williams arrived. I believe that "Extra" plans to cover it on their program tonight 02/06. Final autopsy reports are also supposed to be released today or tomorrow.
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Keren, Froggy :ghug: :ghug:
I know what you mean Keren. As much as we wanted the official results to be released (and end some of this disgusting gossip), it makes it so final, so real somehow, in a way that it wasn't for me before. :-\\
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I've just read it and I feel devestated all over again. Even though that was my guess, it's still so hard to hear it. I can't begin to describe how awful I feel. Our boy. :\'( :\'( :\'(
I'm feeling the same than you,Keren.As soon as I read the news I'm worse than I'd began to feel during these days.It has been what has been,the only important is that he isn't with us,and that means an enormous waste of talent,youth,sensibility and beauty.But we must,you must,overcome all this; you must do it,if not for yourself,for Heath's memory...Promise me you'll do; if you want to talk,don't doubt in sending a PM if you want to,dear. :ghug:
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I've just read it and I feel devestated all over again. Even though that was my guess, it's still so hard to hear it. I can't begin to describe how awful I feel. Our boy. :\'( :\'( :\'(
I totally understand what you're feeling keren :\'(
When I read the news, it was almost like the day I found out that he was gone :\'(
and now I'm feeling angry, I was even yelling at Heath pic saying "don't you know you should NEVER mix drugs prescriptions?!!!"
or maybe the f*** doctors didnt' ask him if he was already taking something, to prevent the mix...
I know that all this is pointless but I can't help... I'm sure he is angry at himself too
What a terrible, terrible loss (and for what???) I can't believe this...
I miss him so much :\'( :\'( :\'(
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It's sad, but getting the toxicology results was going to hurt either way. Finding heroine or cocaine would have hurt. But finding only
anti-anxiety and sleep aids also hurts, because we now know that sleep disorder was very, very painful and exhausting, and we also know...
he just needed better medical care. It didn't have to happen.
This news brings some closure. Also discredits the news magazines. But leaves that alternative ache---of wondering, if only things had
gone a different way. Am not one of those who believe some things were meant to be. This wasn't. We would have suffered either way,
on the news. Now, we know which way.
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Well, I had faith all along that it was an unfortunate combination of medications he was taking and certainly not an intentional harm to himself.
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Am not one of those who believe some things were meant to be. This wasn't. We would have suffered either way, on the news. Now, we know which way.
You're so right. This wasn't meant to be.
Thank you friends, for being here. I can't tell you how much it means to me, to be with people who understand and feel the same. I am so greatful, because I don't think I could deal with this horrible grief without you.
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I've only just seen this.... :\'( :\'( it makes it all real, and brings it all back.. :\'(
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I've only just seen this.... :\'( :\'( it makes it all real, and brings it all back.. :\'(
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I've just read it and I feel devestated all over again. Even though that was my guess, it's still so hard to hear it. I can't begin to describe how awful I feel. Our boy. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Same here :\'( :ghug:
I don't know what to say.. :-\\ :\'(
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Keren, Froggy :ghug: :ghug:
I know what you mean Keren. As much as we wanted the official results to be released (and end some of this disgusting gossip), it makes it so final, so real somehow, in a way that it wasn't for me before. :-\\
FlowerChild, you have posted the words I wanted to say... it's so final now... I'm sad :\'(
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I feel so unbelievably sad. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( I just don't know what to say.
I just read Kim Ledger's beautifully worded statement, and it just made me cry. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a wonderful and loving family Heath came from. These words are just so heartbreaking. Don't know why, but "our boy" just got to me.....
Me, too -- that got to me when I read that also... :\'(
kathy
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Well, I had faith all along that it was an unfortunate combination of medications he was taking and certainly not an intentional harm to himself.
Me, too, DB, knowing it was no way intentional. Someday I would like to hash this all out, the specifics of the tragic circumstances, but not right now. I have so many questions and anger, also, at how he could have so many different prescriptions, etc. I think it's important and relevant, but I don't want to rake him over the coals so to speak... As for my pain at thinking about him exhausted and feeling at the end of his rope...I can't get into that.
kathy
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I am really touched and impressed with the way Heath's family is handling this. True grace in unbearable circumstances. I liked what his father said about the grief and support from all over the globe- they know, they really do. It helps a little to know that even if we are nameless, faceless people that they can take even more comfort in what a special being their son was and that he meant so much to so many. ( I hate using past tense because it will always remain present tense) There wouldn't have been an outpouring of grief otherwise. And that it came after all of that wretched speculation still speaks volumes in terms of people not buying it and/or not caring what picture the media tried to paint. He is loved and that is the bottom line. And I think it is truly wonderful that the are taking the time to share a little and throw some comfort back.
:ghug: :ghug: to everyone
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Beautifully said LJN. I wish I could've found the words.
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christie wood, thank you for posting this from Heath's father. Now I know where Heath's wisdom comes from. In their own unbelievable grief, the man is so generous and humble, so thoughtful of everyone else, from other parents, to Michelle, to Heath's close friends, even for us. It feels so good to have him recognize the grief, the love, the support that we share. Under the guidance of such an amazing family, I am certain Matilda will grow up to make her father proud. :\'( :ghug:
I feel so unbelievably sad. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( I just don't know what to say.
I just read Kim Ledger's beautifully worded statement, and it just made me cry. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a wonderful and loving family Heath came from. These words are just so heartbreaking. Don't know why, but "our boy" just got to me.....
We remain humble as parents and a family, among millions of people worldwide who may have suffered the tragic loss of a child. Few can understand the hollow, wrenching, and enduring agony parents silently suffer when a child predeceases them. Today's results put an end to speculation, but our son's beautiful spirit and enduring memory will forever remain in our hearts.
While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath's accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.
Our family enjoyed an extremely happy two week visit with Heath just prior to the New Year. Those recent precious days will stay with us forever. We as a family feel privileged to have some of his amazing magic moments captured in film. To most of the world Heath was an actor of immeasurable talent and promise. To those who knew him personally, Heath was a consummate artist whose passions also included photography, music, chess and directing. We knew Heath as a loving father, as our devoted son, and as a loyal and generous brother and friend.
We treasure our beautiful granddaughter Matilda (to our dear Michelle) as well as an unbelievably wonderful network of close friends, forever, around the world. Families rarely experience the uplifting, warm and massive outpouring of grief and support as have we, from every corner of the planet. This has deeply and profoundly touched our hearts and lives. We are eternally grateful.
At this moment we respectfully request the worldwide media allow us time to grieve privately, without the intrusions associated with press and photography.
I really do hope that the press and media give this incredible and devastated family time to grieve in private and to allow to let Heath rest in peace.
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LuvJackNasty, your post was right on. I seem to be taking Heath's death especially hard this week. It's so terrible that the combination of those pills caused his death. How scary to think our doctors prescribe us so many medications at once.
Del_Marvelous
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:ghug: to you Del Marvelous
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christie wood, thank you for posting this from Heath's father. Now I know where Heath's wisdom comes from. In their own unbelievable grief, the man is so generous and humble, so thoughtful of everyone else, from other parents, to Michelle, to Heath's close friends, even for us. It feels so good to have him recognize the grief, the love, the support that we share. Under the guidance of such an amazing family, I am certain Matilda will grow up to make her father proud. :\'( :ghug:
A beautiful post from Kim Ledger and I hope the world will honor his request as I know we will. It is done, let us keep the memory and carry it foward of a talent shared and lost, but no forgotten.
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Well, I had faith all along that it was an unfortunate combination of medications he was taking and certainly not an intentional harm to himself.
Yup, all along I believed his friends when they said that he made plans to meet them the next day. There was no doubt in my mind. I still felt bad as Tony pointed out, and his interviews confirmed that Heath often had trouble sleeping, and always felt anxious during a project. It led to this tragic result. I got over the depression, the anger, and accepted this fate.
It is still tragic. He was still, as Eric Bana said, robbed of the beautiful years from 28-38. This week has been tears and smiles for me - tears for the lost years, smiles for getting to know Heath better, loving him more, and knowing how he lived life to the fullest. There is finally a irrefutable reason to get off my butt and do something, anything, to live up to his way of tackling life, full throttle. I think there will always be tears, just as there will always be love. It is why Ennis' last scene, with tears in his eyes, and a faint smile on his lips, gives me comfort in this unbelievable pain. This tragic love that is bittersweet.
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I feel so unbelievably sad. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( I just don't know what to say.
I just read Kim Ledger's beautifully worded statement, and it just made me cry. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a wonderful and loving family Heath came from. These words are just so heartbreaking. Don't know why, but "our boy" just got to me.....
Christine - that was very moving. Thanks for posting it. "Our boy" indeed. Heath's family have just been so dignified at such a tragic time. I hope too that they are given the privacy that they need to mourn.
I picked up the paper this morning and saw an article about the coroners report and it threw me for six again as I wasn't expecting it. Not that the cause really matters to me to be honest, but at least the gutter press might leave Heath's memory alone now.
Karen
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I hate all these pills which killed him !
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Simone
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I hate all these pills which killed him !
:( :\'( :( :\'(
Simone
I am surprised that he would take so many pills. The grocery store clerk said that he would normally purchase fruit and vegetable, and organic produce. It sounded like he was very health conscious. I just wish more people will be aware of the dangers of pills, of any forms. Just because it came with government approval doesn't mean that it is safe.
I hope you all can get over this toxicology report. It doesn't change the tragedy, as Tony said, it only confirms what we already know in our hearts, that Heath was full of love for people and for life. It was a tragic accident, but even out of this, some good came out of it, to see all the love and support that poured out from all corners of the world, where no one might have expected it. Who would have known about Daniel Day-Lewis, Ryan Gosling, Eric Bana,....all the talented peers of Heath, and all the loving memories of Heath's encounter with ordinary people.
Even from his death, Heath is giving us so much love. :ghug:
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I think Heath is sending us his love. He loved life and he loved his family, friends and fans.
it was a tragedy, I wish he were still here with us. But he will always be in our hearts and memories.
Linda :ghug:
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It may be a comfort for some of you to know that a federal investigation is now underway regarding sleeping aids. Apparently, there have been other incidents...
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I am surprised that he would take so many pills. The grocery store clerk said that he would normally purchase fruit and vegetable, and organic produce. It sounded like he was very health conscious. I just wish more people will be aware of the dangers of pills, of any forms. Just because it came with government approval doesn't mean that it is safe.
I hope you all can get over this toxicology report. It doesn't change the tragedy, as Tony said, it only confirms what we already know in our hearts, that Heath was full of love for people and for life. It was a tragic accident, but even out of this, some good came out of it, to see all the love and support that poured out from all corners of the world, where no one might have expected it. Who would have known about Daniel Day-Lewis, Ryan Gosling, Eric Bana,....all the talented peers of Heath, and all the loving memories of Heath's encounter with ordinary people.
Even from his death, Heath is giving us so much love. :ghug:
You know when I was his age I was yes very health conscious but did some dumb things, experimented with drugs. I was lucky nothing tragic happened. And of course others have been too, like Carrie Fisher almost died several times. Just a stroke of different luck might have meant a trip to the hosptial, a stomach pump and a major lesson learned. But it didn't happen that way...
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You know when I was his age I was yes very health conscious but did some dumb things, experimented with drugs. I was lucky nothing tragic happened. And of course others have been too, like Carrie Fisher almost died several times. Just a stroke of different luck might have meant a trip to the hosptial, a stomach pump and a major lesson learned. But it didn't happen that way...
It's a wonder I am alive myself Toadlily, considering the drugs and booze I put in my body back then. It was a accident, one some of us understand all too well we could have made. I still feel like he was done with this place and has moved on to a better one. IMHOP
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An interesting development as a direct result of Heath's accident. Apparently there have been numerous past cases in the US military with recouperating troops that will now be investigated.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Army-Drug-Overdoses.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=heath%20ledger&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Thank you, Heath.
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An interesting development as a direct result of Heath's accident. Apparently there have been numerous past cases in the US military with recouperating troops that will now be investigated.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Army-Drug-Overdoses.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=heath%20ledger&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Thank you, Heath.
As I frequently noticed, the real world is more imaginary from any fantasy our imagination can provide, and here is that example of it,
something good out of this tragedy....
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It has been reported in several Australian news agencies that Jake has arrived in Perth for Heath's funeral.
I wish him a quiet time to grieve with the family, and hope that the rest of the world respect their wish to mourn in private.
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Time to write this insensitive b**ch a thing or two >:(
WARNING: THIS IS A VERY NASTY ARTICLE. READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072008/news/columnists/his_pals_are_guilty___and_so_was_he_701915.htm
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
(DB: I hope you don't mind if I took out the explicit quote of the article -- it may prove too much for some of the members, so I placed a caveat before the link you provided. Again, I hope this is OK with you. -- tpe)
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I saw that earlier today as well. It is absolutely appalling and yet another reminder that there will always be hateful, ignorant, opinionated people in the world, too many of whom have a public forum with which to spread their venom.
I was glad to see that, outside of that publication's population, this article was met mostly by scorn and disgust. Anyone who has paid any attention to the actual facts in this case knows that this is one person's very unpleasant attempt to insert her own personal feelings into a topic that does not even remotely resemble what she's written or the conclusions she has drawn.
I am even more heartened though to see that for every one of this type of person there are at least a dozen more with open minds, compassionate hearts, and respectful attitudes. I have seen this illustrated nowhere quite so well as right here on this forum, which represents literally thousands of people from all over the world. The message that we, and like minded people everywhere, put out will be the enduring legacy that prevails for Heath, and in time the rest of these bitter excerpts will only be a vague, unpleasant memory for his family, who will have their memories of Heath, and the knowledge that he was, in fact, loved and respected by many, to wipe any such unpleasantness from their minds.
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Time to write this insensitive b**ch a thing or two >:(
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072008/news/columnists/his_pals_are_guilty___and_so_was_he_701915.htm
It's all very well DB, but why did you have to copy that whole repulsive article...we shouldn't repeat such a trash
Sorry if I'm angry nothing personal and I apologize in advance dear,but I started to read it and almost puke... >:(
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Sounds like poor Andrea is somewhat bitter ‘cause her life hasn’t worked out quite as well as Heath’s might have. Yet another example of why most of the media, along with most politicians, are held in such low esteem by just about everybody on the planet. And why fewer and fewer people pay any attention whatsoever to what they have to say. JMHO
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And to counterbalance that horrific example of trashy behavior, here is a piece on Daniel Day Lewis expressing his displeasure about the 'media circus' that has been surrounding Heath's family since his death. Yet another example of how classy this guy can be, how respected and admired Heath was, and how decent most human beings can be at a time like this. Thank you Daniel. :)
Day-Lewis slams media 'circus' around Ledger death
Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - British film star Daniel Day-Lewis blasted the media "circus" Friday surrounding the death of Heath Ledger after his moving dedication of a top award to the Australian actor last month.
Day-Lewis, 50, who was at the Berlin Film Festival where his new picture "There Will Be Blood" is in competition, said the round-the-clock coverage was only compounding the grief of Ledger's family.
When asked about the tribute he made at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards in Los Angeles on January 27, Day-Lewis said he was wary of speaking out publicly about Ledger again.
"I'm reluctant to talk about it now. As much I was glad to have a chance to say something in that moment, I now feel...there's plenty more I could say but I'm not just fuelling a fire that's already out of control," he said.
"His family, for instance, at this moment, are trying to suffer the unimaginable grief in the full scrutiny of a !@#$ circus and anything that I say is going probably to just contribute even more to that because it keeps the story running and running and running and running."
He said he hoped the focus would return to appreciation of Ledger's performances.
"There will come a time eventually when people just remember that he was a beautiful man who did some wonderful work and we have seen great things from him," he said.
"And right now I can't say I'm too enthusiastic about adding more fodder to what's already just a horrendously, seamy, overblown machine that's gathered around his death. It's horrible."
The New York chief medical examiner's office released a toxicology report Wednesday showing that Ledger, 28, died of accidental intoxication caused by painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs.
In the SAG acceptance speech, Day-Lewis said the Australian's performances -- in particular his role in the 2005 gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain"-- had deeply inspired him.
Day-Lewis has also been nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as a tyrannical oil prospector in "There Will Be Blood".
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Thank you FC, DDL is truly a noble man <^(
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You know what? I'm going to go and see There Will Be Blood in the cinema (it comes out here next Friday) just because of how I feel about Daniel Day Lewis now. The man has more class in his little finger than the entirety of the media have in their whole bodies.
Thank you, Daniel, for once again reminding people that a family is grieving here.
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You know what? I'm going to go and see There Will Be Blood in the cinema (it comes out here next Friday) just because of how I feel about Daniel Day Lewis now. The man has more class in his little finger than the entirety of the media have in their whole bodies.
Thank you, Daniel, for once again reminding people that a family is grieving here.
Yeah, you're right.
Btw, I saw that movie, and he is brilliant in it plus that's a very good movie.
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I saw that Post article before it was deleted down to a link for optional reading. It is vile. It is loathesome. And it is false. But what I have
to say further, is said very carefully.
The overwhelming evidence that her slamming of Heath is unforgivable exists in that suddenly appearing river of information that Heath was
physically ill (possibly the flu), was suffering extreme sleep deprivation, and did not have the type of personality that would lay this on others.
He wanted people around him to be happy, and so found it hard to complain of legitimate pains. But we have been suppressing that very same
information, to some degree, the facts that would show she is a liar, because of the focus on his career rather than his suffering.
Accidentally, with the best of intentions, we may have left the field open to her attack. I hardly think the accusation of "selfish" could stand
for a second, if the real facts were kept out in the open--he was suffering and yet did not want that to cause suffering in others. That's not
selfish.
Finally, what kind of creature would make this kind of attack, just as this man is being laid to rest? The timing damns her, above all else.
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Apologies for the strong reaction that some had on the article, but for those who have chosen to read it and has fueled your anger, I would humbly suggest that you flood her email & the NY Post exec contacts about the inappropriateness of her rant. It helped get an apology (although insincere) from that FoxNews Radio character who spewed the same vileness in his talk show.
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DDL proves yet again what an incredible and sensitive human being he is! Simply wonderful!
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Apologies for the strong reaction that some had on the article, but for those who have chosen to read it and has fueled your anger, I would humbly suggest that you flood her email & the NY Post exec contacts about the inappropriateness of her rant. It helped get an apology (although insincere) from that FoxNews Radio character who spewed the same vileness in his talk show.
You have a point there... ^f^
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Time to write this insensitive b**ch a thing or two >:(
WARNING: THIS IS A VERY NASTY ARTICLE. READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072008/news/columnists/his_pals_are_guilty___and_so_was_he_701915.htm
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
(DB: I hope you don't mind if I took out the explicit quote of the article -- it may prove too much for some of the members, so I placed a caveat before the link you provided. Again, I hope this is OK with you. -- tpe)
Thanks dirtbiker. I saw references to this article in other news items but haven't read it till now. Most reactions to it are apparently negative, but some Australians actually agreed with her, especially puzzling is one Ben of Perth. These are comments left on the NYPost website. So they may not be representative of general reaction.
Reading this made me realize how quickly people jump to conclusions. And how erroneous their conclusions can be.
She started by saying it takes a lot to kill a healthy 28-year old. Then she went to simply ASSUME that Heath had an addiction problem, citing the questionable video as evidence, as the only evidence. And she combined all the innuendos with accusations of Heath's friends being implicit in helping him to PLAN, and then to covering up etc, without ANY evidence. I think there is a clear case of slander, not only against Heath, but many of his closest friends.
Problems with credulous fools like Ben of Perth and others are simple. They believe lies like this joker's without checking, without looking, without questioning, just because SOMEONE says SOMETHING with a note of authority, without any shread of actual truth mind you, just enough self-deceit and self-confidence to convince people that they know what they are talking about.
Hilter had this kind of charisma. The trouble with our celebrity-driven society today is that charisma counts more than character. Personality and glitter are more revered that truth and substance.
As long as people don't ask questions, as long as people react faster than the speed of blogs, as long as people disregard common sense, people like Andrea Peyser and John Gibson will keep on stealing from the memories of good people to make a rich living, and then simply make a limp apology as if that's going make it alright. Worse still, many others get away with no apologies, no remorse...continuing the same malicious modus operandi with nothing but themselves in their own mind.
I've already written about the nature of evil. No one else seems to be interested in the topic. I am glad to have this opportunity to just get this off my chest. I am sure there will be others opportunities. Moderators please feel free to edit or delete. I am satisfied with simply writing it.
Selfish, self-important psychopaths with no empathy for others was the motivation behind Heath's portrayal of the Joker. How ironic that people like the Joker are the ones with darts to throw at him now.
I will certainly write emails to the New York Post. But not to her directly. People like her and John Gibson don't respond to reason or plea, only strength and strength alone. By pressuring their employers, we hit them where it would get their attention. Here is a link to the Letters to the Editor page: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/letters/letters_editor.htm
In second thought, a nasty letter to Ms Peyser will make me feel better.
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Here is the letter I sent to NYPost.
Dear Sir,
it is with disappointment that I read Ms Peyser's article on Heath Ledger (
HIS PALS ARE GUILTY - AND SO WAS HE - February 7, 2008 ).
I expected a higher standard of journalism from the city of New York.
Her column was based entirely on erroneous assumptions and misinformation. She ASSUMED that Heath had an addiction problem and built a case around it. She neglected to include the facts that Heath had been suffering the flu, jet lag (after his trans-continental flights from Europe to Australia to Ameria), insomnia, anxiety and other stressful factors..
Instead of allowing Mr Ledger's family to grieve in private, your columnist decide it was time for her to throw darts at the man's character, as well as his friends.
Ms Peyser's ill sense of judgment, of reasoning, and of journalistic integrity so disappointed me, that I doubt I can recover from this shock. Furthermore, your complicit permission to print her column is also disappointing.
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The one to Ms Peyser is not fit to reproduce here.
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A very thoughtful, sensible response to NY Post, LC! O0
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Lance, your words are right on target. But I am really certain Dirtbiker showed the way, in one of our obligations----to fight back. Lies,
unchallenged, become accepted. The family can't get into these slanders, and that leaves--his friends, including us, to keep the story straight.
Hpv said the real world can be stranger than any imagined world-and who would have thought so grotesque an attack would be possible
as the one Dirtbiker posted? Time to get real. We should not fall limp. Dirtbiker----you are a true friend of Heath Ledger. You rock, dude.
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Having time to think of a better approach, here is my letter to Ms. Peyser:
Someone said in the quotation thread that it is better to forgive your enemy, than to put hot coal on their head.
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Ms Peyser,
you assumed that Mr. Ledger had an addiction problem, and then accused him and his friends of conspiring to plan the accident that took his life.
How stupid can you get? You have no evidence that there was an addiction problem, building a case against the man based on speculation is simply wrong.
How insensitive can you get? In the middle of writing your column, did you pause ONCE to consider the feelings of the family, and his closest friends?
How selfish can you get? I have no doubt that the only motivation for your column was to get it accepted by your editors, to be the devil's advocate, to stand out among the many other columns. On the way to success, you are willing to put aside common decency and common sense.
May those who write your obituaries be more kind to you than you had been to Mr. Ledger and his family.
May you live long enough to recognize the errors of your ways, repent, and seek the forgiveness of the wonderful and generous people who gave to the world a fine actor, and a great human being.
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Lance, your words are right on target. But I am really certain Dirtbiker showed the way, in one of our obligations----to fight back. Lies, unchallenged, become accepted. The family can't get into these slanders, and that leaves--his friends, including us, to keep the story straight.
Hpv said the real world can be stranger than any imagined world-and who would have thought so grotesque an attack would be possible
as the one Dirtbiker posted? Time to get real. We should not fall limp. Dirtbiker----you are a true friend of Heath Ledger. You rock, dude.
Tony, you are always there.
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I sent her my best regards... and to her boss too
Well, don't mess with people I love & respect, my big toe is just too much sensible when you step on it ::)
Sorry for the OT :-X :-X :-X
I'm just so p*ssed off >:(
Back to topic... can you send some kind messages too? >:D #)
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
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Dear Chameau----you're the man. Thanks.
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Well I beleive in the power of the internet, I wonder how many Emails they will get? :*(
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I sent her my best regards... and to her boss too
Well, don't mess with people I love & respect, my big toe is just too much sensible when you step on it ::)
Sorry for the OT :-X :-X :-X
I'm just so p*ssed off >:(
Back to topic... can you send some kind messages too? >:D #)
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
She will recieve my own "special" salutations tomorrow. ^-^
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Heath Ledger is being farewelled with a ceremony in Perth, to be followed by a private funeral with the Hollywood actor's immediate family only.
Ledger's father Kim Ledger said the family was finding it hard to cope with the actor's death, let alone the media attention from around the world.
Mr Ledger said the funeral itself would be limited to 10 people.
Model Gemma Ward, rumoured to have been a former girlfriend of Ledger, has also arrived at the exclusive girls' school.
Ward was dressed in a black jacket and skirt and wore dark glasses.
Those attending are being asked to show identification before they are allowed in.
Arrangements have been made for the media to take photos of mourners arriving at and leaving the ceremony.
"I know that a lot of you have travelled from all around the world to take footage of as much as you can of our ceremony for Heath," Mr Ledger earlier told reporters before leaving for the service.
"...I just ask you if you wouldn't mind to respect our privacy.
"The funeral will be very, very private. There will only be 10 people there, immediate family and nobody else."
Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda and his former fiancee, actor Michelle Williams, arrived in Perth this week ahead of the funeral.
Mr Ledger said the family appreciated the outpouring of grief from around the world.
"I'm sorry, we really haven't had a chance to expose ourselves to you guys (the media and public).
"It's a pretty sad time and we're finding it difficult to cope by ourselves, let alone cope with everybody around the world.
"Having said that we do really appreciate the outpouring and the emotional support from all over the world, which, suffice to say, we're luckier than most families, most families that are in our position, our grieving position, don't have that kind of support.
"So thank you all very much. That's all I've got to say."
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Rest in peace bud.
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I said it before, but they are the most gracious people. I hope they find some peace.
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Woops, I wasn't looking at what I was posting. The Post and the Times both got a nasty letter. :8 %&)
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Rest in peace bud.
You bet.
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Some good news about all our efforts in responding to Ms. Peyser's vile NY Post article.... Keep them coming! It made the news: (be forewarned however, that there are some excerpts of references to reader comments in support of Peyser, but overwhelmingly, they were against her views)
Angry Ledger fans bombard US website
By Peter Mitchell
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23184699-5001021,00.html
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And to counterbalance that horrific example of trashy behavior, here is a piece on Daniel Day Lewis expressing his displeasure about the 'media circus' that has been surrounding Heath's family since his death. Yet another example of how classy this guy can be, how respected and admired Heath was, and how decent most human beings can be at a time like this. Thank you Daniel. :)
Day-Lewis slams media 'circus' around Ledger death
Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - British film star Daniel Day-Lewis blasted the media "circus" Friday surrounding the death of Heath Ledger after his moving dedication of a top award to the Australian actor last month.
Day-Lewis, 50, who was at the Berlin Film Festival where his new picture "There Will Be Blood" is in competition, said the round-the-clock coverage was only compounding the grief of Ledger's family.
When asked about the tribute he made at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards in Los Angeles on January 27, Day-Lewis said he was wary of speaking out publicly about Ledger again.
"I'm reluctant to talk about it now. As much I was glad to have a chance to say something in that moment, I now feel...there's plenty more I could say but I'm not just fuelling a fire that's already out of control," he said.
"His family, for instance, at this moment, are trying to suffer the unimaginable grief in the full scrutiny of a !@#$ circus and anything that I say is going probably to just contribute even more to that because it keeps the story running and running and running and running."
He said he hoped the focus would return to appreciation of Ledger's performances.
"There will come a time eventually when people just remember that he was a beautiful man who did some wonderful work and we have seen great things from him," he said.
"And right now I can't say I'm too enthusiastic about adding more fodder to what's already just a horrendously, seamy, overblown machine that's gathered around his death. It's horrible."
The New York chief medical examiner's office released a toxicology report Wednesday showing that Ledger, 28, died of accidental intoxication caused by painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs.
In the SAG acceptance speech, Day-Lewis said the Australian's performances -- in particular his role in the 2005 gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain"-- had deeply inspired him.
Day-Lewis has also been nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as a tyrannical oil prospector in "There Will Be Blood".
Thank you Daniel Day Lewis, thank you so much. What a sensitive noble man, he speaks for all of us and I will admire him forever for his words and actions.
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Heath Ledger is being farewelled with a ceremony in Perth, to be followed by a private funeral with the Hollywood actor's immediate family only.
Ledger's father Kim Ledger said the family was finding it hard to cope with the actor's death, let alone the media attention from around the world.
Mr Ledger said the funeral itself would be limited to 10 people.
Model Gemma Ward, rumoured to have been a former girlfriend of Ledger, has also arrived at the exclusive girls' school.
Ward was dressed in a black jacket and skirt and wore dark glasses.
Those attending are being asked to show identification before they are allowed in.
Arrangements have been made for the media to take photos of mourners arriving at and leaving the ceremony.
"I know that a lot of you have travelled from all around the world to take footage of as much as you can of our ceremony for Heath," Mr Ledger earlier told reporters before leaving for the service.
"...I just ask you if you wouldn't mind to respect our privacy.
"The funeral will be very, very private. There will only be 10 people there, immediate family and nobody else."
Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda and his former fiancee, actor Michelle Williams, arrived in Perth this week ahead of the funeral.
Mr Ledger said the family appreciated the outpouring of grief from around the world.
"I'm sorry, we really haven't had a chance to expose ourselves to you guys (the media and public).
"It's a pretty sad time and we're finding it difficult to cope by ourselves, let alone cope with everybody around the world.
"Having said that we do really appreciate the outpouring and the emotional support from all over the world, which, suffice to say, we're luckier than most families, most families that are in our position, our grieving position, don't have that kind of support.
"So thank you all very much. That's all I've got to say."
My heart is with the Ledger family. Rest in peace Heath, I'll always love you. :\'(
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23184908-2,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23184908-2,00.html)
Heath Ledger farewelled at Perth funeral
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23184908-2,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23184908-2,00.html)
Heath Ledger farewelled at Perth funeral
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
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Ledger farewelled in emotional service
Saturday Feb 9
Heath Ledger has been farewelled in an emotional and moving hometown memorial service attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Ledger's former partner actor Michelle Williams, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett, supermodel Gemma Ward, Australian actors Bryan Brown, Michael Caton, Rose Byrne, Shane "Kenny" Jacobsen and Joel Edgerton and footballer Ben Cousins attended amid tight security in Perth.
They joined family, school friends and politicians at the memorial for the 28-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Brokeback Mountain.
Before the service, Ledger's father Kim told reporters his family appreciated the outpouring of grief from around the world.
"It's a pretty sad time and we're finding it difficult to cope by ourselves, let alone cope with everybody around the world," Mr Ledger said.
"Having said that we do really appreciate the outpouring and the emotional support from all over the world, which, suffice to say, we're luckier than most families, most families that are in our position, our grieving position, don't have that kind of support.
"So thank you all very much.
"That's all I've got to say."
Williams and the actor's family drove in an escorted convoy of four black vehicles to the memorial service at Penrhos College, a private girls' school in the south Perth suburb of Como.
The couple's daughter Matilda was not with her emotional mother, who, clad in a cream dress, was supported into the building by Ledger's older sister Kate.
Mourners, who had to show identification to get into the service, were given a program that read: "This room is filled with the love we all felt for a great friend who will be missed by all of us.
"We want to thank those of you who took care of him and participated in his beautiful life."
One of the mourners said the service was emotional, moving and at times funny as it celebrated Ledger's life.
Blanchett "gave a funny moving eulogy about their times spent together", the woman said.
Kate Ledger spoke beautifully about her childhood with Ledger and how close she felt to her younger brother, she added.
Ledger's parents Kim Ledger and Sally Ledger Bell also paid tribute to their son.
Mourners watched family montages and a montage about Matilda, Ledger's two-year-old daughter with former fiancee Williams.
The service heard some of Ledger's favourite music including the song The Times Are A Changing by Bob Dylan.
His family and Williams left by a side entrance before going to Fremantle Cemetery, where it is understood they held a small, private cremation service while the other mourners gathered for a wake at a popular beachside restaurant in Cottesloe.
The memorial came after two farewells in Los Angeles, one a 1,000-strong, star-studded tribute for Ledger.
Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on January 22.
The New York Medical Examiner's Office ruled Ledger died from an accidental overdose of prescription medications.
Despite rampant speculation, plans for Ledger's funeral remained a closely-guarded secret - when Kim Ledger spoke to reporters for the first time since he read a statement to the press on the day his son died.
"I know that a lot of you have travelled from all around the world to take footage of as much as you can of our ceremony for Heath," Mr Ledger said.
While arrangements were made for the media to photograph mourners arriving and leaving the ceremony, Mr Ledger said the family wanted to grieve in private.
"I just ask you if you wouldn't mind to respect our privacy," he said.
"The funeral will be very, very private. There will only be 10 people there, immediate family and nobody else."
Those who attended the 90 minute memorial service included directors Phillip Noyce and Neil Armfield. Armfield, who directed Ledger in the Australian film Candy, also spoke at the service.
Actor David Wirrpanda and band members from Eskimo Joe also attended the memorial which began with a didgeridoo performance by local musician Levi Islam.
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I am now listening to all the songs played that day.
I can't believe I had them all on my computer!
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:ghug::ghug::ghug:
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
Goodbye my love :\'(
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Goodbye dear man. You shall never be forgotten by those who love you. For there is so much for us all to learn, from your life, and as strange as it may be to some, by your death also. You did not die in vain, by your untimely and tragic death, others might now be saved.
A beautiful soul does not die..it exists eternally, to look upon and guide those it once knew and loved, when it once could exist upon the earth, in its physical form. That Heath, had such a soul, has been shown time and and time again, since he passed away. True, he had many failings and faults, which made him all the more human, someone much like us all. It was just that, which mesmerised and intrigued those who had the pleasure to have known Heath in life..they saw the beautiful soul, which existed within him.
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
(The Beatles)
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Rest in Peace, our beautiful boy.
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I got emotional again last night, thinking that he is now "officially" gone from us. I'm trying very hard at this moment not to break down. Rest in peace, Darling Man. :\'(
(As for the NY Post - that paper is a rag anyway; I'm not surprised they wrote a nasty article on Our Boy.)
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It's so hard to say goodbye.
Rest in Peace, Heath.
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Goodbye dear man. You shall never be forgotten by those who love you. For there is so much for us all to learn, from your life, and as strange as it may be to some, by your death also. You did not die in vain, by your untimely and tragic death, others might now be saved.
A beautiful soul does not die..it exists eternally, to look upon and guide those it once knew and loved, when it once could exist upon the earth, in its physical form. That Heath, had such a soul, has been shown time and and time again, since he passed away. True, he had many failings and faults, which made him all the more human, someone much like us all. It was just that, which mesmerised and intrigued those who had the pleasure to have known Heath in life..they saw the beautiful soul, which existed within him.
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
(The Beatles)
Beautiful post :\'(
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
Goodbye, Heath
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
:\'(
That's so final...hard for me to except, but in the end....well.....he is now up there in heaven with the the angels.
goodbye my sweet,beautiful boy :\'(
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The news have just reported that Heath Ledger was cremated.
That's it.
Farewell x
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Goodbye sweet angel.
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Farewell little darlin, sweet angel :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I wonder if Jake is alright. He has been missing from all the public appearances, including this one, or at least, no mention of him. I hope this is the family's way of protecting his privacy, and not his own secluding himself. It would be much healthier for him to be able to mourn and let it out. I read he calls his sister and Reese Witherspoon daily, but I think he needs someone like Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Bana, an older brother figure who can help him cope.
The cremation ceremony would have been a moment for him to let go. I wish he was there. :\'(
Thanks, Asali, for sending the news updates.
Ledger farewelled in emotional service
Saturday Feb 9
Heath Ledger has been farewelled in an emotional and moving hometown memorial service attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Ledger's former partner actor Michelle Williams, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett, supermodel Gemma Ward, Australian actors Bryan Brown, Michael Caton, Rose Byrne, Shane "Kenny" Jacobsen and Joel Edgerton and footballer Ben Cousins attended amid tight security in Perth.
They joined family, school friends and politicians at the memorial for the 28-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Brokeback Mountain.
Before the service, Ledger's father Kim told reporters his family appreciated the outpouring of grief from around the world.
"It's a pretty sad time and we're finding it difficult to cope by ourselves, let alone cope with everybody around the world," Mr Ledger said.
"Having said that we do really appreciate the outpouring and the emotional support from all over the world, which, suffice to say, we're luckier than most families, most families that are in our position, our grieving position, don't have that kind of support.
"So thank you all very much.
"That's all I've got to say."
Williams and the actor's family drove in an escorted convoy of four black vehicles to the memorial service at Penrhos College, a private girls' school in the south Perth suburb of Como.
The couple's daughter Matilda was not with her emotional mother, who, clad in a cream dress, was supported into the building by Ledger's older sister Kate.
Mourners, who had to show identification to get into the service, were given a program that read: "This room is filled with the love we all felt for a great friend who will be missed by all of us.
"We want to thank those of you who took care of him and participated in his beautiful life."
One of the mourners said the service was emotional, moving and at times funny as it celebrated Ledger's life.
Blanchett "gave a funny moving eulogy about their times spent together", the woman said.
Kate Ledger spoke beautifully about her childhood with Ledger and how close she felt to her younger brother, she added.
Ledger's parents Kim Ledger and Sally Ledger Bell also paid tribute to their son.
Mourners watched family montages and a montage about Matilda, Ledger's two-year-old daughter with former fiancee Williams.
The service heard some of Ledger's favourite music including the song The Times Are A Changing by Bob Dylan.
His family and Williams left by a side entrance before going to Fremantle Cemetery, where it is understood they held a small, private cremation service while the other mourners gathered for a wake at a popular beachside restaurant in Cottesloe.
The memorial came after two farewells in Los Angeles, one a 1,000-strong, star-studded tribute for Ledger.
Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on January 22.
The New York Medical Examiner's Office ruled Ledger died from an accidental overdose of prescription medications.
Despite rampant speculation, plans for Ledger's funeral remained a closely-guarded secret - when Kim Ledger spoke to reporters for the first time since he read a statement to the press on the day his son died.
"I know that a lot of you have travelled from all around the world to take footage of as much as you can of our ceremony for Heath," Mr Ledger said.
While arrangements were made for the media to photograph mourners arriving and leaving the ceremony, Mr Ledger said the family wanted to grieve in private.
"I just ask you if you wouldn't mind to respect our privacy," he said.
"The funeral will be very, very private. There will only be 10 people there, immediate family and nobody else."
Those who attended the 90 minute memorial service included directors Phillip Noyce and Neil Armfield. Armfield, who directed Ledger in the Australian film Candy, also spoke at the service.
Actor David Wirrpanda and band members from Eskimo Joe also attended the memorial which began with a didgeridoo performance by local musician Levi Islam.
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.. and this wonderful wake at his favourite beach.. what a moment... :\'(
goodbye my love.
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I wonder if Jake is alright. He has been missing from all the public appearances, including this one, or at least, no mention of him. I hope this is the family's way of protecting his privacy, and not his own secluding himself. It would be much healthier for him to be able to mourn and let it out. I read he calls his sister and Reese Witherspoon daily, but I think he needs someone like Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Bana, an older brother figure who can help him cope.
The cremation ceremony would have been a moment for him to let go. I wish he was there. :\'(
Thanks, Asali, for sending the news updates.
I hope he's alright too, I heard he was going to Australia but I guess he didn't :-\\ :\'(
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I hope he's alright too, I heard he was going to Australia but I guess he didn't :-\\ :\'(
I dunno - there were quite a few reports yesterday saying that he'd arrived in Perth.
Whether he did or not, I hope he'll be okay. This has got to have hit him so hard :-\\
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I hope he's alright too, I heard he was going to Australia but I guess he didn't :-\\ :\'(
I read news report that he arrived in Perth. But it may be that he was too distressed to be seen in public. I just hope he has the support he needs to get through this.
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I dunno - there were quite a few reports yesterday saying that he'd arrived in Perth.
Whether he did or not, I hope he'll be okay. This has got to have hit him so hard :-\\
Yeah, I feel so bad for him, I can't emagin loosing a close friend :(
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Yeah, I feel so bad for him, I can't emagin loosing a close friend :(
:\'( I hope Jake will be strong for Matilda's sake. But for now, he also needs to let his grief show. He doesn't need to be the strong silent cowboy. He needs to be Ennis in the last scene, hurting, but accepting the peace and hope of future reunions. It will probably take a long time, and he has such a heavy work load...Brothers is an emotionally demanding movie. I just hope the people around him will give him the shoulders for him to cry on, and the fr#$#king media will stay off his back, let him show his grief in private.
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Everybody has their own way to grieve and deal with pain... Jake is doing it in his own way.
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:\'( I hope Jake will be strong for Matilda's sake. But for now, he also needs to let his grief show. He doesn't need to be the strong silent cowboy. He needs to be Ennis in the last scene, hurting, but accepting the peace and hope of future reunions. It will probably take a long time, and he has such a heavy work load...Brothers is an emotionally demanding movie. I just hope the people around him will give him the shoulders for him to cry on, and the fr#$#king media will stay off his back, let him show his grief in private.
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yea they should everybody in his life be alone. they need time to grief.
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Everybody has their own way to grieve and deal with pain... Jake is doing it in his own way.
Yup, you bet. And I hope and pray that he gets over this.
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I see that there are tons of posts since yesterday, because Heath has finally been laid to rest. I came across an article on AOL, showing pictures of family and friends at the beachside memorial. Very beautiful.... :cr)
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Please, friends. We all mourn for Heath, but his family had asked of the media to respect their privacy and let them grieve over their loss in private. Out of respect for the Ledger family, please refrain from posting pictures from Heath's funeral or memorial. Thank you.
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Yes, It's a very beautiful tribute to him :)
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I see that there are tons of posts since yesterday, because Heath has finally been laid to rest. I came across an article on AOL, showing pictures of family and friends at the beachside memorial. Very beautiful.... :cr)
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Please, friends. We all mourn for Heath, but his family had asked of the media to respect their privacy and let them grieve over their loss in private. Out of respect for the Ledger family, please refrain from posting pictures from Heath's funeral or memorial. Thank you.
This was a link through AOL news, I was assuming if it's a legitimate source, it was ok.
Why have this thread if you can't post legitimate things??? :-\\
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Farewell, beautiful one... Lord, it's real.
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This was a link through AOL news, I was assuming if it's a legitimate source, it was ok.
Why have this thread if you can't post legitimate things??? :-\\
There are paparazzi shots, for example one of Heath and Matilda. As per our guidelines, it's the reason why it was edited, for respect of their private life. Thanks for your understanding. :)
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Ok, here's a link to the Memorial Blog that only has a few pics in it:
http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/michelle-williams-plunges-into-ocean-to.html (http://heathledgermemorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/michelle-williams-plunges-into-ocean-to.html)
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Thanks for that LuvHeath4ever. :ghug:
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My heart goes out to Jake. That is all I can say.
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An interesting development as a direct result of Heath's accident. Apparently there have been numerous past cases in the US military with recouperating troops that will now be investigated.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Army-Drug-Overdoses.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=heath%20ledger&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Thank you, Heath.
Plus it's absolutely shameful how in the past few years pharmaceutical companies are advertising drugs on TV. All of a sudden I started seeing it, and it's just gotten more and more and more. Even though they say those bizarre warnings (side effect may include death...), still, it's way out of hand. They ought to take them off, like they did liquor for a while -- though I notice those ads are back on, for hard liquor (while saying to please drink responsibly -- right).
kathy
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It's all very well DB, but why did you have to copy that whole repulsive article...we shouldn't repeat such a trash
Sorry if I'm angry nothing personal and I apologize in advance dear,but I started to read it and almost puke... >:(
I'm not reading it.
kathy
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I dunno - there were quite a few reports yesterday saying that he'd arrived in Perth.
Whether he did or not, I hope he'll be okay. This has got to have hit him so hard :-\\
I do hope he was there -- he needs to be with everyone else who was closest to Heath -- that in itself will be a comfort and healing to him.
kathy
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I wonder if Jake is alright. He has been missing from all the public appearances, including this one, or at least, no mention of him. I hope this is the family's way of protecting his privacy, and not his own secluding himself. It would be much healthier for him to be able to mourn and let it out. I read he calls his sister and Reese Witherspoon daily, but I think he needs someone like Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Bana, an older brother figure who can help him cope.
The cremation ceremony would have been a moment for him to let go. I wish he was there. :\'(
Thanks, Asali, for sending the news updates.
In today's newspaper the following was reported.
Noticeabley absent from yesterday's memorial was Ledger's best friend and godfather to Matilda, Jake Gyllenhaal - his co-star in Brokeback Mountain. While many of Ledger's friends and family have spent the past two weeks attending memorials in the US, Gyllenhaal has remained secluded as he comes to term's with his mate's death.
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In today's newspaper the following was reported.
Noticeabley absent from yesterday's memorial was Ledger's best friend and godfather to Matilda, Jake Gyllenhaal - his co-star in Brokeback Mountain. While many of Ledger's friends and family have spent the past two weeks attending memorials in the US, Gyllenhaal has remained secluded as he comes to term's with his mate's death.
Thanks, Asali. Your news is much appreciated.
As I said before, my hopes and prayers go to Jake. :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: The survivor sometimes has it tougher. The anger, the depression, the denial, the guilt, the cycle that keeps going over and over until somehow, miraculously, there is acceptance and peace. I hope Jake will receive the gift that Jack gave to Ennis, and receive the peace that Ennis found in the two shirts.
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As I said before, my hopes and prayers go to Jake. :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: The survivor sometimes has it tougher. The anger, the depression, the denial, the guilt, the cycle that keeps going over and over until somehow, miraculously, there is acceptance and peace. I hope Jake will receive the gift that Jack gave to Ennis, and receive the peace that Ennis found in the two shirts.
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You're right, LC - death is always hard on those left behind. I am a little surprised that Jake hasn't attended, though. I thought he would have needed to be there, to pay his respects to his mate. I guess the fact that he wasn't just goes to show how devastated he's been by this tragedy :-\\
I hope you're right about him finding peace in the end. It's a tragedy that Heath is no longer with us - I'd hate to see the light go out in Jake's eyes too :\'(
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You're right, LC - death is always hard on those left behind. I am a little surprised that Jake hasn't attended, though. I thought he would have needed to be there, to pay his respects to his mate. I guess the fact that he wasn't just goes to show how devastated he's been by this tragedy :-\\
I hope you're right about him finding peace in the end. It's a tragedy that Heath is no longer with us - I'd hate to see the light go out in Jake's eyes too :\'(
Have faith, NoReins, that Jake will find his way to peace again. It will take time, and perhaps a little help from his friends, old and new. As long as the media will give him the privacy he needs.
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You're right, LC - death is always hard on those left behind. I am a little surprised that Jake hasn't attended, though. I thought he would have needed to be there, to pay his respects to his mate. I guess the fact that he wasn't just goes to show how devastated he's been by this tragedy :-\\
I hope you're right about him finding peace in the end. It's a tragedy that Heath is no longer with us - I'd hate to see the light go out in Jake's eyes too :\'(
I was surprised too that he hasn't attended, but everybody has their own way to deal with grief. For some people, attending memorials and being with other mourners brings comfort, for other people it might be more difficult. I guess Jake is dealing in his own way.
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I hope when Jake do interviews in the future that he don't have to deal with a lot of questions about Heath. Maybe that's why hes staying away from all the media. I don't know :-\\
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All I know is, that it was reported that Jake was so devastated about the news of Heath's death that he took some time off the set of "Brothers" he is currently filming...
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal has been left traumatized by the death of close pal Heath Ledger, according to a US report.A source on the set of the star’s new movie, Brothers, revealed he was somber and staring into space following news of Ledger’s tragic death.
Gyllenhaal, 27, took a break from filming Brothers in New Mexico when he learned the news of Ledger’s January 22nd death.
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omg, I feel so bad for him. I just wan't to hug him :ghug:
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He probably needs to be with family and friends, and the last thing he needs is reporters and questions. My heart just goes out to him, I keep thinking that my pain is nothing compared to his. I hope people will leave him alone and let him come to terms with this tragedy in his own time and his own way.
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He probably needs to be with family and friends, and the last thing he needs is reporters and questions. My heart just goes out to him, I keep thinking that my pain is nothing compared to his. I hope people will leave him alone and let him come to terms with this tragedy in his own time and his own way.
Well said :)
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Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)
A tribute to the reluctant star, whose finest roles eerily mimicked his all-too-short life
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18355273/heath_ledger_1979_8211_2008/2
He arrived onscreen looking windy and fresh, as if he'd just blown in from someplace else. His face just missed being pretty; there was the tiny, precise mouth, but also the mulish neck and shoulders and then the rich tobacco roll of the voice. He became a locus of passionate admiration, the senior you hoped to be as a freshman. Two days after Heath Ledger's death, at the age of twenty-eight, Daniel Day-Lewis halted an appearance in the confessional of Oprah. "I'm sorry - it just seems somehow strange to be talking about anything else," the actor said. "I didn't know him. I have an impression, a strong impression, that I would have liked him very much, as a man, if I had."
We count on our performers for many things — as demonstrators of excellence, as figures of monstrous envy — but we rarely expect to feel luckier than they are, and never anticipate they will leave without a speech. Friends tell me they can't stop thinking about Ledger; none can explain why, some apologize for the absurdity, in a nation at war, to find this outpouring of sympathy and shock directed towards one man. But stars embody our dream lives. They're who we intend to be, once we get the job stuff settled, find the person we'll love, once the shooting is over and we're finally at home. Stars embody one quality; that's what makes them stars. And Ledger was a star in a very particular way. To stare at him — and in theaters and living rooms, we stare with an intensity we exercise nowhere else — was to receive a sense of capacity, power, and potential, a kind of perfectly vivid health and youth. That's why his death feels wrong, and why the response has felt primitive, tribal. It means youth and vitality aren't enough. It's like losing a season.
The story moved swiftly, with unpredictable reversals of field. A massage therapist discovered his body on a Tuesday afternoon, face down in his Manhattan bedroom. By evening, the named culprit was recreational drugs, an overdose; pills were reported strewn by his bedside. By Wednesday, these turned out to be prescription medications, neatly stowed in bottles and foil wrap and a rolled-up bill had been inspected and cleared of charges. The substances were Xanax, Valium and Ambien, which made Ledger's bedroom just like a thousand others in downtown Manhattan, home of the anxious, the ambitious, the sleepless. There was the sight of Michelle Williams — his ex-fiancée, mother of his daughter, Matilda — in a car bound for the airport, resembling a first lady in mourning. (Arriving in Brooklyn, what stuck was not the pale blue lightning of the digital cameras, but the sight of chauffeurs and bodyguards fishing into the passenger cab for her daughter's stuffed animals and toys.) There was his family expressing their regrets, in front of a sunny suburban house and lawn that looked shockingly ordinary. At Sundance, premieres were canceled, in Hollywood, studio statements were released. By the weekend, New York Police were speculating that the medications had accidentally bonded into a kind of cocktail that stopped Ledger's heart. Gossip columnists darkly hinted of hard partying, of stories to come that would "make our collective hair stand on end," and a People magazine obituary issue was like a tone poem on the single word "excess." ("He was trying to lead a healthy life," a friend told the magazine. "But sometimes he went to excess.") Outside the Screen Actors Guild Awards, fringe evangelicals picketed, because Ledger had once portrayed a homosexual cowboy. The last most people saw of him was in a zippered black bag, wheeling into an ambulance, with its sad little bumps for his feet and head.
Ledger grew up in Perth, Western Australia — "the most isolated city," he told me, "in the world." His father designed and drove race cars, mother taught French, and Ledger offered something of their mix, the rugged and the cultural. He wanted to act, could not cast himself in the role of student — "I had a problem with authority" — and at sixteen he drove to Sydney with less than an Australian dollar in his pocket. It was already a life of bold strokes, simple and large movements and changes of scenery; a life from a movie.
When it happens, it happens fast. Ledger's Hollywood career began a year before George Bush's election, and did not outlast his presidency. In 1999, Ledger took the lead boyfriend role in the high school comedy 10 Things I Hate About You, where his appearance was gently disorienting, as if Sean Connery had been aged down and cast in a John Hughes picture. For a year, he refused other high school roles; one of his talents was for pausing at the right moment, sitting still, and waiting for situations to develop in his favor. He played Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot. Then he was cast to carry the medieval drama A Knight's Tale. He was twenty-one. His body still had a kid's loose, unstringed movements, but it was clear he would become a star. There was the big frontal block of the smile, lines racing up from his chin to his ears; when he smiled, his face fanned brutal and turned warn; it was a great, manly smile, a smile that commanded.
The second part of Ledger's career was a reaction to that picture: he'd glimpsed the highway being paved ahead of him, the career he was being given; he stood up in the middle of a studio marketing meeting, locked himself in a bathroom. "It was a full-on anxiety attack," he said. "I was hitting my head, hitting the walls." From there, he steered his own course, towards darker movies, chillier commercial prospects. He meant to scrape away the star's glossy coating, replace it with the raw, flexible skin of an actor. "I wanted to take the blond out of my career," he said, "kill the direction it was going. I was like, 'How am I going to make this a career I would like to have?' "
Four years later, from the uplands of award nominations and Brokeback Mountain, having acted with directors Lasse Hallstrü m, Terry Gilliam, Ang Lee, he looked back at the moment with satisfaction. He'd stepped in, and piloted own life. "I just felt like I earned it, like I deserved it more, you know? And I sleep better that way."
"Well, that's very important," I said.
"Yeah, it is," he said. "Absolutely. You die young ?"
Off-set, he clomped around in big boots and a hoodie, hands kangarooed in the pocket; interviewed, he kept on his sunglasses, to subtly maintain a private world, a kind of eye Kevlar. Celebrity was impractical, was what the clothes said. He hadn't accommodated himself to the deal, with its pluses and minuses: you sell the media slices of private life, in exchange for set time and the immense freedoms of the salary. Profiles began to circle around the same words: wary, restless. (A London Times writer, who interviewed him on six occasions, wrote simply that Ledger had "worried himself to death.") He couldn't seem to disengage; the inexactness bothered him. "For you or anyone sitting here to really know me," he explained to me, "you'd have to sit here for a year, it would take that much time for me to explain it."
He approached his own work with the same hardness; he did not, he said, class himself an artist, and never believed he'd been good. "I always want to pull myself apart and dissect it." Accepting a part, "I always go through the process of hating it, hating myself, thinking I've fooled them, I can't actually do this." Leger had no formal training, and there's this to be said for acting school: it teaches you to approach a role as foreign, as a language you'll temporarily speak. Ledger didn't appear to have that. He needed to dig for (and inhabit) the part of himself that was the character. "Performance comes from absolutely believing what you're doing," he said. "You convince yourself, and believe in the story with all your heart." It didn't always shut off when a production did, and I think it ground him. Finishing Brokeback, he immediately flew to Venice, and Casanova. "I don't think I could have just gone home and not worked, to unwind from it," Ledger told me. "I would have just sat there and kind of slowly beat my head against the wall, until it went away."
On the Brokeback Mountain set, he'd began a relationship with Michelle Williams, his onscreen wife. They had a daughter — "we just fell very deeply into one another's arms, our bodies made those decisions for us"— bought a Brooklyn townhouse. A year later, Ledger told reporters he felt as content as he'd ever been. "When you're this happy," he said, "everything seems to fall into place."
The story his best movies tell is a unified story, in chapters, about connection and someone learning how to be. In the Australian drama Candy — playing a heroin addict, with all of a successful addicts sly, soft corruption — the story was about what happens when you transform other people into the means to a destination. Casanova was about how to shift from being a lover — which is abstract and general — and push ahead with the business of actually loving one person. Brokeback Mountain warned of the life where you refuse love, the costs everyone around you must pay. In I'm Not There, he played a man who had — like himself when the film was released — for reasons he could not explain but could not correct, lost his lover, family and home. As The Joker in next summer's The Dark Knight, he will appear as a man severed from all connection. A "psychopathic, mass-murdering clown with zero empathy," is how he described it to the New York Times. On set, Michael Caine said the performance sometimes turned so frightening he forgot his own lines.
When Ledger and Williams split last September, the explanation appeared to be drug use. Ledger took an apartment in SoHo and missed his daughter. Sleep became a problem. "I need to do something with this head because sometimes I just don't sleep, it just keeps ticking." He talked medications, telling the Times he was managing about two hours a night. On an evening when one Ambien didn't do the job, he swallowed a second, passed out, came to an hour later, head still whirring. On his last film set, co-star Christopher Plummer reported that Ledger didn't seem to be sleeping at all. Among the saddest images of the past month is Ledger, forty-eight hours before his death, alone at a late-night bar, hoodie hiked up, drinking through the mouth-hole of a ski mask.
It's been a time of tributes. Todd Haynes, his director on I'm Not There, paid Ledger the compliment he denied himself: "Heath was a true artist." He added, "This is an unimaginable tragedy." Ang Lee, who won the director's Academy Award for Brokeback, said "Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life. His death is heartbreaking." Dark Knight director Chris Nolan wrote about "charisma — as invisible and natural as gravity. That's what Heath had. I've never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents." At press time, the New York Police Department has yet to settle on an official cause of death, but in a sense it's right there in front of us. Ledger made great demands on his heart — romantically, professionally, personally, physically. And in the end, his heart said "No."
From Issue No. 1046, February 21, 2008
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Eric Roberts' memorial of Heath Ledger
http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2886&Itemid=82
Actor Eric Roberts, whom we interviewed some time ago, sent us a memorial of Heath Ledger, whom he met on The Dark Knight set. Here's what he wrote:
"In the UK, on The Dark Knight set, we shot a scene with much of the cast, many of the guys playing my henchmen, and me, playing Salvatore Maroni, with Heath as “The Joker”.
He had an incredibly written speech to give, and we were blown away. He was just fascinating and amazing in the part.
I once turned down a chance to play “Stanley Kowalski” in "A Streetcar Called Desire" for a fantastic director and phenomenal cast (Ann-Margaret, Randy Quaid, Raphael Sbarge, Beverly D’Angelo). I felt that role had been played consummately by Marlon Brando, so I turned the role down, which I have regretted ever since: Treat Williams played “Stanley” in that production.
Here comes the role of “The Joker”, as if we weren’t all in love with Jack Nicholson in the role (and in every role)… I have to admit being unable to picture anyone in the role.
On that day, Heath Ledger earned my respect. I’d loved him in MONSTER’S BALL and his other films, but this was a whole other world. Heath was a lovely man, who clearly had had his life taken over by his daughter, as much of THE DARK KNIGHT cast & production had with their children…
Our kids mean everything to us.
It was obvious he worked hard and took his character very seriously, and did something really risky and unexpected with it. I am so proud to have been part of THE DARK KNIGHT, and can only wish he knew how loved and appreciated he was. It’s painful to watch people focus on someone who’s passed away and to realize that person is not here to receive all that positive energy.
My wife, Eliza, was in "Animal House", and she was working on a show for DBS when John Belushi died. For weeks after, that cast and production stayed in close touch with each other, visiting each others’ respective sets and studios and homes. My stepson, Keaton Simons, lost his bass player, Loren Toder, to an undetected heart ailment, when they were nineteen years old. The agony of losing someone as young as Heath, Loren and John were does not abate.
They have so much more art in them…
I did not see any indication of his having any problems of any kind. I have worked with other actors whose behavior is symptomatic of either depression or self-medicating, and I do believe in taking well-advised steps to reach out and help someone. But I saw none of that with this man and am in no position at all to comment. I used to have a terrible problem with myself resulting in problems with drugs, including the drug of alcohol. I wish I hadn’t been so good at scaring people into not approaching me. I needed their help. Though, truth is, several people tried and did a really excellent job, which I undid. Until one day…"
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Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)
A tribute to the reluctant star, whose finest roles eerily mimicked his all-too-short life
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18355273/heath_ledger_1979_8211_2008/2
The story his best movies tell is a unified story, in chapters, about connection and someone learning how to be. In the Australian drama Candy — playing a heroin addict, with all of a successful addicts sly, soft corruption — the story was about what happens when you transform other people into the means to a destination. Casanova was about how to shift from being a lover — which is abstract and general — and push ahead with the business of actually loving one person. Brokeback Mountain warned of the life where you refuse love, the costs everyone around you must pay. In I'm Not There, he played a man who had — like himself when the film was released — for reasons he could not explain but could not correct, lost his lover, family and home. As The Joker in next summer's The Dark Knight, he will appear as a man severed from all connection. A "psychopathic, mass-murdering clown with zero empathy," is how he described it to the New York Times. On set, Michael Caine said the performance sometimes turned so frightening he forgot his own lines.
When Ledger and Williams split last September, the explanation appeared to be drug use. Ledger took an apartment in SoHo and missed his daughter. Sleep became a problem. "I need to do something with this head because sometimes I just don't sleep, it just keeps ticking." He talked medications, telling the Times he was managing about two hours a night. On an evening when one Ambien didn't do the job, he swallowed a second, passed out, came to an hour later, head still whirring. On his last film set, co-star Christopher Plummer reported that Ledger didn't seem to be sleeping at all. Among the saddest images of the past month is Ledger, forty-eight hours before his death, alone at a late-night bar, hoodie hiked up, drinking through the mouth-hole of a ski mask.
It's been a time of tributes. Todd Haynes, his director on I'm Not There, paid Ledger the compliment he denied himself: "Heath was a true artist." He added, "This is an unimaginable tragedy." Ang Lee, who won the director's Academy Award for Brokeback, said "Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life. His death is heartbreaking." Dark Knight director Chris Nolan wrote about "charisma — as invisible and natural as gravity. That's what Heath had. I've never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents." At press time, the New York Police Department has yet to settle on an official cause of death, but in a sense it's right there in front of us. Ledger made great demands on his heart — romantically, professionally, personally, physically. And in the end, his heart said "No."
From Issue No. 1046, February 21, 2008
What a lovely article, and I, being the kind of nerd who collects favorite quotes like some people collect baseball cards, think that final observation is going right to the top of my list of favorites. Also have to agree with the comments concerning I'm Not There. Just saw it yesterday, and had the sense, throughout, that I was watching both another consummate performance from a wondrously gifted young man - and, perhaps, a tiny little slice of his own life. It was almost ominous in the way it paralleled his personal experiences - almost too close to reality for comfort.
Thanks for posting this.
CYN
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Wow - that's a pretty amazing article from Rolling Stone.
Thanks for posting, Keren ^f^
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I found a rare interview... it's a press junket from the Berlin Film Festival, February 2006, when Heath was promoting Candy. There were 6 journalists around the table, and Heath. One of the journalists was Israeli and I found it on his blog, he posted the full audio recording. The quality is not so good, but I managed to understand parts of it... I loved how he talked about Matilda, how she wakes up in the middle of the night giggling, and about the research that Abby Cornish and him did for "Candy".
http://www.esnips.com/doc/40fac116-0a4b-4f07-b932-2ccf36d733e6/heath-ledger-interview
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I really liked the Rolling stone article. Thanks for posting Keren :ghug:
I'm going to check out the audio link later.
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The Rolling Stone article was great. Thank you Keren ^f^ I'm off to listen to the audio now.
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I heard that Jake was on the set of Brothers and they wrapped up yesterday. That was probably why he wasn't in Perth. Someone had mentioned he was at the Sony studios memorial. (a friend who lives out there told me)
I think that Jake having to work might have been the best thing for him. Mentally. It will take time for him to process all this. Like for the rest of us. But even more deeply for him since he was Heath's friend.
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http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Mb__kMQrw&NR=1
tribute by a reporter for TEN network :) very nice
"Well, I'll drive a car...."
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Wow, that was a great tribute, Esme O0
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http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Mb__kMQrw&NR=1
tribute by a reporter for TEN network :) very nice
"Well, I'll drive a car...."
Lovely tribute - and what a great quote that car one was :)
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This week i was quite emotional as my tribute to Heath got into UKs Star magazine and they printed my painting i started before he died but when he did, finished it as a tribute. I put my whole heart into the painting and i wrote how everyone will miss Heath and how matilda will have her daddy looking over her always. It was moving to see they had printed it. :\'( To see my painting and magazine cutting go on my face book page and then look in photo album, "other stuff" . Heath miss you... this ones for you. ^f^ Thanks for inspiring me to paint after all these years!...x #)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=752611678
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hey cowgirl, I'm just about to add you as a friend, so when you see that 'Koraljka Suton wants to be your friend', confirm my request, alright? ;)
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Just watched the "In Memory" bit of the BAFTAs. For most, they only showed a small clip or just a photo. For Heath, they showed clips from 10 Things, A Knights Tale and Brokeback along with a beautiful picture of him - and when they cut back to the audience there were several folks wiping their eyes and Orlando Bloom looked really upset.
Had to say I was going to bed so my other half wouldn't see me cry.
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Just watched the "In Memory" bit of the BAFTAs. For most, they only showed a small clip or just a photo. For Heath, they showed clips from 10 Things, A Knights Tale and Brokeback along with a beautiful picture of him - and when they cut back to the audience there were several folks wiping their eyes and Orlando Bloom looked really upset.
Had to say I was going to bed so my other half wouldn't see me cry.
I could not watch it tonight...will check it out tomorrow x
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Esmelily, thank you so much for the link. god, watching it was so strange and surreal and brought the whole thing back. I've been watching loads of Brokeback videos today and not once did it cross my mind that Heath was gone...it still feels as if it were just a dream...
NoReins, do you by any chance happen to have a link to a video of some sort?! Because they unfortunately don't broadcast the BAFTA awards over here ( only the Oscars ). Oh, and I'm glad Atonement won, it has become my third favourite movie :)
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NoReins, do you by any chance happen to have a link to a video of some sort?! Because they unfortunately don't broadcast the BAFTA awards over here ( only the Oscars ). Oh, and I'm glad Atonement won, it has become my third favourite movie :)
I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
thank you so very much for posting this. It was moving, at the least :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
I'm glad you agree about Atonement- it's simply a heart breaker!
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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thank you so very much for posting this. It was moving, at the least :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
You're welcome. Yes, it was moving, especially as it was last and a little bit longer than the others, and they played Ennis's "Why don't you just let me be" line before the final photo of him.
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You're welcome. Yes, it was moving, especially as it was last and a little bit longer than the others, and they played Ennis's "Why don't you just let me be" line before the final photo of him.
I absolutely agree. That was just heartbreaking and oh so SYMBOLIC on so many different levels. One of them being the following: why don't people just let him be? :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Thanks! :\'(
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http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Mb__kMQrw&NR=1
tribute by a reporter for TEN network :) very nice
"Well, I'll drive a car...."
Thank you for that. ^f^
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Just watched the "In Memory" bit of the BAFTAs. For most, they only showed a small clip or just a photo. For Heath, they showed clips from 10 Things, A Knights Tale and Brokeback along with a beautiful picture of him - and when they cut back to the audience there were several folks wiping their eyes and Orlando Bloom looked really upset.
Had to say I was going to bed so my other half wouldn't see me cry.
:ghug: Lindsey
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Thank you :\'(
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Damn :\'(
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Even though Daniel Day-Lewis didn't mention Heath when he received the Best Actor Award at BAFTA, he mentioned Heath again at a press conference backstage:
Absent friends
Day-Lewis - voted best actor for There Will Be Blood - remembered Heath Ledger in a backstage press conference.
He said: "Obviously, if I hadn't already had the occasion of the screen actors' guild awards to dedicate this award to Heath Ledger then Heath would certainly have been a man tonight I would liked to have recognised."
The full article is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7238184.stm
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Thank you for the video!!! :^^) :\'(
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Even though Daniel Day-Lewis didn't mention Heath when he received the Best Actor Award at BAFTA, he mentioned Heath again at a press conference backstage:
Absent friends
Day-Lewis - voted best actor for There Will Be Blood - remembered Heath Ledger in a backstage press conference.
He said: "Obviously, if I hadn't already had the occasion of the screen actors' guild awards to dedicate this award to Heath Ledger then Heath would certainly have been a man tonight I would liked to have recognised."
The full article is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7238184.stm
I ADORE this wonderful, TREMENDOUS human being!!!
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Everybody has their own way to grieve and deal with pain... Jake is doing it in his own way.
I was sad that he was unable to go, apparently. But you are right: let him do it in his own way.
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Wow - that's a pretty amazing article from Rolling Stone.
Thanks for posting, Keren ^f^
I agree.
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Thanks :\'(
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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Tha BAFTA tribute was indeed beautifully done. :\'( <^(
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the tribute made me cry :\'( :\'(
I miss you Heath :\'(
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the tribute made me cry :\'( :\'(
I miss you Heath :\'(
it's the same for me :\'( I can't stop my tears
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Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)
A tribute to the reluctant star, whose finest roles eerily mimicked his all-too-short life
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18355273/heath_ledger_1979_8211_2008/2
From Issue No. 1046, February 21, 2008
Thank you so much for this, Keren. Of course, being Rolling Stone, it is exceptionally written.
I can't say the words myself, but I am inordinately gratified that so many have been saying such powerful things about our Heath.
Now I have stinging tears again...
kathy
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I have just uploaded the tribute to youtube. It's the whole tribute - Heath is the last one remembered.
And I agree about Atonement. Wonderful movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGcboZGg0Q
Oh god, a tearfest for me tonight. THis was very special... Thank you, gambrinus, for posting it.
kathy
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First of all,thanks to all these who have been posting all kind of tributes;I've been a little "disconnected" from this thread last days,so I haven't could congratulated for all your beautiful posts :ghug: .I've found a picture from the Ledger's tomb;here in Spain they said that he would be buried here,but I suppose that it'll be the place where his ashes will rest...I don't know if you've already seen it.
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I still can't believe what I been reading and seeing on tribute about the actor. the dream. and the inspiration. Mr. Heathcliff Andrew Ledger.
My day is not complete without having to see some of his photographs. some of his memories.
Tears are in my eyes for missing him.
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First of all,thanks to all these who have been posting all kind of tributes;I've been a little "disconnected" from this thread last days,so I haven't could congratulated for all your beautiful posts :ghug: .I've found a picture from the Ledger's tomb;here in Spain they said that he would be buried here,but I suppose that it'll be the place where his ashes will rest...I don't know if you've already seen it.
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Thank you dear myprivatejack for that pic... :\'( . Here in Belgium we have few magazines about Heath :(, they all show pics of Nicolas Sarkosy with Carla Bruni, I don't care !. Fortunately, I have found some magazines in an english bookshop... :ghug:
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Oh god, a tearfest for me tonight. THis was very special... Thank you, gambrinus, for posting it.
kathy
I agree with you kathy, that vidéo is so sad, all those wonderful people who left :( :\'(..;Too bad :ghug:
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:ghug: MPJ- I see pics like that and yet it still doesn't seem real to me. I have no idea what it's going to take for the whole surreal feeling to wear off.
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:ghug: MPJ- I see pics like that and yet it still doesn't seem real to me. I have no idea what it's going to take for the whole surreal feeling to wear off.
I know,Michelle,it's the same for me... :ghug: Sometimes I still think that it's like a dream-or better said,a nightmare-,or a stupid marketing strategy,or a bad joke...I suppose each one of us has his or her own time to regret it and to wear it off;where're no miraculous recipes for this. :^^)
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I see pics like that and yet it still doesn't seem real to me. I have no idea what it's going to take for the whole surreal feeling to wear off.
Surreal is just the word I was looking for...
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He was found face down on his bed. He took enough medication that his brain didn't tell his lungs to take in air. Along with that, there was also the fact that the friction between him and his pillow, he was done for. The doctors that gave him those medications, should be ashamed of themselves. It wasn't about drug abuse folks. It was that he was sick, had a respiratory infection, couldn't sleep, couldn't relax, and was in an enormous amount of pain. I guess relaxation after making it as big as he was, didn't really come into play. Who knows, what do I know. Maybe it was an addiction that he was battling, but I find that hard to believe. Apparently, Michelle Williams (of Dawson's Creek fame) has told their daughter that Daddy went away.
In my opinion. He was given a wrong prescription without being diagnosed.
I thought in the US. it is not easy to buy all those medicines and doctors are professionally practicing their craft.
It is unfair! It does not take a HEATH LEDGER to discover this fact.
My heart does not agree.
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He was found face down on his bed. He took enough medication that his brain didn't tell his lungs to take in air. Along with that, there was also the fact that the friction between him and his pillow, he was done for. The doctors that gave him those medications, should be ashamed of themselves. It wasn't about drug abuse folks. It was that he was sick, had a respiratory infection, couldn't sleep, couldn't relax, and was in an enormous amount of pain. I guess relaxation after making it as big as he was, didn't really come into play. Who knows, what do I know. Maybe it was an addiction that he was battling, but I find that hard to believe. Apparently, Michelle Williams (of Dawson's Creek fame) has told their daughter that Daddy went away.
In my opinion. He was given a wrong prescription without being diagnosed.
I thought in the US. it is not easy to buy all those medicines and doctors are professionally practicing their craft.
It is unfair! It does not take a HEATH LEDGER to discover this fact.
My heart does not agree.
I agree with you white_angel. He didn't know what he was taking and I bet he'd do anything to just relax and take the pain away. We all know he loved his family, especially his daughter, and would never think of leaving her this soon. I hate when people come up to me, knowing I'm a fan and tell me a total lie about him. I was looking at things for a collage I'm making and my brother wanted to go on the computer and he saw a picture of Heath and said "He was a druggie, he's dead, get over it"...It is truly a shame :-\\
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I know we are all impassioned as to what could've been prevented, but putting the blame on anyone doesn't change the fact that these medications were legally prescribed medications, safe when taken as intended, and if anything, it raises our alertless as to the devastating effects that could happen when combined inadvertantly, even to healthy individuals. :-\\
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I know,Michelle,it's the same for me... :ghug: Sometimes I still think that it's like a dream-or better said,a nightmare-,or a stupid marketing strategy,or a bad joke...I suppose each one of us has his or her own time to regret it and to wear it off;where're no miraculous recipes for this. :^^)
:ghug: I've thought of/felt all those things you mentioned. and nope, no miraculous recipes- just time. That's probably the only thing that is going to bring the healing.
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I know we are all impassioned as to what could've been prevented, but putting the blame on anyone doesn't change the fact that these medications were legally prescribed medications, safe when taken as intended, and if anything, it raises our alertless as to the devastating effects that could happen when combined inadvertantly, even to healthy individuals. :-\\
Perhaps you can clear something up for me DB. I read somewhere that one of the drugs he took is known to affect memory and that perhaps he forgot that he had already taken one or two of the pills and took another one which might have been the final blow. I know it won't bring him back but it comforts me to know that is was all just a tragic accident. The Supreme Being's way of calling home one who has done what he was placed on this earth to do.
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Perhaps you can clear something up for me DB. I read somewhere that one of the drugs he took is known to affect memory and that perhaps he forgot that he had already taken one or two of the pills and took another one which might have been the final blow. I know it won't bring him back but it comforts me to know that is was all just a tragic accident. The Supreme Being's way of calling home one who has done what he was placed on this earth to do.
You know, it's not necessarily even that he may have taken one, then another, or too many at a time. Some of these are the kinds that stay in your system (the anti-anxiety meds), and as his father made a point of saying, and others have said, even in low doses these things can react wrongly together. So it's not even really an "overdose" per se. But a mis-dosed combination, combined with a weakened state.
Oh my heart hurts -- "if only" someone was taking care of him right then. But someone almost was -- he had someone coming to give him a healing massage...and the timing was just cosmically wrong. Then again, I suppose it's cosmically right, but we are too small to really understand that, to really know it. Or, what is to be understood is that our pain is part of our own psychoemotional health...
kathy
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Perhaps you can clear something up for me DB. I read somewhere that one of the drugs he took is known to affect memory and that perhaps he forgot that he had already taken one or two of the pills and took another one which might have been the final blow. I know it won't bring him back but it comforts me to know that is was all just a tragic accident. The Supreme Being's way of calling home one who has done what he was placed on this earth to do.
The one that causes amnesia is Ambien. I can attest first hand that the effect is quite powerful. A few years ago, I had taken one before bedtime, after I got back from a different time zone (jetlagged), but I made the mistake of talking to a friend online and arranged for meeting up over the weekend. Well, I completely did not remember that conversation at all, and somehow he had the chat session saved and showed me. I tried to tell him that it was the effect of the medication but he didn't believe me, and soon we drifted apart :\'(
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I agree with you white_angel. He didn't know what he was taking and I bet he'd do anything to just relax and take the pain away. We all know he loved his family, especially his daughter, and would never think of leaving her this soon. I hate when people come up to me, knowing I'm a fan and tell me a total lie about him. I was looking at things for a collage I'm making and my brother wanted to go on the computer and he saw a picture of Heath and said "He was a druggie, he's dead, get over it"...It is truly a shame :-\\
Hi lil_dwarf!
Some news says that he was ( is) a dug addict. but have we read a confirmation from Michelle Wiliiams ( that I believe that only one true love of Heath Ledger. because he had made a lot of comments about her being in love , agree? ) I affirmatively believe HEATH LEDGER IS NOT A DRUG ADDICT. Look at his movies. recent and old and compare. Have we heard from the movie staff about his reacton and attitude when shooting the film? NO! Review his lines and hear it closely. the voice is deep and clear. and his acting. super.. great! There was NO TRACE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT! and for me HE IS STILL ALIVE IN MY MEMORY. IN MY HEART and TO ALL THE BROOKIES HE TOUCHED THIER LIVES VIA BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
The pain I have in my heart for Heat was.. no one was there in his apartment when he felt dying.
The agony..I can't bear to imagine how he died. My heart bleeds for " ROAST". I love this sweet Heath. no matter what they say.
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I know Heath is a young man with full of love and compassion in his heart.
Pardon me for not using ( past tense in Heath . I can't! )
We in the Philippines is a day ahead of you guys. it is February 14. 4:10 PM Manila Time. and we are celebrating the " Hearts Day".
My greetings to my sweet Heath on this day of the heart. and he is up there watching us.
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Hi lil_dwarf!
Some news says that he was ( is) a dug addict. but have we read a confirmation from Michelle Wiliiams ( that I believe that only one true love of Heath Ledger. because he had made a lot of comments about her being in love , agree? ) I affirmatively believe HEATH LEDGER IS NOT A DRUG ADDICT. Look at his movies. recent and old and compare. Have we heard from the movie staff about his reacton and attitude when shooting the film? NO! Review his lines and hear it closely. the voice is deep and clear. and his acting. super.. great! There was NO TRACE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT! and for me HE IS STILL ALIVE IN MY MEMORY. IN MY HEART and TO ALL THE BROOKIES HE TOUCHED THIER LIVES VIA BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
The pain I have in my heart for Heat was.. no one was there in his apartment when he felt dying.
The agony..I can't bear to imagine how he died. My heart bleeds for " ROAST". I love this sweet Heath. no matter what they say.
Don´t worry,White_angel,because I'm sure that he never realised what was happenning to him in that moment.Perhaps he felt alone before,perhaps he was passing a bad time,perhaps he was even sad,but he was full with life and reasons to live.In these cases,doctors say that the person is slept and passes from this to the eternal sleep,to say it in any way.No pain,no suffering,no agony.It's the relief we must have now.
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He, I've been reading all of your posts on the prescription drugs Heath had taken...I've been meaning to share something with you guys for quite some time now, but I wasn't exactly sure how to put it into words. Anyway, after Heath died, I talked to a friend of mine ( a girl, 18 years old ) and she told me: 'it was suicide!' I couldn't believe what she was saying and I immediately started debating her, telling her there's NO WAY in hell Heath would have been so selfish as to leave his little girl behind and tried reasoning with her by exclaiming how he simply had a sleeping problem+the stress got to him etc. Well, here's what she told me: 'look, all those drugs he took, well, I had taken ALL (!) of them over the past 3 years ( she was a quite depressive teen and yes, she really was given loads of medication :( ) and I tell you, when you mix even three of them ( she mentioned which, I can't recall their names at the moment ), and believe me, this is strong stuff, you become so suicidal that in those moments, you don't care whether you have a bunch of people who love you and care for you, you are completely numb, empty and hollow and just want to go to sleep- forever. And you do whatever is necessary to get that peace'. Her statement made me cry. Of course, I'm NOT implying that that's the case with Heath, because ultimately, we will never know what REALLY happened and what was really going on in his head ( alas, just as Ennis never really knew what happened to Jack- he was left only with what he chose to believe but the fact that he didn't know for sure ate him alive ), but I must admit that hearing the whole thing from another perspective, hearing it from a person who HAD ACTUALLY BEEN THERE and done that, made it easier for me to come to terms with things....and to understand that, even if it WAS intentional, that there are numerous things that need to be taken into account- namely the state your mind is in after taking such strong drugs, which is MILES away from 'our' states of mind. Because that was a factor I HADN'T considered so far, a factor I hadn't taken into account at all. So it's always good, I believe, to put things into perspective. Because we will never know how Heath really FELT and what state his mind and soul were in, but we could at least TRY to simply- understand. to try to GET IT in a way.
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Koka, there is no need to debate with anyone about it. Heath did not die from suicide. When people debate, they speculate. We have to be VERY careful to distinguish between facts and speculation. What she said about people feeling suicidal after taking the combination of drugs, that is speculation. The FACT is, Heath made plans to meet people the very next day. He died by accident because he did NOT understand the drugs, their combinatorial effects, their side effects, and most of all, their effects on his already weakened condition due to the flu, and jet lag, and overworked stress, and lack of sleep.
To debate with people who speculates without facts, is to open yourself to lies. Yes, I use that word on purpose because many people lie to themselves, and then justify it by trying to convince other people, as if by convincing others, they gain legitimacy. The truth is, they are only lying to themselves, and others. Heath knows it was a tragic accident. His father, his soul mate and best friend, who spent two glorious wonderful weeks during the Christmas holidays, recognized right the way in the aftermath of media frenzy that it was an accident.
We, Heath's friends and loyal fans, do no need to convince anyone, but we need to be firm in our own conviction that Heath loved life, and would NEVER consider suicide. It is simply ridiculous.
I hope your depressive friend gets over her own problems and depression. It sounds like her depression has made her cynical and she is projecting the same dark colors in her heart onto everything she sees. It is a real danger, when people project their own inward anger to those around them. Depression is what they call anger turned inward. Some people get over it. I did. Others find other ways to protect themselves, by turning that anger into hatred, or cynicism, and hurt the people who loves them.
Take care of yourself, Koka, be confident that Heath loves life, and, please, leave the darkness to those who crave it. Stay in the light. You can help your friend by being strong in your love for Heath, and not be swayed by lies.
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He, I've been reading all of your posts on the prescription drugs Heath had taken...I've been meaning to share something with you guys for quite some time now, but I wasn't exactly sure how to put it into words. Anyway, after Heath died, I talked to a friend of mine ( a girl, 18 years old ) and she told me: 'it was suicide!' I couldn't believe what she was saying and I immediately started debating her, telling her there's NO WAY in hell Heath would have been so selfish as to leave his little girl behind and tried reasoning with her by exclaiming how he simply had a sleeping problem+the stress got to him etc. Well, here's what she told me: 'look, all those drugs he took, well, I had taken ALL (!) of them over the past 3 years ( she was a quite depressive teen and yes, she really was given loads of medication :( ) and I tell you, when you mix even three of them ( she mentioned which, I can't recall their names at the moment ), and believe me, this is strong stuff, you become so suicidal that in those moments, you don't care whether you have a bunch of people who love you and care for you, you are completely numb, empty and hollow and just want to go to sleep- forever. And you do whatever is necessary to get that peace'. Her statement made me cry. Of course, I'm NOT implying that that's the case with Heath, because ultimately, we will never know what REALLY happened and what was really going on in his head ( alas, just as Ennis never really knew what happened to Jack- he was left only with what he chose to believe but the fact that he didn't know for sure ate him alive ), but I must admit that hearing the whole thing from another perspective, hearing it from a person who HAD ACTUALLY BEEN THERE and done that, made it easier for me to come to terms with things....and to understand that, even if it WAS intentional, that there are numerous things that need to be taken into account- namely the state your mind is in after taking such strong drugs, which is MILES away from 'our' states of mind. Because that was a factor I HADN'T considered so far, a factor I hadn't taken into account at all. So it's always good, I believe, to put things into perspective. Because we will never know how Heath really FELT and what state his mind and soul were in, but we could at least TRY to simply- understand. to try to GET IT in a way.
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Koka, there is no need to debate with anyone about it. Heath did not die from suicide. When people debate, they speculate. We have to be VERY careful to distinguish between facts and speculation. What she said about people feeling suicidal after taking the combination of drugs, that is speculation. The FACT is, Heath made plans to meet people the very next day. He died by accident because he did NOT understand the drugs, their combinatorial effects, their side effects, and most of all, their effects on his already weakened condition due to the flu, and jet lag, and overworked stress, and lack of sleep.
To debate with people who speculates without facts, is to open yourself to lies. Yes, I use that word on purpose because many people lie to themselves, and then justify it by trying to convince other people, as if by convincing others, they gain legitimacy. The truth is, they are only lying to themselves, and others. Heath knows it was a tragic accident. His father, his soul mate and best friend, who spent two glorious wonderful weeks during the Christmas holidays, recognized right the way in the aftermath of media frenzy that it was an accident.
We, Heath's friends and loyal fans, do no need to convince anyone, but we need to be firm in our own conviction that Heath loved life, and would NEVER consider suicide. It is simply ridiculous.
I hope your depressive friend gets over her own problems and depression. It sounds like her depression has made her cynical and she is projecting the same dark colors in her heart onto everything she sees. It is a real danger, when people project their own inward anger to those around them. Depression is what they call anger turned inward. Some people get over it. I did. Others find other ways to protect themselves, by turning that anger into hatred, or cynicism, and hurt the people who loves them.
Take care of yourself, Koka, be confident that Heath loves life, and, please, leave the darkness to those who crave it. Stay in the light. You can help your friend by being strong in your love for Heath, and not be swayed by lies.
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this was a really nice post lance, thank you for it, but I actually have the feeling that what I wrote came out a bit wrong.
What I meant was, that if it by any chance WAS suicide ( in the sense that the combination of those drugs made him even MORE depressed ( which my friend told me was the case with the drugs in question ) resulting in him simply wanting the pain to stop and taking some more pills ), after hearing what effect those drugs HAVE on people, I can understand him and do not by any chance judge. That was the point of my post actually, and the fact that I am glad to hear different perspectives on things. Although I personally choose to believe that it hadn't gotten that far for Heath...and I think that being suicidal ( because of a certain combination of drugs ) and not loving life have nothing to do with one another. I believe that Heath loved life, I really do, but that doesn't exclude the fact that he had been having a rough time, caused by various factors that had occurred simultaneously in his life. and vice versa of course. but of course, having a rough time doesn't imply being suicidal either. or in other words: nothing is black and white.
And what you said about my friend and about depression itself- you are spot on as usual. I am well aware of all those things and I strongly agree with everything you wrote.
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Don´t worry,White_angel,because I'm sure that he never realised what was happenning to him in that moment.Perhaps he felt alone before,perhaps he was passing a bad time,perhaps he was even sad,but he was full with life and reasons to live.In these cases,doctors say that the person is slept and passes from this to the eternal sleep,to say it in any way.No pain,no suffering,no agony.It's the relief we must have now.
I believe you. I had to believe you or else my mind would not let me sleep at all thinking how he died.
You can see it from my posts. the time of every posts I made. They were posted when everyone is asleep here in the island.
Heath, the young man I always had in my dreams of meeting him one day has left the world of imperfection.
In this world that he tried relating to almost everyone in their lives from the roles he played in his movies.
He did not choose to be identified in a role and to keep his image as a hearhthrob rather he was choosy of his acting craft doing every roles par excellence. and my admiration grew fonder.
My mind and my heart won't let him go.
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"My mind and my heart won't let him go."
That's it exactly. :ghug: to everyone.
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I don't care how It happend, I just hope he wasn't in any pain :\'(
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After reading some of the more recent posts, I feel I have to speak up. I owe it to Heath Ledger, and to many of those who have grieved
his death.
Yes, there has been an enormous amount of speculation, gossip, and even slander about the circumstances of his death. And these should
be resisted. But, in doing so, it is a hurt in the opposite direction to make it all nicey-nice, an unexpected accident, and all was well with Heath
before he died. It wasn't, and that can't be covered up or air-brushed out. Something was wrong, those last months, and arguably, this kind
soul, who often could not express himself with regard to his hurts, could only signal the inner pain that was assaulting him from some direction.
*the photos from London---look at his eyes. Yes, he had pnuemonia, but the sadness there was awesome.
*look at a few of the formal photos on that same page. They bear no resemblance to the happy Heath we knew. They don't even
resemble him. One looks like 20 years of hard times squeezed into a few months, aging him almost beyond recognition.
*am sorry-the formal painting, showing 3 Heaths, is not playful, nor artistic posing, not simple self-exploration. That painting is grotesque,
and shows a man in deep turmoil.
*the early news reports contained much garbage, but also professional reporting from verified sources (including neighbors and friends) and
those reports said he had aged 20 years and was deeply depressed. Those credible reports were yanked off the networks along with the
garbage reports.
I do well understand the different approaches to grieving. I easily understand that we should not wallow in whatever was going on in those
months. And I have zero problem with moving to a focus on the happy times and the great contributions this man made to tolerance and
decency.
But not at the price of a complete, phony, cover-up of convenience. Because one thing is NOT speculation---Heath was in trouble. And
he was showing that the only way he knew how (some people cannot verbalize their pain, but can only signal, or hint, in hopes someone will
get the message sent).
What that pain was---yes, that is speculation. But it existed, is there before our very eyes, and I, for one, feel we owe it to Heath to
get the message he sent, even if it was too late. We owe him that. And THEN, having given him what he asked for---empathy for whatever
darkness was assaulting him, THEN, this good man would want us to....move on. Not until then.
He would not want us to wallow in that darkness. He would want us to hear and see, finally, that his pain was understood. And then from
there, a celebration of his life. I can only speak for myself. I got his message. I will never agree to gloss over his suffering. I owe him that,
and this post. No cover-up. Accepting the joys.....and the pains. Both.
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Hi lil_dwarf!
Some news says that he was ( is) a dug addict. but have we read a confirmation from Michelle Wiliiams ( that I believe that only one true love of Heath Ledger. because he had made a lot of comments about her being in love , agree? ) I affirmatively believe HEATH LEDGER IS NOT A DRUG ADDICT. Look at his movies. recent and old and compare. Have we heard from the movie staff about his reacton and attitude when shooting the film? NO! Review his lines and hear it closely. the voice is deep and clear. and his acting. super.. great! There was NO TRACE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT! and for me HE IS STILL ALIVE IN MY MEMORY. IN MY HEART and TO ALL THE BROOKIES HE TOUCHED THIER LIVES VIA BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
The pain I have in my heart for Heat was.. no one was there in his apartment when he felt dying.
The agony..I can't bear to imagine how he died. My heart bleeds for " ROAST". I love this sweet Heath. no matter what they say.
When I see a paper like National Enquierer or Star and see an article about his death, I know most of it is, speculation. No one knows what he was actually going through in his heart and mind. I agree with everyone here, he was in pain and I wish that someone who've seen it sooner and give him a shoulder to lean on. But he was never a drug addict, the way he acted never showed he might've been. I was furious when I was watching Insider with my mom and they said that his constant fidgeting might be a signal of drugs!! I couldn't believe what they are saying just to get another story. Though now, 3 weeks later (wow), that the news of him has supsided and that soon, his body will lie peacfully and the people will soon forget about the rumers and just remember the great man, father, actor he was.
At the same time, for us, it is sad. We know that there is no way of turning back now. I remember my friend, a fan as well, was talking about him with me and she said "is" and then paused, realizing how now she must say "was". It is hard and together, we still cannot believe something happened to a man so beautiful and loving.
I just pray that he is peacful and smiling down upon us up in Heaven now. #) #) <^( #) #)
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Hey Brokies, sorry to put the moderator's hat on. I have been reading some of the last post and first of all many are off topic. This thread is about News, articles and Tributes. It is turning to chit chat about assumptions if Heath had or nor drug addiction... there is no proves about either. If you don't mind going back to topic and avoid assumptions... and chit chat.
Thanks! :)
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Michelle breaks down watching Heath's video
Washington (ANI): American actress Michelle Williams broke down while watching a video montage featuring Heath Ledger and their 2-year-old daughter Matilda. The video montage was shown at an intimate memorial held on Feb 9 in Perth, Australia in honour of the late actor. It had the song "Happy Ever After in Your Eyes," which was penned by Ben Harper for Matilda at Ledger's request.
"Just seeing it all there in front of you was humbling," Usmagazine.com quoted one mourner as saying about the tribute. "It's just amazing how much he fit into his short life," the mourner added. Williams, who is 27-years-old, is heartbroken about the loss, but she is managing to hold on despite of the pressures of grieving, working, and mothering.
"She is really keeping it together. And she's so great with Matilda," a friend told Us. "She is happy to be working," another pal told Us. "It is a welcome distraction," the pal added.
This may be old news for some of you. It is the first time I've seen it. Have kleenex ready.
Sorry, I removed the link to the youtube video because it used quite a few pappirazzi photos of Heath in public with Matilda. I just realized that these photos usually have Heath wearing hoodies. One of them, even Matilda was wearing a hoodie outfit in her stroller. I am sure you can find it on youtube if you want to see it. I guess it is always a difficult question, where to draw the line, in our respect for Heath's privacy.
BEN HARPER LYRICS
"Happy Everafter In Your Eyes"
The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes
Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes
Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon
All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes
Happy everafter is in your eyes
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Hey Brokies, sorry to put the moderator's hat on. I have been reading some of the last post and first of all many are off topic. This thread is about News, articles and Tributes. It is turning to chit chat about assumptions if Heath had or nor drug addiction... there is no proves about either. If you don't mind going back to topic and avoid assumptions... and chit chat.
Thanks! :)
So true. Please forgive me to add the following sentence:
Lancecowbody - I agree with your post 100%.
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Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush gave tributes to Heath Ledger
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23229907-5006023,00.html
of all places, in Australia's annual Tropfest short film festival.
Said Rush: "He is one of our brothers, he is one of our clan and I had the great fortune to work with him on two films and know him a little bit socially. We are going to miss him."
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http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=-LOEbRuZMUY
(it takes them a little time to get to Heath...)
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Found this through a link on Wranglers - a Heath filmography desktop wallpaper
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x24/ttheart/wallpapers/hfilms_1024x768_by_cake_2008-02-15.jpg (http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x24/ttheart/wallpapers/hfilms_1024x768_by_cake_2008-02-15.jpg)
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I was just reading Heath's interview from "The Advocate" back in 2006, and came across this - just another little reminder of why I love him so much.
Having played Ennis, on the off chance that your child comes to you with the “Dad, I’m gay” speech, do you think you’re ready to hear it now?
Oh, it wouldn’t have bothered me beforehand. I don’t have a further appreciation for people who are gay; I always have. It’s never been an issue for me. Of course, if my child came to me and said that, I’d love them even more for being honest with me.
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Found this through a link on Wranglers - a Heath filmography desktop wallpaper
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OMG, this is wonderful. Thank you Lindsey.
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Found this through a link on Wranglers - a Heath filmography desktop wallpaper
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x24/ttheart/wallpapers/hfilms_1024x768_by_cake_2008-02-15.jpg (http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x24/ttheart/wallpapers/hfilms_1024x768_by_cake_2008-02-15.jpg)
Thank you Lindsey, it's lovely.
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Thought I was finally feeling better . . . then in the mail comes the latest edition of The Advocate:
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A nice tribute inside titled "So long, partner".
And one titled "An actor who changed gay lives"
This edition, #1003, is not up on their website yet, [Advocate.com] but I imagine it will be shortly.
It's worth looking for at newsstands.
A brief quote from the Editor's page:
It's one of the contradictions of our gay lives now: some of us are millionaires, and some are still on Brokeback Mountain. Through his art, Heath Ledger brought our worlds together. He earned his place in all our hearts.
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Thanks Keren, Lindsey and jackster. :)
The Advocate isn't on the stands yet, but I'll be there when it arrives, to be sure.
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Thought I was finally feeling better . . . then in the mail comes the latest edition of The Advocate:
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A nice tribute inside titled "So long, partner".
And one titled "An actor who changed gay lives"
This edition, #1003, is not up on their website yet, [Advocate.com] but I imagine it will be shortly.
It's worth looking for at newsstands.
A brief quote from the Editor's page:
It's one of the contradictions of our gay lives now: some of us are millionaires, and some are still on Brokeback Mountain. Through his art, Heath Ledger brought our worlds together. He earned his place in all our hearts.
Thank you, guyinjax. I have to get this magazine and it's impossible to find it in Israel - can one of you guys contact me when it gets out?
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Oh cool and I discovered I can get a copy from a store in the city, I will ring them to find out when it's in. O0
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Oh I so want that copy of The Advocate. I don't think they sell it in the UK though. :(
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Oh I so want that copy of The Advocate. I don't think they sell it in the UK though. :(
Yes they do, if you print the pic out it has the UK price there, would at least be in the city stores.
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Yes they do, if you print the pic out it has the UK price there, would at least be in the city stores.
Oh thank you so much for that Asali. ^f^ I will definitely look out for it.
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I really want this magazine now. I wonder if they'll have it in NY..I'm sure, right?? :s)
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I really want this magazine now. I wonder if they'll have it in NY..I'm sure, right?? :s)
For sure....
Keren check your PMs
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For sure....
Thanx Cham, I'll deff. have to annoy my mom to go and find this issue for me soon ;D
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I rang the city bookstore and it should be in within 2 weeks so he is making sure I get a copy by post.
When I told him he said, everyone is going to be after that one.
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I rang the city bookstore and it should be in within 2 weeks so he is making sure I get a copy by post.
When I told him he said, everyone is going to be after that one.
That's what I'm afraid of... I'll be looking for some extra copies for friends who can't get it in their hometowns. Since I'll be traveling next week, chances are I could find copies in Montreal & Toronto airports but I guess I'll play safe and go to some newsletter store in the gay Village here, pay in advance and secure some.
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Thanks Keren, Lindsey and jackster. :)
The Advocate isn't on the stands yet, but I'll be there when it arrives, to be sure.
Hon, buy me a copy please. Doubt they sell The Advocate around here.
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Will do. O0 I'll buy as many as I can get my hands on.
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What great news!! I've subscribed to the ADVOCATE for years, and that issue should be in my mailbox this week. :clap:
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Thank you, guyinjax. I have to get this magazine and it's impossible to find it in Israel - can one of you guys contact me when it gets out?
Me too!
I want a copy of this. fellows please contact me.
I know there will be some copies here in the Philippines but I m sure they will be all sold out before it reaches me.
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Is it somehow possible to get me a copy, too? :-\\ ^f^
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If I could give you a tip... for the ones living in big cities where you could find some gay districts The Advocate is very easy to find in newstands or bookstores in these areas in most countries.
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Really good article from The New York Times. The author steps away from making his own opinions and assumptions and lets those that knew Heath speak. I think its one of the most respectful articles out there. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
http://nymag.com/news/features/44217/
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Really good article from The New York Times. The author steps away from making his own opinions and assumptions and lets those that knew Heath speak. I think its one of the most respectful articles out there. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
http://nymag.com/news/features/44217/
It is a respectful article for the actor whose name and character. personality and achievements has embedded in our system.
The last paragraph touches me most ( about Heaths being a doting father)
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I am deeply touched by this article. I think it sums it all up.
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The article was wonderful and went deep into some of the emotions and life of Heath IMO :\'(
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The article was wonderful and went deep into some of the emotions and life of Heath IMO :\'(
Right on girl.
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I am deeply touched by this article. I think it sums it all up.
Yes and it was very honest.
He wasn't a demon and he wasn't a saint. He was human, just like the rest of us.
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Christopher Nolan's tribute to Heath Ledger
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/01/28/christopher-nolans-tribute-to-heath-ledger/
"Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren't many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them."
Christopher Nolan calls it Heath Charisma as natural as gravity.
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OUTWARD magazine features the actor. the inspiration. Heath Ledger....
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http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=465
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Behind the mask of masculinity Film
Two-day tribute to Heath Ledger at the Castro Theatre
Published 02/21/2008
by David Lamble
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Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain .
Our cinema church is in session for two days as the Castro hosts six screenings of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (Feb. 24, 25) while fans of the film grieve the inexplicable demise of its Oscar-nominated lead actor, Heath Ledger.
Perth-born, a man of the West (Western Australia), the lanky one-time teen idol (10 Things I Hate About You) would publicly disavow any serious trajectory to a career that began with a puppy-dog cute 17-year-old crossing the Outback to test the waters of Sydney TV. An early job popped up in the Olympic tryouts series Sweat. Interestingly, Ledger opted to play a gay cyclist, figuring that the role might catch the eye of American casting agents.
Ledger courted critical dismissal with performances that seemed to skate across the surface of his talent, hiding his depth of commitment to his art. The producer of the Revolutionary War epic The Patriot cited his graceful depiction of a young soldier's harrowing transition from adolescence to adulthood: "There's a natural nobility about him, standing toe-to-toe with Mel Gibson."
After Ledger's brief but memorable turn as the suicidal son from a family of racist Southern prison guards in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball, co-star Billy Bob Thornton noted, "Heath and I seem to have exactly the same sadness." In a brilliant touch, father and son are shown, in different scenes, !@#$ the same female prostitute, from the same camera angle, and in the same sleazy Louisiana motel. In just under a half-hour of screen time, Ledger's scarred loner passes through similarly perilous dramatic beats as his emblematic Brokeback character.
Repeated viewings of Ledger's beautifully tortured Ennis Del Mar reveal a man who has no language to express feelings he doesn't know he possesses until saddle buddy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) makes the first move in their pup tent one cold night. Two years ago, during a phone chat from the Brooklyn flat he was sharing with girlfriend and fellow Brokeback cast member Michelle Williams, Ledger walked me through Ennis' head as he confronts an unspeakable passion.
"The first time Ennis and Jack get together in the tent, I wanted Ennis to be on the verge of just beating Jack up, because violence was pretty much the only form of expression Ennis had allowed himself. So the first time that Jack and Ennis confront each other, I wanted it to be somewhat explosive, when instincts and passions come into play. I wanted for it to be quick, over and done. Then there were more intimate moments where I wanted to flip the coin a little, to show a sliver of kindness, a small moment of Ennis being more vulnerable for the first time in his life, and actually allow himself to be guided deeper into love. It was important to show that for the tragedy of the story, but also to help portray this beautiful love."
"It was one of the most beautiful screenplays I've ever read. I was certainly drawn to Ennis as opposed to Jack. His silent complexities, there's a huge battle within him, and there were so little words to express this, so I knew there would have to be a thorough investigation into his character. There was a brilliant short story from Annie Proulx, incredibly descriptive, essentially it was a biopic. It was clear how we had to play it. It was going to be the most masculine person I'd played, telling a story which hadn't been told before."
"I think innate conservatism is a part of his genetic structure, the beliefs and fears of his father that have been passed on through him. I see this battle within him; the other half of his battle is that he hasn't recognized it as a battle. I had to capture it in his walk, or his inability to express love; I wanted his words to fight their way out; but while I'm playing Ennis in front of the camera, I had to pretend that I didn't know that this is occurring.
"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
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Beautifuly said.
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I've looked through 2 bookstores near me and they don't have the Advocate in either one. Can anyone tell me where else I could possibly find it??
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I've looked through 2 bookstores near me and they don't have the Advocate in either one. Can anyone tell me where else I could possibly find it??
If you have a Borders or a Barnes & Noble near you, you should be able to find it under periodicals, or else, in a separate Gay and Lesbian section.
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If you have a Borders or a Barnes & Noble near you, you should be able to find it under periodicals, or else, in a separate Gay and Lesbian section.
Haha, Borders and Barnes & Noble are the stores I went to, but I went to the magazine section instead of the "Gay and Lesbian" section...I'll check next time I go, thank you tpe!!
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I'm not sure the March issue is yet available in stores
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"The first time Ennis and Jack get together in the tent, I wanted Ennis to be on the verge of just beating Jack up, because violence was pretty much the only form of expression Ennis had allowed himself. So the first time that Jack and Ennis confront each other, I wanted it to be somewhat explosive, when instincts and passions come into play. I wanted for it to be quick, over and done. Then there were more intimate moments where I wanted to flip the coin a little, to show a sliver of kindness, a small moment of Ennis being more vulnerable for the first time in his life, and actually allow himself to be guided deeper into love. It was important to show that for the tragedy of the story, but also to help portray this beautiful love."
"It was one of the most beautiful screenplays I've ever read. I was certainly drawn to Ennis as opposed to Jack. His silent complexities, there's a huge battle within him, and there were so little words to express this, so I knew there would have to be a thorough investigation into his character. There was a brilliant short story from Annie Proulx, incredibly descriptive, essentially it was a biopic. It was clear how we had to play it. It was going to be the most masculine person I'd played, telling a story which hadn't been told before."
"I think innate conservatism is a part of his genetic structure, the beliefs and fears of his father that have been passed on through him. I see this battle within him; the other half of his battle is that he hasn't recognized it as a battle. I had to capture it in his walk, or his inability to express love; I wanted his words to fight their way out; but while I'm playing Ennis in front of the camera, I had to pretend that I didn't know that this is occurring.
"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
I love his words!! BEAUTIFUL. I understand Ennis better when he talks about him, and also I like so much to learn things about Ennis when it's Heath who is saying them.
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"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
Beautiful.
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"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
Asali,beautiful and so clever on the part of Heath¡It´s admirable he thought in that way¡ The pity is that not everybody can understand this still... :-\\
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"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
Beautiful post Thomas. If we all only understood that being gay or being str8, or being bi was only a part of who we all really are. I stopped being a gay man a long time ago.I am a man who is gay, and that is only a small part of who I am. I hope that makes sense.
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Beautiful post Thomas. If we all only understood that being gay or being str8, or being bi was only a part of who we all really are. I stopped being a gay man a long time ago.I am a man who is gay, and that is only a small part of who I am. I hope that makes sense.
It makes a perfect sense,BBBOY,and it should make sense also for all these who are a little sensitive and comprehensive with other persons reality.Sometimes we see some persons who,being very open-minded in social and political topics,are really narrow-minded in,let's say,moral(?) ones-situation that I can't understand but it exists-.All of us have many sides,and our sexual option MUST be only one more among all the complex reality we all are. :ghug:
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http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=465
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Behind the mask of masculinity Film
Two-day tribute to Heath Ledger at the Castro Theatre
Published 02/21/2008
by David Lamble
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Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain .
"Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
That is so beautifly put into words, Heath just said it!
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I see on the Advocate website [Advocate.com] there is a place to call if you want to order back issues 1.800.827.0561. Of course this is not a "back issue" yet, but they may be able to help those looking to get a copy of issue #1003.
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Christopher Nolan's tribute to Heath Ledger
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/01/28/christopher-nolans-tribute-to-heath-ledger/
"Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren't many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them."
Christopher Nolan calls it Heath Charisma as natural as gravity.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105580 ****Charisma as Natural as Gravity***
This tribute is pure joy to my eyes, describing Heath with so much love!!! <^(
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Thanks friends. What struck me about that article was that it was largely Heath in his own words, and about BBM. After 2 years, the words speak to us still.
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Beautiful post Thomas. If we all only understood that being gay or being str8, or being bi was only a part of who we all really are. I stopped being a gay man a long time ago.I am a man who is gay, and that is only a small part of who I am. I hope that makes sense.
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Thanks BBBoy. Athough it is well known that my thoughts about this don't exactly match Heath's (and Jake's, for that matter), I agree with the major premise that people are people. For the arguments I have posited against this, members can read the appropriate thread entitled "Was Ennis Gay?" in "Characters, Quotes, and Scenes" part of the forum. It is inappropriate to raise this argument here.
Yes, what you say does make sense. But I should add that although it defines a part of us, that part is truly significant. In some ways, it defines us. But do people understand the full significance of your statement: "I stopped being a gay man a long time ago. I am a man who is gay..."? I do. :)
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Thanks BBBoy. Athough it is well known that my thoughts about this don't exactly match Heath's (and Jake's, for that matter), I agree with the major premise that people are people. For the arguments I have posited against this, members can read the appropriate thread entitled "Was Ennis Gay?" in "Characters, Quotes, and Scenes" part of the forum. It is inappropriate to raise this argument here.
Yes, what you say does make sense. But I should add that although it defines a part of us, that part is truly significant. In some ways, it defines us. But do people understand the full significance of your statement: "I stopped being a gay man a long time ago. I am a man who is gay..."? I do. :)
Hey, tpe, I think many understand BBBoy's statement, and I think most young people today growing up without the constant reminder of being gay means being different would understand the second half. If you want to start a new topic discussing the significance of growing up under a cloud of prejudice, of oppression, of repression, of facing a label that overwhelms one's own sense of self-identity, I'd be happy to participate.
I think the lesson that I learned from my own experiences, and drilled into my soul in emotional language that is unambiguous and clear by Heath, is that it does not matter who you love, not their gender, not anything. What really matters is HOW you love them, and how they love you.
Without love, no relationship is significant; with love, no label is significant.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/105580 ****Charisma as Natural as Gravity***
This tribute is pure joy to my eyes, describing Heath with so much love!!! <^(
Yes, it is true!
The small things A HEATH LEDGER does were noticeable under a curious eye.
But A HEATH LEDGER passes with flying colors in his good gestures and deeds.
With so much love and much respect in his craft and the people around him.....
A beautiful person that I miss.
Heath Ledger. His Charisma as Natural as Gravity. Christopher Nolan is exactly right!
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Hey, tpe, I think many understand BBBoy's statement, and I think most young people today growing up without the constant reminder of being gay means being different would understand the second half. If you want to start a new topic discussing the significance of growing up under a cloud of prejudice, of oppression, of repression, of facing a label that overwhelms one's own sense of self-identity, I'd be happy to participate.
I think the lesson that I learned from my own experiences, and drilled into my soul in emotional language that is unambiguous and clear by Heath, is that it does not matter who you love, not their gender, not anything. What really matters is HOW you love them, and how they love you.
Without love, no relationship is significant; with love, no label is significant.
OT: Thanks for the comment lance. Although BBBoy's comment looks paradoxical, it DOES make perfect sense, no? I hope people understand it as not just a play of words.
In the interest of keeping this thread on course, we can continue the discussion via PMs or in the said thread in Characters Quotes, and Scenes. It is a rich topic of discussion, and by no means is it black and white.
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Heath said: "Half the problem with today's society is that we like to label situations and people, and the term gay is just there to segregate a type of people. It has been overused and abused, and our point is that gay people, straight people: there are people at both ends of that title. Ennis and Jack are just two human beings who fall in love, so whether they're gay or not, I really couldn't care. The story is about two souls who connect."
Beautiful post Thomas. If we all only understood that being gay or being str8, or being bi was only a part of who we all really are. I stopped being a gay man a long time ago.I am a man who is gay, and that is only a small part of who I am. I hope that makes sense.
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Thanks BBBoy. Athough it is well known that my thoughts about this don't exactly match Heath's (and Jake's, for that matter), I agree with the major premise that people are people. For the arguments I have posited against this, members can read the appropriate thread entitled "Was Ennis Gay?" in "Characters, Quotes, and Scenes" part of the forum. It is inappropriate to raise this argument here.
Yes, what you say does make sense. But I should add that although it defines a part of us, that part is truly significant. In some ways, it defines us. But do people understand the full significance of your statement: "I stopped being a gay man a long time ago. I am a man who is gay..."? I do. :)
Hey, tpe, I think many understand BBBoy's statement, and I think most young people today growing up without the constant reminder of being gay means being different would understand the second half. If you want to start a new topic discussing the significance of growing up under a cloud of prejudice, of oppression, of repression, of facing a label that overwhelms one's own sense of self-identity, I'd be happy to participate.
I think the lesson that I learned from my own experiences, and drilled into my soul in emotional language that is unambiguous and clear by Heath, is that it does not matter who you love, not their gender, not anything. What really matters is HOW you love them, and how they love you.
Without love, no relationship is significant; with love, no label is significant.
OT: Thanks for the comment lance. Although BBBoy's comment looks paradoxical, it DOES make perfect sense, no? I hope people understand it as not just a play of words.
In the interest of keeping this thread on course, we can continue the discussion via PMs or in the said thread in Characters Quotes, and Scenes. It is a rich topic of discussion, and by no means is it black and white.
Hi, tpe, I think this is a rich topic for discussion as you said. It is the whole basis of Brokeback Mountain and why we love Heath's portrayal of Ennis Del Mar. It is because he gets us. Heath understood what it meant to love, with a label around your neck like a stone. He understood what it meant to be liberated, like finding the two shirts, and take flight into the sky, when no labels mattered. He also understood what it meant to have loved and lost, like standing in front of his closet, with tears.
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One part of these weeks, mostly small, has been looking through the torrent of information, sometimes in a gloomy mood. It has helped
a little. Anyway, I found something trivial, but will pass it along, for those, like me, who do look for those little facts and events prior to 1/22.
When Ayashae started a thread--"Synchronicity", I mostly avoided it; hadn't known what it referred to, and then decided it was a little
too deep for me. But Heath knew what it was, which shows he had a broad base of knowing the strangeness in events in life.
I came across a more complete interview with the director, Shakhar Kapur, who had called him, the night before. Heath complained of jet lag,
(which can, in itself, be a very serious physical ailment), and Kapur said he was scheduling Heath for a massage for 3 P.M., the next day, which
would be a good way to induce sleep, by deep muscle relaxation. Heath said he already had an appointment for the exact same time and they
cracked jokes about....synchronicity.
Considering all the things that went wrong---damn. And yet that may well have been the last hearty laugh Heath had---the strange coincidences
in life----Ayashae's subject---synchronicity. Not much to most people, but it did show me that Heath was very well-read.
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One part of these weeks, mostly small, has been looking through the torrent of information, sometimes in a gloomy mood. It has helped
a little. Anyway, I found something trivial, but will pass it along, for those, like me, who do look for those little facts and events prior to 1/22.
When Ayashae started a thread--"Synchronicity", I mostly avoided it; hadn't known what it referred to, and then decided it was a little
too deep for me. But Heath knew what it was, which shows he had a broad base of knowing the strangeness in events in life.
I came across a more complete interview with the director, Shakhar Kapur, who had called him, the night before. Heath complained of jet lag,
(which can, in itself, be a very serious physical ailment), and Kapur said he was scheduling Heath for a massage for 3 P.M., the next day, which
would be a good way to induce sleep, by deep muscle relaxation. Heath said he already had an appointment for the exact same time and they
cracked jokes about....synchronicity.
Considering all the things that went wrong---damn. And yet that may well have been the last hearty laugh Heath had---the strange coincidences
in life----Ayashae's subject---synchronicity. Not much to most people, but it did show me that Heath was very well-read.
Ayashae's subject---synchronicity. Not much to most people, but it did show me that Heath was very well-read.
You said it right. he is one of the very few.
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Ok I'm a bit new to this so forgive me if it has been posted elsewhere(I still have so many posts to read :D). I thought it was pretty amazing :)
This is a great editorial about Heath from TheAdvocate.com:
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story.asp?id=52310&page=1
So long, partner
In his short life, Heath Ledger barely had time to tap his potential. But for us, he had already achieved the performance of a lifetime—and losing him so soon after Brokeback Mountain is like suffering a death in the family.
By Kyle Buchanan
From The Advocate March 11, 2008
So long, partner
On January 22, just minutes after we were introduced at the Sundance Film Festival, lesbian filmmaker Lesli Klainberg dashed over to me, white as a sheet. “Heath Ledger is dead,” she said.
Speaking to me later, Klainberg looks back at that moment with some confusion. “I don’t know what came over me,” she says. “You and I had just met, but as soon as I heard about Heath, my first thought was that I had to find you. Isn’t that weird?”
To me, it made perfect sense. The death of Heath Ledger meant many things to many people, but thanks to Ledger’s Oscar-nominated role as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, the loss resonated with gays and lesbians in a way that other fans may not fully understand. Not just at Sundance but across the country, we sought each other out for comfort when the news hit.
And now -- as the global audience moves past its initial shock and begins to speculate on how Ledger’s death will affect the opening weekend box office for his final completed film, The Dark Knight -- gay moviegoers are still saying goodbye. Many of us are settling in with a deeper sadness that will far outlast this movie season.
“It was clear that there was something very specific to the queer community about his fame,” says film theorist B. Ruby Rich, who witnessed a similar outpouring of grief around the actor’s death. “It’s almost as though he’d been taken up as one of ours, so his death felt very, very personal. People felt implicated in what happened to him.”
Though Ledger was straight (formerly partnered with his Brokeback costar Michelle Williams, with whom he had a daughter, Matilda), many gays took pride in him as a sort of “local boy made good,” an actor whose ascendancy served as living proof that a star could play gay and flourish. While he was not actually a gay star, the thinking went, he was the next best thing: a star whose gay role launched him on to the A-list.
“There is a sense of ownership, and people feel personally stricken,” says Rich. “His role as Ennis blazed a path into people’s hearts and souls, and his death now feels like a continuation of the movie.”
Indeed, for a population who grew up on a filmic diet of doomed gays and lesbians, Ledger’s real-life death adds an extra layer of tragedy to his character in Brokeback Mountain. The life Ennis had carved out was not a happy one, but he was, at least, a survivor. With a minimum of makeup, Ledger had taken the character into his 30s and 40s, ages the actor will now never see. The compromised triumph of Ennis Del Mar—the idea of a happy life gone unlived—grows more bittersweet when coupled with thoughts of what Ledger himself might have gone on to accomplish.
That idea of what could have been isn’t merely informed by Brokeback -- it’s irrevocably intertwined with it. Prior to filming Ang Lee’s gay romance, Ledger was best known for featherweight entertainments like The Patriot, A Knight’s Tale, and the teen romp 10 Things I Hate About You. Groomed for stardom from a young age, Ledger bristled at the roles that were being offered to him (he memorably turned down Columbia Pictures head Amy Pascal when she offered him the plum role of Spider-Man, fearing he’d be typecast).
Like us, he felt himself different, and he honored that feeling.
“In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career,” he told Time magazine in 2005. “It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.”
Instead of taking that easy path to stardom, Ledger took supporting roles in Lords of Dogtown and Monster’s Ball that allowed him to flex his muscles in a way so rarely required of matinee idols. And then, in Brokeback Mountain, he married his two best attributes -- the charisma of a movie star and the psychological plumbing of a character actor -- to create an indelible portrait of a man tormented by inner longing.
“That performance…I don’t know how to put words on it, really,” says Adam Sutton, a friend of Ledger’s who had visited the actor during the making of Brokeback. Like Ennis Del Mar, Sutton was a closeted cowboy when he and Ledger first met. He credits Brokeback with giving him the courage to come out in The Sydney Morning Herald and, more recently, in his memoir, Say It Out Loud.
Though Sutton claims he gave Ledger no advice on how to play Ennis, he remembers being shocked by the performance during his first screening of the film. “It was pretty surreal, because I looked at my life as a reflection of it,” he says. “I saw everything about me in the film. Heath gave me the inspiration to tell my story, just from a role he played on set.”
The two had met initially on the set of Ledger’s 2003 Aussie western Ned Kelly, where Sutton was hired to teach the actor horse-riding skills. It’s there that Sutton realized just how independent the actor could be, when Ledger—who had a taste for surfing and skateboarding—refused to wear a helmet and brushed off Sutton’s attempts to make him don one.
“He said, ‘But you’re not wearing a helmet!’ ” Sutton laughs. “And so I said, ‘Yeah, true, but you guys have to.’ It was a little bit of a standoff—he went off to himself for an hour. Eventually, he did wear a helmet, but I had to eat my humble pie and wear one too!”
Though they eventually became good friends, Sutton says there was always something elusive about the actor. “He was pretty withdrawn, and he never let anyone right into him. I think he did early on, but the more public he became, the more he went into himself. He never let anybody know who ‘Heath Ledger’ was.”
It’s precisely that enigmatic quality, which protected Ledger in life, that now makes the actor’s story so irresistible in death. Initially, he was a blank slate for speculation, catnip to the 24-hour news cycle that could spin him to fit into any narrative they pleased. One of the most compelling stories, one likely to grow with time, compares Ledger to James Dean. Beyond its most obvious connection, it’s an instructive primer of the homoerotic ingredients that go into creating a masculine icon.
Rebel Without a Cause gave Dean his most famous role, and though the character was straight, he was the object of homosexual desire (and informed by the actor’s own sexual ambiguity). In spite of that—or, I’d posit, because of it—Dean’s Jim Stark became a classic masculine archetype. Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar, though, wasn’t merely the object of gay interest—he was gay himself. The character was iconic from the time Brokeback was released, but Ledger’s early death—and the photos of Heath as Ennis that accompanied nearly every obituary—has hastened his entry into the pantheon of on-screen masculinity.
If that enshrinement raises interesting questions about the role of gay men in creating masculine icons, it’s also caused an early reevaluation of the phenomenon that was Brokeback Mountain. “In a way, [Brokeback fever] had just barely died down and was being put to rest, and now I think that Heath Ledger’s death has made it spring up again,” notes Rich. “That film became a classic, became a cult film, became a personalized object very quickly.”
For a gay audience unused to seeing ourselves on such a big canvas, that level of identification is also why the death of Heath Ledger matters so much to us. We felt so deeply for Ledger because we felt so deeply for Ennis. To watch Heath’s career soar, to watch him fulfill his potential, was to provide, at least by proxy, the happy ending that Ennis never got. Ennis expected nothing, but we expected everything for Heath, and the idea that we’ll never get to see it puts one in mind of Jack Twist, turning away from Ennis Del Mar as his own dreams are dashed. “There’s never enough time,” he mutters. “Never enough.”
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It was a good place to post it Marie but if you don't mind I moved it here to the Heath Ledger - News Articles and Tributes. :)
Thanks for posting it by the way ^f^
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OOoooh yeah that was absolutely right to do that, I should have thought about it, I just put it in the general news, ahaha *doh dumb moment*...
I realise now that people have talked about it here already, geez I have so much to catch up with :)
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Don't worry hon' just the gesture of posting the article was very kind of you, I know members here will appreciate it... a lot! :)
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Aw thanks, I love this place already, people are so nice(I know it does sound cheesy, but after 10 years on the internet, I can say it's not often we are treated that nicely :)) Can I give you a random virtual hug? :)
oh and other news, I just read that :
"In what was arguably the most touching moment of the day, actress Cate Blanchett took time out to honor her friend and fellow Aussie Heath Ledger at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon.
Accepting her award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "I’m Not There", which also starred Heath, a very pregnant Cate ended her thank-you speech by honouring Heath, calling him “one the most beautiful, independent spirits of all” before dedicating the award to him.
Always a woman of class. Today was no exception."
Source : fadedyoutblog.com through the fashion spot :)
Cate is absolutely fantastic, just one of the best actresses out there!!
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Don't worry hon' just the gesture of posting the article was very kind of you, I know members here will appreciate it... a lot! :)
Yes, MarieMJS, merci beaucoup! I am grateful that you posted it. And welcome! #$#
Please don't worry, this is a very friendly place.
I look forward to reading more posts from you.
:ghug: :c) ^f^
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I recently posted the following quote in the "Until the shirts" thread, but realized maybe it should be here because it seems so pertinant, mods can fix if they deem necessary.
Diana Ossana was quoted in the recent Heath Ledger tribute issue of the Advocate:
"One of my most endearing memories of working with Heath on the set was the day we filmed the final scene in Brokeback. Before the first take, Heath walked over to me, a big smile on his face, and said, "I think you're going to like what I've done with this scene" . . . I watched the monitors roll . . . and realized that Heath had chosen to reverse the order of those shirts . . . Such was Heath's commitment to the truth of our story and to the rawness and depth of his portrayal."
It will never get any better than this, this dedication and understanding to ones craft. How fortunate we are to have seen (and felt) this level of commitment. I think we can all see Heath walking over to Diana with that big smile, his energy radiating from that small trailer onto screens around the world.
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Thank you Jackster. I can indeed visualize Heath, in his charismatically casual way of strolling up to Diana Ossana and give of himself, of his deep understanding of a character from his heart, without any bravado as other spoiled stars would do. He was simply relating to a friend, something that connected them together in a labor of love. It is what Heath does best, touching souls. I miss that, everyday, every time I read about something he had done, he wanted to do.
Thank you for the memory of that moment. I will always treasure that.
I recently posted the following quote in the "Until the shirts" thread, but realized maybe it should be here because it seems so pertinent, mods can fix if they deem necessary.
Diana Ossana was quoted in the recent Heath Ledger tribute issue of the Advocate:
"One of my most endearing memories of working with Heath on the set was the day we filmed the final scene in Brokeback. Before the first take, Heath walked over to me, a big smile on his face, and said, "I think you're going to like what I've done with this scene" . . . I watched the monitors roll . . . and realized that Heath had chosen to reverse the order of those shirts . . . Such was Heath's commitment to the truth of our story and to the rawness and depth of his portrayal."
It will never get any better than this, this dedication and understanding to ones craft. How fortunate we are to have seen (and felt) this level of commitment. I think we can all see Heath walking over to Diana with that big smile, his energy radiating from that small trailer onto screens around the world.
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Beautifully put, both of you. O0
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http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=465
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Behind the mask of masculinity Film
Two-day tribute to Heath Ledger at the Castro Theatre
Published 02/21/2008
by David Lamble
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Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain .
Thank you for this, Thomas. I was just going to post it just now. I love what Heath said about Ennis, of course, and I appreciate how the writer "got" Heath...
(Too bad we can't go to San Francisco tomorrow to see BBM at the Castro, huh?)
kathy
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Thank you for posting these, white angel. The local newspaper obituaries are such a nice old-and-current tradition, and I appreciate seeing these...
kathy
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ynnaf posted this in the other News, Articles thread -- has it been posted here?
It's really good. I felt better after reading it -- after all these weeks of bits and pieces, this writer has tried to put together the bigger picture of Heath. Of course, a lot of well-written articles by people who care are by now surfacing.
kathy
NewYork Magazine
http://nymag.com/news/features/44217/ (http://nymag.com/news/features/44217/)
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I am not sure if someone has posted this article dated February 7,2008. but anyway here it is.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072008/realestate/life_after_ledger_118140.htm
LIFE AFTER LEDGER Life after Ledger LIFE AFTER LEDGER Life after Ledger LIFE AFTER LEDGER
February 7, 2008 -- It didn't take long for Heath Ledger's rental apartment in SoHo to go back on the market.
We hear that the fourth-floor loft at 421 Broome St., where the actor met his demise as a result of mixing an assortment of drugs on Jan. 22, is already quietly being shopped around.
"You don't wait around in a hot rental market like this," says one broker. "As ghoulish as it sounds, people will
rent that place in a heartbeat, especially when the vacancy rate is below 1 percent."
The spacious 4,400-square-foot apartment, which Ledger began renting last September for approximately $22,000 a month, includes three bedrooms, 2½baths, an office, laundry room, gourmet kitchen and a small balcony.
Also featured are 15-foot tin ceilings, cast-iron columns, exposed-brick walls and a wood-burning fireplace.
Sources say it's now being offered for around $25,000 a month.
But for all that money you're still going to have to open the lobby door and haul your own packages. Instead of a doorman, the five-unit building uses an audio/visual intercom system with key-locked elevator.
Calls to the previous listing broker, the Corcoran Group's Darren Kearns, were not returned. The owner of the building, Donald A. Burns - who recently sold "Old Trees," his Southampton estate that had a $48 million price tag - could not be reached for comment.
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Heath Ledger remembered at the Spirit Awards
Friends and colleagues of Heath Ledger paid an emotional tribute to the tragic star after winning an award for one of his last films.
The director and cast of Bob Dylan homage ‘I’m Not There’ dedicated the honor to Heath at the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards.
They went up on stage together to pick up the Robert Altman Award, given to a director, casting director and ensemble cast. And they told how desperately they miss talented Heath, who died last month from an accidental drug overdose.
Stars including Cate Blanchett looked on as director Todd Haynes saluted Heath, who played seducer Robbie Clark in the movie.
Haynes said: “Honouring this amazing ensemble today is so bittersweet given how shattered we are by Heath’s inconceivable absence.
“We all loved him so dearly.
“He really was unlike anybody I have ever known, giving of himself less like an actor than a creative partner on the film as a whole.
“Far beyond his startling depth and sensitivity on screen, Heath was already an astounding film-maker in his own right and the creator of some of the most exquisite and diverse music videos I have ever seen.
“I know our film, the way it was made, was very close to his own artistic sensibilities and ambitions.
“In fact he had just started circulating a future script that he was planning to direct, an adaptation of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ by Walter Tevis.
“I have no doubt he would have made an astounding director.
“When I’m not looking bitterly or perhaps selfishly at the future of cinema without him, I treasure the time we shared on this film and the love and talent he gave so freely.
“I know I speak for everyone honoured today in accepting this award in memory of the dazzling and creative spirit of Heath Ledger.”
Blanchett also dedicated her Best Supporting Female award for the film to Heath. She described him as “probably one of the most beautiful spirits of all”, and added: “This is for him.”
By Iain Burchell, Feb 24 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
http://www.showbizspy.com/2008/02/24/heath-ledger-remembered-at-the-spirit-awards/
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:t) for sharing that, yb. A very touching tribute.
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I am so deeply touched by the beautiful tributes made by people who knew Heath and loved him. This tribute from Todd Haynes and Cate Blanchett have brought me to tears - again. And the editorial from The Advocate is outstanding... thank you everybody for posting them here.
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I know the feeling keren_b :ghug:
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One of Heaths last photographs...filming " The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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Heath Ledger remembered at the Spirit Awards
Friends and colleagues of Heath Ledger paid an emotional tribute to the tragic star after winning an award for one of his last films.
The director and cast of Bob Dylan homage ‘I’m Not There’ dedicated the honor to Heath at the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards.
They went up on stage together to pick up the Robert Altman Award, given to a director, casting director and ensemble cast. And they told how desperately they miss talented Heath, who died last month from an accidental drug overdose.
Stars including Cate Blanchett looked on as director Todd Haynes saluted Heath, who played seducer Robbie Clark in the movie.
Haynes said: “Honouring this amazing ensemble today is so bittersweet given how shattered we are by Heath’s inconceivable absence.
“We all loved him so dearly.
“He really was unlike anybody I have ever known, giving of himself less like an actor than a creative partner on the film as a whole.
“Far beyond his startling depth and sensitivity on screen, Heath was already an astounding film-maker in his own right and the creator of some of the most exquisite and diverse music videos I have ever seen.
“I know our film, the way it was made, was very close to his own artistic sensibilities and ambitions.
“In fact he had just started circulating a future script that he was planning to direct, an adaptation of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ by Walter Tevis.
“I have no doubt he would have made an astounding director.
“When I’m not looking bitterly or perhaps selfishly at the future of cinema without him, I treasure the time we shared on this film and the love and talent he gave so freely.
“I know I speak for everyone honoured today in accepting this award in memory of the dazzling and creative spirit of Heath Ledger.”
Blanchett also dedicated her Best Supporting Female award for the film to Heath. She described him as “probably one of the most beautiful spirits of all”, and added: “This is for him.”
By Iain Burchell, Feb 24 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
http://www.showbizspy.com/2008/02/24/heath-ledger-remembered-at-the-spirit-awards/
That's really very beautiful, and I'm filling up again. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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That's really very beautiful, and I'm filling up again. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Oh, Christie, that's absolutely beautiful. But it's also getting more and more painful to read all these - how Heath is loved by all those who had worked with him, and the music videos that he had shown them; to think about what would have been if ....
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Oh, Christie, that's absolutely beautiful. But it's also getting more and more painful to read all these - how Heath is loved by all those who had worked with him, and the music videos that he had shown them; to think about what would have been if ....
I know exactly what you mean. I really do. It just fills me with so much sadness, to know he was so loved, which I know is a beautiful thing, but the fact is, he should still be here. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Check the Catro Theatre web site for more information...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/25/DDTGULUDN.DTL
Ledger honored
In tribute to the late Heath Ledger, the Castro Theatre will screen "Brokeback Mountain" tonight. The 2005 film features Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two young cowboys on a remote ranch who develop a physical relationship.
"Brokeback Mountain" was directed by Ang Lee, based on a story by Annie Proulx. The film received three Academy Awards, including best director, and Ledger won a nomination as best actor.
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Well, the Oscars included Heath in their In Memorium segment, but it all felt a bit rushed - I thought the BAFTA one was much better. Here's a clip of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YN-MmPTu8
Heath is right at the end.
Note: it looks like quite a few Oscar clips have been removed already, so the one above might not last long.
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I am reading Empire magazines live coverage of the Oscars.. minute by minute blog and this made me smile a sad smile.
04.08 GMT - It's the obituaries. In our current exhausted state, the entire Empire staff may cry. Silence please.
04.11 GMT - Yes, just got something in my eye during Heath Ledger.
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I received my copy of THE ADVOCATE today, with Heath's picture as Ennis Del Mar on the cover. A very moving article and series of quotes. I was surprised and very pleased to see included a full-page photo of "Ennis Del Mar" on Brokeback, seated on a log with the dogs at his feet, looking in the general direction of the camera over his left shoulder. It's a keeper. :-X
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Please,could anybody tell me how and where can I get a copy of "The advocate"?I don´t know if one can find it here in Spain. :t)
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Please,could anybody tell me how and where can I get a copy of "The advocate"?I don´t know if one can find it here in Spain. :t)
I will try to buy two when it comes in. If I don't hear from the bookstore tomorrow I will ring again to check they haven't forgotten me, but they promised to save a copy, hopefully they'll have a spare.
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I will try to buy two when it comes in. If I don't hear from the bookstore tomorrow I will ring again to check they haven't forgotten me, but they promised to save a copy, hopefully they'll have a spare.
Could I have one,please?Tell me what I must do for getting it,do you want? ^f^
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Please,could anybody tell me how and where can I get a copy of "The advocate"?I don´t know if one can find it here in Spain. :t)
Dear MPJ:
On the ADVOCATE website [Advocate.com] they list the following contact info. Note they have an "Outside USA" phone number. They take VISA/MC. I think if you can call them during their business hours in the USA they should be able to you get as many copies as you want. Hope this helps. :)
PS. It is Issue #1003 that you want.
BACK ISSUES
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Write:
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$3.99 US each, plus $4.50 US postage for the first copy, $1.50 for each additional copy
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Thank you,Jackster¡ I´ll try it as soon as I can... :^^)
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A very nice tribute to Heath along with a very nice 7 min. video montage of Heath photographs (on and off camera) set to the music of "He Was A Friend of Mine" followed by "The Maker Makes".
The Movie Barn advertises itself as blogspot featuring Gay Themed Non-Commercial Must-See Movies.
The tribute is long, but thorough and well written and the video is extremely well done.
http://moviebarn.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-heath-ledger.html
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A very nice tribute to Heath along with a very nice 7 min. video montage of Heath photographs (on and off camera) set to the music of "He Was A Friend of Mine" followed by "The Maker Makes"
The Movie Barn advertises itself as blogspot featuring Gay Themed Non-Commercial Must-See Movies.
The tribute is long, but thorough and well written and the video is extremely well done.
http://moviebarn.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-heath-ledger.html
That just beautiful!! thank you for sharing!!! :^^)
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A very nice tribute to Heath along with a very nice 7 min. video montage of Heath photographs (on and off camera) set to the music of "He Was A Friend of Mine" followed by "The Maker Makes".
The Movie Barn advertises itself as blogspot featuring Gay Themed Non-Commercial Must-See Movies.
The tribute is long, but thorough and well written and the video is extremely well done.
http://moviebarn.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-heath-ledger.html
Thanks,Jackster¡ But hearing "He was a friend of mine" still hurts too much... :\'(
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One part of these weeks, mostly small, has been looking through the torrent of information, sometimes in a gloomy mood. It has helped
a little. Anyway, I found something trivial, but will pass it along, for those, like me, who do look for those little facts and events prior to 1/22.
When Ayashae started a thread--"Synchronicity", I mostly avoided it; hadn't known what it referred to, and then decided it was a little
too deep for me. But Heath knew what it was, which shows he had a broad base of knowing the strangeness in events in life.
I came across a more complete interview with the director, Shakhar Kapur, who had called him, the night before. Heath complained of jet lag,
(which can, in itself, be a very serious physical ailment), and Kapur said he was scheduling Heath for a massage for 3 P.M., the next day, which
would be a good way to induce sleep, by deep muscle relaxation. Heath said he already had an appointment for the exact same time and they
cracked jokes about....synchronicity.
Considering all the things that went wrong---damn. And yet that may well have been the last hearty laugh Heath had---the strange coincidences
in life----Ayashae's subject---synchronicity. Not much to most people, but it did show me that Heath was very well-read.
Dear Tony,
excuse my delay in replying your post, but you know I thank you so much for pointing me to it ^f^: This anecdote makes me feel warm at heart, Heath knowing about this specific topic, shows that, at any rate, we were in the same wavelength...it's such a sweet wink for us, isn't it?
I'll try to find out more about it, maybe you're right when you said you wanted to know more about the true Heath...surely not the most private ones, but there are so many things we don't know about him that would make us feel somehow closer to him, and with that feeling of warmth inside, despite the sorrow and longing.
How strange this is...it all seems a bad dream and when I come to this threads it all becomes so real...gosh :\'(
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Hi, Ayashae---am glad you found out that Heath had an understanding of a rare subject most of us had never heard of before, except you
and Lance. And maybe that was a wink....who knows? After all, that's the nature of that subject, at times. At any rate, except for you,
I would never have understood what he was saying. Many thanks.
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Thanks,Jackster¡ But hearing "He was a friend of mine" still hurts too much... :\'(
Oh geez, I so agree with that... And whenever I hear a sad Rufus Wainwright song, it's the same(crazy!!)...
Wonderful tribute though...
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I don't know if someone has posted this tribute before-if so,excuse me...-.It's from the Australian Short Film Festival (Tropfest) Tribute and also with "He was a friend of mine".It has some previous publicity,but,well...
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&fg=rss&vid=2a738e92-72d7-4ac0-8cee-71471bea08fa&from=imbot_en-au_general&wa=wsignin1.0
And this article about the last person who spoke with him-I repite,if it's a repetition,forgive my awkwardness-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/23/bfkapur123.xml
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I don't know if someone has posted this tribute before-if so,excuse me...-.It's from the Australian Short Film Festival (Tropfest) Tribute and also with "He was a friend of mine".It has some previous publicity,but,well...
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&fg=rss&vid=2a738e92-72d7-4ac0-8cee-71471bea08fa&from=imbot_en-au_general&wa=wsignin1.0
And this article about the last person who spoke with him-I repite,if it's a repetition,forgive my awkwardness-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/23/bfkapur123.xml
Thank you so much for both of them, I don't think they were posted before.
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In presenting the Robert Altman Award, actress Patricia Clarkson added: "Anyone who has seen the film 'I'm Not There' will remember the line, 'Live in your own times, child.' As actors, we were lucky to live in Heath's times. We only wish they could have been longer."
Earlier during the prizegiving in Santa Monica, California, Cate Blanchett dedicated her Best Supporting Actress award to her 'I'm Not There' co-star and fellow Aussie, Ledger, who she called "probably one of the most beautiful independent spirits of all."
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=247445234&p=z4744594x
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Posthumous Oscar nomination for Heath Ledger's 'stunning' Joker?
From the LA Times website 9 March 08, with a link to a much longer story in the NY Times.
"Ledger gives a 'terrifying, amazing performance as the Joker, promises director Nolan. Ledger said it was 'the most fun I've ever had playing a character.' "
Read the story:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/03/no-joke-posthum.html
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Director Terry Gilliam has said he is "delighted" that Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, will be released.
Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will now appear as Ledger's character, but scenes he had previously filmed will be included in the movie. Gilliam said he was hoping "to touch people's hearts and souls as Heath was able to do" through the film. He added filming on the British-Canadian production had resumed in Vancouver "with the blessing and support of Heath Ledger's family".
It had been suggested that Ledger's role would be completed using CGI (computer generated imagery) special effects, which is what happened when Oliver Reed died during the making of Gladiator. In a statement the film's producers said other allowances had been made.
"Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology.
"Each of the parts played by Johnny, Colin and Jude is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/7287953.stm
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"Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology.
I'm so relieved to hear that. I want to see him as he was... and I do hope they will include all his scenes in their entirety. I trust Terry Gilliam to treat Heath's work with the respect it deserved.
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Here´s another nice tribute with the music of "The Wings"; lyrics and performance are by Shane August.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY)
"You give me the wings to fly
You are the clear blue sky
I'm floating so free, so high
Falling with grace, for you, am I
You give me the wings to fly"
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Here´s another nice tribute with the music of "The Wings"; lyrics and performance are by Shane August.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY)
"You give me the wings to fly
You are the clear blue sky
I'm floating so free, so high
Falling with grace, for you, am I
You give me the wings to fly"
Oh man, this one is amazing!!! The song is totally beautiful and heartbreaking. Made me cry a lot. God. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Thank you Ali; I'd never found this.
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Here´s another nice tribute with the music of "The Wings"; lyrics and performance are by Shane August.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuA7cYmKtY)
"You give me the wings to fly
You are the clear blue sky
I'm floating so free, so high
Falling with grace, for you, am I
You give me the wings to fly"
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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I don't know if someone has posted this tribute before-if so,excuse me...-.It's from the Australian Short Film Festival (Tropfest) Tribute and also with "He was a friend of mine".It has some previous publicity,but,well...
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&fg=rss&vid=2a738e92-72d7-4ac0-8cee-71471bea08fa&from=imbot_en-au_general&wa=wsignin1.0
And this article about the last person who spoke with him-I repite,if it's a repetition,forgive my awkwardness-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/23/bfkapur123.xml
I love this article. I had read other things by/about Kapur. Heath would have been great as that TV war reporter I think. And I love what Kapur said, that by this time, his face had matured, and he could have played that part...
kathy
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Director Terry Gilliam has said he is "delighted" that Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, will be released.
Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will now appear as Ledger's character, but scenes he had previously filmed will be included in the movie. Gilliam said he was hoping "to touch people's hearts and souls as Heath was able to do" through the film. He added filming on the British-Canadian production had resumed in Vancouver "with the blessing and support of Heath Ledger's family".
It had been suggested that Ledger's role would be completed using CGI (computer generated imagery) special effects, which is what happened when Oliver Reed died during the making of Gladiator. In a statement the film's producers said other allowances had been made.
"Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology.
"Each of the parts played by Johnny, Colin and Jude is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/7287953.stm
This is good. I was hoping this would be the solution they would agree to.
kathy
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
Thanks so much for this link, yb. :\'( :ghug:
I think the candid and emotional response from Ang Lee surprised both the interviewer and Ang Lee himself.
The questions he asked were so poignant. I didn't catch his name, but whoever it was, good job!
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Yes, beutiful interview.
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
Oh, that's really... beautiful and sad and... :\'( Ang Lee is such a sweet, gentle man. To hear him say that he misses Heath a lot, it really touches me.
But what was it exactly he said about Heath and the shirts? I'm not sure I understood.
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
that was a really beautiful interview, and Ang's touching words were really heartfelt. :\'(
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Oh, that's really... beautiful and sad and... :\'( Ang Lee is such a sweet, gentle man. To hear him say that he misses Heath a lot, it really touches me.
But what was it exactly he said about Heath and the shirts? I'm not sure I understood.
That was a really nice, open and honest interview. You don't see those very often.
He was saying that it was very intense, and Heath was very intense, getting ready to do the scene with the shirts. And one of the times they did a take, he opened the door and they weren't there.
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I thought Ang was incredibly genuine in his grief for Heath, he was such a lovely man, and you felt his pain, especially when he was saying he wished he'd spent more time with him socially. :\'( :\'(
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That got to me too Christie, especially with the themes of regret for missed opportunities that run through BBM. I liked what he said about what they did together being up there though, and giving him the best parts of himself.
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
I'll have to watch this when I get home. Thanks for posting it.
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What a lovely interview with Ang. Thanks for posting, yb.
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That got to me too Christie, especially with the themes of regret for missed opportunities that run through BBM. I liked what he said about what they did together being up there though, and giving him the best parts of himself.
Oh I know, and it was wonderful to hear how much Ang enjoyed working with Heath.
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I thought Ang was incredibly genuine in his grief for Heath, he was such a lovely man, and you felt his pain, especially when he was saying he wished he'd spent more time with him socially. :\'( :\'(
Me too- you could see it on his face. I felt bad when he said he'd probably have a hard time watching batman and seeing the trailer gets to him and also when he said that they made something together and it's there and that's his consolation. :\'(
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Me too- you could see it on his face. I felt bad when he said he'd probably have a hard time watching batman and seeing the trailer gets to him and also when he said that they made something together and it's there and that's his consolation. :\'(
Oh god I know! He was touching his heart when he was saying watching the batman trailer gets to him....like it really hurt his heart to see Heath on screen, when he's no longer here. You could tell Ang was genuinely affected and so sad.
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Williams and Friends pay magazine tribute to Ledger
HEATH LEDGER's closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners MICHELLE WILLIAMS and NAOMI WATTS, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January (08). The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger's movie I'm Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, to talk to Interview magazine about their relationship with the star. Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, describes Ledger's energy and talent, saying, "He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. "He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was." Watts, who dated Ledger for two years, adds, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." Seymour Hoffman, who met Ledger when they were both nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006, describes the actor's "childlike enthusiasm," adding, "His body was always in motion." And his agent Alexander paints the picture of a Ledger as a "rolling stone".
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STIPE PAYS LIVE HOMAGE TO LEDGER
REM frontman MICHAEL STIPE paid an emotional tribute to tragic HEATH LEDGER - before launching into one of the actor's favourite songs. The band dedicated their track Until The Day Is Done to Ledger in front of a packed crowd at Stubb's Barbeque during their stint at Austin, Texas' South By Southwest festival on Wednesday (12Mar08). A visibly upset Stipe announced, "This is dedicated to Heath Ledger who loved this song," before shouting at the end, "Goodbye Heath, we loved you!"
This is such a wonderful thing to do. If you want to listen to the song that was one of Heath's favourites, click on the link. This isn't the actual concert mentioned above, but one from last year in Dublin. Having listened to it, I can understand why Heath loved it. It's really beautiful, with Micheal Stipe's haunting voice together with Peter Buck's gorgeous guitar playing - it gave me shivers. I would have loved this even if Heath hadn't, but the fact that he did, makes me love it even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuhD68mr84
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Thank you Christie for the updates !!
"I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine.
What a wonderful thing to say,then of course the would since they knew him so well...
The tribute from MICHAEL STIPE and song by REM is indeed beautiful! O0
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The tribute by Michael Stipe was indeed beautiful, I hope there will be footage of it so that we can share that moment.
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The tribute by Michael Stipe was indeed beautiful, I hope there will be footage of it so that we can share that moment.
I really hope so too. :)
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
That was so lovely. Ang really showed how he feels about Heath, and it was a beautiful, heartfelt tribute.
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Williams and Friends pay magazine tribute to Ledger
HEATH LEDGER's closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners MICHELLE WILLIAMS and NAOMI WATTS, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January (08). The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger's movie I'm Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, to talk to Interview magazine about their relationship with the star. Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, describes Ledger's energy and talent, saying, "He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. "He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was." Watts, who dated Ledger for two years, adds, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." Seymour Hoffman, who met Ledger when they were both nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006, describes the actor's "childlike enthusiasm," adding, "His body was always in motion." And his agent Alexander paints the picture of a Ledger as a "rolling stone".
Thank you for posting this tribute Christie, you can see how these women loved this wonderful man.
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STIPE PAYS LIVE HOMAGE TO LEDGER
REM frontman MICHAEL STIPE paid an emotional tribute to tragic HEATH LEDGER - before launching into one of the actor's favourite songs. The band dedicated their track Until The Day Is Done to Ledger in front of a packed crowd at Stubb's Barbeque during their stint at Austin, Texas' South By Southwest festival on Wednesday (12Mar08). A visibly upset Stipe announced, "This is dedicated to Heath Ledger who loved this song," before shouting at the end, "Goodbye Heath, we loved you!"
This is such a wonderful thing to do. If you want to listen to the song that was one of Heath's favourites, click on the link. This isn't the actual concert mentioned above, but one from last year in Dublin. Having listened to it, I can understand why Heath loved it. It's really beautiful, with Micheal Stipe's haunting voice together with Peter Buck's gorgeous guitar playing - it gave me shivers. I would have loved this even if Heath hadn't, but the fact that he did, makes me love it even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuhD68mr84
What a lovely thing to do. I do hope we get to see it.
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Williams and Friends pay magazine tribute to Ledger
HEATH LEDGER's closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners MICHELLE WILLIAMS and NAOMI WATTS, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January (08). The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger's movie I'm Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, to talk to Interview magazine about their relationship with the star. Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, describes Ledger's energy and talent, saying, "He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. "He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was." Watts, who dated Ledger for two years, adds, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." Seymour Hoffman, who met Ledger when they were both nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006, describes the actor's "childlike enthusiasm," adding, "His body was always in motion." And his agent Alexander paints the picture of a Ledger as a "rolling stone".
Oh my god, it breaks my heart to read all this... This is Heath just like I thought he was, just like I imagined him to be. I need to get this magazine, or at least find the whole interview online.
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STIPE PAYS LIVE HOMAGE TO LEDGER
REM frontman MICHAEL STIPE paid an emotional tribute to tragic HEATH LEDGER - before launching into one of the actor's favourite songs. The band dedicated their track Until The Day Is Done to Ledger in front of a packed crowd at Stubb's Barbeque during their stint at Austin, Texas' South By Southwest festival on Wednesday (12Mar08). A visibly upset Stipe announced, "This is dedicated to Heath Ledger who loved this song," before shouting at the end, "Goodbye Heath, we loved you!"
This is such a wonderful thing to do. If you want to listen to the song that was one of Heath's favourites, click on the link. This isn't the actual concert mentioned above, but one from last year in Dublin. Having listened to it, I can understand why Heath loved it. It's really beautiful, with Micheal Stipe's haunting voice together with Peter Buck's gorgeous guitar playing - it gave me shivers. I would have loved this even if Heath hadn't, but the fact that he did, makes me love it even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuhD68mr84
Christie, you are killing me with these news. I love R.E.M and I've adored Michael Stipe for years. I thought that him and Heath might have been friends because I saw some pictures of them together at a couple of events. But anyway, Michael Stype is a great singer with an amazing voice, and this is such a beautiful thing to do. And it's so like him, to do something like this. If I'm not mistaken, R.E.M's album "Monster" was dedicated to River Pheonix (I've heard that somewhere) and one of the songs in it, "Let Me In" (which I absolutely love) was written in the memory of Kurt Cobain. I always had great appreciation for him, and this tribute he made for Heath makes me love him even more.
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Christie, you are killing me with these news. I love R.E.M and I've adored Michael Stipe for years. I thought that him and Heath might have been friends because I saw some pictures of them together at a couple of events. But anyway, Michael Stype is a great singer with an amazing voice, and this is such a beautiful thing to do. And it's so like him, to do something like this. If I'm not mistaken, R.E.M's album "Monster" was dedicated to River Pheonix (I've heard that somewhere) and one of the songs in it, "Let Me In" (which I absolutely love) was written in the memory of Kurt Cobain. I always had great appreciation for him, and this tribute he made for Heath makes me love him even more.
Oh honey. :ghug: I'm sorry, I know that reading this kind of thing is heartbreaking, but at the same time, its so amazing to be reminded of all those people who loved him and,like us, are still dealing with his death. I think Heath and Michael were friends.
And I love REM and I have always, always, loved Michael Stipe's voice. I heard it for the very first time, on an album of another band, and I was blown away - I didnt even know of REM then. Did you listen to the song? If not, you must. Honestly, if you love his voice, you will be blown away by it in this song....its just so raw, it reminds me of earlier songs, such as Hairshirt and You are the Everything, and lots of others too.
I didnt know about them dedicating their album Monster to River Phoenix. Wow.
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Oh my god, it breaks my heart to read all this... This is Heath just like I thought he was, just like I imagined him to be. I need to get this magazine, or at least find the whole interview online.
Me too. Those words...."how vulnerable he was" just get to me. Because its true. You can see it, its there.
I definitely want this magazine, doubt I can get it here though. Hopefully it will be on line Keren.
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Ang Lee talked emotionally about Heath in an interview at ShoWest 2008, here's the link to view the video:
http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=228082
I didn't understand much cause I have my baby shouting around here, but I've cried so much only looking at Ang's face. OMG. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a sad heartbreaking expression. Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( He's beaten. I know that. I can feel it there.
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Williams and Friends pay magazine tribute to Ledger
HEATH LEDGER's closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners MICHELLE WILLIAMS and NAOMI WATTS, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January (08). The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger's movie I'm Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, to talk to Interview magazine about their relationship with the star. Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, describes Ledger's energy and talent, saying, "He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. "He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was." Watts, who dated Ledger for two years, adds, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." Seymour Hoffman, who met Ledger when they were both nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006, describes the actor's "childlike enthusiasm," adding, "His body was always in motion." And his agent Alexander paints the picture of a Ledger as a "rolling stone".
Thank you so much for this Christie. It's beautiful but, you know, so sad. Heath was like those sweet candies I used to love: hard solid attractive cover outside and then soft melted sweetness inside. This man could have his candy cover, his armor and his costume but deep inside there was the child, the tenderness, the warm heart that made people smile and dream just like a child in front of a candy.
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Thank you so much for this Christie. It's beautiful but, you know, so sad. Heath was like those sweet candies I used to love: hard solid attractive cover outside and then soft melted sweetness inside. This man could have his candy cover, his armor and his costume but deep inside there was the child, the tenderness, the warm heart that made people smile and dream just like a child in front of a candy.
Aww Tammy, thats beautifully put. ^f^
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Williams and Friends pay magazine tribute to Ledger
HEATH LEDGER's closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners MICHELLE WILLIAMS and NAOMI WATTS, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January (08). The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger's movie I'm Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, to talk to Interview magazine about their relationship with the star. Williams, the mother of his daughter Matilda, describes Ledger's energy and talent, saying, "He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. "He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was." Watts, who dated Ledger for two years, adds, "His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started." Seymour Hoffman, who met Ledger when they were both nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006, describes the actor's "childlike enthusiasm," adding, "His body was always in motion." And his agent Alexander paints the picture of a Ledger as a "rolling stone".
:\'( Barb shared this with me earlier and it just tugged at my heart. She managed to convey so very much in so few words. I think its the April edition of the magazine that this is in- if my search was correct.
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Thank you so much for this Christie. It's beautiful but, you know, so sad. Heath was like those sweet candies I used to love: hard solid attractive cover outside and then soft melted sweetness inside. This man could have his candy cover, his armor and his costume but deep inside there was the child, the tenderness, the warm heart that made people smile and dream just like a child in front of a candy.
:ghug: Tammy. That is so beautifully stated. :^^)
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:\'( Barb shared this with me earlier and it just tugged at my heart. She managed to convey so very much in so few words. I think its the April edition of the magazine that this is in- if my search was correct.
Thanks, Michelle. I will definitely get the April edition, if that is the case. I love all the quotes, but like you said, this really tugged at the heart:
"He had a talent for everything that he put his mind to. He didn't know limits. "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, his how vulnerable he was. "You can pick up on it in his performances, but it's easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That's who he was."
:ghug:
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I didn't understand much cause I have my baby shouting around here, but I've cried so much only looking at Ang's face. OMG. :\'( :\'( :\'( What a sad heartbreaking expression. Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( He's beaten. I know that. I can feel it there.
You said it babytammy. I thought I was the only one who felt his pain. It looked as though he aged ten years since January 22. I am most touched by his honesty, about his regret that he never socialized with Heath more often, that he wished he had, despite his normal rule for not socializing with actors during projects.
I hope someone is there for Ang Lee, to give him the hugs that we have been getting here.
Should we send sympathy cards to the cast members or family members? I'd be happy to chip in.
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There're more tributes from Heath's friends:
Friends Cheer Hear! Hear! to Heath
The latest issue of Interview has a great tribute to Heath Ledger, a touching spread of quotes from folks he changed who will miss him.
A few highlights:
Amy Pascal: "He was always introducing you to 3,000 mates whose names you can’t remember."
Philip Seymour Hoffman: "Heath didn’t have the cynicism that this business can eventually put upon people, or the pretension that certain artists can carry with them sometimes. He had a really honest quality about him. He obviously had never lost his wide-eyed optimism."
Michelle Williams: "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, is how vulnerable he was. You can pick up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was."
Sean Penn: "Heath was not simply a quiet and gifted actor who liked to go surfing, though that is how I primarily knew him in life. In the time we spent together, we spoke a bit about family, about travels, but most of all, about film.Yet, in his unassuming way, he never revealed to me the visual poet of the first order who I discovered watching the film clips he directed, music videos and such, after his death. His talent does speak volumes of the kind man, the loving father, and, in fact, the brilliant and gifted guy I really missed out on—that we all did, in the long run. Heath might have been a giant."
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/hum/detail/index.jsp?uuid=2e0657c9-9f6a-4436-af27-79e0b3ae857b&sid=fd-hum
The more I read about the film clips and music videos he directed and showed his friends, the more I feel what a tragic loss it is to us.
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There're more tributes from Heath's friends:
Friends Cheer Hear! Hear! to Heath
The latest issue of Interview has a great tribute to Heath Ledger, a touching spread of quotes from folks he changed who will miss him.
Sean Penn: "Heath was not simply a quiet and gifted actor who liked to go surfing, though that is how I primarily knew him in life. In the time we spent together, we spoke a bit about family, about travels, but most of all, about film.Yet, in his unassuming way, he never revealed to me the visual poet of the first order who I discovered watching the film clips he directed, music videos and such, after his death. His talent does speak volumes of the kind man, the loving father, and, in fact, the brilliant and gifted guy I really missed out on—that we all did, in the long run. Heath might have been a giant."
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/hum/detail/index.jsp?uuid=2e0657c9-9f6a-4436-af27-79e0b3ae857b&sid=fd-hum
The more I read about the film clips and music videos he directed and showed his friends, the more I feel what a tragic loss it is to us.
That last one was especially hard to read. The could'ves and might have beens. :\'( Just the words "visual poet" set me off. :\'(
Thanks for posting this YB :ghug:
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That last one was especially hard to read. The could'ves and might have beens. :\'( Just the words "visual poet" set me off. :\'(
Thanks for posting this YB :ghug:
LJN, yes, those are really difficult to read. Chris Nolan, Todd Haynes had talked about the clips and music videos and now Sean Penn, it's not getting any easier even though it's been almost 2 months.
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LJN, yes, those are really difficult to read. Chris Nolan, Todd Haynes had talked about the clips and music videos and now Sean Penn, it's not getting any easier even though it's been almost 2 months.
No it's not. :-\\ :ghug:
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There're more tributes from Heath's friends:
Friends Cheer Hear! Hear! to Heath
The latest issue of Interview has a great tribute to Heath Ledger, a touching spread of quotes from folks he changed who will miss him.
A few highlights:
Amy Pascal: "He was always introducing you to 3,000 mates whose names you can’t remember."
Philip Seymour Hoffman: "Heath didn’t have the cynicism that this business can eventually put upon people, or the pretension that certain artists can carry with them sometimes. He had a really honest quality about him. He obviously had never lost his wide-eyed optimism."
Michelle Williams: "I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, is how vulnerable he was. You can pick up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was."
Sean Penn: "Heath was not simply a quiet and gifted actor who liked to go surfing, though that is how I primarily knew him in life. In the time we spent together, we spoke a bit about family, about travels, but most of all, about film.Yet, in his unassuming way, he never revealed to me the visual poet of the first order who I discovered watching the film clips he directed, music videos and such, after his death. His talent does speak volumes of the kind man, the loving father, and, in fact, the brilliant and gifted guy I really missed out on—that we all did, in the long run. Heath might have been a giant."
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/hum/detail/index.jsp?uuid=2e0657c9-9f6a-4436-af27-79e0b3ae857b&sid=fd-hum
The more I read about the film clips and music videos he directed and showed his friends, the more I feel what a tragic loss it is to us.
Those are beautiful tributes. I loved them all, each giving us a glimpse of the beautiful man Heath was. I loved hearing how he would introduce you to about 3,000 mates....not wanting to leave a single person out, genuinely valuing everyone. That's a beautiful thing to know about him.
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Those are beautiful tributes. I loved them all, each giving us a glimpse of the beautiful man Heath was. I loved hearing how he would introduce you to about 3,000 mates....not wanting to leave a single person out, genuinely valuing everyone. That's a beautiful thing to know about him.
I smiled when I read that, about his 3,000 mates, you could see Heath doing that. Thanks for posting this yb, I do love reading about what people thought of him, but its unbearable at times. Sean Penn's words were hard to read. He touched so many people, and I bet Heath didn't have a clue how he was valued.
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It is so difficult to read all these things, what Michelle said and what Sean Penn said, about how amazing and talented he was. I know he was an amazing person, but every thing I read that validates that makes my heart break a little more. It's like as time goes by, the loss gets bigger.
I thought Ang's interview was so emotional and heartfelt. I could really feel his honesty and his pain in speaking about Heath. And I couldn't help but notice that he still talks about him in the present tense - "he's a great actor, he's a great guy". I wonder if Heath knows how many hearts and lives he touched.
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I noticed that too Keren.
And of course I'd say he knows now, but being the kind of person he was, I doubt he really knew just how much he touched people because he just seemed a little more humble than that. I mean, how many people would give themselves that much credit? But I do think that he knew what a big impact BBM had on people, and how much his work was appreciated in that. And my guess is that his friends and family let him know how much he was valued.
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It is so difficult to read all these things, what Michelle said and what Sean Penn said, about how amazing and talented he was. I know he was an amazing person, but every thing I read that validates that makes my heart break a little more. It's like as time goes by, the loss gets bigger.
I thought Ang's interview was so emotional and heartfelt. I could really feel his honesty and his pain in speaking about Heath. And I couldn't help but notice that he still talks about him in the present tense - "he's a great actor, he's a great guy". I wonder if Heath knows how many hearts and lives he touched.
It was like Haynes said, "we lost a lot, we lost double, we lost triple."
I noticed that too Keren.
And of course I'd say he knows now, but being the kind of person he was, I doubt he really knew just how much he touched people because he just seemed a little more humble than that. I mean, how many people would give themselves that much credit? But I do think that he knew what a big impact BBM had on people, and how much his work was appreciated in that. And my guess is that his friends and family let him know how much he was valued.
I was going to highlight and bold the part that touched me, but I ended up highlighting most of your post. Reading it the first time, in the context of Keren's post, in reference to Ang Lee, I thought your post referred to Ang Lee, but then I realized it could equally apply to Heath. One aspect of Heath that constantly amazed me was his humility given his immense talents. He never showed off, and that was why few people outside of his closed friends knew of his many different aspects of talents. Visual poetry, from Sean Penn, really got me. I have noticed Heath's ability to move, like the cliche in sports - poetry in motion, or bringing to mind the Russian ballet dancer, Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (I googled it :) ) . His every movement on screen is as Mark Addy said in A Knight's Tale special features, so self-possessed, never hurried, always measured. Yet at the same time, his self-possessiveness is also so generous, to the other actors, to the director, to the crew. He gave so much until he felt empty, and could give no more. :\'( Someone once wrote in this forum that he died because his heart couldn't keep up with his spirit. I can see that now. And now his spirit is free to soar without earthly limits. Every bird circling in flight reminds me of the hawk's calling in Brokeback Mountain, and Heath's spirit, surfing the clouds.
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It was like Haynes said, "we lost a lot, we lost double, we lost triple."
I was going to highlight and bold the part that touched me, but I ended up highlighting most of your post. Reading it the first time, in the context of Keren's post, in reference to Ang Lee, I thought your post referred to Ang Lee, but then I realized it could equally apply to Heath. One aspect of Heath that constantly amazed me was his humility given his immense talents. He never showed off, and that was why few people outside of his closed friends knew of his many different aspects of talents. Visual poetry, from Sean Penn, really got me. I have noticed Heath's ability to move, like the cliche in sports - poetry in motion, or bringing to mind the Russian ballet dancer, Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (I googled it :) ) . His every movement on screen is as Mark Addy said in A Knight's Tale special features, so self-possessed, never hurried, always measured. Yet at the same time, his self-possessiveness is also so generous, to the other actors, to the director, to the crew. He gave so much until he felt empty, and could give no more. :\'( Someone once wrote in this forum that he died because his heart couldn't keep up with his spirit. I can see that now. And now his spirit is free to soar without earthly limits. Every bird circling in flight reminds me of the hawk's calling in Brokeback Mountain, and Heath's spirit, surfing the clouds.
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I love you're comment, so beautiful :)
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It was like Haynes said, "we lost a lot, we lost double, we lost triple."
I was going to highlight and bold the part that touched me, but I ended up highlighting most of your post. Reading it the first time, in the context of Keren's post, in reference to Ang Lee, I thought your post referred to Ang Lee, but then I realized it could equally apply to Heath. One aspect of Heath that constantly amazed me was his humility given his immense talents. He never showed off, and that was why few people outside of his closed friends knew of his many different aspects of talents. Visual poetry, from Sean Penn, really got me. I have noticed Heath's ability to move, like the cliche in sports - poetry in motion, or bringing to mind the Russian ballet dancer, Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (I googled it :) ) . His every movement on screen is as Mark Addy said in A Knight's Tale special features, so self-possessed, never hurried, always measured. Yet at the same time, his self-possessiveness is also so generous, to the other actors, to the director, to the crew. He gave so much until he felt empty, and could give no more. :\'( Someone once wrote in this forum that he died because his heart couldn't keep up with his spirit. I can see that now. And now his spirit is free to soar without earthly limits. Every bird circling in flight reminds me of the hawk's calling in Brokeback Mountain, and Heath's spirit, surfing the clouds.
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What a wonderful comment. One of the reasons I liked Heath was because of the way he carried himself, he had no ego (or as you say, he never showed off), he was just who he was. In one of my favourite interviews he gave for BBM, he said when asked if he was apprehensive about the risk of taking on the role, and he said no, because he didn't think he had a career to risk. I love that line, it reminds me what an amazing talent he was, but also someone who did what he did because he loved it, not because he wanted to please others...he was a free spirit.
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It was like Haynes said, "we lost a lot, we lost double, we lost triple."
I was going to highlight and bold the part that touched me, but I ended up highlighting most of your post. Reading it the first time, in the context of Keren's post, in reference to Ang Lee, I thought your post referred to Ang Lee, but then I realized it could equally apply to Heath. One aspect of Heath that constantly amazed me was his humility given his immense talents. He never showed off, and that was why few people outside of his closed friends knew of his many different aspects of talents. Visual poetry, from Sean Penn, really got me. I have noticed Heath's ability to move, like the cliche in sports - poetry in motion, or bringing to mind the Russian ballet dancer, Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (I googled it :) ) . His every movement on screen is as Mark Addy said in A Knight's Tale special features, so self-possessed, never hurried, always measured. Yet at the same time, his self-possessiveness is also so generous, to the other actors, to the director, to the crew. He gave so much until he felt empty, and could give no more. :\'( Someone once wrote in this forum that he died because his heart couldn't keep up with his spirit. I can see that now. And now his spirit is free to soar without earthly limits. Every bird circling in flight reminds me of the hawk's calling in Brokeback Mountain, and Heath's spirit, surfing the clouds.
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:\'( Beautiful comment Andrew. :ghug:
All of these comments from everyone do seem to confirm what we felt and in a way that is nice because it shows that we did have some connection, however tenuous or hazy, but we were in tune. And you know they are heartfelt and sincere. It's heartening to see so many peope saying such deep, meaningful words of tribute. I know most people won't come out and speak ill of the dead but there is a difference in saying "He was a great guy" and the comments that Michelle and SP made. SP's made me cry all over again- the words "visual poet" are just haunting me now-it's conjuring up so many images in my mind. I'm still doing the head shake while my mind continues to ask "It's real isn't it?" The initial shock has worn off but all that does is allow the stabbing pain of reality to permeate slowly. As Keren said: It's like as time goes by, the loss gets bigger. :\'( :ghug:
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God, that's so beautifully put by all of you. :ghug:
And yes, Andrew, I was referring to Heath in my post, although I can see how it applies to Ang Lee as well. I had the privilege of seeing Ang Lee speak in NY last fall, and only wish I could have done the same with Heath. I am enormously jealous of every interviewer who ever spoke with him.
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:\'( Beautiful comment Andrew. :ghug:
All of these comments from everyone do seem to confirm what we felt and in a way that is nice because it shows that we did have some connection, however tenuous or hazy, but we were in tune. And you know they are heartfelt and sincere. It's heartening to see so many peope saying such deep, meaningful words of tribute. I know most people won't come out and speak ill of the dead but there is a difference in saying "He was a great guy" and the comments that Michelle and SP made. SP's made me cry all over again- the words "visual poet" are just haunting me now-it's conjuring up so many images in my mind. I'm still doing the head shake while my mind continues to ask "It's real isn't it?" The initial shock has worn off but all that does is allow the stabbing pain of reality to permeate slowly. As Keren said: It's like as time goes by, the loss gets bigger. :\'( :ghug:
It is real. And one day we'll probably even accept that. But yeah, we were in tune, and there is actually comfort in that. Still, I have those moments of thinking why someone so special? Why someone so worth being? But then I try to remind myself there could have been a world without him in it at all, and that would really be bleak, so I'll give thanks for those 28 years he had and the few years we had of his graciously sharing himself, and go from there.
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I don't know about other people but I certainly believe death is just crossing on another "side". Like a two way mirror.
We can't see them, but they can see us. I am not surprised Ang Lee talks about Heath in the present tense.
When I saw his latest music clips I understood, he was fascinated by dimensions.
White/black, light/dark, liquid/solid... I really want to see Drake's clip... it must be fascinating, as much as I could make off of what they showed, he not only covered the line between life and death but he captured Drake’s struggle between living and dying.
The prim plan of his somber face on a Merry-go-round (could see the person’s mind already gone) vs. the spinning (twister) background (life still goes on weather you’re here or not). Heath and Drake’s minds were too fast for the pace the world was going for them.
As the newscaster said the clip was “disturbing”… which at this point I really don’t care for their opinion. The clip must be a work of art.
These are the clips Heath directed… (thanks to Caroline for posting them on LJ)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/bh_reason.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/bh_reason.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/benharper_morning.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/benharper_morning.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa_seduction.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa_seduction.html)
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OMG! Thank you so much B_Mountain_Girl! These clips are beautiful :\'(
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Very welcome.
Beauty must be seen.
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Very welcome.
Beauty must be seen.
You bet! :)
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The Queen's Gambit , might go on with a new director. Everyone know it was Heath's cinema baby... it would be interesting to see.
Since the script was already written while Heath was alive... his visions are in it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledger--a-prophetic-tragedy-795344.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledger--a-prophetic-tragedy-795344.html)
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Thank you BMG!! :ghug:
The vids were absoultly amazing and I could see what you mean, he had such a different view and way of using different dimententions in a way that they can come together. Oh, and the article on the "Queen's Gambit"...i could only imagine what that movie could've been if Heath was there to guide it. Though I'm glad that he helped bring it to back up from just a screenplay. I can only hope that whoever takes his place will use what Heath gave as well as their own vision, to make this movie a delicate but beautiful work of heart :\'(
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Thank you for posting those links. The videos were wonderful to see, and the article about The Queen's Gambit was interesting too. Wish we'd had a chance to see it as he envisioned it.
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It is real. And one day we'll probably even accept that. But yeah, we were in tune, and there is actually comfort in that. Still, I have those moments of thinking why someone so special? Why someone so worth being? But then I try to remind myself there could have been a world without him in it at all, and that would really be bleak, so I'll give thanks for those 28 years he had and the few years we had of his graciously sharing himself, and go from there.
Yup. I am with you there, FlwrChild. I cannot imagine a world without Heath, so I am thankful for every picture of him I see on the web. I am grateful for every interview I found, whether on youtube, or in text, where I can learn a little bit more about the man behind the screen. I am forever indebted to everyone who helped to bring Heath into the world, on to the screen, and most of all, in all the roles that I love and cherish. For the moment, that includes Ennis in Brokeback Mountain, and William in A Knght's Tale. I am not too crazy about Skip in Lords of Dogtown. I recall the son in The Patriot only vaguely, so I will just have to watch it again.
I could never understand in the past, when I saw people crying and fainting in Beatles or Elvis concerts. Or how some people were fanatical about Elvis memorabilia. Now I understand, because I cry watching Heath in different movies, interviews or photographs, because I want to collect everything that is connected with Heath, because I think about Heath whenever I am not busy or distracted with mundane things. It is the same mourning process that went on for years twenty eight years ago. I wish I can say that it gets better. I think it got better for a while, after I watched A Knight's Tale. But it got worse, after I watched Lords of Dogtown. The antidote for that was watching Brokeback Mountain again, and bookmarking all the great moments of Heath, capturing the visual poetry we spoke of. I try to see all the good that Heath gave us, and try to ride out the sense of loss. There is no other way, and if I've learned anything from Ennis in Brokeback Mountain in the last few scenes, and to paraphrase myself from the poetry corner way back when, before that tragic day:
I spent too many years
thinking of yesterdays with you
when I can be looking ahead
to warm hearts and embraces
right here and right now
I am thankful that if I gotta stand it, I gotta stand it with all you warm and wonderful people.
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That's beautiful lc. :ghug:
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I watched the vids Heath directed. Stunning! Esp the Ben Harper ones- that first one- the whole kaliedoscope thing was awesome! and then second one- the close ups on the instruments were beautiful! I wasn't too fond of the music in the last two but the vids were amazing- the cause and effect teamed up with color and negative. God I miss him. :-\\ I didn't read the Queen's Gambit article yet though.
I could never understand in the past, when I saw people crying and fainting in Beatles or Elvis concerts. Or how some people were fanatical about Elvis memorabilia. Now I understand, because I cry watching Heath in different movies, interviews or photographs, because I want to collect everything that is connected with Heath, because I think about Heath whenever I am not busy or distracted with mundane things. It is the same mourning process that went on for years twenty eight years ago. I wish I can say that it gets better. I think it got better for a while, after I watched A Knight's Tale. But it got worse, after I watched Lords of Dogtown. The antidote for that was watching Brokeback Mountain again, and bookmarking all the great moments of Heath, capturing the visual poetry we spoke of. I try to see all the good that Heath gave us, and try to ride out the sense of loss. There is no other way, and if I've learned anything from Ennis in Brokeback Mountain in the last few scenes, and to paraphrase myself from the poetry corner way back when, before that tragic day:
I spent too many years
thinking of yesterdays with you
when I can be looking ahead
to warm hearts and embraces
right here and right now
I am thankful that if I gotta stand it, I gotta stand it with all you warm and wonderful people.
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Beautiful post Andrew :ghug: I'm in that same mourning process as I was 6 years ago, I didn't think I'd ever feel that bad again. I was wrong. It took years for me to get "right" again with that and this hit with as much impact so I guess I'm strapped in the car waiting to see where the "ride" goes.
The last line of your post is so well stated and right back at ya. :^^) :ghug: %)
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:\'( Beautiful comment Andrew. :ghug:
All of these comments from everyone do seem to confirm what we felt and in a way that is nice because it shows that we did have some connection, however tenuous or hazy, but we were in tune. And you know they are heartfelt and sincere. It's heartening to see so many peope saying such deep, meaningful words of tribute. I know most people won't come out and speak ill of the dead but there is a difference in saying "He was a great guy" and the comments that Michelle and SP made. SP's made me cry all over again- the words "visual poet" are just haunting me now-it's conjuring up so many images in my mind. I'm still doing the head shake while my mind continues to ask "It's real isn't it?" The initial shock has worn off but all that does is allow the stabbing pain of reality to permeate slowly. As Keren said: It's like as time goes by, the loss gets bigger. :\'( :ghug:
"He might have been a giant" got to me, too. He was a giant. A giant talent and heart and soul...
kathy
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OMG! Thank you so much B_Mountain_Girl! These clips are beautiful :\'(
Yes, thank you BMG for posting these. I'd heard about Heth's videos he directed, but had never seen any. These are fascinating! I love the first and second ones, especially the kaleidoscope one. The last one is intriguing, too. All of them are -- seeing them gives us more pieces of Heath, yes, the "visual poet."
kathy
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I've seen the Heath-directed videos before but I'm glad they were posted again - thanks B_Mountain_Girl!! they are incredible - he had so much talent.
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Thank you so much for the vids; they're wonderful!! I loved especially the second one: Ben's Morning yearning. It's stunning, utterly beautiful and mesmerizing.
Yeah, Heath might have been a giant.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
Thank you for your so touching posts Andrew. I can see all the precious things Heath was through your words and the other brokie's words cause I can't keep watching or reading interviews, I can't keep looking at his pics. I quit that two weeks ago more or less. I couldn't stand the pain anymore. And now you made me cry again. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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:ghug: Tammy
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The Queen's Gambit , might go on with a new director. Everyone know it was Heath's cinema baby... it would be interesting to see.
Since the script was already written while Heath was alive... his visions are in it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledger--a-prophetic-tragedy-795344.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledger--a-prophetic-tragedy-795344.html)
This article made me so sad... but then, everything I read about Heath these days makes me so sad. I'm crying now, just from reading this. Reading about his unique talent, his vision, his enthusiasm, and knowing that he will never get to see this movie done, thinking about what it could've been if he had the chance to complete this project like he dreamed, and knowing that it won't happen anymore. It just gets too hard. I'm thinking about him in those long sleepless nights, sitting in front of the computer and writing emails with his ideas and his thoughts, his mind working non-stop while the rest of the world is asleep. There was so much he wanted to do, to experience, so many plans and dreams, so much talent and potential. He was like a bright star in the sky, and there are just no words for such a loss.
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Thank you for the videos B_Mountain_Girl, Heath had so many talents... :\'(
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Thank you so much for the vids; they're wonderful!! I loved especially the second one: Ben's Morning yearning. It's stunning, utterly beautiful and mesmerizing.
Yeah, Heath might have been a giant.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
Thank you for your so touching posts Andrew. I can see all the precious things Heath was through your words and the other brokie's words cause I can't keep watching or reading interviews, I can't keep looking at his pics. I quit that two weeks ago more or less. I couldn't stand the pain anymore. And now you made me cry again. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Sorry, Tammy, :ghug: I try not to bare my soul too much on the forum, especially when it is still grieving for Heath. But once in a while, I just need to say it to feel better. I hope you will feel better soon, too. With Easter coming, and spring flowers blooming, let us both think happier thoughts, of Heath surfing clouds and singing with birds, twinkling from heaven's night sky, and whispering like the wind.
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Sorry, Tammy, :ghug: I try not to bare my soul too much on the forum, especially when it is still grieving for Heath. But once in a while, I just need to say it to feel better. I hope you will feel better soon, too. With Easter coming, and spring flowers blooming, let us both think happier thoughts, of Heath surfing clouds and singing with birds, twinkling from heaven's night sky, and whispering like the wind.
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No, please keep posting your thoughts, it makes me feel better that there are still others who are feeling the same, that I'm not alone on this road.
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This article made me so sad... but then, everything I read about Heath these days makes me so sad. I'm crying now, just from reading this. Reading about his unique talent, his vision, his enthusiasm, and knowing that he will never get to see this movie done, thinking about what it could've been if he had the chance to complete this project like he dreamed, and knowing that it won't happen anymore. It just gets too hard. I'm thinking about him in those long sleepless nights, sitting in front of the computer and writing emails with his ideas and his thoughts, his mind working non-stop while the rest of the world is asleep. There was so much he wanted to do, to experience, so many plans and dreams, so much talent and potential. He was like a bright star in the sky, and there are just no words for such a loss.
Beautifully said, Keren, I agree with it all. :ghug:
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I could never understand in the past, when I saw people crying and fainting in Beatles or Elvis concerts. Or how some people were fanatical about Elvis memorabilia. Now I understand, because I cry watching Heath in different movies, interviews or photographs, because I want to collect everything that is connected with Heath, because I think about Heath whenever I am not busy or distracted with mundane things. It is the same mourning process that went on for years twenty eight years ago. I wish I can say that it gets better. I think it got better for a while, after I watched A Knight's Tale. But it got worse, after I watched Lords of Dogtown. The antidote for that was watching Brokeback Mountain again, and bookmarking all the great moments of Heath, capturing the visual poetry we spoke of. I try to see all the good that Heath gave us, and try to ride out the sense of loss. There is no other way, and if I've learned anything from Ennis in Brokeback Mountain in the last few scenes, and to paraphrase myself from the poetry corner way back when, before that tragic day:
I spent too many years
thinking of yesterdays with you
when I can be looking ahead
to warm hearts and embraces
right here and right now
I am thankful that if I gotta stand it, I gotta stand it with all you warm and wonderful people.
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LC, all I can say is that your words are beautiful!! Your last words of your posts express what I have felt as well..it's so hard to comprehend such a loss :\'( :\'(
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I definitely want this magazine, doubt I can get it here though. Hopefully it will be on line Keren.
For anyone in the UK, Borders stock this magazine. I saw the march edition in there today...I know we will have to wait a little longer than others, but it will be worth it. :)
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I don't know about other people but I certainly believe death is just crossing on another "side". Like a two way mirror.
We can't see them, but they can see us. I am not surprised Ang Lee talks about Heath in the present tense.
When I saw his latest music clips I understood, he was fascinated by dimensions.
White/black, light/dark, liquid/solid... I really want to see Drake's clip... it must be fascinating, as much as I could make off of what they showed, he not only covered the line between life and death but he captured Drake’s struggle between living and dying.
The prim plan of his somber face on a Merry-go-round (could see the person’s mind already gone) vs. the spinning (twister) background (life still goes on weather you’re here or not). Heath and Drake’s minds were too fast for the pace the world was going for them.
As the newscaster said the clip was “disturbing”… which at this point I really don’t care for their opinion. The clip must be a work of art.
These are the clips Heath directed… (thanks to Caroline for posting them on LJ)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/bh_reason.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/bh_reason.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/benharper_morning.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/benharper_morning.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa.html)
http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa_seduction.html (http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/nfa_seduction.html)
Amazing!! I already saw the second clip on YouTube before Heath's passing...
Again you just can not help it, but say "what a talent"!!!, he was gifted!
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
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thank you keren.. wonderful... ^f^
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
omg, that made me cry so much :\'( :-\\
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
Thanks Keren ^f^ What a beautiful dedication. I'm in tears now :\'(
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
Oh god, Keren..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Todd Haynes's words were so beautiful and touching, but they totally broke my heart. :\'( :\'(
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Oh my, Keren.... :\'( :\'( :\'( His words are just precious....
And what about the gap they leave between Cate Blanchett and Bruce Greenwood? :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
How touching this is. Damn.
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Todd Haynes words were so touching.. I can't help but cry watching and listening.
Without Heath Ledger in the past and in the present, there will be no other actor who will ever be remembered his share of craft in acting, his very own unique personality as an actor , his natural charisma as a person. his very own way of delivering himself to the audience in his speeches during special awards and events. he is a "gem" in every lives he touches with his courageous performance in our epic of Brokeback Mountain... he is a "diamond" among his peers.....He is not just someone but an angel who is always with us in our memories till eternally.
A face we can't forget....an angel ...a legend.
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
So beautiful, but so heartbreaking.
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
Really wonderful,but heartbreaking and so sad...Why does all this hurt so much still? :\'(
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Really wonderful,but heartbreaking and so sad...Why does all this hurt so much still? :\'(
oh :ghug:
i dont think the pain will ever go away but it will get better
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oh :ghug:
i dont think the pain will ever go away but it will get better
I know,Emelie, :t) ; but one always falls by reading or listening things that remind us He's no longer with us... :ghug:
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
Oh God! :\'(
Thanks for posting little darlin' :^^)
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Really wonderful,but heartbreaking and so sad...Why does all this hurt so much still? :\'(
I'm sure this has been posted many times, but I think it was said best in the tribute article written in this month's The Advocate, that wrote while others are thinking of the disappointing loss of an entertainer and concerned with the box office of Batman, the fans of Brokeback Mountain are still mourning the loss of a family member. It's ok that it hurts this much, it's how we honor the life he had. But we can't let it hold us down, we need to continue on; that's how we honor the life he should still have.
Sometimes... I just really miss my friend though.
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It's ok that it hurts this much, it's how we honor the life he had. But we can't let it hold us down, we need to continue on; that's how we honor the life he should still have.
Sometimes... I just really miss my friend though.
I second your emotion. I feel the same way. Heath was not a God, he was a man. He gave all he could while on this planet and I'm sure would not want to be lionized. Let us move on with his memory and his extraordinary gifts and know we are the better for having seen and felt them.
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Todd Haynes dedicates Robert Altman Award to Heath Ledger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI7KcDKGLo
Shit. It just makes me curse, damnit. I guess I'm in the "anger" phase. Like life sucks, that this should happen, that we have Heath no more.
This is so beautiful, though, Todd Haynes to do this. Heath touched so many people so strongly.
kathy
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I couldn't watch it. When Todd Haynes started the speech, I lost it :\'( :\'( :\'(
I watched it again later... then cried some more when I saw Cate fighting back tears.
I can feel the void more and more :\'(
I love the dedication... Heath deserves it thousand time over, he did a great job in I'm not there.
Heath (https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy4%2FMamaCeleste%2FSmiles%2Fbravo_2.gif&hash=046b62e67acf62e8ad55e4a0df460586c0002534)(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy4%2FMamaCeleste%2FSmiles%2F13_187.gif&hash=e858c0e8305ca9ffc1f155bdf5ab2c6fca97c7ec)(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy4%2FMamaCeleste%2FSmiles%2Fbravo_2.gif&hash=046b62e67acf62e8ad55e4a0df460586c0002534)(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy4%2FMamaCeleste%2FSmiles%2F13_187.gif&hash=e858c0e8305ca9ffc1f155bdf5ab2c6fca97c7ec)
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Todd Haynes words were so touching.. I can't help but cry watching and listening.
Without Heath Ledger in the past and in the present, there will be no other actor who will ever be remembered his share of craft in acting, his very own unique personality as an actor , his natural charisma as a person. his very own way of delivering himself to the audience in his speeches during special awards and events. he is a "gem" in every lives he touches with his courageous performance in our epic of Brokeback Mountain... he is a "diamond" among his peers.....He is not just someone but an angel who is always with us in our memories till eternally.
A face we can't forget....an angel ...a legend.
i cant agree well done.
more i am crying so much after that but what can we do he is still with us and im sure he is happy at the love and support we are all sending him in our thought and prayers, but more then anything im sure he does not want to cause us hurt we should grieva and mourn it is only natural but heath was so kind he would deffinatly want us to go on as normal and thats what i am trying to do some days are harder then others but reallyill cry when i need to but i wont stop my normal life heath wouldnt want that. (sorry i just repeated the same thing about 5 times)
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i cant agree well done.
more i am crying so much after that but what can we do he is still with us and im sure he is happy at the love and support we are all sending him in our thought and prayers, but more then anything im sure he does not want to cause us hurt we should grieva and mourn it is only natural but heath was so kind he would deffinatly want us to go on as normal and thats what i am trying to do some days are harder then others but reallyill cry when i need to but i wont stop my normal life heath wouldnt want that. (sorry i just repeated the same thing about 5 times)
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Yes. I know Heath won't let us grieve forever because he has left so much for us to cherish and remember.. but reading those tributes for our baby turns me to cry.. mixed emotions of gladness and sadness.. glad because people all around the world acknowledge his craft with gusto,, because his wings flew up there and rest in the arms of the angels.
There is only one actor like him to come in a hundred years.. maybe none.
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Yes. I know Heath won't let us grieve forever because he has left so much for us to cherish and remember.. but reading those tributes for our baby turns me to cry.. mixed emotions of gladness and sadness.. glad because people all around the world acknowledge his craft with gusto,, because his wings flew up there and rest in the arms of the angels.
There is only one actor like him to come in a hundred years.. maybe none.
i dont think there has ever been a person like heath before and im not sure there ever will be again.
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i dont think there has ever been a person like heath before and im not sure there ever will be again.
no, there will never be another heath and im happy about that, no one can ever replace him :-\\ :\'(
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no, there will never be another heath and im happy about that, no one can ever replace him :-\\ :\'(
No other can ever replace our dearest Heath.. no one... I agree.
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yb found the Interview magazine article and asked me to post it here, for everyone to read. Thanks yb. ^f^
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everyone loves him and they have great reason too he is possibly the greatest kindest man to have ever walked the earth,
im sad we cant see him for a while but i know we havnt seen the last of him and we will se him again.
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Oh My God, thank you yb and thank you Christie for posting it. Such a gift, to read these things from people who truly knew him and loved him. I feel such an enormous sense of loss reading that. :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Thank you for posting that christie. I'd just read it online and was coming to see if it had made its way here yet. :)
It really was so generous of all of them to express their thoughts about him and share them with the rest of us. Speaks volumes about the kind of person he was that these are the people he surrounded himself with. It makes me think of a line from A Knight's Tale:
"Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough."
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Thanks for posting the article :ghug:
Great quote Barb. I loved this one "... so everything was possible for him." :\'(
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Thank you SO much for the article!! :ghug: :\'( :ghug:
I was almost ready to cry when I read one of Todd Haynes quotes ~
" When I think about where Heath was headed - I don't know what would have happened, given his taletn. But I just feel so sad about what we're being deprived of and the work that he would have continued to bring to us. He just seems like he was on a different plane"
I try not to think about what would've happened if he was still with us but then when I read something like this, it always comes right back to me like a ton of bricks :\'( :\'(
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Thank you SO much for the article!! :ghug: :\'( :ghug:
I was almost ready to cry when I read one of Todd Haynes quotes ~
" When I think about where Heath was headed - I don't know what would have happened, given his taletn. But I just feel so sad about what we're being deprived of and the work that he would have continued to bring to us. He just seems like he was on a different plane"
I try not to think about what would've happened if he was still with us but then when I read something like this, it always comes right back to me like a ton of bricks :\'( :\'(
I know, it's really hard. I find myself smiling at the tributes and lovely things said about him, but at the same time, there's an unbearable sadness about them....
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I know, it's really hard. I find myself smiling at the tributes and lovely things said about him, but at the same time, there's an unbearable sadness about them....
yer i agree i think most people will too
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Thank you so much for this Christie and YB!!! It's wonderful and very heartbreaking.
I just love how Heath was good in everything he did. He was a very talented man, so amazing. He was awesome but I know he could have been the greatest actor in the world.
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Thank you Christine, this is priceless. :)
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Thank you very much Chris,for sharing it with us.It´s really wonderful... :\'(
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Thank you christie, I am touched by all the tributes but most of all, this gem from Sara Cline,
I feel as though Heath has sort of slowly and quietly taken all of the people in his life that meant something to him, picked them up, and set them on this invisible road that's only become known in his passing. We're all kind of standing on it saying, "Well here we are." And we have no choice but to walk forward to do so together.
Although I don't feel the privilege of being put on the invisible road by Heath, I do feel the same sense of purpose that says, here we are, we have no choice but to follow. It's the same force that drew us here to the forum after Brokeback Mountain. Heath has a way with whispering that shout louder than thunder, that we cannot ignore.
Thanks for putting the tributes, Christie.
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Thank you Cristie for sharing it with us.
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Thank you SO much for the article!! :ghug: :\'( :ghug:
I was almost ready to cry when I read one of Todd Haynes quotes ~
" When I think about where Heath was headed - I don't know what would have happened, given his taletn. But I just feel so sad about what we're being deprived of and the work that he would have continued to bring to us. He just seems like he was on a different plane"
I try not to think about what would've happened if he was still with us but then when I read something like this, it always comes right back to me like a ton of bricks :\'( :\'(
Me, too, Lis. "Like a ton of bricks." Reading this earlier tonight (another friend sent me scanned copies also), I just had to stop for a while, come back to it later. What a huge loss...
I adore the "pregnant" Heath pic!
(I was at Borders earlier tonight, but they still had last month's issue, so I'm glad I get to read the posted version anyway. And speaking of which, I never got the Advocate, either. Will someone scan and post that, also? I don't believe it has been, has it?)
I love every single thing that everyone said, but I really like this, by Sara Cline, which speaks to us: In his absence, I feel as though Heath has sort of slowly and quietly taken all of the people in his life that meant something to him, picked them up, and sat them on this invisible road that's only become known in his passing. We're all kind of standing on it saying, "Well here we are." And we have no choice but to walk forward and to do so together.
kathy
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Thank you christie, I am touched by all the tributes but most of all, this gem from Sara Cline,
Although I don't feel the privilege of being put on the invisible road by Heath, I do feel the same sense of purpose that says, here we are, we have no choice but to follow. It's the same force that drew us here to the forum after Brokeback Mountain. Heath has a way with whispering that shout louder than thunder, that we cannot ignore.
Thanks for putting the tributes, Christie.
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You're all really welcome. :) Thanks should go to yb too for finding the article and asking me to post it.
I love this quote too, Lance, and I love your response to it, especially: Heath has a way with whispering that shout louder than thunder, that we cannot ignore
That's lovely. ^f^
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Lovely tributes. Thanks to yb for finding it and Christie for posting :^^)
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OMG! :\'( Thank you so much christie and yb!! :^^)
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For Kathy's request, I scanned the tribute article from The Advocate. I'm sorry it's difficult to read, the quality is not so good... :(
First, they gave him the cover:
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The editorial:
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The article:
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The last two pages are side by side, so the bottom of the last page is a continuation of the what Diana Ossana wrote about Heath, you should read it like this:
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the advocate scans made me cry so much, why did this happen??? i dont understand :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Michelle sent to me one copy (thanks again Michelle) and I just loved the whole thing, but that picture of Heath as Ennis (with James Dean) just touched my heart. It's damn beautiful.
Thanks Keren for posting this. ^f^
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Thank you so much, Keren. :\'(
kathy
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Thank you so much Keren..
Every line in each page that I read .. there are tears in every word.
I know this is also happening to all those who were reading the article..
The actor who brought us here.
The man who gave his all in his performance to reach the heart of too many..
To understand what is love in every soul . in every piece of heart.
Thank you so much Keren, thank you.
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First of all,thank you Keren,with all my heart... ^f^ :^^)
I´ve found in a French forum this hommage that I´ve wanted to post here in a day like this: 2 months...damn¡ :\'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIR7bygM4_I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIR7bygM4_I)
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Anne Hathaway pays a little tribute to Heath at the end of the speech :) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuIdQVEVY0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuIdQVEVY0)
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Anne Hathaway pays a little tribute to Heath at the end of the speech :) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuIdQVEVY0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuIdQVEVY0)
Her whole speech was brilliant, she is one classy lady. I adore her.
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Wow, thanks, Keren, ynnaf, Anne Hathaway is amazing. I love the speech, especially "love is a human experience, not a political statement....until the political limits on love is smashed."
And her tribute to Heath... :\'(
What amazing loving parents she must have, to raise her big brother, who brought home his first boyfriend, and husband! That's love!
:clap: <^(
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That clip of Anne Hathaway is wonderful. What an incredible person she is.
And the Advocate article is fabulous too. I finally got round to reading my copy of it yesterday (thanks, Missy :^^)) and it's one of the best tributes I've read.
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Wow, thanks, Keren, ynnaf, Anne Hathaway is amazing. I love the speech, especially "love is a human experience, not a political statement....until the political limits on love is smashed."
And her tribute to Heath... :\'(
What amazing loving parents she must have, to raise her big brother, who brought home his first boyfriend, and husband! That's love!
:clap: <^(
I totally agree. :)
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This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
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This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
wow i havnt seen heath music vids yet i cant wait :)
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wow it was very good strange and very extraordinary but what else could we expect from heath??
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This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
Wow! Keren, thanks for this.
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You're welcome. I'm a little speechless now.
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The advocate article was absoulutly beautiful :\'( :\'(
This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
Thank you Keren! I've seen news vids about this music vid. but this is a much wonderful tribute without speculations. His acting, directing ability is amazing and I only wished we could've seen move of it :-\\
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You're welcome. I'm a little speechless now.
Oh wow, Keren....I'm speechless too...
It made my spine tingle to see Heath in this vid, its a beautifully hypnotic and strangely compelling video, I loved the music, the colour, the way it was shot, everything.....but I wanted to freeze every single frame of Heath and stare at him and not stop.
Thanks honey for posting this. ^f^
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Wow, keren, thank you! Like Lis I have only seen parts of it and wasn't able to find the whole one by myself..
Not needful to say that, but I love the vid.
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Yeah I know, I think it's new on youtube because I've been looking for it ever since I heard about it and wasn't able to find it until now.
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Thanks for the vid link Keren. Needless to say I'm stunned and feeling that punch in the gut again. :-\\
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This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
OMG! ??? :-\\ :\'(
Thanks hon' for posting it! :^^)
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This is the video Heath made for Nick Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog". The video includes footage of Heath himself.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKnGo_WOp4&NR=1
This was beautiful, I can't believe it was finally online. They said the Drake estate owned it and would decide if they would release it. I hope they chose to, if not it will dissapear soon.
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I think I've heard he shot it in London. Does anyone know if he shot any other Nick Drake videos or just this one?
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As far as I know this was the only one. I saw the clip of 'Black Eyed Dog' weeks ago but I couldn't bring myself to talk about it, it's so deep.
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The whole real video belongs to the Nick Drake estate and it will not be released in public, that's what i've heard. There are only bits released and those are available on youtube, the real thing won't be released.
But the bits i've seen and posted here are great, Heath did a great job!
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Another beautiful video of Nick Drake & Heath Ledger: Day Is Done <^(
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BUFRmXGJPTg&feature=related
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It's a beautiful song. I wish I could hear Heath talking more about Nick Drake, about what fascinated him so much about this man. He said that he was practicaly obsessed with him.
I'm still haunted by "Black Eyed Dog", although I find it hard to watch the video. Does anyone have the lyrics?
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A black eyed dog he called at my door
The black eyed dog he called for more
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog
A black eyed dog.
Im growing old and I wanna go home
Im growiing old and I dont wanna know
Im growing old and I wanna go home.
A black eyed dog he called at my door
A black eyed dog he called for more.
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A black eyed dog he called at my door
The black eyed dog he called for more
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog
A black eyed dog.
Im growing old and I wanna go home
Im growiing old and I dont wanna know
Im growing old and I wanna go home.
A black eyed dog he called at my door
A black eyed dog he called for more.
Thanks Asali. The song is so sad, when you know what the black eyed dog stands for. And Heath cought the atmosphere so well, which is probably why it's so hard for me to watch.
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Thanks Asali. The song is so sad, when you know what the black eyed dog stands for. And Heath cought the atmosphere so well, which is probably why it's so hard for me to watch.
I agree Keren, the words from the song together with the images of Heath in the video are really powerful and sad.
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I got the following 2 pieces from dcf:
About Heath's Portrait
I know the portrait of Heath by Vincent Fantauzzo is quite controversial, here's an interview of Vincent by the Art Gallery of New South Wales during which he has talked in depth about Heath and the portrait, here's the link to the interview which I think is worth watching:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/multimedia/vincent_fantauzzo
An Article by Luke Davies, the author of Candy
Luke Davies has written an article paying tribute to Heath in the March issue of The Monthly, here's the link:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/821
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That is an absolutely wonderful tribute by Luke Davies. Thank you so much for posting the link. :^^)
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I agree Flwrchild, I have only read the Luke Davies tribute so far and its absolutely amazing. I loved all the insights into Heath's life that we got to see, it made me love the man even more than I did before, if thats possible. Thanks for posting these yb, ^f^
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yb, that Luke Davis article was amazing, even put a lumb in my throat, which is hard to do. Thank you!! :\'(
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I agree Flwrchild, I have only read the Luke Davies tribute so far and its absolutely amazing. I loved all the insights into Heath's life that we got to see, it made me love the man even more than I did before, if thats possible. Thanks for posting these yb, ^f^
It happens to me with every new thing I learn about him. Luke Davis's tribute made me cry again, I don't have the words to describe how I feel... :\'(
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It happens to me with every new thing I learn about him. Luke Davis's tribute made me cry again, I don't have the words to describe how I feel... :\'(
Oh Keren..... :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
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It happens to me with every new thing I learn about him. Luke Davis's tribute made me cry again, I don't have the words to describe how I feel... :\'(
Keren, Christie
I agree with both of you, it always makes me very worse because it tells you how much more it was to loss such a man like Heath :-\\
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I just read the Luke Davies article and wow :\'( :\'(
as the flurry of phone calls and text messages multiplied, wishing for anything, anything at all other than this abrupt impossibility. I think we all know that well :\'(
Yet he fully inhabited his life, and he left not just traces but great swathes of himself. That was so perfectly stated. This article brought that gut punch again.
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That interview with Vincent Fantauzzo is fascinating as well. I know a lot of people have reservation about the portrait, but in the interview he talked extensively about how he and Heath discussed about the approach to the portrait, how Heath was at work and his interaction with his mother and friends. One thing that stood out to me when watching the interview is Vincent Fantauzzo is also a shy person. I highly recommend it.
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I agree yb. And for people who have been a little put off by the portrait, or just feel uncomfortable with it, I think watching this would be somewhat reassuring. :)
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I had watched a vid about the portrait and if my memory isn't faulty he said that he was offered lots of money for it but was thinking of giving the portrait to Heath's mother. Or am I confusing things in my head? At any rate I was moved by the fact that it's not the money and some decency remains in this world.
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Yes, he said that he's going to give it to Heath's mom. He has been offered a lot of money, but as you said, some decency remains in this world. They were genuinely friends and I'm glad that he's honoring Heath's memory that way. He also said that his mom was there for the sitting and in on the creative process, so I'm sure for her the picture will have all kinds of meaning.
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I really like that interview, it gives us some insight to the last month of Heath's life :\'(. And I love that Heath was obviously having a great time in his hometown. The down side of it was it brought back all the tears about this tragedy.
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:ghug: YB
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I got the following 2 pieces from dcf:
About Heath's Portrait
I know the portrait of Heath by Vincent Fantauzzo is quite controversial, here's an interview of Vincent by the Art Gallery of New South Wales during which he has talked in depth about Heath and the portrait, here's the link to the interview which I think is worth watching:
Thank you for this interview.
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That is an absolutely wonderful tribute by Luke Davies. Thank you so much for posting the link. :^^)
Yes, thank you, yb, for posting that. I was just about to, as a friend sent it to me earlier today. It was quite a beautiful picture of Heath at work and play...
kathy
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YB, thank you so much for this. The Luke Davies tribute is simply amazing. I cried all the way through.
"a simpler kind of sadness - at the loss of someone we enjoyed being in the presence of, someone whose transparent openness to his characters' emotions had made us feel, however briefly, more richly our own."
"nailed not only the mannerisms, cadence and physical presence of Skip," says Donnelly, "but also how he raises Skip's spirit, which is the heart and soul and most of what's really great in a not-altogether-great film."
That was the greatness of Heath, raising ordinary mortals to a higher level, enriching impoverished lives with his endless store of kindness, energy, sincerity.
I am especially thankful, to watch the interview, to understand more fully the intended interpretation of the painting, as a reflection of Heath's thought processes when faced with the media. The darkness of the painting always bothered, but understanding it now, I can see it in a proper light, and feel better for it.
It is difficult to imagine, that tears come so easily after so many days for someone I never met. But as Luke Davies said, his "transparent openness to his characters' emotions had made us feel, however briefly, more richly our own." There is no question that for me Heath enriched my life.
I got the following 2 pieces from dcf:
About Heath's Portrait
I know the portrait of Heath by Vincent Fantauzzo is quite controversial, here's an interview of Vincent by the Art Gallery of New South Wales during which he has talked in depth about Heath and the portrait, here's the link to the interview which I think is worth watching:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/multimedia/vincent_fantauzzo
An Article by Luke Davies, the author of Candy
Luke Davies has written an article paying tribute to Heath in the March issue of The Monthly, here's the link:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/821
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I agree yb. And for people who have been a little put off by the portrait, or just feel uncomfortable with it, I think watching this would be somewhat reassuring. :)
This is absolutely the case, yes. I have a whole other feeling and concept about the painting now, having watched this interview with Vincent F. I respect him tremendously, and value the process the two of them went through together...
kathy
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This is an interview (video and article) of Verne Troyer recalling working with Heath on Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and how a lot of people working on the set has tattooed a heart which Heath had scribbled on a note in memory of him. Here's the article and the link where you may see the video in which he broke down in tears:
Verne Troyer Recalls Working With Heath Ledger On His Final Film: 'Heath Meant A Lot To A Lot Of People'
Troyer even got a tattoo with other 'Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' cast- and crewmembers in memory of the late actor.
SANTA MONICA, California — When people normally see Verne Troyer, sadness is the farthest thing from their minds. The world's smallest movie star has brought laughter to millions as Mini-Me, the diminutive sidekick to Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films, and reteams with Mike Myers in June for the comedy "The Love Guru."
The drama he most recently finished shooting, however, has grabbed international headlines with its tragic and ultimately inspiring behind-the-scenes story. This week, an emotional Troyer tried to hold back the tears, speaking about his "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" co-star and friend Heath Ledger.
"I've just got to say thank you to Heath for letting me be a part of his life for that short period of time," Troyer said, thinking back to the day the world first heard about the Oscar nominee's January 22 death. "It's just tragic.
"What happened was that we had just finished filming in London, and I had a scene with Heath, as did Christopher Plummer, who's also in the film, Lily Cole and Andrew Garfield," the actor recalled. "We had all just worked with him and we all flew back. He flew back to New York, I flew back to L.A., and two days or three days after he was in New York was when it happened. I was still recovering from jet lag back in L.A., and I didn't know about it until my manager called me. She wouldn't tell me on the phone. She literally came over and told me. And I just literally broke down."
At that sensitive memory, Troyer had to pause for a moment and request a tissue. But still, he insisted on finishing up the thought.
"He was such a talented actor and just a good person all around," he added. "I couldn't believe it."
Written and directed by legendary filmmaker Terry Gilliam, Troyer admitted that any attempt at summarizing the fantasy world of "Parnassus" would be futile. Still, he gave it his best shot.
"Christopher Plummer plays Doctor Parnassus, and I play Percy. My real name is Percival St. Antwon Delatrane the third," he grinned. "It's a traveling theater group, and we have an old horse-drawn carriage, and the wagon folds out into a theater with a stage. We travel from town to town. We have a magic mirror that people go into to experience their imaginations, and they have a choice of which direction they want their lives to go. There's one direction where it looks good, but it's actually not good, and then there's [one] that doesn't look good, and that's probably the right path to take."
After Ledger's death, there were concerns that the film could be scrapped and the actor's final scenes lost forever. Then, Troyer remembered, something very special happened.
"We had Johnny Depp, we had Colin Farrell, we had Jude Law come in and do scenes, just to honor Heath," he explained. "[Now], when Heath goes into the mirror, he comes out as another person, and that's where these other actors come in."
As those A-listers helped complete the film, Troyer and many of the other people in the "Parnassus" family devised their own tribute to the "Brokeback Mountain" star. "There was a note that Heath had written his e-mail on and had given it to Holly, who is Terry's daughter and a publicist for the film," he explained. "After his e-mail, he scribbled a heart on it."
Now, that very scribble is inked forever on Troyer's right hand. "A lot of us went and copied that heart and had it tattooed, in remembrance of Heath," he explained, showing off his heartfelt symbol. "We had it copied identical to how he scribbled it. ... [We have it in] various places. I believe Lily got it on the inside of her arm. Holly got it up on the inside of her arm."
As it now stands, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is looking like it will survive to give Ledger's legion of heartbroken fans the opportunity to glimpse the last scenes he ever performed before a camera, likely sometime in 2009. Troyer understands why they're eager to experience one last Ledger memory — and will always be happy that he was able to do the same.
"It's a scene where we've just picked up Heath, and he was knocked-out, and we put him in the trunk of the carriage and he comes out of the carriage not knowing where he's at," Troyer recalls of his favorite memory of the late actor. "Then I come out of my quarters, which is underneath the wagon, in a drawer that pulls out. ... It was this scene where it's just me and him. He was off-camera [for a while]. It was basically just on me, and I got to react off of him. He helped me get through a scene [where I had to say my name]. I stumbled a couple of times trying to get through it.
"Terry, don't get mad at me," he continued, offering his director an apology. "I have footage, personal footage, of that scene that I took on my camera. And that's something I'm going to treasure for a lifetime.
"Heath meant a lot," Troyer added, "to a lot of people."
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1585063/story.jhtml
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yb, this is such a lovely article.....I loved how so many people were touched by Heath enough to have that one scribbled heart tattooed on them, as a constant reminder of the man they loved and admired....
Thanks for posting. ^f^ Sadly, I cant access the video as I am not in the US. :(
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Christie, I don't know why, but I can watch it. It's basically the same as the article, but at one point he had tears rolling down and they had to stop for a while for him to recoup. He has the heart tattooed at the same position as Heath's maple leaf.
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Thanks for posting ^f^
I can see the video, its heartbreaking :\'(
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Christie, I don't know why, but I can watch it. It's basically the same as the article, but at one point he had tears rolling down and they had to stop for a while for him to recoup. He has the heart tattooed at the same position as Heath's maple leaf.
I wonder why I cant watch it? :( Oh well, maybe I will get to see it eventually.
Thanks for posting it anyway. But its just so heartbreaking....so many people all over the world are affected in some way by Heath's death.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Oh my, this is so lovely and sad, this shows what a terrific guy Heath was!!
I cried the whole video, can you imagine how Heath made such an impact on other people. :\'(
It's such a sweet and wonderfull idea to tattoo a heart with the crew to rember him by.
Thank you yb for posting !!
PS: Christie..I live in The netherlands and I can watch the video.
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I can watch the video too. Troyer's sadness seemed so genuine, it was heartbreaking to watch. Thanks for posting it.
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this takes my heart away... oh dear ... :\'(
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This is an interview (video and article) of Verne Troyer recalling working with Heath on Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,
...."I've just got to say thank you to Heath for letting me be a part of his life for that short period of time"
oh...I cried with him ... :\'(
and what an amazing thing to say!
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I had no idea Troyer worked with Heath on Dr. Parnassus..
I repected Veren so much as an actor, even when he was just beginning
I almost cried when I saw the tear rolling down his eye. He and so many of the people their were affected SO much by him..
I loved the tattoo that some of the members had gotten as tribute of him as well :\'(
Thank you yb :ghug:
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OMG!!! I've cried a lot with that vid!!! When he was saying those things about that horrible day and then he started to cry..... :\'( :\'( :\'( Jesus, his tears running down his face....he seemed so lost......I felt so sad, so sad. And Heath's friends and the heart.....what a beautiful thing to do!!!
Oh Heath, baby, why did you leave? :\'( :\'( :\'(
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An Article by Luke Davies, the author of Candy
Luke Davies has written an article paying tribute to Heath in the March issue of The Monthly, here's the link:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/821
..........There was, of course, his face: intelligent, kind, beautiful. Those eyes. That mouth. That smile. His extraordinary physical agility - he was a great natural clown. And that rich, glorious voice."
Oh, the voice.. <^(
Well everything was said already but I just had to quote this from the article.
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This is an interview (video and article) of Verne Troyer recalling working with Heath on Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and how a lot of people working on the set has tattooed a heart which Heath had scribbled on a note in memory of him. Here's the article and the link where you may see the video in which he broke down in tears:
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yb, thank you so much for sharing this article and video with us... :\'( :\'( :\'( I cried watching it. To see Troyer crying in front of the camera like that, it's absolutely heartbreaking. I loved the fact that they had Heath's heart tattooed on their bodies. I'm a mess now.
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yb, thank you so much for sharing this article and video with us... :\'( :\'( :\'( I cried watching it. To see Troyer crying in front of the camera like that, it's absolutely heartbreaking. I loved the fact that they had Heath's heart tattooed on their bodies. I'm a mess now.
There might just be a run on a certain scribbled heart tattoo...
kathy
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There might just be a run on a certain scribbled heart tattoo...
kathy
I was thinking that too. As I didnt see the video, does Verne Troyer show the tattoo he has?
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I was thinking that too. As I didnt see the video, does Verne Troyer show the tattoo he has?
He did flash it to the camera, but it's from a distance so you can't really make out the shape of the heart.
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Aww Verne is a sweetheart! The tatoos were a great idea!
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There might just be a run on a certain scribbled heart tattoo...
kathy
don't laugh.. even i was thinking about that.. really hard...
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i dont think i will suit a heart tatto but i think i might get the leaf that heath had on his hand... maybe but i cant have tattos on my lower arms or hands if i want to join the police so i might get the leaf but on my upper arm.
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There might just be a run on a certain scribbled heart tattoo...
kathy
I was thinking of that too- have pondered getting a tat for a while- still trying to figure out what to get that will only be picked up on by those in the "know". And then there is the whole low pain threshold thing. ::) But I was thinking of that heart. Glad to see I'm not the only one, though it doesn't surprise me at all. :)
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I was thinking of that too- have pondered getting a tat for a while- still trying to figure out what to get that will only be picked up on by those in the "know". And then there is the whole low pain threshold thing. ::) But I was thinking of that heart. Glad to see I'm not the only one, though it doesn't surprise me at all. :)
me neither... and you are right..
i always wondered about a little tatoo that only BBM people would understand.. but that's somehow difficult.. this here really is an option..
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I was thinking of that too- have pondered getting a tat for a while- still trying to figure out what to get that will only be picked up on by those in the "know". And then there is the whole low pain threshold thing. ::) But I was thinking of that heart. Glad to see I'm not the only one, though it doesn't surprise me at all. :)
Well we all have the same thoughts, i was thinking about that too :)..but wouldn't it be nice if it's the same heart, when i get that tat, it must be the same as the crew has...so maybe wait of a close up pic?
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Hopefully one will surface- I had an idea for a BBM one and maybe I can combine them. I'll have to see if I chicken out. I think that was the sweetest and most touching thing they did in getting that tatooed and that interview with Troyer set off more tears.
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Well we all have the same thoughts, i was thinking about that too :)..but wouldn't it be nice if it's the same heart, when i get that tat, it must be the same as the crew has...so maybe wait of a close up pic?
would be good - where from?
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would be good - where from?
I don't think there is any close up pic yet, i searched internet but couldn't find one.
Only the small pic of Verne Troyer, but it's from a distance so you can't really make out the shape of the heart.
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I was thinking of that too- have pondered getting a tat for a while- still trying to figure out what to get that will only be picked up on by those in the "know".
I had the same thought. I thought about that celtic design he had around his wrist, or the maple leaf. I just played with the idea in my head. but I think if I could put my hands on that little heart design I'd go for that.
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I had the same thought. I thought about that celtic design he had around his wrist, or the maple leaf. I just played with the idea in my head. but I think if I could put my hands on that little heart design I'd go for that.
Me too, Keren!!
I've been thinking about some BBM for a long time. I was thinking about one of the most beautiful and haunting quotes of the film, you know, one of those phrases we all love. Even I thought about some of the BBM's pics.....but now, I'd go for that heart, Heath's heart. It'd be so precious if I know that out there, there are a lot of people with the same tattoo as me, loving BBM and Heath as much as me. That would make me feel I'm not alone, there is someone else feeling the same as me.
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I've been thinking about some BBM for a long time. I was thinking about one of the most beautiful and haunting quotes of the film, you know, one of those phrases we all love. Even I thought about some of the BBM's pics.....but now, I'd go for that heart, Heath's heart. It'd be so precious if I know that out there, there are a lot of people with the same tattoo as me, loving BBM and Heath as much as me. That would make me feel I'm not alone, there is someone else feeling the same as me.
Wow, I had the same thoughts too. Scary thing is, I already, even before Heath's death, wanted to get a tattoo of a black heat on my right hand and if we could see the tattoo more visably, I would love to get it for Heath :\'(
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I am with you Baby Tammy, I was thinking of a phrase from BBM too, like "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it" but I'm not sure and I gotta wait at least a year in half to even get a tattoo :-\\
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Wow, I had the same thoughts too. Scary thing is, I already, even before Heath's death, wanted to get a tattoo of a black heat on my right hand and if we could see the tattoo more visably, I would love to get it for Heath :\'(
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I am with you Baby Tammy, I was thinking of a phrase from BBM too, like "If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it" but I'm not sure and I gotta wait at least a year in half to even get a tattoo :-\\
If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
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If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
WOW that's really beautiful Keren :\'(
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If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
OMG :\'( :\'(
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If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
Keren...that's so precious..... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :ghug: :^^)
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If I ever get a chance to get this tattoo I think I'll get it on my chest, above my heart.
"I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart".
Wow, I never knew how meaningful my signature would be :-\\
That was beautiful idea Keren, to get the tattoo on your chest :\'( :\'(
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I am still bracing for Batman movie...sigh. I mean i am going to go, but will need to go easy on myself.
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An Article by Luke Davies, the author of Candy
Luke Davies has written an article paying tribute to Heath in the March issue of The Monthly, here's the link:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/821
Thank you yb for posting that very great tribute to Heath from Luke Davies ^f^
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Wow, I never knew how meaningful my signature would be :-\\
That was beautiful idea Keren, to get the tattoo on your chest :\'( :\'(
I am planning a tattoo in one of my palm. They say. lines in your palm tells the future and the past,
I would tattoo the name of Heath in one of my palm and the tattoo itself will speak how I think of Heath.
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I very much enjoyed that interview with Vincent Fantauzzo on the making of his portrait of Heath.
Thanks for posting the link %)
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
OMG :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :ghug: :ghug:
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
That was a beautiful but heart-wrenching article...I just can't get over the last sentence :\'( :\'(
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
Thank you, Keren. A fine article. And so true, and Ennis, about Heath...
kathy
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Heartbreak mountain
http://xinkaishi.typepad.com/a_new_start/2008/02/ft-heartbreak-m.html
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"The message of King Lear, and of Brokeback Mountain, is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage."
:\'( :\'( :\'(
Thank you, Keren. On a day, of all days, when I am already in the middle of PBS, reading this article was difficult through tears that flowed non-stop. The man is a fine writer who understands human nature and Brokeback Mountain, but most of all, Ennis Del Mar. I've managed to put Ennis behind my thoughts of Heath, and this article brought him front and center again, but not upstaging Heath, rather hand in hand, as Ang Lee said, Heath brought so much to Ennis. I was only thinking no more than an hour ago, that Heath really created the Ennis that we know...a man opaque to himself...the article is such a treasure. Thanks again. :ghug: :\'(
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You're welcome. I don't think the tears will ever end.
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I don't think the tears will ever end.
That's for sure :(
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:ghug: Doesn't seem like it, does it?
That was a beautiful article.
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In Loving Tribute
Words Cannot Express
The Depths of Our Love
and How much We
Miss You.
Heath Andrew Ledger
1979 - 2008
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I had finished filming ‘The Imaginarium…’
with Heath Ledger on 20th January,
and during all that time he was nothing but professional -
working into the small hours in the freezing cold,
clad only in satin, fighting flu, doing his own stunt work,
chilling out with the crew, viewing the rushes with Gilliam.
There was no star system and Heath was part
of the crew, helping out and working damned hard.
Besides that, Heath was caring and friendly,
and if you didn’t know him, you quickly grew to love him
because he had a genuine way of connecting with people.
I was totally enchanted by Heath’s performance,
and it was a pure joy to be around him.
(Baba Berni, London, April 15, 2008)
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Beautiful words that reflect very well the way Heath was and how we imagine him; not being a star,but a humble and friendly person who gave a part of himself with every role.And what's more and better,with every person he met...Thanks for sharing it with us,White_angel¡ ^f^
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‘Heath was spectacular’
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: March 26, 2008
MANILA, Philippines—No question about it, Heath Ledger was “hot.”
This is according to recent Manila visitor Crystal Bourbeau, a manager at Mandate International—a company of Lions Gate, which is behind Ledger’s last film.
Bourbeau is among the few who have seen footage of the late actor’s performance in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.”
“Heath was spectacular,” said Bourbeau. “He had always been a wonderful actor, but especially so in this film. It would be a tragedy not to share this movie with the world.”
Ledger had been working on the flick in London when he passed away suddenly in his New York apartment in January.
Production was thrown into a quandary. “The film is split between reality and fantasy. Fortunately, Heath had finished all the reality scenes,” Bourbeau said. The creative team, led by director Terry Gilliam and producer Samuel Hadida, invited A-listers Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law to play “transformed” versions of Heath in the fantasy worlds.
“They jumped on board quickly,” Bourbeau said. As luck would have it, all three proved available for the shoot in Canada, which began this month.
“They are absolutely doing it for the love of Heath,” said Bourbeau.
“Thrilling,” she described the movie. “It reminded me of [Gilliam’s] ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ with its fabulous sets and costumes.”
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In Loving Tribute
Words Cannot Express
The Depths of Our Love
and How much We
Miss You.
Heath Andrew Ledger
1979 - 2008
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I had finished filming ‘The Imaginarium…’
with Heath Ledger on 20th January,
and during all that time he was nothing but professional -
working into the small hours in the freezing cold,
clad only in satin, fighting flu, doing his own stunt work,
chilling out with the crew, viewing the rushes with Gilliam.
There was no star system and Heath was part
of the crew, helping out and working damned hard.
Besides that, Heath was caring and friendly,
and if you didn’t know him, you quickly grew to love him
because he had a genuine way of connecting with people.
I was totally enchanted by Heath’s performance,
and it was a pure joy to be around him.
(Baba Berni, London, April 15, 2008)
That's wonderful to read. ^f^
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That's wonderful to read. ^f^
Yes, with so many awful negative stories fighting for publicity, it's nice to hear from the people that were really able to experience working with him...they were so lucky to live that experience :)
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Thank you, Keren. On a day, of all days, when I am already in the middle of PBS, reading this article was difficult through tears that flowed non-stop. The man is a fine writer who understands human nature and Brokeback Mountain, but most of all, Ennis Del Mar. I've managed to put Ennis behind my thoughts of Heath, and this article brought him front and center again, but not upstaging Heath, rather hand in hand, as Ang Lee said, Heath brought so much to Ennis. I was only thinking no more than an hour ago, that Heath really created the Ennis that we know...a man opaque to himself...the article is such a treasure. Thanks again. :ghug: :\'(
I understand you well, friend!! I could quote the whole article.
But Ennis Del Mar is not one of those cold heartbreakers. What makes him both irresistible and devastating is the depth of baffled tenderness in him; the love that he can only fitfully express in his relationship with Jack Twist but that shines through at the end of the film in his relationship with his daughter Alma Jr.
This is what Heath Ledger so marvellously conveys, in his slow-burning, laconic performance: a man struggling over the course of a whole life to come to terms, not so much with his sexuality (I do not see this only as a gay film but more universally as a film about blocked love) as with his tremendous need for love and, ultimately, with his ability to give love.
Finally, you feel, Ennis's heart is well and truly broken. And the broken-hearted Ennis will no longer be violent and uncomprehending in the face of love.
The message of King Lear , and of Brokeback Mountain , is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage.
Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This man really knows Ennis Del Mar. Now my heart is so broken again. I love Heath more than ever. I love Ennis with such a force that I have no words to describe it.
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Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This man really knows Ennis Del Mar. Now my heart is so broken again. I love Heath more than ever. I love Ennis with such a force that I have no words to describe it.
:ghug: :ghug:
I know exactly how you feel
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Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This man really knows Ennis Del Mar. Now my heart is so broken again. I love Heath more than ever. I love Ennis with such a force that I have no words to describe it.
Me too baby Tammy, me too. :\'( :ghug:
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I understand you well, friend!! I could quote the whole article.
But Ennis Del Mar is not one of those cold heartbreakers. What makes him both irresistible and devastating is the depth of baffled tenderness in him; the love that he can only fitfully express in his relationship with Jack Twist but that shines through at the end of the film in his relationship with his daughter Alma Jr.
This is what Heath Ledger so marvellously conveys, in his slow-burning, laconic performance: a man struggling over the course of a whole life to come to terms, not so much with his sexuality (I do not see this only as a gay film but more universally as a film about blocked love) as with his tremendous need for love and, ultimately, with his ability to give love.
Finally, you feel, Ennis's heart is well and truly broken. And the broken-hearted Ennis will no longer be violent and uncomprehending in the face of love.
The message of King Lear , and of Brokeback Mountain , is that we must all have our hearts broken. In some strange way, these profound works do not merely convey but also enact that message; they perform a homeopathic heartbreak that leaves us miraculously breathing, more deeply and richly than before.
If only Heath Ledger had not had to break our hearts again, in a room in Manhattan, not a film-set or a stage.
Damn. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This man really knows Ennis Del Mar. Now my heart is so broken again. I love Heath more than ever. I love Ennis with such a force that I have no words to describe it.
Oh wow, thanks Tammy for posting the rest of the article....how amazing was that? He totally got Ennis del Mar, and saw how amazing Heath's portrayal of him was... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Ledger portrait wins people's art prize
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=480852
A haunting portrait of the late actor Heath Ledger has taken out the people's choice award at the Archibald Prize exhibition.
The painting "Heath", by Vincent Fantauzzo, was announced as the winner of the popular prize at the Art Gallery of NSW on Thursday.
More than 32,000 people voted in the competition.
The portrait, which features three images of Ledger, was painted just weeks before the late actor's death in New York in January.
The Art Gallery of NSW said the popularity of the painting had helped the gallery record its biggest attendance since the competition began in 1921.
A spokeswoman said the Ledger family and Fantauzzo had decided to donate the painting to the gallery.
Melbourne-based Fantauzzo receives $2,500 and a $1,000 gift card for winning the award.
The Archibald, one of Australia's most prestigious art awards, was won this year by Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton, with her painting You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella.
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Oh wow, thats wonderful news...... :)
As much as the prize must be a bitter sweet reward, I hope Vincent Fantauzzo is proud of the amazing painting he produced.
I also hope Heath's parents can take some solace in Heath's painting being on permanent show for everyone to appreciate...
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They're wonderful news indeed¡.It' s like another homage to Heath by means of someone who painted his image for eternity. :)
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this is great news :)
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Oh, wow, BRAVO!!!! <^( <^( <^( Vincent and Heath deserve that!! I would have liked that Heath had seen that.....but maybe he's watching....
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Been looking and searching where I can feel the presence of " ROAST".
One American show gave me this short break from sadness of grieving,
American Idol Michael Jones from Perth Australia.
As I watch the show and the performance of Jones. my eyes gets teary. It was just like feeling Heath is alive by watching his childhood friend Michael Jones.
I guess. all thngs and people that is related to Heath , reading and watching the news from Perth gives me comfort.
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that's really wonderful...i like that portret very much
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(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi58.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg271%2Fluanajoy%2Fheath_ledger.jpg&hash=036955ac14488455355b26bbe2b4773ad39dada8)
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This is from a blog of a girl who was one of the dancers hired to perform in the video "Morning Yearning", directed by Heath:
Now, here I am, downtown l.a. about to get mugged. I hesitantly knock on the outside of a dirty garage door..... There weren't any REAL doors to be found.
I hear people and the garage starts to lift.....
"Hi! I'm Heath! You must be the dancers!" As if I had no idea who even was, even though I'd been obsessing over him since 10 Things I Hate About You.
He stretched out his hand with a firm handshake and smiled.
"Um, you can just go sit on that couch over there, maybe show me what clothes you brought and we'll get started in a minute...Thank you guys SO much for coming, really."
Typical Hollywood protocol involves a crew, wardrobe, catering, production assistant, gaffers, cameramen, assistants to the assistants, etc. I surveyed the room...and it seemed everyone else had, taken the day off?? Half the time you didn't SEE the director let alone speak to him.
6 dancers, 2 cameramen, 1 assistant, Heath, and Ben.
Here he comes....I love him, I love him, I love him. -ok, be professional.
"K uh. So, this is my first time directing. I came up with the concept- I just really loved the song and Ben is a friend so I wanted to do it. I want it to be really organic. Wear lose fitting clothes, maybe earth tones......and you're just going to improv." He was so passionate, so excited and....
Improv?! Holy hell. I'm going to make a jackass out of myself in front of a creative genius.
"I used to modern dance, in Australia and I want it to be....well, like this sort of."
This Academy Award nominated actor starts dancing, swinging his arms, exploring levels, high and low, closing his eyes....
"See? Do you guys have any questions?.....Ok, so how about we start with you??"
He's pointing at me, dear Lord, he's pointing at me- acknowledging my existence.
"SURE!!" I just screamed, tone it down Chels, tone it down.
I jump on the stage, the smoke machine starts blowing, my palms are sweating and Heath jumps up next to me, he crosses his legs and grabs onto both ankles like a little boy....
"So.....do you have any suggestions for me??"
Did he really just ask if I had suggestions for him?! Me? some chick dancing for a mere 25 dollars, some stranger, and he wants my advice? This was the humblest thing I'd ever seen in Hollywood.
"Uhm....no?"
"Ok...." He's staring at my face....studying it. "Can you take your hair down? There and flip your head over, tousle it a bit...."
I shake my hair out and he reaches towards me, putting both hands in my hair, scratching my scalp and giving it that messy look.
"Beautiful."
The music starts....my hearts beating and I start to move. 2 minutes pass like nothing, I was "in it", I was going to perform and get lost in the music just as he had in all of his performances.... the song ends and silence fills the room.
I peer up and Heath is standing at the end of the stage....he grabs my hand with both of his, looks my straight in the eye and says, "That was brilliant. Really inspiring....I got chills. Thank you."
I am in love.
He continues with the next dancers, demonstrating movement occasionally- eventually splitting his pants, but he continued anyway. He experimented with lights and smoke, showing his excitement when something worked perfectly. Then we broke for lunch....
I station myself on the dusty warehouse floor and he sits on the ground next to myself and the other dancers, immediately striking up conversation as if we were longtime friends.
"I LOVE GRANOLA." I blurt out as I devour handfuls at a time.
"That should be a a shirt...you know, like one of those quirky shirts with sayings, that's funny."
His voice was charming, a slight Australian accent making words like quirky sound; quirky.
The 7 hours passed quickly and he graciously thanked each and everyone of us, making eye contact and profusely thanking us for the inspiration. He pulled his wallet out and handed us each a hundred bucks.
"I know it's not much...."
I didn't care. The experience was priceless.
Heath (and Ben) was one of the humblest people I have ever met. Unaffected. Warm. Genuine. He listened when people spoke, watched intently, and had the most positive, serene energy. I am blessed to have worked with him in his short life, and it is a tragedy he didn't get to continue on making incredible films and inspiring us all.
The result of his first and last music video was beautiful, organic and modest. I am honored to have been a part of it....in loving memory;
You can find the whole thing here:
http://chelseatalkssmack.blogspot.com/2008/01/rest-in-peace-heath.html
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Oh wow Keren, that was gorgeous! I felt load of emotions reading that - I was laughing as the girl described being spoken to by Heath, being asked her opinion by Heath and - most importantly - having her hair tousled by Heath... (t) But I felt sad as I realised how enthusiastic he was about the whole process, and how we knew he wanted to do more of that, :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Thanks for posting this Keren. ^f^
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Keren, the blog by that was so beautiful and she was so lucky to have met him!
He was so humble towards her and the dancers and I love he asked them for suggestions
And how started dancing, closing his eyes, almost like nothing but this, meant the world to him
Things like this always make me miss him even more
Thank you again Keren for posting this one girls tribute to a gentle, loving man, we all miss dearly..
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Every time I read something about Heath I realise more and more the kind of person he was.The way he treated that girl is really lovely,very far from the image we all have of a movie star;because Heath was not that,but a humble and friendly person with everybody.Thanks for posting it,Keren,and for making us know him better still¡. ^f^
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Every time I read something about Heath I realise more and more the kind of person he was.The way he treated that girl is really lovely,very far from the image we all have of a movie star;because Heath was not that,but a humble and friendly person with everybody.
Just one of the reasons why I love him so much.
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Just one of the reasons why I love him so much.
And you're not the only one... :ghug: :^^)
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This is from a blog of a girl who was one of the dancers hired to perform in the video "Morning Yearning", directed by Heath:
Thank you for posting this girl's blog, keren!
These small things which are told about him, makes me love him even more.
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Thank you for posting this girl's blog, keren!
These small things which are told about him, makes me love him even more.
I feel that way too. :)
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I shake my hair out and he reaches towards me, putting both hands in my hair, scratching my scalp and giving it that messy look.
"Beautiful."The music starts....my hearts beating and I start to move. 2 minutes pass like nothing, I was "in it", I was going to perform and get lost in the music just as he had in all of his performances.... the song ends and silence fills the room.
I peer up and Heath is standing at the end of the stage....he grabs my hand with both of his, looks my straight in the eye and says, "That was brilliant. Really inspiring....I got chills. Thank you."
OMG Keren..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This is really moving, very special. Heath was the most amazing man ever!!!! Very humble, passionate and sweet. Tell me, isn't it sweet when he said that "beautiful"? When he said to the girl that her work was brilliant and really inspiring? Awww, this man touch my heart every time I read something new about him. How could every simple person in the world not to love him? That's impossible!!
Thank you so much for this, sweetie. :^^)
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I feel that way too. :)
Dito ! I quote :clap:
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Below is the link to an article (in french) about a painting of Heath :
http://www.news-de-stars.com/actualite/heath-ledger-n-039-est-pas-a-vendre_art3841.html
Below is the wonderful painting:
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi241.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fff1%2Ftitabeille_photos%2FHeath%2520Ledger%2Fimage4349-w460.jpg&hash=2e9ab70db921fac546c6c6512ce10e7e98834046)
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OMG Keren..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This is really moving, very special. Heath was the most amazing man ever!!!! Very humble, passionate and sweet. Tell me, isn't it sweet when he said that "beautiful"? When he said to the girl that her work was brilliant and really inspiring? Awww, this man touch my heart every time I read something new about him. How could every simple person in the world not to love him? That's impossible!!
I totally agree with you Tammy. If I was that girl, I would've cherished those moments for the rest of my life...
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OMG Keren..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( This is really moving, very special. Heath was the most amazing man ever!!!! Very humble, passionate and sweet. Tell me, isn't it sweet when he said that "beautiful"? When he said to the girl that her work was brilliant and really inspiring? Awww, this man touch my heart every time I read something new about him. How could every simple person in the world not to love him? That's impossible!!
Thank you so much for this, sweetie. :^^)
Yes, Keren, thank you much. As everyone has already said, things like this just make me love Heath even more. What a beautiful soul, what a pure and energetic love of life, and an inspired artistry... Makes me so sad...
kathy
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You've all said it already, but how could I not add my thanks as well? Keren, that's just one in a long line of personal accounts by people who knew or worked with him, all saying the same things about his friendliness, humble nature and generosity, and it was so beautifully and humorously expressed too.
Just wonderful. <^(
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Thank you for that Keren :ghug: I'm all teary now, of course, but I smiled at a lot of it and giggled at some parts. This was the humblest thing I'd ever seen in Hollywood. <^(
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What Christian Bale had to say about Heath in the new Details magazine:
He was incredibly intense in his performance but incredibly mellow and laid-back. Certainly there was this great anarchistic streak to it — just getting dirtier than anybody’s envisioned the Joker before. Naturally, (the movie) was something I wanted to share with him — and expected to do so. And I can’t do anything else but hope that it will be an absolutely appropriate celebration of his work.
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Thank you ynnaf. I'm sure Christian Bale was looking forward to promoting the movie together with Heath, sharing all the excitement around it together... :\'( :\'( :\'( Oh God this is one of the moments it hits me again, I can't believe he's gone.
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Thank you ynnaf. I'm sure Christian Bale was looking forward to promoting the movie together with Heath, sharing all the excitement around it together... :\'( :\'( :\'( Oh God this is one of the moments it hits me again, I can't believe he's gone.
:ghug: Keren :ghug: Like Christian Bale said, "I can’t do anything else but hope that it will be an absolutely appropriate celebration of his work." Heath is deeply missed by everyone but his life and work is a celebration of his incredible talent, gifts. :ghug:
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I know it, creeps up on you, when you are least expecting it. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Great words from Christian Bale though...
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I'm sure Heath won the affection and friendship of Christian Bale as well as any person he worked with; and I'm sure that Christian is really true when he says he was expecting to promote the movie with him.He,like all of us,can't understand still that such a loving person,with such a whole life before him to fill with so many projects,can be celebrated not only for his latest work,but for his LAST WORK...It's difficult to understand for anybody sensitive enough. :\'(
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You are welcome guys!
There are so many beautiful tributes from family, friends and colleagues. It makes me happy that so many people liked and respected him.
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Michelle Williams Helps Fund Heath Ledger Scholarship:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop)
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Classy gal. What a nice gesture on her part. :)
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Wonderful tribute of Michelle to the man who loved her so much... :clap:
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Michelle Williams Helps Fund Heath Ledger Scholarship:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop)
thanks for this :), im almost crying :\'( sort of a mix of happy and sad tears :) :\'(
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Michelle Williams Helps Fund Heath Ledger Scholarship:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204917,00.html?xid=pop)
Thank you so much ynnaf...not only for this one article, but the many others that you posted in the past.
I love this quote from Gregor Jordan: "When he had nothing, he still found a way to give to others." It's not the size of the gift, but the heart behind it. And Heath's heart is as magical as they come.
Thanks ynnaf... :ghug: :(
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Thank you so much ynnaf...not only for this one article, but the many others that you posted in the past.
I love this quote from Gregor Jordan: "When he had nothing, he still found a way to give to others." It's not the size of the gift, but the heart behind it. And Heath's heart is as magical as they come.
Thanks ynnaf... :ghug: :(
I quote this. Thank you ynnaf.
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You are welcome guys! :)
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Thanks ynnaf. I completely ditto Andrew's post, too.
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I think this is such a sweet story.
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
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I think this is such a sweet story.
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
I saw this yesterday, It brings a tear to my eye, its so sweet :\'( <^(
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It's a nice and sweet story indeed. <^( And it shows that Heath was all a gentleman who get on well with everybody he worked with.I saw Sienna in the tribute made in Oscar's ceremony and she looked very sad for her friend...Thank you for posting it,Chris¡ :ghug:
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I am increasingly concerned by the content of some of these posts - while I think it legitimate to mourn the loss of potential, beyond that I think it unnecessary to go.
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I think this is such a sweet story.
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
thats sweet and very sad...
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It's a nice and sweet story indeed. <^( And it shows that Heath was all a gentleman who get on well with everybody he worked with.I saw Sienna in the tribute made in Oscar's ceremony and she looked very sad for her friend...Thank you for posting it,Chris¡ :ghug:
You're welcome...
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I think this is such a sweet story.
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
That is a sweet story and I'm glad she got a momento to remember him by <^(
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Thank you for posting this story Christie! I agree, it's so sweet, and I can't help but smile when I picture Sienna going home dressed in Heath's huge pyjamas... ;D
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Thank you for posting this story Christie! I agree, it's so sweet, and I can't help but smile when I picture Sienna going home dressed in Heath's huge pyjamas... ;D
I know me too. Its bittersweet, but its nice to know these things he did for people, and the memories they have of him because of them. You can imagine the fun they had.....
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What a sweet story Sienna has. I know how much we all love the Heath pajamas Ethan owns from BBM, and they weren't even really his own. I hope she holds onto those forever, it almost worries me that she travels with them, but what I love most of all about the story, is the fact that as heartbroken and depressed as Heath's dad Kim must have been, he still went out of his way to make Heath's friends feel better by finding and giving them things that ment something to them <^(
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I love that too Jess. That man has been so gracious to everyone, the general public included through a horrific, uninimaginable time.
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I saw this yesterday, It brings a tear to my eye, its so sweet :\'( <^(
Aww, PJ's. So humble, personal, comforting. Yes, this is sad but a lovely memory of Heath...
kathy
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A great news :\'(
http://www.nysun.com/arts/charles-wuorinen-takes-on-brokeback/79508/
Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," Annie Proulx's short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
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A great news :\'(
http://www.nysun.com/arts/charles-wuorinen-takes-on-brokeback/79508/
Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," Annie Proulx's short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
OMG, I want to see this :\'(
Thanks for posting Audrey ^f^
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Ledger Tribute Planned For Premiere
10 June 2008 6:43 PM, PDT
The premiere of Heath Ledger's final complete film will be dedicated
to the actor - and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor's family will make the trip from Australia back to New York,
the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January,
for the screening of Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on 14 July.
Christopher Nolan, the film's director, has also created a memoriam to
the actor, which will be shown at the end of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628)
(P.S.:You can find this news at the end of the page)
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Ledger Tribute Planned For Premiere
10 June 2008 6:43 PM, PDT
The premiere of Heath Ledger's final complete film will be dedicated
to the actor - and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor's family will make the trip from Australia back to New York,
the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January,
for the screening of Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on 14 July.
Christopher Nolan, the film's director, has also created a memoriam to
the actor, which will be shown at the end of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628)
(P.S.:You can find this news at the end of the page)
thanks for this ali
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Ledger Tribute Planned For Premiere
10 June 2008 6:43 PM, PDT
The premiere of Heath Ledger's final complete film will be dedicated
to the actor - and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor's family will make the trip from Australia back to New York,
the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January,
for the screening of Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on 14 July.
Christopher Nolan, the film's director, has also created a memoriam to
the actor, which will be shown at the end of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628)
This is a beautiful gesture from Chris Nolan and the studios... but it breaks my heart to think about it. Just reading these words is so hard for me. :\'( :\'(
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This is a beautiful gesture from Chris Nolan and the studios... but it breaks my heart to think about it. Just reading these words is so hard for me. :\'( :\'(
Thats how I feel....I am glad they are honoring Heath in this way, but I know its going to be a really difficult occasion, and its going to be so hard for his family, when Heath should be there. :\'( :\'(
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:ghug:
Thanks Alicia. It is indeed a beautiful gesture.
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This is a beautiful gesture from Chris Nolan and the studios... but it breaks my heart to think about it. Just reading these words is so hard for me. :\'( :\'(
Keren,don't cry... :ghug:
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Ledger Tribute Planned For Premiere
10 June 2008 6:43 PM, PDT
The premiere of Heath Ledger's final complete film will be dedicated
to the actor - and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor's family will make the trip from Australia back to New York,
the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January,
for the screening of Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on 14 July.
Christopher Nolan, the film's director, has also created a memoriam to
the actor, which will be shown at the end of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628)
(P.S.:You can find this news at the end of the page)
I hope this memoriam will be shown worldwide, I will be very mad if they didn't. But it will be very difficult to watch and keep my composure.
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I hope this memoriam will be shown worldwide, I will be very mad if they didn't. But it will be very difficult to watch and keep my composure.
I know what you mean. I want to see it, but I also know it's probably gonna make me cry, again.
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I hope this memoriam will be shown worldwide, I will be very mad if they didn't. But it will be very difficult to watch and keep my composure.
It's likely just for the premiere, but it would be nice if the put it online for his fans <^(
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It's likely just for the premiere, but it would be nice if the put it online for his fans <^(
Oh, you're right, I forgot the word 'premiere'. I'm disappointed but I hope WB will put it up on the official website for us to download after the premiere.
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That would be great. I hope so too.
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A great news :\'(
http://www.nysun.com/arts/charles-wuorinen-takes-on-brokeback/79508/
Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," Annie Proulx's short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
2013?? Jeez. Actually, my good friend's mother is like best friends with both Wuorinen and Mortier, and we're fantasizing having front-row seats.
kathy
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Ledger Tribute Planned For Premiere
10 June 2008 6:43 PM, PDT
The premiere of Heath Ledger's final complete film will be dedicated
to the actor - and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor's family will make the trip from Australia back to New York,
the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January,
for the screening of Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on 14 July.
Christopher Nolan, the film's director, has also created a memoriam to
the actor, which will be shown at the end of the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0246628)
(P.S.:You can find this news at the end of the page)
Thank you so much for this. I look forward to the movie, just to watch the memoriam. :\'( :ghug: <^(
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Heath ensured daughter would be wealthy:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=258177846&p=z58y7855z (http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=258177846&p=z58y7855z)
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I felt very strange that,by being without a recent will,he left Matilda without her inheritance.She was the world to him... Every time I get more convinced of what a great person he was. :\'(
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Heath ensured daughter would be wealthy:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=258177846&p=z58y7855z (http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=258177846&p=z58y7855z)
Like the "source" said, he knew what he was doing. I'm pleased to know he ensured not only his daughter's future, but her mother's too.
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thats so great that heath ensured matildas wealth, he really was an amazing man :\'(
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thats so great that heath ensured matildas wealth, he really was an amazing man :\'(
I quote :\'( :\'(
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Some quotes from Christian Bale about Heath:
http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/celebrity/christian-bales-heath-anger.html (http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/celebrity/christian-bales-heath-anger.html)
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Some quotes from Christian Bale about Heath:
http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/celebrity/christian-bales-heath-anger.html (http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/celebrity/christian-bales-heath-anger.html)
thansk for this :)
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Thanks ynaff. It's time they put those rumours to rest.
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Ditto Keren
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I quote Keren's words and I say a hurray for Bale's words...Thank you for posting it,Ynaff ¡ ^f^
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I think this is such a sweet story.
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
Very sweet <^( and sad :\'( story indeed, thanks to post it christie ^f^
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Your co-star Heath Ledger, who plays The Joker, died tragically after the fi lm wrapped. Do you mind talking about him?
No, listen, I want to talk about Heath.
When you miss somebody, you want to speak about him. He was a unique character, a very infectious character. He was a good man, and I was glad to have spent time with him. He
was somebody who I’d been seeing on a daily basis for months. It takes a long time to accept that someone’s gone, when all body and mind are telling you that this is somebody you will know for a great deal of time. He was something of a kindred spirit to myself.
It must be difficult.
Much of it has to do with my respect for his daughter, whom he loved so dearly and whom he would talk about so often. For me, that is of
incredible importance. I hope in a small way that The Dark Knight can be a celebration of his work. Not like the hideous circus after he died, which I felt was an invasion of
a private life. This movie is not a personal home video. This is what he did. I hope people will embrace that in the correct fashion.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/25/christian-bale-parade/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/25/christian-bale-parade/)
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http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/25/christian-bale-parade/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/25/christian-bale-parade/)
It takes a long time to accept that someone’s gone, when all body and mind are telling you that this is somebody you will know for a great deal of time.
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Wonderful words from Christian Bale...thanks for posting, ynnaf. ^f^
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Thank you so much for posting it ynnaf. I loved what Christian Bale had to say.
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So beautiful and sad. :\'( :\'( :\'( Thank you for this!! I love CB words. He's a good man.
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Some respectful words from a respectful and wise man.He realised the way Heath was;I wish everybody was like him,instead of spreading some stupid rumours ¡ :clap: Thanks for posting it,ynnaf¡ ^f^
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You are all welcome! :)
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Performing arts centre named in honour of Ledger
1st July 2008, 11:00 WST
Construction of the $91 million venue began late last year and is due to finish early in 2010
Perth’s new performing arts venue has been named after Heath Ledger.
Family members of one of Perth’s most famous performing arts exports were at the Northbridge venue’s construction site for the announcement this morning by Premier Alan Carpenter.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=82080
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Oh, this gives me chills, it's so beautiful they're doing this. And well-deserved!
kathy
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I think that's just wonderful. <^(
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Yessssssss! ^-^
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That is just wonderful....bittersweet, but a beautiful gesture.
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It's the best they could do in his home town to remember him and his work forever¡ It's a sad sensation on one hand,but glad on the other because we see how loved he was... <^(
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Exactly christie and mpj. :ghug:
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Performing arts centre named in honour of Ledger
1st July 2008, 11:00 WST
Construction of the $91 million venue began late last year and is due to finish early in 2010
Perth’s new performing arts venue has been named after Heath Ledger.
Family members of one of Perth’s most famous performing arts exports were at the Northbridge venue’s construction site for the announcement this morning by Premier Alan Carpenter.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=82080
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That's really wonderful!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: What a beautiful thing to do!! <^( <^( I think he deserves that.
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"Heath Ledger theatre naming ironic"
1st July 2008, 19:15 WST
This is an op/ed piece in the local Perth paper about the irony of naming a "live" theatre for a film star. He makes some very good points. Most interesting to me however, is the idea he put forth of Heath playing Hamlet. WOW! Would that have been fantastic or what.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=9&ContentID=82199
He's correct, it is too bad that Perth does not have a film institute, maybe this will encourage the west Aussies to launch an effort.
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"Heath Ledger theatre naming ironic"
1st July 2008, 19:15 WST
This is an op/ed piece in the local Perth paper about the irony of naming a "live" theatre for a film star. He makes some very good points. Most interesting to me however, is the idea he put forth of Heath playing Hamlet. WOW! Would that have been fantastic or what.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=9&ContentID=82199
He's correct, it is too bad that Perth does not have a film institute, maybe this will encourage the west Aussies to launch an effort.
That's an interesting viewpoint, and I can understand the comments he makes.
I heard that Heath really wanted to do stage work, I didn't realise he was apprehensive about it, I think he would have been truly amazing.
A film institute in Perth named after Heath would a wonderfully fitting tribute, but I do think that the naming of the theatre in his memory is a gorgeous gesture too.
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I think Heath had enough skills as to triumph in the theatre as well as in the movies.No matter what he had dedicated to professionally; in both cases,naming these places after him are some wonderful tributes as he deserves.
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"Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses"
A story in LAWEEKLY about one of Heath's many projects to inspire the work of others . . . .
A short excerpt:
“The company started as a dream,” says Cline, Masses’ executive producer and the collective’s first official hire. “Heath kind of came in and made that dream a reality. We were all, literally, living the dream of working in a collective of artists, where everyone had great respect for each others’ work and talent, but we also had this great force behind us to actually make things happen.”
http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/heath-ledgers-final-days-among-the-masses/19241/
A long, but rewarding read looking into the multifaceted life of an incredible man.
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Thank you for posting this jackster. :^^)
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"Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses"
A story in LAWEEKLY about one of Heath's many projects to inspire the work of others . . . .
A short excerpt:
“The company started as a dream,” says Cline, Masses’ executive producer and the collective’s first official hire. “Heath kind of came in and made that dream a reality. We were all, literally, living the dream of working in a collective of artists, where everyone had great respect for each others’ work and talent, but we also had this great force behind us to actually make things happen.”
http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/heath-ledgers-final-days-among-the-masses/19241/
A long, but rewarding read looking into the multifaceted life of an incredible man.
Wow. Thank you, jackster. I just read this entire article, and it's a beautiful story, the Masses, the group and how it came together and how Heath came into it. This is quintessential Heath as I like to think of him. Of course, his acting was of extreme importance to him, but he had so much energy for even more than that, and the work (and play) he was doing with these people was him having the time of his life, and free of the media, too. I love the photos of Heath also, how I like to remember him. I feel an even broader picture of him after reading this, knowing more details from these people close to him and involved with him in his creative work.
kathy
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"Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses"
A story in LAWEEKLY about one of Heath's many projects to inspire the work of others . . . .
A short excerpt:
“The company started as a dream,” says Cline, Masses’ executive producer and the collective’s first official hire. “Heath kind of came in and made that dream a reality. We were all, literally, living the dream of working in a collective of artists, where everyone had great respect for each others’ work and talent, but we also had this great force behind us to actually make things happen.”
http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/heath-ledgers-final-days-among-the-masses/19241/
A long, but rewarding read looking into the multifaceted life of an incredible man.
Thank you so much Jackster for posting it... it really is a beautiful story. Such a special glimpse into his life. And it really sounds like this group of people and this place were a safe haven for him, a place where he felt at home and free to create.
Reading about all the things he was involved in, all the things he was planning to do, just stressed it for me - he had so much to live for. He had so many plans and ideas, so many dreams. He was such an incredible, special man, and loved by so many people... the loss is unbearable.
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A new article about Heath's career and appeal (analyzing it):
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/story.html?id=0ea7af0b-3c01-400d-bc51-ab1c479a4ebf&p=1 (http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/story.html?id=0ea7af0b-3c01-400d-bc51-ab1c479a4ebf&p=1)
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"Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses"
A story in LAWEEKLY about one of Heath's many projects to inspire the work of others . . . .
A short excerpt:
“The company started as a dream,” says Cline, Masses’ executive producer and the collective’s first official hire. “Heath kind of came in and made that dream a reality. We were all, literally, living the dream of working in a collective of artists, where everyone had great respect for each others’ work and talent, but we also had this great force behind us to actually make things happen.”
http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/heath-ledgers-final-days-among-the-masses/19241/
A long, but rewarding read looking into the multifaceted life of an incredible man.
Thank you so much for this, Jackster.
The tears starting welling up as soon as I read about Heath's career was only about to take off, compared to the likes of De Niro, the character actors. What we lost that one horrible day! And reading how Heath always rode around LA on his yellow Ducati...always something new to learn about...
Then the tears flowed non-stop, when I read on page 5...how Amato heard the news of Heath's death on Jan 22, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, filming a music video for "Wolves, Act I and Act II", and on page 7...when the crowd chanted "Home is wherever I'm with you" with Heath's bands. :\'(
Thanks again bud. :ghug:
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Thank you so much for this, Jackster.
The tears starting welling up as soon as I read about Heath's career was only about to take off, compared to the likes of De Niro, the character actors. What we lost that one horrible day! And reading how Heath always rode around LA on his yellow Ducati...always something new to learn about...
Then the tears flowed non-stop, when I read on page 5...how Amato heard the news of Heath's death on Jan 22, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, filming a music video for "Wolves, Act I and Act II", and on page 7...when the crowd chanted "Home is wherever I'm with you" with Heath's bands. :\'(
Thanks again bud. :ghug:
i havnt gotten through this whole article yet, i mean to but it tears me up and just need to wait for the time to be right for me to read...
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Thank you so much Jackster for posting it... it really is a beautiful story. Such a special glimpse into his life. And it really sounds like this group of people and this place were a safe haven for him, a place where he felt at home and free to create.
Reading about all the things he was involved in, all the things he was planning to do, just stressed it for me - he had so much to live for. He had so many plans and ideas, so many dreams. He was such an incredible, special man, and loved by so many people... the loss is unbearable.
Yes, Keren. Me, too. This loss of years of creativity from this most fascinating of men... :\'(
kathy
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Michelle Willians is making a movie about Heath.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-07/09/content_6831416.htm
"This is incredibly important for Michelle to do. It makes Michelle's heart ache that Matilda was so young when Heath died and she's unlikely to retain any memories of her father.
She wants to keep his spirit alive with something Matilda can treasure all her life."
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Michelle Willians is making a movie about Heath.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-07/09/content_6831416.htm
"This is incredibly important for Michelle to do. It makes Michelle's heart ache that Matilda was so young when Heath died and she's unlikely to retain any memories of her father.
She wants to keep his spirit alive with something Matilda can treasure all her life."
ink thats a lovely thing for michelle to do, and it will also put some of those awful rumours that said michelle didnt want anything to do with heath to rest.
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Michelle Willians is making a movie about Heath.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-07/09/content_6831416.htm
"This is incredibly important for Michelle to do. It makes Michelle's heart ache that Matilda was so young when Heath died and she's unlikely to retain any memories of her father.
She wants to keep his spirit alive with something Matilda can treasure all her life."
This sounds great :) <^(
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I'm sure Michelle will make sure that Matilda knows what a unique man her father was.
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I don't think this article has been posted. Being not familiar with The Independent, I'm not sure how reliable the article is, but anyway, it is written by an extra who was on set with Heath the last 3 days before he flew back to NYC in January.
Heath Ledger's final cut: An exclusive, on-set diary
The cult of the late Heath Ledger is set to grow with his astonishing performance in the new Batman film. Sean Porter was on set with the troubled Hollywood star for his last ever shoot. Here, he reveals what happened during those three manic – and spookily portentous – days
Sunday, 13 July 2008
I'm breathless and Heath Ledger is downright furious. He rips off his frilly clown hat and hurls it to the floor. It's a minute past midnight and the cameramen are looking at their watches and mumbling stuff about "the union". The director Terry Gilliam is beside himself too, as he scrambles around the set of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to persuade his mutinous crew to agree to one more take; but it's too late – the permit to film ran out at midnight, and pieces of equipment are already being hastily stashed into their silver flight-boxes, ready for the next job.
In a final attempt to salvage the situation, Heath joins Terry in petitioning them: "C'mon guys... Please! Just one more take... Just one more. I mean, c'mon, what difference is another 10 minutes going make?" But it's all in vain as they continue packing.
As it will transpire, the scene that's just been shot – a vile mob giving chase to Heath Ledger through the winding backstreets of London's East End – will be the last he'll ever shoot. I was a member of that mob; and in roughly 72 hours, Ledger's dead body will be found by his personal masseur in his loft apartment in New York City.
Nearly six months after his death, as the PR machine for The Dark Knight swings into gear, the actor will unavoidably be in the spotlight again; there's also a suggestion that he'll be nominated, posthumously, for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for his role as the Joker in that film.
The first time I saw a publicity still from the Batman film, it was a disconcerting experience: a live man, looking like a dead man already. Heath Ledger as the Joker, with lax, yellow hair, caved-in face, and smudged, blood-red lipstick, bright and colourful and terrible, like a Japanese water-demon, or something from a Corman horror. This image, loaded with ghostly resonances, speaks solely of death; and this is what I find strange, because in those last three days I worked with Heath, I encountered a man who was so full of life.
This was my first job as an extra, and on the first day, before I'd even had the chance to sit down and quaff a quick coffee, we were given our call and escorted down to the set: a tatty and forgotten pub in the heart of Clerkenwell – The Ring O Bells. Terry Gilliam was dashing about, a hand on his battered, suede cowboy hat, to stop it flying of his head; in his wake, a small retinue of production minions struggling to keep up with him. The willowy and strangely beautiful Lily Cole was making her way across the set, and as if from nowhere, a tall, thin figure appeared and pranced and jigged his way towards us – it was Heath and he was dressed up like some daft and dishevelled Pierrot doll.
"Jesus! Heath, you look crazier than a clown's c*ck!" I offered. He creased up with laughter.
"And.... CUT," shouted a distant voice; then "Good... Good... We'll go again in five..."
"That's hilarious," said Heath. "Where'd you get it from?"
"A film called Kenny," I told him. "A mockumentary about this guy who's got a Portaloo business in Melbourne".
"Oh, Jeez... I know the one you're talking about, it's got what-his-name in it? Shane Jacobson – that's it! Shit, I really must get to see it..."
And with that, Gilliam beckoned him over to the monitors. It was soon apparent that Heath was utterly immersed in this role and in this whole project. After each scene had been shot, he'd be running off to watch it played back, regardless of whether he had starred in it or not. He was so active on set that if he wasn't wearing such an outlandish costume, it would have been impossible to distinguish him from the any of the production team's top brass.
All the talk on the set of was of his performance as the Joker. The buzz was that once it was released, Heath would to be seen in a whole new light – as a "proper" actor, a "brilliant" actor, possibly. He would be massive – absolutely massive; and after what I'd seen of his work ethic on that first day, absolutely wasted too. '
The following day, I happened to arrive at the unit base at the same time that Heath and his PA pulled up in some outrageous super-car a certain German manufacturer had loaned him while he was staying in London. The roar of the engine drowned out my quick "Hello", so I nodded casually and walked straight past, headed for the catering truck.
I popped back after lunch to have another look at the car. As I inspected it, I noticed Heath sat on the steps of his trailer, a black hoodie pulled tight over his head, skinny black jeans and a pair of sneakers, and sucking on a fag as usual. After a minute or so, he wandered over, his PA lurking behind him carrying his Starbucks bucket and Camel fags. "So what d'you think of the car, mate?" he asked.
"I'm not too sure, cars aren't really my thing, but I know what Freud would say..." I replied.
"It's ridiculous isn't it? Talk about a c*ck-extension... Ha! It's fun, but not really my style," said Ledger. But he seemed a bit uneasy and broke off the chat, saying something to his PA. They wandered back to his trailer together.
Back on set, Terry and Heath were soon having another of their private conversations. It was hard to tell who was directing who. I shimmied closer, only to overhear some scurrilous gossip about Tom Cruise. Heath eventually broke off and came over to ask if any of us had seen the new film about Joy Division – Anton Corbijn's Control: "Their music's amazing!"
On the final day of filming, Saturday 19 January, there were guns and explosions and violence on set. There were arguments, and a bad vibe descended on the pub. Heath himself no longer looked like a clown. He was dirty, wired and manic: he hadn't stopped for three days – kicking about the set whether or not he was due to shoot a scene. He'd be there when I arrived and after I'd gone. And I was doing a 10-hour shift. When he wasn't on set he was back in his hotel room reading or watching some of the Oscar-nominated movies that, as a member of the Academy, he'd be asked to vote on.
He'd been throwing himself around a lot, doing his own stunts, take after take – attempting to lob himself on to the "Imaginarium", a horse-drawn, travelling sideshow, decorated with a series of Gilliam's own hallucinogenic graphic confections – sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing.
It was common knowledge on set that he had a spinal injury and that he was on some hefty medication for it. Late in the day, with shooting behind schedule, Heath's back was playing up. He lay prostrate on the cobbles between the pub and the Imaginarium doing his Alexander Technique exercises, motionless, his eyes shut tight. As I walked past I nearly tripped over one of his elongated clown shoes.
"You all right, Heath?" I asked.
"Yeah. I will be in few minutes..."
"I thought you'd snuffed it there," I said, trying to raise a laugh. Heath just closed his eyes. Once he had recovered, the filming resumed; Ledger pursued by an angry, drunken mob, all baying for his blood. Incendiary devices were popping everywhere, fired from a blunderbuss by Verne Troyer, the 2'8" actor who played Mini Me in the Austin Powers films. And this is the last scene Heath Ledger ever shot; it reached midnight and the union curfew kicked in.
By the time Heath and Terry calmed down, the set had thinned out dramatically. Heath walked around, thanking and hugging people, then came over to us few extras who were still left and thanked us and began walking off. I walked after him to ask if he was going to stay and have a few drinks.
"Sorry, but I'm on the wagon... have been for about 17 months now," he said, mock-triumphantly
"Oh... nice one!" I replied, somewhat tongue-tied.
"Cheers, mate" he said before turning and sloping off despondently up the narrow lane back towards unit base and his warm trailer. "Bye Heath..."
The following Tuesday, at about 8pm, I received a text-message from my sister, who I'd been keeping in the loop regarding my adventures on Doctor Parnassus. In that dull and toneless medium, and in the truncated vernacular of text-speak, it read: "Wot sort of effect do u have on people? U no that actor u were workin with... they found him dead!"
It took a while to register, then I turned on the radio and, within seconds of finding a news station, her message was legitimised: "Heath Ledger... found dead... being treated as a possible suicide... slumped on the floor of his loft-apartment in New York..." I called a couple of other extras to find out if they knew what was going on. All they knew was what I knew: Heath was dead – the circumstances open to speculation. They all expressed a sense of shock and loss. Some wept.
As I sit here, looking at his picture, I still really don't know what to say about Heath Ledger. All I can add to what's already been said is my imperfect but valid little story: the story of a man whom I met, but whom I never really knew; the story of a man who I worked with for just three days but left one of those indefinable imprints that make you feel you've known someone a lot longer.
My image of Heath is of a man envisioning a life rather than a death; of an actor deeply committed to his art – perhaps to such a degree that it contributed to his undoing. But looking back at my time on set, I also see strange portents of his demise: there was even a moment when one of the extras, a devout Christian, began reading aloud from The Revelation of St John. And after our conversation about Joy Division, whenever I think of Heath, I'm reminded of the band's lead singer, Ian Curtis – another young man with immense energy stubbed out in his prime. Heath would have liked such a comparison, I think.
This wasn't how the movie was supposed to end; I was shocked, I still am; but then, what do I know? I was just an extra.
The writer's name has been changed for the sake of anonymity. 'The Dark Knight' (12A) goes on release in the UK on 25 July
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/heath-ledgers-final-cut-an-exclusive-onset-diary-864638.html
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It was common knowledge on set that he had a spinal injury and that he was on some hefty medication for it.
Oh, I didn't know this...Poor baby. :-\\ :-\\
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Thank you to sharing this with us,yb¡ ^f^ I only can keep on thinking that Heath was a very special person,whom anyone who knew him only can now praise.It's so sad to know,however,that he felt bad for his spinal injury,sad because he had a bad time and sad because all this medication's ensemble led him to his end.If just somebody could have done something about¡... :\'(
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Thank you to sharing this with us,yb¡ ^f^ I only can keep on thinking that Heath was a very special person,whom anyone who knew him only can now praise.It's so sad to know,however,that he felt bad for his spinal injury,sad because he had a bad time and sad because all this medication's ensemble led him to his end.If just somebody could have done something about¡... :\'(
:ghug:
I know, thats what I keep thinking :\'( :\'(
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Michelle Willians is making a movie about Heath.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-07/09/content_6831416.htm
"This is incredibly important for Michelle to do. It makes Michelle's heart ache that Matilda was so young when Heath died and she's unlikely to retain any memories of her father.
She wants to keep his spirit alive with something Matilda can treasure all her life."
I find wonderful on Michelle's side to have this initiative and put it into practise.Beyond all the reasons that brought them to the split-that's nobody business,but theirs...-,she shows a great respect and affection for the man who made happy during some years and who gave her a lovely daughter.And that she wants to keep her father's good image for the little girl speaks volumes in favour of her,IMO.
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I know, thats what I keep thinking :\'( :\'(
I got a sneaky suspicion we are not the only ones :-\\
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Heath Ledger tipped for posthumous Oscar
Speculation is growing that Heath Ledger will receive an Oscar for his role as The Joker in upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight.
Rolling Stone critic Pete Travers has backed calls for the late actor to pick up the first posthumous Academy Award since Peter Finch won for Network in 1976.
Ledger also has the support of Academy member and Dark Knight co-star Sir Michael Caine, who said he had earned a best supporting actor nomination at least.
The Sydney Morning Herald quotes him as saying: "I was stunned by his performance. I was absolutely stunned by it."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a110665/ledger-tipped-for-posthumous-oscar.html
(sorry if this has already been posted - I have been away a while...)
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Hey Brokies I just bought a copy of this months Marie Claire with Maggie Gyllenhaal as the cover girl first off the young lady who is my age I become more of a fan of hers every day she speaks her mind and is really intelligent and she looks great by the way :) since I dont have a scanner at my friends house where I'm housesitting I'll just type for you word for word what she had to say about Heath
"My heart broke when he died, I think seeing the movie will be painful, I saw this new trailer, which I loved, but Heath was all over it, and it was very sad to see it, hard to watch"
she sums up what alot of Heath's fans feel as much as I look forward to his performance it will not be easy knowing the years of work I knew he had in him we will not see its a great read so check it out its Aug edition of Marie Claire
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Hey Sports, and everyone else too :)
Thomas posted this in the Maggie thread, she does discuss Heath, here is the link to the thread...
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=10149.690
Or if you would like to go directly to the article...
http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/maggie-gyllenhaal-interview-dark-knight
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Heath Ledger tipped for posthumous Oscar
Speculation is growing that Heath Ledger will receive an Oscar for his role as The Joker in upcoming Batman movie The Dark Knight.
Rolling Stone critic Pete Travers has backed calls for the late actor to pick up the first posthumous Academy Award since Peter Finch won for Network in 1976.
Ledger also has the support of Academy member and Dark Knight co-star Sir Michael Caine, who said he had earned a best supporting actor nomination at least.
The Sydney Morning Herald quotes him as saying: "I was stunned by his performance. I was absolutely stunned by it."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a110665/ledger-tipped-for-posthumous-oscar.html
(sorry if this has already been posted - I have been away a while...)
I've already said before that I don't have much faith in the Academy, but I'm quite sure he will be nominated. I will be extremely disappointed if he won't be.
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"My heart broke when he died, I think seeing the movie will be painful, I saw this new trailer, which I loved, but Heath was all over it, and it was very sad to see it, hard to watch"
It will be hard for everybody who worked with him and knew him... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Hey Sports, and everyone else too :)
Thomas posted this in the Maggie thread, she does discuss Heath, here is the link to the thread...
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=10149.690
Or if you would like to go directly to the article...
http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/maggie-gyllenhaal-interview-dark-knight
hey thanks I didnt know Maggie has her own thread too :clap:
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hey thanks I didnt know Maggie has her own thread too :clap:
Few do, that's why I posted it too, and not just the article ;)
She's been saying such caring and moving things about Heath... all his costars have, but it's nice to hear these words from a costar and a friend.
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It was common knowledge on set that he had a spinal injury and that he was on some hefty medication for it.
Oh, I didn't know this...Poor baby. :-\\ :-\\
Felt so sad to find this one. poor Heath. poor baby.
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What the butler saw - Michael Caine recalls January 22 this year.
18th July 2008, 8:30 WST
After almost 100 movies in an acting career that reached its 50-year milestone two years ago, Caine has said goodbye to many of his co-stars, but the death of Heath Ledger shook him to the core.
Michael Caine recalls January 22 this year. The day had been unremarkable and the 75-year-old Londoner was in a comfortable chair at home watching the BBC’s 10pm news bulletin.
“It suddenly came up on the news,” said the two-time Oscar winner, his face, all these months later, mirroring the shocking moment. “I ran to my wife and said, ‘Heath has died.’ I couldn’t believe it.”
The entire story from today's The West Australian, at:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=85555
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Thanks for this, jackster. This is a really interesting article about Michael Caine. I would have loved to see him and Heath together on the set, getting to know each other...
kathy
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
What a wonderful article - thanks for sharing it, Kathy.
With Ennis Del Mar, the young actor delivered a performance so stunning and true that we’ll never be able to quit him.
How true <^( :\'(
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Hey brokies good news so its like 2am here and I'm watching the Reelz Channel just watching regular programming when underneath the screen comes this bulletin, and its saying that screening for TDK have already started and already their predicting this movie could be the second highest grossing movie EVER &**) they can add my money in a few hours too ;) RIP Heath you were born a Ledger but you went out a Legend
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
This is a fantastic review and tribute, thank you so much Kathy for posting it.
"Ennis may have lived a miserable half-life, but Ledger’s performance ironically delivers a full, radiant life. When people talk about "promising" actors it means they’ve generally been impressed but they’re still waiting for one great performance or signature role to come. Ledger’s death came far too early; there’s no disputing that. But promising isn’t the right word for his gifts. His breakthrough performance was not a promise made but a promise fulfilled. Ledger’s death and this towering performance have placed us in the awkward position of Jack Twist himself. We’re still staring greedily at Heath Ledger, asking in vain for more. With Ennis Del Mar, the young actor delivered a performance so stunning and true that we’ll never be able to quit him."
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
Wonderful words and wonderful article,just a little of what Heath deserved.Reading it has brought tears to my eyes again,it really has... :\'( But I'm happy however for having read it to know,once more,what a great actor he was.Heath,you got us good...Yes,you did. <^(
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
I can'tread this yet..but I love the title (so I'll save the link for later)
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I can see why it will gross that much, I went to a popular theater 3 blocks from where I'm staying with friends the line 2 blocks long ^*) It's like 200 degrees so i wasnt standing there so i go across the street and guess what that movie theater wasnt even showing TDK ^*) so I walked 7 blocks and pay dirt I got a ticket for the 12:45 show why cuz all their early shows from 7-9 all sold out ,and the reviews on the news I swear I havent heard reviews like this for a movie like maybe never :clap: I have not heard a bad review not once from any outlet anywhere I cant wait I saw people coming out of the theater and they were cheering and gushing about Heath and the entire movie
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From Tribeca Film Festival on-line.
Heath Ledger, You Got Us Good
As excitement mounts for The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger as the Joker, we take a look back at Ledger's towering performance as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html (http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html)
kathy
That was a wonderful article, Kathy. Thank you.
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Hey brokies good news so its like 2am here and I'm watching the Reelz Channel just watching regular programming when underneath the screen comes this bulletin, and its saying that screening for TDK have already started and already their predicting this movie could be the second highest grossing movie EVER &**) they can add my money in a few hours too ;) RIP Heath you were born a Ledger but you went out a Legend
I love hearing all the talk about the amazing box office! But "second"? What was first?
I saw Annie Proulx say that about Heath -- not Ledger, but Legend.
kthy
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This is a fantastic review and tribute, thank you so much Kathy for posting it.
"Ennis may have lived a miserable half-life, but Ledger’s performance ironically delivers a full, radiant life. When people talk about "promising" actors it means they’ve generally been impressed but they’re still waiting for one great performance or signature role to come. Ledger’s death came far too early; there’s no disputing that. But promising isn’t the right word for his gifts. His breakthrough performance was not a promise made but a promise fulfilled. Ledger’s death and this towering performance have placed us in the awkward position of Jack Twist himself. We’re still staring greedily at Heath Ledger, asking in vain for more. With Ennis Del Mar, the young actor delivered a performance so stunning and true that we’ll never be able to quit him."
Yes, Keren, I just loved that whole paragraph, too. It is so difficult -- to feel so proud of him, and at the same time to be so brokenhearted by his not being here.
kathy
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I can'tread this yet..but I love the title (so I'll save the link for later)
I understand, of course, Froggy. But do read it later. As I jsut said in reply to Keren, this is a difficult time for us, isn't it? Heath has become so present right now. Yet not.
As many have said, I think it's good that the Joker is so almost-unrecognizable Heath, that we get to just really enjoy the ride. (The Imaginarium will be more difficult..)
kathy
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If this is not the right place please feel free to move it.
Entertainment Tonight in their 7P EDT broadcast reported that TDK may well break records by grossing over $150,000,000 THIS WEEKEND. What a bittersweet moment for those who love and miss Heath; he was singled out in the newscast for his role in the movie contributing to the expected success. If only you were here, Heath, to share in this wonderful moment and see how your legacy to us and your little daughter is growing. For many brokies, this is a once-in-a-lifetime happening, to experience and appreciate these works of such a great person and actor who left us at such an early time. Rock with the angels, Heath. RIP
I totally agree with you, I feel the same... it's so bittersweet, because I'm so thrilled to see how TDK ecceeds all expectations, knowing how much Heath was invested in this role, but also so sad because he's not here to share it and to hear all the wonderful praises.
I quote Kathy: "It is so difficult -- to feel so proud of him, and at the same time to be so brokenhearted by his not being here."
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I totally agree with you, I feel the same... it's so bittersweet, because I'm so thrilled to see how TDK ecceeds all expectations, knowing how much Heath was invested in this role, but also so sad because he's not here to share it and to hear all the wonderful praises.
I quote Kathy: "It is so difficult -- to feel so proud of him, and at the same time to be so brokenhearted by his not being here."
And I only can but quote all and every word has been said in these nice posts... :\'(
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This is a real tearful article, so be forewarned:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/07/dark-knight-n-2.html
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This is a real tearful article, so be forewarned:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/07/dark-knight-n-2.html
:t) for posting this and where can I send flowers to this writer for stating what I've said for 3 years that a certain cowboy was just way too much for quite a few of those voters homophobic sensitivites yeah lets award a caricature of somebody gay, a sterotype that hollywood likes to portray gays, but no way not a symbol of american manliness, which is why all this praise Heath is getting is not something I'm all warm and fuzzy over, yes he deserves every each of praise for his work and acknowledgement, but where the hell were all these calls for oscars and other awards during BBM. Gee maybe BBM would have actually WON BEST PICTURE instead of that movie whose name I will never utter, maybe all the acting roles should have won something, I love Clooney like the day is long and always will but was he that much better than Jake? And can someone please tell what movie Rachael Weiz was in when she beat out Michelle for that Oscar cuz I cant recall this is why I have a bittersweet attitude towards talk of awards, they had a real chance to honor Heath when he was alive and they BLEW IT BIG TIME and that travesty cant be taken back
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This is a real tearful article, so be forewarned:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/07/dark-knight-n-2.html
Thank you for posting this article,Andrew¡ :) Well,I think it would be unfair that Heath win the Oscar as a postmortem tribute,or that this circomstance could be an obstacle to win it.I think that,beyond what was done when he was alive,if he will win the Oscar,it must be mainly because he deserves it as an actor now and he deserved it as an actor before,for his surprising performance in BBM above all.Period.
I've always thought that if he and the movie didn't win in 2006 wasn't for being some other better movies or actors;but for many social and political pressures that came from some of the most reminded Academy members.So,the possibility of winning this Oscar a year after his passing,mustn't be a prize for a young person because he's not already here,not even a way to arrange what was unfairly done before;it would be an act of justice to good acting. :clap:
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Film festival to honor Ledger posthumously
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/07/19/Film_festival_to_honor_Ledger_posthumously/UPI-41971216488124/
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Thank you for posting this article,Andrew¡ :) Well,I think it would be unfair that Heath win the Oscar as a postmortem tribute,or that this circomstance could be an obstacle to win it.I think that,beyond what was done when he was alive,if he will win the Oscar,it must be mainly because he deserves it as an actor now and he deserved it as an actor before,for his surprising performance in BBM above all.Period.
I've always thought that if he and the movie didn't win in 2006 wasn't for being some other better movies or actors;but for many social and political pressures that came from some of the most reminded Academy members.So,the possibility of winning this Oscar a year after his passing,mustn't be a prize for a young person because he's not already here,not even a way to arrange what was unfairly done before;it would be an act of justice to good acting. :clap:
I hope you are right that from now on, the Academy award will be apolitical and is purely on artistic merit. I can understand giving life-time achievement awards to actors who happened to be out of awards due to bad timing, as in going against the best movies of that year. But the best actor, best movie, etc, should be simply that...best for that year. Anything else and it would be meaningless.
As for Heath's Joker, I will be as objective as I can be tomorrow night. But honestly, I have no doubt that it will be a memorable experience simply as an extrapolation of what I've seen in the trailer. I can hardly wait to share it in the spoilers threads.
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I hope you are right that from now on, the Academy award will be apolitical and is purely on artistic merit. I can understand giving life-time achievement awards to actors who happened to be out of awards due to bad timing, as in going against the best movies of that year. But the best actor, best movie, etc, should be simply that...best for that year. Anything else and it would be meaningless.
As for Heath's Joker, I will be as objective as I can be tomorrow night. But honestly, I have no doubt that it will be a memorable experience simply as an extrapolation of what I've seen in the trailer. I can hardly wait to share it in the spoilers threads.
I really hope that as soon as possible,prizes will be for a good job,and not be rejected for being in the wrong place and in the wrong time doing a performance...And I hope too that you enjoy your watching TDK tonight;please,tell us what's your opinion about,that will be very appreciated.Unluckily,it'll takes some time before I'll be able to watch it here¡.
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I really hope that as soon as possible,prizes will be for a good job,and not be rejected for being in the wrong place and in the wrong time doing a performance...And I hope too that you enjoy your watching TDK tonight;please,tell us what's your opinion about,that will be very appreciated.Unluckily,it'll takes some time before I'll be able to watch it here¡.
Hi, MPJ, I love the movie...as I said in the Heath the Joker thread. I am glad to see it on the big screen with the special sound effects. This is one movie you want the theatrical experience, for sure.
Heath went above and beyond his usual brilliance. He made the most vile villainous villain almost lovable. Yes, I said lovable. I felt sorry for the Joker. Even though I knew he lied about his childhood, how he got those scars, how his father ...etc, there was just enough humanity and sanity in the portrayal to make the character believable, and at the same time, almost lovable. The love-hate relationship he had with Bathman was instructive. The most truthful parts of his dialog was the part when he said to Batman, "You complete me." The Joker was as alone, and lonely, as Batman, but he didn't know that Batman has friends. The Joker was truly alone.
Anyhow, I will wait until the spoiler thread to post any more observations.
I will not be surprised if Heath should get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor; it's anyone's guess whether he will win; I will not be surprised if Heath should win an Oscar. :clap: <^(
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Well, folks, figures don't lie and I hope those critics etc., who deserve it get a big helping of crow. MOJO reported today that, after just 7 DAYS (week 1 from July 18, 2008 thru July 24, 2008) TDK's box office has grossed the phenomenal amounts of $238,615,211 for domestic showings, $41,300,000 for foreign showings, amounting to a worldwide total $279,915,211. Rock on, Heath! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Well, folks, figures don't lie and I hope those critics etc., who deserve it get a big helping of crow. MOJO reported today that, after just 7 DAYS (week 1 from July 18, 2008 thru July 24, 2008) TDK's box office has grossed the phenomenal amounts of $238,615,211 for domestic showings, $41,300,000 for foreign showings, amounting to a worldwide total $279,915,211. Rock on, Heath! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Well, folks, figures don't lie and I hope those critics etc., who deserve it get a big helping of crow. MOJO reported today that, after just 7 DAYS (week 1 from July 18, 2008 thru July 24, 2008) TDK's box office has grossed the phenomenal amounts of $238,615,211 for domestic showings, $41,300,000 for foreign showings, amounting to a worldwide total $279,915,211. Rock on, Heath! :clap: :clap: :clap:
Yup, the page for Dark Knight on mojo is like a whole long columns of 1's. Number one in just about every category imaginable. Fastest to $200 million, and they say the record to $300 million will be broken this weekend. I, for one, will go back this weekend for a second time. I can see why you all were crazy for Brokeback Mountain in the theatres, going multiple times. There is something to be said for fanaticism.
One observation from the reviews was interesting, that Dark Knight does not appeal to women audience as much as it does to men. I can understand this, but I wonder how true this is. The theatre last Tuesday had a mix of audience from family to adolescence of both gender. Perhaps the second and third timers will be mostly men. Then again, I understand some ladies are very attracted to Christian Bale. I don't understand why ::) but perhaps they will help bring up the box office numbers to help lift Dark Knight above Titanic in the biggest box office numbers yet.
By the way, what does everyone think of a letter of support to Christian Bale in his time of need. I think we can learn a lesson from Spider-Man, and Heath that superheros sometimes can use a helping hand. I don't know how to go about it, but perhaps an open-letter of support from say, "friends of Heath", to ask for the same respect for privacy that other stars asked of the media.
I see Christian's latest media pictures, and they remind me so much of Heath's, gaunt and tired. Am I crazy or reading too much into it? He is making the next terminator movie, after all.
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Lance, I hadn't given a thought to TDK being more of an appeal to men or to women. Interesting. I would be curious to ultimately see some statistics about that. You just never can tell. I am a TDK fanatic, but considering all the movies of similar genre that I haven't seen (until on video, maybe), it's obvious that what drew me to TDK is Heath. But then, I do love the fantasy-fantastic stuff and visual wow-ness also. Besides everyone else in the movie. It's not like it was a total boring movie but oh yes, HL is great. ;)
kathy
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Lance, I hadn't given a thought to TDK being more of an appeal to men or to women. Interesting. I would be curious to ultimately see some statistics about that. You just never can tell. I am a TDK fanatic, but considering all the movies of similar genre that I haven't seen (until on video, maybe), it's obvious that what drew me to TDK is Heath. But then, I do love the fantasy-fantastic stuff and visual wow-ness also. Besides everyone else in the movie. It's not like it was a total boring movie but oh yes, HL is great. ;)
kathy
I was kind of surprised at the reviewer's comment, too. The fact that only one woman character of note is in the movie, was his reasoning, and I can see why he made the comment. But I never gave it much thought, and I honestly don't think it makes sense. Men and women go to movie for the same reason, to be entertained and for the experience. True, some movies appeal more to women than men, and some movies appeal more to men than women, but I think the majority of GREAT movies, appeal to both, because great movies necessarily reflects some part of real life that resonates in all people, regardless of gender, etc. I find this in Dark Knight. I personally believe it is a great movie, as important as Brokeback Mountain, even. Yes, I see it speaking to the soul of humanity as Brokeback Mountain spoke to the soul of gay men. I can hardly wait till the thread opens up the discussion. Please Warner Brothers, make Dark Knight distribution world wide, NOW, please! &**)
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One observation from the reviews was interesting, that Dark Knight does not appeal to women audience as much as it does to men. I can understand this, but I wonder how true this is. The theatre last Tuesday had a mix of audience from family to adolescence of both gender. Perhaps the second and third timers will be mostly men. Then again, I understand some ladies are very attracted to Christian Bale. I don't understand why ::) but perhaps they will help bring up the box office numbers to help lift Dark Knight above Titanic in the biggest box office numbers yet.
For me, it's not true, I would have gone even when Heath was not in it, simply because this is my kind of genre.
I like it rough ;D ;D I like horror, thrillers, superhero movies, adventure movies and action movies with lots of things blowing up! The crazier the better for me! ;)
I usually don't go for the romantic genre, but of course some appeal to my taste, like BBM and Shelter.
Yesterday evening there were more women at TDK then men
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For me, it's not true, I would have gone even when Heath was not in it, simply because this is my kind of genre.
I like it rough ;D ;D I like horror, thrillers, superhero movies, adventure movies and action movies with lots of things blowing up! The crazier the better for me! ;)
I usually don't go for the romantic genre, but of course some appeal to my taste, like BBM and Shelter.
Yesterday evening there were more women at TDK then men
I am glad to hear this. Thanks, Marj. And I'd never guessed that you like it rough ??? from you comments in the Shelter thread. I'd thought you are like me, into romantic comedies, and other girlie movies... ::) :P
Seriously, though, I hope men and women continue to see Dark Knight, over and over. It's a great movie, a great morality tale, a great classic.
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let me tell yall in theaters all over nyc women were out huge numbers to TDK normally its guys dragging ladies to see "action" movies and women dragging their guys to see "chick" flicks, but TDK transcened all of those ideals about who watches what kinds of movies, one of my dream wishes was to get Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in a movies, we wound up with I'm not there and TDK, as I loove Christian Bale as I do Heath and Jake cant wait to see this again :clap:
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I was kind of surprised at the reviewer's comment, too. The fact that only one woman character of note is in the movie, was his reasoning, and I can see why he made the comment. But I never gave it much thought, and I honestly don't think it makes sense. Men and women go to movie for the same reason, to be entertained and for the experience. True, some movies appeal more to women than men, and some movies appeal more to men than women, but I think the majority of GREAT movies, appeal to both, because great movies necessarily reflects some part of real life that resonates in all people, regardless of gender, etc. I find this in Dark Knight. I personally believe it is a great movie, as important as Brokeback Mountain, even. Yes, I see it speaking to the soul of humanity as Brokeback Mountain spoke to the soul of gay men. I can hardly wait till the thread opens up the discussion. Please Warner Brothers, make Dark Knight distribution world wide, NOW, please! &**)
But as you said, BBM spoke to more than gay men! Something to say to everyone, to see in their own lives where fears caused loss, etc.
kathy
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let me tell yall in theaters all over nyc women were out huge numbers to TDK normally its guys dragging ladies to see "action" movies and women dragging their guys to see "chick" flicks, but TDK transcened all of those ideals about who watches what kinds of movies, one of my dream wishes was to get Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in a movies, we wound up with I'm not there and TDK, as I loove Christian Bale as I do Heath and Jake cant wait to see this again :clap:
You know what, duh me... It totally slipped my mind until you just said it that CB was in I'm Not There. I only saw it once, and I was not really familiar with CB before, as you obviously are! How cool that they worked together twice, then. Although in INT they maybe didn't actually ever film together. But they sure were face-to-face in TDK!!
I'm not surprised when I read CB was really depressed over Heath's death. As everyone who knew him is...and all of us who didn't exactly know him.
kathy
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That's funny K ;D quite a few people said that too,CB is one of those people like Heath and Jake where I'm a fan from the start.CB was also in Little Women, and I'm real glad he was one of the first to debunk those stupid rumors of the Joker pushing Heath over the edge,and yes he also took Heath's death hard
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But as you said, BBM spoke to more than gay men! Something to say to everyone, to see in their own lives where fears caused loss, etc.
kathy
You are right. This forum proves it. %&) By the same extension, Heath's Ennis spoke to everyone about the loss of love, so Heath's Joker speaks to everyone about the moral dilemma when confronted with evil, not just to the souls of heroes or the nihilist agents of chaos. Thanks for the reminder. :ghug: :^^)
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Terry Gilliam:
Director Terry Gilliam, now in post-production on THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, Heath Ledger's final film, was interviewed recently at the Ischia Film Festival. Gilliam had high praise for Ledger, calling him "a genius." He also complimented the three actors--Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell--who stepped in to complete Ledger's role in PARNASSUS after his untimely death last January:
TERRY GILLIAM: The great thing about it is that when Heath died, and we have a character that wasn't finished in the movie, those three actors [Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell] came along and saved the day. And so the character is now basically four actors creating one character. And that's . . . it's very interesting, and maybe even more interesting than it would have been with one actor going all the way through. I'm still not the best judge, because I have in my head what the film was going to be with Heath all the way through, and now there's a different film there. But all I know is, it's very funny.
Gilliam sounded proud of his film and genuinely awed by the generosity of the actors who came forward to save the picture and ensure its completion. Despite their high profiles, Depp, Law, and Farrell took no compensation for their work; instead, they donated their salaries to Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter, Matilda.
TERRY GILLIAM: The three actors were totally heroic coming in. This doesn't happen very often . . . where there's a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, "Okay, we'll do whatever it takes to help." They came; they did the work; they allowed the movie to be finished; they didn't take money--the money goes to Heath's daughter. That's extraordinary! And wonderful . . . and when you're part of that, you think, "Ah, this is maybe why I went into the movies, in the beginning. I thought it would be full of wonderful people. And in our case, we've got a movie full of wonderful people, who did extraordinary things to help."
Link: http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html (http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html)
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thats great, i never knew about jude law, colling farrell, and johnny depp giving there salarys to matilda
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thats great, i never knew about jude law, colling farrell, and johnny depp giving there salarys to matilda
heres a standing ovation for those 3 for stepping and being so thoughtful of Matilda :clap: :clap: :t) for posting
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thats great, i never knew about jude law, colling farrell, and johnny depp giving there salarys to matilda
Me, neither. That is a beautiful thing to do.
Besides, from what it sounds like, from the parts Heath had already done, I think it's going to be a fantastic film with their parts. I so strongly look forward to this.
kathy
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Link: http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html (http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html)
Thanks, ynnaf, Heath's impact on the world never ceases to bring tears :\'(. Their response is inspirational. I never paid much attention to these three actors before, except for Judd Law in Enemy at the Gates and Gattaca, and Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street and Don Juan de Marco. Now I know why they have their stature as actors, because they must have wonderful hearts to respond to Heath in this way. Bravo :clap:
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Oh thats such a lovely gesture, I had no idea that the 3 actors did that.
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What an awesome thing for those three to do :clap: :clap:
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Gilliam sounded proud of his film and genuinely awed by the generosity of the actors who came forward to save the picture and ensure its completion. Despite their high profiles, Depp, Law, and Farrell took no compensation for their work; instead, they donated their salaries to Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter, Matilda.
TERRY GILLIAM: The three actors were totally heroic coming in. This doesn't happen very often . . . where there's a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, "Okay, we'll do whatever it takes to help." They came; they did the work; they allowed the movie to be finished; they didn't take money--the money goes to Heath's daughter. That's extraordinary! And wonderful . . . and when you're part of that, you think, "Ah, this is maybe why I went into the movies, in the beginning. I thought it would be full of wonderful people. And in our case, we've got a movie full of wonderful people, who did extraordinary things to help."
Link: http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html (http://will-porter.livejournal.com/213052.html)
Thank you so much for posting it here ynnaf, this news bit had truly brought tears to my eyes. What a beautiful thing for these three actors to do, and Terry Gilliam is right, it doesn't happen very often... but Heath had such a deep effect on people. It moves me so much that they felt this need to do that for him, because they appreciated him so much, obviously not for the money. Even in his death he still inspires people to do wonderful things.
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It's a wonderful news to know because speaks volumes about the quality as human beings of these actors;but also the great impact that Heath had absolutely in each person who knew him.Things like this make me surer still that I'm not a fool for missing so much somebody I hadn't known personally;his magnetism went far beyond your getting in touch or not with him. :\'(
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You are welcome guys! I thought it was sweet what the 3 men did and thought i'd share the article. :)
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It sure was sweet, and I'm glad you decided to share it.
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:h) brokies,
Yesturday, before watching "The Dark Knight" I bought a book in an english librairy (Waterstones) : the tittle is : A TRIBUTE TO HEATH LEDGER
THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY
The autor is Chris Roberts. It costs 18,30 euros and it's beautiful, full of nice pics O0
Below I post some pics I scanned for you ^f^
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi310.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk433%2Fsolangepa%2FHeath%2520Ledger%2FHeathLedgerbiography.jpg&hash=0bdb71b2bc875a9094589704af998ba5a94f7550)
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi310.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk433%2Fsolangepa%2FHeath%2520Ledger%2FSanstitre-Numrisation-01.jpg&hash=9bd5a47aa961273d22e9a7cc300231304a127d90).
I'll post more pics later :c) (If you wish ;))
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This is a real tearful article, so be forewarned:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/07/dark-knight-n-2.html
Many thanks lance to have posted that link ^f^. I really hope Heath will receive an Oscar for his astounding performance as the Joker (a posthumous Oscar). That will be a very good thing for his little daughter, later, she'll be proud of her father O0. :^^)
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:h) brokies,
Yesturday, before watching "The Dark Knight" I bought a book in an english librairy (Waterstones) : the tittle is : A TRIBUTE TO HEATH LEDGER
THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY
The autor is Chris Roberts. It costs 18,30 euros and it's beautiful, full of nice pics O0
Below I post some pics I scanned for you ^f^
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi310.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk433%2Fsolangepa%2FHeath%2520Ledger%2FHeathLedgerbiography.jpg&hash=0bdb71b2bc875a9094589704af998ba5a94f7550)
.. and again i am so overwhelmed by what happened today..
i saw this today, and when i arrive home my younger son has already bought it for me.... <^(
i am in tears now... for this book and for what he did.... :\'( <^(
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OMG Fausta!! That's so very sweet. <^( <^( <^( After your previous post about the reaction of your son to BBM, and now with this one, I think he's a gem, a true kind free spirit, a gift for a mother. <^( <^( I'm so glad for you, baby. ^f^
And I want that book so bad!! I think it's wonderful but I can't fing it here.... :\'( :\'(
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.. and again i am so overwhelmed by what happened today..
i saw this today, and when i arrive home my younger son has already bought it for me.... <^(
i am in tears now... for this book and for what he did.... :\'( <^(
Fausta that's wonderful! For him to get you this book, because he knows how much you care about Heath...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: Heath Ledger's Joker Deserves an Oscar
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20213999,00.html
A posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger for his Joker performance?
"I would vote for him," his Dark Knight costar Maggie Gyllenhaal told reporters Monday at the film's London premiere.
Gyllenhaal, 30, said of Ledger's Oscar prospects that the "degree of difficulty should be incorporated into the award."
"To be that incredible in a movie that's this huge, that's about so many things, is really an accomplishment," she said. "In a way I feel funny thinking about the Oscars when he isn't alive, but at the same time I'm a member of the Academy and I would vote for him."
Gyllenhaal – who replaced Katie Holmes in the role of Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes – spoke to reporters while her fiancé Peter Saarsgard watched from a few feet behind.
She said of Ledger's performance: "In order to be a good actor you have to find a place where you are free, but it's very unusual to be absolutely free in the way that he was in this movie. It was inspiring working with him."
At the premiere – which featured a 2.5 ton replica of the Batmobile, shooting flames – fans carried signs and banners campaigning for an Oscar for Ledger.
Michael Caine, who plays Batman's butler Alfred, told reporters he "would pay good money" to see a performance that could top Ledger's for the Oscar. Previously Caine said Ledger was worthy of nomination.
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OMG Fausta!! That's so very sweet. <^( <^( <^( After your previous post about the reaction of your son to BBM, and now with this one, I think he's a gem, a true kind free spirit, a gift for a mother. <^( <^( I'm so glad for you, baby. ^f^
And I want that book so bad!! I think it's wonderful but I can't fing it here.... :\'( :\'(
I must get that book also, definitely
I love hearing about these sons of our Brokie mothers -- beautiful young men obviously, sons of special mothers! I suspect lots of young men -- and other people -- can now more freely feel okay about digging Heath Ledger, whereas before, it might have been difficult for some, especially young men, when he was only connected in the public eye with BBM.
kahy
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Dear Fausta, I am very glad you have received that wonderful book, that's very kind from your son ^f^
Tammy, I hope you'll find it ^f^
Keren, that's fine from Jake's sister to vote for a winning oscar for Heath :clap:
Heath deserves an oscar
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OMG Fausta!! That's so very sweet. <^( <^( <^( After your previous post about the reaction of your son to BBM, and now with this one, I think he's a gem, a true kind free spirit, a gift for a mother. <^( <^( I'm so glad for you, baby. ^f^
And I want that book so bad!! I think it's wonderful but I can't fing it here.... :\'( :\'(
Dear Tammy, let me know if you can't find the book (by PM)...Perhaps can I buy one for you in the english librairy O0 :^^)
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Some other pics scanned from the book, for you ^f^ (may I post here ?)
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi310.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk433%2Fsolangepa%2FHeath%2520Ledger%2FSanstitre-Numrisation-05.jpg&hash=03dfefe5bbbd27e26b78950703d87e0512e0e1ac)
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:ghug: :ghug: :ghug: Let me know if you want some more :s)
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OMG, Simone, thank you so much!!!! He's so gorgeous, so sweet... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Thank you for the photos Simone! You know I always love to see photos of Heath... but I think it's best to post them in the "Oh baby" thread, that is the place for Heath pics. :)
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Hey Brokies,
"Film Review" Magazine has The Dark Knight on the cover again. There are a few things about Heath throughout it, not just in the TDK article, though the article is really good, and talks about him a lot also. There is also a cool article on the 25 best actors/actresses working in Hollywood and Christian Bale is #1!
I believe it's a UK magazine, but I found it here in the states at Barnes and Noble. You can check out it's website...
http://www.visimag.com/filmreview/f221_display.htm
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi258.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh264%2Fjessicat80%2FMags%2FBBMFilmmagJul08cover.jpg&hash=64a2931c71a2f06f918abc26d0551be64fd8ba48)
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Thank you for the photos Simone! You know I always love to see photos of Heath... but I think it's best to post them in the "Oh baby" thread, that is the place for Heath pics. :)
Hello Keren, I know you love photos of Heath, so I'll post other scanned photos from the book on the appropriate thread O0 :^^)
Dear Tammy, if you want to see more pics, you need to go to "Oh baby" thread :)
Many thanks dear Jessica, I've read on the net the film has such a success that Chris Nolan is astouned ! (t)
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Interesting quote from Larry McMurtry:
On Brokeback Mountain: "[Writing partner Dianna Ossana and I] both recognized Brokeback Mountain as a great story and asked that day if we could option it. There was a flood of people wanting to read it, but we got it first. My partner’s very tenacious and through thick and thin, she hung onto it. We waited until Heath Ledger got big enough we could cast him. It was a lot of luck and a lot of patience. You have to hang in there for a long time sometimes.
http://www.star-telegram.com/books/story/799670.html (http://www.star-telegram.com/books/story/799670.html)
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Interesting indeed, ynaff. So, they waited for Heath... they sure knew what they were doing.
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Hey Brokies,
"Film Review" Magazine has The Dark Knight on the cover again. There are a few things about Heath throughout it, not just in the TDK article, though the article is really good, and talks about him a lot also. There is also a cool article on the 25 best actors/actresses working in Hollywood and Christian Bale is #1!
I believe it's a UK magazine, but I found it here in the states at Barnes and Noble. You can check out it's website...
http://www.visimag.com/filmreview/f221_display.htm
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi258.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh264%2Fjessicat80%2FMags%2FBBMFilmmagJul08cover.jpg&hash=64a2931c71a2f06f918abc26d0551be64fd8ba48)
:t) a bunch jess for posting this I can go the rest of my life hearing these glowing tributes about Heath <^( people cant say enough good good things about him but, on a side note I must say I LOVE CHRISTIAN BALE!!! :d) and I'm glad that he has finally getting the massive acclaim he deserves I've watched his career from the beginning just like Jake and Heath, its always great to watch young actors mature into grown adults and moving on to so many diverse roles
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"Ledger drug investigation dropped"
News story from The West Australian, 7 August:
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=503791
To quote Jack Twist: "For what it's worth"
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well im glad theyopped it, it was sjut another thing for the media to blow out of proportion and make money on...and its sick. im glad its over with
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"Ledger drug investigation dropped"
News story from The West Australian, 7 August:
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=503791
To quote Jack Twist: "For what it's worth"
I am so happy they dropped this thing. It was just annoying and the media would go crazy and thats not what Heaths family, friends or fans need right now. Maybe now that can finally let him be...
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A little article about the restaurant-bar that Heath wanted to open:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/06/heath-ledger-brightside/
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I saw the article about them stopping the investigation into where Heath got the drugs. I am glad. I thought we were past all this stuff. Hearing about them still investigating and going after MKO just upset me very much. Just opened the wound that was just starting to heal for me.
I keep thinking of Matilda that is when I start crying for the little girl who no longer had her father in her life :\'(
just breaks my heart
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Titabeille thanks for the info about that book. I had heard about books coming out about Heath and his life (mostly written to make money off his passing)
But I didn't know there was one out there illustrated. I am going to look into getting one.
Thanks
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A little article about the restaurant-bar that Heath wanted to open:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/06/heath-ledger-brightside/
Thank you Keren. This always sounded like such a nice project. Whatever they end up calling it, I wish them much success. :)
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To quote Jack Twist: "For what it's worth"
I guess we were bound to have different beliefs as to whether they should have continued the investigation. No need to go into that. Just wanted to say, Jackster's quote reflects my own feelings of resignation ---for what it's worth.
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I don't feel anything would/could have been accomplished by carrying on an investigation into Heath's death, at least not for those who remember him, and love him, and miss him terribly. For Heath I say..let be, let be. :\'( :)
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I don't feel anything would/could have been accomplished by carrying on an investigation into Heath's death, at least not for those who remember him, and love him, and miss him terribly. For Heath I say..let be, let be. :\'( :)
Let be...let be...That is beautifully quoted, rlh03. I agree with you 100%. The lesson is simple and early on, prescription drugs are powerful and should be used only with extreme caution and respect for its misuse. If one teenager learns this lesson from Heath's tragic accident, then he had saved yet another life, and would be proud. :ghug:
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Just saw on another thread that there was an E! True Hollywood Story on Heath. Anyone know when/if it will air again? I can't believe I missed it :-\\
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"Ledger drug investigation dropped"
News story from The West Australian, 7 August:
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=503791
To quote Jack Twist: "For what it's worth"
You got that right.
kathy
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Let be...let be...That is beautifully quoted, rlh03. I agree with you 100%. The lesson is simple and early on, prescription drugs are powerful and should be used only with extreme caution and respect for its misuse. If one teenager learns this lesson from Heath's tragic accident, then he had saved yet another life, and would be proud. :ghug:
I know some young people who have really paid attention to this, have had a bit of a rude awakening because of Heath's situation. I understand that prescription drugs are the drugs of choice for many young people these days, and I sure hope this will point out to them how careful one must be...
kathy
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Sir Michael Caine: It was a privilege working with Heath Ledger
Actor pays tribute to his Batman co-star
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Sir Michael Caine says it was a pleasure to work with Heath Ledger on The Dark Knight.
The veteran actor, 75, heaped praise on the Australian star who died of a prescription drugs overdose in January at the age of 28.
‘What a talent,’ he tells Hello! ‘We’d sit on set, chatting for hours. Then he’d get up, drop being Heath, and go into this amazing performance.
‘I shall miss him – very much. And it was a privilege working with him, you can’t say that of some actors out there, believe me.’
The Dark Knight has broken box office records, taking £77.7million in its opening weekend.
And Heath’s portrayal of The Joker is being hailed as Oscar-worthy.
http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/268444/sir-michael-caine-it-was-a-privilege-working-with-heath-ledger/1/ (http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/268444/sir-michael-caine-it-was-a-privilege-working-with-heath-ledger/1/)
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http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/268444/sir-michael-caine-it-was-a-privilege-working-with-heath-ledger/1/ (http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/268444/sir-michael-caine-it-was-a-privilege-working-with-heath-ledger/1/)
Thanks for this, Ynnaf. As usual, these words bring me to tears, and Sir Michael Caine's sincerity is absolutely moving.
And on the same page is this link, that really pushed my tears to the limit.
http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/264875/heath-ledger-tipped-to-win-an-oscar-for-the-dark-knight/1/
quoting Peter Travers of Rolling Stones:
‘It's typical of Heath's total commitment to films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain and I'm Not There that he does nothing out of vanity or the need to be liked.
‘Heath's Joker has no grey areas — he's all rampaging id. He creates a Joker for the ages.
‘If there's a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976's Network, sign me up.’
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Ledger bar to honour late actor
12th August 2008, 7:45 WST
A bar designed by Heath Ledger will open in New York.
The nautical-themed restaurant and bar, called BrightSide, is scheduled to begin operations in Brooklyn next month, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London today.
The Dark Knight star had invested in the bar with his friend and business partner Jud Mongell.
The venue's interior will contain features designed by Ledger, who received posthumous critical acclaim for his depiction of the Joker in the latest Batman film. It will also contain personal references to him, including a chessboard engraved into one of the tables.
"Heath was a big chess player," Mr Mongell said in The Telegraph. "The whole idea was to make it a spot for us. We wanted to make it our own space to hang out."
Mr Mongell said the opening would be bittersweet without Ledger, who died in January at the age of 28 from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
"Heath was very, very into it. He drew the floor plans and thought of the name, BrightSide, because it's on the bright side of McCarren Park," Mr Mongell said.
John McCormick, who designed the bar, Ledger had also wanted a table large enough to accommodate his family.
"Heath specifically talked about having a place for him and his family to sit," said Mr McCormick.
"It was great working with Heath. He was the most unassuming guy."
LONDON
THE TELEGRAPH GROUP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=22&ContentID=90706
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Ledger bar to honour late actor
12th August 2008, 7:45 WST
A bar designed by Heath Ledger will open in New York.
The nautical-themed restaurant and bar, called BrightSide, is scheduled to begin operations in Brooklyn next month, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London today.
The Dark Knight star had invested in the bar with his friend and business partner Jud Mongell.
The venue's interior will contain features designed by Ledger, who received posthumous critical acclaim for his depiction of the Joker in the latest Batman film. It will also contain personal references to him, including a chessboard engraved into one of the tables.
"Heath was a big chess player," Mr Mongell said in The Telegraph. "The whole idea was to make it a spot for us. We wanted to make it our own space to hang out."
Mr Mongell said the opening would be bittersweet without Ledger, who died in January at the age of 28 from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
"Heath was very, very into it. He drew the floor plans and thought of the name, BrightSide, because it's on the bright side of McCarren Park," Mr Mongell said.
John McCormick, who designed the bar, Ledger had also wanted a table large enough to accommodate his family.
"Heath specifically talked about having a place for him and his family to sit," said Mr McCormick.
"It was great working with Heath. He was the most unassuming guy."
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I love the idea of this and I'm so glad it's being brought to fruition despite Heath not being here to see the realisation of his dream.
But its bittersweet too, because he should be here, to see his family sat at that large table, and him sitting with them..... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
I love the name though, it makes me smile...
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This is a news article from last month, but I don't remember if it was posted here:
Ledger honoured with posthumous award
Heath Ledger's contribution to the Australian film industry is to be honoured with the 2008 Chauvel Award.
The posthumous award will be made at next month's Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), Queensland Arts Minister Rod Welford announced on Friday.
Ledger died in New York from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January.
Mr Welford said Ledger's friends and colleagues would be present for the award presentation on August 7.
"Over the years, there have been many others who have drawn focus to the Australian film industry, either through their own personal achievements in their field or their consistent and staunch support for Australian filmmaking," he said.
"Heath Ledger did both, and his passing highlighted how loved and revered he was, not just by fans but by the Australian film-making community."
Previous recipients of the award, named after filmmakers Charles and Elsa Chauvel, include director George Miller and actors Geoffrey Rush, Bryan Brown and Jack Thompson.
Hype is building for Ledger to receive a best supporting actor Oscar nomination following gushing reviews for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight, released this week.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/4805334/ledger-honoured-posthumous-award
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I started reading a biography about Heath. It's called "Heath Ledger, Hollywood's Dark Star" by Brian J, Robb. I don't like the title very much. But so far the author tends to stick to the facts (I'm just at the beginning though) and is using a lot of quotes, which is nice. I like reading things that Heath said, things I haven't read before, and things that his friends and family said about him. Here are some bits that I liked, and haven't known before.
Heath was very much into sports when he was at school, but there was a "secret" reason behind it. This is from the biography:
Despite his aptitude for hockey and swimming, Heath wouldn't pursue any physical activity just for the sake of it. He actually avoided joining the military cadet programme at Guildford Grammar School. 'You had to wear a uniform,' he later recalled in Vanity Fair. 'I didn't want to [prepare to] fight. I thought it was strange that they were teaching kids to shoot automatic weapons. If you didn't do it, they made you play sports. So I played a lot of field hockey, cricket and Australians-rules foodball. I played them all just to get out of cadets. Who wants to shoot an automatic rifle? What was I going to use that for?'
Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
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thanks for sharing that keren i think ill have to purchase that :), its really great to here the things like that!
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More from Heath's dad:
'Heath was an arty boy,' recalled Kim. 'He had some of his special abstract paintings pinned on the walls of his room and on the ceiling. We were lying back looking at the art on the ceiling, at about one O'clock in the morning. We'd been talking for about half an hour - we often talked like that - I finally told him he was going to have to get some sleep because he had school in the morning. He was about fourteen of fifteen. He said to me, "Well, Dad, you're going to have to get used to this, because this is what I'm going to be doing. I'm going to be very good at it. I'm really going to enjoy it." I always told him that he couldn't be good at anything unless he enjoyed it 150 per cent.'
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Thank you Keren :)
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You're welcome. I like discovering these little things about him.
Heath about how his love for old movies and Gene Kelly in particular got him interested in acting:
'It all comes from my love of Kelly. I think he's just awesome. It was more or less the partnership between him and Judy Garland that I liked. There was something so magical about Gene Kelly's films. It was movie-making! They built those amazing sets! They danced and sang!'
About the reason for taking up modern dance:
...'to gain more control over my body. I did some dance courses mainly because when I started doing theatre I was really self-conscious of what my body was doing and where my hands were and what my feet were doing.'
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I love all these quotes Keren, but they just make so sad....I havent had the courage to open this book up yet. I want to though... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Thanks for posting all the wonderful quotes Keren :^^) I'm getting my book tomorrow, but I think its another one then the one you have, I don't think it was called the same :s)
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I started reading a biography about Heath. It's called "Heath Ledger, Hollywood's Dark Star" by Brian J, Robb. I don't like the title very much. But so far the author tends to stick to the facts (I'm just at the beginning though) and is using a lot of quotes, which is nice. I like reading things that Heath said, things I haven't read before, and things that his friends and family said about him. Here are some bits that I liked, and haven't known before.
Heath was very much into sports when he was at school, but there was a "secret" reason behind it. This is from the biography:
Despite his aptitude for hockey and swimming, Heath wouldn't pursue any physical activity just for the sake of it. He actually avoided joining the military cadet programme at Guildford Grammar School. 'You had to wear a uniform,' he later recalled in Vanity Fair. 'I didn't want to [prepare to] fight. I thought it was strange that they were teaching kids to shoot automatic weapons. If you didn't do it, they made you play sports. So I played a lot of field hockey, cricket and Australians-rules foodball. I played them all just to get out of cadets. Who wants to shoot an automatic rifle? What was I going to use that for?'
Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
Thank you so so so very much for this, Keren!! ^f^ I mean it.
I'm totally in love with what you quoted. Heath is, he is, I don't know, I don't find words. He's simply too much, too much for words, totally amazing, and great, and unique and special, a very very very beautiful kind soul, full of love, wanting peace, wanting light, wanting to make art, something gorgeous and different with his life. He is stunning, a treasure, the kind of men people fall in love with, humble and caring, just like a dream, someone with a big big big heart, someone who makes you feel just good, just the right way. How utterly unfair and cruel his death is!!! So many very bad people getting their stomach full right now and one delicious gentle loving human being lost forever. I can't stand it. It's not right. It hurts so much.
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Thank you so so so very much for this, Keren!! ^f^ I mean it.
I'm totally in love with what you quoted. Heath is, he is, I don't know, I don't find words. He's simply too much, too much for words, totally amazing, and great, and unique and special, a very very very beautiful kind soul, full of love, wanting peace, wanting light, wanting to make art, something gorgeous and different with his life. He is stunning, a treasure, the kind of men people fall in love with, humble and caring, just like a dream, someone with a big big big heart, someone who makes you feel just good, just the right way. How utterly unfair and cruel his death is!!! So many very bad people geeting their stomach full right now and one delicious gentle loving human being lost forever. I can't stand it. It's not right. It hurts so much.
I agree with everything you said Tammy, about Heath and how wonderful and unique he is and thats what makes it all so hard, so hard to deal with and understand..... :\'( :\'(
But I loved all the things you said about him......they were all so so true.... :\'( :\'(
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Actors give up earnings for Ledger's daughter
The actors who stepped in to finish the late Heath Ledger's last film have come to the rescue again, this time helping to guarantee his daughter Matilda's financial security.
Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp — who all played versions of Ledger's character Tim in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus after his January death — have donated their earnings from the movie to Matilda.
Footage of Ledger will still be used in the film, which is set in London, while the portrayals from Law, Colin and Farrell will be employed when the story crosses into parallel worlds.
Director Terry Gilliam said the decision by the trio to step in after Ledger's death was "heroic".
"This doesn't happen very often ... where there's a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, 'OK, we'll do whatever it takes to help'," he said.
"They came, they allowed the movie to be finished and they didn't take money — it goes to Heath's daughter.
"That's extraordinary and wonderful ... and we've got a movie full of wonderful people who did extraordinary things to help."
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I love all the quotes Keren, thank you :)
Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
This one really got me, first I laughed because it reminded me of the fly that lands on his face during the confrontation scene in Brokeback, when he says, "all them things I don't know", I always thought it was interesting because most people would just have a natural instinct to slap their face and kill it, but I always felt he was so into the scene, he didn't even feel it; now I thought, maybe he just didn't believe in killing it.........
Then I read the part of him and his dad loving each other so much they rolled on the airport floor hugging...Oh my :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heath seem to me. One of those people. That always knew. Who they were. Where they were going. And why they were here. The unique part is he did it all with love. And that is why I believe we all love him.
"I doubt theres nothing now we can do"
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I'm sorry for making you all sad with the quotes, but I wanted to share them... Tammy, I agreed with every word you said! I was reading those quotes in the book and I thought, how amazing can this guy be? Can he be even more wonderful than I thought? And it makes me sad too, to realise again and again how huge the loss is, what a special, incredible human being we all lost here... but I still love learning all these little things about him.
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I'm sorry for making you all sad with the quotes, but I wanted to share them... Tammy, I agreed with every word you said! I was reading those quotes in the book and I thought, how amazing can this guy be? Can he be even more wonderful than I thought? And it makes me sad too, to realise again and again how huge the loss is, what a special, incredible human being we all lost here... but I still love learning all these little things about him.
Oh me too Keren, as sad as it makes me feel, I still like learning all these things about him too... :)
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Box Office Mojo reported as of 08-18-2008 TKD worldwide $801,194,356. :clap: If Heath was only here to see it. :( Perhaps I speak too soon from my heart. Heath sees it, never fear. :)
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Box Office Mojo reported as of 08-18-2008 TKD worldwide $801,194,356. :clap: If Heath was only here to see it. :( Perhaps I speak too soon from my heart. Heath sees it, never fear. :)
If I remember correctly from one of his interviews, I believe Heath doesn't watch his own movies, and I think he would be gratified to see the outpouring of support for his amazing acting. The money would be good, too, seeing it would go to Matilda. I hope. Heath would be very happy to know that Matilda will start her life well off.
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Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
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my heart really goes out to this family :\'( no matter how big a loss Heath was to the world in general and to the acting community it will never be as huge as a father/mother/sisters/baby daugther who will never again get to roll around on an airport floor with him thats the biggest tragedy of all
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Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
my heart really goes out to this family :\'( no matter how big a loss Heath was to the world in general and to the acting community it will never be as huge as a father/mother/sisters/baby daugther who will never again get to roll around on an airport floor with him thats the biggest tragedy of all
So true, sportstalk. As much as WE miss him, think about those truly close to him, family and friends...
kathy
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Kim Ledger about his son:
'Heath doesn't want to squash an ant. He worries about everything, from an insect dying onward. He's very soft inside. We're the only father and son I know who hug and roll around on the floor of the airport when we meet. We're huggy, touchy people.'
my heart really goes out to this family :\'( no matter how big a loss Heath was to the world in general and to the acting community it will never be as huge as a father/mother/sisters/baby daugther who will never again get to roll around on an airport floor with him thats the biggest tragedy of all
Yup. Sportstalk. I am with you 100% here. :\'( :ghug: I can't imagine what it must be like, to miss those long distance phone calls, those moments when good news of Heath appears on TV, in the newspapers, on billboards, the frequent visits. Heath was very close to his family. The close ties make his absence so much more felt than otherwise.
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Just got back from seeing 2 wonderful brokies, Chameau and Froggy, in Montreal Canada.
On the way there, I randomly got a magazine I haven't bought in years just to have something to read on the plane.
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After buying it, this was what I found inside :\'(
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This is just the top left corner of a 2 page spread. I can't post everything because it has a pap pic from the beach side memorial, and a pap pic of Heath, Michelle, and Matilda. It has other lovely photos too. But I had to post this one section because what it says is just so true.
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Just got back from seeing 2 wonderful brokies, Chameau and Froggy, in Montreal Canada.
On the way there, I randomly got a magazine I haven't bought in years just to have something to read on the plane.
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After buying it, this was what I found inside :\'(
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This is just the top left corner of a 2 page spread. I can't post everything because it has a pap pic from the beach side memorial, and a pap pic of Heath, Michelle, and Matilda. It has other lovely photos too. But I had to post this one section because what it says is just so true.
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That's wonderful, Jessicat. I don't believe in coincidences, and obviously the Brokie meet continued with you onto the plane. I am glad you had good company, to keep your mind of the flight.
:ghug: Thanks for sharing the pictures and article.
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Oh thank you, thank you, Jess!!! ^f^ I love that pic, I love that they talked about Heath and I agree with those words too: Heath sure didn't like the fame, he was too humble to like that. And I love him for that, because I feel him nearer to me because of that. He is not a super start untouchable and distant, he is just a normal guy wanting to create art, wanting to live happy, wanting to love and being love. That's so special and wonderful!!
Like Andrew, I don't believe in coincidences either...
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Thank you for posting it Jess... I wonder who this Garth Pearce is, and how did he know Heath. "Allergic to fame" is a good way to put it... he sure never liked the spotlights.
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Thank you for posting it Jess... I wonder who this Garth Pearce is, and how did he know Heath. "Allergic to fame" is a good way to put it... he sure never liked the spotlights.
I'm not 100% sure, Keren,but I think Garth Pearce is a British journalist, I recognise the name. I'm not sure how he knows Heath, but he could be talking in a a professional sense.... :-\\
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Thanks, Christie, and you're probably right about him talking in a professional sense. I tried but couldn't find the article online.
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Thank you for posting it Jess... I wonder who this Garth Pearce is, and how did he know Heath. "Allergic to fame" is a good way to put it... he sure never liked the spotlights.
Ok, I finally made myself read it. I buy anything with Heath, then don't/can't read it. Garth Pearce is a reporter that first interviewed Heath for 10 things I Hate About You. He then interviewed him every few years for other films, in a way being able to track Heath's transitions of reactions to fame and interviews last seeing him in Toronto in September '07. He does delve into the idea of having demons, but mainly he talks about Heath with admiration and respect. I tried to photograph the pages just covering the memorial and Matilda pics, but the poor image made it impossible to read, and it's way too much for me to type it all.
Something I did find very interesting though, was that along the side of the right page it listed quotes/tributes to Heath from his ex's and friends. I'd seen most of them, and they were quotes from after his death, but what I found interesting was that there was one from Jake Gyllenhaal.
It said, "Heath wouldn't talk about wanting to be the best, but he'd deliver the best scenes you've ever seen. He was incredible in Brokeback. When people see that performance years from now, they'll say he deserved an Oscar."
Now keep in mind, magazines are sneaky and dishonest when they want to be. Just because that is listed along side other quotes we know to be after tributes, does not mean Jake actually had to have said these words after Heath was gone. He could just have easily have said them when talking about Brokeback in the past tense right after filming.
This edition of Cosmopolitan is the UK mini-compact travel edition. I tried to find the regular sized, but the next month's edition was there. If you look for it, it is the August '08 with Jessica Alba on the cover :)
I went to the website to look for the article, but couldn't find it, they did have some nice pics of Heath though.
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Thanks Jess for telling us what the article was about..and you're right about the quote from Jake, who knows when that was from, but it's still nice to see one from him. :)
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Thanks Jess for telling us what the article was about..and you're right about the quote from Jake, who knows when that was from, but it's still nice to see one from him. :)
deffiantly! maybe ill do some research and try and find when it was from ;)
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It said, "Heath wouldn't talk about wanting to be the best, but he'd deliver the best scenes you've ever seen. He was incredible in Brokeback. When people see that performance years from now, they'll say he deserved an Oscar."
I like that Jake said that, doesn't matter when he did.
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I like that Jake said that, doesn't matter when he did.
I agree completely with you,Keren.The moment is the less important; what matters is that he said this because is what he felt and still feels. :clap:
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i agree too keren
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, "Heath wouldn't talk about wanting to be the best, but he'd deliver the best scenes you've ever seen. He was incredible in Brokeback. When people see that performance years from now, they'll say he deserved an Oscar."
right on they both did :)
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Heath Ledger voted top summer movie villain!!!!!
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:21 PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Heath Ledger's chilling portrayal of the Joker in Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" easily surpassed rivals to be named the summer's best movie villain in a poll released on Wednesday.
Australian actor Ledger, 28, who died of an accidental drug overdose six months before the July release of "The Dark Knight", won 95 percent of votes in a poll by AOL's Moviefone.com Web site.
The Batman sequel, which has taken $505 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office alone, also won every category in which it was nominated for the end of summer season poll, including best sequel, best superhero movie, best action sequence and "movie most worth your cash."
"'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' had all the hype going into the summer but when people saw 'The Dark Knight', they really responded in 'Titanic'-like proportions," said Moviefone editor Scott Robson.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Toronto festival rolls out potential award winners
By ERIC HARRISON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle ,Sept. 3, 2008, 5:50PM
Financially, 2008 has been a good movie year so far, but it's hard to think of many films that will be remembered come awards season.
There's The Visitor, from early in the year. It was a better-than-respectable little drama. The Dark Knight very likely will yield a supporting-actor Oscar nominee in Heath Ledger. Beyond that, the movie is most noteworthy for its record-shattering box office.
All this is about to change. A trio of film festivals — Telluride, Venice and Toronto — mark the unofficial start of Hollywood's awards season. The last of these, and most important, is Toronto.
It starts today, and its lineup of North American premieres most assuredly holds most of the movies film lovers will be talking about for the next five months and that will dominate the major awards.
The filmmakers include the Coen brothers, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Fernando Meirelles, Steven Soderbergh and Jonathan Demme. Among the stars are George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Colin Farrell, Renée Zellweger, Edward Norton, Kate Beckinsale, Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen and Guy Pearce.
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Heath Ledger voted top summer movie villain!!!!!
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:21 PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Heath Ledger's chilling portrayal of the Joker in Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" easily surpassed rivals to be named the summer's best movie villain in a poll released on Wednesday.
Australian actor Ledger, 28, who died of an accidental drug overdose six months before the July release of "The Dark Knight", won 95 percent of votes in a poll by AOL's Moviefone.com Web site.
The Batman sequel, which has taken $505 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office alone, also won every category in which it was nominated for the end of summer season poll, including best sequel, best superhero movie, best action sequence and "movie most worth your cash."
"'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' had all the hype going into the summer but when people saw 'The Dark Knight', they really responded in 'Titanic'-like proportions," said Moviefone editor Scott Robson.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
That's a great story...but I couldn't help thinking....who the heck got the other 5%?!
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That's a great story...but I couldn't help thinking....who the heck got the other 5%?!
Someone who didn't deserve it probably, because they should've gone to Heath :P
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That's a great story...but I couldn't help thinking....who the heck got the other 5%?!
I'm sure the other 5% was divided among the dozen others -- no doubt by the 5% of other people who have their favorites. A few votes here, a few votes there. Maybe they've always loved Hellboy and always hated Batman for some perverse reason and didn't even see TDK. ^*() to those people.
kathy
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who the heck got the other 5%
isnt it obvious someones relatives ;D
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isnt it obvious someones relatives ;D
;D ;D ;D Totally!
I guess also though, that even with earning over 500 million dollars, there's a chance that 5 % of people in the world just haven't seen his amazing performance, so that's why they didn't vote for it ;)
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;D ;D ;D Totally!
I guess also though, that even with earning over 500 million dollars, there's a chance that 5 % of people in the world just haven't seen his amazing performance, so that's why they didn't vote for it ;)
Jess I have seen people comment on youtube over the dark knight stuff and have the nerve to say they have never seen any of Heath's work before this ::) like what where have these people been living in a cave for a decade apparently
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I've found in a French forum these pics about the release of Heath's bar; I think he will be proud,wherever he's now...
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Five leaves, le bar d’Heath Ledger, a ouvert à New York
Son ultime projet
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L’acteur australien mort en début d’année avait investi dans un bar, qui ouvre aujourd’hui à New York.
Il aura fallu attendre huit mois pour que le bar d’Heath Ledger, Five leaves, ouvre enfin ses portes aujourd’hui. L’acteur avait choisi le quartier de Brooklyn pour s’installer.
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« C’est un endroit très cosy avec des tendances légèrement australiennes et californiennes. Un café qui fait bar à huîtres et propose également des snacks », révèle en avant-première le site américain UrbanDaddy.com. Fives leaves ressemble à « un bar construit par Thomas Edison (inventeur du télégraphe) pour y recevoir ses amis ».
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Quant à la carte, vous pourrez, entre autres, y déguster de fines tranches de radis sur des toasts avec du beurre Evans Farmhouse. Par contre, nous ne connaissons pas encore la carte des prix de cet endroit, digne des décors des plus grands films de Tim Burton. Le bar d’Heath Ledger est situé à Brooklyn, la ville où est installée son ex-compagne Michelle Williams, avec sa fille Mathilda Rose.
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Five Leaves, the hotly anticipated bar from first time restaurateurs Jud Mongell and Kathy Mecham and once backed by Heath Ledger, is now open to the public for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It occupies a strange triangular space, giving it a lot of light, and has a subtle nautical theme (the door to the bathroom is an old ship door). If you've been to Smith & Mills or Williamsburg's Moto, you'll immediately recognize the handiwork of designer John McCormick.
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The food has a slightly Australian bent (owners are from Down Under), but is pretty standard, affordable fare. The lunch menu features a $13 burger and a selection of sandwiches and salads in the under $10 range. Breakfast is pastries and coffees (which can be procured through a window to the side of the bar), along with pancakes and eggs. Of course, by the looks of the space we're expecting a sizable bar crowd as well. And a bonus: owners Jud and Kathy live just down the street, so you can expect to see them on the premises.
Five Leaves
Nautical themed, Australian, Cocktails
18 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg; 646 510 6467
Open for b,l,d until 2 a.m.
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it looks awsome!
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I met Heath Ledger in 2000. I was working on From Hell and he was shooting A Knights Tale which were both being shot in and around Prague.
It was one of the best and worst times of my life - I was in a Hollywood movie, shooting scenes with Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane but behind all the glitz and the glamour there was a sour taste to the whole experience: I (unlike many of the other actors working on the film), had been out in Prague for nearly three months, it was lonely living out of a hotel room and I had terrible anxiety and self doubt with regards to my part in the movie itself - coupled with some unpleasant incidents on set, I felt very isolated and vulnerable.
One evening during that time, some of the actors from my film had arranged to meet some of the actors from the other film at a night spot in Prague and I happened to be in that very same bar when they arrived. Out of everyone who was there, it was Heath who asked me if I would like to join their party, some of the guys had said hello to me when they arrived and Heath had deduced I must have been working on the other film and that I was on my own.
I had a really great time that night, and on a couple occasions Heath invited me over to his apartment to hang out with his friends. It was on one of those occasions that this photo was taken. Heath had discovered that I was an artist and that I was also a photographer and he had with him an old bashed up camera which he handed to me and asked if I wouldn't mind taking some shots of him and Heather Graham.
That will be my enduring memory of him - how he was completely genuine and his startling kindness - he made me feel included when I had been excluded and made my memories of Prague a great deal happier than they might have been... I can't imagine how devastated the people who knew him well must be.
I wanted to share this with the dA community as it's been reported that far right extremists intend to picket and disrupt his funeral. Know this, Heath Ledger was a good person, a kind person: please don't let anyone persuade you otherwise. His loss should be mourned, not mocked.
http://nottheredbaron.deviantart.com/art/Heath-and-Heather-75602428 (http://nottheredbaron.deviantart.com/art/Heath-and-Heather-75602428)
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This was written by a former teacher of Heath, two days after he died.
Carpe Diem: In the Shadow of Death, Is Life Passing You By?
I have been in a strange place the last few days.
As a teacher at Heath Ledger’s school when he was no more than a bright face at the back of a classroom, I have been deeply and profoundly touched by his death.
In my eternally countrified home town Heath is an almost mythical creature - the down-to-earth boy who somehow sprouted wings and soared all the way to Hollywood, a la the Peter Pan of his youthful acting days.
I can say that there is a pall over the city today.
And while we do not mourn the daily passing of any other residents of our city any the less, there is something very wrong about such a bright young star plummeting back to earth.
Death should not visit one who seems to stand so tall. It should nip at his heels and be jostled aside as he leaps and bounds through his abundant life.
And it is in that realisation that death touches us all.
For if life can pass by the Heath Ledgers of the world, what about the rest of us with our feet firmly rooted in the earth?
Does your life pass you by, camouflaged by the little things that have no place in the epic stories of our world?
I remember the anticipation with which I viewed the world at the age of 28.
Are the dreams and hopes any dimmer since those days?
And so in the shadow of death a little perspective returns…
Carpe diem!
For if ever a school boy taught us to seize the day it is Heath Ledger.
Life is short, but it can be very sweet and even those of us from small, quiet places can soar high and far.
Deepest condolences to the Ledger family and many thanks for letting us bask in the brightness of your cherished son.
http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/carpe-diem-in-the-shadow-of-death-is-life-passing-you-by/
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And while we do not mourn the daily passing of any other residents of our city any the less, there is something very wrong about such a bright young star plummeting back to earth.
Death should not visit one who seems to stand so tall. It should nip at his heels and be jostled aside as he leaps and bounds through his abundant life.
And it is in that realisation that death touches us all.
God, that was so sad and so beautifully stated :\'(
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Thank you, Keren...That was so very moving and beautifully written. The part Michelle quoted made me cry too.
Carpe diem has always been my motto. Life is so short, so LIVE!!
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Thank you for this, Alicia. It's awesome, and I know Heath had been very proud of it. I wish I could visit.
I feel so sad knowing that Heath was so excited about this and now he can't be there to enjoying it. **sad sigh** :\'( :\'(
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Thank you, Keren...That was so very moving and beautifully written. The part Michelle quoted made me cry too.
Carpe diem has always been my motto. Life is so short, so LIVE!!
Thank you for this, Alicia. It's awesome, and I know Heath had been very proud of it. I wish I could visit.
I feel so sad knowing that Heath was so excited about this and now he can't be there to enjoying it. **sad sigh** :\'( :\'(
i know he cant physically be there at the opening but i beleive he can still be present there in spirit and still feel proud of his acomplishment. i too wish i could visit...and who knows, its not impossible to go. maybe some of us will get the cance one day.
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i know he cant physically be there at the opening but i beleive he can still be present there in spirit and still feel proud of his acomplishment. i too wish i could visit...and who knows, its not impossible to go. maybe some of us will get the cance one day.
I agree and it would be amazing if some brokies could get to go and visit, I'd love to see pictures of that. :)
It still makes me sad to think that Heath had this amazing vision and its come to fruition, but he's not here to appreciate it himself.... :(
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http://nottheredbaron.deviantart.com/art/Heath-and-Heather-75602428 (http://nottheredbaron.deviantart.com/art/Heath-and-Heather-75602428)
This is a gorgeous and genuinely moving account of how Heath touched someone's life and how the memory of it lingered. If I remember rightly, the person retelling this account was asked by Heath to take a picture of him and his then girlfriend Heather Graham. That pic's been posted a few times on the Oh Baby pics thread and it really is one of the most romantic pics I've seen... <^( <^(
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Oh, we have to plan a Brokie gathering there in NY to see Heath's cafe bar!!! I wanna go...
I think about him so so much these days and I need to do something like this...
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I have a few places I wanna go to when I make it to NY. Brooklin, Washington square, Broom Street, this bar...
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http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/carpe-diem-in-the-shadow-of-death-is-life-passing-you-by/
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:ghug: :\'( Thank you, ynnaf, keren :ghug:
Reading Heath's kindness to strangers in Prague reminds me why we love him, because he could sense emotionally when a stranger felt isolated and miserable in a foreign country. Unlike most of us, he took up the responsibility of having that gift of extra-sensory perception, and made the strange felt included, among friends. Heath was gifted, not only in abilities, but also in his heart of gold, generous, compassionate and loving. That's why Brokeback Mountain is a special movie, because Heath made it so...through his gifts of making everyone he touched, feeling loved and included. Even Ang Lee said, there was a special atmosphere of love on the set.
I could only go so far, reading the teacher's account, with dry eyes. The words "the down-to-earth boy who somehow sprouted wings" are so perfectly descriptive of Heath, that tears are not enough to mourn his passing, of our loss.
Thanks my friends, for sharing what you found. :ghug: :^^) :\'(
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This was written by a former teacher of Heath, two days after he died.
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Death should not visit one who seems to stand so tall. It should nip at his heels and be jostled aside as he leaps and bounds through his abundant life.
And it is in that realisation that death touches us all.
For if life can pass by the Heath Ledgers of the world, what about the rest of us with our feet firmly rooted in the earth?
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Thank you, Keren. All of this piece is so beautiful. So sad...yet the best thing that can happen from losing Heath is learning from his special example to live and love more freely.
kathy
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Reading Heath's kindness to strangers in Prague reminds me why we love him, because he could sense emotionally when a stranger felt isolated and miserable in a foreign country. Unlike most of us, he took up the responsibility of having that gift of extra-sensory perception, and made the strange felt included, among friends. Heath was gifted, not only in abilities, but also in his heart of gold, generous, compassionate and loving. That's why Brokeback Mountain is a special movie, because Heath made it so...through his gifts of making everyone he touched, feeling loved and included. Even Ang Lee said, there was a special atmosphere of love on the set.
I could only go so far, reading the teacher's account, with dry eyes. The words "the down-to-earth boy who somehow sprouted wings" are so perfectly descriptive of Heath, that tears are not enough to mourn his passing, of our loss.
Thanks my friends, for sharing what you found. :ghug: :^^) :\'(
Your words are so beautiful Andrew, and so true. Heath was so beautiful inside and out, a beautiful soul. Our precious soul, I miss him so much. Indeed, tears are not enough... :\'(
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Mr.Heath Ledger's death will never be forgotten.. it is like a myth spoken all throughout the world... till the end of time... the legend. the actor. the man.
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i know he cant physically be there at the opening but i beleive he can still be present there in spirit and still feel proud of his acomplishment. i too wish i could visit...and who knows, its not impossible to go. maybe some of us will get the cance one day.
I agree ith your post word by word,Matt ¡ O0 I think he was there somehow during the inauguration too and from his new home he really feels proud of it.And I also hope all of us will get the chance of visit it one day and congratulate Heath,even if it's in another way... :\'(
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Tears are not enough, indeed. Although I've shed an ocean's worth of tears for dear Heath, and although to a degree they can be purging, they nevertheless always seem inadequately commensurate with the actual feeling of loss and sadness.
I think I'll just take this moment to state again that I'm so very glad I can share this grief over Heath with you Brokies, as well as my love for BM. None of my friends in the real world can fathom my deep sorrow over his passing, they just do not understand. I'm so glad you guys do. ^f^ ^f^ ^f^
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His achievements as an actor . as a person as he is.. his kind heart and generous personality personifies " The legend". He will be eternal for as long as there are fans and admirers who cares and loves Heath Ledger.
I have never seen anyone like Heath whose death is mourn and grieved of almost everyone on earth.. his good deeds slowly rise from each who knew him...his images that were concrete evidence that Heath Ledger once lived on this planet left a humble profile of his beginnings and till the end. Heath Ledger is an old soul......a beautiful face..... a good person....an angel.
There will be the same Heath beyond life........
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I agree. :ghug: friends.
I think we're drifting off topic though and should continue this conversation in the memory thread. :)
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Scholarship in Ledger’s honour will give new talent a leg up
25th September 2008, 12:45 WST
A scholarship named in Heath Ledger’s honour will give an Australian actor a shot at making it big in Hollywood.
Los Angeles-based entertainment organisation, Australians in Film, and Ledger’s family unveiled details of the Heath Ledger Scholarship today.
“As a result of this scholarship, a talented Australian actor will gain valuable assistance to support their personal goals and an opportunity for recognition in the very tough US film industry,” Ledger’s father, Kim Ledger, said.
read the entire story here:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=99668
go Heath go!
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too bad that is just for australians...i would love to get one:(( :\'(
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Scholarship in Ledger’s honour will give new talent a leg up
25th September 2008, 12:45 WST
A scholarship named in Heath Ledger’s honour will give an Australian actor a shot at making it big in Hollywood.
Los Angeles-based entertainment organisation, Australians in Film, and Ledger’s family unveiled details of the Heath Ledger Scholarship today.
“As a result of this scholarship, a talented Australian actor will gain valuable assistance to support their personal goals and an opportunity for recognition in the very tough US film industry,” Ledger’s father, Kim Ledger, said.
read the entire story here:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=99668
go Heath go!
I've heard about this scholarship before and I think it's such a beautiful idea and a wonderful thing to do in Heath's name. He was always so willing to help other people and support their ambitions. xxx
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A wonderful way to honour Heath's memory; helping new actors,as he always wanted to do.It's a great continuation of his caring way of being about other people's needs.
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Heath Ledger's estate to go to daughter
SYDNEY (AFP) — Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda Rose will inherit the late Australian actor's entire estate, estimated to be worth 20 million dollars (16.6 million US), a report said Sunday.
The 28-year-old actor, who died in New York in January from an accidential overdose of prescription drugs, had named his parents and sisters as the beneficiaries in his will, Perth's Sunday Times reported.
The will, which has been probated behind closed doors at the Supreme Court in Perth, was made before Matilda was born, and there had been speculation that the child's mother, actress Michelle Williams, would lodge a claim.
But Ledger's father Kim has put an end to such speculation, revealing that Matilda will inherit the lot.
"There is no claim. Our family has gifted everything to Matilda," he told the News Ltd paper.
Ledger's will listed just 145,000 Australian dollars in assets and cash when it was drawn up in 2003, but the Hollywood star's estate is now believed to be worth more than 20 million dollars, the Sunday Times said.
The Perth-born actor gained international stardom and was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain".
Critics have hailed his performance as the deranged Joker in the recent Batman film sequel, "The Dark Knight".
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iSx4C_uJflgbfSXSP8-5coCA6UMA
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I think it's the fairest thing to do and I didn't hope less from Heath...He was,above all,a loving father and a caring son and brother.
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Heath's dark night
Brian J. Robb
September 28, 2008 12:00am
He was one of Australia's brightest moviestars, but beneath the surface, Heath Ledger was in turmoil. A new book about the actor's life delves into the secrets surrounding his death
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24413112-5006023,00.htm
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rom imdb.com
Michelle Donates To Ledger Fund
25 September 2008 6:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Michelle Williams has pledged a donation to the scholarship fund set up in her late ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger's name.
The Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship will help up-and-coming Australian actors pursue careers in America.
It was set up after Ledger's death from an accidental drug overdose in January.
Wannabes can apply for up to $10,000 (GBP5,400) plus a round-trip airfare from down under to the U.S.
Williams - the mother of Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda - is among the first donors, having handed over an undisclosed sum, reports People.com.
Ledger's friend, director Gregor Jordan, will be one of a five person panel, who get to hand out the money.
He tells People, "Broke Aussie actors in L.A. form a tradition that goes all the way back to Errol Flynn.
"Heath was definitely part of that tradition and this scholarship is something he would have been proud to have his name associated with."
The star's father Kim adds of the fund, "We as a family are pleased with the establishment and progress of the Aif scholarship award named in honour of our much loved and generous son, Heath. As a result of this scholarship, a talented Australian actor will gain valuable assistance to support their personal goals, and an opportunity for recognition in the very tough U.S. film industry."
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11:39 AM - Ledger’s Life Insurance Co: Suicide = No Cash
Posted Sep 29th 2008 4:59AM by TMZ Staff
The company that wrote Heath Ledger's $10 million life insurance policy is being sued after claiming the actor's death might have been a suicide, even though officials concluded it was accidental. Lawyers for Ledger's daughter say it's a transparent ploy to avoid paying the money.
ReliaStar Life Insurance Company wrote the policy in June 2007 -- six months before Ledger died. The beneficiary of the policy is a trustee who would hold the money for 2-year-old Matilda.
Instead of paying the $10 mil, ReliaStar set out to investigate whether Ledger took his own life, despite the fact that the New York City Medical Examiner ruled the death accidental.
TMZ has obtained a lawsuit, filed by Matilda's trustee, claiming ReliaStar (owned by ING Americas) has acted in bad faith by not promptly paying the $10 million and by wrongfully prying into the life of Heath Ledger after his death.
Sources say lawyers for the insurance company have claimed Ledger's death was "suspicious" -- possibly suicide, which would nullify the policy. The company alleges in its answer to the lawsuit, "ReliaStar is entitled to investigate Plaintiff's claim to determine if the 'Suicide' provision is applicable." That provision states, "If the Insured commits suicide ... we will pay only the amount of premiums paid to us."
ReliaStar's lawyers have informed Matilda's lawyers they intend to take the depositions of Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as the masseuse who was at Ledger's home when he died, Ledger's colleagues on his last film, his agents, doctors, psychologists and others. Lawyers for Matilda believe the insurance company is trying to scare and shame them into submission. They believe ReliaStar is trying to drag the process out, for what could be years, to avoid paying the money.
We're also told ReliaStar believes Ledger may have lied on two questions on his insurance application -- specifically, whether he was taking prescription drugs when he filled out the application and whether he ever used illegal drugs.
In its answer to the lawsuit, ReliaStar claims it can contest the policy if Ledger lied on the application and it was a "material misrepresentation." Sources tell us Ledger had a prescription for Ambien when he filled out the application, but Ambien was not in his system when he died, nor were any illegal drugs.
Lawyers for Matilda's trust claim ReliaStar is flagrantly violating California law, which prohibits insurance companies from re-examining insurance applications after the policyholder dies. In the lawsuit, Matilda's lawyers say they received a letter from ReliaStar, asking them to identify "all physicians who attended to [Ledger] and all hospitals or institutions where [he] was treated since 1996." Matilda's lawyers say the request blatantly violates the law.
An official for ReliaStar told TMZ, "No decision has been made on the claim." But lawyers for Matilda's trust believe ReliaStar should have already paid and, according to the suit, is acting "maliciously, fraudulently and/or oppressively ... depriving plaintiff of the insurance policy benefits."
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Heath's dark night
Brian J. Robb
September 28, 2008 12:00am
He was one of Australia's brightest moviestars, but beneath the surface, Heath Ledger was in turmoil. A new book about the actor's life delves into the secrets surrounding his death
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24413112-5006023,00.htm
I don't like the sound of it at all. "delves into the secrets surrounding his death", that's bullshit if you ask me. I wish people will just stop speculating about what happened and pretending to know Heath's state of mind. Just leave him be and stop trying to make money on his back.
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I don't like the sound of it at all. "delves into the secrets surrounding his death", that's bullshit if you ask me. I wish people will just stop speculating about what happened and pretending to know Heath's state of mind. Just leave him be and stop trying to make money on his back.
I quote :\'(
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11:39 AM - Ledger’s Life Insurance Co: Suicide = No Cash
Posted Sep 29th 2008 4:59AM by TMZ Staff
The company that wrote Heath Ledger's $10 million life insurance policy is being sued after claiming the actor's death might have been a suicide, even though officials concluded it was accidental. Lawyers for Ledger's daughter say it's a transparent ploy to avoid paying the money.
ReliaStar Life Insurance Company wrote the policy in June 2007 -- six months before Ledger died. The beneficiary of the policy is a trustee who would hold the money for 2-year-old Matilda.
Instead of paying the $10 mil, ReliaStar set out to investigate whether Ledger took his own life, despite the fact that the New York City Medical Examiner ruled the death accidental.
TMZ has obtained a lawsuit, filed by Matilda's trustee, claiming ReliaStar (owned by ING Americas) has acted in bad faith by not promptly paying the $10 million and by wrongfully prying into the life of Heath Ledger after his death.
Sources say lawyers for the insurance company have claimed Ledger's death was "suspicious" -- possibly suicide, which would nullify the policy. The company alleges in its answer to the lawsuit, "ReliaStar is entitled to investigate Plaintiff's claim to determine if the 'Suicide' provision is applicable." That provision states, "If the Insured commits suicide ... we will pay only the amount of premiums paid to us."
ReliaStar's lawyers have informed Matilda's lawyers they intend to take the depositions of Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as the masseuse who was at Ledger's home when he died, Ledger's colleagues on his last film, his agents, doctors, psychologists and others. Lawyers for Matilda believe the insurance company is trying to scare and shame them into submission. They believe ReliaStar is trying to drag the process out, for what could be years, to avoid paying the money.
We're also told ReliaStar believes Ledger may have lied on two questions on his insurance application -- specifically, whether he was taking prescription drugs when he filled out the application and whether he ever used illegal drugs.
In its answer to the lawsuit, ReliaStar claims it can contest the policy if Ledger lied on the application and it was a "material misrepresentation." Sources tell us Ledger had a prescription for Ambien when he filled out the application, but Ambien was not in his system when he died, nor were any illegal drugs.
Lawyers for Matilda's trust claim ReliaStar is flagrantly violating California law, which prohibits insurance companies from re-examining insurance applications after the policyholder dies. In the lawsuit, Matilda's lawyers say they received a letter from ReliaStar, asking them to identify "all physicians who attended to [Ledger] and all hospitals or institutions where [he] was treated since 1996." Matilda's lawyers say the request blatantly violates the law.
An official for ReliaStar told TMZ, "No decision has been made on the claim." But lawyers for Matilda's trust believe ReliaStar should have already paid and, according to the suit, is acting "maliciously, fraudulently and/or oppressively ... depriving plaintiff of the insurance policy benefits."
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I don't like the sound of it at all. "delves into the secrets surrounding his death", that's bullshit if you ask me.
ditto.
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Regardless of what the insurance company does or does not do, I think the Ledger family can be proud that Matilda will have a good foundation for her future. Heath's share of the revenue from Dark Knight alone will be enough for her college.
I hope they settle out of court quickly instead of dragging the case, and Heath's memories through months and years of litigation. :(
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#1 the insurance people of full of sh%t Heath's death was investigated probably more than necessary and it was deemed accidental. do these fools not get what the word accidental means it means NOT ON PURPOSE so stop the foolishness and pay this child what they owe, the lawyer was right if they had questions of truthfullness they had plenty of time to ask questions, and Heath always paid on the policy they just dont wanna pay the 10 mil, #2 I'm very glad the family has comeout with this information I never had a doubt that his estate would go to Matilda but it finally puts to rest the rubbish of a feud with Michelle, those stupid reports during the Dark Knight premier that Michelle was feuding with the Ledger family about Heath's estate and thats why she wasnt at the premier ::), she didnt plan on going to begin with had Heath lived so why would she subject herself to that mob scene on the red carpet and she never challenged the family about the estate, now hopefully this young man's soul can truly rest in peace
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Regardless of what the insurance company does or does not do, I think the Ledger family can be proud that Matilda will have a good foundation for her future. Heath's share of the revenue from Dark Knight alone will be enough for her college.
I hope they settle out of court quickly instead of dragging the case, and Heath's memories through months and years of litigation. :(
I agree,Andrew,in that the most important thing is that Matilda's future is assured.As regards to the insurance company investigations,I think it's logical; one thing is what we feel for Heath,and another very different is how they can manage in order not to loose money.Business have nothing to do with feelings,mostly when there's a great quantity of money involving,and,of course,a solid life's insurance is for them a great,great business.
I woudn't get angry for this,but I only hope that,due to this subject,Heath's memory doesn't get stained.It's what really matters,for his family and,specially,for this little girl who isn't guilty of anything.
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First, just to make a clarification. Heath did not say that he took heroin to understand the character of Dan in Candy. That was just a rumor. There are so many sound bites of information circulating on any given day that I know it can be hard to sift through what is accurate and what isn’t.
Which brings me to the second point. I think we all knew here all along that Matilda was going to be cared for and I never had any concerns about so called feuds between Michelle and the Ledger family. There are some things we just have to be patient about and wait for the truth to come out.
And I’m sure that’s what will happen with this insurance investigation too. It is undoubtedly standard procedure, especially in cases of large pay-out amounts, for the insurance company to investigate the cause of death in a client. I wonder how much of the hype right now is because they are truly trying to prove suicide (which is extremely difficult to do, especially with a certified cause of death as established by an office of authority) or if they are simply ruling it out as a matter of course before settling the claim to his estate. I guess that’s another thing we’ll just have to wait to see, as it will play out on its own schedule, whatever the press might report.
I completely agree with all of you that what matters most is that Matilda is taken care of according to her father’s wishes and that the insurance investigation concludes quickly and accurately. I wish only good things for that little girl and a little bit of peace for her mother.
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Well said Barb. There are so many inaccurate stories out there, and sometimes you just have to wait for the truth to come out.
First, just to make a clarification. Heath did not say that he took heroin to understand the character of Dan in Candy. That was just a rumor. There are so many sound bites of information circulating on any given day that I know it can be hard to sift through what is accurate and what isn't.
I also found that very hard to believe, especially since I have an audio recording of an interview that was done with Heath in the Berlin Film Festival after filming Candy, in which he talked about the experience and said that he's certainly never done heroin and that he wouldn't, that he grew up with friends who did and it destroyed their lives. And you can hear him saying that in his own voice, as opposed to so called "interviews" that you read sometimes in other places. So that just goes to show that we shouldn't always believe everything we read. By the way, it's a really good interview, you can listen to it here:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/40fac116-0a4b-4f07-b932-2ccf36d733e6/heath-ledger-interview
I'm very glad the family has come out with this information I never had a doubt that his estate would go to Matilda but it finally puts to rest the rubbish of a feud with Michelle, those stupid reports during the Dark Knight premier that Michelle was feuding with the Ledger family about Heath's estate and thats why she wasnt at the premier ::), she didnt plan on going to begin with had Heath lived so why would she subject herself to that mob scene on the red carpet and she never challenged the family about the estate, now hopefully this young man's soul can truly rest in peace
I totally agree with you sportstalk, and again, it just goes to show how reporters are eager sometimes to spread rumours just because it sounds juicy and bring more readers. I'm usually skeptic about things I read unless I've heard Heath saying them, or they've been confirmed by his family. So I'm glad that Kim Ledger spoke out and put an end to those silly rumours.
As regards to the insurance company investigations,I think it's logical; one thing is what we feel for Heath,and another very different is how they can manage in order not to loose money.Business have nothing to do with feelings,mostly when there's a great quantity of money involving,and,of course,a solid life's insurance is for them a great,great business.
Of course, if this report is true, and we don't know if it is, I wouldn't be surprised. Insurance companies always want to make you pay them but very reluctant to pay it back, so it makes sense that when they have to pay such a big amount of money they'd stall and want to investigate and try everything to avoid it. It's a part of business. But like Barb said I just hope it's over soon, this kind of things only bring more agony to his family and to Michelle. They deserve some peace and quiet, as much as they can get.
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[...]By the way, it's a really good interview, you can listen to it here:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/40fac116-0a4b-4f07-b932-2ccf36d733e6/heath-ledger-interview
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Well said, FlwrChild, Keren, MPJ, Sportstalk.
Thank you for the link, Keren. I don't recall listening to it before. I had trouble with the page, because the wmv player does not appear to be working. If you know of another source, or the mp3 file, I'd appreciate it. :t)
I hope and pray that this thing blows over quickly so the vultures don't have more soundbites for their rumor mills.
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Well said, FlwrChild, Keren, MPJ, Sportstalk.
Thank you for the link, Keren. I don't recall listening to it before. I had trouble with the page, because the wmv player does not appear to be working. If you know of another source, or the mp3 file, I'd appreciate it. :t)
I don't know where else you can find it Andrew... it was posted by an Israeli reporter on his blog, he was one of the reporters who did the interview. That's how I found it, but I haven't heard it anywhere else. I think most of the stuff he talked about was also quoted in other places so you've probably read most of it, but that part that I mentioned stood out to me.
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I completely agree with all of you that what matters most is that Matilda is taken care of according to her father’s wishes and that the insurance investigation concludes quickly and accurately. I wish only good things for that little girl and a little bit of peace for her mother.
Ditto.
And I agree with everyone else. It's BS- they ruled on the cause of death leave it be.
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I think we all need to be careful how we respond to the speculation, tripe and whatever that always surfaces after the death of a celebrity like Heath. I think its great to recognize and talk about all the nice things we hear and read and know about Heath. But too many people out there are setting themselves up as experts, insiders, whatever, just to get some notoriety and 15 minutes of fame, regardless of the accuracy or truthfulness of what they're saying. I think the best we can do is, in those now famous words, 'let be, let be'. These people are going to do what they want regardless of how we feel and trying to refute them or argue about their words only fuels the fires of their intrusions into areas they have no business being in and provides them recognition they don't deserve. We can't fix what they're doing so the best we can do is ignore them. Witness the silence of the Ledger family and Michelle thru all this. Its enough we have our fond memories of Heath and what we know of his life and those wonderful roles he left us to remember, we don't need to waste our time, energies and emotions on all this other stuff. (I hope this isn't too far off topic). O0 O0
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It's not off topic at all. Thank you for the wise words. :)
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Joker No 2 on all-time movie characters
1st October 2008, 8:00 WST
Heath Ledger's haunting Joker has been voted as the second greatest movie character of all time behind Indiana Jones, in a new poll.
Out on Wednesday in Empire Magazine, the list of the top 100 characters sees Darth Vader, Captain Jack Sparrow and Hannibal Lecter round out the top five.
Empire Editor Rod Yates said it was no surprise that Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, took the top spot, but said the late Ledger's Joker in the Dark Knight was also impressive.
More than 80 per cent who voted for the Joker chose Ledger's interpretation over Jack Nicholson's, the magazine said,
Its defining moment was: "Ledger's Joker taunting Batman in the interrogation room - You're just a freak like me".
"A fitting tribute to a much-missed actor," Yates said.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=100525
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Joker No 2 on all-time movie characters
1st October 2008, 8:00 WST
Heath Ledger's haunting Joker has been voted as the second greatest movie character of all time behind Indiana Jones, in a new poll.
Out on Wednesday in Empire Magazine, the list of the top 100 characters sees Darth Vader, Captain Jack Sparrow and Hannibal Lecter round out the top five.
Empire Editor Rod Yates said it was no surprise that Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, took the top spot, but said the late Ledger's Joker in the Dark Knight was also impressive.
More than 80 per cent who voted for the Joker chose Ledger's interpretation over Jack Nicholson's, the magazine said,
Its defining moment was: "Ledger's Joker taunting Batman in the interrogation room - You're just a freak like me".
"A fitting tribute to a much-missed actor," Yates said.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=100525
second...the joker is so better then indiana joans.
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If the ranking of best all time movies hasn't been fair to BBM,at least this other ranking is fair with Heath and his role of Joker; as someone should have been too with his role of Ennis almost three years ago. :clap:
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i got a few roles of harrison ford that i would put above indiana jones hans solo for one, but hey at least heath is up there but i really wish bbm would start getting the recognition they deserve ennis del mar and jack twist whose ever going to forget those 2
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i got a few roles of harrison ford that i would put above indiana jones hans solo for one, but hey at least heath is up there but i really wish bbm would start getting the recognition they deserve ennis del mar and jack twist whose ever going to forget those 2
not e that for certain! :c)
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Don't know where to put this. Was just lookin through Youtube for Heath Ledger interviews and the first 5 count em 5 I tried came up with . "This video has been removed". Anyone else havin a problem. Is his "people" takein it all away so they can compile it and make money from it. Hope its just something wonky that will be fixed. I don't even see half the interviews there to watch that were there even last month. Heads up.
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The ones that get removed are usually taken off because of some kind of copyrite infringement. It's actually the studios, etc that request their removal. The really popular ones somehow always seem to make it back up eventually though. Fans can be persistent. 8)
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Here is someone I think we should keep an eye out for.Seems that Heath's cousin Luke is getting into acting. I only hope he can get into it without all the hype that is making him think twice.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24433370-5013560,00.html
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This is what Simon Pegg has to say about Heath:
British funnyman SIMON PEGG was left stunned and "humbled" after meeting HEATH LEDGER, when the late star revealed he was a fan.
Pegg and his wife were mingling at the BAFTA Awards in Britain, when Ledger was nominated for Brokeback Mountain - and he was thrilled when the American made his way over to him to say hello.
The Hot Fuzz star recalls, "My wife loved Brokeback Mountain and said, 'Please introduce me to Heath Ledger,' and I'm like, 'I'm not gonna bother him. He gets bothered enough.' I was gonna have to go, 'Hello Heath, this is my wife,' which I was nervous about doing.
"That evening I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around and it was Heath Ledger and his wife (girlfriend Michelle Williams). He said, 'I really liked Shaun of The Dead,' and I felt so humbled by that because he's such a massive star and he actually bothered to do that.
"It left me with such a good impression of him, which made his death even more awful after having that moment with him and meeting such a gracious person."
Pegg only wishes that every big star was like Ledger: "There's a lot of ego in this business and some people sometimes don't want you to know that you like them. I'm not like that. I do go up to people and tell them they're great. It's a relief sometimes when you go up to somebody to say hello and they know who you are; it just takes the edge off it."
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149 (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149)
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This is what Simon Pegg has to say about Heath:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149 (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149)
wow i wish i could meet him...
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This is what Simon Pegg has to say about Heath:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149 (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/pegg%20humbled%20by%20ledger%20meeting_1082149)
Thank you ynnaf... I don't know who Simon Pegg is, but I sure loved to read what he said.
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This photo of Michael Stipe was taken as a part of an interview/photoshoot a couple of days after Heath died. This is what Michael wrote later on the back of the polaroid:
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi187.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx206%2Fbarkank%2Fpersonal%2520pics%2FMichaelStipesignatureonphotograph.jpg&hash=3f607464a28cda111a9baa813334b3a18553814c)
'This week has been unfathomably sad and I worked hard today to rally and that's it'.
The interviewer added that only after the meeting he found out that Michael and Heath were friends.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/08/sm_rem08.xml&page=3
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imdb.com
A long time passed since 10 Things I Hate About You hit the big screen. Julia Stiles got Bourne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has become a powerhouse on the indie scene, and Heath Ledger ... we know what became of him. I'm guessing that his death and reminiscing moments about his work is what inspired this next piece of news: Ace Showbiz reports that ABC Family is going to make the Shakespeare-inspired film into a television series, with the film's director, Gil Junger, signed on to helm the pilot. In it, Kate and Bianca Stratford will face "their new high school environment." I don't know if that means freshman hitting the big leagues, or the girls moving to a new zip code, but I can only hope that they come up with a new love interest for Kate. There's only one Patrick Verona.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/04/entertainment/et-ledger4 of...
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http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/04/entertainment/et-ledger4 of...
Great article!!! Thanx Candy :clap:
" Heath Ledger’s short legacy as a screen actor offers us enough evidence of the rarity of his talent. “Brokeback Mountain” may be the film that exposed to a wider audience the intensity of his dramatic commitment – Ledger didn’t simply impersonate a closeted cowboy, he showed us the shame and silence that had taken residence in Ennis Del Mar’s sinews. But it’s his turn as a terrorist clown in a menacing comic-book caper – the last role he fully completed before his accidental overdose in January at age 28 – that will seal his place among movie immortals.
Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker in “The Dark Knight” is all that it’s cracked up to be – a stunning, frightening, pathological marvel that’s deserving of the somber Oscar talk not normally associated with a superhero blockbuster........
Unnaturally natural
Let’s take this opportunity to first banish the inane assumption that craft is secondary to inspiration. The two work in tandem, as is obvious from the way Ledger manages to be so chillingly expressive with his face smeared in pancake makeup and lipstick and his hair transformed into a greasy green-tipped tangle. How does Ledger so uniquely personalize this flamboyant arch-villain who’s already been colorfully incarnated by Cesar Romero in the 1960s “Batman” TV series and Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s 1989 film? With his patented good looks concealed, Ledger’s forced to be more cunning with his physical resources, and you sense his delight in this freedom from Hollywood vanity........ it’s through Ledger’s eyes that we can peer into the actor’s bottomless conviction and track the scurrying-rodent logic of his character’s inexplicable evil. Maniacs who fly planes into buildings don’t second-guess their distorted reality, and Ledger ambles around Joker’s fun-house mind with an unshockable comfort. The film tosses off cryptic remarks about the Joker’s brutal upbringing, but it’s Ledger’s antic disposition that lets us understand the traumatic past as a slippery myth that can never adequately explain malignant behavior.
The best actors are distinguished by their preternatural capacity to appear natural. They enter dreams and nightmares the way you and I enter our kitchens. An artist’s vision is lived, emotionally and physically, so that while a lesser performer will signboard motives and big moments, a subtler talent will experience the not always predictable flux of his character’s emotions as the larger dramatic pattern unfolds as though on its own.
That kind of performance requires more than instinct – it needs an interpretive intelligence to guide it discreetly along. No surprise, then, that the most unforgettable performers are usually the smartest ones – which is to say the deepest, philosophically and psychologically, as well as the most tactful, aesthetically and dramatically."
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Great article!!! Thanx Candy :clap:
" Heath Ledger’s short legacy as a screen actor offers us enough evidence of the rarity of his talent. “Brokeback Mountain” may be the film that exposed to a wider audience the intensity of his dramatic commitment – Ledger didn’t simply impersonate a closeted cowboy, he showed us the shame and silence that had taken residence in Ennis Del Mar’s sinews. But it’s his turn as a terrorist clown in a menacing comic-book caper – the last role he fully completed before his accidental overdose in January at age 28 – that will seal his place among movie immortals.
Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker in “The Dark Knight” is all that it’s cracked up to be – a stunning, frightening, pathological marvel that’s deserving of the somber Oscar talk not normally associated with a superhero blockbuster........
Unnaturally natural
Let’s take this opportunity to first banish the inane assumption that craft is secondary to inspiration. The two work in tandem, as is obvious from the way Ledger manages to be so chillingly expressive with his face smeared in pancake makeup and lipstick and his hair transformed into a greasy green-tipped tangle. How does Ledger so uniquely personalize this flamboyant arch-villain who’s already been colorfully incarnated by Cesar Romero in the 1960s “Batman” TV series and Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s 1989 film? With his patented good looks concealed, Ledger’s forced to be more cunning with his physical resources, and you sense his delight in this freedom from Hollywood vanity........ it’s through Ledger’s eyes that we can peer into the actor’s bottomless conviction and track the scurrying-rodent logic of his character’s inexplicable evil. Maniacs who fly planes into buildings don’t second-guess their distorted reality, and Ledger ambles around Joker’s fun-house mind with an unshockable comfort. The film tosses off cryptic remarks about the Joker’s brutal upbringing, but it’s Ledger’s antic disposition that lets us understand the traumatic past as a slippery myth that can never adequately explain malignant behavior.
The best actors are distinguished by their preternatural capacity to appear natural. They enter dreams and nightmares the way you and I enter our kitchens. An artist’s vision is lived, emotionally and physically, so that while a lesser performer will signboard motives and big moments, a subtler talent will experience the not always predictable flux of his character’s emotions as the larger dramatic pattern unfolds as though on its own.
That kind of performance requires more than instinct – it needs an interpretive intelligence to guide it discreetly along. No surprise, then, that the most unforgettable performers are usually the smartest ones – which is to say the deepest, philosophically and psychologically, as well as the most tactful, aesthetically and dramatically."
Manythanks dear Henia for your post, it's a very interresting article
Below is a link to antother article...Very bad :(
* Link edited by mod * - Sorry, but it contained a pap shot with Matilda.
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~) it's in french !
This one also but perhaps you can read it in english :s) Several pics O0
http://www.melty.fr/le-trailer-du-dernier-film-d-heath-ledge-actu9700.html
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***edited by moderator, please avoid to post links to articles that are not proven facts but assumptions, due to respect to Heath's memory, thank you***
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I am not sure if this is the right place to post it.
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/article/forbes/883/top-earning-dead-celebrities
It mentions Heath being number three on the list with his contract for Dark Knight that includes a percentage of the box office and merchandising sales.
Debuting on the list in third place is Australian actor Heath Ledger, most famous for his role as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight', the latest instalment of the 'Batman' movie franchise. At the time of his tragic overdose in January, the 28-year star seemed poised on the cusp of a lucrative film career.
Ledger had reportedly secured a deal for his role in 'The Dark Knight' that included merchandising (think Joker action figures) and a percentage of film revenues. With 'The Dark Knight' grossing US$991 million in box office revenue worldwide, we estimate his earnings at US$20 million.
The other notables on the list:
Paul Newman
Albert Einstein
Elvis Presley
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean
Charles Schultz (Peanuts and Charlie Brown)
Marvin Gaye
Happy Halloween everyone. :c)
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WA Govt reconsiders Ledger Theatre
Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has confirmed the Government is
considering scrapping plans to name a new theatre in Northbridge after the late
Perth-born actor Heath Ledger.
Ledger died in a New York apartment in January aged 28.
In July, then premier Alan Carpenter stood beside the late actor's father, Kim,
and announced the performing arts venue would be called the Heath Ledger
Theatre. Mr Ledger said he was honoured and intensely proud.
But Mr Barnett says the local arts community is divided over the decision.
He says the Government is now considering alternatives.
"He was a young actor who had some great successes, and I have no doubt was
headed for an outstanding career," Mr Barnett said. "But he lost his life at a very
young age, so we never saw the true achievement that Heath Ledger may have
made."
The Opposition's Ben Wyatt says Mr Carpenter has been in touch with Ledger's
father today, who is distressed by the Government's decision.
Mr Wyatt says Mr Barnett should have told the Ledger family that theatre's
name was up for review.
"It would be in the interests of Colin, if he could actually call the family and
perhaps have a better understanding of their sensitivities and the distress that
they're under before he starts going on radio and raising this matter in a public
way," Mr Wyatt said.
"It genuinely distresses me that he [Mr Barnett] could have such callous
disregard for the Ledger family, who've got through an enormous amount of
distress over the loss of Heath," he added.
Mr Barnett says Ledger's memory will be commemorated at the theatre in
someway, it just won't necessarily be named after him.
Mr Wyatt says name should be left to stand.
The theatre is still under construction
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The Dark Knight' Brings Heath Ledger 2008 AFI Awards' Nomination
Through the announcement of L'Oreal Paris 2008 AFI Awards' nominees,
it is unveiled that Heath Ledger, Eric Bana and Nicole Kidman are among
those nominated for the international AFI award.
Heath Ledger's thrilling performance as Batman's psychotic villain, Joker, in 'The
Dark Knight' has brought him recognition from Australian Film Institute. On
Wednesday, October 29 as the Australian Film Institute announced the
nominees for L'Oreal Paris 2008 AFI Awards in Sydney, it was revealed that
the late actor has been listed among the nominees for the international AFI
award.
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WA Govt reconsiders Ledger Theatre
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"He was a young actor who had some great successes, and I have no doubt was
headed for an outstanding career," Mr Barnett said. "But he lost his life at a very
young age, so we never saw the true achievement that Heath Ledger may have
made."
Excuse me?? Has this man even seen Heath's movies? Both Ennis Del Mar and the Joker are two groundbreaking performances that will be remembered for ages and this man says that we still haven't seen Heath's true achievement?? Even if he could've done more, he already made history.
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Excuse me?? Has this man even seen Heath's movies? Both Ennis Del Mar and the Joker are two groundbreaking performances that will be remembered for ages and this man says that we still haven't seen Heath's true achievement?? Even if he could've done more, he already made history.
Of course,Heath has already made history only with these two roles.But I guess that what this man meant is that,by dying so young still,he hadn't could develop all his potential as an actor.Simply,it's not the same being 40 years-old-can you imagine how many great stuff could he have done at that age?...-than only 28.I don't think he had spoken with bad intention or,even,ignorance,but it's only a way of speaking.
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He used that as an excuse why the theatre shouldn't be named after Heath, like his achievments so far don't justify it yet. At least that's how I took his words, and I don't agree with him.
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Sound like this Barnett guy is an idiot. He didn't talk with the Ledger family ahead of time, the least of courtesy. And from the look of things, it's probably political or economical motivated. They either have their own guy they want to name it after, or most likely some sponsor who would like to have it named after their brand. Unfortunately, the way this Barnett fellow handled the switch, no sponsor in their right mind would want their name associated with such a disrespectful gesture. I doubt he will get re-elected premier the next election.
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Two of Heath Ledger's close friends have revealed how the late Australian actor yearned for friendships with ordinary people as his celebrity status soared.
Jud Mongell, Ledger's business partner in the New York eatery Five Leaves, and tattoo artist Scott Campbell became firm friends with the actor after Ledger's Oscar-nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain.
Campbell had done seven tattoos for Ledger.
"We would all hang out in the West Village, and he was just like the guy with a cigarette," Campbell told the New York Times.
"He loved when anyone would react to him as a normal person. He really appreciated that."
Ledger would give out his cigarettes and strike up a conversation with just about anyone, he said.
But the minute anyone said, 'You're Heath Ledger', the conversation would become stilted, Campbell said.
Ledger, 28, died on January 22 from an accidental overdose of a cocktail of medications. He was found dead in his Soho apartment by a masseuse.
The actor had just completed his last film, The Dark Knight.
In 2005 Ledger and Mongell met at a beach party in Australia and as their friendship developed, they planned an Australia-meets-America cafe bar.
The nautical-themed eaterie, specialising in oysters, opened on September 17, in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn where Ledger had spent some time.
The area is known for its arts community and ethnic flavours.
"After a while, Heath had all his regular spots around here, and no one would call Page Six (the gossip page of the tabloid New York Post) anymore when he walked in the door, because nobody cared," Campbell told the paper.
"This (the cafe bar) would have been Heath's hangout," Mongell told the Times.
Mongell runs Five Leaves with his wife.
He still refers to Ledger as an equal partner in the business and says Ledger's father, Kim, manages the business finances.
Mongell said the actor took New York to his heart.
"He taught his daughter how to skateboard. He rode his bike over the Williamsburg Bridge. He visited farmers markets. He played chess in Washington Square Park and he brought coffee for the paparazzi," he told the newspaper.
"He was just one of us, man."
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=526796 (http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=526796)
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This proves for me that Heath was,above all,a very simple and friendly person,whom the fame and fortune didn't make change.He was not in an altar surrounded by ambition and pedantry; but he loved to "come down" from it to treat the ordinary people and be one more of them.Great man,Heath; I'd have liked to know him¡... :\'(
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These are my sentiments too, Alicia... it's part of why I love him so much. He didn't have any vanity at all.
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These are my sentiments too, Alicia... it's part of why I love him so much. He didn't have any vanity at all.
Keren, :ghug: Yes,he was a very talented person,with so many interests and skills in his life and,however,he felt better far away from fame's vanities.He must be missed both as an artist and as a man... :\'(
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This is a great article about Heath and his friends, and I just love all the things they say about him.
Mr. Campbell said that Mr. Ledger loved having friends around. Mr. Campbell raided the actor’s closet and slept on his couch. There were always people coming and going at Mr. Ledger’s place, drinking tea, using the computer and gathering around for dinner. Mr. Ledger was always manning the barbecue grill or making espresso. “If he could cook at his house with an ocean of people laying on the living room floor watching movies, that was his heaven,” Mr. Campbell said. “That and his daughter, Matilda -– she was everything to him.”
The full article is here:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/a-new-restaurant-in-heath-ledgers-memory/?hp
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This is a great article about Heath and his friends, and I just love all the things they say about him.
Mr. Campbell said that Mr. Ledger loved having friends around. Mr. Campbell raided the actor’s closet and slept on his couch. There were always people coming and going at Mr. Ledger’s place, drinking tea, using the computer and gathering around for dinner. Mr. Ledger was always manning the barbecue grill or making espresso. “If he could cook at his house with an ocean of people laying on the living room floor watching movies, that was his heaven,” Mr. Campbell said. “That and his daughter, Matilda -– she was everything to him.”
The full article is here:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/a-new-restaurant-in-heath-ledgers-memory/?hp
why everybody tell so many wonderful things about him?i mean he was perfect he was so cute...of
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why everybody tell so many wonderful things about him?i mean he was perfect he was so cute...of
That's because he was,aside of being a good person,a great friend for his friends,and a very supportive person for his fellows and people who worked with him.And you can realise this when friends and fellows are lacked of him... :\'(
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In "A Knight's Tale", Prince Edward said to William (Heath's character) something like, "your men love you. If I didn't know anything else about you, that was enough". I don't remember the exact quote but it was something along these lines.
This is just the thing about Heath. He had so many friends, and the huge love and loyalty that they had - and still have - for him speaks volumes about the kind of man he was. He was so special to so many people.
SARA CLINE: In his absence, I feel as though Heath has sort of slowly and quietly taken all of the people in his life that meant something to him, picked them up, and set them on this invisible road that's only become known in his passing. We're all kind of standing on it saying, "Well here we are." And we have no choice but to walk forward and to do so together.
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In "A Knight's Tale", Prince Edward said to William (Heath's character) something like, "your men love you. If I didn't know anything else about you, that was enough". I don't remember the exact quote but it was something along these lines.
This is just the thing about Heath. He had so many friends, and the huge love and loyalty that they had - and still have - for him speaks volumes about the kind of man he was. He was so special to so many people.
SARA CLINE: In his absence, I feel as though Heath has sort of slowly and quietly taken all of the people in his life that meant something to him, picked them up, and set them on this invisible road that's only become known in his passing. We're all kind of standing on it saying, "Well here we are." And we have no choice but to walk forward and to do so together.
Keren, the line you quoted is one of my favorite in the movie. It always bring tears, and it is what I remember most, watching the movie after Heath's passing, and reading all the tributes from people who worked with him, who knew him.
The second quote, from Sara Cline, has been what I remember while listening to Rascal Flatt's Bless the Broken Road, the road that Heath set me on, when he created Ennis Del Mar, and made a character came to life. And then, with the grief and out pouring of love after his death, his own greatness set up a beacon at the end of that Broken Road for me to find my way when I get lost.
Thanks for reminding them to me. It's good to see them once in a while. I need a little reminder now and again.
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In "A Knight's Tale", Prince Edward said to William (Heath's character) something like, "your men love you. If I didn't know anything else about you, that was enough". I don't remember the exact quote but it was something along these lines.
This is just the thing about Heath. He had so many friends, and the huge love and loyalty that they had - and still have - for him speaks volumes about the kind of man he was. He was so special to so many people.
SARA CLINE: In his absence, I feel as though Heath has sort of slowly and quietly taken all of the people in his life that meant something to him, picked them up, and set them on this invisible road that's only become known in his passing. We're all kind of standing on it saying, "Well here we are." And we have no choice but to walk forward and to do so together.
Thank you for that quote, Keren. That has always been so strongly important to me, giving me strength in the beginning, that we were all in this together...
kathy
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BARNETT ACCUSED OF CAUSING LEDGERS MORE GRIEF
Tim Clarke
November 4, 2008 - 12:39PM
The state opposition says Heath Ledger's family could have been spared more grief if premier Colin Barnett had shown sensitivity before publicly casting doubt on naming Perth's new theatre complex after the Dark Knight star.
Mr Barnett admitted this morning that continuing public debate over the way the Western Australia should honour Heath Ledger - parked by comments he made last week - was causing even more grief to the dead actors' family.
After casting serious doubts over whether the proposed name of the Heath Ledger Theatre complex would go ahead, the premier said this morning he had had a long conversation with Ledger's father Kim - an old football team-mate - about what should be done to honour the actor.
But Ben Wyatt, opposition arts spokesman, said Barnett had shown 'gross sensitivity' in not contacting the actor's family before raising about the issue.
'Colin Barnett has shown more front than Myer on this one, and certainly I would not treat my old football buddy the way he has treated Kim Ledger,' Wyatt told WAtoday.com.au.
'He knew this would cause grief so perhaps he should have made that call to him before he made the decision to raise this issue publicly.
'It shows a gross lack of sensitivity, and a gross lack of judgement.
While no firm decision has yet been reached about the Carpenter government proposal for the theatre to be named after The Dark Knight star, Mr Barnett said all the speculation was hurtful to Ledger's relatives.
'I have spoken to Heath's father, Kim Ledger … and I guess all I would say is when this is debated this is very upsetting for Heath Ledger's family and parents,' Barnett said on 96FM
'Kim and I had a long discussion about it, and I would hope that the family would agree to commemorate Heath in some way
'For the simple reason because he was so well known and so popular his legacy would provide an encouragement for people to go into the theatre and into the arts.
'But the family has had enough of public debate about their son.'
Wyatt said he believed Barnett had reacted before thinking of the broader consequences.
'I dare say there were some people who did not support naming the theatre after the late Heath Ledger, and he has reacted without thinking through the broader consequences, and the likely impact on our reputation on us internationally.'
Former Labor premier Alan Carpenter stood beside Heath's father Kim at the construction site in July to announce that the 575-seat theatre and 200-seat performance studio would honour the actor's life.
The government was considering naming one of the theatres after the star instead of the entire complex.
But Mr Barnett previously said there was disagreement in the community about what the complex would be named.
But that drew accusations from the state opposition that Mr Ledger had been 'disappointed' at the approach taken by Mr Barnett's government, and labelled it 'unsavoury'.
Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription medicine in his New York apartment in January this year after a short but successful career in Hollywood.
Mr Barnett today said the government was still to finalise its decision on the naming of the theatre.
'A decision has not been finally made on that, there has been differing opinions particularly in the arts community about it,' Mr Barnett said.
This story was found at: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/barnett-accused-of-causing-ledgers-more-grief-20081104-5hdw.html
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NZ pizza chain withdraws Heath Ledger ads
November 3, 2008 - 4:42PM
>:(
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/people/heath-ledger-pizza/2008/11/03/1225560725515.html
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How insensitive can people be?
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tacky much >:( and if people wanna memorialize Heath then talk to the family first like these people need to be in the spotlight of which they dont seek
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That's just disgusting. >:(
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Which bunch of assholes had this great idea? They can win the prize to the greatest stupidity of the year¡. ^^) ^^) ^^) ^^)
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WTF is wrong with some people?? That has to be one of the most stupid things I've heard in my entire life! >:(
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omg, thats is horrible....what are these people thinking when they do something like that?
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Obviously they don't think because they don't have much of a brain. Or a heart. I'm still shocked at how insensitive and disrespectful people can be.
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This is my tribute to the amazing actor: http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/A-Wilted-Flower-in-the-Rain-103616781
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This is my tribute to the amazing actor: http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/A-Wilted-Flower-in-the-Rain-103616781
That's so beautiful and sad Melvisik, thank you. :\'(
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wht bout tat pizza ?i didn't understand.can u explain me pls?
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Russell Crowe may replace Heath Ledger in ’Dirt Music’
Washington, Nov 12 : Hollywood actor Russell Crowe may replace late actor Heath Ledger in a movie adaptation of a Tim Winton novel. According to website MovieHole, the Gladiator star is in talks with Aussie director Phillip Noyce to step into the shoes of Ledger in a new film titled 'Dirt Music', reports Contactmusic.
The plot of the film revolves around a couple in a loveless relationship.
The Brokeback Mountain star was attached to the film before he died in January (08).
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-44600.html
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This is my tribute to the amazing actor: http://muezac.deviantart.com/art/A-Wilted-Flower-in-the-Rain-103616781
This is beautiful Melvisik, thank you.
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Studio unveils plan to secure Oscars for Ledger
19th November 2008, 9:45 WST
The Hollywood studio behind this year’s blockbuster, The Dark Knight, has launched an ambitious campaign to dominate the coming Academy Awards and score Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar.
Warner Bros this week rolled out its first Oscar specific ad, a "For Your Consideration" poster aimed at members of the Academy as well as voters of the key lead-in award ceremonies, the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild of America.
Read the entire story at:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=108884
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I hope the Academy members will be fair and do the right thing this time. Heath deserves an Oscar, plain and simple.
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AMEN TO THIS,KEREN ¡¡¡ (:) (:) (:)
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Moderator's hat is on.
A little reminder Brokies, articles posted here are articles in Memory of Heath Ledger only, other articles shall be posted in the appropriate threads:
Heath THE Joker
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.0
Various Articles/Interviews
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=1946.msg29490#msg29490
Unaproppriate articles will be relocated in approriate threads or even deleted depending of their content.
Thanks for your help! :)
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In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (double issue, last week Dec. 08/first week Jan. 09) there is a section titled FAREWELL, entertainers who passed away. Heath was not mentioned. I could not believe it. I am so upset, I think I will email them and complain. They will probably get many complaints about this. I still can't believe it! I even looked through the section about three times thinking I must have missed Heath, but he just wasn't there! Donna :\'( &*&
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In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (double issue, last week Dec. 08/first week Jan. 09) there is a section titled FAREWELL, entertainers who passed away. Heath was not mentioned. I could not believe it. I am so upset, I think I will email them and complain. They will probably get many complaints about this. I still can't believe it! I even looked through the section about three times thinking I must have missed Heath, but he just wasn't there! Donna :\'( &*&
What the?! You're kidding. That is absolutely abysmal. I mean, I don't think I'm being biased in saying that that is an outright disgrace.
You do mean entertainers who have passed away this year, right? But hey...even if that's not even the case, even if the segment was for departed entertainers in general, I still think that to neglect Heath is appalling. ^*)
It is more than fair to say that he is as sorely missed as any other entertainer the world has lost, and that the collective grief and devastation still felt around the globe over the loss is undeniably profound.
:\'( :\'( :\'(
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THERE is a scene in the new Hollywood blockbuster Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke finds impossible to watch without shedding a tear.
Tears rolled down her face when she shot the scene. Again in the quiet and darkness of the editing booth.
The emotional trigger has nothing to do with the storyline of Twilight or the acting by the young cast.
The scene takes place in a rugged, forest region of Oregon in the US north-west and it was while scouting the location on January 22 that Hardwicke heard her beloved friend, Heath Ledger, was dead.
"We were in a van scouting," Hardwicke, her eyes moistening again and hands trembling slightly, told AAP during an interview in a suite in Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
"Someone's phone rang. They answered it and I instantly realised something was wrong with the reaction.
"It was very strange. The person said: 'OK, I won't say anything'.
"I said: 'What was that about?' and they said: 'We don't even know if it is true. There's rumours Heath has passed away'.
"Then one second later my cell phone rang and it didn't stop ringing."
Hardwicke, a 53-year-old California director whose breakthrough was the 2003 independent drama, Thirteen, cast Ledger as the lead of her 2005 film, Lords of Dogtown, set on the Los Angeles beaches of Santa Monica and Venice.
The director soon received confirmation the rumours were true.
Ledger had died from an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and anti-depressants in his Manhattan apartment.
"Everybody who worked on Dogtown called because they all loved Heath," Hardwicke said.
"To all of the kids, Emile Hirsch and Victor Rasuk, Heath was their mentor. They all freaked out beyond despair.
"For me, I can't really watch the one scene in Twilight where I received that call.
"That's where I heard that news. It is my one little thing. My moment.
"To hear about someone you love, someone so magical, passing like that, was just crushing."
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24755211-5003420,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24755211-5003420,00.html)
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it hurts so much just to read it.
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"I’ve been humbled by the honor of tattooing memorial tattoos on Heath Ledger’s mother, father and sisters at his house the night before his memorial service." :\'( :\'(
http://starworksny.com/blog/2008/12/03/meet-scott-campbell
With two new gorgeous pics of our beautiful Heath... :\'( :\'(
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THERE is a scene in the new Hollywood blockbuster Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke finds impossible to watch without shedding a tear.
Tears rolled down her face when she shot the scene. Again in the quiet and darkness of the editing booth.
The emotional trigger has nothing to do with the storyline of Twilight or the acting by the young cast.
The scene takes place in a rugged, forest region of Oregon in the US north-west and it was while scouting the location on January 22 that Hardwicke heard her beloved friend, Heath Ledger, was dead.
"We were in a van scouting," Hardwicke, her eyes moistening again and hands trembling slightly, told AAP during an interview in a suite in Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
"Someone's phone rang. They answered it and I instantly realised something was wrong with the reaction.
"It was very strange. The person said: 'OK, I won't say anything'.
"I said: 'What was that about?' and they said: 'We don't even know if it is true. There's rumours Heath has passed away'.
"Then one second later my cell phone rang and it didn't stop ringing."
Hardwicke, a 53-year-old California director whose breakthrough was the 2003 independent drama, Thirteen, cast Ledger as the lead of her 2005 film, Lords of Dogtown, set on the Los Angeles beaches of Santa Monica and Venice.
The director soon received confirmation the rumours were true.
Ledger had died from an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and anti-depressants in his Manhattan apartment.
"Everybody who worked on Dogtown called because they all loved Heath," Hardwicke said.
"To all of the kids, Emile Hirsch and Victor Rasuk, Heath was their mentor. They all freaked out beyond despair.
"For me, I can't really watch the one scene in Twilight where I received that call.
"That's where I heard that news. It is my one little thing. My moment.
"To hear about someone you love, someone so magical, passing like that, was just crushing."
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24755211-5003420,00.html (http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24755211-5003420,00.html)
That is so beautiful. I was always interested in Catherine Hardwicke and the young guys in LOD, just about how the experience of making that movie must have been.
I so feel for her,that that scene in her movie will always carry that most sad memory. Well, I feel for everyone, for us all, for all the moments that will be colored by our experience of this loss to us.
kathy
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"I’ve been humbled by the honor of tattooing memorial tattoos on Heath Ledger’s mother, father and sisters at his house the night before his memorial service." :\'( :\'(
http://starworksny.com/blog/2008/12/03/meet-scott-campbell
With two new gorgeous pics of our beautiful Heath... :\'( :\'(
Yes, indeed, beautiful. Seems many of those were drawings, not tattooed on after all. But I love his t-shirt, "Matilda's Restaurant."
kathy
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Yes, indeed, beautiful. Seems many of those were drawings, not tattooed on after all. But I love his t-shirt, "Matilda's Restaurant."
kathy
I wondered about that too but I think they're tattoos, you can also see them in his portrait.
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi187.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx206%2Fbarkank%2FHeath%2520general%2FtripleportraitofHeath1-1.jpg&hash=63e77d2c3935e317aed6b875a75a0b3edb5c73e2)
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Watched the AFI Awards (Australian Film Industry Awards) and Heath won Best International Actor. :clap:
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Watched the AFI Awards (Australian Film Industry Awards) and Heath won Best International Actor. :clap:
Did anyone accept the award on his behalf?
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Me too, Pauline. I turned down a date to stay in and watch the AFIs, and of course seeing Heath's family collect his hugely-deserved award for Best International Actor was more than worth it. I shed tears throughout the whole thing -- as he was honoured while clips from his films were shown, when his name was announced, when his mother and sister spoke.... It was all so very emotional. Both greatly joyous and poignantly sad. :) :\'(
I can only imagine how an Oscar win is going to affect us all...
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Did anyone accept the award on his behalf?
Oh yes, Keren. His mother, father and sister accepted it for him, and his mum Sally and sister Kate spoke beautifully in their praise of him. His sister was fighting tears and it was so hard to watch. :\'( Nevertheless, their fierce pride shone right through, and it was a beautiful thing. :)
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This was posted on POPSUGAR (i don't really know what this site is), I'm not posting the direct link because it included photos of Matilda but I liked what they wrote.
Biggest Headline Of 2008: RIP Heath Ledger
We've been counting down the most shocking headlines of 2008...
On January 22, 2008 we all learned a lesson about the tragic side of fame when we learned Heath Ledger had passed away of an apparent overdose that morning. As fans old and new alike tried to make sense of it and scramble for bits of information, the heartbreaking truth set in: we had lost one of the greatest actors of our time. He was a father, a son, a partner. He was known as a devoted actor and a kind person. He is still missed, he will be missed.
By the end of the 22nd, the details were still unknown but there were many theories being floated — some about Mary-Kate Olsen, though her involvement was never confirmed and the investigation is closed. His death was ruled an accident. A lethal combination of prescription drugs was found in his body.
His friends and colleagues in Hollywood had only kind words and family released a statement saying: "Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life but few had the pleasure of truly knowing him. He was a down to earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving and selfless individual who was extremely inspirational to many."
Michelle released a heartbreaking statement saying, "My heart is broken. I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father." In early February, Michelle joined Heath's family and loved ones for a beautiful celebration of his life and memorial service in Australia. It was the first most beautiful smile we saw on Michelle's face since the tragic loss.
We took a look back on his life through classic images and his fans — whether their favorite of his movies was 10 Things I Hate About You or Brokeback Mountain — reminisced about their favorite moments through tributes. There were hundreds of reasons, explanations and theories about why he passed away, but in the end the truth was just that he was gone too soon.
As the cold began to thaw in New York, we saw Michelle and Matilda emerge in Brooklyn for their happy walks and Michelle's carefully and radiantly stepped back onto the red carpet. In his hometown a theater was named in his honor, as was the scholarship set up in his name with Michelle making the first contribution.
In mid-July, The Dark Knight hit theaters to immense praise and broke box office record after box office record making upwards of $400 million already. It is slated for rerelease in early January 2009. Easily the most beloved movie of the Summer and perhaps best superhero movie of all time crowds gathered to see it again and again, constantly in awe of Heath's incredible performance.
The investigation into his death officially ended in early August, and in September his family chose to leave his estate to Matilda. Fellow actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, the actors who took over Heath Ledger's role in his final movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus are donating their profits to Matilda.
Through his memorable performances especially The Dark Knight an Oscar contender, Heath's memory will not be forgotten. Michelle's grief breaks our hearts, but his beautiful mini me continues to grow and smile helping Heath's legacy live on.
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Oh yes, Keren. His mother, father and sister accepted it for him, and his mum Sally and sister Kate spoke beautifully in their praise of him. His sister was fighting tears and it was so hard to watch. :\'( Nevertheless, their fierce pride shone right through, and it was a beautiful thing. :)
I can imagine how hard it was to watch, I tear up just from reading what you wrote here :\'(. I'd still like to watch it though, I hope it'll surface on youtube soon... if anybody finds a link, please post it here.
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Oh yes, Keren. His mother, father and sister accepted it for him, and his mum Sally and sister Kate spoke beautifully in their praise of him. His sister was fighting tears and it was so hard to watch. :\'( Nevertheless, their fierce pride shone right through, and it was a beautiful thing. :)
I had only just arrived home as my son rang me to say Heath had won the award so I only saw it as his mum and sister accepted the award but I was getting emotional watching. :\'( I agree, it was beautiful.
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Havin a rough go this mornin. An seein this all over, about Heath winning that award. A fresh new wound. Or maybe its the old one broke open again. The one in my heart. Reminded again he is no longer here and how much colder the world seems now. Gonna be a long winter.
Aww, honey here's a big hug for you. :ghug: I know how sadness over Heath can really make worse an already rough day. And although it's summer here now, I know January is gonna feel metaphorically colder for me regardless of the heat. And the 22nd is surely going to be Arctic-kinda-cold. :\'(
:ghug: Hugs for all who need them.
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Ledger’s family pay tearful tribute at AFI awards
7th December 2008, 8:00 WST
Heath Ledger’s family paid a teary tribute to the Aussie actor in accepting an AFI award on behalf of his “precious Matilda”.
Ledger was posthumously given the Australian Film Institute’s international award for best actor for his virtuoso performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
“It was this swaggering, psychopathic clown that turned his career into a legacy and the name Heath Ledger into an ongoing inspiration to actors everywhere,” the AFI said at the glittering awards ceremony on Saturday night. “He was the untamed spirit many of us wish we could be. May the legend live on.”
see entire story
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=23&ContentID=111872
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Ledger’s family pay tearful tribute at AFI awards
7th December 2008, 8:00 WST
Heath Ledger’s family paid a teary tribute to the Aussie actor in accepting an AFI award on behalf of his “precious Matilda”.
Ledger was posthumously given the Australian Film Institute’s international award for best actor for his virtuoso performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
“It was this swaggering, psychopathic clown that turned his career into a legacy and the name Heath Ledger into an ongoing inspiration to actors everywhere,” the AFI said at the glittering awards ceremony on Saturday night. “He was the untamed spirit many of us wish we could be. May the legend live on.”
see entire story
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=23&ContentID=111872
Linda posted the link to the youtube video in another thread, I can't stop crying after watching this. Especially when listening to his sister Kate. :\'(
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xEekfmSdFfs
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Linda posted the link to the youtube video in another thread, I can't stop crying after watching this. Especially when listening to his sister Kate. :\'(
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xEekfmSdFfs
I know Keren......
I can't stop watching it, and I cry harder every time. My heart is so broken.
I was doing it ok, but then Caton said "Ladies and gentlemen the unforgettable Heath Ledger", and I lost it. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
When I heard his voice in that scene of Candy with BBM's music playing on the background I couldn't even breathe, and then there was Ennis....and then his beautiful family fighting the tears... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
“We are immensely proud of him, not only for his professional achievements but in the way he truly cherished his family, friends and his precious Matilda,” :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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(((((((Tammy)))))))
There are a few lines from "My Immortal" that keeps playing again and again in my head:
These wounds wont seem to heal,
This pain is just too real,
There's just too much that time cannot erase...
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I wondered about that too but I think they're tattoos, you can also see them in his portrait.
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi187.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx206%2Fbarkank%2FHeath%2520general%2FtripleportraitofHeath1-1.jpg&hash=63e77d2c3935e317aed6b875a75a0b3edb5c73e2)
Thank's Keren, you're right! For instance, I only saw the dragonfly part on his right arm, because I only saw him with short-sleeves on. I didn't realize all of that design was done. I love that whole design. I don't know who that old codger guy is, the other tattoo, on his other arm.
I had seen this painting of course, but didn't really zero in on all the tattoos.
Well, it looks like he wasn't planning on doing any more shirtless scenes in movies, darn it!
kathy
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(((((((Tammy)))))))
There are a few lines from "My Immortal" that keeps playing again and again in my head:
These wounds wont seem to heal,
This pain is just too real,
There's just too much that time cannot erase...
((((Keren)))) Those lines from that haunting song are so very apt.
I was going to use My Immortal in a BBM tribute for my Heath YouTube channel the other day, but haven't got round to making it yet. Hopefully soon, though...
The wounds really don't seem to heal. Like Michelle Williams said, in many ways they just get worse. :\'( :\'( :\'(
....Sorry to be a Debbie downer, guys... it just still hurts so much.
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Thank's Keren, you're right! For instance, I only saw the dragonfly part on his right arm, because I only saw him with short-sleeves on. I didn't realize all of that design was done. I love that whole design. I don't know who that old codger guy is, the other tattoo, on his other arm.
I had seen this painting of course, but didn't really zero in on all the tattoos.
Well, it looks like he wasn't planning on doing any more shirtless scenes in movies, darn it!
kathy
Damn! Shirtless Heath is always a treat. <^(
I'm desperate to know who the codger is, too. Whoever he may be, I must say I love it. I love every single one of his tattoos. They never had the power to detract from his beauty...conversely, I think they added to it. Little snippets showing us part of his soul and who he was.
Ohhh, Heath... :\'( <^(
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Linda posted the link to the youtube video in another thread, I can't stop crying after watching this. Especially when listening to his sister Kate. :\'(
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xEekfmSdFfs
Thank you for this. I am in tears, of course. A beautiful tribute piece, and his beautiful family...
kathy
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Am not sure exactly what the old man tattoo is about, but, FWIW, one of Heath's favorite songs was "Old man, take a look at my life", I think, by Neal Young. What is surprising there is that it's not a very "hip" song, and, in taverns, was mostly played on the juke box by someone alone and melancholy. It had a reputation, among men, of being a song you would listen to on the radio, but wouldn't be caught dead, enjoying it with male friends. Very simplistic, touching a raw male nerve, and way too sentimental, for some. First 2 lines:
"Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you....
I need someone to love me the whole day through...."
I don't know if the tattoo references the song; I do know Heath's love for the song was very strong, completely unlike most of his other favorites, and it took a lot of stubborness to admit his liking it, because, for guys, it touched, as I said, a primitive, raw nerve.
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Am not sure exactly what the old man tattoo is about, but, FWIW, one of Heath's favorite songs was "Old man, take a look at my life", I think, by Neal Young. What is surprising there is that it's not a very "hip" song, and, in taverns, was mostly played on the juke box by someone alone and melancholy. It had a reputation, among men, of being a song you would listen to on the radio, but wouldn't be caught dead, enjoying it with male friends. Very simplistic, touching a raw male nerve, and way too sentimental, for some. First 2 lines:
"Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you....
I need someone to love me the whole day through...."
I don't know if the tattoo references the song; I do know Heath's love for the song was very strong, completely unlike most of his other favorites, and it took a lot of stubborness to admit his liking it, because, for guys, it touched, as I said, a primitive, raw nerve.
I didn't know that Tony, that's very interesting. Do you remember where/when he talked about that song?
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Hi, Keren - am sort of in deep trouble with some Brokie friends, because I had accumulated a ton of notes, over months, in case one of the forums would ever go to a memorial biography, and, for reasons of fatigue, and maybe heartbreak, I threw them out just last week. And wouldn't you know it, now one of the forums wants to do just that, and here I've lost all the links and references. So, no, I can't give you a link.
But as for that song, it may have been one of those played at the memorial service in Perth. Andrew had asked me for the list, so he still might have it. I do know, it kept recurring, in interviews with friends and in articles. And there was another "un-hip" song he favored, more cheerful, and that might have been "Here comes the sun", but am not sure. Both stood out as different from his more modern tastes.
"Old man", however, is REALLY sentimental, bittersweet, melancholy, and I know it's a guy thing, but it touches so deeply on the loneliness a man can have, guys either ran from it or waited until they were drunk enough to play it on the juke box. Artistically, it's maudlin. But in some primitive way, it speaks to something men can hurt over very deeply- no one being there for them. It would have been the song Ennis would NOT have wanted to hear, in the diner. Sorry, that's the best I can do. But I believe it to be a major clue as to how Heath sometimes saw life, when disappointed. Sometimes. He also liked that moronic happy/happy song, too. Heath had his ways, didn't he?
P.S. This should probably have been on the other thread, but you are a moderator, so I guess you cut some slack. Thanks.
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Thanks for the info Tony. If you ever come across that link again... well, you know where to post it. :)
And yes, he loved Here Comes The Sun... his family used that song for a tribute they screened at his memorial.
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I might still have your message some where Tony. It must have been earlier this year, around the time of the memorial. I will have to dig it up. I ain't all that organized. ::)
If you ever recall any material that you threw out, please feel free to send them my way. I am an info pack rat. It's unpacking it and recalling it that gets me.
Here is the link to Neil Young's Old Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0tAoO3-xQ
And Here Comes the Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtQh5EIgWQ
:ghug: :c) ^f^
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I retract my saying "Old Man" was maudlin. Heath had an ear for a good song. Beautiful, Andrew. Thank-you.
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I retract my saying "Old Man" was maudlin. Heath had an ear for a good song. Beautiful, Andrew. Thank-you.
You are #$# always. :c) ^f^
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Tony, that is such an interesting premise for the old man tattoo. It certainly would make sense.
I think the Neil Young song "Old Man" is beautiful and a haunting, rather than maudlin. Heath was undoubtedly an old soul and I can see why he might have felt a connection to such a song.
As for the list of songs played at his memorial service, here's the program that lists them. Without fail, I begin to cry whenever I see this picture of this sad piece of paper. To look at it is an assault on the heart.
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Gosh, just imagining seeing the montages to "Here Comes The Sun", "Happy Ever After", "1979", and "Old Man" is enough to bring on the waterworks.
"These Days", "Here Comes The Sun", "Come Together", "Times Are A-changin'" and "1979" are some of my own all time favourite songs. In addition to his everything else, I have always adored Heath's musical tastes. They were as vast and soulful as he was.
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Laura :ghug: Thank you so much. I have never seen the Order of Service. I remember hunting for Ben Harper's Happy Ever After. I don't know most of the songs, except the Beattles and Neil Young. ::) I am not very musically literate.
I remember seeing some of the fan montages to the songs, and you are right, they definitely start the water works. :\'( I am tapped out at the moment, because I just finished watching Latter Days, and cried my eyes out in the last few scenes.
Thanks for sharing the precious image. I will treasure it, and put it in a special location where I can easily find it.
:ghug: :c) ^f^
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Three articles:
Heath Ledger wins top Aussie film award for 'The Dark Knight'
(old news from a different source, with video)
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/12/heath-ledger-wi.html
Heath Ledger scores first big win of Oscar season
(Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association awarded Heath Best Supporting Actor for Joker)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-12/09/content_7285775.htm
Surge of money for Heath Ledger Oscar
(Online betting has money on Heath winning at about two to one odds)
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=688346
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. . . . And Here Comes the Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtQh5EIgWQ
thanks for this Andrew
Hadn't listened to this old favorite in a long, long while.
Hit me right away, = the song is addressed to "Lil darlin", oh god . . . too much . . .
Wonder if anyone ever did a BBM video using this, could be a heartbreaker . . .
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Dear Laura - that was wonderful, your post of the Order of Service at Heath's memorial. I wonder who chose the sequence of the songs. Leaving "Old Man" to next to last, might have been meant to bring it all to a close, in a quiet, bittersweet way, then to be followed by "Come Together", to signal renewal. That post meant a lot to so many of us. Thank-you.
Jackster - you'd be about the only one who would pick up on the phrase "Lil Darling", and see, immediately, there might be more there. Or just one of those beautiful coincidences in life. This forum is rich with thoughtful people. I never stop being amazed. Thanks, to you, too.
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:ghug: everyone :ghug:
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Thanks, Andrew :ghug: :^^)
Tony, you're quite welcome, dear Brokie. :^^) I too never cease to be amazed at the insightful, sensitive souls on this site and am so grateful to have found them. :ghug:
The more I think about it, the more the old man/"Old Man" tattoo-song correlation makes sense to me. I think you very well could be onto something there, Tony...
And yes, "Here Comes The Sun", although always a favourite of mine, has taken on new poignancy now that I associate it with being played at Heath's memorial and being one of his favourites, and also for the fact that it is indeed addressed to "little darlin". I made a Heath tribute for YouTube recently using this song and "Let It Be" in a Beatles medley, not only in light of Heath's love of The Beatles, but also as a little nod to his role as Ennis. I thought that in addition to "little darlin", "let it be" was somewhat reminiscent of "let be, let be". Here's the link should anyone want to watch it. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RgIMAyzDEYw
Hope this doesn't come across as a shameless plug of my video! I just thought perhaps Heath fans might wish to see in light of the above context. :)
...And sorry if I'm getting a bit *o) here.
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Laura, :t) and your video is exactly what this thread is about...a tribute. I love it. It brought tears throughout Let it Be, with all the photos from the movies, and Heath with Matilda; then the shining smiles of Heath in the many movies during Here Comes the Sun, and your amazing quick editing, brings smile again.
I never caught the connection between Let be and Let it Be, and little darling with here Comes the Sun. This is so amazing. Thank you all. It is why I love this place. Endless discoveries. :ghug: <^(
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Award for Ledger’s Dark Knight role
10th December 2008, 9:15 WST
Australian actor Heath Ledger has received a second posthumous award today, as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honoured his performance in the Batman blockbuster, The Dark Knight.
Ledger is the favourite to land a best supporting actor Oscar for his spellbinding portrayal of arch-villain the Joker in the film, which shattered US box office records after its release in July.
Ledger, who died from an overdose of prescription drugs in January, aged 28, won the Australian Film Institute’s international best actor award at the weekend.
Perth-born Ledger gained international stardom and was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain.
If Ledger is honoured at February’s Academy Awards, he would be the second posthumous Oscar-winner after Peter Finch, who triumphed in 1976 for his iconic role in Network.
LOS ANGELES
AFP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=112474
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Ledger name for theatre, not centre
11th December 2008, 16:30 WST
Perth’s newest performing arts venue has been named the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia after the State Government opted against naming it after late Perth actor Heath Ledger.
Instead, Culture and Arts Minister John Day said the centre’s 575-seat main theatre would be named the Heath Ledger Theatre, in honour of Ledger who died in January after an accidental prescription drug overdose.
“A great deal of consideration has been given to the name of the venue and this has involved consultation with the Ledger family – which is pleased Heath is being acknowledged in this way – and a range of stakeholders,” Mr Day said.
Mr Day said the Northbridge centre’s name strongly identified the venue as a place of civic pride for all West Australians and would become a venue where audiences could enjoy high-quality performing arts by local, national and international artists.
The centre’s other performance spaces include a 200-seat studio and a courtyard for outdoor events.
The centre is expected to open in 2010.
PERTH
LISA CALAUTTI
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=112761
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Ledger trumps Obama in Google searches
11th December 2008, 8:15 WST
Late Australian actor Heath Ledger was among the most searched subjects worldwide on Google in 2008, and was ahead of Obama in a global list, the company said.
In a list of Google's "fastest-rising" searches, Ledger, who died in January, came in in fifth place on the global list. He was one place ahead of "Obama", as in US president-elect Barack Obama.
The list was headed, however, by defeated Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Second was "Beijing Olympics 2008", followed by "Facebook login" and "Tuenti", a Spanish social networking website.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=112630
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Thanks, Jackster, I am glad they named the Theatre. The AFI Best International Actor award now takes on even more special meaning when Heath Ledger is ahead of Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and even Britney Spears, Jonas Brothers.
:t) :c)
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OMG!!! Heath is nominated for a Golden Globe!!!!
That's so wonderful!!! <^( <^( <^(
And then, it's heartbreaking too...because Heath is not here to see it... :\'( :\'( :\'(
I still believe he should have been more honoured for playing Ennis....but I am glad that his work is getting the recognition that it deserves.
I wish he was here.
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OMG!!! Heath is nominated for a Golden Globe!!!!
That's so wonderful!!! <^( <^( <^(
And then, it's heartbreaking too...because Heath is not here to see it... :\'( :\'( :\'(
I still believe he should have been more honoured for playing Ennis....but I am glad that his work is getting the recognition that it deserves.
I wish he was here.
Yeah its really wonderful news, but tainted with sadness..... :\'( He deserves it, but he deserved it for playing Ennis too.
Its really hard because I'm happy and sad all at the same time..... :(
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Yeah its really wonderful news, but tainted with sadness..... :\'( He deserves it, but he deserved it for playing Ennis too.
Its really hard because I'm happy and sad all at the same time..... :(
I know Christine. It's so unfair that he's not here to see this, to take pride in what he did, his awesome work....
I hope that he can see it and be happy about it wherever he is now.
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thanks for this Andrew
Hadn't listened to this old favorite in a long, long while.
Hit me right away, = the song is addressed to "Lil darlin", oh god . . . too much . . .
Wonder if anyone ever did a BBM video using this, could be a heartbreaker . . .
Yeah listening to this song brings waterworks. I will think of making a video in remembering him.
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Thanks for the info Tony. If you ever come across that link again... well, you know where to post it. :)
And yes, he loved Here Comes The Sun... his family used that song for a tribute they screened at his memorial.
Funny about both of those songs. I sure don't see either of them as unhip. But then, I love them both because of my age, my era. Neil Young, I loved whatever he did. That song didn't touch me personally, but I still knew it by heart. And of course, the Beatles. It is interesting, though, Heath's varied taste in music. I'm thinking he might not have been as sensitive to it as you describe, about it being a song a man wouldn't admit to liking in public or whatever. He'd even dig it while wearing his lacy cuffs and pink glasses. What a guy.
Then again, you have a man's viewpoint to relate to him, so...
kathy
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Tony, that is such an interesting premise for the old man tattoo. It certainly would make sense.
I think the Neil Young song "Old Man" is beautiful and a haunting, rather than maudlin. Heath was undoubtedly an old soul and I can see why he might have felt a connection to such a song.
As for the list of songs played at his memorial service, here's the program that lists them. Without fail, I begin to cry whenever I see this picture of this sad piece of paper. To look at it is an assault on the heart.
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Oh Laura, I never saw this before...and it is sad. Sad and beautiful.
kathy
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Here's the link should anyone want to watch it. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RgIMAyzDEYw
Hope this doesn't come across as a shameless plug of my video! I just thought perhaps Heath fans might wish to see in light of the above context. :)
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Thank you so much, Laura. I just love this video. A celebration of his life. Even a celebration of his passing, with your showing also the memorial service shots, etc. Putting all of this to those two songs somehow makes the sadness more uplifting.
kathy
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Thank you so much, Laura. I just love this video. A celebration of his life. Even a celebration of his passing, with your showing also the memorial service shots, etc. Putting all of this to those two songs somehow makes the sadness more uplifting.
kathy
Thanks, babe. In the video I had hoped to make the sadness morph into something more uplifting, so I'm glad you found it to do so. :)
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http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24795626-5009160,00.html
N'Fa working on Ledger tribute
By Jonathon Moran
HEATH Ledger's close friend and creative collaborator N'Fa Forster-Jones is trying to work out how to mark the anniversary of the actor's death.
Ledger, who died of an accidental prescription drug overdose on January 22, directed two video clips from N'Fa's solo album, Cause and Effect. The pair were long-time friends, meeting at age four while growing up in Perth.
``I don't know, sometimes I find things too much to write about so maybe something will happen,'' N'Fa told Insider at last weekend's Homebake festival when asked about the anniversary of Ledger's passing.
``We are trying to work out some sort of celebration. I am tyring to work out all of that, how to deal with it.''
Ledger and N'Fa were in the process of setting up a production company _ called Rocking Chair _ before hisuntimely death.
``Things have kind of changed since his passing,'' he said.
``A lot of things had to fold because it was sort of impossible. So all of us who have, I guess, been left in waiting are all just working out ways forward and trying to be positive and also keep his spirit alive because he was always filling us with energy and positivity.''
Prior to going solo, N'Fa fronted acclaimed hip hop outfit 1200 Techniques. He's spent much of this year travelling the world, working on no less than five albums, the first of which is a project titled Brain Wash.
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It's going to be interesting to see what he comes up with to mark the 22nd... :-\\
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These pictures and quotes of Heath's bar Five Leaves were posted on DC, I saw and wanted to share them here:
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"Our family has suffered openly more than other families, in a way, because it's so public, but at the same time we're no different to other families that have lost children. It's heartbreaking." <photo: Kim Ledger in Heath's bar>
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Brooklyn bar Five Leaves, named after the Nick Drake album Five Leaves Left, was bought by Ledger prior to his death with his business partner Jud Mongell and is set to open to the public on Wednesday.
The bar, now funded by Heath's estate, had a small opening party for friends and family on Friday night. <photo: Kim Ledger, Heath's father and his wife>
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"We're 50:50 partners still," Mr Mongell said. "Heath is still my partner. He was fingerprinted for a liquor licence for the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration]. He was going to DJ, bartend; he was not like some removed investor. At one point he put a bid in on the whole building. He was going to live upstairs."
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Five Leaves, named by the Ledger clan after the Nick Drake album, is a cozy, rustic space featuring a nautical theme and sentimental Ledger touches that include engraved granite bar tables, one of which features a chessboard for playing the game, a favorite pastime of his.
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Only those who knew him well will discern the Heath touches: the engraved, granite-topped bar tables were his idea, as it was to have his favourite tattooist, Scott Campbell, from nearby Williamsburg, do the engravings.
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It also was Ledger who wanted one table engraved as a chessboard. He played the game his father taught him at a nearby chess club and often beat the city's street chess hustlers, although he declined to take their money, his business partner, Jud Mongell, said last week. <photo: Jud Mongell>
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Also engraved on the chess table is a scrawled love-heart, replicating one Ledger left on a note to a friend not long before his death in January.
"I would just say it's a place where his friends swing by," Mr Mongell said. "It's just more a place where the Australians in his life will continue to be around. We're still here; it's just Heath's no longer with us."
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Also engraved on the chess table is a scrawled love-heart, replicating one Ledger left on a note to a friend not long before his death in January.
"I would just say it's a place where his friends swing by," Mr Mongell said. "It's just more a place where the Australians in his life will continue to be around. We're still here; it's just Heath's no longer with us."
Keren, thanks for posting these pics here, its good that we get to see what Heath's dream turned into. But its just unbearably sad...Heath should be THERE, celebrating the opening with everyone else.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
I think this picture is what got to me most............. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I know Christie, that last photo got to me too. The chess board and the heart and the candle... if I ever get to NY I wanna go to that bar. I'll probably sit next to that table and cry my eyes out. :\'(
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Heath Ledger dominates US movie fan poll
2nd January 2009, 7:00 WST
If American movie fans have their way Heath Ledger is a shoo-in to win a posthumous Oscar next month.
After 3.5 million votes were cast, the late Australian actor and his blockbuster, The Dark Knight, dominated multiple categories in an internet poll in the US.
see entire story at:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=115714
go Heath.
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Also engraved on the chess table is a scrawled love-heart, replicating one Ledger left on a note to a friend not long before his death in January.
"I would just say it's a place where his friends swing by," Mr Mongell said. "It's just more a place where the Australians in his life will continue to be around. We're still here; it's just Heath's no longer with us."
OMG! :\'( :\'( :\'(
Hugs to everyone who needs of a hug! :ghug:
Heath Ledger dominates US movie fan poll
2nd January 2009, 7:00 WST
If American movie fans have their way Heath Ledger is a shoo-in to win a posthumous Oscar next month.
After 3.5 million votes were cast, the late Australian actor and his blockbuster, The Dark Knight, dominated multiple categories in an internet poll in the US.
see entire story at:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=115714
go Heath.
Yup, go Heath, go!
Thanks for posting jackster :)
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Heath Ledger's Projects With L.A. Art Collective 'The Masses' Reach Fruition
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-01-01/film-tv/heath-ledger-39-s-projects-with-l-a-art-collective-39-the-masses-39-reach-fruition/1
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What a fantastic article, thanks so much for posting it Keren :^^) I love to discover all the different facets that made up Heath's amazing character...but its always so sad too.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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((((christie)))) :ghug: :ghug:
This is the tribute to Heath that was included on the INT collector's edition dvd.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAYqBZGni8
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((((christie)))) :ghug: :ghug:
This is the tribute to Heath that was included on the INT collector's edition dvd.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAYqBZGni8
i dont know what to say
:\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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((((christie)))) :ghug: :ghug:
This is the tribute to Heath that was included on the INT collector's edition dvd.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAYqBZGni8
thanks for the link, Keren. it made me cry and it made me glad that talented people like Todd pay tributes to Heath :\'(
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I found a wonderful tribute-article about Heath, that includes bits of interviews with director Shekhar Kapur and he said such beautiful things about Heath. I won't post the link to the article itself since it includes a pap shot of Heath with Matilda, but here are some excerpts:
Heath Ledger:
Eyes that Spoke Beyond the Act
By Kavita Chhibber
“I feel that I’m at a stage in my life now where life is just about to really speed up and flash by and so I feel like I am on old man river paddling on a little row boat.”
- Heath Ledger
My introduction to Heath Ledger began with a film where he truly broke the mould and cinematic barriers. I remember seeing a late night show of Brokeback Mountain and then sitting up till 4 a.m. compelled to write a review right away. I had not seen any pre release interviews, or much of the promotional material, but after the film was released, I saw Heath Ledger echoing what I had written in my review-that this film is a moving love story and transcends all that comes in its way-it was too powerful a film, packed with outstanding performances by Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal piercing you too deeply not to have an impact. What captured my attention was his comment in answer to a question on how daring or brave was it to do this film? “I hate to call it "daring" or "brave"; firefighters are daring and brave. I’m acting. I didn’t get hurt and I’m not mentally wounded from this experience.” But Todd Haynes who directed Ledger in I’m Not There said in a tribute that was published in Interview Magazine-“That performance in Brokeback Mountain was such a sensitive, understated, controlled interpretation of this character. The entire emotional power of that film, which is enormous, resides in that performance, and how much Heath holds in. That restraint is what makes us yield emotionally and fill in all of the pieces ourselves. So he sort of unleashes the audience’s emotions by controlling his own.”
I couldn’t agree more. But for me it was while watching the much maligned Four Feathers (and I suggest all of you take a second look at this hauntingly beautiful film and Heath Ledger’s multi dimensional performance once again) when I realized that even at 21 Heath Ledger was already a phenomenal talent.
The film is scattered with so many gems and presents such a multilayered performance by Ledger that I’m surprised this film didn’t garner an Oscar for him as well as the amazing Djimon Hounsou.
It has already been reported that Shekhar Kapur was the last person to speak with Heath the night before he died. They were to meet the next day and Heath had asked Shekhar to wake him up. He had returned from England and had been battling a terrible cold and insomnia and turned down Shekhar’s offer for having a massage at the Chopra center. In a strange coincidence, both Shekhar and Heath had set up a massage appointment for Heath at 3 pm.-Shekhar at the center and Heath at the apartment where he was staying and they talked about that strange connection that they have always had in some way or the other.
I asked Shekhar why he chose Heath over other British actors who would be considered established talents. He answered that it was because he was looking for someone very young, who could still capture the nuances of being youthful and unknowing and then becoming totally wise at the end of his experience. “I did a 7 and a half hour screen test with him and Heath always said that was his biggest acting lesson…it had to do with me doing a scene with him being in love in a way that is very young in which you are always asking and you take and being in love with wisdom and strength which is about giving and giving strength. I got him to do the scene twice in the same costume, same actress on the other side and same position and what I saw was a man whose eyes suddenly turned from youth to wisdom immediately and I knew that I was dealing here with a potentially great actor.”
The two men became close friends and connected beyond film making. “He used to call me his brother from another mother,” said Shekhar, “I think when I started work with Heath, I knew as often we do that there’s a connection in your spirit that goes beyond the first meeting. It is an ancient connection and I’m not surprised that he is no longer with us, because I think he had in this mythic way, this ancient soul that was very ready at the moment to be part of the Universe and of the consciousness and I think he just came back for one last time to this world and was restless to go back to consciousness. I used to constantly tell Heath that in such a young body was such a wise soul and that was really unusual and it’s not easy. It’s not easy for you too, because part of your soul is ancient and it has such understanding and yet your hormones are young, your body is young and so it wants to play as a young puppy. This is your dilemma. Your dilemma is that your soul is ancient and your body is young.”
I have always felt that if there was any truth to the adage that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, Heath Ledger was a living symbol of that. In fact I said to Shekhar that I was curious to see The Dark Knight not to compare how Heath’s Joker fared against the character made unforgettable by Jack Nicholson, but how would they make those soulful, kind eyes that spoke volumes and made his vulnerability so evident all the time-look evil.
To that Shekhar said, “Heath Ledger always revealed his soul. It’s not just the facility and honesty of an actor; it also has something to do with the honesty of being a human being. If you are an honest human being you are not afraid of revealing yourself. You are not shifty eyed. When I was filming with Heath, I would tell my DP all the time, whatever we do, make sure you can see Heath’s eyes because Heath’s eyes will give you an ocean of humanity far beyond the particularity of the scene that we are shooting.”
Shekhar Kapur said that Heath “was the world’s greatest thinker. He was constantly thinking, constantly evaluating himself.”
Heath Ledger was also immensely athletic and did a lot of the dare devil stunts himself, as any one who has seen A Knight’s Tale and Four Feathers can see. Shekhar Kapur recalls how insurance would not permit them and yet one of the most daring stunts in his film, where Heath Ledger was to fall off a horse in a battle scene and leave, he told Shekhar he was going to go ahead and do the rest of the stunt where he jumps on a running horse. “Both of us were pranksters and both of us were adventurous and both of us saw life as an adventure and therefore films as an adventure. Heath just ran and jumped on the horse and left everyone stunned and then we got the short end of the stick that evening from every body but both of us were giggling like little school boys at what we had pulled off.” In fact there were many daring battle scenes showing Heath’s amazing athleticism that were cut off much to Shekhar’s disappointment.
About playing The Joker:
Shehkar Kapur says “Heath was highly incapable of doing any part without giving himself to the part so he must have found a darkness inside him and that to an extent must have brought him down a little bit. It’s a tough part, but Heath would never play a part by merely playing it. He would find that character some where inside himself and then exaggerate that character and that must’ve been very very exhausting for him to play, other than the makeup and then to follow Jack Nicholson, but also to “ be” the joker.”
There were talks of Heath being depressed after his split with Michelle Williams and even questions as to whether he had taken his own life. Shekhar Kapur says he had never seen Heath Ledger that depressed. “In fact when we were working on the film (Four Feathers) I used to feel very depressed and tired at times and Heath’s spirit actually kept me up. In fact he used to joke with me every morning-“So what happened-you didn’t resign from the film today? I’m much older than him and someone who’s an actor who is supposed to be under pressure actually was my emotional support. Heath was the greatest optimist. I never saw Heath as a person who would get depressed. He was very creative, he had started his own company, and very few people actually talk about his photography. He was a committed photographer. In New York he had started his own company to make music videos. He ‘d send me his music videos and his music videos were beautiful. He was looking forward to becoming a director-he was looking forward to too may things for a person to say I’m so depressed I’m tired of life. He was too involved creatively in the things he wanted to do, too energetic and optimistic and a man who brought smiles to every body. I knew people who would meet Heath Ledger once and fall in love with him immediately because of his sheer energy and spirit. He was certainly not depressed.”
Many people say that Heath Ledger was on the verge of becoming a great actor - I think he already was. Perhaps the only regret in a life well lived, in my eyes is that Heath Ledger won’t be able to play the role he loved best-of being a dad.
Ledger once said in an interview “When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t.” Maybe he is right up there watching over all those he loved and left, still shining as the biggest star in his own Universe.
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What a fantastic article, thanks so much for posting it Keren :^^) I love to discover all the different facets that made up Heath's amazing character...but its always so sad too.... :\'( :\'( :\'(
What she said... It's so beautiful, that Heath had that place with The Masses to explore other creativities in a safe environment. But I love the most the idea of their going to Mexico, where he had a real freedom. And this photo is so gorgeous...and so poignantly sad.
kathy
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((((christie)))) :ghug: :ghug:
This is the tribute to Heath that was included on the INT collector's edition dvd.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAYqBZGni8
Oh god, Keren, this breaks my heart. I love this Dylan song, so poignant. (And we might say, "if only he was lying by me [so to speak] I'd lie in my bed once again." Such a sweet-sad song of loss and yearning, along with the INT visuals of our beautiful Heath -- I can hardly stand it, once again...
kathy
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Whew... More insightful words about Heath and what a special person he was... And yes, it is so heartbreaking that the best role, he didn't get to play but for a little while, that of a dad...
kathy
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"......I think he had in this mythic way, this ancient soul that was very ready at the moment to be part of the Universe and of the consciousness and I think he just came back for one last time to this world and was restless to go back to consciousness. I used to constantly tell Heath that in such a young body was such a wise soul and that was really unusual and it’s not easy. It’s not easy for you too, because part of your soul is ancient and it has such understanding and yet your hormones are young, your body is young and so it wants to play as a young puppy. This is your dilemma. Your dilemma is that your soul is ancient and your body is young.”
No doubt about it , he was a very special person...
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No doubt about it , he was a very special person...
So special, such major talent, yet so down-to-earth, so humanly accessible, so warmhearted to others.
kathy
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So special, such major talent, yet so down-to-earth, so humanly accessible, so warmhearted to others.
kathy
Yes he was. I trully think he was one of the most amazing human beings on this planet. In Todd Haynes's words "we lost double, we lost triple. we lost a lot".
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I didn't know about Heath's death. That's very sad......
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I didn't know about Heath's death. That's very sad......
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The photos from Five Leaves, the beautifully truths spoken by Shakhur...it's all just so painful and beautiful to read.
The pictures of the engraved tables had already really gotten to me, and then to see Shakhur so eloquently sum up many of my own thoughts about who Heath was, what an ancient soul he is...well, I'm fighting tears from my desk at work now, and not very well...
As the days trickle towards the 22nd, the magnitude of the loss is so amplified, but on the other hand, I think the love we all have for him similarly seems to grow and bloom.
I dunno. It's all just very, very emotional right now.
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I didn't know about Heath's death. That's very sad......
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Yes...I'm a little baffled, too. I mean, I don't mean to sound accusatory, especially towards a great new member of the Brokie family, but I'm a tad curious as to how this awful news escaped you...it's just that it was so extensively covered in the media the globe over.
But, that said, I suppose not being so exposed to the media is not a bad thing at all...
And indeed -- it is very, very sad, you're right there. :( I am far from over it, and it's almost been a year. :(
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The photos from Five Leaves, the beautifully truths spoken by Shakhur...it's all just so painful and beautiful to read.
The pictures of the engraved tables had already really gotten to me, and then to see Shakhur so eloquently sum up many of my own thoughts about who Heath was, what an ancient soul he is...well, I'm fighting tears from my desk at work now, and not very well...
As the days trickle towards the 22nd, the magnitude of the loss is so amplified, but on the other hand, I think the love we all have for him similarly seems to grow and bloom.
I dunno. It's all just very, very emotional right now.
(((((Laura))))) you're so right, the pain grows but the love grows with it. With every new article and tribute I discover again and again how special Heath was, how unique and amazing he was. And it all gets me so emotional. There's nothing we can do about it but share our feelings and be here for each other. :ghug:
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(((((Laura))))) you're so right, the pain grows but the love grows with it. With every new article and tribute I discover again and again how special Heath was, how unique and amazing he was. And it all gets me so emotional. There's nothing we can do about it but share our feelings and be here for each other. :ghug:
:ghug: Keren :ghug: Yes, that's pretty much all we can do; keep on supporting each other this way. Thank goodness for all of you beautiful people...without your support, the sadness I still (and to some degree, always will) have, would be so, so much more unbearable.
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Verne Troyer (Mini me) on Heath Ledger on UK Celebrity Big Brother 2009.
Here's a video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUZ4JkvHik
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Oh Keren, thats a wonderful video. I read about this earlier and hoped it would appear on you tube so everyone could see it and hear what Verne has to say about Heath. He talks about him so sweetly and with such admiration and respect...and he's clearly still deeply affected by Heath and the short time he spent with him.
This is a slightly different version of that video, where Verne talks about the scribbled heart that he has tattooed on his hand, in memory of Heath.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuaHG9JPfI
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Heath has obviously made such a big impression on him, Verne thought he was so amazing. as did everyone who got to know him... Heath has touched so many people and so many lives.
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Heath has obviously made such a big impression on him, Verne thought he was so amazing. as did everyone who got to know him... Heath has touched so many people and so many lives.
Yeah I think you're right Keren. Its lovely to hear about.
I think I basically reposted the same video...sorry about that...maybe I should remove it? :-\\
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The People's Choice Awards are on tonight, and Heath is up for Best Supporting Actor. I think he's got it, because of the public's enthusiasm, but am still very leery of the Golden Globes and the Oscars. The elite voters, there, may not like the pressure they surely feel, and so it's a possible hurt, yet again, if they go some other way, out of stubborness, because that would be the only reason for not giving credit where credit is due, for brilliant acting. And all of this, coinciding with the time frame of last year's still haunting tragedy. Am going to be very sad, if things don't go the way they should.
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This is the link for the People's Choice Awards nominees and later tonight they will display the winners:
http://www.pcavote.com/pca/show/nominees/
There is no Best Supporting Actor category at the PCA, Heath is nominated twice, Favorite Cast & On Screen Match up (with Christian Bale) TDK is nominated twice, Movie & Action Movie
The TV show starts at 9pm ET on CBS
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Thanks, Chameau - they held off the results to the end, with TDK sweeping all 5 awards in nominated categories. Very interesting, and maybe a sign of what's ahead, was that the audience went wild with enthusiasm. Christian Bale ended by saying - "Thank-you, Heath" or "This is for you, Heath" but I can't remember which one, as I was so tired. And now, the awards season has begun......
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It was "...Here's to Heath." :)
It seemed kind of rushed to me but I was happy to see it take all five categories. ^f^
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The results from the Peoples Choices Awards were posted there:
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.msg872545#msg872545
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Ledger's friends to judge new actor's scholarship
An esteemed panel made up of Heath Ledger's close friends and peers has agreed to judge the winner of a US scholarship named in honour of the late Australian actor.
The Heath Ledger Scholarship will give an emerging Australian actor a boost in making it in Hollywood.
As well as $US10,000 ($14,000) and a return Qantas airfare to Los Angeles, the scholarship, organised by LA-based non-profit Australians in Film (AIF), will open doors for the actor to Hollywood studios and powerbrokers.
The judging panel includes Gregor Jordan, who directed Ledger in Ned Kelly, leading Hollywood casting agent Ann Fay, Australian actress Rachel Griffiths, and Hollywood producer and Ledger's first US-based agent, Steve Alexander.
Two of Ledger's high-profile exes, Naomi Watts and Michelle Williams, have thrown their support behind the scholarship.
Hugh Jackman, Deborra Lee Furness and Nicole Kidman also contributed as benefactors, along with corporate donors Qantas, Branding Iron, Loeb and Loeb, Showcast, and World Nomads.
"We are fortunate to have a judging panel and benefactors comprised of such leaders in the entertainment community who add immeasurably to the integrity and prestige of the scholarship," AIF president Susie Dobson said.
Nominations have closed and the winner will be announced next month.
"Because Rachel, Ann, Gregor and Steve worked with and knew Heath well, their presence adds a special personal dimension to the panel," said AIF board vice president and scholarship committee chairwoman Paula Paizes.
Ledger, 28, died from an accidental prescription drug overdose a year ago.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/08/2461916.htm?section=entertainment (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/08/2461916.htm?section=entertainment)
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To make it on the right topic, the results of the People's Choice Awards are posted there (these are good news x***x)
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.msg872652#msg872652
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OMG the chess table , the heart, the interview OMG
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I accidentally ran into the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly with a special double issue of "Best and Worst of 2008" and to my surprise, I saw these. I was then brought back to that tragic day with tears. :ghug:
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe266%2Fethanwow%2FHeath%2Fet4-1.jpg&hash=ba953f883e1349e9012a15be24ef9d5fb54ee4f3)
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe266%2Fethanwow%2FHeath%2Fet1-1.jpg&hash=7b03b253c364a6a06d7b727aa21d67cc98718362)
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Ledger wins supporting actor award in US
Heath Ledger has won American critics' best supporting actor award for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight .
The latest Batman film also won best action movie at this year's Critics' Choice Awards.
The crowd rose to its feet as the film's director, Christopher Nolan , accepted the award for Ledger.
"I can't presume to speak for him. His voice was as unique as it was original," said Nolan, adding that working with the actor "was one of the greatest experiences any of us ever had or will have".
"His contributions to cinema should be greatly appreciated," Nolan said, "so thanks for this appreciation."
Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008, is red hot favourite to win a Golden Globe for best supporting actor on Monday, according to Las Vegas bookmakers.
Slumdog Millionaire won five prizes at the Critics' Choice Awards, including best picture and honours for director Danny Boyle, writer Simon Beaufoy, star Dev Patel and composer AR Rahman.
Sean Penn was another double winner, earning best actor honours and sharing the acting-ensemble prize for Milk .
Kate Winslet was named best supporting actress for The Reader, while Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep tied for best actress for Rachel Getting Married and Doubt respectively.
The 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Thursday, honoured cinematic excellence in 17 categories.
The group, which represents more than 200 TV, radio and online critics from the United States and Canada, founded the Critics' Choice Awards in 1995.
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I accidentally ran into the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly with a special double issue of "Best and Worst of 2008" and to my surprise, I saw these. I was then brought back to that tragic day with tears. :ghug:
(https://ennisjack.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe266%2Fethanwow%2FHeath%2Fet4-1.jpg&hash=ba953f883e1349e9012a15be24ef9d5fb54ee4f3)
:ghug: Ethan :ghug: Yes, I can imagine how that could transport you back to that sad, sad day. :ghug: Especially because that beautiful tribute in the magazine is your very own, if I'm not mistaken...
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:ghug: Ethan :ghug: Yes, I can imagine how that could transport you back to that sad, sad day. :ghug: Especially because that beautiful tribute in the magazine is your very own, if I'm not mistaken...
Thanks, Laura. Yes it was. I could remember each footstep I took to go there and finally lay the tribute. The good thing was I knew I was accompanied by all the brokies.
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Christopher Nolan accepting the Critics' Choice Award for Heath.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5PygHpf8U
I was a puddle of proudest tears watching this... :\'(
%) Heath sweetie.
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*Tearful* But why oh why does he have to win these much deserved accolades in absentia? :\'( :\'( :\'(
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:ghug: Ethan :ghug: Laura :ghug:
Thanks for the photo and the link. Christopher Nolan spoke so beautifully and touchingly. I hope Dark Knight receives more awards, and they all get to speak from the heart as he did.
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The link has been removed from Youtube due to copyright issues :(
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Ledger wins supporting actor award in US
Heath Ledger has won American critics' best supporting actor award for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight .
The latest Batman film also won best action movie at this year's Critics' Choice Awards.
The crowd rose to its feet as the film's director, Christopher Nolan , accepted the award for Ledger.
"I can't presume to speak for him. His voice was as unique as it was original," said Nolan, adding that working with the actor "was one of the greatest experiences any of us ever had or will have".
"His contributions to cinema should be greatly appreciated," Nolan said, "so thanks for this appreciation."
Thank you for posting it Laura... :\'( :\'( I hope the video re-surfaces on youtube, I didn't have a chance to see it.
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ok, I didn't wait and I found another link:
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/watch_heath_ledger_win_the_critics_choice_award_for_best_supporting_actor_17893
damn :\'(
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ok, I didn't wait and I found another link:
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/watch_heath_ledger_win_the_critics_choice_award_for_best_supporting_actor_17893
damn :\'(
Damn. This really is a time again I need tissues about every 5 minutes.. I thought it'd be better with time, but it's not, it's the right opposite.
The award season.. I dread it.
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ok, I didn't wait and I found another link:
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/watch_heath_ledger_win_the_critics_choice_award_for_best_supporting_actor_17893
damn :\'(
Yup, damn :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I saw it, I saw it and I can't stop cry now....I'm so damn proud of Heath, and I just can't, just can NOT understand why he is not here to be the same proud we are now. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
He left when he was on the top of that mountain that was his dream and his passion. So unfair. So unfair.
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I saw it, I saw it and I can't stop cry now....I'm so damn proud of Heath, and I just can't, just can NOT understand why he is not here to be the same proud we are now. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
He left when he was on the top of that mountain that was his dream and his passion. So unfair. So unfair.
I feel the same way. :ghug: I know it is going to be hard and bitter-sweet. His achievement has been long recognized, not by the number of awards he had or is going to receive but by his work which has impacted us in a profound way.
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Damn, the video is off already, due to Viacom. I didn't see it, so I hope it shows up again somewhere. Such beautiful words he said about Heath...
kathy
It's still on this link Keren posted earlier today Kathy
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/watch_heath_ledger_win_the_critics_choice_award_for_best_supporting_actor_17893
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ok, I didn't wait and I found another link:
http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/watch_heath_ledger_win_the_critics_choice_award_for_best_supporting_actor_17893
damn :\'(
Thank you, Keren. This was so beautiful. Sad but so wonderful!
For what comfort it is, I like to imagine if he were here, how we would all be drooling and thudding our way through awards season, seeing Heath in his beauty and hotness and in his crazy outfits.
kathy
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I saw it, I saw it and I can't stop cry now....I'm so damn proud of Heath, and I just can't, just can NOT understand why he is not here to be the same proud we are now. :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
He left when he was on the top of that mountain that was his dream and his passion. So unfair. So unfair.
I feel the same Tammy :\'( :\'( :\'( :ghug:
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Ledger wins Golden Globe
12th January 2009, 10:45 WST
Late Perth actor Heath Ledger has won a posthumous Golden Globe award for his performance as psychopathic villain The Joker in Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.
Batman director Christopher Nolan on Sunday collected the best supporting actor award on behalf of Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose in January last year at the age of 28.
The victory cements Ledger’s status as the odds-on favourite to win a best supporting actor Academy Award at next month’s Oscars.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=23&ContentID=117470
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You'll find more there:
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=5723.msg873992#msg873992
Including a link to download the clip from the Golden Globed when he won :)
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This is a link to a new rememberance blog that was created by Theresa who used to run HL Central, and was also a personal friend of Heath.
http://heathledgerrememberances.wordpress.com/
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I insist on watching the local television ( Philippines) to hear the latest about the 66th Golden Globe Awards although I know that I can get the fresh news on the internet.
Congratulations Heath!
I believe even Heathy is alive.he can still be awarded for this exceptional role as the JOKER in the latest Batman movie.The Dark Knight.
http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/
Our Dearest Heath is awarded . The Best Performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture.
As I imagine how he walked to get his trophy.. smiled at everyone with his dashing looks....
..and he gaze at the crowd and say few little words for his accomplishments and honoring his producers and staffs.... the same that I heard from his Santa Barbara speech.
Tears from my eyes meant happiness for Heathy.
It is bitter because you are not here... ..and yet sweet knowing you are one of those prestigious soldiers of art who had portrayed each and every role par excellance.
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This is a link to a new rememberance blog that was created by Theresa who used to run HL Central, and was also a personal friend of Heath.
http://heathledgerrememberances.wordpress.com/
Thank you, Keren. I am so glad to see Theresa starting this blog. Watching Christopher Nolan accepting the two awards, Golden Globe and the SAG has been healing for me in so many ways. I was surprised that tears came so readily after all these times. It was good to know the feelings will never fade. At the same time, it was good to feel the sense of common remembrance and gratitude for Heath. Christopher is so amazing a speaker.
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From Theresa's blog:
Heath Ledger’s Mom, Sally, Says Globe To Go To Matilda
Heath Ledger’s mother says her son’s Golden Globe award and other accolades will end up in the hands of the person who mattered most in his life: his daughter Matilda.
“I should imagine that eventually it will be going to Matilda,” Sally Bell says from her home in Perth, Australia, in an exclusive interview. “At this stage she is only so young, but down the track she will have all these things. It will belong to her because she is part of him.”
Bell says she and her family are “bursting with pride” over her son’s recognition for playing the psychotic Joker in The Dark Knight, a role he “loved.”
“It is such a fantastic and wonderful legacy for his daughter. Matilda will have so many people who will be able to speak to her about her father’s abilities and [the] respect he had in the industry. That is such a wonderful legacy to leave,” she says.
Bell says she learned of his Golden Globe win before boarding a flight in Australia, adding there were “a few tears.”
“There is a lot of emotion tied up in this and we have to deal with that emotion first before we can relax and enjoy the moment, if you know what I mean,” she explains.
Bell says it has been “a bit of an emotional rollercoaster” for the family, but notes Heath would have appreciated the acknowledgment from his peers. “That’s what meant the most to him really,” she says.
Source: people.com
http://heathledgerrememberances.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/heath-ledgers-mom-sally-says-globe-to-go-to-matilda/
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Thank you, Keren. I am so glad to see Theresa starting this blog. Watching Christopher Nolan accepting the two awards, Golden Globe and the SAG has been healing for me in so many ways. I was surprised that tears came so readily after all these times. It was good to know the feelings will never fade. At the same time, it was good to feel the sense of common remembrance and gratitude for Heath. Christopher is so amazing a speaker.
same for me :\'( ^f^
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Ledger wins Golden Globe
12th January 2009, 10:45 WST
Late Perth actor Heath Ledger has won a posthumous Golden Globe award for his performance as psychopathic villain The Joker in Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.
Batman director Christopher Nolan on Sunday collected the best supporting actor award on behalf of Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose in January last year at the age of 28.
The victory cements Ledger’s status as the odds-on favourite to win a best supporting actor Academy Award at next month’s Oscars.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=23&ContentID=117470
Thanks, Jackster.
And I just LOVE your avatar picture and dumbass missin' !!
kathy
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I insist on watching the local television ( Philippines) to hear the latest about the 66th Golden Globe Awards although I know that I can get the fresh news on the internet.
Congratulations Heath!
I believe even Heathy is alive.he can still be awarded for this exceptional role as the JOKER in the latest Batman movie.The Dark Knight.
http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/
Our Dearest Heath is awarded . The Best Performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture.
As I imagine how he walked to get his trophy.. smiled at everyone with his dashing looks....
..and he gaze at the crowd and say few little words for his accomplishments and honoring his producers and staffs.... the same that I heard from his Santa Barbara speech.
Tears from my eyes meant happiness for Heathy.
It is bitter because you are not here... ..and yet sweet knowing you are one of those prestigious soldiers of art who had portrayed each and every role par excellance.
As I've said, I also "imagine" him actually being there. I love your image, of him walking up there to get his award. Being his beautiful and quirky Heathy self, probably both wry and humble.
kathy
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I just saw the, 13 January 2009 - Daily Poll from IMDB.... the question was:
What was your main reason for tuning into the Golden Globes on Sunday?
one of the answers was: I watched the show to see if Heath Ledger would win a posthumous award.
guess what I voted for ::)
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Here is the complete list of British Film Academy's nomination:
http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009,657,BA.html
Dark Knight received nine nominations, including Heath's Best Supporting Actor
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Ledger earns BAFTA nomination
15th January 2009, 17:30 WST
(following on lancecowboy's lead - the story from Perth . . . )
Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight has earned him a nomination for the prestigious British Academy film awards. Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose early last year, was nominated in the best supporting actor category for his role as the Joker.
Ledger’s nomination in Britain’s version of the Oscars comes after he was awarded a posthumous Golden Globe for best supporting actor earlier this week. The Perth-born actor has also picked up a Critics Choice award for his portrayal of the Batman villain The Joker and is tipped to win an Academy Award next month.
Ledger faces competition at the British awards, known as the BAFTAs, from Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt for his role in Burn After Reading, Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt and Brendan Gleeson for In Bruges.
The Dark Knight picked up a string of other nominations including for cinematography, production design, costume design, editing, make-up and hair, music, sound and special visual effects.
Six thousand BAFTA members were involved in voting for the nominees.
LONDON
AAP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=118345
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Ledger earns BAFTA nomination
15th January 2009, 17:30 WST
(following on lancecowboy's lead - the story from Perth . . . )
Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight has earned him a nomination for the prestigious British Academy film awards.
Six thousand BAFTA members were involved in voting for the nominees.
LONDON
AAP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=118345
I knew it!! :clap:
:cr) to our boy!!!
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New tributes by colleagues and friends:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html)
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New tributes by colleagues and friends:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html)
I just finished reading it and I'm speechless, I can't stop my tears... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I just finished reading it and I'm speechless, I can't stop my tears... :\'( :\'( :\'(
Same here :\'(
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New tributes by colleagues and friends:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html)
Thank you ynnaf. I appreciate the new insights from Wes Bentley, and the crew from Dark Knight. I look forward to the new film's release. It's strange, but reading the tributes, this time around, it feels like Heath never left, still here, waiting to surprise everyone with a big smile, and "gotcha". I look forward to watching all the films that I have not yet seen (Casanova, Brothers Grimm, Black Rock, Two Hands...though the tragedies Ned Kelly, Monster's Ball and Order may be too sad until a distant future), and re-watching all the few happy ones (A Knight's Tale, Four Feathers, Patriot). I think it's time to finally crack open the case containing Ten Things I Hate About You. It's been sitting on the shelf for a few months now. The comment from the director was funny...when he asked to hire him after the interview. I wonder how many other straight men had the same reaction.
Thanks again. :t)
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Terry Gilliam: I was in Vancouver, and there was a computer with a BBC website and it says, ''Heath Ledger found dead.'' My immediate response was, ''It's a f---ing Warner Bros. publicity stunt for the Joker!'' We kept looking at the computer thinking it was going to change. But it wouldn't go away.
Catherine Hardwicke: I was in a van in Oregon scouting a location we shot for Twilight. And my phone just exploded. And then you're just on the ground, weeping. At least I was outside in this beautiful place with the trees and the green and you could just try to connect with his spirit right then.
James Schamus: It was one of those ''where were you on the day Kennedy was shot'' moments. I called Jake and remember wailing.
I think I'm gonna die of a broken heart if I keep reading these things :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Terry Gilliam: I was in Vancouver, and there was a computer with a BBC website and it says, ''Heath Ledger found dead.'' My immediate response was, ''It's a f---ing Warner Bros. publicity stunt for the Joker!'' We kept looking at the computer thinking it was going to change. But it wouldn't go away.
Catherine Hardwicke: I was in a van in Oregon scouting a location we shot for Twilight. And my phone just exploded. And then you're just on the ground, weeping. At least I was outside in this beautiful place with the trees and the green and you could just try to connect with his spirit right then.
James Schamus: It was one of those ''where were you on the day Kennedy was shot'' moments. I called Jake and remember wailing.
I think I'm gonna die of a broken heart if I keep reading these things :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
Keren :ghug: The more I read some new tributes or simple opinions about him and the emptiness he has left,the more I realise that all of them are not a mere way of being polite.They really loved him and still do,because Heath has left a unforgettable memory in all who knew him. :\'(
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Of all the people in the world, why him??
WHY???
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Of all the people in the world, why him??
WHY???
:ghug: Keren :ghug: C'mere, baby...*BEARHUG* I wish I could be there to hug you for real right about now.
I've been asking myself that precise, hurtful, hateful question for almost an entire year now. We all have. And yet there remains no answer to speak of.
Ohhh, Heath. Sweetie.... :\'(
WHY??? :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Thank you Laura :\'( :ghug:
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New tributes by colleagues and friends:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html)
Oh God :\'( :\'( :\'(
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I'm always honest with you, so I'll be one more time.
I don't like that tribute. I read some lines very disturbing, at least for me...and now I'm confused....and my perception of Heath is a little bit different now, because I learned things about him I didn't know and others I suspected but I kept telling myself that were not real.
I feel down, surprised....Hell, so sad!!!
And then I read the comments on that page. Some of them were nice and moving....most of them hard, awful and even cruel.
So I'm mad too. My stomach hurts. I wish I never had read that.
Just my honest thoughts here. I'm just very emotional these days....As a said to Tony, I lost my job, and I'll have to leave just one day before Heath's death anniversary, so I'll be dealing with two hard sad situations at the same time (Tony will be doing the same, because he said to all you that he'll have to leave his home...that week too). So I'm just feeling weird, out of place...And reading things like "He felt alone and isolated and was not happy during BBM", the time I imagined him the happiest with Michelle, Heath and doing what he loved with Ang Lee, the genius, just freaks me out.
Is it possible for a heart to keep beating after breaking a million times already? I don't know....
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Dear Tammy - that article floored me, too. It was, at times, contrary to what we had been led to believe. Still, maybe one issue is settled: that Jake and Heath were, in fact, close. There are some who want to say otherwise. But when Jake was told of Heath's death, he didn't weep, he wailed.
That speaks to a great hurt. The source of that, Mr. Schamus, the producer of BBM, is someone I absolutely trust.
Hang in there, everybody - we knew we'd have a rough time as the anniversary approaches. We'll just have to get by as best as we can. Tony.
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Still, maybe one issue is settled: that Jake and Heath were, in fact, close. There are some who want to say otherwise. But when Jake was told of Heath's death, he didn't weep, he wailed.
That speaks to a great hurt. The source of that, Mr. Schamus, the producer of BBM, is someone I absolutely trust.
Tony...I know. I didn't want to quote that line because when I read it I totally lost it. The idea of Jake being shattered and then that bunch of bad people telling that he didn't care, well, it's too much for me....
I can't take this. It's all coming back, so fast and hard.
I wish someone was here to hug me.
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James Shamus:
It was one of those ''where were you on the day Kennedy was shot'' moments. I called Jake and remember wailing.
I think Mr. Shamus was the one wailing. That's how i understand it.
Most tributes are great, but others sad. :(
I hope everything will be fine for you Tammy.
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Aww, Tammy, I'm so sorry to hear about your personal troubles on top of everything... :\'( this is a hard time as it is, and I know how difficult it is for you. I wish too that I could be there to give you a real hug.
I'm always honest with you, so I'll be one more time.
I don't like that tribute. I read some lines very disturbing, at least for me...and now I'm confused....and my perception of Heath is a little bit different now, because I learned things about him I didn't know and others I suspected but I kept telling myself that were not real.
I don't really know what to say, because I don't know in what ways the article changed your perception of Heath. It was heartbreaking for me to read the tributes, from several reasons, but the things I read didn't come as a surprise to me, nor did I feel that they were completely different from what I was led to believe, because I wasn't led to believe anything. I knew that filming Brokeback was a difficult and lonely experience for him because he said so in interviews. I knew that hardly getting any feedback from Ang for his efforts during the filming was difficult for him because he said that. I knew that he hated talk shows and that he hated all the media circus that followed and that the awards stressed him out immensly, because I've heard that before. All of that doesn't mean that he wasn't incredibly proud of the movie, or that he regretted doing it. none of that made me think any less of him.
what was upsetting for me was to read about the pain of all these friends of him, to read all the things they said about the amazing person that he was, to realize again how rare and special and one of a kind he was - becuase that just makes the loss even more unbearable. what was upsetting for me was to read that one of his friends thought he died of a broken heart, because I can't bear to think about him being so miserable. and I can't bear to think about all the people in his life who're missing him so much.
A big hug to you honey... :ghug:
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what was upsetting for me was to read that one of his friends thought he died of a broken heart, because I can't bear to think about him being so miserable. and I can't bear to think about all the people in his life who're missing him so much.
Yeah, baby, that's one of those hard lines I was talking about. You read that he was sad during BBM and then you read he was stressed because of the awards, and then you read that he died of a broken heart, and then you get the unbearable idea that Heath suffered so damn much, and it's too much, because you all keep saying that he was so happy and felt complete, but I don't think so, not anymore...and it hurts, Keren, so much, you know?
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Of all the people in the world, why him??
WHY???
He Came
He Conquered
He Left
Heath was here for a purpose. He lived every moment to the fullest, in every project.
Whatever the reason, I am sure he accomplished what he was meant to accomplish, and will be happy for all eternity knowing it.
:ghug: everyone :ghug:
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I tend to think Heath felt "sad and isolated" on the BBM set partly because he was being Ennis. It's not like it was a zany-fun set like Brothers Grimm, after all. And it's common knowledge how Ang was an odd director -- not like he created this happy family on the set. All of this probably goes to the intense experience that BBM was. But as to Heath, that's where I think he was at, in the beginning...and then came Michelle.
As to his being either sad or happy, he was both, yes? Just like we all are, but he maybe had more high highs and more low lows. Not like manic-depressive, I don't mean that, but like just really being wherever he was being, living fully in the present.
Who said that maybe he had some aborigine in him? I liked that. Where the "old soul" came from.
kathy
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Yeah, baby, that's one of those hard lines I was talking about. You read that he was sad during BBM and then you read he was stressed because of the awards, and then you read that he died of a broken heart, and then you get the unbearable idea that Heath suffered so damn much, and it's too much, because you all keep saying that he was so happy and felt complete, but I don't think so, not anymore...and it hurts, Keren, so much, you know?
I know. But I don't think that he was unhappy in life in a general way, or that he suffered more then most people. He had both good times and bad times. I agree a lot with what Kathy said, I think that the BBM experience was hard for him because he was being Ennis and he felt and experienced what Ennis was going through, that's what Ang intended to create. But when Michelle came and they fell in love he must have been so happy, don't you think? And he wasn't lonely then. And then when Matilda was born he said that he's never been so happy and felt so complete. He did live his life to the fullest.
And what his friend said about him dying of a broken heart, yes it hurts like hell to think about it, but that's only what his friend thought. A break up is never easy, especially when a little child is involved, so naturally it was a very hard time for him, but at the same time he did things that he loved and he had so much joy and satisfaction from his work. You've heard what his father said about how happy he was when he played the Joker and how much fun he had doing that, you've read what Terry Gilliam said about how his work energized him and made him happy. He had good times as well as bad times, and he knew pain as well as joy. Everybody goes through rough periods in life when they feel down, it doesn't mean that their lives are like that all the time.
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I tend to think Heath felt "sad and isolated" on the BBM set partly because he was being Ennis. It's not like it was a zany-fun set like Brothers Grimm, after all. And it's common knowledge how Ang was an odd director -- not like he created this happy family on the set. All of this probably goes to the intense experience that BBM was. But as to Heath, that's where I think he was at, in the beginning...and then came Michelle.
I agree with you kathy, this is how I took it, his time on the Brothers Grimm set must have been so different to BBM..but they were two competely different films, in terms of theme, location and mood....that doesnt mean to say Heath didnt get anything good or positive out of it...which we know he did.
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I'm always honest with you, so I'll be one more time.
I don't like that tribute. I read some lines very disturbing, at least for me...and now I'm confused....and my perception of Heath is a little bit different now, because I learned things about him I didn't know and others I suspected but I kept telling myself that were not real.
I feel down, surprised....Hell, so sad!!!
And then I read the comments on that page. Some of them were nice and moving....most of them hard, awful and even cruel.
So I'm mad too. My stomach hurts. I wish I never had read that.
Just my honest thoughts here. I'm just very emotional these days....As a said to Tony, I lost my job, and I'll have to leave just one day before Heath's death anniversary, so I'll be dealing with two hard sad situations at the same time (Tony will be doing the same, because he said to all you that he'll have to leave his home...that week too). So I'm just feeling weird, out of place...And reading things like "He felt alone and isolated and was not happy during BBM", the time I imagined him the happiest with Michelle, Heath and doing what he loved with Ang Lee, the genius, just freaks me out.
Is it possible for a heart to keep beating after breaking a million times already? I don't know....
Aww Tammy, I'm sorry to hear that you didnt like the tribute and it made you sad..... :ghug: It was hard for me too, and reading some quotes was like reading someone's diary in parts, but these were his friends and they loved him and thats what we need to remember. Sending you lots of hugs :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
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I haven't read much about the working conditions on the various movie sets, and I don't know the specifics of Brothers Grimm or Brokeback Mountain.
However, I recall reading a lot of different anecdotes relating Heath's contribution to the filming of Brokeback Mountain, i.e. the story of the shirts as related by Ossana, and many others, that point to the movie being a place where Heath was able to create at his best. Every director, every crew and every movie has a different atmosphere, just as every work place has a different culture. There is no "right" or "better". It simply is.
I also do not put much weight on any ONE person's statement in one particular publication. I appreciate the new material in the tribute from EW for the unknown anecdotes, and insights. I doubt very much that Heath died of a broken heart, as speculated, because he was stronger and more filled with hopes and dreams than any ordinary mortal. He jumped out of bed everyday impatient to do everything...just as he sat for his exams at 16, so he could get on with life after school. He knew life had a lot to offer him, and he was restless to tackle it head-on. His death was an accident, due to a combination of different factors, from the medication, the pneumonia, the stress, the lack of sleep, the weakened condition after working in London, with its unhealthy airs. Heath was physically exhausted.
I am sorry, Tammy, :ghug: for the stress you are going through. I hope you can separate the two events, Heath's anniversary, and your own situation, dealing with each on its own. I agree with Tony that for Heath, a day of silence would not, in my humble opinion, be the best way to remember him. I plan on watching Ten Things I Hate About You, which is a celebration of life, of living, what Heath always did.
:ghug: Everyone :ghug:
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I haven't read much about the working conditions on the various movie sets, and I don't know the specifics of Brothers Grimm or Brokeback Mountain.
However, I recall reading a lot of different anecdotes relating Heath's contribution to the filming of Brokeback Mountain, i.e. the story of the shirts as related by Ossana, and many others, that point to the movie being a place where Heath was able to create at his best. Every director, every crew and every movie has a different atmosphere, just as every work place has a different culture. There is no "right" or "better". It simply is.
I also do not put much weight on any ONE person's statement in one particular publication. I appreciate the new material in the tribute from EW for the unknown anecdotes, and insights. I doubt very much that Heath died of a broken heart, as speculated, because he was stronger and more filled with hopes and dreams than any ordinary mortal. He jumped out of bed everyday impatient to do everything...just as he sat for his exams at 16, so he could get on with life after school. He knew life had a lot to offer him, and he was restless to tackle it head-on. His death was an accident, due to a combination of different factors, from the medication, the pneumonia, the stress, the lack of sleep, the weakened condition after working in London, with its unhealthy airs. Heath was physically exhausted.
I am sorry, Tammy, :ghug: for the stress you are going through. I hope you can separate the two events, Heath's anniversary, and your own situation, dealing with each on its own. I agree with Tony that for Heath, a day of silence would not, in my humble opinion, be the best way to remember him. I plan on watching Ten Things I Hate About You, which is a celebration of life, of living, what Heath always did.
:ghug: Everyone :ghug:
Thanks for pointing that out, LC. Absolutely, what you said, that he was happier and more filled with plans and dreams than most people. Sure, he was heartbroken over Michelle and Matilda, but I'd bet a lot that it wasn't like splitsville forever, on either side. I'm sure he held out hope that they'd get back together, at least in some way, to share Matilda in a healthy way. But certainly his death was due only to an extremely weakened condition and the wrong meds. A freak accident. That's the worst, in a way. It's not like he was someone who really wanted to leave this life...
kathy
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I only just realised that the Oscar nominations are on thursday
The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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I only just realised that the Oscar nominations are on thursday
The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
And Heath is gonna be on it
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And Heath is gonna be on it
It's going to be a hard day :-\\ :\'(
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It's going to be a hard day :-\\ :\'(
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right back at you all
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sorry for OT
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I only just realised that the Oscar nominations are on thursday
The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Just like the 66th Golden Globe Award. Heath Ledger will reign the crowd and get the most awaited award.
As we cheer. Heath will continue to live and never be forgotten.
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Ledger’s death mourned a year on
22nd January 2009, 17:15 WST
It has been a year since the world mourned the sudden death of WA-born actor Heath Ledger who, in a tragic twist of irony, is likely be nominated for a prestigious Academy Award on the first anniversary of his death.
Ledger is almost certain to be nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for playing The Joker in The Dark Knight, due to be announced about 10.30pm.
His family will use Ledger’s much-loved Cottesloe beach to officially speak to the world’s media tomorrow morning.
But while the Golden Globe winner has been lauded the world over for his acting ability, questions remain over whether more should be done in Ledger’s hometown to recognise his talent.
Industry friends and colleagues of Ledger, including actress Rachel Griffiths and filmmaker Gregor Jordan, set up a scholarship in his name last year, with the first recipient due to be announced soon.
According to the scholarship’s website, the Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship will “provide talented Australian actors in the early stage of their careers the chance to travel to the US to further their training and international acting opportunities”.
In December, WA Premier-elect Colin Barnett opted to remove Ledger’s name from the State’s new performing arts venue in Northbridge, instead adding it to the name of the main theatre to be built inside the centre.
The Liberal–Nationals Government backed away from Labor’s naming plan after members of Perth’s arts community said it was a cynical marketing exercise because he was not a theatre actor.
This week, the State Opposition slammed the decision to reverse naming Perth’s new theatre complex after Ledger, with Shadow Arts Minister Ben Wyatt saying WA had given away a chance to be part of this week’s international celebration.
In the wake of Ledger winning a series of international acting awards for his role as the Joker, Mr Wyatt said the theatre would have been the ideal way to acknowledge Ledger and ensure his legacy was there to benefit the State.
“He’s the hot favourite to win the Academy Award, the person who had the capacity by name, the reputation and world regard to bring the spotlight to Western Australia and Western Australian theatre…and we’ve gone and renamed the theatre the State Theatre,” Mr Wyatt said.
“Having a monument or such, I daresay, wouldn’t have anywhere near the impact of naming the theatre after him.
“That way when you have Australian talent showcasing their skills in a theatre named after the late Heath Ledger, it’s a name the world recognises.
“The world doesn’t recognise the State Theatre of Western Australia. It’s petty politics by Colin Barnett and I think it’s something he will live to regret.”
The office of the Minister for Culture and the Arts confirmed there were currently no plans in the pipeline to officially commemorate the life of Ledger.
However, Ledger’s former school, Guildford Grammar, has paid tribute to the late actor in several ways.
The boys’ school has named its annual senior student drama prize in his honour, along with also having a photographic portrait of Ledger on display in the school’s theatre.
Trell Baynham, 18, was the inaugural recipient of the Heath Ledger Drama Prize in December.
The school further cemented its interest in promoting the talent and legacy of Ledger by obtaining a copy of the 2008 Archibald Prize people’s choice winner - a haunting portrait of Ledger painted shortly before his death.
PERTH
JAYNE RICKARD AND AAP/AP
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Remembering Ledger a year to the date
Emma Bigelow
Issue date: 1/22/09
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While so many great things happened this week in history, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration of President Obama, it is also a sad time in the world of entertainment.
Exactly one year ago today, actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment in New York City. Although rumors still fly about an alleged suicide, the official autopsy report indicates that he died due to an accidental overdose of various prescribed medications that produced a toxic blend.
His untimely death was tragic and still seems a bit unreal, especially after viewing Ledger's amazing performance as the Joker in this past summer's masterpiece, "The Dark Knight".
Since Ledger's death he has received numerous awards for his portrayal of the Batman villain and at the Golden Globes, he won the award for Best Supporting Actor. While his performance in "The Dark Knight" caused quite a stir for fans and critics alike, it is not certain the he will receive an Oscar.
Over the history of the Academy Awards, 70 nominations have been given out to those already deceased. These awards have resulted in 13 wins, but most of the posthumous winners were not in the main categories and represent costume design, sound editing, or make-up. James Dean is probably the most well known nominee of posthumous Oscars, receiving one each for "East of Eden" and "Giant" in the mid-1950's. It goes without saying that if Ledger does indeed receive a nomination it will be the most significant posthumous nomination of our time.
Even though we cannot predict what kind of recognition Ledger may or may not receive, we can take a moment to celebrate all of the remarkable work that Ledger was a part of and the incredible life that he lead.
Ledger was originally an Australian actor. He finally broke through in the U.S. with his performance in the romantic comedy, "Ten Things I Hate About You," which was a modern teen version of the Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew". The movie was a success, but Ledger ventured outside the norm of a teen heartthrob and wound up taking bold risks with his career. He did perform in some big budget hits including "The Patriot," which starred fellow Aussi Mel Gibson, as well as "A Knight's Tale."
These early works were just the beginning to an outstanding career that showcased more than just box-office acting. Ledger took a break from the typical cinematic film to do more low key ones such as The "Four Feathers" and "Ned Kelly." He eventually got the chance to work on artistic films and got the chance of a lifetime to star aside Jake Gyllenhaal in the controversial love story, "Brokeback Mountain." This performance earned Ledger nominations for both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe.
After this breakthough performance that truly showed Ledger's talent and commitment to excellence in the art of acting, Ledger took on roles in "Casanova," "Candy," and "I'm Not There."
Ledger's performance in "The Dark Knight" is certainly how many will remember him, and while Ledger left behind his legacy of film, he also left behind his daughter, Matilda. Her mother is actress Michelle Williams, whom Ledger met on the set of Brokeback Mountain along with Matilda's godfather, Jake Gyllenhaal. Matilda will be four years old this October and many of Ledger's friends and family confirm that there is no possible way he would have taken his own life and left behind his daughter. His close friends also indicated that becoming a father was a shining moment for him and one of his greatest accomplishments.
It is too soon to say what the future will bring for Ledger at the Academy Awards. They air on February 22nd and the nominations are announced today, the one-year anniversary of Ledger's passing. He is certainly eligible and qualified for the award and hopefully he is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If he does not win, or does not even receive a nomination, it does not mean that he wasn't a beloved actor, father, and friend. His film career will officially end with the release of "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus." Although he could not finish his role, director Terry Gilliam hired Jude Law, Johnny Depp, and Colin Farrell to complete Ledger's part of Tony so that his final film could be finished. A release date is not yet set for the United States, but it will be released in the U.K. in June of 2009.
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Exactly 1 year after death, Heath Ledger's legacy grows
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090122/entertainment/20090122_oscars_heath_ledger
Thu Jan 22, 2:49 PM
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
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NEW YORK - Last year's Oscar nominations day was tragic. This year's was bittersweet.
It was exactly one year ago Thursday when Heath Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment, just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had announced its nominees. Outside the Soho building, a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles quickly accumulated.
The academy paid its own tribute to the actor Thursday by nominating him for best supporting actor, honouring his mad, incendiary performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight."
"Today was the day," said Josh Brolin, who last year was celebrating the Oscar success of "No Country for Old Men" when the news on Ledger broke. "It was a very sad day. I knew Heath loosely. I think it's a great performance. It's a very bittersweet thing."
"The Dark Knight" earned eight nominations in total, but was shut out of other major award categories. Ledger's nomination, though, came as expected.
Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28, was nominated along with Brolin ("Milk"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt") and Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road").
Many expect Ledger to win when the awards are handed out Feb. 22, which would make him only the second actor to posthumously win an Oscar following Peter Finch in 1976's "Network."
Other actors have been nominated after their deaths, though: Massimo Troisi (1994's "The Postman"), Spencer Tracy (1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"), Ralph Richardson, (1984's "Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes"), Jeanne Eagles (1929's "The Letter") and James Dean (twice, for 1955's "East of Eden and 1956's "Giant").
At the time of Ledger's death, comparisons to Dean were rife - and perhaps always will be. Both were young, provocative talents snuffed out just as they were reaching full expression. But since "The Dark Knight" was released, Ledger seemed to make a mythology of his own.
A groundswell of acclaim and sentiment has coalesced around his performance. When the Golden Globes awarded him best supporting actor, the crowd stood in applause - the first standing-O of the night - as "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan accepted the award for Ledger.
"That really hit us in the heart, you know?" his father, Kim Ledger, later said of the ovation. "I just really wish our boy was here to see that."
At the podium, Nolan said he and those who worked on "The Dark Knight" accepted the award "with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride. After Heath passed, you saw a hole ripped in the future of cinema."
Ledger's mother, Sally Bell, has said his Golden Globe would be given to his three-year-old daughter Matilda.
"I just saw 'The Dark Knight,"' said Richard Jenkins, nominated for best actor for his performance in "The Visitor." "He's extraordinary in it. I think the response that his win got at the Golden Globes is kind of how everyone feels. He was a brilliant, brilliant actor."
A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. said Nolan and others from "The Dark Knight" would not have reaction to the nominations. A spokeswoman for actress Michelle Williams, the mother of Ledger's daughter, said Williams would also not be commenting on Ledger's nomination.
Ledger's family was to hold a brief press conference in Perth, Australia on Friday morning.
It's the second Oscar nomination for Ledger, who was nominated for best actor in 2006 for his performance as a gruff-voiced, gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain." Before the Joker came along, it was his most indelible role. He lost the Oscar to Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote").
Ledger's Hollywood career essentially started with the romantic comedy "10 Things I Hate About You" and continued with Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and the medieval adventure "A Knight's Tale." But Ledger began gravitating more toward indie fare, like "Monster's Ball," "Lords of Dogtown" and "The Brothers Grimm."
In 2007, he played one of many Bob Dylans in the unusual biopic "I'm Not There." Ledger's musical side will also be posthumously displayed on an upcoming album paying tribute to singer-songwriter Nick Drake. On it, Ledger covers "Black Eyed Dog," which he recorded in 2007 for an art installation.
Ledger's posthumous on-screen life isn't over yet, either. He died while in the midst of production on "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," which re-teamed him with "Brothers Grimm" director Terry Gilliam.
After Ledger's death, Gilliam had to shut down "Dr. Parnassus" and the film's future was in doubt since Ledger was a key performer in a film that had much still to shoot.
But Gilliam and writer Charles McKeown rewrote the script (it's about a journey through the imagination via a magic mirror) so that the part could be played by not one, but a group of actors. Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell all joined to round out the part.
Gilliam has insisted Ledger was clean of illegal drugs at the time of his death, but rather was suffering from insomnia. The director is currently cutting "Dr. Parnassus," which doesn't yet have a release date.
Whatever might still be seen of Ledger's work, though, a sense of loss was pervasive on the anniversary of his death.
"He would have been nominated either way. It has nothing to do with his passing," said Ron Howard, who was nominated for directing "Frost/Nixon." It's a great piece of acting, and I, as a creative person, feel cheated in knowing I'll never have the opportunity to work with him."
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Associated Press reporters John Carucci in New York and Derrik J. Lang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)
Ledger sisters honour Heath
2009-01-23 15:54:46
Kate Ledger and Ashleigh Bell speak about the Oscar nomination for their late brother, Heath Ledger.
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http://media.smh.com.au/?category=Breaking%20News&rid=45482
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Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)
Ledger sisters honour Heath
2009-01-23 15:54:46
Kate Ledger and Ashleigh Bell speak about the Oscar nomination for their late brother, Heath Ledger.
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http://media.smh.com.au/?category=Breaking%20News&rid=45482
Andrew, thanks so much, friend. :^^) I'll look forward to watching this, probably tomorrow. Today I just don't have the fortitude.
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Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)
Ledger sisters honour Heath
2009-01-23 15:54:46
Kate Ledger and Ashleigh Bell speak about the Oscar nomination for their late brother, Heath Ledger.
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http://media.smh.com.au/?category=Breaking%20News&rid=45482
Thanks, Andrew.
What beautiful, dignified comments from Heath's sisters.
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Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)
Ledger sisters honour Heath
2009-01-23 15:54:46
Kate Ledger and Ashleigh Bell speak about the Oscar nomination for their late brother, Heath Ledger.
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http://media.smh.com.au/?category=Breaking%20News&rid=45482
It must be so so hard for them to speak publicly about their grief for Heath, but they manage to do it with such dignity and love...
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It must be so so hard for them to speak publicly about their grief for Heath, but they manage to do it with such dignity and love...
Yes they do. they spoke beautifuly, even though their hearts are broken. Andrew, thank you so much for posting this.
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Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)
Ledger sisters honour Heath
2009-01-23 15:54:46
Kate Ledger and Ashleigh Bell speak about the Oscar nomination for their late brother, Heath Ledger.
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http://media.smh.com.au/?category=Breaking%20News&rid=45482
Thank you,Andrew; it's a moving and lovely tribute...Yes,it must be horrible for them speaking in public in such a hard occasion; they're full of love to their brother... :\'(
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A friend remembers Heath Ledger on the one-year anniversary of his death
BY SHEKHAR KAPUR
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/01/22/2009-01-22_a_friend_remembers_heath_ledger_on_the_o.html
Acclaimed director Shekhar Kapur, best known for the "Elizabeth" movies, cast the then-22-year-old Heath Ledger for his 2002 epic, "The Four Feathers." The two remained close friends over the years. In a phone conversation on the night of Jan. 21, 2008, Kapur is believed to be the last person to have talked to the actor before he went to sleep, never to wake up. On the somber occasion of the one-year anniversary of his friend's death, Kapur reminisces about the talented actor's passing.
Time, say philosophers, mystics and quantum scientists, is an illusion. Before the Big Bang there was Eternity. Beginnings and Ends are just means to contextualize our lives within our limited perceptions of a world that surrounds us.
Every now and again a human being is born to remind us of Eternity. Heath Ledger was among those who we quietly whisper prayers for in our quiet moments, wish for in our dreams and have a special place in our everyday thoughts. God knows how many people in this world still carry the pain of his loss. Why did a man who lived amongst us for such a short time and did such few films, leave such a huge imprint on us when he left? I have people writing letters on my Web site who had never seen a Heath Ledger film, who were not fans, but felt the shock and impact of the loss of Heath Ledger. Everyday, ordinary people are still coming to terms with his passing a year later.
Like he was an Angel.
Or the Dark Knight. In which Heath left indelible impressions of incredible humanity behind the garb of evil as The Joker. So much that people went back again and again to the theaters to experience the presence of Heath Ledger.
I remember a conversation with Robert Richardson, the Director of Photography on "Four Feathers": "Just make sure that the audience are able to look into Heath's eyes. They tell a story of ancient wisdom and all of humanity." Not an easy job for a DP when Heath would so easily break into an Australian crinkle and narrow his eyes, so that the point of light so carefully placed by the DP would search desperately for its subject! I used to tell Heath that he was an ancient soul in a youthful body and mind. That his struggle was between the ancient wisdom he carried in his soul and coming to terms with his youth.
That struggle showed and I - the 'brother from another mother' as he called me - embraced him at those moments.
I wish I was there to embrace him when he passed away. I was so close. But then, it was not meant to be. In his passing he left behind his indelible footprint. As I write this piece, I hear that Heath has bean nominated for the Oscars.
Wherever you are Heath, I can see you crinkling your eyes and laughing your deep laughter and saying, "Hey brother, what do you think of that?"
Nothing more, nothing less. Everything just was, is, and will be. In Eternity.
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OMG, just beautiful, both from his sisters and Shekhar. Thank you both for these. :^^)
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Heath won the SAG Award! Well-done, actor's guild!
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thanks Tony & RH - here's the brief story from Perth:
Ledger wins SAG award
26th January 2009, 11:30 WST
Heath Ledger’s sociopathic reinvention of Batman villain The Joker in The Dark Knight has earned him the supporting-actor honour at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
Ledger’s co-star Gary Oldman accepted the prize on behalf of the late actor at the SAG Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The win puts the Perth-born actor a step closer to becoming just the second performer to win a posthumous Academy Award.
Oscar buzz has been flying over Ledger’s performance since before his death from an accidental prescription drug overdose on January 22 last year.
Earlier this month, Ledger won the best supporting actor Golden Globe and was also nominated for a British Film Award, the UK’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Ledger now looks certain to receive the supporting-actor Oscar on February 22.
LOS ANGELES
AP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=120928
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Hooray,another well deserved award for our boy ¡ His fellow actors really loved and respect him¡ It couldn't be in another way,however... :clap: :clap: :clap:
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I am not even sure should I post this here ^*) ^*) ^*)
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=924352
I put a comment there, but I was so pi**** of that I don't know if it makes sense.
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dear loreen:
Not sure this is worth posting either. As always, just because something is posted on the Internet does not mean there is any value in it. One needs to look at the source, their experience and recognition in their own field, and of course, their basic understanding of what they are writing about. Johannesburg S.A. may be a nice enough town, but a not a major center of the film industry let alone film criticism. People are, as always, entitled to their own opinions, this is mine.
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thanks Tony & RH - here's the brief story from Perth:
Ledger wins SAG award
26th January 2009, 11:30 WST
Heath Ledger’s sociopathic reinvention of Batman villain The Joker in The Dark Knight has earned him the supporting-actor honour at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
Ledger’s co-star Gary Oldman accepted the prize on behalf of the late actor at the SAG Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The win puts the Perth-born actor a step closer to becoming just the second performer to win a posthumous Academy Award.
Oscar buzz has been flying over Ledger’s performance since before his death from an accidental prescription drug overdose on January 22 last year.
Earlier this month, Ledger won the best supporting actor Golden Globe and was also nominated for a British Film Award, the UK’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Ledger now looks certain to receive the supporting-actor Oscar on February 22.
LOS ANGELES
AP
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=120928
You did it again Heath, I'm so proud of you... I only wish you were here to see it.
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I am not even sure should I post this here ^*) ^*) ^*)
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=924352
I put a comment there, but I was so pi**** of that I don't know if it makes sense.
What a nonsense is this?... ^*) Excuse me,Loreen,I'm not speaking about you.As Jackster says,everybody has the right of saying his/her opinion,but IMO,this one asnwers itself.
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I'm so proud of Heath winning the SAG award....he deserves it, but so wish he was here to receive it.
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We all know some people will do anything for sensational journalism or to get attention. From those horrible Halloween pizzas, to this man's article, and stuff people say about Barrack Obama, not just during the campaign, but even now.
There is nothing to be done about it except to change these people's hearts to make them see what impact their callous words and actions have on innocent people. It's not an easy task, changing people's hearts, but there are times when it can be done, and there are times when we must ignore it.
Repeating what they say does not help anything or anyone. Making a big fuss over it does not change their hearts, but only gratify their wish for sensationalism.
In my opinion, all we can do is to stand firm, pointing out the absurd behavior and move on. Just as Obama's response to Limbaugh, who accused the President of being afraid of him. Just tell him I said hi. And smile.
These small minded petty people cannot stand it, when we laugh at their absurdity. Laughter and smiles are much more effective weapons than anger.
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A tribute from Sydney Morning Herald film writer Garry Maddox.
http://www.watoday.com.au/multimedia/2009/entertainment/remembering-heath-ledger/index.html
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A tribute from Sydney Morning Herald film writer Garry Maddox.
http://www.watoday.com.au/multimedia/2009/entertainment/remembering-heath-ledger/index.html
Thanks so much for posting, Keren. :^^)
Maddox says it well. Everything he says is so true. Maybe a tad understated, in my book, but still very true.
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We all know some people will do anything for sensational journalism or to get attention. From those horrible Halloween pizzas, to this man's article, and stuff people say about Barrack Obama, not just during the campaign, but even now.
There is nothing to be done about it except to change these people's hearts to make them see what impact their callous words and actions have on innocent people. It's not an easy task, changing people's hearts, but there are times when it can be done, and there are times when we must ignore it.
Repeating what they say does not help anything or anyone. Making a big fuss over it does not change their hearts, but only gratify their wish for sensationalism.
In my opinion, all we can do is to stand firm, pointing out the absurd behavior and move on. Just as Obama's response to Limbaugh, who accused the President of being afraid of him. Just tell him I said hi. And smile.
These small minded petty people cannot stand it, when we laugh at their absurdity. Laughter and smiles are much more effective weapons than anger.
Oh you are so right! Anger only fuels them, since they are so full of it themselves. But humor can disarm them.
kathy
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Naomi about Heath in the new Parade magazine:
In 2002, while making the Australian film Ned Kelly, Naomi fell in love with co-star Heath Ledger. “I hadn’t really been that familiar with his work,” Naomi recalls. “Then, when I got to the set and did that first scene with him, I was like, ‘Wow! This guy is alive.’ It was just something deep in his eyes. You could look into them, and they would tell a thousand stories in one glance. There was a wonderful mixture of power and fragility at work in everything he did, which just pulls you in. His strength didn’t scare you. It intrigued you. And his fragility touched you.” The couple parted amicably in 2004, separated by the distance of two growing careers, but stayed friends until Heath’s tragic death from an accidental overdose in early 2008. “It’s still incredibly difficult,” Naomi says, her voice trailing off.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments)
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Naomi about Heath in the new Parade magazine:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments)
Thanks, ynnaf. That's really beautiful quote. I love how she described Heath so perfectly, gentle strength and fragile vulnerability...and so alive. She must have known him really well, really deeply. I can't imagine how she is coping. I am glad she has a new partner, a new career to keep her focused.
Another reminder for me to watch Ned Kelly. I guess I better finish watching it. :t)
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Settlement reached on Heath Ledger's life insurance
Thursday, Jan. 29
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE50S60220090129
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heath Ledger's insurance company and lawyers for his young daughter have reached an out of court settlement over a $10 million policy claim on behalf of the girl, an attorney said on Thursday.
Ledger, 28, died a year ago in his New York apartment in what officials ruled an accidental prescription-drug overdose.
But lawyers for ReliaStar Life Insurance Co said they wanted to investigate further before paying out because his death might have been suicide, which would nullify the policy.
Attorney William Shernoff filed a lawsuit in July 2008 on behalf of Ledger's 3-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose, over the $10 million he argued was due to her as the beneficiary. After the lawsuit was filed, the two sides negotiated.
"The parties are pleased that they were able to reach an amicable settlement and solve the dispute," Shernoff said.
No details were released on terms of the agreement.
Ledger, who had his daughter with actress Michelle Williams, is Oscar-nominated for playing Batman's enemy the Joker in "The Dark Knight." He was nominated for an Oscar for playing a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie "Brokeback Mountain."
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Jill Serjeant)
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Naomi about Heath in the new Parade magazine:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/29/naomi-watts-parade-magazine-cover/#comments)
I love what Naomi said about him. Michelle said a similar thing once, how he was so big and strong but so vulnerable at the same time.
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You are welcome guys! :)
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This is the tribute from the EW, I scanned the magazine. I know most of you read it online already, but thought people might still like to see what the magazine looked like.
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Thanks Keren for this act of love! ^f^
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Thank you honey... for sending it to me :ghug: :ghug:
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Huh, this Sunday it will be the Bafta in London... anyone knows a link to watch them online? It won't be broadcasted in Canada. :-\\
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Thanks Keren for this act of love! ^f^
Yes, thank you so much, Keren! I've kind of stopped automatically looking at magazine racks, so I don't buy too many, like I used to. But of course I'm bummed I missed this issue, damn! (I have to resist buying every single Obama issue of all the magazines, too -- and there are so many!)
But I printed this on our color laser copier at work, so I have a nice copy. However, reading it today at work...just so sad. How can it ever be okay that we have lost such a unique person! I loved that he is referred to as the Pied Piper. He definitely created a big crowd of devoted friends and followers. What all his friends say -- no wonder we are so taken by him, without even knowing him per se.
kathy
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I see Terry Gilliam is to receive a BAFTA fellowship this Sunday. I just found this on the Telegraph website:
Bafta awards 2009: Terry Gilliam on his Bafta fellowship and the death of Heath Ledger
Terry Gilliam talks to The Telegraph about his Bafta fellowship, Monty Python, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and the death of star Heath Ledger.
By Cassandra Jardine
Terry Gilliam's best guess as to why this year, of all years, he has been honoured with a Bafta fellowship is that it is a gesture of "sympathy". Voters must, he assumes, have felt sorry for him because his latest film, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, has been hit by three catastrophes. "There have been many human sacrifices involved," says the director with one of the zany laughs that lard his conversations.
The most recent disaster struck this autumn. Gilliam, who is 68, was standing outside a restaurant in Soho when a car backed into him. "Yes, a man can fly," observed a bystander as he flew past. He broke his back, but seems fine now, despite a cracked vertebra and dislodged disc. "Yeah, I'm a lizard," he says, cackling.
Before that, his producer Bill Vince, died suddenly, so Gilliam's daughter Amy – a 30-year-old fledgling producer – had to take over. "No matter how bad it gets," he says, "we keep the jokes going." But he cannot maintain his hilarity when talking about the death of Heath Ledger, the star of the film.
"I was in Canada," he says, thinking back a year. "We had finished shooting on Saturday night. Heath went to New York and was due to be joining us in Vancouver on the Friday. But on Tuesday (January 22) my daughter told me to come into the office. She wanted to show me something. 'No, I'm too busy,' I said, but there it was on the BBC website: Heath Ledger was dead. It was horrible. It was as if half the world had collapsed."
Ledger, 28 when he died, was not just an actor to Gilliam, he was the finest actor of his generation. They had worked together on The Brothers Grimm, where he had also been impressed by Ledger's sweetness of character and his skill at chess. "It just isn't possible that he's dead," he says. "There's nothing he can't do, it just flows out of him with ease and grace. He lifted everybody. He wasn't like Marlon Brando or James Dean or any of the more neurotic actors, his was all positive energy. I knew he was tired but that Saturday he had been doing all his own stunts, he was leaping off wagons, indestructible. On no level did his death make sense."
Gilliam's first thought was that the announcement was a publicity stunt for the Batman film The Dark Knight, in which Ledger plays the Joker, and for which he has since received Bafta and Oscar nominations. "That says a lot about the ruthlessness of the studio marketing departments," he says mischievously. Then began the rumours about a drug overdose. "Trying to pin that on him enraged me. It was so banal. I knew he was taking painkillers and Valium, but you have to take buckets of them before they knock you out. The only way I can understand it is that he must have woken up in the middle of the night and, in a groggy way, thought, 'I'm awake because I didn't take my pills,' and taken a lot more."
Once he had accepted the death, Gilliam faced not only a personal loss, but a business problem. Ledger was 45 per cent of the way through filming Parnassus, about a strange travelling theatre in modern London. The money men were ready to scrap the film but Gilliam wasn't. "It's interesting how, in extremis, you think clearly. It took me a week to figure out a solution. I thought about starting again with another actor, but Heath was so extraordinary I didn't want to do that. I then looked at how to do the remaining scenes without Heath, and realised that, since his character goes through a magic mirror three times, we could get three actors to play the role."
But who? He had worked with Johnny Depp on The Man who Killed Don Quixote, another of his disaster-prone films. "I called him. He said, 'I'm in.'" Next he asked Jude Law, who would have played Ledger's role had he not been busy. He too was up for it. He found his third substitute at Ledger's funeral. "I didn't know he was a friend," he thought, seeing Colin Farrell. Farrell also accepted.
Not only did the three actors agree to finish their friend's film, they have donated their fees to Ledger's three-year-old child Matilda, whose mother, the actress Michelle Williams, had been his co-star on Brokeback Mountain. "They behaved heroically. If anything positive has come out of this it is to see good people being decent."
The film, due out this autumn, will be another surreal creation in the vein that has been Gilliam's hallmark since he made animations for Monty Python in the late Sixties.
Gilliam was the odd one out of the group, the lone American among the Brits: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman; a visual man among wordsmiths. He had met Cleese in New York when working as an animator and strip cartoonist; he moved to Britain in protest against the Vietnam War. Here he dreamt up the giant squelching foot and other surreal effects that helped make Monty Python's Flying Circus the biggest popular culture event in Britain after the Beatles.
"George [Harrison] was always convinced that the spirit of the Beatles went into Python. The year they broke up was the year we came together - 1969. George was our patron. When Bernie Delfont read the script of Life of Brian and pronounced it blasphemous just as we were getting on the plane to film in Tunisia, he rescued it. After that we formed HandMade Films and produced Time Bandits, which is still the most famous film we've done."
Unlike the Beatles, Monty Python didn't end acrimoniously. "We just got bored of each other," he says. By then Gilliam had married Maggie Weston, the make-up artist on Python, and set up home in north London with her and their three children. Two-and-a-half years ago he renounced his American citizenship in "disillusionment" with the Bush years, but he retains a pigtail which makes him look like an ageing hippy.
Surprisingly, since his films are full of trippy effects - such as the heating system gone mad in Brazil - he has never taken drugs. "Ten years ago, when I made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I thought I ought to try acid, but I never dared because I knew I would never distinguish between fantasy and reality. It was only 15 years ago that I discovered I couldn't fly. I have such a 'sense memory' of flying around the world at the height of a table that when someone asked me to show them, I really thought I could do it."
He doesn't need drugs to stimulate his imagination. Dali, Ernst and Mad magazine did that for him when he was a teenager; coming to Europe, the paintings of Breughel and Bosch blew him away. But he was always hyper-imaginative. As a child in rural Minnesota, he spent hours fantasising in the three-storey tree-house that his carpenter father built. After the family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11, he was thrilled by Disneyland.
Like Barack Obama, he won a scholarship to Occidental, a Presbyterian college for high-fliers in California. There Gilliam the polymath read physics, then fine arts, and finally political science, and relished the practical jokes played by richer kids. "They took a car to pieces and assembled it in someone's room. They filled a room with paper. Another time they took the hinges off a door, and attached a weight to it, so that, when opened, it flew across the room."
Until the age of 18 he had been set to become a missionary. That ended when he discovered that his humour wasn't appreciated in church. "What kind of God is this who can't take a joke?" he thought. That tension remains deep-seated: his films have been about chaos and order, freedom and control. "I hate authority, but you need structure," he explains. This anarchic spirit has not always endeared him to Hollywood's bean counters - he calls them "hollow, desperate people". JK Rowling, a Python fan, wanted him to direct the Harry Potter films, "but the studio was never going to let me".
People like working with Gilliam because, however dire his situation, he always finds something to laugh about. Somehow, he manages to scrape together a budget and a starry cast to transfer his latest vision to film. The last series of disasters occurred when he was making his Quixote film in the late Nineties - first the lead actor fell ill, then the set was washed away in a flood. "After that, Hollywood loved me again because I was a victim."
With Dr Parnassus losing its star, producer and nearly its director too, he is now once again being lauded by the film establishment. For all his iconoclastic talk, he seems to be enjoying it enormously.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards on Feb 8 begin on BBC Two from 8pm, continuing on BBC One from 9pm. A preview show will be broadcast on BBC Three from 7pm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/baftas/4437378/Bafta-awards-2009-Terry-Gilliam-on-his-Bafta-fellowship-and-the-death-of-Health-Ledger.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/baftas/4437378/Bafta-awards-2009-Terry-Gilliam-on-his-Bafta-fellowship-and-the-death-of-Health-Ledger.html)
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Thank you for posting it Lindsey :ghug:
Ledger, 28 when he died, was not just an actor to Gilliam, he was the finest actor of his generation. They had worked together on The Brothers Grimm, where he had also been impressed by Ledger's sweetness of character and his skill at chess. "It just isn't possible that he's dead," he says. "There's nothing he can't do, it just flows out of him with ease and grace. He lifted everybody. He wasn't like Marlon Brando or James Dean or any of the more neurotic actors, his was all positive energy. I knew he was tired but that Saturday he had been doing all his own stunts, he was leaping off wagons, indestructible. On no level did his death make sense."
it still doesn't make sense. like losing the brightest star in the sky.
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it still doesn't make sense. like losing the brightest star in the sky.
I know. Reading things like this don't make it any easier to understand, either. If someone so close to him can't fathom it, how can we ever hope to?
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-vanity-fairs-digital-redux.html
Vanity Fair's Digital Redux
by Mike Krumboltz February 4, 2009
Heath Ledger Vanity Fair is known for its provocative photographs. Last year, Miley's "backless" photo lit a firestorm of controversy that's still burning in Search. Now the magazine is back in the buzz after recycling a few well-worn pics for its most recent issue.
In the mag's March issue, famed photographer Annie Leibovitz snapped shots of acclaimed actors and their directors. Kate Winslet and hubbie Sam Mendes, who teamed up for "Revolutionary Road," strike a pose. There's Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant, who worked together on "Milk." And, oddly, there's Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan of "The Dark Knight." Of course, Mr. Ledger died more than a year ago, so one may be inclined to ask where the photo came from.
The answer: 2005. The shot of Ledger was apparently taken while he was promoting "Brokeback Mountain." Editors digitally added Mr. Nolan and voilá. Some might say the digital redux is in questionable taste, but magazine reps insist they took great care and worked "with permission." We're a little fuzzy as to who, exactly, gave the OK. A Ouija board, perhaps?
Less controversial but still bizarre was Vanity Fair's cover shot of President Obama from the same March issue. The photo was originally taken back in 2007 and was actually on the cover for a special issue on Africa. We're not sure why Vanity Fair recycled, but we assume the leader of the free world was just too darn busy to come in and pose. Interestingly, unlike the Ledger photo with a second added subject, Obama's photo redux digitally removed actor Don Cheadle. Don't take it personally, Don. It's just show business.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/awardsseason/06carr.html?_r=1
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I worked the Oscar circuit in 2006 and watched Mr. Ledger in support of “Brokeback Mountain,” then a favorite for best picture, and can say he never was much of a campaigner. A polite, nice man, he had little aptitude or appetite for trite talk at parties or events, even when he was up for a best actor Oscar, as he was then.
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The specter of Mr. Ledger has created a large overhang this award season. His performance was recognized with victories at both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild ceremonies. And what would usually be moments for agent thanking and mom waving suddenly became something as solemn and reverent as an observance at Arlington.
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Warner Brothers’ cautious approach — speaking of which, the company did not respond to a request for comment about the campaign — has served both the actor and the moment very well. When it came to the show part of the business, Mr. Ledger the person was always a bit of a ghost even when he was alive. On Feb. 22 when the awards are handed out, he will not be at the Kodak Theater, but his presence will be hard to miss.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/movies/awardsseason/06carr.html?_r=1
:\'( Thanks, Loreen. The article is a lovely tribute.
[...]“No matter how cynical you feel about Hollywood, it is hard not to fall for a film that makes room for a shot of the Joker leaning out the window of a stolen police car and laughing into the wind, the city’s colored lights gleaming behind him like jewels,” she wrote last July when the movie came out. “He’s just a clown painted on black velvet, but he’s also some kind of masterpiece.”
[...]Is it wrong for us to stare, to reminisce, to regret? Hardly. Mr. Ledger’s death, which created a huge wave of public grief, was clearly a seminal moment in popular culture. The studio needed to navigate all those currents in releasing the film and in the Oscar ritual as well.
[...]“All of us who worked with Heath on ‘The Dark Knight’ accept this with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride,” Mr. Nolan said as he stood in for Mr. Ledger at the Golden Globes, adding, “He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten.”
Sasha Stone, who blogs at Awards Daily (awardsdaily.com) and has been a ferocious advocate for “The Dark Knight,” said she thinks the noncampaign campaign has been effective.
“They had to walk a tightrope there, and no one really knew if they could,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “The studio didn’t flood the press with ‘Dark Knight’ ads, and they really could have.” (She remains, by the way, unconvinced that Mr. Ledger is a lock to win.)
[...]On Feb. 22 when the awards are handed out, he will not be at the Kodak Theater, but his presence will be hard to miss.
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Ledger wins best supporting actor BAFTA
9th February 2009, 7:30 WST
Heath Ledger has won a top honour at Britain's version of the Academy Awards for his menacing portrayal of the Joker in the Batman thriller The Dark Knight.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=123609
go Heath.
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Ledger wins best supporting actor BAFTA
9th February 2009, 7:30 WST
Heath Ledger has won a top honour at Britain's version of the Academy Awards for his menacing portrayal of the Joker in the Batman thriller The Dark Knight.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=123609
go Heath.
YAY!!!GO HEATH!!!
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Telegraph from UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/baftas/4563871/Baftas-2009-Heath-Ledger-profile.html
Baftas 2009: Heath Ledger profile
Heath Ledger's posthumous Bafta for Batman film The Dark Knight was an emotional moment in the ceremony.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
Last Updated: 12:56AM GMT 09 Feb 2009
Awards presenter Goldie Hawn choked up as she opened the envelope and announced Ledger as the best supporting actor winner. Many stars in the audience were in tears.
The Australian star died last year, aged 28, from an accidental drugs overdose. His performance in The Dark Knight has already won a Golden Globe and is favourite to win an Oscar.
The Bafta was accepted by producer Charles Roven, on behalf of Ledger's family.
He said: "Knowing Heath, I know that he would be very humbled just to be in the company of the other performances that were also nominated this evening. I had the good fortune of making two films with Heath and I considered myself lucky just to have made one. The last one was The Dark Knight.
He was, as an actor and a professional and a human being, one of a kind."
Terry Gilliam, who received a Bafta Fellowship, also paid tribute to Ledger. The actor was working on Gilliam's film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, when he died.
"Everybody has said he was extraordinary, but we can't even begin to image what he was going to be. We only saw a tiny tip of the iceberg. But he's gone," Gilliam said, describing Ledger's untimely death as an "incredible tragedy".
Actors Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp and Jude Law stepped in to complete the film, playing different aspects of Ledger's character. All donated their fees to Ledger's young daughter, Matilda. Gilliam said of their generosity: "This is the kind of thing that one dreams about in cinema and seldom gets to experience."
Backstage, the director said: "It would have been nice if he had won more awards when he was alive, frankly. Heath was a genius. I really do think there was nothing he couldn't do. We hadn't seen anything yet. He was incredibly funny, his timing was brilliant, he could invent dialogue that kept me spinning all the time on Parnassus. And he was probably one of the greatest gentlemen I have known. It is a terrible loss. That is all."
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"Everybody has said he was extraordinary, but we can't even begin to image what he was going to be. We only saw a tiny tip of the iceberg. But he's gone," Gilliam said, describing Ledger's untimely death as an "incredible tragedy".
"It would have been nice if he had won more awards when he was alive, frankly. Heath was a genius. I really do think there was nothing he couldn't do. We hadn't seen anything yet. He was incredibly funny, his timing was brilliant, he could invent dialogue that kept me spinning all the time on Parnassus. And he was probably one of the greatest gentlemen I have known. It is a terrible loss. That is all."
When I read these words, I really felt like losing someone close to me, someone I knew, someone mine! :\'( It is a terrible loss.
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"Knowing Heath, I know that he would be very humbled just to be in the company of the other performances that were also nominated this evening. I had the good fortune of making two films with Heath and I considered myself lucky just to have made one. The last one was The Dark Knight.
He was, as an actor and a professional and a human being, one of a kind."
"It would have been nice if he had won more awards when he was alive, frankly. Heath was a genius. I really do think there was nothing he couldn't do. We hadn't seen anything yet. He was incredibly funny, his timing was brilliant, he could invent dialogue that kept me spinning all the time on Parnassus. And he was probably one of the greatest gentlemen I have known. It is a terrible loss. That is all."
OMG, beautiful words from both Charles Roven and Terry Gilliam :\'( :\'(
Heath, you make us all so proud. go baby!!!!!!
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I wonder if Terry Gilliam's comments were from an after ceremony interview? He didn't say anything about Heath during his acceptance speech...although it did look a little like the BBC cut part of his speech, which confused me because I thought the show was live :s)
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I wonder if Terry Gilliam's comments were from an after ceremony interview? He didn't say anything about Heath during his acceptance speech...although it did look a little like the BBC cut part of his speech, which confused me because I thought the show was live :s)
It said in the article that he said it backstage.
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An Insomniac’s Eulogy:
On a dark night, remembering Heath Ledger
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36735
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An Insomniac’s Eulogy:
On a dark night, remembering Heath Ledger
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36735
...Months passed, and The Dark Knight opened, and I did, of course, watch it—several times, both in the theater and at home. I’ll probably go again now that it’s being rereleased, because I never did see it in IMAX.
Ledger’s Joker, unquestionably the triumph of the film, will again be larger than life. And maybe once he gets the Oscar—as if another outcome is even possible—I’ll finally be able to make peace with his death.
***sigh*** :\'(
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And I think he will also be in peace then,because it's something that they owned him for three years... :\'(
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It said in the article that he said it backstage.
%&) So it did. I really should read things properly ::)
An Insomniac’s Eulogy:
On a dark night, remembering Heath Ledger
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36735
What a wonderfully written piece. The feelings of most of us reflected, I think.
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Heath Ledger. the ULTIMATE JOKER
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/02/heath-ledger-nu.html
Heath Ledger's flawless acting, and tragic passing, immortalized his portrayal of the Joker in Christopher Nolan's Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. But should Ledger's killer clown be the last Joker to grace the big screen?
That's what the fanboys over at a new site called The Ultimate Joker are arguing. They've launched a petition calling for studios to withdraw the character for good from any future Batman movies, a somewhat strange request given all the actors who have stepped into the Joker's murderous shoes on screens large and small.
"We truly believe Ledger's performance as Joker is the best an actor could ever do," the site's team leader, Fer Barbella, told Wired.com in an e-mail interview.
"Any other performance will be below expectations for sure, so we want to forever keep Ledger's Joker as the one," added Barbella, who launched The Ultimate Joker site last week with his colleague Nico Pimentel.
From Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero to Larry Storch, Mark Hamill and the underrated Kevin Michael Richardson, Batman's nemesis has been brought to life by some serious talent. Banning Joker from the silver screen might seem like an unreasonable request on its garish face, but the team at The Ultimate Joker is standing by it, and no doubt will be aided if Ledger takes home a posthumous Oscar later this month for his portrayal.
Joker_card In addition to the online petition, The Ultimate Joker site operators have fired up an Ultimate Joker Flickr pool and posted downloadable web graphics to let others show their support.
Barbella says his crew is only interested in film portrayals, though.
"Television and animation is off our radar," he says. "And we like Jokers like Cesar Romero or Jack Nicholson, and even the voice of Mark Hamill. But we think this psycho in scarred whiteface is the best ever. No one can improve it. So please, Hollywood, use other enemies in the sequels to come."
It is perhaps a plea that Hollywood will ignore in pursuit of profit. After all, the buzz created by the conundrum of who will follow in Ledger's footsteps could be worth hundreds of millions on its own.
But it's a fair question: Should Hollywood retire the Joker from film? Was Heath Ledger the greatest Joker of all time? Why so serious? Shoot us your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Heath Ledger. the ULTIMATE JOKER
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/02/heath-ledger-nu.html
Heath Ledger's flawless acting, and tragic passing, immortalized his portrayal of the Joker in Christopher Nolan's Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. But should Ledger's killer clown be the last Joker to grace the big screen?
That's what the fanboys over at a new site called The Ultimate Joker are arguing. They've launched a petition calling for studios to withdraw the character for good from any future Batman movies, a somewhat strange request given all the actors who have stepped into the Joker's murderous shoes on screens large and small.
"We truly believe Ledger's performance as Joker is the best an actor could ever do," the site's team leader, Fer Barbella, told Wired.com in an e-mail interview.
"Any other performance will be below expectations for sure, so we want to forever keep Ledger's Joker as the one," added Barbella, who launched The Ultimate Joker site last week with his colleague Nico Pimentel.
From Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero to Larry Storch, Mark Hamill and the underrated Kevin Michael Richardson, Batman's nemesis has been brought to life by some serious talent. Banning Joker from the silver screen might seem like an unreasonable request on its garish face, but the team at The Ultimate Joker is standing by it, and no doubt will be aided if Ledger takes home a posthumous Oscar later this month for his portrayal.
Joker_card In addition to the online petition, The Ultimate Joker site operators have fired up an Ultimate Joker Flickr pool and posted downloadable web graphics to let others show their support.
Barbella says his crew is only interested in film portrayals, though.
"Television and animation is off our radar," he says. "And we like Jokers like Cesar Romero or Jack Nicholson, and even the voice of Mark Hamill. But we think this psycho in scarred whiteface is the best ever. No one can improve it. So please, Hollywood, use other enemies in the sequels to come."
It is perhaps a plea that Hollywood will ignore in pursuit of profit. After all, the buzz created by the conundrum of who will follow in Ledger's footsteps could be worth hundreds of millions on its own.
But it's a fair question: Should Hollywood retire the Joker from film? Was Heath Ledger the greatest Joker of all time? Why so serious? Shoot us your thoughts in the comment section below.
I often asked myself the same question. How could anyone play this role after Heath, without disappointing the audience? How the hell can you top a performance like that? I don't kid myself that Hollywood will never use this character again, like the article said, it's hard to believe they'll give up the profit that the Joker's name will bring them. but I have no doubt that no one can do it better than Heath did.
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I often asked myself the same question. How could anyone play this role after Heath, without disappointing the audience? How the hell can you top a performance like that? I don't kid myself that Hollywood will never use this character again, like the article said, it's hard to believe they'll give up the profit that the Joker's name will bring them. but I have no doubt that no one can do it better than Heath did.
I think, on the one hand, they should retire the Joker that Heath created, the make-up, the costumes, the entire persona...just like retiring the numbers of a great hockey player.
On the other hand, I think the character Joker can be portrayed by other actors, as long as they create their own, just as Jack Nicholson and Heath created theirs.
Of course, it will be a great challenge for anyone to attempt it after Heath's pan ultimate achievements. It didn't stop Heath, and it probably won't stop another bright young actor who has talents to burn. Heath wouldn't want to stop anyone else from the challenge.
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I could only agree with you Andrew, some said Heath couldn't fit in Jack Nicholson's shoes but Heath didn't want to, he re-invented the role and made the Joker his own character and made it a legend of his own. I would like to see another actor to give it a try, someone like Johnny Depp? But now I realize that's going a bit of topic. :-X
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:\'( "made it a legend of his own" :\'(
I think Heath would be happy to see other young actors getting an opportunity to play the Joker, and I think he would be flattered to have them emulate, or adapt elements from his Joker. There is a fine line between adaptation and imitation. One weaves creative innovative interpretation of the original elements into a new creation, whereas the other simply makes a patchwork of the disparate elements without understanding or reason.
Heath was a master of creative interpretation. Anyone who plays the Joker can only follow his footstep in the same spirit, or would be off to a bad start, in my humble and biased opinion.
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http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-en-heath11-2009feb11,0,5433699.story
"I'll tell you an odd thing that happened," he added. "He died and everybody who had known him and worked with him on 'The Patriot,' we all phoned each other. Not like everybody didn't know; it was all over the headlines. None of us had anything particularly interesting or profound to say; we just wanted to say his name out loud. And be sad together. Because he was a lovely person."
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http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-en-heath11-2009feb11,0,5433699.story
"I'll tell you an odd thing that happened," he added. "He died and everybody who had known him and worked with him on 'The Patriot,' we all phoned each other. Not like everybody didn't know; it was all over the headlines. None of us had anything particularly interesting or profound to say; we just wanted to say his name out loud. And be sad together. Because he was a lovely person."
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What a beautiful article Loreen, thanks for posting it.
"I was intimidated by how worldly wise he seemed to be and how much he understood himself," said Jason Isaacs, who played the sadistic Col. Tavington in "Patriot." "He took a house in the forest while we all lived together in a condo. Like many in my profession, I seem to need company and to fill the silence with noise; he didn't need that, and he was very happy in his house in the forest. I know 21-year-olds; I'd never met a 21-year-old like him."
"The younger actors, he was kind of like the godfather to all these boys, the Fagin," Hardwicke said. "He would encourage them, take them under his wing. He had half a trailer, he was so modest but he set up a camp outside it. He set up tiki torches and people would play guitars and call it Camp Heath."
*sigh* :\'( :\'( :\'(
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:( Camp Heath! :\'(
Thanks Loreen for the link.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-en-heath11-2009feb11,0,5666093.story?track=
AN APPRECIATION
Heath Ledger and his 'gentle way'
Even as a teen-idol, he showed signs of being separate from the pack.
By Michael Ordoña
February 11, 2009
The late Heath Ledger's stunning, almost unrecognizable turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" shouldn't have come as a surprise.
It was far from the first time he had transformed himself for a role, whether drastically, as the scruffy skateboarding impresario in "Lords of Dogtown," or subtly, as the repressed, gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain." Here, the recollections of some who worked with the supporting actor nominee add detail to a picture of a complex man and challenging artist whose creative fire and generosity of spirit lifted those around him.
"His energy and enthusiasm for life will never cease to inspire me," said Ledger's longtime friend and business partner Matt Amato. "A friend of mine said after Heath died that we must continue in Heath's 'gentle way.' Those words sounded perfect to me -- Heath's gentle way."
From Heath Ledger's American debut in the underrated "Taming of the Shrew" adaptation "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999) through "The Patriot" and the Chaucer-inspired romp "A Knight's Tale," the handsome young actor looked to be on a teen-idol trajectory. But even then, he showed signs of being separate from the pack.
"I was intimidated by how worldly wise he seemed to be and how much he understood himself," said Jason Isaacs, who played the sadistic Col. Tavington in "Patriot." "He took a house in the forest while we all lived together in a condo. Like many in my profession, I seem to need company and to fill the silence with noise; he didn't need that, and he was very happy in his house in the forest. I know 21-year-olds; I'd never met a 21-year-old like him."
In 2001's "Monster's Ball," he made an indelible impression in a brief appearance as a tough death-row guard's sensitive son. It was an understated, soulful turn in a supporting role -- hardly the stuff of a teen idol lusting for fame.
Indeed, Daniel Day-Lewis, who had never met Ledger, cited that performance last year while dedicating his SAG win for "There Will Be Blood" to the young actor just five days after his death, saying his character "seemed to be almost like an unformed being, retreating from themselves, retreating from his father, from his life, even retreating from us, and yet we wanted to follow him, and yet were scared to follow him, almost. It was unique."
After a few relatively unremarkable lead turns, he flexed his acting muscles in an offbeat supporting role in "Lords of Dogtown" (2005), directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
"With his physicality, he had style," said Hardwicke ( "Twilight"). "He didn't just surf or skate, he did it with his own weird, funky Heath style."
His metamorphosis to play the real-life Skip Engblom was startling. With long, ratty hair and eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, he insisted on wearing prosthetic teeth, causing much fretting among those who hired him in part "for his beauty," Hardwicke said.
But Ledger, then a grizzled veteran in his mid-20s, brought more than quirky talent to the production.
"The younger actors, he was kind of like the godfather to all these boys, the Fagin," Hardwicke said. "He would encourage them, take them under his wing. He had half a trailer, he was so modest but he set up a camp outside it. He set up tiki torches and people would play guitars and call it Camp Heath."
Next, a more delicate transformation earned Ledger his first Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Beyond his rich emotional life as Ennis Del Mar in "Brokeback Mountain," his subtle technical choices in the film were the fine strokes that completed the painting. His clenched jaw, tight shoulders and habitual mumbling spoke of a man stoically refusing to express his true self. It was only with his secret lover that Ennis could allow his muscles to relax, his voice to come out clearly.
In 2005, Ledger joined Amato in the Los Angeles-based arts collective the Masses to hone the skills to direct films, starting with music videos. A rapidly developing visual style is apparent in the handful of his videos released so far, for artists such as Ben Harper. His steep growth curve can be seen in two pieces he directed for rapper and childhood friend Nfa: The first, "Seduction Is Evil," is a fairly straightforward presentation, possibly inspired by "Chicago"; the second, "Cause N Effect," is something much freer, abstract and striking. Two more are complete and awaiting release: one of Australian singer Grace Woodroofe covering David Bowie's "Quicksand" and an animated clip Ledger designed and storyboarded for Modest Mouse, completed after his death.
"Both these new videos reflect Heath's talents as a visionary artist. Someday, there will be an exhibit of his stunning photographs," said Amato in an e-mail exchange. "What Heath brought to us at the Masses was his pure creative energy, chessboards and surfboards.
"One fond memory I have is how he assisted me on a difficult edit. My carpal-tunnel syndrome was acting up . . . so Heath said, 'I'll be your hands.' And he was."
Ledger's next projects included the gritty drug-addiction drama "Candy" and the Bob Dylan tribute "I'm Not There," making it possible to trace the evolution of his sexual cool from the charming teen of "10 Things" to the swaggering musical star he played in the Todd Haynes movie. Then came "The Dark Knight." With his terrifying alchemy as the Joker -- which may earn only the second posthumous acting Oscar -- Ledger gave his final completed performance.
"Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan, at a recent DGA symposium, spoke of Ledger's deep commitment to the role for months before shooting even began, saying the actor would call him up to talk about the character, how he should play him, and about other actors, movies and TV shows that had influenced him.
"Patriot" costar Isaacs witnessed it firsthand. Just before "Dark Knight" started shooting in London, he ran into Ledger and his then-partner Michelle Williams and their baby daughter. The new father was carrying around a notebook in which he was jotting ideas about the Joker. Remembering the 28-year-old Aussie's "boundless energy" and love of life and his daughter, Isaacs said of the young actor's fatal overdose of prescription drugs, "I knew in my heart there was no way it was suicide.
"I'll tell you an odd thing that happened," he added. "He died and everybody who had known him and worked with him on 'The Patriot,' we all phoned each other. Not like everybody didn't know; it was all over the headlines. None of us had anything particularly interesting or profound to say; we just wanted to say his name out loud. And be sad together. Because he was a lovely person."
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Thanks for posting that whole article, white_angel.
Yet another beautiful tribute <^( :\'(
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Thanks for all these last beautiful links and articles,friends ¡ :ghug: A year after and,somehow,the world is still under the shock of his passing away... :\'(
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Thanks for posting that whole article, white_angel.
Yet another beautiful tribute <^( :\'(
Yet another beautiful tribute to a beautiful person .... mind and soul that is Heath Ledger.
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Ledger Family To Accept Oscar
Heath Ledger’s family will accept the late actor’s hotly tipped Oscar on Sunday if his posthumous award-winning streak continues.
Father Kim Ledger, mother Sally Bell and sister Kate Ledger will walk the hottest red carpet in Hollywood among the A-list crowd in anticipation of their late son and brother’s likely Academy Award win for his portrayal of The Joker in last year’s Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.
Ledger is an almost unbackable favourite to take out the prestigious prize ahead of other Best Supporting Actor nominees Josh Brolin, Robert Downey Jr, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michael Shannon.
The Perth-born actor’s maniacal and ghoulish performance has so far won best supporting actor at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, making an Oscar grand slam a virtual certainty.
The late star is also a strong sentimental favourite to win the award. Oscars host Hugh Jackman has thrown his celebrity weight behind his fellow Australian, while Hollywood stars, some of whom took extraordinary measures to help support Ledger’s daughter Matilda following his shocking loss in January last year, have come out in droves to celebrate his star turn in the Batman flick.
A spokeswoman for Ledger’s family said many family members would fly out of Perth for Hollywood on February 18, while Kim, Sally and Kate were confirmed attendees at the ceremony. Younger sisters Ashleigh Bell and Olivia Ledger would also make the trip to Hollywood.
It looked like all three attending the ceremony would accept the award on Ledger’s behalf, but the family were still deciding on details including who would address the ceremony if he did win.
Last month, on the anniversary of Ledger’s passing, his glamorous sister Kate told of the heart-wrenching journey the family had been on since the unexpected tragedy.
“To us (his family) it seems like nearly yesterday, and we are all still nursing broken hearts,” Kate said.
“Like anyone who loses a family member, it has opened our eyes to the intense suffering and painful journey that is death.”
His younger sister Ashleigh Bell said at the time that the family were proud and excited on his behalf.
“In Heath’s words, he had ‘the time of his life’ portraying the Joker and said that ‘it was the most fun he had ever had making a film’,” she said.
The Dark Knight was the most successful comic adaptation of all time, with a global box-office take that has so far topped $US1 billion ($1.5 billion).
Source: TheAge.com.au
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Oh god...I'm certain to be in floods when (not if) he wins now. Seeing his family accept the award is going to be truly heartbreaking :\'(
I've taken the day off on Monday so I can stay up and watch the Oscars live. Last time I did that was 2006...
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This is not as trashy sounding as the headline suggests, it's actually somewhat informative of the process the Academy has gone though here . . .
Matilda must sign contract if she wants Heath's Oscar
19th February 2009, 6:45 WST
If Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, his daughter, three-year-old Matilda Rose Ledger, won't get the statuette until her 18th birthday on October 28, 2023 - and even then, only if she signs a contract.
Matilda, daughter of the late Ledger and actor Michelle Williams, has been designated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the eventual owner of her father's Oscar, should he win for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight.
But Ledger's nomination, and his daughter's young age, led to one of the trickiest situations the academy has dealt with in its eight decades of awarding posthumous Oscars.
"It's complicated, because there are two different questions that have to be answered," says Bruce Davis, executive director of the academy. "First, we have to decide who gets the job of accepting the award onstage on the night of the ceremony. And then there's the question of the eventual disposition of the posthumous statuette, which may not stay with the person who accepts it."
In Ledger's case, says Davis, the second question was the hardest to answer.
Academy tradition calls for a posthumous statuette to go to the spouse, or, if there is no living spouse, to the oldest child. Ledger wasn't married, and Matilda is his only child.
Yet because she is only 3, Matilda is legally unable to sign the winner's agreement - a contract required of all nominees that says the recipient will not resell his or her Oscar without first offering it back to the academy for $1. The agreement is the academy's way of limiting what might otherwise be a lively secondary market in Oscars.
"From our point of view, somebody has to sign the winner's agreement, and a three-year-old can't do that," says Davis. "Nor can a parent sign any kind of legal document that obligates a child to do something once they turn 18. I didn't know that before we looked into it, but it's a good law."
After conversations with Williams and with Ledger's family in Australia, the academy hit on a solution: "In the event that Heath Ledger should be selected as the supporting actor recipient, the statuette will be held in trust for his daughter by her mother, Michelle Williams, until Matilda reaches the age of 18," says Davis. "At that point, she may execute what we call an heir's agreement and keep the statuette forever - or, if she chooses not to do that, it will return to us."
In other words, the Oscar statuette can spend the next 15 years with Matilda, but her mother, who has signed the academy's agreement, will be the legal custodian. When Matilda is old enough, she can claim ownership by signing the agreement. If she does so, she'll become the official owner and will be legally bound not to sell her Oscar; if she opts not to sign, the statuette will revert to the academy without any payment.
As for who would accept the award, that - like many other aspects of the ceremony - is a matter that show producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon are keeping under wraps. Davis will only say that tradition calls for a posthumous Oscar to be accepted either by a close relative or "an artist who was close to the nominee, and who can speak credibly for him or her."
The last posthumous Oscar went to cinematographer Conrad L. Hall in 2002, and was accepted by Hall's son.
"We always had a very good idea of what we should do and who was going to accept," says Gil Cates, who produced 14 Oscar shows that included nine posthumous nominations and three wins. "You need to line up someone who's respectable to avoid any embarrassing or difficult moments, and for me it was always easy to agree with the academy on a legitimate person."
The decision was also simple for this year's other posthumous nominees, Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, producers of best-picture nominee "The Reader." If the movie wins the top prize, the other nominated producers, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, will also accept on behalf of Pollack and Minghella, and the statuettes will then be given to their widows.
Faced with the prospect of a minor potentially taking possession of Ledger's Oscar, the academy has in recent days revisited the way it handled underage winners such as Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 when she won best supporting actress for 1973's Paper Moon, and Anna Paquin, who in 1994 won the best supporting actress award for The Piano at age 11.
"What we've tended to do is have them sign anyway, and then get back to them after they turn 18 and ask them to re-execute the agreement," Davis says. "I would love to tell you that that has happened in every single case, but your call prompted a little research. And in a couple of cases, we've never completed the circle."
In other words, there may be some Oscars out there not under academy control?
"I don't expect any trouble," says Davis with a laugh, "but, in fact, yes."
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http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=125632
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Oh god...I'm certain to be in floods when (not if) he wins now. Seeing his family accept the award is going to be truly heartbreaking :\'(
I've taken the day off on Monday so I can stay up and watch the Oscars live. Last time I did that was 2006...
So did I! I know it's gonna be very emotional... :\'(
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So did I! I know it's gonna be very emotional... :\'(
I assume you'll be on the live chat on here? I'm planning to have the laptop on my knee throughout - I think I'll need the support.
Wish I'd had that in 2006, actually. It might have helped >:(
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I assume you'll be on the live chat on here? I'm planning to have the laptop on my knee throughout - I think I'll need the support.
Wish I'd had that in 2006, actually. It might have helped >:(
Yes, I'll be on the live chat... I wish I could watch it with brokies, but that's the next closest thing.
Just found this, a wonderful tribute from Heath's family:
Sculpture tribute to Ledger reveals his love of chess
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=125649
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Heath Ledger’s final bow expected at Academy Awards
22nd February 2009, 12:15 WST
The final page of Heath Ledger’s short and remarkable life will be written on Monday (AEDT) at the 81st Academy Awards.
If Ledger’s name is announced as winner of the best supporting actor Oscar for his unnerving performance as villain The Joker in The Dark Knight, his heartbroken parents, Kim and Sally, and sister Kate, are expected to walk on stage inside Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre to deliver the acceptance speech.
Standing ovations have greeted Ledger’s wins at rival Hollywood award events the past month and the same is expected to occur if the Academy’s 6,000 voters follow the script at the movie industry’s grandest night.
Bookmakers have Ledger at the slimmest of odds to claim the award while every reputable film critic and Oscar pundit has Ledger pencilled in as the winner.
Time magazine declared Ledger a “sure thing”.
The New York Times simply told its readers: “No contest, no debate, Heath Ledger”.
The Academy Awards ceremony will be a special night for Australia, with Hugh Jackman taking centre stage as the ceremony’s host.
Oscar organisers have anointed the likable 40-year-old from Sydney’s northern suburbs the man to stem a steep slide in TV ratings for the annual awards night, but many TV critics in the US have branded Jackman a poor choice.
The big screen star and Broadway showman is expected to open the ceremony with a 12-minute singing and dancing number directed by another Australian, Baz Luhrmann.
“I don’t want to give too much away, but there is a twist this year,” Jackman hinted.
“We are going in a slightly different direction with the Oscars.”
Ledger, who died 13 months ago aged 28 from an accidental prescription drug overdose, is one of six Australians nominated for Academy Awards.
Catherine Martin, for her costume work on the epic Australia, is hoping to pick up the third Oscar of her career after claiming two in 2002 for Moulin Rouge!
Australia will also be represented by Michael Carlin in the art direction category for the Keira Knightley period drama, The Duchess; Ben Snow is nominated for the visual effects Oscar for Iron Man; while two Aussies will fight it out for the film editing prize with Kirk Baxter (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Lee Smith (The Dark Knight) recognised.
If Ledger wins it will be the first time an Oscar has been awarded to a deceased actor since another Australian, Peter Finch, was named for Network in 1977.
Finch died from a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel two months before the ceremony.
Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight was a scene-stealer, but the Perth-born actor was anything but an attention-seeker away from the film set.
Friends and family members say the actor was never comfortable in front of a crowd.
When Ledger was nominated in 2006 for the best actor Oscar for his role as a gay ranch hand in Brokeback Mountain, a performance so raw and compelling the New York Times compared him to a young Marlon Brando, Ledger said he was relieved when Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote.
On Thursday, when his friends and family congregated at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont to hear young Sydney-based actor Oliver Ackland announced as the inaugural Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship winner, director Gregor Jordan summed up Ledger’s public persona.
“Heath would probably think this was pretty ridiculous and stupid,” Jordan, who directed a 20-year-old Ledger in 1999’s Two Hands, told the crowd.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=126144
Yup, but oh how I'd love to hear him say it :-\\
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The late Heath is this years Oscars favorite.
http://www.app.com/article/20090222/ENT01/902220316/1031/rss09
BEVERLY HILLS — There's only one sure bet this Oscar season: Heath Ledger.
The Australian actor who broke out in 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" received his second Oscar nomination in January — a year to the day after he was found dead at age 28, the result of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Executive-produced by Ocean Township's Michael Uslan, "The Dark Knight" opened in July. Ever since, Ledger's vivid turn as the villainous Joker was pegged as a near certainty, and now he's seen as destined to win for best supporting actor when trophies are handed out tonight.
The other nominees are Josh Brolin in "Milk," Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" and Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road."
"Heath has always been the runaway favorite, from the moment the movie came out, and maybe before," says Kris Tapley of the awards Web site InContention.com.
And because "The Dark Knight," the year's most popular film, was overlooked in the categories of best picture and best director, its sole chance in a major category looms even larger.
"It would be a real shock if Ledger doesn't win," Tapley says. "There appears to be one choice."
That's not the case in the other races, though.
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Dark Knight's Aaron Eckhart is rooting for Heath Ledgers Oscar.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/02/dark-knight-aar.html
At the Film Independent Awards this afternoon, The Dish Rag asked Aaron Eckhart how he felt about tomorrow's Oscars and the nomination of his "Dark Knight" co-star, the late Heath Ledger.
“Well, tomorrow I will probably be at my ranch, probably watering some trees. So yeah, I'm not going to the show but I'm rooting for Heath obviously. I have nothing but blessed thoughts for him. Maybe he wins and maybe he doesn't. It doesn't matter to me. He's a great man and a great actor."
Asked about Heath Ledger’s family’s announced plans to give the Oscar to his daughter, Matilda, he replied, “I think that would be beautiful."
With as many acting awards as her dad has posthumously won this year, Matilda will need a very large display shelf.
What’s next for Aaron?
He’s doing “The Rum Diary” with Johnny Depp and another Oscar 2009 nominee, Richard Jenkins ("The Visitor").
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HEATH LEDGER - FIRST LEDGER SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/first%20ledger%20scholarship%20awarded_109
The inaugural scholarship established in late actor HEATH LEDGER's name has been awarded to Australian performer OLIVER ACKLAND.
The $10,000 (£7,000) fund, established by Ledger's ex-fiancee Michelle Williams and friends following his death last year (08), was given to Ackland at a party for Australian Oscar nominees at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Hotel on Friday (20Feb09).
Ackland was hand-picked from a pool of 150 applicants by The Dark Knight star's pals and colleagues, including actress Rachel Griffiths.
In presenting the award, filmmaker Greg Jordan, who directed Ledger in Two Hands, told the crowd: "Rachel Griffiths said 'How do we judge this? Are we looking for the next Heath Ledger?'
"We all said 'No. There is no next Heath Ledger, but there's plenty of other people.'"
And for rising star Ackland, 29, the prize was especially meaningful - Ledger has always been one of his role models.
He said: "The fact that it is in his name means the world. I admired Heath and I admired the work that he chose, the path he created for himself. It shows a lot of integrity on his behalf."
Australian stars Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts and Hugh Jackman all contributed to the bursary, which includes flights to Los Angeles and introductions to agents and casting directors.
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Ron Gomboc, the artist who created the memorial for Heath, sent me a few pics today.
I asked him if there was any kind of inscription on the memorial.
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These are amazing, thanks so much for sharing them with us.... :)
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My God, this is beautiful..... :\'( :\'( And a thing I know Heath'd understand and agree with.
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I love the chess game. <^( <^( So Heath.
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Heath Ledger’s final bow expected at Academy Awards
22nd February 2009, 12:15 WST
The final page of Heath Ledger’s short and remarkable life will be written on Monday (AEDT) at the 81st Academy Awards.
But it is not his "final bow" ! We still have The Imaginarium, and I'm sure glad of that.
kathy
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Where is this located?
kathy
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Oh WOW, this is so good. I found a news link giving the location the City of Melville, is that north of Applecross?
http://www.melvillecity.com.au/news-folder/ledger-artwork-a-moving-tribute
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Where is this located?
kathy
Per the linked story, this is in Applecross across the bay from downtown Perth, which you can see in the background. This is a place Heath used to hang around. (I think, but I'm no Wallaby)
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Ron Gomboc had this to say about the location.
We are all proud of Heath's achievements and it was an honour to for me to create the three piece memorial for him. It is positioned on a magnificant site that overlooks the Swan River toward the City of Perth skyline, the place where Heath use to spend a lot of his younger days.
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I think I need to organise a trip over to Perth sometime. Love this <^(
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Don't miss our Live Oscar chat, it began. :)
http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=15180.msg889524#msg889524
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Thank you so much for sharing these pictures with us SFJohn!! Heath said that Kahlil Gibran was one of his favourite poets and this quote is so appropriate for his spirit.
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Thank you for this, SFJohn. Also please thank Ron Gomboc for sharing his photographs with us. I really appreciate the Kihlil Gibran quote. It resonates with his other quote that is now my own favorite:
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
- Kahlil Gibran
Dear Heath, Sing Loud, Climb High, and Dance Happy, knowing you are loved, always.
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a tribute...
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2009/entertainment/remembering-heath-ledger/index.html
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Heath winning the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Academy Awards 2009
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Acceptance speech:
Kim Ledger:
First of all, I have to say this is ever so humbling. Just being amongst such wonderful people, such a wonderful industry. Firstly, I'd like to thank the Academy for recognizing our son's amazing work, Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan in particular, for allowing Heath the creative license to develop and explore this crazy Joker character. To Steve Alexander, Heath's mentor, special friend and agent for 10 years. We love you, Steve.
This award tonight would've humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here, his peers, within an industry he so loved. Thank you.
Sally Bell:
Heath was such a compassionate and generous soul who added so much excitement and inspiration to our lives. We have been truly overwhelmed by the honor and respect being bestowed upon him with this award. Tonight, we are choosing to celebrate and be happy for what he has achieved.
Kate Ledger:
Heath, we both knew what you had created in the Joker was extraordinarily special and had even talked about being here on this very day. We really wish you were, but we proudly accept this award on behalf of your beautiful Matilda. Thank you.
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thank you keren... ^f^
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(((Fausta)))
Our boy did it and I'm so proud of him.
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(((Fausta)))
Our boy did it and I'm so proud of him.
proud... and sad.. and proud.. and happy and... a bit of an emotional ride today...
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from The Los Angeles Times:
For Heath Ledger, a bittersweet salute
'The Dark Knight' earns the actor, who died last year, a posthumous Oscar for his malevolent turn as the Joker.
By Reed Johnson
February 23, 2009
Accompanied by a standing ovation and a reverent silence, Heath Ledger's family accepted the supporting actor statuette.
The 28-year-old Australian actor, who died after being found unconscious last January in his New York apartment, was posthumously honored for his toxic performance as the gleefully malicious Joker in the Batman saga "The Dark Knight."
"Menacing, mercurial, droll and diabolical," co-presenter Kevin Kline summarized as he listed Ledger, felled by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, among the supporting actor nominees.
The actor's father, Kim Ledger; mother, Sally Bell; and sister Kate Ledger jointly accepted the award. "This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here, his peers, within an industry he so loved," Kim Ledger said.
Kate Ledger said the family was accepting the award on behalf of "beautiful Matilda," her brother's 3-year-old daughter with actress Michelle Williams.
Even before "The Dark Knight" was released last summer, fellow actors, movie critics and others were predicting, and endorsing, an Oscar nomination for his chilling portrayal. While "The Dark Knight" received mainly positive reviews, many critics concurred that Ledger gave the movie a jolt of malevolent energy whenever he materialized on screen. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan praised what he described as a "shocking, indelible performance."
Oscar history suggests that Ledger's award was not merely sentimentally motivated. Only one other actor ever has been posthumously honored with an Academy Award: Peter Finch for "Network" in 1977.
But it's likely that at least some academy voters were honoring not only Ledger's work as the Joker but also the breadth of his accomplished, if tragically brief, career. "With this premier performance as well as with a wide range of other roles to which he put his unique signature, Heath Ledger has left us an original and enduring legacy," Kline said.
Over the last decade, Ledger demonstrated that he could handle comedy as well as serious dramatic roles in movies as varied as "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999), "The Patriot" (2000), "Monster's Ball" (2001) and "A Knight's Tale" (2001).
His career high point arguably was Ennis Del Mar, the emotionally terse ranch hand he played in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), for which he earned a lead actor Oscar nomination.
He had a tall assignment in interpreting the Joker, a character memorably incarnated by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's "Batman" in 1989. Nicholson's Joker is a witty, self-delighted clotheshorse, brimming with comic sang-froid.
Ledger's Joker is rawer and uglier, both physically and psychologically. Like Lon Chaney and other great monster men of the silver screen, Ledger conveyed a wrenching pathos lurking below the layers of makeup and venality.
In interviews, Ledger also acknowledged that filming "The Dark Knight" and another movie, "I'm Not There," had contributed to his ongoing bouts of insomnia.
Both in movie posters and in the minds of many viewers, the grotesquely smirking face of Ledger's Joker became the definitive image of the film. And, in one of those convergences of movies and real-world events, his nihilistic character spoke to the fears and uncertainties of a jittery time.
"See, I'm not a monster," Ledger's Joker tells Christian Bale's Batman during a brutal interrogation scene. "I'm just ahead of the curve."
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-et-oscarledger23-2009feb23,0,5458027.story
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proud... and sad.. and proud.. and happy and... a bit of an emotional ride today...
Yeah, me too.... :ghug:
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There's a really nice tribute article and series of photos on the sky.com Oscars site:
http://movies.sky.com/heath-ledger-a-tribute
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Our Guy did it...I'm so happy, yet so incredibly sad that he was not there to accept the award himself. Regardless - Congratulations, Dear Heath, wherever you may be. :^^)
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He deserved it... like three years ago. It's about time they appriciate his amazing abilities. Thanks for the articles, karen_b, jackster, NoReins and others.
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Little tribute by Anne. Go to 03:55:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mZi_DIl-Fw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mZi_DIl-Fw)
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That was a nice little tribute. Thanks for posting ynnaf ^f^
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Yes, thank you ynnaf.
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You are welcome! :)
Some other news:
FOR Heath Ledger's family, life after the Oscars has been spent bonding with the late actor's three-year-old daughter Matilda and celebrating their late son's win with Hollywood friends at Johnny Depp's mansion.
Ledger's father Kim, mother Sally and sister Kate, who travelled from Perth for the ceremony, joined Matilda and the actor's former partner Michelle Williams at an afternoon party at Depp's Hollywood Hills home last week, along with industry friends.
The private event, which was guarded by security staff, was also attended by Ledger's step-parents, brother-in-law, step-sisters and nieces.
Depp had become friends with Ledger after Terry Gilliam, who directed the Oscar-winner in The Brothers Grimm, introduced the two actors at the Toronto Film Festival several years ago.
After Ledger's death in January last year, Depp and actors Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to replace the Australian in his final unfinished film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Williams' partner Spike Jonze, who started dating her last year, did not attend the event. Williams, who split from Ledger shortly before his death, drove herself and Matilda to the party from Jonze's hilltop mansion in the trendy Los Angeles neighbourhood of Los Feliz.
The couple flew into Los Angeles with Matilda the day before the Oscars for Williams to attend the Independent Spirit Awards, where she was nominated for best lead actress for Wendy and Lucy.
On the morning of the Oscars, Williams and Jonze - whose real name is Adam Spiegel - ate breakfast at an upscale Beverly Hills eatery before shopping in a department store.
Ledger's family also enjoyed some shopping excursions in Los Angeles boutiques.
The group visited designer stores in Beverly Hills' famed Robertson Boulevard and Rodeo Drive, as well as upmarket outdoor shopping centre The Grove, where they wandered in the doll store American Girl.
The family is expected to return to Australia this week.
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Matilda to get Heath Ledger's $15 million life insurance payout
14th March 2009, 9:00 WST
Heath Ledger's three-year-old daughter Matilda was officially named the sole benefactor of his life insurance policy on Friday after a Los Angeles court hearing.
After a 30-minute hearing, Matilda's custodian John Laviolette and lawyer William Shernoff emerged from Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin's chambers wearing smiles.
“It is finalised and everybody is mutually happy,” Laviolette told AAP.
Asked if the money would go to Matilda, Shernoff replied “Yes. Everyone is happy”.
Ledger took out the life insurance policy seven months before his naked body was found on January 22, 2008, in a Manhattan loft apartment he was renting.
He named Matilda as the benefactor.
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News
Modest Mouse to Release Heath Ledger Video
Plus: Watch concert footage of a new song and get details on the band's upcoming single!
By William Goodman 03.13.09 10:55 AM
Modest Mouse / Heath Ledger
Modest Mouse / Heath Ledger
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Modest Mouse plans to release the music video actor Heath Ledger directed before his death in January 2008, the band's spokesperson tells SPIN.com. The Dark Knight actor helmed the animated clip for "King Rat," a bonus tune off 2007's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. No specific date has been set for the release, which is expected to happen "soon." The video was animated by Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
More Modest Mouse:
>> On the Cover: Modest Mouse
>> Review: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)
>> Modest Mouse Play Secret Show in Brooklyn
>> Listen: Modest Mouse's Tour Mates
In a 2007 interview with VH1 frontman Isaac Brock spoke about the collaboration with Ledger.
"Heath and I have a mutual friend and when we were in Australia, my fiancé and some of us in the band went out on a boat with him and his family and friends and talked about the idea," Brock said of the video's origin. "The idea sort of dropped, but then he just sent me an email saying that he wanted to do it."
In related Modest Mouse news, the Portland, OR, band will drop a 7" orange vinyl single April 18 (out digitally April 21) with two new songs, "Satellite Skin" (watch concert video below) and "Guilty Cocker Spaniels." Though the band hasn't confirmed any other releases, New Jersey record store Vintage Vinyl reports MM will offer three more singles before releasing an eight-song EP, No One’s First and You’re Next, this August.
Modest Mouse will perform "Satellite Skin" on the Late Show with David Letterman on March 18. Kevin Willis, who produced Tool's clip for "Stinkfist," will direct its music video.
The band's U.S. tour comes to a close this weekend. To read about and hear music from Mimicking Birds, the opener hand-picked by Brock, click here.
Link: http://www.spin.com/articles/modest-mouse-release-heath-ledger-video
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These are great news, another new project of Heath to look forward to! :clap: thanks for posting Loreen.
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These are great news, another new project of Heath to look forward to! :clap: thanks for posting Loreen.
You're welcome Keren! ^f^
I think I lost the link of the article where Ang Lee is talking about Heath... If it's still in my mail, I'll dig it out one way or the other ^^), but if it's gone :-\\....
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Here it is: http://7x7.com/content/e/ang-lee-remembers-heath-ledger
Ang Lee Remembers Heath Ledger
by Leilani Labong
posted March 10, 2009 11:36AM
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Do you remember where you were when you got the news that Heath died?
I was landing at the Tokyo airport when I got an email from James. Heath died during my flight. That’s always strange to think about.
What is your favorite memory of him?
It also happens to be one of my favorite shots of my career: his “barfing” scene in Brokeback, when he was hitting the wall with his fists. We were on the third take, his fists were bleeding, he’d literally spilled all his guts, and something in the background struck me as being perfect. I think it was the clouds. I wanted to do another take, but Heath was totally exhausted. My producer said, “That’s bullshit. The actor has had enough.” But the clouds were perfect! We did another take, and after it was over, Heath said, “Wow. That felt good.”
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I can't wait to see that video. I didn't know that Heath had been involved with another project with Terry Gilliam. Kind of makes me feel good considering how much he always said he admired Terry and would work with him anytime given the opportunity. :c) It'll be nice to see another of his video endeavors too. I wish there were more for us to enjoy.
I love that quote from Ang Lee. What a great moment. And it just goes to show that you never know which moments are going to stick with you or become important as you're stepping into them. It's only afterward that you can say "That was something special." :)
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I loved what Todd Haynes said when he was asked about his favorite memory of Heath... he said "oh, every moment we spent together".
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An excerpt from an interview with Michael Caine, who played Alfred in TDK:
What did Heath Ledger's Best Actor win at the Oscars mean to you? And do you think it was something that was important for his legacy?
Oh, I thought it was very important for his family as well. I was a big fan of his from the first time I met him. I had never met him before, and I met him on the set where he invades our party we're having, and I'm standing by the lift and I expect to greet people, and all his gang's behind him...But before that, I had met [him], obviously, on the set, and we were chatting. He had this make-up on and I was saying how fantastic I thought it was. And we were just chatting quietly. And then they said, "We're ready to shoot." And I had never seen the performance. We were just talking, you know? And then he came out of the elevator, and I was absolutely stunned by that, the way he did it, and the energy that went into it. And then when I saw the movie...There's an opening monologue and a closing monologue that he does, which I thought, "If anybody's going to better that and get an Academy Award above him, I will pay good money to see that." And nobody did beat him. I'm so pleased.
http://movies.radiofree.com/interviews/batman6_michael_caine.shtml
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Thanks Keren :^^)
*** sigh *** :\'(
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Thanks, Keren. There is no end to the sorrow over the magic that we lost that January day. For someone to impress Michael Caine so much, an actor of immense abilities and talents in his own right, simply by chatting and then transforming into character at the drop of a line, delivering those amazing moments, with the tongue, the flick of the head and hair...Heath was just coming into his full abilities, finding his strides... :\'(
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Thanks, Keren. There is no end to the sorrow over the magic that we lost that January day. For someone to impress Michael Caine so much, an actor of immense abilities and talents in his own right, simply by chatting and then transforming into character at the drop of a line, delivering those amazing moments, with the tongue, the flick of the head and hair...Heath was just coming into his full abilities, finding his strides... :\'(
So true, so true... I can picture those moments, Michael and Heath. Wouldn't it have been quite interesting and odd to be talking to Heath in full Joker costume and makeup, but just chatting with him? Just crazy and wonderful.
kathy
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Doubtless,Heath was someone able to let a ineffaceable memory in anybody who met him.As Andrew has said,even an actor with some much experience in movie's world behind him as Michael Caine,got impressed by his talent and strength.It's a clear proof that everybody who loves cinema has had an enormous lost,both as person and as professional. :\'( Thank you,Keren,for sharing it with us¡.
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I found this on Heath Heathens, I wasn't able to find the actual source:
http://www.heathheathens.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4523
The Empire Awards Honor Heath Ledger
Sunday evening, 29th March 2009, Empire Magazine and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the annual Empire Awards.
The latest Batman film, The Dark Knight, received three prizes. Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale won best director and actor, while the movie won the title of best film.
Heath Ledger also received a special commemoration award for his life works at the ceremony in London.
Announcing the special tribute, the host said:
"In the last 12 months there have been many great films and great performances. But it was obvious that there was one role, one astonishing creation, that was the highlight of the year for many readers of Empire. Tragically the actor who delivered that performance, Heath Ledger, is no longer with us. His passing robbed the film world of a great young talent and his brilliant reimagining of the Joker is left as a testament to his powers and a poignant reminder of the loss. Who knows what great work was still to come? To mark this sad loss, Empire has dedicated a special tribute award to this fine actor, to acknowledge the outstanding work of Heath Ledger."
A video tribute was played in which Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan joined others paying tribute to Heath, after which the room broke out in cheers & applause.
The Empire Awards are voted for by readers of the monthly film magazine. None of the stars of The Dark Knight were able to attend, but both Nolan and Bale sent video messages.
"When you make a film like Dark Knight you really hope it reaches a lot of people, and Empire and its readers are really a great audience," said Nolan. "Thank you very much."
Sources:
Empire Online
BBC News
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Thanks, Keren. I am glad for Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale. They have done a great job and their sense of loss, having known and worked with Heath so closely, must have been great and perhaps even devastating. Every time I see Christian Bale, he is always looking haunted and sad. I hope he finds a new project to take his mind off of Heath. It won't be easy, but a great actor like him will jump at a great role.
Reading the tribute still bring tears, after all this time. I expect the same will still be true years from now.
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Thanks, Keren. I am glad for Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale. They have done a great job and their sense of loss, having known and worked with Heath so closely, must have been great and perhaps even devastating. Every time I see Christian Bale, he is always looking haunted and sad. I hope he finds a new project to take his mind off of Heath. It won't be easy, but a great actor like him will jump at a great role.
Reading the tribute still bring tears, after all this time. I expect the same will still be true years from now.
I expect that, too, Andrew. :\'( These days it's stuff like this that bring tears to me, as well. That, and the hurtful experience of being in a doctor's or dentist's or whatnot's waiting room, picking up one of the invariably ancient magazines to flick through only to discover the mag is pre-Jan '08 and see Heath alive, oblivious, and beaming with love and happiness at his daughter Matilda. That has happened to me a few times lately, and it just plain hurts. :\'(
Thanks so much for sharing, Keren. :^^)
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I expect that, too, Andrew. :\'( These days it's stuff like this that bring tears to me, as well. That, and the hurtful experience of being in a doctor's or dentist's or whatnot's waiting room, picking up one of the invariably ancient magazines to flick through only to discover the mag is pre-Jan '08 and see Heath alive, oblivious, and beaming with love and happiness at his daughter Matilda. That has happened to me a few times lately, and it just plain hurts. :\'(
Thanks so much for sharing, Keren. :^^)
:ghug: Laura :ghug:
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Laura,be strong,sweetie. :^^) Heath's memories will always be something very special for us,no?.
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Thanks, guys, and absolutely right, Alicia. :ghug:
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I just found out that a Perth-based band called Eskimo Joe wrote a song called "Foreign Land" that was ispired by Heath's death.
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/may/02/perfect-match/
here's an excerpt:
"Eskimo Joe fans will have their fists pumping to the band's “golden oldies” as well as songs from the new album, Inshalla, which includes the hit single, Foreign Land. The band's Kav Temperley was inspired to write Foreign Land after hearing of Heath Ledger's death in New York. Joel said the band could relate to Heath's loneliness because the members came from the same hometown and they were in New York at the time of his death.
“I think being in the same city, a long way from home, and spending a little bit of time alone there, we sort of felt that he died in a lonely place, a long way from home, and this affected us,” Joel said. “The line 'I smell the blood of an Australian' was about the press's reaction to it (Heath's death), which was some kind of sick feeding frenzy.”
Foreign Land is only one song from the band's new album, which is set to be released on May 29."
This is a link to the song on youtube, sadly I couldn't make out the lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5_a_WUVlM
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Thanks Keren x
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Thanks,Keren,for letting know it¡.It's amazing how many persons really felt Heath's passing and how many tributes and hommages have been done... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Thank you Ranchand! ^f^
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Thank you so much, Shawn. :^^)
Powerful lyrics. Makes me feel sad.
Dying in the foreign land
So do you understand that?
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The new Esquire issue has a big interview with Christian Bale. There's a small part of it where they asked him about Heath. I really appreciated the way he handled it, this is what he had to say:
Heath Ledger had a similar level of intensity [as you] didn't he?
"Many times I'll work with actors and I can tell they're thinking, 'What are you doing? Why are you going that far with it?' or 'You're nuts!' With Heath, I could feel him going, 'I love it!' It felt like we were really pushing each other on, to the limits of where you can go with it. He was a good guy. There's not a lot of actors who I stay in touch with. But Heath was one of them."
Some people think he was so affected by playing The Joker that it eventually did for him.
"No. He was having such a great time. We'd go out go-carting and things, and he really was enjoying it. Hey look, when you do something where you're in the public eye, a lot of people love to speculate and they get it wrong most of the time. Things are completely out of context and nobody seems to care.
I paid no attention to it. I knew him, I knew the family and why the hell would I sit there listening to idiots who don't know anything at all? I literally didn't read anything, didn't watch anything (after he died). If I happened to be watching anything that came on, I switched over straight away. It's incredible the way the voyeuristic outlook is accepted as news. I won't talk about any of the other stuff, what may have happened with Heath, out of respect for the family. I have no business in talking and I have no desire to go into details or speculation. It's too tragic for that kind of treatment."
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Christian Bale could be a great medorator! x***x
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CB and DDL are such gentlemen. They both are mature, polite men who respect and admire our boy. I love them for that.
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The new Esquire issue has a big interview with Christian Bale. There's a small part of it where they asked him about Heath. I really appreciated the way he handled it, this is what he had to say:
Heath Ledger had a similar level of intensity [as you] didn't he?
"Many times I'll work with actors and I can tell they're thinking, 'What are you doing? Why are you going that far with it?' or 'You're nuts!' With Heath, I could feel him going, 'I love it!' It felt like we were really pushing each other on, to the limits of where you can go with it. He was a good guy. There's not a lot of actors who I stay in touch with. But Heath was one of them."
Some people think he was so affected by playing The Joker that it eventually did for him.
"No. He was having such a great time. We'd go out go-carting and things, and he really was enjoying it. Hey look, when you do something where you're in the public eye, a lot of people love to speculate and they get it wrong most of the time. Things are completely out of context and nobody seems to care.
I paid no attention to it. I knew him, I knew the family and why the hell would I sit there listening to idiots who don't know anything at all? I literally didn't read anything, didn't watch anything (after he died). If I happened to be watching anything that came on, I switched over straight away. It's incredible the way the voyeuristic outlook is accepted as news. I won't talk about any of the other stuff, what may have happened with Heath, out of respect for the family. I have no business in talking and I have no desire to go into details or speculation. It's too tragic for that kind of treatment."
Thanks, Keren. I am glad to see Christian Bale doing well. When he talks about the intensity he shared with Heath, I am reminded of the interrogation scene when they were alone together. I think Heath might have been a little surprised at Christian's realism when he got thrown around.
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CB and DDL are such gentlemen. They both are mature, polite men who respect and admire our boy. I love them for that.
You're so right Tammy, and I feel the same.
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Thanks, Keren. I am glad to see Christian Bale doing well. When he talks about the intensity he shared with Heath, I am reminded of the interrogation scene when they were alone together. I think Heath might have been a little surprised at Christian's realism when he got thrown around.
I'm sure he loved shooting that scene, and getting thrown around by Christian. it reminds me of what he said once about his favorite scene from Monster's Ball:
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I'm sure he loved shooting that scene, and getting thrown around by Christian. it reminds me of what he said once about his favorite scene from Monster's Ball:
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What a wonderful insight into this man, thanks keren+LC. Couldn't help but think of a couple of other scenes where Heath took his same love of "extreme" or real physicality with other actors to it's limits - the reunion kiss comes to mind first, also the first fight and the last. The forcefulness of his intent is so evident here, just like with Thornton, on either the giving or receiving end. And the way his spirit brought out the same others, the way Jake responded to Heaths lead. Kismet.
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Terry Gilliam on Heath Ledger's death and Dr.Parnassus
Here's the full article, it was posted on Theresa's Dr. Parnassus support forum:
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=522
And here's the relevant part of the interview that concerns Heath:
Amy, the eldest [daughter], produced her father’s most recent picture, and it was she who had to break the news of the death of the film’s star.
“We were devastated,” Gilliam says. “We spent the whole day — Amy, Nicola Pecorini, the director of photography, and myself — lying flat on the floor. He’s dead, and you don’t quite get over that. I suppose I’m in an interesting position because while I’m cutting the film I’m basically working with him every day and he’s fine; he’s in good shape.”
The film is a fantasy about a group of travelling players, led by the immortal Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), who have to rescue Parnassus’s daughter from a deal he made with the Devil. Ledger’s role, of which a third had been shot when he died, is as a mysterious outsider called Tony who joins the troupe on their quest.
Gilliam’s initial reaction to the news was that he would have to call a permanent halt to the production. “I thought, ‘There’s no way I can make this film without Heath’.” But Amy and other collaborators lobbied hard to keep the film alive to honour the memory of its star.
“Ideas are floating around. Then finally we decided, ‘OK, let’s get three other people to take over the part’. And we were lucky because we have a magic mirror in this movie. Not every movie has a magic mirror. So you can very genuinely say that these other actors are different aspects of the character that Heath plays. And it works. The point was, we’ve got to keep going. It was a bit like half being there, but apparently on autopilot I can still do a few things.”
In casting the actors who would step into the role, Gilliam says that a key considerations was that they had to have been close friends of Ledger. Fortunately, Ledger’s friends included Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, names that no doubt helped to persuade the film’s financiers that Doctor Parnassus was still viable. “It’s a hard thing to do, walk into a character and take over. But they did it,” Gilliam says.
He has no doubt that Ledger fully deserved the Oscar for his chilling portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight. “But wouldn’t it have been nice if they had noticed before? Even before Brokeback Mountain he was doing brilliant work. Everything he has done has been solid, even the earlier silly things. I first saw him in The Four Feathers and he just takes over the screen. He was what, 21 years old?”
The planned release date for Doctor Parnassus is in the autumn. “We want to be in that last third for the Academy Awards! Maybe we’ll get another award for Heath. We’re going to get as many awards as possible for him, long after he’s gone.”
Gilliam, who has a history of taking his audience out of their comfort zone, suggests that the film’s viewers might find some elements of the movie tough going. “I think there are going to be moments in Parnassus; I’m just waiting to hear what the audience does when they see certain shots. There are lines that we refused to change after Heath died. It’s like the script was prescient. It’s really spooky.”
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Thanks, Keren. I've always loved Heath's performance in Four Feathers.
“But wouldn’t it have been nice if they had noticed before? Even before Brokeback Mountain he was doing brilliant work. Everything he has done has been solid, even the earlier silly things. I first saw him in The Four Feathers and he just takes over the screen. He was what, 21 years old?”
That's always part of everyone's tribute to Heath, that he was mature and beyond his years. His age was just a number. His spirit is not limited to a chronological age, or what people his age was suppose to do. He did what he felt was the best for that moment, which sometimes meant intensity unlike any contemporary actors, or depth of understanding rare in the history of film. :( ^f^
I can hardly wait to watch Parnassus.
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Thanks, Keren. I've always loved Heath's performance in Four Feathers.
That's always part of everyone's tribute to Heath, that he was mature and beyond his years. His age was just a number. His spirit is not limited to a chronological age, or what people his age was suppose to do. He did what he felt was the best for that moment, which sometimes meant intensity unlike any contemporary actors, or depth of understanding rare in the history of film. :( ^f^
I can hardly wait to watch Parnassus.
Thank you,Keren and Andrew. :ghug: :ghug: Yes,he was exceptionally mature for what a boy of his age is supposed to be...I can't but thinking about how many hours of pleasure,of intellectual and physical strength,of many other great performances lived with the intensity of an Ennis del Mar role,he had could give to all of us,when maturity had been greater in age...And it kills me to realise that this is something we'll never know... :\'( :\'( :\'(
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:ghug: mpj :ghug:
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“We were devastated,” Gilliam says. “We spent the whole day — Amy, Nicola Pecorini, the director of photography, and myself — lying flat on the floor. He’s dead, and you don’t quite get over that. I suppose I’m in an interesting position because while I’m cutting the film I’m basically working with him every day and he’s fine; he’s in good shape.”
You can imagine what it must have been like to get that news when you are in the middle of making a film with him - totally unbelievable and devastating..... :\'(
Thanks for posting Keren ^f^
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I often think about Terry, and how unbelievably horrible that was for him. Not only was he in the middle of filming a movie with Heath, what those two had was far beyond a director-actor relationship. They were very good friends and they loved and admired each other very much, when you read interviews each one of them refered to the other like he was half-god or something. It was so much more than losing his leading actor for Terry, so much more. I'm in tears every time I read the way he talks about Heath. It was, like he said, as if half the world had collapsed. :\'(
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Yeah that probably what made it worse, the fact that this just wasnt an actor, this was a good friend... :\'( :\'(
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I often think about Terry, and how unbelievably horrible that was for him. Not only was he in the middle of filming a movie with Heath, what those two had was far beyond a director-actor relationship. They were very good friends and they loved and admired each other very much, when you read interviews each one of them refered to the other like he was half-god or something. It was so much more than losing his leading actor for Terry, so much more. I'm in tears every time I read the way he talks about Heath. It was, like he said, as if half the world had collapsed. :\'(
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:ghug: mpj :ghug:
Thank you,Andrew¡ :ghug: :^^) But it's so sad thinking what a great talent is now in Heaven and we have lost here on Earth...
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Thank you,Andrew¡ :ghug: :^^) But it's so sad thinking what a great talent is now in Heaven and we have lost here on Earth...
((((Alicia)))) :ghug:
I see you've posted a new Gilliam article, Keren hon, but I don't think I can bring myself to read it this particular night...I'm finding that during times of personal distress, I just cannot bear any Heath articles, or even pictures sometimes...
Hopefully I'll feel less fragile when I rise tomorrow and come back and read it, though. Thanks so much for posting honey.
And I still haven't listened to the Eskimo Joe song properly, despite being a fan. :\'(
Sigh...oh, Heath...
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((((Alicia)))) :ghug:
I see you've posted a new Gilliam article, Keren hon, but I don't think I can bring myself to read it this particular night...I'm finding that during times of personal distress, I just cannot bear any Heath articles, or even pictures sometimes...
Hopefully I'll feel less fragile when I rise tomorrow and come back and read it, though. Thanks so much for posting honey.
And I still haven't listened to the Eskimo Joe song properly, despite being a fan. :\'(
Sigh...oh, Heath...
Everyone deals with it differently, hon. You don't have to make yourself do something when you don't feel prepared for it. Our love for Heath is not measured by whether we read articles or not, and whether we post pictures or not. Every person has their own way of coping. Take care of you, huh? xxxx
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((((Alicia)))) :ghug:
I see you've posted a new Gilliam article, Keren hon, but I don't think I can bring myself to read it this particular night...I'm finding that during times of personal distress, I just cannot bear any Heath articles, or even pictures sometimes...
Hopefully I'll feel less fragile when I rise tomorrow and come back and read it, though. Thanks so much for posting honey.
And I still haven't listened to the Eskimo Joe song properly, despite being a fan. :\'(
Sigh...oh, Heath...
Thank you so much,honey; :ghug: to you too,be strong...Keren is right; you are not a better Heath fan to "devour" or not all the articles about him.Sometimes your love for him doesn't allow you to read anything,while any others of us need to read,watch and listen to any kind of pics,articles or interviews.But all of them are our private and particular way to make an homage to him,as valid and good as the other ones...
For example,you know I love all your videos very much,but I didn't watch the last one you sent me for Heath's birthday; seeing him with his puppy when he was 18,with all the affection he showed for this little animal,while "Forever young" sounded was too much for me... :\'( I suppose you're not going to think I don't appreciate your work or,even,that I don't want to know anything else about him anymore...It's just that our feelings have these ups and downs about him,and all of us understand them.Understand you. :^^)
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Movie is last evidence of Ledger's powerful screen presence
28th May 2009, 7:30 WST
Heath Ledger's last movie almost ended on the scrap heap. When the actor died last year of an accidental prescription-drug overdose, director Terry Gilliam was prepared to cancel the film.
Instead, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus opened last week at the Cannes Film Festival, with Ledger's performance a highlight -- irrespective of circumstance -- and his part completed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
While the movie isn't one of Ledger's best, it will entertain younger viewers (and Ledger fans). Much of the plot plays out in a dazzling Alice-in-Wonderland environment.
We first see Ledger hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, breathing but covered in blood. His character Tony joins a wobbly wagon of entertainers led by the ageing Dr Parnassus.
Tony -- based on former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, of whom Gilliam spoke cynically at the film's news conference -- was heading a charity foundation until his near-murder. He seems skilled at coaxing women into giving away money.
Dressed in a white suit and a bird mask with a long beak, he lures women aboard the Imaginarium, where they slip through a magic mirror into a dream world of giant shoes, floating petals, and everlasting youth. They come out in a daze, abandoning checkbooks, jewellery and designer handbags to the beguiling Tony.
Each time Ledger slips through the mirror, he morphs into Depp, Law, or Farrell. Thats how Gilliam makes up for his loss. We are required to suspend disbelief, to see Ledger and the other three as one -- which is something of a stretch.
The core plot pivots around Dr Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), who has become immortal after winning a bet with the devil, Mr Nick (Tom Waits in a bowler hat).
Dr Parnassus has to hand the devil his daughter Valentina when she turns 16, in exchange for the spell of youth that he negotiated to experience love.
The acting in The Imaginarium is solid: Ledger, Plummer and Waits pull their weight and model-actor Lily Cole, with her China-doll looks, is a charismatic Valentina.
Yet the weird dealmaking with the devil and trite dialogue evoke a pre-teen movie in the Harry Potter vein.
Ultimately, what The Imaginarium does best is provide one last piece of evidence of Ledger's powerful screen presence.
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Thank you for posting it Jackster. I'm really anxious to see the movie, I'm looking forward to it and I'm dreading it at the same time.
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Thank you for posting it Jackster. I'm really anxious to see the movie, I'm looking forward to it and I'm dreading it at the same time.
You bet. Same here.
Seeing and reading the word "last" really strikes at the heart.
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Thanks, Jackster. I haven't been keeping up with the Parnassus movie because I am always on the verge of tears reading about it. The review (and synopsis) is really good for me in a way. Knowing Heath's part in it filled a void somehow. :(
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Thanks, Jackster. I haven't been keeping up with the Parnassus movie because I am always on the verge of tears reading about it. The review (and synopsis) is really good for me in a way. Knowing Heath's part in it filled a void somehow. :(
This movie is a tribute to Heath. If his life had to end so soon, this was the best way for him to end it, doing a movie with Terry Gilliam, his hero. He admired and loved this man so much, and vice versa.
BTW Andrew, Dr. Parnassus still doesn't have a Canadian distributor, among others... If we want to see Heath's last performance on the big screen, we have to do something about it. Have you heard about the Dr. Parnassus Support Forum?
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This movie is a tribute to Heath. If his life had to end so soon, this was the best way for him to end it, doing a movie with Terry Gilliam, his hero. He admired and loved this man so much, and vice versa.
BTW Andrew, Dr. Parnassus still doesn't have a Canadian distributor, among others... If we want to see Heath's last performance on the big screen, we have to do something about it. Have you heard about the Dr. Parnassus Support Forum?
Yes, I signed up, and logged on for a while. I have admittedly been absent from it for a while. I can't understand the reason for difficulty securing distributors. If tiny independent movies can get distributors, why is it so difficult to secure it for what will likely be a profitable movie?
In any case, I will endeavor to go to the forum more often. It's difficult nonetheless, even watching the happy scenes in 10 Things I Hate About You is difficult. I have no doubt watching the Parnassus movie will bring tears, especially the hanging scenes. I can't imagine watching it without feeling terrible. Even thinking about it, visualizing it, is horrific enough. :(
I can see the attraction of the role for Heath, the charismatic young man who lure women into a land of feeling good, and taking their money. In some way, there is a parallel with his view of the "matinee idol" the famous sex symbol. There is a ambivalent sense of love/hate in the role, my feeling for the movie. I hate it that it is the last movie...ever. And in a way, it is silly to think that if I never watch it, it is not over. ^*() *^)
Sigh...
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Not sure this is exactly right place for this but...
I came across this for sale at Amazon.com and I always loved this interview seeing it in parts on youtube.
So in case anyone didnt know...
Its the Charlie Rose from 05 with Ang Lee and Heath Ledger. Since the link cant be posted.
On a side note there is also one with Annie Proulx from 1999.
:f) :c) Forgive me if its already been posted.
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JOHNNY DEPP has paid a personal tribute to the late HEATH LEDGER by naming a section of his private paradise island in the Bahamas after the tragic actor.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star owns Little Hall's Pond Cay in the Caribbean and frequently travels there with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two children, Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, seven.
Depp reveals he has renamed a prime snorkelling spot Heath's Place, in memory of his pal, and admits the sunshine getaway provides the perfect place to unwind and escape from the pressures of Hollywood.
He tells Vanity Fair magazine, "I don’t think I'd ever seen any place so pure and beautiful.
"(Pond Cay life) is my decompression. It's my way of trying to return to normalcy. Escapism is survival to me. You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It's instant freedom. ...And a little morsel of anonymity.
"Whenever I was getting frustrated about being 'novelty boy' and making movies, I told myself, Calm down. I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids. You can feed hot dogs to the nurse sharks in the Exumas (the outer islands of the Bahamas) - but it's best to not swim when doing it."
Ledger died from an accidental prescription drug overdose in January 2008.
Depp is one of three actors who have stepped in to take over Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, his last unfinished project, alongside Colin Farrell and Jude Law.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/depp-honours-ledger-with-snorkelling-cove_1105133 (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/depp-honours-ledger-with-snorkelling-cove_1105133)
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http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/depp-honours-ledger-with-snorkelling-cove_1105133 (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/depp-honours-ledger-with-snorkelling-cove_1105133)
I've known Johnny Depp since his early days in 21 Jump Street. My respect for him gets higher with this article.
I wonder why Hollywood has such a bad rap among the stars. Who are these evil people that make life so miserable for the actors and actresses?
Maybe it's time for the stars to take back control of their own lives in Hollywood. Oh, wait, some of them, like Tom Cruise have tried. The studio big wigs always ostracize them in return. Perhaps fans should swing the balance of power in the new age of technology where we can squash the middlemen.
Heath tried to do that with his music label, and other businesses. I am glad he is remembered by his friends. I guess he is kinda hard to forget. ::)
Thanks for the article, ynnaf.
Here is some more information on Depp's island:
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Here is a link with a Google Map mashup to show more detail of the six beaches:
http://www.privateislandsmag.com/2008/10/johnny-depps-private-island-little-halls-pond-cay-bahamas/
After falling in love with the laid-back Bahamas lifestyle while filming “Pirates of the Caribbean”, Johnny Depp began a search for his own tropical island to get stranded on. And in 2004 he found it in the beautiful Exumas, buying Little Hall’s Pond Cay for US $3.6M as a retreat to enjoy with his songbird wife Vanessa Paradise and their two children. The actor recently made news by publicizing that his island will be run exclusively on eco-friendly solar power, as well as for having invited the (formerly) troubled ingenue Lindsay Lohan aboard for some time out of the public eye. There’s little question that escaping from the prying eyes of the paparazzi was also a prime motivator for Depp’s island purchase- he supposedly refers to his little piece of paradise as “F**k Off Island”.
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I think Heath (forever evading paparazzi and always concerned for the environment) would be happy there.
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That was a sweet thing of Johnny Depp to do. and it sounds like the kind of place that Heath would've loved.
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Here is some more detail about Johnny Depp's article in Vanity Fair. I'd love to find out more, especially since it appears Johnny Depp named the beaches according to the personality of the person, like the beach for Hunter Thompson. I am guessing the patch of water for snorkeling is named after Heath because it is deep and beautiful beneath the surface, filled with life and movement. The issue is available June 3.
Johnny Depp Opens Up Private Bahamian Getaway
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/johnny-depp-opens-up-priv_n_209751.html
Johnny Depp took the July issue of Vanity Fair to his private Bahamian island where he reminisced about Marlon Brando, watched 'Tropic Thunder' and talked about his island getaway.
The whole article is NOT online, but highlights from the press release include Depp saying of Tom Cruise in "Thunder": "That's the best I've ever seen Cruise."
When he told Marlon Brando he was buying an island in 1994, the icon got practical, saying "What's the elevation? How protected are you?" Brando, according to Depp, was being sensible, focused, and paternal. "With hurricanes and all, he just didn't want me to make a mistake."
He uses the island as a retreat, "I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids."
The whole interview is available in the hard copy of the magazine, available June 3 in NY and LA.
THE FULL PRESS RELEASE:
NEW YORK, N.Y.--Johnny Depp shows Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley around his 45-acre private Bahamian island, Little Hall's Pond Cay, and tells Brinkley that the island "is my decompression. It's my way of trying to return to normalcy.... Escapism is survival to me."
When Brinkley asks Depp if there is any Hollywood icon he still hopes to spend time with, he says, "I already met her. Elizabeth Taylor." Depp once attended dinner with Taylor and found her to be "the best old-school dame I've ever met. A regular, wonderful person. Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Martin were also there. Boy, did I take to her. For dinner she ordered liver and onions and just smothered them with salt. I admired that. She's an astonishingly great broad."
Little Hall's Pond has six different beaches--named after Depp's partner, Vanessa Paradis, and their children, Lily Rose and Jack, as well as his mentors Hunter S. Thompson and Marlon Brando--each with a personality and cove of its own, and one patch of water deemed "Heath's Place" after the late actor Heath Ledger. There are several small residences, all solar-powered, and transportation consists of a fleet of green golf carts.
"I don't think I'd ever seen any place so pure and beautiful," Depp tells Brinkley of the island. "You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It's instant freedom. And that rare beast--simplicity--can be had. And a little morsel of anonymity.... Whenever I was getting frustrated about being 'novelty boy' and making movies, I told myself, Calm down. I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids. You can feed hot dogs to the nurse sharks in the Exumas--but it's best to not swim when doing it."
Depp spent much of the last year in Chicago filming Public Enemies, and tells Brinkley that it has become his favorite American city. "Everybody [in Chicago] treated me normal. They'd say, 'Hey, Johnny,' then left me alone.... I visited the Art Institute and the Chicago Music Exchange. I loved looking out the car window at all those incredible neighborhoods and architecture."
Depp laments the political correctness of modern Hollywood, telling Brinkley he pines for the old iconoclasts: "Where is our generation of Dean Martins and Frank Sinatras? And the Georgie Jessels and Walter Brennans? I want Tiny Tim and Bix Beiderbecke back."
Of Tom Cruise's performance as studio head Les Grossman in last summer's Tropic Thunder, Depp says, "That's the best I've ever seen Cruise." When asked if Cruise's portrayal reminds Depp of any Hollywood executives, he says, "All of them."
Whenever Depp gets bored or can't sleep, he paints. "When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do," he says. "I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. I painted Hunter a couple of times. Keith Richards. What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes."
Depp talks about his two late mentors, Marlon Brando and Hunter S. Thompson, each of whom imparted his share of wisdom. He recalls a conversation he had with Brando in 1994, when he was poised to purchase Little Hall's Pond, but instead of expressing outright enthusiasm, Brando--who once lived on the French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa--asked a series of pragmatic questions: "What's the elevation? How protected are you?" Brando, according to Depp, was being sensible, focused, and paternal. "With hurricanes and all, he just didn't want me to make a mistake."
Depp says what he misses about Thompson "isn't the Too Much Fun Club stuff. It was his steady advice. His radar detector was spot-on. He knew instantly if he didn't like somebody." Depp says the beach he named after Hunter on his island is "the most savage and exposed of all the beaches. Gonzo Beach is pure Hunter."
Talking to Brinkley about his future on the island, Depp says: "Nobody is going to ever ruin the Land and Sea Park. It's like a rare gem, a diamond. I look forward to my kids growing up on the island, spending months out of the year here ... learning about sea life and how to protect sea life ... and their kids growing up here, and so on.... Theoretically, this place can add years to your life." Then he quotes the old adage: "Money doesn't buy you happiness. But it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it."
The July issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on June 3 and nationally on June 9.
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Heath Ledger documentary to air on Ovation TV
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5540XV20090605
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Heath Ledger: A Tribute," an hourlong documentary special on the life of the late Oscar-winning actor, will have its U.S. premiere on Ovation TV this summer.
The cable channel has acquired the film from Australian production company World Wide Entertainment and plans to air it in August as part of a weeklong programing event, "Live Fast, Die Young," which focuses on stars whose lives ended prematurely. Subjects include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and John Belushi.
"Throughout his short career, Heath Ledger seemed a star destined to burn brightly and leave a lasting mark," said Kris Slava, senior vice president of programing for Ovation TV. "This documentary is a warm, honest portrayal of the actor and the man, and features footage that has never been seen in America."
(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)
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Heath Ledger documentary to air on Ovation TV
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5540XV20090605
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Heath Ledger: A Tribute," an hourlong documentary special on the life of the late Oscar-winning actor, will have its U.S. premiere on Ovation TV this summer.
The cable channel has acquired the film from Australian production company World Wide Entertainment and plans to air it in August as part of a weeklong programing event, "Live Fast, Die Young," which focuses on stars whose lives ended prematurely. Subjects include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and John Belushi.
"Throughout his short career, Heath Ledger seemed a star destined to burn brightly and leave a lasting mark," said Kris Slava, senior vice president of programing for Ovation TV. "This documentary is a warm, honest portrayal of the actor and the man, and features footage that has never been seen in America."
(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)
I wonder if it's the same tribute movie that I bought from Amazon, that one was an hour long too and has the same title... :s)
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MacLeans.ca Discusses The Macabre Premonitions Of Heath Ledger
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It’s shocking how eerily Heath Ledger’s last screen role foreshadowed his tragic death.
Sixteen months have passed since Heath Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose. But seeing his final screen role unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival last week still came as a brutal shock. In The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Terry Gilliam’s surreal tale of a traveling theatre company, Ledger is cast as Tony, a slick hustler who joins the ragtag troupe after making a dramatic entrance. Our first glimpse of the actor, foreshadowed by a tarot card of the Hanged Man, shows him dangling off a bridge in London with a noose around his neck, presumed dead. And that’s just the first of several scenes in Gilliam’s film that, in hindsight, serve as macabre premonitions of the actor’s fate. “Could we get any darker?” asks Gilliam, during an interview with Maclean’s in Cannes. “I’ve become fatalistic about everything. It’s very weird about this movie. The ideas, the dialogue were very prescient.”
Gilliam was midway through shooting Parnassus when Ledger died. He had just completed the London portion of the Canada-U.K. co-production, and was preparing to film the remaining scenes in a Vancouver studio. After the news hit, he was ready to abandon the movie. “But so many people around me said, ‘You can’t do that.’ They just kept hammering me.” And within five weeks, Gilliam had recruited a tag team of loyal friends—Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell—to complete Ledger’s role. The sleight of hand made surreal sense: conveniently, most of Ledger’s unfinished scenes take place behind a magic mirror, in a fantasy world conjured by Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer).
“The convenience of Heath’s death is the most shocking, frightening thing,” says Gilliam, only half-joking. “Almost all the choices that were forced upon us improved the film. It’s as if Heath was still working on the film. We all felt his presence constantly.” But then he adds, “The thing that bothers me is I wanted to know what Heath was going to do with those parts that Johnny, Colin and Jude did. He had so much stuff under his sleeves. I like to say he didn’t die young. He was a very old soul. Ancient and wise.”
The director recalls an exchange with Ledger on the set. “I said, ‘I know what you’re doing.’ He said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘You’re doing Johnny Depp, aren’t you?’ He copped to it totally. And there’s Johnny taking it over. It’s spooky.” Even spookier, in a scene scripted for Ledger but played by Depp, Tony invites a woman to join James Dean, Rudolph Valentino and Princess Di in a river of immortality. “They’re all dead,” he says, as their images float by on little boats. “They won’t get sick. They are forever young.”
Although Gilliam considers this “terrifying stuff,” he says he insisted on keeping it in the movie. “That’s where it’s interesting not having studio executives fluttering around you. They would have all been going crazy—‘You can’t do that! It’s in bad taste!’ It’s not in bad taste. It’s respectful to what we set out to do and what Heath wanted to do.”
In discussing Ledger and all the strange coincidences, Gilliam often breaks into giddy laughter, which might seem inappropriate, but he’s been living with Ledger’s death for a while. “The whole process has been so long and emotionally draining,” he says. “We all cared so much about him. And you learn to deal with it through black humor. We were making jokes all the time. Mine was—‘It’s a warning to actors. You don’t turn up for work and there are three stars waiting to take over your part.’ ”
Gilliam has quite a record of calamitous productions. He battled studio executives over The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which was buried, and Brazil, which was butchered. (Brazil was the favorite film of River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose the day he was due to finally meet Gilliam, his hero.) Later, an entire documentary, Lost in La Mancha, was made about the havoc that scuttled a Gilliam movie starring Depp as Don Quixote. But when asked if his films are cursed, Gilliam replies, “Not in that sense. There are forces at work I can’t explain.”
Gilliam is resigned to the fact that Ledger’s death has upstaged his film—and Plummer’s performance in the title role. “It’s actually not Heath’s movie,” he says. “But people come out of it, and they’re just wrapped up in the whole business of Heath dying.” But then it is a movie about death. “I’ve always been obsessed with mortality,” says Gilliam. “That’s one of the things that Heath and I shared in common. Neither of us had any fear of death. We’d just laugh at it.”
http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/?p=548
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Goodbye, Heath
No one imagined that the sudden death of an Oscar-nominated actor would overshadow the announcement of the Academy Award nominations. In a tough town where a lot of entertainment journalists wear their cynicism on their sleeves, the passing of 28-year-old Aussie Heath Ledger packed an emotional wallop that left seasoned reporters stunned.
Why did Heath grab our hearts after managing to remain a relatively mysterious famous face renowned for fiercely protecting his privacy? Perhaps, it was his youth and his promise, only partially fulfilled by his acclaimed performance in Brokeback Mountain. Maybe it was the anticipation of intense roles to come, like his reinvention of the Joker in The Dark Knight, which will remain as a big screen memorial to his talent.
While the media swarm to unravel the details surrounding Ledger’s death, I’d like to remember the man whose life ended so unexpectedly. I met Heath when he was a budding golden boy, a hottie from Down Under who first got noticed as Mel Gibson’s son in The Patriot and went on to box office success in his first leading role in A Knight’s Tale. He could have had a comfortable if unremarkable career as a teenage hunk, but he wasn’t satisfied, and he chafed at the media scrutiny that came with his sudden fame.
I remember well the day Heath told me why he made a decision that eventually got him that shot at Oscar.
“I was getting pigeonholed,” he said, fidgeting as he always did when giving an interview. “People weren’t giving me a chance to do anything other than be the blond-haired bimbo, and it was starting to bore me. I guess my attitude was ‘f *** it.’ I had to destroy one career in order to rebuild another.”
That resolve put Heath on the road to Brokeback Mountain, and it would forever change him. “The one thing I got out of it was just a level of fearlessness,” he told me. “I feel like I can tackle anything now. There is nothing you can put in front of me that I can’t attempt to do. I’m not saying I can do it well, but I’m definitely a braver person and a braver actor because of it.”
The one thing that Ledger never came to terms with was the price of fame, especially after having a daughter with actress Michelle Williams.
“When someone takes a photo of you and your family outside your house, it makes us feel like we’re being assaulted,” he said to me. “If anyone does that to me, I see red. My family in Australia will ring me up and say, ‘Why don’t you just smile and give them their shots and walk away? Why do you have to retaliate?’ I’m like, ‘Because I don’t want to play their game. I want them to know that they can’t just sit outside my house. It’s my space.’”
“But I’m definitely a peaceful warrior,” he added. “I’ve never started a fight in my life, but I’m willing to fight for my privacy. I don’t think I’ll ever deviate from that. It’s too valuable to me.”
Speculation about Heath will persist, but there’s no doubt about his extraordinary talent.
http://www.pbpulse.com/celeb/2009/06/11/goodbye-heath/
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Thank you, Keren. This is very beautiful. I love reading/hearing words of Heath's I hadn't heard before. I love what he said about playing Ennis especially. What a beautiful and fascinating man...
kathy
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Thank you, Keren. This is very beautiful. I love reading/hearing words of Heath's I hadn't heard before. I love what he said about playing Ennis especially. What a beautiful and fascinating man...
kathy
I quote this word by word,specially these ones:What a beautiful and fascinating man...
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Not sure if that's the right place to post this, but i think it's touching:
All of the honorees from film and television were present, with actors from their projects presenting them. Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain") was introduced by the quiet, softspoken Heath Ledger and the charming and gregarious Jake Gyllenhaal. They talked about what an honor and a privilege working on the film had been and how Ang's direction helped them grow as actors. When Heath and Jake introduced him, they both started to tear up and gave the director hugs when he reached the stage. The soft-spoken director took a moment, looked back at them with a smile, turned to the audience and said, "I don't know, guys. That felt kind of gay to me."
Talk about exploding a stereotype! We must have laughed for five solid minutes!
There was joke after joke about "Brokeback" all evening, and not a single one was derogatory or mean-spirited. That's entertainment.
http://livinginturnaround.blogspot.com/2009/06/horray-for-hollywood-memories-of.html (http://livinginturnaround.blogspot.com/2009/06/horray-for-hollywood-memories-of.html)
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Ledger wins another Hollywood award
25th June 2009, 14:00 WST
Heath Ledger has taken another posthumous bow.
The late Australian actor was named best supporting actor at the 35th Annual Saturn Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday for his role as the villainous Joker in last year's blockbuster, The Dark Knight.
It is the latest honour for Ledger, who died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in January 2008 but swept through the Hollywood award season earlier this year with wins at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards and internationally at the BAFTAs in London and the Australian Film Institute ceremony.
The Dark Knight, the highest-earning film of 2008 with just over $US1 billion in worldwide ticket sales, dominated the Saturn Awards with four other wins.
The Batman film was named best action/adventure/thriller film, while brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan won for best screenwriting, composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard took the music category, and the special effects team of Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin were victorious.
The Saturn Awards are organised by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
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Thanks for posting Jackster. another obvious and well deserved win... Heath's Joker will be remembered forever.
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From an upcoming Vanity Fair article featured in the West Australia news
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=22&ContentID=151753
Ledger confidant reveals actor’s last days
30th June 2009, 6:30 WST
The professionals closest to Heath Ledger have revealed how the Hollywood star battled with fame, a failed relationship and incurable insomnia in the lead-up to his untimely death.
Vocals coach Gerry Grennell worked and lived with the actor during the filming of the most recent Batman movie, The Dark Knight.
Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his supporting role as The Joker in the movie.
Grennell says Ledger never once drank alcohol during that period but his use of sleeping medication to combat chronic insomnia was a concern.
“I’d say: ‘If you can possibly bear it to stop taking the medications, do, because they don’t seem to be doing you any good’ - he agreed,” Grennell told Vanity Fair magazine.
“It is very difficult for me to imagine how close he came to not taking them.”
Vanity Fair spoke to the crew from Ledger’s last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and others for its August issue.
The Perth-born actor died in his New York apartment in January 2008 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. He was 28.
Grennell is convinced Ledger’s death, “was a combination of exhaustion, sleeping medication ... and perhaps the after-effects of the flu”.
Cinematographer Nicola Pecorini worked with Ledger on Parnassus and said he dabbled in minor narcotics but dropped the habit.
“He used to smoke marijuana on a regular basis, like probably 50 per cent of Americans (but Ledger) went clean as a whistle,“ Pecorini said.
The actor’s mentor and Parnassus director Terry Gilliam said Ledger’s romance with Michelle Williams began to unravel during the Oscar campaign for his acclaimed performance in Brokeback Mountain.
Williams is the mother of their three-year-old daughter Mathilda.
Legal wrangling over custody of their daughter “made Heath snap“, Gilliam said.
The strife coincided with the Parnassus shoot and brought on the beginning of pneumonia, Gilliam said, but Ledger would not heed doctor’s advice to take antibiotics and rest.
Gilliam said Ledger responded: “’No way - I’m not going to go home because I can’t sleep and I’ll be just thinking about the situation. I’d rather stay here and work’.
“He would arrive (to the set) in the morning completely knackered,” Gilliam said.
“By the end of the day he was beaming - glowing with energy.
“It was like everything was put into the work because that was the joy - that’s what he loved to do.”
The actor’s friend and agent Steven Alexander said Ledger was never motivated by money or stardom and was worried that his role in a “summer blockbuster” such as The Dark Knight would typecast him.
“He was ready to bust out of the gate but he didn’t want to step on the gas and become something that he didn’t want to become - a matinee idol,” Alexander said.
“He wasn’t motivated by money or stardom but by the respect of his peers (and moviegoers).
“He was striving to become an ‘illusionist’ as he called it - able to create characters that weren’t there.”
The August issue of Vanity Fair is due to hit news stands in early July.
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I want to get this magazine through someone, mainly for the pics (the one on the cover is a new one to me!) but I have to admit that some of this stuff is hard to read, especially concerning the breakup with Michelle and everything it involved. I don't think that people who were close to him should talk to the media about his private life... I suppose they want to show his side, show everybody that he was a good person, but I don't think he would've wanted to talk about it himself if he was here.
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This may have been posted already, but I came across this article while reading about Sarah Palin ::)
Heath Remembered
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/08/heath-ledger-portfolio200908
In August 2000, Vanity Fair featured a rising young star on its cover: Heath Ledger. Bruce Weber’s photographs captured the looks, character, and promise that the actor’s co-workers and friends described in the accompanying cover story. Ledger fulfilled that promise before his untimely death, in January 2008. Here, a selection of images from Weber’s shoot, both published and unpublished. [Fifteen images are available.]
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Heath Ledger, then 21, in an outtake from the cover-story shoot for the August 2000 issue.
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Related: “We’re Havin’ a Heath Wave,” by Kevin Sessums.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2000/08/heath200008
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I want to get this magazine through someone, mainly for the pics (the one on the cover is a new one to me!) but I have to admit that some of this stuff is hard to read, especially concerning the breakup with Michelle and everything it involved. I don't think that people who were close to him should talk to the media about his private life... I suppose they want to show his side, show everybody that he was a good person, but I don't think he would've wanted to talk about it himself if he was here.
I agree with you Keren, I found it hard to read too - way too personal in parts and that can be really upsetting. :(
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I agree with you Keren, I found it hard to read too - way too personal in parts and that can be really upsetting. :(
I have to say I agree with you both to some degree. Wasn’t really sure that I wanted to post this story even though it was in his hometown newspaper. But I decided it was truthful and heartfelt, and seemed to utilize quotes from people who were his real friends, people who knew him closely (and loved him), and where there was mutual respect. If they felt comfortable at this distance in time reflecting back on these difficult and painful days then maybe there was legitimate value here. Not sensationalism, but possibly some value to people who make similar (possibly tragic) decisions in their own lives. Yes, maybe (certainly) Heath himself would not want all this attention or focus on himself, but he also understood the nature of celebrity and the advantages and disadvantages that entailed. This is not to justify the story, it either stands on its own or it does not, it’s just a reflection of my, hopefully reasoned, thought process here.
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I understand what you're saying jackster, and it's okay that you posted it here, really. The people who were quoted there were people who trully cared about him, friends of his, and I'm sure they meant no harm. It's just that for me personally it's unsettling to read these things, knowing what a private person Heath was.
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I hadn't read the Vanity Fair article yet. What Terry Gilliam said and shared was wrong. These people have no right to reveal what was going on, or more importantly, what they thought was going on, in Heath's personal life. I can't believe he would talk so openly....a true friend would know and respect how much Heath hated his personal life to be on display. I have offficially lost what little repect I had left for Terry Gilliam...and it was already very little. I can't believe in order to support Heath's last piece of work, I have to support Gilliam. I feel sick.
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I'm trying to hold my judgement because I haven't read the whole article yet. I assumed that they highlighted the more "sensational" parts of the interview in this preview, and I told myself I need to read the rest to get the full picture. I've heard from someone who did read the whole article, she said it's 8+ pages long and that indeed, the internet summary of the article is nothing more than written “sound bites” to entice readers. By and large, she said, this article is about Parnassus, Gilliam and his deep friendship with Heath. That is the focus of the article. She also said that the TDK "paid vacation" remark for example was a joke taken out of context. That made me wonder how many other things were taken out of context. I know that Terry Gilliam is a cynical person, it's hard for me to determine sometimes when he is serious and when he's joking.
Like I said, I think what was said about the breakup with Michelle and the "custody fight" should'nt have been said. I can't imagine Heath would ever have talked about it with a reporter, and it's out of line for his friends to do that. That was his private life. But considering the fact that I haven't read the whole thing yet, there are also other things that I take into consideration. I don't know in what context those things were said. I do know, from reading many articles, that Terry Gilliam loved Heath like a son and cared about him deeply, and seeing someone you love go through such a difficult personal crisis probably makes you bitter. And sometimes when you're bitter you blurt out things you shouldn't say. I just can't believe that anyone who cared about Heath so much would try to be sensational on purpose, knowing what a private person he was. And there is another thing that this girl (who read the article) said to me, and I try to keep that in mind: we will never get the full intent of the spirit in which something is *said* by reading a transcript of it … which is basically what an article is, a transcript. And I don’t think any editor ever leaves things as they are said in the context they are said. In short, there is a long way between what was actually said and *how* it was said, and what you eventually get to read and the impression that you get from that.
I still don't like the snippets I've read, but I'll hold my judgement until I read the whole thing.
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I don't have problem with people posting news articles here, since that is the intent of this thread.
I don't even have a problem with Gilliam's comments since he is under the gun to promote his film and get every bit of publicity he can. I don't know the man very well, but I know the type of British Monty Python style humor so I take whatever he says with a grain of salt, i.e. I don't take him seriously.
Every legend has its derivative stories. No legendary figure is exempt. Heath, whatever his feelings and thoughts about privacy, would simply shrug and smile and move on. Nothing can touch him now, in any case. The only caveat I would have, is the comments regarding Heath and Michelle, especially their breakup, which will eventually reach Matilda, especially when she gets older. It would be unconscionable for anyone to tar their image in her mind. They should respect them as her parents, and leave their private anguish private. It's nobody's business but theirs.
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I am tending to agree with Keren on this one.I havent read the full article, not because I dont want to but rather from lack of time. I'd like to see how the snippets shown here place themselves in amongst the full article and if it changes the context of what was said and what was meant by it. I don't necessarily have a problem with close friends and colleagues talking about Heath if it's done in a respectful manner and they are careful of what they say should it get back to his family, which it inevitably will. I think sometimes it can be a cathartic experience to talk about someone you cared about and admired and loved so much - but I do think there are some things that you just do not share with anyone, let alone a world wide publication such as Vanity Fair, no matter how good a reputation it has.
I obviously don't know why Terry Gilliam would talk about something that was clearly a very personal issue for Heath, and one that was causing him distress, but it disappoints me that he did... :-\\
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I'm trying to hold my judgement because I haven't read the whole article yet. . . . . I know that Terry Gilliam is a cynical person, it's hard for me to determine sometimes when he is serious and when he's joking.
. . . . . And I don’t think any editor ever leaves things as they are said in the context they are said. In short, there is a long way between what was actually said and *how* it was said, and what you eventually get to read and the impression that you get from that.
I still don't like the snippets I've read, but I'll hold my judgement until I read the whole thing.
Much agreed keren. After reading the upset this has created I went back and reread the newspaper article taken from the magazine story more closely. I noticed that Mr. Gilliam is not actually "quoted" in his remarks regarding Heaths family, he only is said to have said. Well, we all know how that works. Editors can stretch things a lot, and when the quotes are left off then actual statements can be twisted quite a lot.
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Much agreed keren. After reading the upset this has created I went back and reread the newspaper article taken from the magazine story more closely. I noticed that Mr. Gilliam is not actually "quoted" in his remarks regarding Heaths family, he only is said to have said. Well, we all know how that works. Editors can stretch things a lot, and when the quotes are left off then actual statements can be twisted quite a lot.
Yup. I think, it was why Heath always fidgeted during interviews, and his interpretation of that famous portrait...the two voices whispering in his ear. It made sense of his strained relationship with the press. Being a consummate Chess master, he would be clever enough to know ahead of time how his words may be twisted, and was always careful.
It is why I really value the article Perth Child, We are having a Heath Wave...
In it, the reporter seemed to have build a trusting rapport with Heath, and he was comfortable talking about a lot of aspects of himself that he would normally be more guarded. It is also why I love that last paragraph...Heath popping in Doors' Riders in the Storm as he strode off in the gathering thunder storm. I recall the director of A Knight's Tale recalled Heath recommending a song for the dance sequence...can't remember the name exactly but it was something Golden Hours...that was perfect for the scene. Heath's love for music was constantly his companion, including having thousands of iTunes dollars, and sharing them with his friends.
Thanks for both articles, Keren, Jackster.
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I personally think there were things Heath confided in his friend Terry, but i think Heath expected him not to share it with the world. I don't think Heath would have wanted all this since we all know that he was a very private guy.
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The Vanity Fair article (everthing scanned):
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair (http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair)
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Thanks, ynnaf. The few tidbits of insight into Heath's relationship with other actors are great.
Mostly, however, I find the reporter's style too fanciful, trying to impress. The content was also more about Terry Gilliam than about Heath. I read up to Jan.22 and scanned the rest. Christopher Plummer's quotes for Heath are among the best. He really understood Heath. His words reminded me of Michael Caine's.
Heath wasn't just an actor, he also directed himself, and others if the director indulged him. The Gambit would have been a great movie. :\'(
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The Vanity Fair article (everthing scanned):
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair (http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair)
I started reading the article but had to stop halfway through, when they described Heath's death and the way Terry found out about it. I just started crying and had to stop, I can't deal with it now. It's like going through it all over again and I can't, sorry.
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I started reading the article but had to stop halfway through, when they described Heath's death and the way Terry found out about it. I just started crying and had to stop, I can't deal with it now. It's like going through it all over again and I can't, sorry.
:ghug: Keren :ghug: no worries. I couldn't keep reading straight through either and had to skip the last page or two. I kept reading some parts because I was fascinated with the description of Heath's relationship with fellow actors on set. It's truly tragic that Heath did not get a chance to direct. I think he would have been another Ron Howard, actor-turned-director, that gave the world so many insightful movies. Eric Bana said Heath was robbed of the productive years in one's thirties. I say the world was robbed of the creative genius that was unique. It is why the loss still resonates with so many after so long. Heath was a giant sequoia in the forest of humanity. The absence of him left a huge space in the middle. :(
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That's true Andrew. and this huge space is too hard to bear because it leaves such emptiness.
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That's true Andrew. and this huge space is too hard to bear because it leaves such emptiness.
It took me a long while but now I see not the emptiness of the huge space, but the space filled with sunlight filtering through, the space to roam and dance and celebrate what was, what is, what will be.
:ghug: Keren :ghug: I hope you find your way, too.
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from the West Australia News:
Ledger’s dad blames his son for his death
8th July 2009, 19:15 WST
Racing car driver Kim Ledger believes the late star – who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January last year, aged just 28 – is accountable for his own passing because he was not carefully monitoring his medication.
He said: “We’re all responsible for what goes into us and I blame Heath for not being responsible.”
At the time of his death, it is believed the actor was mixing medication prescribed to him by three different doctors.
Ledger’s father also admitted the star’s family – including the late actor’s mother Sally, sister Kate and half-sister Olivia - had been affected by the news Michael Jackson had died from a suspected cardiac arrest possibly caused by an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Mr Ledger told Australia’s Women’s Day magazine: “On the day that Michael died I spoke to my daughters and former wife Sally and we all had such a down day.”
Mr Ledger has offered his condolences to the late pop star’s family - whose life was celebrated at a star-studded memorial service yesterday - and admits he can empathise with what they are going through.
He said: "Heath and Michael were both very private and as the closest people to them, you want to protect that. We found ourselves asking each other, ‘Would Heath have done it this way?' If not, then we weren't going to either.
"It's not for me to advise the Jackson family how to get through this, but what I will say is the saddest times are now, one-and-a-half years later. The media interest has died down, so I'm no longer surrounded by Heath and all I want to do is pick up the phone, but I can't."
Ledger is survived by his young daughter, Matilda Rose – now aged three – with his former girlfriend, actress Michelle Williams.
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=153706
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When I heard about Michael Jackson's death it had the same affect on me - it just reminded me of how I first heard the news about Heath, and that was hard. There were so many similarities in the way they died, I just couldn't bear to listen to the news. I imagined that it was very hard for the Ledger family to hear about it because of the memories it brought them, it just hit too close to home.
Just to point out, this article was about the Ledgers' reaction to MJ's death, and Kim's remark about Heath was just one little sentence in it, but look at what the editor chose to be the title. There are no limits to what these newspapers will do to get the most sensational headlines.
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For myself, it is curious and difficult to believe that MJ was almost twice the age of Heath, 50 vs. 28. I always saw MJ as a teenager, a young man refusing to grow old, whereas HL seemed an man matured beyond his age.
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For myself, it is curious and difficult to believe that MJ was almost twice the age of Heath, 50 vs. 28. I always saw MJ as a teenager, a young man refusing to grow old, whereas HL seemed an man matured beyond his age.
I never thought of it quite like that before, but it's true.
It doesn't surprise me what the newspaper chose to be the title of that article - as you say Keren, whatever they can pick out to make the most most sensationalist headline, that's the one they'll go for every time.
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despite the fear of being heretical here...
but somehow it's not completely wrong...
MJ had been pressed by everyone lately, to do the concerts etc. and surely he has been overdrugged for years by his so called personal physicians..
but heath was not one the be pressed by anyone, he pressed himself. and to take medications by different doctors without doublechecking...
he pressed himself, too much...
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I don't know about heretical, tizi, but I also don't see the connection between Michael Jackson and Heath except for the prescription drug involved in their deaths.
Heath's death was tragic and accidental with many contributing factors, pneumonia, smoking, insomnia, jet lag, anxiety, etc.
Michal Jackson's death is still unknown at this point until there is a definite answer from a coroner's inquest. Perhaps many factors contributed as well. We simply don't know for sure.
In any case, as tragic as it is, the difference between an aging star who left behind a volume of his best work from decades ago, and the death of a young and rising star with his most productive years still stretched out before him, being cut short, is incomparable. :\'(
Media will do anything to get publicity. I am sure this will be in the news for many months yet.
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I'm not saying that it's not true, Heath was responsible for what he took and his father has every right to be angry with him that he wasn't careful enough. What irritates me is that the article is basically about the Ledger family's reaction to Michael Jackson's death, but still the editor chose this one sentence of "I blame Heath" to be the title. why? I think we know why.
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In any case, as tragic as it is, the difference between an aging star who left behind a volume of his best work from decades ago, and the death of a young and rising star with his most productive years still stretched out before him, being cut short, is incomparable.
Media will do anything to get publicity. I am sure this will be in the news for many months yet.
i absolutely agree with both of you....
it's always what media make out of it... :-\\
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The Vanity Fair article (everthing scanned):
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair (http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/vanityfair)
I don't like lots of things said in this article, and I think that Heath wouldn't have liked them either. And I bet that Michelle is not very happy with some things Terry said there. Private life should remain that, private. Terry and that other guy should have only talked about Heath's films and work and his relationship and friendship with them, not about drugs, how different he was from Michelle, what he did or liked to do at home, how he had to change for Michelle, again the mention of that damn vid with Heath doing drugs, or all those details about the separation and the custody of Matilda. More material for the sharks to bite and tear apart. I feel sick.
I am truly disappointed.
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I don't like lots of things said in this article, and I think that Heath wouldn't have liked them either. And I bet that Michelle is not very happy with some things Terry said there. Private life should remain that, private. Terry and that other guy should have only talked about Heath's films and work and his relationship and friendship with them, not about drugs, how different he was from Michelle, what he did or liked to do at home, how he had to change for Michelle, again the mention of that damn vid with Heath doing drugs, or all those details about the separation and the custody of Matilda. More material for the sharks to bite and tear apart. I feel sick.
I am truly disappointed.
:ghug: Tammy :ghug: No worries about the sharks. They already had their feast last year...the video, the rumors, ad nauseum. They will likely circle around the Michael Jackson story for a while yet.
The only think I don't like is as I said, things said about Heath and Michelle, alone or together, will inevitably get back to Matilda when she gets older. I am sure she will have the good sense that Heath had to ignore most of the media crap, but it still hurts if the hurtful words come from a family friend. Although I am also disappointed, considering how much Heath regarded Terry Gileam, I also understand his intentions, to give Heath's last movie the best publicity possible to launch it successfully. He has good intentions at least.
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I don't believe that Terry Gilliam said what he said about Heath and Michelle in order to bring publicity to the movie. I think he spoke out of pain and bitterness because he really loved Heath and he hated seeing him so hurt and suffer through what he did. The article and the mentions of Heath were enough publicity without bringing Michelle into this, and I just don't believe that Terry would use their relationship on purpose in such a cynical way. I think he just wasn't thinking too much about what he said and it was an error in judgement. This man will never hurt Heath's memory on purpose.
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I know I am quite the bitch here, and I am sorry for being mean, but I am always honest or at least I try to be, and I have this powerful need to speak my mind right now so I won’t lie just to be gentle.
I still have mixed feelings about this all.
Andrew, friend, you say that Terry had good intentions and I don’t have doubts about that, but, babe, you English speaker people have a saying that goes “hell is paved with good intentions”, right?
You also say that he wanted to give Heath's last movie the best publicity possible to launch it successfully, but I wonder if he wanted to do that for Heath’s movie or for HIS movie. We can not forget that it’s his movie, he is the director, so maybe he is doing this for himself and his own work, don’t you think?
Anyway, I don’t wanna believe that he did it to give The Parnassus publicity. I want to believe Keren’s words. Because if he did it to get publicity, now that’s plain stupid. I mean, I went to see BBM because I read what it was about, I read that it was genius Ang Lee last movie, I saw the trailer, and not because I read that Jake G had a hard time after breaking up with KD, the Spiderman babe. People go to see a film or buy a book if they hear good things about them, or even if the plot or the characters are controversial and can awake some kind of polemic or discussion. But no one goes to see a film just because one of its actors, here Heath, had a hard time dealing with the custody process of his daughter. What kind of publicity that can give to a film? It’s not gonna make people go and see the film. I am not gonna see Russel C new film just because I read in a magazine that he likes to throw cell phones to paps and he does drugs too!!!!! And sure I didn’t watch Tom C last film even if I read that he had serious issues in his marriage because he kinda wanted his wife to do things the way that church of his tells him!!! How crazy and totally stupid is that? That’s why I don’t think that Terry did that to give the film publicity, because he’d have lost his mind if he thinks that speaking about Heath smoking marijuana could make people go and see his film.
And I honestly think that Heath’d never have talked about his private life to give his film the opportunity to get a distributor.
I know I am being very intolerant right now, but I can’t help it. This is how I feel. You can make that kind of mistakes if Heath had spent his life giving mixed signals about what he thought about work and private life, you can do that if Heath had talked to the media more about his life and marriage and stuff. But, damn, Heath spent his life refusing to talk about his private relationships, his family life, and he showed lots of times what he thought about paps and aggressive media, so Terry knew/knows well enough what Heath had thought about that VF article, and still he did it, he said all that. And, yeah, he can speak out of pain and bitterness, but he’s talking about other people business, not his, he’s talking about Michelle and Matilda, and they are not his family, so he had not right to talk about if Michells and Heath were different or what kinda life they had. And what about Heath and drugs? Is it out the pain too? I mean, for Christ sake, what kind of image of Heath is gonna have some people now? Were those two guys making Heath a favor talking about the stuff Heath smoked? My ex boss called me after he read the article (he clicks in the Parnassus forum because I asked him to help us) and he said to me “told you, he was a junkie. When he died I told you so and you refused to believe it, now you have the proof”. See? What Terry and that guy have done is not good for Heath.
You can have a slip, say something out of desperation and sadness, I do that, but A THING, or two, but a whole article saying things that Heath wouldn’t have liked?
Sorry, Keren, but I can not buy that. And I know that he'd never hurt Heath's memory on purpose. I don't think that he wanted to hurt his friend. But I think he was just only thinking about himself and HIS movie when he did that. He was not thinking about Heath at all. He ignored what Heath'd have felt if he could read the article. THAT is what have me this mad and disappointed.
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Every one has the right to believe what they think. I just want to correct some things you mentioned in your post Tammy: It was not Terry Gilliam who said that Heath smoked marijuana, it was Nicola Pecorini. and it was not Terry who mentioned the nasty drug video, that was the reporter (and no one from the people who were interviewed mentioned that). There were other people who talked there and it wasn't just Terry who said everything, but ever since this article was published everybody's been bashing Terry Gilliam like it all came from his mouth. I feel that he's become everybody's scapegoat in this story and I'm sick of that. I don't think he should've said what he said. But right here in your post you accused him of saying things that he didn't say. and then other people who read your post can go and say "oh, Terry Gilliam said this or that about heath" while he didn't say it. this is exactly how things get distorted along the way, and eventually a person finds himself accused with saying stuff that he didn't say.
Also, Heath said more than once that sometimes he gave interviews but by the time they were printed there was such a big difference between what he said and what was actually published. Editors don't always stick to truth when they want to get a sensational article. I said from the beginning, I didn't like that part of the article (correction again: it wasn't the whole article) and the private stuff should'nt have been discussed. but the way people on the internet have been bashing Terry Gilliam has blown out of proportion in my opinion.
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If you re read my first post, Keren, you'll see that I mentioned the other guy too (I didn't remember his name back then) when I talked about that bit about drugs, because I know that Terry didn't say that.
In my second post I didn't make distinctions between who said one thing or another. Sorry, my fault. But I was talking about Terry and the other people too, not only Terry, but since I didn't remember Nicola's name I was talking about all the things said in the article, about it in general. True that I used Terry's name, but I did it because I was replying your and Andrew's post where you both were talking about Terry. And it was Terry who talked about the custody of Matilda and about Michelle. Still, my bad. But I stick to what I said. I don't think that I am bashing Terry, and it hurt me deeply that you or another person think that I am doing that, because it says a lot about what you think about me.
I am only being honest and trying to give my opinion, because, as you said, everyone has the right to believe and express what they think. But if sharing my personal vision of something that did upset me and confused me, and trying to understand the whole thing and figure my feelings out is bashing, well, then this is not a place for me anymore.
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Tammy, if you read my post again you'll notice that I said that people on the internet have been bashing Terry Gilliam. I wasn't accusing you of doing it, I was referring to something that's been going on on certain sites on the internet ever since this article came out, and you might not have been aware of it. I've heard about this thing and it's been pissing me off for quite a while, I'm sorry if you thought that I was refering to you personally. You're the last person on earth that I think is capable of bashing anyone.
Like I said, every one of us is entitled to think and believe what we want, and certainly we are all entitled to express what we think here when things upset us, even if we disagree with each other. Lets not make it into something personal.
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I haven't posted for awhile, and maybe shouldn't now, but all of you have been like family to me and so I will take the risk of being my usual foolish self.
How long ago was it? Gee, I can't remember, it's been so long. But, sometime after Heath died, I drifted into research into what Heath was really like, and developed sources, and got my heart broken. It seemed there were villains, and I also had to rethink who Heath really was, as a person, and accept a different Heath, someone who, in the long run, was flawed, but probably much more worth our love and good will. In short, I had to separate from the Brokie community on many issues, and largely, to spare people's feelings, stay quiet.
The sources were good. I don't know if Michelle or Barb remember that far back, but I had warned them of a very bad article likely to be published, that would rattle our sense of peace. The magazine: Vanity Fair. Well, they did publish, but from a different direction, scuttling what could have been much worse. But the Wall of Silence has been cracked. People are beginning to talk, and we could be even more sorely tested, in the future.
It was easy, so long ago, when the only person who seemed to be wrongful (and that based on little information) was Mary Kate Olsen. She took the hits and we all supposed everybody else around Heath was perfect. They weren't. Nobody is. Now, based on new articles, some will find they are not so happy with Terry Gilliam, or Michelle Williams, or even Kim Ledger. My own research caused me to have considerable anger in other directions.
But I think we should have known that hurtful articles would start showing up, and that we would have different reactions, and our unity as a family would be tested. And that has happened and we need to pass the test. Respect each others point of view, express our own hurts, but stay....family.
I understand completely why Tammy is troubled and hurt. And also what Keren wrote, about being cautious in our judgments.
These articles will continue to show up, from time to time, and we can survive them and our different reactions to them. Tammy - don't go nowhere.
This is a very good place to be.
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Tony, as always I value your opinion very much. Thank you for writing this.
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You're welcome, Keren, and many thanks, as always, for the very good work you have done here. We all love Tammy so much, I just hope time heals some of those hurts. Until then, I just also want her to know, we'll all do just fine if we hang together. All of you are wonderful people. We'll ride the troubles out, and stay true to the memory of a fine man, who was and is worthy of our keeping him with us, along the way.
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I don't believe that Terry Gilliam said what he said about Heath and Michelle in order to bring publicity to the movie. I think he spoke out of pain and bitterness because he really loved Heath and he hated seeing him so hurt and suffer through what he did. The article and the mentions of Heath were enough publicity without bringing Michelle into this, and I just don't believe that Terry would use their relationship on purpose in such a cynical way. I think he just wasn't thinking too much about what he said and it was an error in judgement. This man will never hurt Heath's memory on purpose.
You are probably right. I don't question his motivation, Keren. I don't know him well enough to speculate on his motivation. I hope I didn't give them impression. I am only saying he is human, and makes mistakes. In pain or not, he should know better when talking to the press. He can be forgiven when the error is committed out of ignorance or pressure due to overwork etc.
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My ex boss called me after he read the article (he clicks in the Parnassus forum because I asked him to help us) and he said to me “told you, he was a junkie. When he died I told you so and you refused to believe it, now you have the proof”. See? What Terry and that guy have done is not good for Heath.
You can have a slip, say something out of desperation and sadness, I do that, but A THING, or two, but a whole article saying things that Heath wouldn’t have liked?
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:ghug: Tammy :ghug: no worries, babe. I know you are easily upset and I rather you speak your mind and let it all out.
I am glad you understand the complexity of the situation and not blindly point fingers. As you said, Terry probably has good intentions, but the publicity media is paved with mine fields that sometimes a single misstep results in blowing off arms and legs. Don't let your EX-boss get to you. I am glad he is your EX boss. The guy sound like a mean-spirited bully. I had one like that and I am glad to be rid of that kind of mean-spiritedness. It is poison to the soul. A sensitive person like you and me need more peace and quiet. Just ignore the bastard and move on. Not everyone thinks like that.
:ghug: Tammy :^^)
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[...]There were other people who talked there and it wasn't just Terry who said everything, but ever since this article was published everybody's been bashing Terry Gilliam like it all came from his mouth.
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Editors don't always stick to truth when they want to get a sensational article. I said from the beginning, I didn't like that part of the article (correction again: it wasn't the whole article) and the private stuff should'nt have been discussed. but the way people on the internet have been bashing Terry Gilliam has blown out of proportion in my opinion.
That's the publicity media minefield. Reporters in the best of times take quotation out of context and people read into them anyway they can. It's not Terry's fault and he probably already feels fairly bad about the whole thing. Unfortunately, that's part of the business. It's apparently a part that he does not do very well, according to his past experience. I am sure Heath sympathized with that since Heath also had trouble handling some of the media spotlights.
As I said, I trust Heath would simply smile, shrug, and move on. He was never one to hold a grudge, complain. The sooner we leave it alone, the sooner the media will climb on the Michael Jackson bandwagon and move on. The more we respond to the critics on the net, the more they revel in the pain and anguish of others. Yes, there are these sick people out there on the web, unfortunately. Surfers beware.
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Tony, I am glad you posted and I hope you will continue to return to the community with your insightful comments. Please.
You hit the nail right on the head when you pointed out the source of a lot of disappointment and pain comes from our image of Heath being shaken by how other people portray him. Frankly, I know he was not perfect, and he had issues. Also, I don't mind what other people think because it is what I think that defines my relationship with the memory of what he gave me. That's unshakable.
I like what you said, that we need to say what we feel, but respect what others say, and stay together in our community of peace and friendship. :t) :ghug: :^^) :c) ^f^
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I haven't been to this thread for quite a while and I'm sorry to have missed this discussion.
Tammy, Keren, Tony, Andrew, I appreciate all your words and the feelings you expressed. That goes for everyone else here as well. I agree with Keren that we need to be careful not to make this personal between ourselves. Clearly no harm or disrespect was intended in any of these posts. Tony, you're quite right that we need to stick together as a family and remember that even in the closest families, siblings won't always agree about everything. One of the best things I've learned from being a part of this community is the value of accepting and celebrating people for who they are without a need for them to be exactly like me in every way. And I value each of you for your special and unique gifts and personalities. :ghug:
As to this article, I too was disappointed by the discussions of personal issues, not because of their content but simply because, as Tammy pointed out, Heath was a very private person who preferred that his private life remain just that - private. I do understand though that for his friends and colleagues there may be a desire still to share some of their feelings and memories of someone they obviously admired and cared about. So I am able to give them the benefit of the doubt that they meant no harm, even while wishing they had kept some of those thoughts to themselves.
Tony, I do remember talking about some of this back in the day. And I want to be clear about one thing regarding my own personal view on this subject. I am vehemently opposed to public discussions of Heath's (or any other public figure's) private life Not because of the content. Or because I need to maintain any particular image of him. Or any of his associates. My sole reason for avoiding such discussions is that I believe in everyone's right to privacy and I feel, quite simply, that it's none of my business. So as curious as I admit that I am about a lot of things, I do not pursue knowing or verifying them because they were never my business or right to know in the first place.
And I will not judge those who do discuss these things, especially since I know that a lot of them (my friends here included) do not mean any harm or to distort any truths about anyone. In fact usually just the opposite. I just won't engage in those discussions myself. It's a personal choice and I respect yours as you respect mine. :)
The reason the forum did not allow these discussions is simply that it would not be consistent with the policy we have maintained from the beginning, which was to refrain from any speculation about the private lives of the actors or crew out of respect to all concerned. That was admittedly hard to adhere to in the aftermath of last year's loss and we deeply appreciate the cooperation that everyone extended during that time. ^f^
What else can I say but that I am so proud to be a part of this community and to know all of you. :ghug:
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I could only say ditto to the previous post, I second each word you posted Barb, this is how I feel too. Thanks! ^f^
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I haven't been to this thread for quite a while and I'm sorry to have missed this discussion.
Me too, and I agree with every single word you said!! O0 :^^)
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The company that Heath founded with his friends released a video directed by Heath. The animation is ingenious and mature. Those with a squeamish stomach may want to be aware of the sequence after about 3:30. The slaughter of humans, even in subdued animation, is still very shocking. The genius of Heath's direction is to elicit empathy, to put the audience in the whale's skins, so to speak. :( Bravo to the Masses.
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The Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coay6kEqE80
The Article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE57407T20090805
An animated music video directed by the late actor Heath Ledger debuted on the Web on Tuesday, and it's an attack on the whaling industry set to the song "King Rat" by alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
The six-minute video cartoon uses irony to make a statement against whaling, by showing whales in a commercial vessel "hunting" for humans, which they harpoon, club to death and skin, before turning them into cookies.
Ledger in 2007 presented Modest Mouse lead singer Isaac Brock with the idea for a music video that would take a stand against the whale hunts that take place off the coast of his native Australia, said social networking website MySpace, which presented the video on Tuesday.
The video was fully conceived but unfinished when Ledger died of an accidental prescription-drug overdose in January 2008, MySpace said.
After his death, The Masses, a film and music company that Ledger was involved with, completed the video, MySpace said.
The online video debut was timed to coincide with the Tuesday release of Modest Mouse's latest CD "No One's First, and You're Next," which includes the song "King Rat."
Ledger in February won a posthumous Oscar for his supporting role as The Joker in last year's Batman movie "The Dark Knight."
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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thank you! ^f^
let's say it's not an easy watch... :-\\
but again.. how much talent wasted... :\'(
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Like they wrote at the end of the video, Heath was a great defender of life. And he never hesitated to stand for his beliefs.
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Here's a direct link to "The Masses" own website and Heath's work:
http://www.wearethemasses.com/videos/modest-mouse-king-rat (http://www.wearethemasses.com/videos/modest-mouse-king-rat)
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but again.. how much talent wasted... :\'(
Yup! :\'(
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Here's a fascinating article from Daniel Auber, about making the "King Rat" video with Heath. It's taken from The Masses website.
Making "King Rat" by Daniel Auber
When Heath asked me to collaborate on this video I found it more than just a good cause, I was incredibly happy to have that first experience of he and I sitting by a desk and giving life to something together. So far our previous collaborations were of a different nature (a big movie production and a lot of cooking at dinner parties) I was confident because, in my opinion, if someone can cook together, they can also make a movie.
The creation of an artwork is a process that people enjoy in different ways. For some it's painful, for others it's joyful, but it's always hard work. The first part of the creation for the "King Rat" video (two weeks of making the animatic with Heath) had been just a lot of fun and discovery. We were both new to this kind of work, and that's what kept us excited.
A few weeks before starting I made a sketch of a fishing whale character. Heath liked it, so I knew more or less what kind of style I should draw going forward. When I joined him in London, Terry Gilliam let us work in the conference room of his visual effects company (Peerless). It was luxury: we had a massive window overlooking Covent Garden, and Terry's creative vibrations in the air.
Terry would come to see the progress every once in a while and we were excited to hear his advice. This is why Heath decided to have the "Monty Python trumpets" popping down from the clouds, and also why I proposed to have Terry's face as "The Sun" in our video. We felt like school kids inspired by our favorite teacher.
Ninety percent of the drawings that are used in the video were intended to be storyboard sketches. This was our working chain: Heath would tell me what happens in the scene, I would draw the shots, then he would edit them with the song. We laughed like children as we looked at the results, the new toy was working.
We started the process from the beginning of the song:
Blue colours are bright and serene, with a tiny tone of green suggesting a possible sinister evolution in the story.
As the video advances, the quantity of green and black increases, preparing us for darkness.
When our eyes have adjusted to the desaturated tones, a complementary bright red starts to appear.
The clip had to be shocking. The fun we were having was less important than the strength of Heath's message in favour of marine wildlife. The treatment he wrote initially was a bit longer. We had to cut the restaurant scene where the whales eat sushi made with human fingers. It didn't matter because the pet seal's close-up was a strong ending.
The powerful song by Modest Mouse was a major inspiration. Isaac's dramatic voice was driving us towards a deranged imaginative territory. It was great.
At the end of that process, in our high-tech conference room we made a projection for Terry and the Peerless people that saw us walking in and out for weeks (only Nicky Valsamakis knew exactly what was going on all the way, and obviously our Masses colleagues back home in LA).
The animatic was already a roughly functional music video by itself.
After Heath left us, I didn't have any intention of finishing the video without him. It was Sara Cline who had the idea of finishing it, so Heath's cause against whale hunting would find exposure. And we would all have the pleasure of seeing another one of his challenging works. I said yes with no hesitation.
The second stage of making the video, with lead animator Norris Houk and animator Jade Taglioli, was about bringing to life the still drawings from the animatic.
My mind was still populated by all the information and details that Heath transmitted me during the London days. I knew exactly what he had in mind for the animation. For example, his description of the whales walking towards the bow of the boat, or dancing during the party, was very precise. We both had a whale dance in the office before starting to work on that sequence.
In fact, the main quality that would have made Heath a great director, in my opinion, was his ability to be contagious with his ideas, and to describe them in a very convincing way, with a lot of joy. Work has to be fun somehow, otherwise it's not worth it.
Jade and Norris did a remarkable job animating those shots for a month. My duty was to pass the message on, as precisely as possible.
My favourite memory on this video is very far from its shocking and distinctive taste. It's quite cheesy, actually: whilst we spent long days working on the animatic, listening endlessly to interrupted bits of Isaac's haunting and cavernous voice, there was another song being played constantly coming from outside the window.
It wasn't annoying us because its paradisiac nature was having a complementary effect on us. It was Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". Every time I randomly hear that song, I think of how lucky I was to be over there for a few wonderful weeks.
http://www.wearethemasses.com/blogs/making-king-rat-daniel-auber
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A wonderful story Keren, thanks for sharing it. A good version of IZ's Over the Rainbow is on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q. To paraphrase Daniel Auber . . .
Every time I randomly hear that song, I think of how lucky I was to be over there for a few wonderful weeks.
Every time I think of Brokeback, I remember how lucky we all are to have had him for a few wonderful years. :-\\
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I love that article Keren ,and the story about "Somewhere over the rainbow" - didn't Heath once say that he loved Wizard of Oz and would watch it over and over again? :)
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Here's a fascinating article from Daniel Auber, about making the "King Rat" video with Heath. It's taken from The Masses website.
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In fact, the main quality that would have made Heath a great director, in my opinion, was his ability to be contagious with his ideas, and to describe them in a very convincing way, with a lot of joy. Work has to be fun somehow, otherwise it's not worth it.
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Thank you so much, keren. :ghug: :^^) I love hearing the insight of people who worked with Heath, and this is amazing. He shared so much, and he had so much fun.
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A wonderful story Keren, thanks for sharing it. A good version of IZ's Over the Rainbow is on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q. To paraphrase Daniel Auber . . .
Every time I think of Brokeback, I remember how lucky we all are to have had him for a few wonderful years. :-\\
I know... the world has been lucky to enjoy the gifts that he shared with us in his short 28 years. He was like a star that shined brighter than all the other stars in the sky before it fell down to earth. The world was more beautiful in his light, but now it's darker without him.
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I know... the world has been lucky to enjoy the gifts that he shared with us in his short 28 years. He was like a star that shined brighter than all the other stars in the sky before it fell down to earth. The world was more beautiful in his light, but now it's darker without him.
Although the world lost the new light that he would have created in his work, the light he shone on us will never die.
There are those who leave behind footprints in the sand of our hearts. Heath was one of those.
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Although the world lost the new light that he would have created in his work, the light he shone on us will never die.
There are those who leave behind footprints in the sand of our hearts. Heath was one of those.
Couldn't have said it better m'self, bud. :)
His light will never die. He left footprints in the sand of our hearts.
And we love him still - that has got to brighten the world a little, too, our love for him, compensate a little for the darkness that we might perceive in our grief.
:ghug:
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The company that Heath founded with his friends released a video directed by Heath. The animation is ingenious and mature. Those with a squeamish stomach may want to be aware of the sequence after about 3:30. The slaughter of humans, even in subdued animation, is still very shocking. The genius of Heath's direction is to elicit empathy, to put the audience in the whale's skins, so to speak. :( Bravo to the Masses.
The Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coay6kEqE80
The Article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE57407T20090805
An animated music video directed by the late actor Heath Ledger debuted on the Web on Tuesday, and it's an attack on the whaling industry set to the song "King Rat" by alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
The six-minute video cartoon uses irony to make a statement against whaling, by showing whales in a commercial vessel "hunting" for humans, which they harpoon, club to death and skin, before turning them into cookies.
Ledger in 2007 presented Modest Mouse lead singer Isaac Brock with the idea for a music video that would take a stand against the whale hunts that take place off the coast of his native Australia, said social networking website MySpace, which presented the video on Tuesday.
The video was fully conceived but unfinished when Ledger died of an accidental prescription-drug overdose in January 2008, MySpace said.
After his death, The Masses, a film and music company that Ledger was involved with, completed the video, MySpace said.
The online video debut was timed to coincide with the Tuesday release of Modest Mouse's latest CD "No One's First, and You're Next," which includes the song "King Rat."
Ledger in February won a posthumous Oscar for his supporting role as The Joker in last year's Batman movie "The Dark Knight."
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
Thanks so much for sharing, Andrew. Sadly, the video "cannot be shown in your country", though. Hopefully I'll find it elsewhere...
Really - was there nothing our boy could not do? I'm so proud of him, always so darn proud whenever I hear of accomplishments like this one. :)
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(Hi! I'm a newbie! :) )
This is the trailer of the new Heath's fantastic movie, "The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxxDxemjMHU
I love him...
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(Hi! I'm a newbie! :) )
This is the trailer of the new Heath's fantastic movie, "The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxxDxemjMHU
I love him...
Benvenuto Sara_EJ x***x
The forum is huge and we have a whole thread dedicated to The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassius you will find it here (http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12652.0)
And a HD version of the UK trailer and many pictures were posted here (http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12652.msg956549#msg956549)
Enjoy! :)
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Couldn't have said it better m'self, bud. :)
His light will never die. He left footprints in the sand of our hearts.
And we love him still - that has got to brighten the world a little, too, our love for him, compensate a little for the darkness that we might perceive in our grief.
:ghug:
:ghug: Laura I like to think of our candles, and ourselves, reflect a bit of the light that he gave us. As long as we remember him, his light still shines. :ghug:
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Benvenuto Sara_EJ x***x
The forum is huge and we have a whole thread dedicated to The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassius you will find it here (http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12652.0)
And a HD version of the UK trailer and many pictures were posted here (http://ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12652.msg956549#msg956549)
Enjoy! :)
Thanks!
I was mistaken! Sorry! ;)
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from afterelton 19th august...
Iconic Gay Movie Roles
by
Momo Hassan
Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Why It Mattered
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain has pretty much defined an entire era of gay filmmaking. Initially touted as a small art house favorite, Brokeback ended up an international blockbuster, drawing in audiences who deemed it a ‘universal love story’. The film went on to sweep up awards right, left and center, before so controversially failing to capture that coveted Best Picture prize.
With such praise surrounding the film, one tends to forget how incredible the performances were. And that is most true of Heath Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar, a repressed gay man in nearly unbearable internal turmoil and rarely ever able to consummate the relationship with the man that he so desperately loved.
Unlike Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), Ennis was so trapped by his fear that he was unable to even fulfil his most basic sexual desires, instead choosing to live his life behind a pseudo hard man exterior.
But what was most profound about Ledger’s role was how his agonizing heartbreak at the end of the film managed to stir emotions in both the straight and gay community alike.
In the character of Ennis, mainstream audiences, many of whom may only have been exposed to campier characters, were able to witness a portrayal that differed drastically from what they were used to. And Ledger’s heartthrob status, as well as his untimely death in 2008, adds even more texture to his tortured portrayal of Ennis Del Mar.
Whatever the case, it is undeniable that Heath’s bold portrayal is not just one of the most iconic gay performances, but one of the greatest performances of all time.
Cultural Impact: Very High
Cultural Significance: Very High
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from afterelton 19th august...
Iconic Gay Movie Roles
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Whatever the case, it is undeniable that Heath’s bold portrayal is not just one of the most iconic gay performances, but one of the greatest performances of all time.
So true. Thank you for posting it Fausta.
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Yeah that part you highlighted Keren, was so true...just reading that piece brought back such wonderful memories of the first time I watched BBM, and how it felt like a thunderbolt had just struck me, so amazed and awe struck was I at this film, this story, these characters, and most of all, Heath....who got lost in Ennis so utterly and completely.
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A recent story in the Perth newspaper:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/5841661/movie-community-open-up-about-heath/
Movie community open up about Heath
The picture of Heath Ledger that emerged from the dozens of eulogies from film industry colleagues was one of an unusually passionate and committed actor - a throwback to Method-trained greats such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Al Pacino.
However, as the pain of his passing fades, those who worked closely with Ledger during his peak years are starting to open up about what the actor went through to create a character and give us a hint about why he expired at such an early age.
Most startling is an article in the August issue of Vanity Fair in which highly regarded film journalist Peter Biskind documents Ledger's final weeks working on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
According to Biskind, author of the classic study Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Rock'n'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Ledger on the set of Gilliam's madcap latest foray into the fantastical was a study in hyperactivity.
"In our job we get to tell if somebody's rolling their eyes if they are asked to do another take. But he gave us 150 per cent. He was physically moving props around himself, to save time," the film's editor, Mick Audsley said.
Production designer Dave Warren revealed that Ledger even followed Gilliam around to look at locations, which surprised him. "He wasn't the kind of guy who would just sort of disappear into his trailer for the whole day."
However, that hyperactivity and extreme focus on the part he was playing did not stop at the end of the day. He could not switch off, recalls cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, who said work helped Ledger forget his failed relationship with Michelle Williams and separation from his daughter Matilda.
An inability to switch off and chronic insomnia - he would spend evenings rearranging the furniture in his apartment - pushed Ledger towards the prescription drugs that would eventually end his life.
Ang Lee, who directed Ledger in his breakthrough role of the sexually repressed cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, said the actor gave so much of himself in creating the character of Ennis Del Mar that it was painful to watch.
"It was a real pleasure seeing the end result but it was not a pleasure to watch him work," Lee recalled. "Heath was a hyper person, very jumpy. He couldn't keep still, which must have been physically and mentally exhausting for him."
Lee admitted he wasn't initially convinced by Ledger when he cast him as the gay cowboy alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in his Oscar-winning adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's novella.
"Heath had made a lot of bad movies but I saw something in him. I saw it in the smaller roles where he wasn't the lead, like Monster's Ball, but I still wasn't sure he could carry a movie."
It was a risk casting an actor who up to that point had a trail of big-budget flops and mixed reviews (The Four Feathers, Ned Kelly, The Sin Eater) but Lee said the thrill of the adventure drives him.
"Movies are not always about acting and photography. It is something more magical," he explained. "There's a chemical reaction between the actor and the character and it certainly happened with Heath and Ennis.
"It was when we did the scene of Ennis eating the apple pie and his former girlfriend comes in and tries to get his attention. When we looked at the dailies some of the female crew members were crying. 'Leave the man alone," they said. That's when I knew we had something special.
"I'm very proud of the work that I did with Heath. Somehow the two of us created that character that touched so many people and which nobody can take away. That's how I like to remember him."
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Thank you for posting it jackster. We knew for some time that Heath was hyperactive, I think it came hand in hand with his brilliance and creativity. He was bursting with ideas and he wanted to do so much, his body couldn't keep up with the rate his mind was racing. Happens with a lot of creative geniuses, they just can't switch off. He demanded too much of his body and his body finally said "stop". :\'(
Interesting that Ang Lee mentioned that scene of Ennis and Cassie in the Diner. I remember Heath said it was so difficult for him to shoot that scene, and how he envied Linda Cardelini because her tears came so easily.
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Thanks, Jackster.
:( :\'(
On the one hand, I really appreciate hearing what Heath's colleagues thought of him, especially Ang Lee, and the little anecdotes. On the other hand, it is so tragic to learn that after his breakup with Michelle, Heath was so unhappy, and so isolated, that with all the people who love him and all the friends who would do anything for him, Heath didn't reach out enough, didn't permit anyone to get close enough, to help him through that most difficult of times. :(
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Yeah, thanks Jackster for that interesting article...made me happy to know how well respected he was, and to read what Ang said about how they were witnessing something special with his portrayal of Ennis. That diner scene really did touch me deeply - all of Ennis's regrets and sorrows expressed so eloquently and heartbreakingly with so few words.... :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(
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Heath Ledger’s True Last Bow
By Adam Breckenridge
http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/heath-ledgers-true-last-bow/23/
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Thanks, Keren.
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New Lily Cole interview (she talks about Heath):
She is disconcertingly doll-faced. Pale bow lips that look like they’re drawn on. Cornflower-blue eyes like giant orbs. Red Crystal Tipps cartoon hair. It’s a round face that manages to look wise and gormless at the same time. It’s the face of a Marks & Spencer model who appeared controversially on the cover of French Playboy, hair in bunches, cuddling a teddy, naked except for little white socks. In the flesh, the look is more minx than exploited girlie.
It was the same extraordinary face, both sweet and uncompromising, that catapulted Lily Cole to fame after she was discovered by Storm model agency while shopping with friends in London. How could she look so babyish and so sophisticated? How could she earn so much when she was so young? (The Sunday Times Rich List estimates that she is worth at least £4m.) How could she miss so much school and earn a place at Cambridge, gaining a first this summer in her first-year exams.
It was perhaps inevitable that, after a short period of catwalk adulation, Cole would turn to acting. She had a small part in the 2007 remake of St Trinian’s, but now she is poised for a meatier role as the female lead in a film that has become memorable before it has even opened. It was an experience both wonderful and blighted, because her co-star died in the middle of filming.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has had a troubled genesis. Prior to production, its iconoclastic director, Terry Gilliam, faced a series of obstacles: the dithering of backers, the usual wrangling over money.
Gilliam took a risk on Cole, then just 19, who had never performed such a huge and integral role. There was considerable stress over how exactly she had to raise her game, but there was absolute devastation when her co-star Heath Ledger was found dead by his housekeeper in his New York loft in January 2008. Most of her scenes were with him. She worked with him perhaps more than any other member of the cast. She got to know his generous spirit. “He definitely helped me. From the beginning he understood that I would be overwhelmed and scared by the size of this project. He encouraged me and said he was really proud of me, constantly fed me support.”
Ledger’s death has been talked about so much — was it self-destruction or an accident with sleeping pills? He had chronic insomnia. He was in turmoil that he might lose his daughter, Matilda, then two, from his broken-down relationship with Michelle Williams, who he met on the rebound from Naomi Watts on the set of Brokeback Mountain. When I met Ledger I found him spiritual, wise beyond his years, a huge force of life, never someone who would have taken his own. The conundrum of his death has become an intellectual exercise.
When I saw the film I wasn’t prepared for the impact of seeing Ledger suddenly alive, real, vibrant, filling the screen, spiky with charisma. “I felt exactly the same,” says Cole. She has talked about this at length in private but never in public, until now. All those I spoke to who are connected to the film seem keen not to appear to be using the tragedy of Ledger as a marketing tool for the film. Yet still the ghouls will swell the box office.
Cole plays Valentina, Parnassus’s 16-year-old daughter. Her father, played by Christopher Plummer, has made a deal with the devil to seal her fate on her 16th birthday. She pouts when she says she is “sweet 16”, as if to say there is nothing sweet about her. She is never a victim. In the film she falls for Ledger’s rakish character. Their chemistry was real and they became very close. How hard was it to carry on without him? “It was incredibly hard. He became the driving force.” In death as in life, she means.
During the shoot, Ledger, along with many other cast members, including Lily, got the flu. After his death it was even said he had been suffering from pneumonia. He had certainly stopped drinking, and Cole recalls a consummate professional who worked meticulously. Perhaps he wanted to expunge the pain through his work. “He never told me he had pneumonia; there was no whimpering, no ‘Can I take a break?’ ”
When news of Ledger’s death broke, the cast were completely undone. They were deprived of a much-loved colleague and feared the film was unlikely to be finished. Thanks to Gilliam’s own determination and guile, it was salvaged. “Terry is the kind of person who has balls if he believes in something,” Cole says.
Ironically, the replacements that Gilliam lined up for Ledger — Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law — were arguably bigger names than Ledger himself. “People who were close to Heath wanted to do it for Heath,” Cole says. It’s as if, through them, he lived on. Her voice trails off; there is more than a note of sadness. “Johnny slipped seamlessly into the role, but that didn’t stop it being bizarre. I’m playing the same character; they are playing a character that is familiar to me but not the same actor. But when you look at the script, it could have been written that way. There are so many references to death.”
Sometimes Cole doesn’t say anything. Sometimes she gives a strange, all-knowing, echoey laugh. “In the film, everyone was part of one unit. That’s what helped us carry on. On top of that, everyone loved Heath… For everyone who knew him, it was devastating. The practicalities of continuing the production were difficult, but it seemed irrelevant. If you lose somebody you love, whether it’s at the beginning of shooting or at the end — it didn’t really matter. We were creatively challenged, yes. It was a bizarre experience. Heath was such a lovable human being. I thought I was in at the deep end at the beginning, and then look what happened.” I’m not sure if she realises what the film will do for her. It shows her as feisty and strong, with a poise and a face that could carry a film.
We’re talking after a photoshoot in LA, where she spends a lot of time. She’s wearing denim cut-offs, sandals with a big white flower between the toes, a rose-gold ring that matches her hair, and a black sweater. She’s tall, very tall, around 6ft. She’s got big breasts and there’s nothing about her that looks waif-like, frail or modellish. But maybe she has redefined what is modellish. She seems super-confident in her own skin. I say her performance as Valentina seems natural and feisty, and she giggles: “That works!” I ask if Gilliam might have been inspired by her naughty schoolgirl role in St Trinian’s. “No,” she says. “He hadn’t seen it. It came about after I’d been asked to do Rage with Sally Potter.”
Rage is a behind-the-scenes look at the modelling industry: mini-monologues, documentary-style but scripted by Potter. It features Jude Law’s alarming portrayal of a transvestite (I didn’t realise it was him until I read the credits) and Cole playing a model called Lettuce Leaf. Her delivery is drily perfect, full of irony. I recognise her special ironic laugh as one from her performance as Lettuce Leaf.
I wondered if she’d improvised a lot around the original script of Rage. “Everyone asks that, but the script didn’t change that much from when I first read it.” In Rage, she didn’t work with any of the other actors. Each performance is made up of monologues, so she too was shocked when she saw Jude Law take on a role as a transvestite. “Lots of people couldn’t believe it was him.”
Her performance as Lettuce Leaf is freshly observed, measured and shows an ability to send herself up — or at least her model self. Discussing another model becoming undone by anorexia, Lettuce Leaf says: “The way to be big is to be little.” Does that still sum up modelling? Was she ever asked to be smaller? “There’s definitely still a fascination with being thin and skinny in the modelling world. I also think there’s a celebration of curves. I have breasts. I love my breasts. There are models now who have more curves, and that’s seen as a good thing. I’ve never studied the correlation between the decades of plenty and the size of models, but it’s interesting, for sure. I was never asked to lose weight. I’m assuming people who are less successful are the ones who are told they need to be teeny to be so.”
One imagines that Cole was always instilled with confidence and cleverness. At the same time she is fresh, funny and doesn’t take herself seriously. In 2003, Steven Meisel photographed her for Italian Vogue. By 2004 she was British model of the year, and by 2007 she was making tabloid headlines — “Model Risks Career for Learning” — after deciding to start at King’s College, Cambridge. She is bemused that people find it strange that you can be gorgeous and clever. She isn’t at Cambridge to have her intelligence validated, nor does she think it will lead to a specific career.
“People change direction all the time; there’s a lot of value in that. I fell into modelling. It wasn’t a choice; not that I was forced into it. I just got asked one day to do it, and I believe in taking opportunities.”
When she arrived at Cambridge there was already a sense of her separateness. She had deferred her place for two years, and had done Gilliam’s film. Cambridge was not a means to an end; she just wanted to learn things. She doesn’t yet know where she will live next term, maybe in a flat, maybe a hall. As much as she can, she pursues a normal student life. Does she find it hard to make friends? She must be far richer and more accomplished than most girls her age. Doesn’t she find girls spiteful and jealous?
“I know what you mean about girls being like that, having gone to a girls’ school, but I wouldn’t want to attract those kind of people as friends and they wouldn’t attract me. I’ve been blessed with friends who are just happy for me.”
Is she expected to buy all the rounds of drinks? “No, a lot of my friends are working. A lot of them are doing well. None of us spend money extravagantly, so there’s not a huge disparity. So that’s never an issue,” she sighs, irritated.
“I was with my sister just last week. I know she really loves me. Within that love there’s no jealousy. There’s an acceptance of her life and my life and their differences. I don’t think she’d want my life, running around all the time, being recognised, all those things that come with it.” She pauses, then laughs: “But I’m sure she’d like to make as much money as I’m making!”
Cole grew up in a bohemian family that moved from Torquay to London when she was a baby. Her mother, an artist and a writer, was left on her own with two small daughters. I ask if she is more like her mother or father. She says her mother thinks she’s very much like her father, and Cole is not sure if that is meant as a compliment. He went to live in Spain about 15 years ago. She doesn’t really know why. “I guess he just preferred it there. He likes to make things. He built a boat, a 64ft yacht, because he wanted to sail around the world. He’d already built that by himself when he met my mum on the Bayswater Road. He was selling jewellery that he’d made and she was selling paintings.
“I don’t know him that well. I lived with my mum growing up in London. I take after my mum as well, because she’s an unusual, free-spirited person. She’s often said I take after my dad, his wild personality. Perhaps she’s just assigning the bad things to him. She thinks my stubbornness and my being quite smart comes from him.”
Does she see him at all? “Every year, every few years.” There is no hint of sadness, instead a hint of intrigue: intrigued by the father she doesn’t really know, intrigued by the maleness missing in her upbringing. There was no stepdad. And her mother still doesn’t have a boyfriend. At home there were just three 6ft redheaded females. Was that as fiery as it sounds? “Sure. I don’t think we clashed. Mum is a very peaceful woman. But me and my sister... What can I say? I’m calm now, but as a child I was very passionate. Either very happy or very loving or very raging. I was quite sure about things. Me and my sister fought a lot.” They get on well now, and her sister teaches at the primary school that she used to attend.
When she was a little girl she had a spell at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which she hated.
“I went to a state school which did a lot of performing arts. I acted a lot there. I had a scholarship. Then I went to Latymer [in Hammersmith], and they had an amazing theatre department, but I was always away modelling so much, it didn’t make sense for me to do drama, because you have to rehearse with the whole group. But acting was the thing I always loved.”
Cole excelled at both arts and sciences. She did her maths GCSE a year early. “The logical part of me loved the idea of maths. I found the creative aspect of English harder because the marking is so ambiguous, whereas maths stuff is either right or wrong.” Her love of maths strikes me as odd. Everything else about her seems so spontaneous, fluid, ambiguous. Perhaps it partly explains why university is so important to her. Maybe it’s the intellectual challenge of maths that appeals to her.
Will she finish her degree? She deliberates. “I’m going to see. I would like to. I like learning. I was going to do social and political science, then I switched to history of art, but I could have done either. I can get impassioned about politics, but I find studying it can lead to a boxy way of looking at the world, so I was put off studying it.”
And her own personal politics? “I don’t think there’s one political system that’s watertight. I believe in freedom, personal liberty.”
She doesn’t want to be pinned down about this. She admires Obama, doesn’t commit her thoughts on Brown, and we go into a brief if vague discussion about the nature of freedom. She would make a great politician. She gives something of herself in every answer, but never necessarily answers the question you ask her.
Cole is not sure how her future will play out, but a bad boy, a yacht and a beach in the south of France would never be enough for her. Would she say she was conventional in any way? “What is the implication of that question? You don’t ask a person who you think is conventional that question. So the implication is you don’t think I’m very conventional.” She’s laughing rather than irritated. “My family is important, and my close friends are important, and believing in love is important. I haven’t got a lot of stability, because I’m running around, but I’m seeking stability in relationships with friends, family and lovers. So in those ways I am quite conventional. And I want to get married and have children. That’s quite conventional. It’s human nature.”
I wonder if she plans to marry her boyfriend, the LA-based 36-year-old American actor Enrique Murciano, who starred in the long-running detective series Without a Trace and who she’s been with for a year.
“Who knows?” she says, with a look that suggests she might really like that. “Yes,” she concedes. “I love him and he knows that. And he loves me. So we’ll see.”
I am sure she will mostly get what she wants. Parnassus, with all its dramatic background, is an incredible showcase. She went into it a model and has emerged as a rare talent who will one day be a draw in her own right.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6812668.ece (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6812668.ece)
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Thanks, ynnaf, she's amazing ... reminds me of Heath when he was doing A Knight's Tale, full of talents, hopes, and dreams.
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What fantastic videos
Thank you for posting links and info here x
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What fantastic videos
Thank you for posting links and info here x
I quote this¡ Thank you all ¡ :ghug: :ghug: :ghug: These informations serve to love Heath still more,if it's possible...
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This is from an interview that Norman Wilner did with Terry Gilliam at the TIFF, I'm quoting the part where he talked about Heath.
There it is. Heath. I can’t not ask about Ledger – and, like virtually everyone else who worked with the actor, Gilliam is intensely protective of his friend’s memory.
“That’s the stuff that just makes me crazy,” he says. “It happened the other night here – a lady journalist came up to me and said ‘oh, yeah, all the drugs and everything really killed him.’”
Gilliam draws back in his chair, reliving the memory: “‘What the f*** are you talking about? You have no idea who that kid was.’ He was probably one of the most grounded people I’ve ever met. He was very old for his age – I’ve said he was about 240 years old when he died. There was such wisdom in that kid, and such excitement about everything; he was just learning, he was sucking it all in – and he was just getting better and better and better. We have lost probably the greatest actor of a couple generations. And just an extraordinary human being, as well. They don’t quite understand, and all that f***ing shit that was going on – that was not him."
“Heath had the ability which all the great actors had, which is the ability to play. It’s play, what they’re doing. When we were getting this thing going and he was shooting (The Dark Knight) in London, he used to come back giggling, and saying ‘you can’t believe what I got away with today! I worked with Gary Oldman’ – who he was utterly in awe of – ‘and I’m doing this scene, and Gary can’t do anything! I’m invulnerable! You can smash me to pieces, and I don’t care!’ And he was just giggling with glee. That’s what people don’t understand, because we’ve been so beaten to death by American method acting, thinking that you’ve got to ‘be’ the character. No, you play the character, that’s what you do.”
http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=979&p=11509#p11493 (http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=979&p=11509#p11493)
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Thank you for posting this Keren. :ghug:
That’s what people don’t understand, because we’ve been so beaten to death by American method acting, thinking that you’ve got to ‘be’ the character. No, you play the character, that’s what you do.”
That's a great distinction and a very good way of putting it. It's also something that Heath himself seemed to try to explain in a lot of interviews. That once he'd left the set, he left the characters and all their angst behind too. He was not the characters he played, he was just an amazingly talented artist who knew how to convince us for a couple hours at a time that he was.
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Well said Barb, you are so right. All these people who said that he couldn't shake the Joker character off him and that it drove him to a dangerous state of mind, they just didn't have a clue. He was like a kid in a playground.
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I think that's exactly how he would have described himself Keren. :ghug:
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Heath at heart of last film: Gilliam
AAP September 27, 2009, 6:25 pm
Heath Ledger's spirit lives on in his final film, director Terry Gilliam says.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is due for release in the UK on October 16 and Gilliam says the late Australian star, who died in January 2008, would have wanted the movie finished.
"Heath had been running full pelt, carrying the whole film on his shoulders. Telling me what to do; insatiable, exhausting," Gilliam told The Observer on Sunday.
"The thing about Heath was that he was all positive," Gilliam added.
"There wasn't a darkness about him and we had to hold on to that. It eased the grief in a way. Because even after he died we were still working with him every day ... I think it is important that we got it done. Heath would have wanted to see it finished."
Gilliam said when he first heard of Ledger's death, he didn't know how he could continue with the project.
Only two-thirds of Ledger's role had been filmed and investors began pulling out the morning after news of his death broke.
"You can't believe how quickly the money ran away from this thing," Gilliam said.
It was Gilliam's 31-year-old daughter, Amy, working for the first time as a producer, who convinced him the film could be completed.
Ledger's friend Johnny Depp filled some of the remaining scenes, while Jude Law and Colin Farrell covered the rest and Gilliam rewrote the script to include the capacity for shape-shifting within the character.
Gilliam also had to deal with his emotional trauma over Ledger's death in New York from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of just 28.
He said he was helped by a meeting with the actor's family, during which they cried and laughed while sharing stories and memories of the star, who won a posthumous Oscar for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
"He was so strong," Gilliam said.
"That's why none of it makes sense. The last night before he died we were shooting in Clerkenwell in London, this scene where Dr Parnassus's wagon collapses.
"The last piece of film of Heath is of him holding on for dear life to the back of a runaway travelling theatre. What a way to go! He was doing everything that night, all his own stunts. You really felt as a director there was nothing he wasn't capable of."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/6105485/heath-at-heart-of-last-film-gilliam/ (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/6105485/heath-at-heart-of-last-film-gilliam/)
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I am more than a little confused by Jackster's post above, containing an interview with Terry Gilliam. The last lines seem to be saying Heath was filming in London the night before he died.
It may be a minor point to some, but I had thought Heath had been back in New York for two or three days. Whatever we read those first days, weeks, and even months have become a blur to many of us, but I am sure I had read he had gone for groceries 1-2 days before, and the cashier had reported that he was his usual modest self, bagging his purchases, himself, to be helpful.
Am I reading the interview wrong? If he was in the film shoot in Clerkenwell the night before, how could he have been in his apartment in New York taking a call from a director friend, also the night before?
Maybe it's one sentence from Terry Gilliam fading too easily into the following sentence and so it is easily mis-read. I can't make any sense of it unless that's the case. Did anybody else notice the meaning of what was said wasn't so easy to disentangle? Or have I got it wrong the other way and Heath was, in fact, in London the night before he passed on? I guess I need to read the last part again and try to sort it out.
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Good catch, Tony. O0
To be honest, I hadn't read the whole article. Since you pointed it out, I believe you are right. Perhaps Terry was confused by the time difference of six hours between London and New York. :s) In any case, I don't think it's much of a big deal. What Terry is trying to say is that Heath was doing his own stunts, like he normally would do. I recall he shot scenes in Four Feathers that involved him doing stunts that Adam taught him while filming Ned Kelly. The director said they basically had to do it without telling anyone because the insurance people would go crazy. You can see him jumping on to a galloping horse while holding on to the saddle horn. It's really impressive. :h:
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I am more than a little confused by Jackster's post above, containing an interview with Terry Gilliam. The last lines seem to be saying Heath was filming in London the night before he died.
It may be a minor point to some, but I had thought Heath had been back in New York for two or three days. Whatever we read those first days, weeks, and even months have become a blur to many of us, but I am sure I had read he had gone for groceries 1-2 days before, and the cashier had reported that he was his usual modest self, bagging his purchases, himself, to be helpful.
Am I reading the interview wrong? If he was in the film shoot in Clerkenwell the night before, how could he have been in his apartment in New York taking a call from a director friend, also the night before?
Maybe it's one sentence from Terry Gilliam fading too easily into the following sentence and so it is easily mis-read. I can't make any sense of it unless that's the case. Did anybody else notice the meaning of what was said wasn't so easy to disentangle? Or have I got it wrong the other way and Heath was, in fact, in London the night before he passed on? I guess I need to read the last part again and try to sort it out.
He probably meant, the "last night of shooting" before Heath died. That's how I read it. That jumped out at me also, and I believe he just meant the last night they had shot. Because then everyone left, to meet up later in Vancouver, right? And Heath went back to NY.
kathy
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Thanks, Andrew and Kathy. I had thought I was the only one that saw some disjointing of the time frame, suggested by those last sentences. I have gone back and read it yet again, and something else seemed possible: Gilliam was emotionally connecting two separate events in his mind, the last scenes Heath appeared in, and very quickly after Heath had left, the last scenes that were shot before the disaster that caused all of us here to go into a blurred state of disbelief.
In doing so, maybe he was engaging in the poetic license that was open to any and all that cared for Heath Ledger. This seems all the more possible because Gilliam's second sentence, IMO, ranks as one of the most emotional and colorful epitaphs to be found in his various interviews.
The reality was that Heath was in New York, resting up, or trying to, before going on to Vancouver. But the blurred impression from Gilliam's interview, that he was still there, the night of the last shooting could also said to be true in a poetic sense: he WAS still there. As long as I'm not confused any more over what seemed to be a breach of time frame, I am very comfortable with the romanticism implied by that breach. That trait could be said to be part of why each of us is here, so it could not be denied to Terry Gilliam, if that was, in fact, what caused those images to blend in his mind.
Thanks again to both of you, and also to Jackster for finding and posting what was there.
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Thanks again to both of you, and also to Jackster for finding and posting what was there.
More than welcome friend.
I think you, Andrew, and Kathy have got it right here. What was left out here in his statement was maybe some editorial help, so that it would read better. Such as: "the last night (of shooting), before Heath died, we were shooting in Clerkenwell . . ." This is what good copy editors get paid to do, to make what people say and what people read make sense. Don't always happen, huh? ::)
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Perfectly put jackster. O0 That's exactly the way I read it too.
It's been so great to see all of the glowing reviews, both for the film as a whole and for Heath's performance. :)
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Perfectly put jackster. O0 That's exactly the way I read it too.
It's been so great to see all of the glowing reviews, both for the film as a whole and for Heath's performance. :)
I completely agree ¡ But it's great,and at the same so sad... :_(
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Search on for Ledger scholarship winner
By Peter Mitchell, AAP October 7, 2009, 3:47 am
Australians in Film are looking for a young Australian actor to carry on the spirit of Heath Ledger.
Heath Ledger's family and Los Angeles-based Australians in Film (AIF) have embarked on a new search for a young Australian actor to carry on the spirit of the late Oscar winner and Dark Knight star.
The winner will receive the 2010 Heath Ledger Scholarship.
Sydney's Oliver Ackland, 29, was awarded the inaugural scholarship at a red carpet event at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel earlier this year.
The scholarship is designed to open doors to Hollywood casting directors and studios.
The 2009 scholarship was backed by Hollywood A-Listers Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Hugh Jackman, Deborra-Lee Furness, Phil Noyce, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Ledger's former fiancee, Michelle Williams.
Judges included film director Gregor Jordan and Oscar nominee Rachel Griffiths.
"We are honoured and proud to know that the Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship continues to be so well supported and respected within the industry," Ledger's mother, Sally, said.
The scholarship includes up to $US10,000 ($A11,396), a Qantas Australia-US roundtrip ticket, a VIP Package from casting service Showcast and access to LA-based Breakdown Services.
The Showcast package features a complimentary listing in the Showcast print and online publications and free multimedia exposure online on Showcast.
Breakdown Services will facilitate a promotion of the winner on the Virtual Channel Network and organise a complimentary five minute showreel and membership on the Breakdown Services Actor Access system
The winner's showreel link will be posted to LA agents for representation consideration and Breakdown Services will set up meetings for the winner with key casting directors
Breakdown Services will also publicise the scholarship to all LA based casting directors and agents via their network.
AIF and scholarship chairperson, Susie Dobson, said applications will be accepted from October 5 to November 30, 2009, and the winner will be announced in Hollywood on the eve of the March 7 Academy Awards ceremony.
Applications are available online at www.australiansinfilm.org (http://www.australiansinfilm.org).
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There will never be another Heath...
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There will never be another Heath...
True enough.
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Thanks, Jackster. That's wonderful. Heath was always helping his fellow Aussie actors, letting them stay at his LA home, etc. He would be so proud to know the scholarship is helping some actor open doors and getting opportunities and generally making a hard life easier.
I recall Heath's agent Alexander said that at one point, Heath was so broke that he borrowed money from him. I hope many Australian talents get discovered through the scholarship. It will put Heath's name into the history books when one of these win an Oscar or Emmy or whatever.
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This is not a new item, but I can't remember if it was posted here before.
Reading Ledger’s lips
Local actor hired to lip-read actor’s last remaining footage
A Vancouver actor and mime was tapped to lip-read some of the last footage of Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger.
Max Fomitchev, a local deaf actor, and wife Selena Lohan, were asked to decipher 11 minutes of footage shot during the making of Ledger’s last film, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Ledger died Jan. 22 in New York City. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell replaced him in the role.
The footage, which has no audio, was taken from camera or costume tests during filming.
Fomitchev and Lohan spent three hours watching the footage.
“We were able to fill out what he was saying, and some of it was cheeky, a little sassy and rude,” Lohan said.
“We got to know him so well … he’s got such a sense of humour. He’s so playful.”
At one point, Ledger stopped, broke from character, and said, “I’m really not feeling very well,” she said, adding that the insight, so close to the actor’s death almost made her tear up.
“By the end of the three hours we felt like we had lost somebody.”
They were able to lip-read about 70 per cent of what the actor was saying, but don’t know how the deciphered footage will be used.
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/90241 (http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/90241)
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I think it has already been posted here,or at least,I have read it somewhere...It's the same,because the important here is that something were wrong inside Heath and nobody could help him.My poor boy... :_(
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Thanks, Keren.
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At one point, Ledger stopped, broke from character, and said, “I’m really not feeling very well,” she said, adding that the insight, so close to the actor’s death almost made her tear up.
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A-Listers Set For Ledger’s Swan Song – Dr. Parnassus Screening For Australians In Film Los Angeles
A STAR-studded gathering will meet in Hollywood next month to watch Heath Ledger’s final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
The three actors who stepped in to finish the movie after Ledger’s death in 2008, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, are on the guest list for the screening at the Montablan Theatre on December 8.
The film’s other stars, Vern Troyer, Tom Waits and Lily Cole, have also been invited.
There is also likely to be plenty of Australian A-List stars at the screening as the night is being hosted by LA-based organisation, Australians in Film, to support the 2010 Heath Ledger Scholarship.
The scholarship is designed to help a young Australian actor break into Hollywood.
The scholarship, in its second year, is supported by the Ledger family, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Baz Luhrmann, Phil Noyce, Rachel Griffiths, Gregor Jordan and Michelle Williams.
http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/2009/12/02/a-listers-set-for-ledgers-swan-song-dr-parnassus-screening-for-australians-in-film-los-angeles/ (http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/2009/12/02/a-listers-set-for-ledgers-swan-song-dr-parnassus-screening-for-australians-in-film-los-angeles/)
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Theresa did an interview with Nicola Pecorini, the cinematographer of Dr Parnassus who was also a very close friend of Heath. He said such beautiful things about our boy. Here's the link (it was posted on the Dr Parnassus thread but I think it's worth posting here too):
http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/2009/12/06/exclusive-nicola-picorini-director-of-photography-talks-to-dr-parnassus-support-site-about-the-film-heath-ledger-terry-gilliam/ (http://imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/blog/2009/12/06/exclusive-nicola-picorini-director-of-photography-talks-to-dr-parnassus-support-site-about-the-film-heath-ledger-terry-gilliam/)
They talk about Heath at the beginning of the interview, then Nicola talks about the movie and working with Terry Gilliam, and then towards the end he talks about Heath again, in length. It is so worth reading. Many of the things he said were mentioned by other friends of Heath as well... his insatiable curiousity and hunger for knowledge. His rare wisdom and depth. His generosity and how much he gave to others. Nicola also talked about what he wanted to do next, his plans for the future. I had to hold back the tears, reading about all these things he wanted to do and never got the chance. The things Nicola said about him were beautiful, but it made me so emotional and sad, to be reminded again of what an amazing, incredible man he was and what a huge loss his death was. There are just no words for such a loss. It breaks my heart.
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And, his curiosity was endless, he was like a sponge. If something interested him he would soak in it and never be satisfied till he would understand it and grasp the essence of it. His generosity matched his hunger for knowledge.
What a sweet and interesting interview;thanks for sharing it with us,Keren ¡ :^^) It shows us one more time how great as an actor and as a person Heath was and,as you say,what a great loss not only the movie's world has had,but simply,the good people. :_(
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JOHNNY DEPP comments on HEATH LEDGER!!!
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/12/16/johnny-depp-on-taking-over-for-heath-ledger-in-parnassus/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/12/16/johnny-depp-on-taking-over-for-heath-ledger-in-parnassus/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
"Though the circumstances of my involvement are extremely heartrending and unbelievably sad, I feel privileged to have been asked aboard to stand in on behalf of dear Heath ... He was the only player out there breathing heavy down the back of every established actor's neck with a thundering and ungovernable talent that came up on you quick, hissing rather mischievously with that cheeky grin, 'Hey ... get on out of my way boys, I'm coming through!' And does he ever!!!"
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Thanks for this article,HU ¡ :^^) Indeed,everybody who knew him can only have kind and grateful words about him... :_(
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Washington: Johnny Depp has said he's privileged to play the role originally meant for Heath Ledger in new movie The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
Ledger had passed away due to an accidental drug overdose in January 2008, halfway through the filming.
"Though the circumstances of my involvement are extremely heartrending and unbelievably sad, I feel privileged to have been asked aboard to stand in on behalf of dear Heath...," Contactmusic quoted him as telling Moviefone.com.
He added: "He was the only player out there breathing heavy down the back of every established actor's neck with a thundering and ungovernable talent that came up on you quick, hissing rather mischievously with that cheeky grin, 'Hey... get on out of my way boys, I'm coming through!' And does he ever!"
An ensemble cast of Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Depp has filled in Ledger's shoes for the film.
http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_johnny-depp-privileged-to-replace-heath-ledger-in-new-film_1325036 (http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_johnny-depp-privileged-to-replace-heath-ledger-in-new-film_1325036)
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Matt Damon talks about Heath:
"Heath's the best actor I've ever worked with," he says. "Coming off The Brothers Grimm, which wasn't particularly well-received, I remember telling people about him. 'Heath Ledger, you mean the guy from A Knight's Tale?' they would say. I'd tell them, 'No, you wait!' And then he did Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight. People just got a glimpse of what he was going to do. He was so full of life. I don't think I'll ever get over that, nor will anybody who knew him. He was a miracle of a man. It's just horrible. It sucks." He starts to tear up, and gulps down some much-needed mineral water.
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html (http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html)
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Matt Damon talks about Heath:
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html (http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html)
People just got a glimpse of what he was going to do. He was so full of life. I don't think I'll ever get over that, nor will anybody who knew himNor people who wasn't lucky to know him,Matt... :_( Thank you for this article,ynaff,another of the dozens from people who knew him and loved him... :^^)
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Matt Damon talks about Heath:
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html (http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/matt-damon-golden-boy-20091222-lb0e.html)
Thanks, ynnaf. "He was a miracle of a man." :_(
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Thanks, ynnaf. "He was a miracle of a man." :_(
Yes, he was. Thank you for this quote ynnaf, it was heartbreaking but beautiful. :_(
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Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrel talk about completing Heath's role in The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus:
I especially loved what Colin said...
Johnny Depp:
“Maestro Gilliam has made a sublime film. Wonderfully enchanting and beautiful, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is a uniquely ingenious, captivating creation; by turns wild, thrilling and hilarious in all its crazed, dilapidated majesty. Pure Gilliam magic!!!
It was an honor to represent Heath. He was the only player out there breathing heavy down the back of every established actors neck with a thundering and ungovernable talent that came up on you quick, hissing rather mischievously with that cheeky grin, “hey… get on out of my way boys, I’m coming through…” and does he ever!!! Heath is a marvel, Christopher Plummer beyond anything he’s ever done, Waits as the Devil is a God, Lily Cole and Andrew Garfield, the very foundation, are spectacular, Verne Troyer simply kicks ass and as for my other cohorts, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, they most certainly did Master Ledger very proud, I salute them.
Though the circumstances of my involvement are extremely heart-rending and unbelievably sad, I feel privileged to have been asked aboard to stand in on behalf of dear Heath.”
Jude Law:
“I have always loved Terry Gilliam’s films. Their heart, their soul, their mind, always inventive, touching, funny and relevant.
When I got the call, it was a double tug. I liked Heath very much as a man and admired him as an actor. To help finish his final piece of work was a tribute I felt compelled to make. To help Terry finish his film was an honour paid to a man I adore. I had a great time on the job.
Though we were all there in remembrance, Heath’s heart pushed us with great lightness to the finish.”
Colin Farrell:
“It’s not hard for me to imagine that if I ever look back on the films I’ve been a part of, and the stories I’ve had a hand in telling, one will stand out as so unique an experience, as to be incomparable. This experience was the shooting of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The reasons for its uniqueness, sadly, are probably obvious to anyone who reads this.
Three of us had been asked to complete a task that had been set in motion by a man we greatly liked and respected as both a person and an artist. Being part of this film was never about filling Heath’s shoes as much as seeing them across the finish line. How I wish he had brought the film to its completion himself. Of course the whole crew felt this way. And the cast that we joined felt it too. It was this spirit of grieving the loss of Heath, that Johnny and Jude and I joined. But there was also a sense of dogged insistence. Insistence that Heath’s last piece of work should not be kept in the shadow of the light of day.
More than anything though – more than the sadness and shock, the vulnerability and un-suredness as to whether it was right to complete the film or not – was an incredible sense of love. A community of people, caterers and actors, electricians and make up artists had been brought together in a recognized sense of love and obligation, for and to, one of cinemas finest actors and most generous of men. It will be this sense of love amidst the sadness I will remember most. Such a gift and an honor, from Heath, to be a part of the trail that he left behind. RIP Heath Ledger x”
http://my.cineplex.com/showbiz-news/2009/12/depp-law-farrell-speak-out-about-their-part-imaginarium-doctor-parnassus/ (http://my.cineplex.com/showbiz-news/2009/12/depp-law-farrell-speak-out-about-their-part-imaginarium-doctor-parnassus/)
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Thanks, Keren, it is wonderful to hear what the three of them felt....never about filling Heath's shoes, but a dogged insistence to them walk across the finish line. :(
I look forward to watching the film soon to open in Vancouver tomorrow, I think.
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Thanks,Keren for this article that,one more time,shows us how loved Heath was for anyone who had worked with him.And,yes,I love specially what Colin says...
A community of people, caterers and actors, electricians and make up artists had been brought together in a recognized sense of love and obligation, for and to, one of cinemas finest actors and most generous of men. :_(
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This is this time of the year, and once every 10 years, reviewers are making lists of the best... I prefered posting this here since it is more about Heath.
Peter Travers' 10 Best Movies of the Decade (Rolling Stone Magazine)
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4 (http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4)
7. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
The late Heath Ledger helped define the decade as the Joker in The Dark Knight. But for me, the Ledger role that will endure is Ennis Del Mar, the married Wyoming ranch hand daring a forbidden love (it's 1963) with rodeo rider Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. The Taiwanese director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon walked volatile ground with this adaptation of Annie Proulx's story. But Ledger gave the film its soul. He didn't just know how Ennis moved, spoke and listened; he knew how he breathed. Seeing him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jack's closet is a scene that pierced your heart. This landmark movie did the same.
I could only agree with Mr. Travers, Ennis Del mar was Heath's best role.
Now I'm out of here since I'm a big basket case. :_( :_( :_(
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This is this time of the year, and once every 10 years, reviewers are making lists of the best... I prefered posting this here since it is more about Heath.
Peter Travers' 10 Best Movies of the Decade (Rolling Stone Magazine)
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4 (http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4)
7. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
The late Heath Ledger helped define the decade as the Joker in The Dark Knight. But for me, the Ledger role that will endure is Ennis Del Mar, the married Wyoming ranch hand daring a forbidden love (it's 1963) with rodeo rider Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. The Taiwanese director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon walked volatile ground with this adaptation of Annie Proulx's story. But Ledger gave the film its soul. He didn't just know how Ennis moved, spoke and listened; he knew how he breathed. Seeing him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jack's closet is a scene that pierced your heart. This landmark movie did the same.
I could only agree with Mr. Travers, Ennis Del mar was Heath's best role.
Now I'm out of here since I'm a big basket case. :_( :_( :_(
I could only agree as well... with every word. :_(
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This is this time of the year, and once every 10 years, reviewers are making lists of the best... I prefered posting this here since it is more about Heath.
Peter Travers' 10 Best Movies of the Decade (Rolling Stone Magazine)
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4 (http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/31234572/peter_travers_10_best_movies_of_t/photo/4)
7. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
The late Heath Ledger helped define the decade as the Joker in The Dark Knight. But for me, the Ledger role that will endure is Ennis Del Mar, the married Wyoming ranch hand daring a forbidden love (it's 1963) with rodeo rider Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. The Taiwanese director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon walked volatile ground with this adaptation of Annie Proulx's story. But Ledger gave the film its soul. He didn't just know how Ennis moved, spoke and listened; he knew how he breathed. Seeing him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jack's closet is a scene that pierced your heart. This landmark movie did the same.
I could only agree with Mr. Travers, Ennis Del mar was Heath's best role.
Now I'm out of here since I'm a big basket case. :_( :_( :_(
I agree too;Heath WAS Ennis DelMar.Period. :_( :_( :_(
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Washington Post's 10 most important blockbuster of the decade:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401380.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401380.html)
[listed in chronological order...]
10. "The Dark Knight" (2008): In the beginning of the decade, "Spider-Man" was the comic-book movie to which all others in the genre were compared. Then Christopher Nolan's moody, incendiary, technically impressive film came along and set a new bar. No one doubted that "The Dark Knight" would be a hit. But few thought a movie with such twisted themes could land right behind "Titanic" and a notch ahead of "Star Wars" on the list of all-time top-grossing movies. An unforgettable Joker (played by the late Heath Ledger) proved otherwise.
How appropriate...Heath had the last word... the unforgettable Joker. :(
Still memorable, forever.
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Washington Post's 10 most important blockbuster of the decade:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401380.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401380.html)
[listed in chronological order...]
How appropriate...Heath had the last word... the unforgettable Joker. :(
Still memorable, forever.
I quote this,in every single word... Unforgettable Joker... :_(
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The following is from an interview with Terry Gilliam published in Movieline on December 23:
One last thing I wanted to ask you: There was that Modest Mouse video that Heath directed that was completed posthumously. I had read that you were involved initially, can you tell me how?
He was working on it with a guy named Daniel Auber, who was the storyboard artist on the script. Heath was in London for the Joker, so Daniel came over to work and I gave them the boardroom to my effects company. They were busy working there and I was throwing my two cents in every so often. Actually, if you look at the sun in that video, I am the sun. [Laughs] So they were working in the boardroom and that was the day that I was doing some special effects shows for the guys, and that’s when Heath slipped me that note asking, “Can I play Tommy in Parnassus?” It was magical.
Has anyone any further information on this video? Can it be found anywhere?
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Hi CH...I'm sure I saw this posted somewhere else but here it is again:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ma53_dV8U#)
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@ chowhound
We merged you new thread to this existing one, the video was originally posted here:
http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12695.msg955557#msg955557 (http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12695.msg955557#msg955557)
Unfortunately due to copyright issues it could no longer be seen.
Hi CH...I'm sure I saw this posted somewhere else but here it is again:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ma53_dV8U#)
@ Min, thanks for reposting it but due to copyright issues Sony decided to block it to be viewed from many countries... including Canada. :(
If someone have a soft copy saved somewhere please let me know, I maybe could save it and have it posted to the forum, safely! Please note I wrote maybe, this copyright thing might be an obstacle.
For now I found this post from jackster and the link is still available to watch. :)
You need Quicktime to play it BTW.
Here's a direct link to "The Masses" own website and Heath's work:
http://www.wearethemasses.com/videos/modest-mouse-king-rat (http://www.wearethemasses.com/videos/modest-mouse-king-rat)
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@ chowhound
We merged you new thread to this existing one, the video was originally posted here:
http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12695.msg955557#msg955557 (http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=12695.msg955557#msg955557)
Unfortunately due to copyright issues it could no longer be seen.
@ Min, thanks for reposting it but due to copyright issues Sony decided to block it to be viewed from many countries... including Canada. :(
If someone have a soft copy saved somewhere please let me know, I maybe could save it and have it posted to the forum, safely! Please note I wrote maybe, this copyright thing might be an obstacle.
For now I found this post from jackster and the link is still available to watch. :)
You need Quicktime to play it BTW.
Thanks, Chameau, for providing the link. I think the video works quite well as a "protest" piece. Unfortunately, I could only make out a word or two in the commentary - lyrics? - so have no idea what as being said there. And yes, the sun could well have been Terry Gilliam.
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Heath used the face of Terry as the sun on purpose. ;)
And these are the lyrics
Well!
Well!
Well!
Well!
We spun like birds on fire
Right down towards the residence, and I
I took all that I desired
Even crooks have to pay the rent
We swam like rats on fire
Right, right down the reservoir
We took all that we could carry
But we tried to carry more
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
We choked on street tap water
Well, I'm going to have to try the real thing
I took your laugh by the collar
And it knew not to swing
Any time I tried an honest job
Well, the till had a hole and ha-ha
We laughed about paying rent
Because the county jails, they're free
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Oh, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.
I said it looks like I've got to use my feet again
Well I just spent my last one hundred dollars
God, I'll pay my bill again
Oh, I don't care
Oh, how I just don't care
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll, shooken and shy
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll rat of a child
Well, King Rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud
Open like an organ and it
Talk, talk, talk, talk again
He promised me that when I cheated him
But I could open my eye, well
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
Deep water, deep water
This senseless denial
I got fed like a fish, full of open smiles
Blue water, deep water
Oh, senseless denial
I got fed like a fish on the cardboard smiles
Well, well
What do you have to say for yourself?
I said, well, well
Well?
I said well, well, well, well!
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
I hardly knew I should use my feet again
What do you have to say for yourself?
What do you have to say for yourself?
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Heath used the face of Terry as the sun on purpose. ;)
And these are the lyrics
Well!
Well!
Well!
Well!
We spun like birds on fire
Right down towards the residence, and I
I took all that I desired
Even crooks have to pay the rent
We swam like rats on fire
Right, right down the reservoir
We took all that we could carry
But we tried to carry more
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
We choked on street tap water
Well, I'm going to have to try the real thing
I took your laugh by the collar
And it knew not to swing
Any time I tried an honest job
Well, the till had a hole and ha-ha
We laughed about paying rent
Because the county jails, they're free
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Oh, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.
I said it looks like I've got to use my feet again
Well I just spent my last one hundred dollars
God, I'll pay my bill again
Oh, I don't care
Oh, how I just don't care
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll, shooken and shy
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll rat of a child
Well, King Rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud
Open like an organ and it
Talk, talk, talk, talk again
He promised me that when I cheated him
But I could open my eye, well
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
Deep water, deep water
This senseless denial
I got fed like a fish, full of open smiles
Blue water, deep water
Oh, senseless denial
I got fed like a fish on the cardboard smiles
Well, well
What do you have to say for yourself?
I said, well, well
Well?
I said well, well, well, well!
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
I hardly knew I should use my feet again
What do you have to say for yourself?
What do you have to say for yourself?
Thanks, Chameau, for posting these lyrics. However, after reading them twice, I'm no closer to having any real understanding of what they're about. How about you? Nor can I find any connection between them and a protest video on whale hunting.
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Jake mentions Heath in a new interview:
OK, I’ll hold you to that. In this movie Tobey again will be seen as a great actor. A lot of people just remember him as Spiderman – do you think people will be surprised?
Yes. It’s like when I worked with Heath Ledger. When we started working together I think people were blown away by his performance in the movie (Brokeback Mountain). I don’t think people expected that from him. At least that’s what I heard that from the journalists and people who saw that movie. It is wonderful to see someone who everybody talks about. It is wonderful to hear. It is wonderful to have either fooled the people as he has done or to have been honest in the way that he has been that they go, wow!.
http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/ (http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/)
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Jake mentions Heath in a new interview:
http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/ (http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/)
Thanks, Ynnaf. You always find the most interesting news. This one is really good!
I like all the philosophical discussion. It looks as if the question that led him to respond to the first filming of the movie started in the jail house led him to think of Heath. He also said the movie helped him to grow up a lot and see the world differently. The discussion on religion is especially revealing. Jake is so much more mature than most actors his age.
I hope he and Tobey can continue to work together professionally.
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Jake mentions Heath in a new interview:
http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/ (http://alive-sydney.whereilive.com.au/news/story/interview-jake-gyllenhaal/)
Thanks,ynnaf ¡ It's always moving reading Jake talking about Heath.In this case,I find it particularly touching since he was filming "Brothers" when he knew Heath had passed away... :_(
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Cousin follows in Ledger's footsteps
DANIEL HATCH, The West Australian May 11, 2010, 5:17 am
The younger cousin of Heath Ledger is on the verge of his own acting career, winning a role in a feature-length movie being filmed in the Perth Hills.
Luke Ledger, 17, has a starring role in Redback, a privately funded thriller set in a youth boot camp in the bush.
Ledger reportedly hates comparisons with his famous cousin and avoids being directly associated with him. The actor made a guest appearance on Neighbours last year after winning a magazine competition.
Entering the same competition on previous occasions, he denied his links to the Dark Knight star, despite the surname and the strong family resemblance.
In Redback, Ledger plays a "typical Australian surfie, with a cheeky attitude". The character is described as being immature, a bit full of himself and "aware of his good looks".
The film focuses on a group of teenagers who are sent, bound and gagged, to a boot camp where miscreant youths are taught how to behave properly.
Cut off from the rest of the world, they are locked in dog cages, beaten, starved and humiliated. Rumours soon circulate that teenagers previously sent to the camp had not survived.
The film is directed by Loren Johnson, who was previously an assistant director on the ABC's telemovie Blood in the Sand.
Filming of Redback has already started in Stoneville.
story & picture (a cousin no doubt):
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/7204130/cousin-follows-in-ledgers-footsteps/ (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/7204130/cousin-follows-in-ledgers-footsteps/)
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:t) Jackster. Interesting, but I don't see the resemblance. Best of luck to Luke. The movie sounds terrible, but everybody got to start some where.
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LC: Actually I found the resemblance to the young Heath somewhat startling (eyes and smile especially), and my thought was the movie could be "intriguing" if only in a prurient way for us perverted types. >:D
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LC: Actually I found the resemblance to the young Heath somewhat startling (eyes and smile especially), and my thought was the movie could be "intriguing" if only in a prurient way for us perverted types. >:D
:s) To each his own, Jackster. I don't see the resemblance. The smile is more toothy than Heath's, and the eyes are not as gentle and compassionate, the kind that gives you a hug with a look. Oh well, no matter. I look forward to your review of the movie. Is it available outside of Australia?
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:s) To each his own, Jackster. I don't see the resemblance. The smile is more toothy than Heath's, and the eyes are not as gentle and compassionate, the kind that gives you a hug with a look. Oh well, no matter. I look forward to your review of the movie. Is it available outside of Australia?
Um, I don't see the resemblance as well :|
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Luke Ledger & cousin Heath
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I can understand that he doesn't want to be compared to Heath, it can be very intimidating, but to actually deny his links to him? ??? Somehow it makes me feel uneasy, I would like to think that Heath's cousin was - and still is - proud of him and what he achieved. But then I'm not in his shoes and I don't know his reasons so I can't really judge him.
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I can understand that he doesn't want to be compared to Heath, it can be very intimidating, but to actually deny his links to him? ??? Somehow it makes me feel uneasy, I would like to think that Heath's cousin was - and still is - proud of him and what he achieved. But then I'm not in his shoes and I don't know his reasons so I can't really judge him.
I can understand too how heavy could the surname Ledger be for a young beginner;but the same than I can't see the physical resemblance either,he seems to not want any resemblance in any sense...And this is what I can't understand,because I guess Heath only could give him reasons to be proud of. ???
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Serendipitously, I found this photo this morning, and the movie:
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104882193#pm_cmp=mce_con_ent_ftop_ivp_ltj (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104882193#pm_cmp=mce_con_ent_ftop_ivp_ltj)
Starring Chris Egan, who was in Erogan. He is from Sydney Australia. What's with all these talented actors from Down Under?!
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Young Aussie stars shining in Hollywood
By Peter Mitchell, AAP May 14, 2010
Rove McManus was the master-of-ceremonies and Colin Farrell the surprise A-List guest presenter.
The beer and wine flowed freely at a rooftop ceremony in Beverly Hills where Melbourne actress Bella Heathcote was awarded the Heath Ledger Scholarship and Home and Away graduates Ryan Kwanten and Chris Hemsworth were honoured with Breakthrough Awards.
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A panel of judges including another of Ledger's A-List friends, Jude Law, and director Gregor Jordan selected Heathcote, who had a recurring role in Neighbours in 2009 and appears in the World War I drama Beneath Hill 60. She beat 100 other contenders to the scholarship, which is designed to give a young Australian actor a shot at making it big in Hollywood.
The scholarship, which includes $10,000 cash and Qantas flights, is supported by Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams and the Ledger family, with the Perth-born Oscar winner's mother Sally and sister Kate attending the ceremony.
"The judges saw something very special in Bella Heathcote," Farrell said.
"She is very beautiful but underneath all of that hideous beauty, she has the true talent, energy and that special something that Heath had."
Ledger, who died in January 2008 from an accidental prescription drug overdose, would have approved of Heathcote as the recipient of the scholarship, Sally and Kate Ledger said.
"Bella is absolutely delightful and I think she will go a long way," Sally said.
The Ledger family remains in close contact with Ledger's daughter, four-year-old Matilda, who he had with his Brokeback Mountain co-star and fiancee Williams.
"Matilda is amazing," Sally said.
"We spent Christmas together and I lived a week with her in February. That was really quite precious."
Kate said Matilda is a mix of her brother and Williams.
"We used to joke about Matilda when Heath was alive that 'It's Heath in bikini' and 'It's Heath in a dress'," Kate said.
"She's very much like him but I'm starting to see a lot of Michelle in her."
see the entire story at:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/7238617/young-aussie-stars-shining-in-hollywood/ (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/7238617/young-aussie-stars-shining-in-hollywood/)
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I feel like crying when I read about Matilda. It's a tragedy that Heath is not there to see her growing up, and that she'll never know how amazing her dad was.
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I feel like crying when I read about Matilda. It's a tragedy that Heath is not there to see her growing up, and that she'll never know how amazing her dad was.
Keren :ghug: It's always a tragedy that someone so young and full of talent leaves us and leaves also behind a little daughter who is a miniature of him,so much than we will look at her we will always see him...She is Heath in bikini... :_(
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Nolan Won’t Replace Ledger As Joker In ‘Batman 3’
Source, Access Hollywood
http://www.accesshollywood.com/_article_34444 (http://www.accesshollywood.com/_article_34444)
July 12 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Batman is returning, but he won’t have the Joker to contend with next time.
Director Christopher Nolan says he will not bring back the Joker, the villain played so maniacally in “The Dark Knight” by the late Heath Ledger. The role earned him an Academy Award a year after his death.
In an interview, Nolan would not disclose what villain or villains might take on Batman in the next film, due out July 20, 2012. But the director says that Ledger for him was the definitive Joker and that it would not feel appropriate to bring back the character.
The next film will be the third in the current Warner Bros. incarnation of the Batman franchise, which stars Christian Bale as the vigilante superhero.
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Nolan Won’t Replace Ledger As Joker In ‘Batman 3’
Source, Access Hollywood
http://www.accesshollywood.com/_article_34444 (http://www.accesshollywood.com/_article_34444)
July 12 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Batman is returning, but he won’t have the Joker to contend with next time.
Director Christopher Nolan says he will not bring back the Joker, the villain played so maniacally in “The Dark Knight” by the late Heath Ledger. The role earned him an Academy Award a year after his death.
In an interview, Nolan would not disclose what villain or villains might take on Batman in the next film, due out July 20, 2012. But the director says that Ledger for him was the definitive Joker and that it would not feel appropriate to bring back the character.
The next film will be the third in the current Warner Bros. incarnation of the Batman franchise, which stars Christian Bale as the vigilante superhero.
Thanks, cham. In my opinion, they should retire the Joker. Like hockey players whose number are raised to the rafters when they retire.
There will NEVER be another Joker like Heath's. And I doubt any actor would be foolish enough to attempt it and ended up being compared to the incomparable, and falling short.
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I had a feeling that Nolan wouldn't bring him back. I was sure that it was obvious to him, as it is to us, that no actor can replace Heath.
Thanks, cham. In my opinion, they should retire the Joker. Like hockey players whose number are raised to the rafters when they retire.
There will NEVER be another Joker like Heath's. And I doubt any actor would be foolish enough to attempt it and ended up being compared to the incomparable, and falling short.
I totally agree with that.
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Ledger project launched
AAP, The West Australian December 10, 2010
Heath Ledger's career was well-documented on the big screen, but personal accounts of his early years within the film industry are sadly lacking.
That realisation, which followed the actor's untimely death in 2008, has prompted a new project that aims to capture the fears, hopes and expectations of young artists.
The Heath Ledger project will record the thoughts and aspirations of actors, writers, singers and performers as they graduate from the nation's leading art institutions.
Their progress, including ups and downs, will be tracked in follow-up interviews every five years.
Heath's father Kim, who launched the project in Canberra, said any attempt to get a young Heath to speak about his own life ambitions would have been a challenge.
"It was often hard to get any words out of his mouth ... but how we wish we had encouraged him to do so," he told the crowd at the National Film and Sound Archive.
He recalled his son's "steely" determination to follow a career in acting after barely finishing high school.
"His career probably started in his head when he was very, very young.
"He grew up just knowing what he wanted to do... and when he decided to go he just went."
Kim said he was "frightened" when Heath left Perth for the east coast with the goal of breaking into the cut-throat industry.
But by 20 he landed the lead in Two Hands, launching him onto the world stage.
Before his death at 28, Heath starred in many big-screen films including A Knight's Tale, Brokeback Mountain and his Oscar winning role as The Joker in A Knight's Tale.
Kim said his son was always an optimist who lived life without a dull moment, often cutting sleep because he was so busy keeping himself busy.
But, like any artist, he faced challenges and could have used more guidance and support from within the industry.
One young actor keen to follow in Heath's footsteps into Hollywood is 25-year-old Eamon Farren, who will take part in the recorded interview project.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art graduate, and Heath Ledger acting scholarship winner, promised to be candid about his own fears, thoughts and ambitions on tape.
"Let's have an honest conversation," said Mr Farren, who's appeared in series including All Saints and the Steven Spielberg's The Pacific, told reporters.
Arts Minister Simon Crean says the project will help to bridge the gap in Australia's recorded oral history.
"Oral history gives us something that written history doesn't... an authentic voice, rather than the written reports," he said.
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Is it any wonder that it he was able to "become" Ennis DelMar with such convincing thoroughness?
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That's a great idea for a project, I wish we had more interviews with young Heath talking about his dreams and aspirations...
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That's a great idea for a project, I wish we had more interviews with young Heath talking about his dreams and aspirations...
Me too...Although it's already hard listening to someone talking about some projects that got so untimely cut...His father was-and is-obviously very proud of him... :_(
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I don't remember if I posted this video before.
Lily Cole and Verne Troyer recall what Heath Ledger was like (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-8Nn5KUBg#ws)
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Heath Ledger's protege emerges with new album
Grace Woodroofe was just 16 when she counted the late Perth-born actor Heath Ledger and music superstar Ben Harper as her biggest fans.
The Perth-born indie-blues chanteuse, now aged 20, is about to release her debut album, Always Want, and is definitely one to look out for on both the national and international music scene.
Her music career took a surprising turn when she posted two songs on the Triple J unearthed website, and a friend – no other than Heath Ledger's sister Ashley – forwarded the songs on to her influential brother.
"He really loved it and got in contact with me and wanted to help me out because he loved it so much," she said.
Woodroofe said Ledger, who also created a music video for her song Quicksand (to be released at a later date), was an unbelievable talent.
"It was completely his vision. He directed it, edited it, styled it and shot it. He did everything," she said.
"When people will see it they will realise how amazingly gifted he was."
"He was a real person. You could think that actors and Hollywood people have this certain aura, but he was just so down to earth, really grounded and so selfless, he really wanted to help people who inspired him."
She said he really believed in her talent and flew her out to LA where she met Ben Harper for the first time.
"He (Heath Ledger) introduced me to a lot of industry people, and one of those people was Ben and we struck up a friendship and he ended up producing my album."
You can find the full article and a short video interview here: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/heath-ledgers-protege-emerges-with-new-album-20101130-18f53.html (http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/heath-ledgers-protege-emerges-with-new-album-20101130-18f53.html)
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Grace Woodroofe Writes Song About Heath
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In the above video, Grace performs live at the Metro Theatre, in Sydney, NSA, AU on April 9th, 2009. Right before the song, she dedicates the song to Heath's mother, step-father, and sister (the Bells), who are in the audience.
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My dad wrote 4 words on a tiny piece of paper,
these are the stages you'll go through. He said
shock and deep denying sadness,
in time acceptance will come too.
Oh,I wish I could fast-forward time, for that matter rewind.
I know you said time was blind,
now you are in a place that only exists in my mind.
CHORUS:
I have this image of you leaning out the window,
your lungs encapsulating smoke,
but I would give everything to smell your cigarette's burning,
you were always so impassive when you spoke.
I feel you with me all the time,
your guiding hands lead mine,
but I miss the stories that you'd share,
and the little garments that you always used to wear.
I am wearing nothing but your love,
and I can honestly say
that I think about you everyday.
CHORUS.
I have this image of you leaning out the window,
your lungs encapsulating smoke,
but I would give everything to smell your cigarette's burning,
you were always so impassive when you spoke.
Your house is empty, shelves are bare,
your presence felt, but you're not there.
That's where you sit, I mean where you sat,
I am still adjusting to getting used to that.
You won't show up at my door.
Wherever you are I hope you find
what you were searching for.
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Thanks Keren :_(
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Thanks ¡ Why any news about Heath makes still such a deep and sad impact in us? :_( :_( :_(
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Heath Reaches Out to Support Struggling Friend
http://www.heathheathens.net/forum/index.php?s=5a67998857085979de69c264b5381fef&showtopic=5955 (http://www.heathheathens.net/forum/index.php?s=5a67998857085979de69c264b5381fef&showtopic=5955)
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thanks, Keren
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I found Shekar Kapur's blog today. I didn't know he wrote one, and I found it accidentaly while I was googling Heath.
For anyone who doesn't know, Shekar Kapur was the director of Four Feathers, and a close friend of Heath. In the past three years Shekar had written several times about his friend, whom he obviously still misses a lot. I read all his posts about Heath, and they left me in tears... a couple of them I read before, because they were published in the press, but most of it was new to me. He wrote such beautiful things about Heath and they moved me to tears. He wrote about Heath the person, the friend, he wrote about his screen test for Four Feathers and how amazing Heath was, and he wrote about the special bond between them. I'm sure he will write something again this year, and I'll be waiting for it. Here is a compilation of his tributes:
Farewell, Heath ledger
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
In Heath I have lost a younger brother. He was one the most gentle, the most honest , most caring, and most compassionate persons I had met. And one of the most honest actors I worked with. I often told him that he had the ability to completely bare his soul in front of the camera, and all I needed to do was make sure the camera could look into his eyes, and through his eyes, the audience could clearly look into his soul. I last spoke to him the night before he died. I had just arrived in New York last night, he said he could not see me that night but really wanted to meet me the next day. he made me promise that I would call him in the morning and wake him up. I tried. Little did I know that his soul had already left his body.
Farewell Heath. I always knew you had an ancient soul. I always said you had a wisdom beyond your years. And somehow I always knew that your spirit was too restless. Goodbye, my brother.
Heath Ledger did not commit suicide
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Heath is not amongst us, but is in our consciousness. Heath is no longer a physical embodiment, but exists eternally now. His laugh is not audible to my ears any more, but I can hear it in my heart. in my consciousness. And that is what I remember him most for. His laugh. Deep and felt. Like he knew God was laughing with him.
The world is more troubled by his death than I expected. Like a great soul has passed amongst us and we, caught up as we all are, in the the throes of everyday life, did not even recognize it when it was there!
But in that coming to terms with our loss, why do we sensationalize his death? why are we looking for dramatic escapes away from just a deep acceptance that ancient souls always leave us young?
Heath Ledger did not commit suicide. Period. He was the most extraordinarily courageous man I have ever known. …….
And the most optimistic. Someone that has such capacity to spread love and laughter does not deliberately throw his own life away. And if I was the last person to speak to him, I can vouch clearly that Heath was looking forward to the next day. He was looking forwards to meeting me, he was looking forward to discuss our next film together, he was looking forward to life and laughter the next day. Of course he would talk about his daughter. He always did. But so do I about my daughter. I too am separated from her mother.
When we were filming Four Feathers, he would laugh at me every time I threatened to walk out of the film. He would joke at my trivial complaints. He would slap me on the back every time he would see my shoulders stooped. He would pull off the most amazing stunts, and we would not warn anybody about them before. It was our little schoolboy prank. His physical endurance was amazing. Heath was far more than my actor. he was also my support system.
He called me his elder brother. I am not sure. Sometimes I felt that I could lean on the innate strength that was Heath Ledger. Such a man passed amongst us, and we talk of suicide? Of depression? Of drug overdose? Rather than learn from his existence. As I come to terms with his passing, I will write more about Heath, that’s a promise.
Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Now that the Dark Knight has broken all records at the BO, Heath left a legacy that is unforgettable. Angels do that. They visit us for short periods of time and cause huge impact on our consciousness. I always told Heath he was an ancient soul in a very young mind, a very young body. Angels, or Ancient Souls are never comfortable trapped in their human selves. They will make you restless and the need for honest creative expression of the deepest nature is a driving force. For those of you that knew his music, the other person that had that quality was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Who I did Bandit Queen with.
My screen test with Heath for Four Feathers lasted a whole day. He would often call me down the years and laugh his deep laughter, and remember that day with a lot of affection . It was a day of deep exploration between an actor and a director of each other…..
.. it was also the day I discovered the deeper wisdom of Heath’s soul. He was, after all, only 21.
I had decided to ask him perform a love scene from the film with a very accomplished actress who had just come to help out. First I made him sit in one place so he could not escape into any body language. Neither could the girl. I needed to see what happened to his eyes.
We then spoke of love and of true love. We spoke of Wisdom and what it really meant. We spoke of the meaning of true courage was based on how you lived. Not on dying a hero’s death on the battlefield. And then we spoke of how when you are really young love was about needing. Love was about taking. Love was about hunger. But as one gathers wisdom, love becomes about giving. The more you gave, the stronger you became.
And then I made him perform the scene. First as a very young man that he was. Full of joy, anticipation and yearning. Impatient, eager and impetuous. This was the Heath we had seen. Why he was such a star amongst teenagers. He was sexy and thoroughly endearing.
But then I changed the nature of the scene. Not the dialogue. Not even the body postures. But asked Heath to perform it with Wisdom. Perform it older. Stiller. With greater strength, as a young man who had come to terms with himself and his place in the Universe.
And the transformation was fascinating and hypnotic. His eyes changed. His voice changed. His breathing changed. He began to exude strength. And it was then in his eyes I saw the old soul appear. It was then that I knew we were in the presence of not only a great actor, but a human being with potential to affect the consciousness of people.
Did Heath Ledger really leave us a year ago?
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The New York Post asked me to write a tribute to Heath Ledger on the anniversary of his passing. It seems just yestrday.
Time, say philosophers, mystics and quantum scientists is an illusion. Before the Big Bang there was Eternity. Beginnings and Ends are just means to contextualize our lives within our limited perceptions of a world that surrounds us.
Every now and again a human being is born to remind us of Eternity. Heath Ledger was amongst those, who we quietly whisper prayers for in our quite moments, wish for in our dreams and in have a special place for our every day thoughts. God knows how many people in this world still carry the pain of the loss of him. Why did a man who lived amongst us for such a short time, and did such few films, leave such a huge imprint upon us when he left ? I have people writing letters on this blog who had never seen a Heath Ledger film, who were not fans, but felt the shock and impact of the loss of Heath Ledger. Everyday ordinary people that a year later are still coming to terms with his passing?
Like he was an Angel.
Or the Dark Knight. In which Heath left indelible impressions of incredible humanity behind the garb of evil. So much that people went back again and again to the theatres to experience the presence of Heath Ledger. I remember a conversation with Robert Richardson the DP of Four Feathers ” Just make sure that the audience are able to look into Heath’s eyes. They tell a story of ancient wisdom and all of humanity”. Not an easy job for a DP when Heath would so easily break into an Australian crinkle and narrow his eyes, so that the point of light so carefully put by the DP would search desperately for their subject ! I used to tell Heath that he was an ancient soul in a youthful body and mind. That his struggle was between the ancient wisdom he carried in his soul and the coming to terms with youth.
That struggle showed and I was the ‘brother from another mother’ as he called me, that embraced him at those moments.
I wish I was there to embrace him when he passed away. I was so close. But then, it was not meant to be. In his passing he left behind his indelible footprint. As I write this piece I hear that Heath has been nominated for the Oscars.
Wherever you are Heath, I can see you crinkling your eyes and laughing your deep laughter and saying ” Hey brother, what d you think of that?” Nothing more, nothing less. Everything just was, is, and will be. In Eternity.
Heath Ledger, have two years passed?
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
It’s 5.20 am and am struggling to sleep in my hotel room in San Hose. Jet lag ? No, something else is nagging me – and then it comes like a bolt, a sudden sharp, almost physical feeling of sadness. It Heath’s 2nd Anniversary of his passing.
For those that know this blog, will know of my special relationship with Heath. Well, that survives time. Even through the sadness and heavy heart I sense him laughing and smiling almost looking down and saying “Get on with it, Mate !”
Lots of other things come to mind. What do two years mean ? What does passing of time mean ? How little or more have I achieved in the last two years. How productive have I been – and all this on context of Heath’s passing as if time stopped there and started again ? Is what you have done, or what has happened, or the events that have taken place since the only measure of time ? Or is there something far more eternal about time ?
Tonight I am going to LA and having dinner with Orlando Bloom. The last time we met was in Heath’s friend’s pad in Melbourne, where Heath was proudly showing a rough cut of Four Feathers to all his friends. So proud was he of his performance in a film that actually did very little at the box office.
So I am just going to look up at Heath’s smiling face and say “Hey, Mate ! We are still down here trying understand it all” Trying to imitate his broad Australian drawl.
Here is the link to Shekar Kapur's blog: http://shekharkapur.com/blog/ (http://shekharkapur.com/blog/)
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Tribute to Heath Ledger planned
London, January 08, 2011
Hollywood actor Heath Ledger's friends and family are set to gather up for a one-off tribute event for the late star to mark the third anniversary of his death. The Brokeback Mountain star passed away at the age of 28 on January 22, 2008 after suffering an accidental overdose at his New York apartment.
Ledger's father, Kim, has now confirmed a charity gala will be held in the actor's honour in his native Australia in early February, reported Contactmusic.
The event, titled Heath: A Night Under the Stars Celebrating One of Its Finest, will showcase the star's Academy Award-winning turn in The Dark Knight and the proceeds will be handed to a performing arts organisation.
"We the Ledger family confirm our approval and endorsement for the one time only Heath tribute night and are pleased donations from the proceeds will benefit Telethon, His Majesty's Theatre Foundation & Australians in Film," said a statement from Kim Ledger.
Ledger's Casanova co-star Sienna Miller and his friend, supermodel Gemma Ward, are expected to appear at the event, which will be held on February 12 in Perth.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Tribute-to-Heath-Ledger-planned/Article1-647445.aspx (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Tribute-to-Heath-Ledger-planned/Article1-647445.aspx)
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Samara Weaving, father of the late Heath Ledger, Kim Ledger (2L), Hon. Simon Crean and Simon Weaving pose at the Launch of the Heath Ledger Young Artists' Project at the National Film and Sound Archive on December 10, 2010 in Canberra, Australia. The NFSA Young Artists Oral History Project will record young artists' journey's through personal video histories.
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Heath Ledger fans light up Internet with tributes
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/103909/20110123/heath-ledger-fans-internet-twitter-the-dark-knight-brokeback-mountain-gay-cownboy-australian-hollywo.htm (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/103909/20110123/heath-ledger-fans-internet-twitter-the-dark-knight-brokeback-mountain-gay-cownboy-australian-hollywo.htm)
"On the third death anniversary of Heath Ledger, the internet lit up with tributes to the Hollywood star. Netizens took to the microblogging site Twitter with humble yet heartfelt testimonials, while the media also played its part by remembering one of the extraordinarily talented actors that the world has seen....."
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Heath Ledger's Lonesome Trail: Rolling Stone's 2006 Cover Story
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heath-ledgers-lonesome-trail-rolling-stones-2006-cover-story-20110120?page=1 (http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heath-ledgers-lonesome-trail-rolling-stones-2006-cover-story-20110120?page=1)
"By David Lipsky
JANUARY 20, 2011 7:16 PM EDT
When actors become movie stars, it puts a strain on everybody. Family members get phone-called with no adjustment for the time difference; paparazzi stake out a fresh address; the rest of us lift our eyes to another personality we're obliged to have an opinion about. This is a drag for Heath Ledger, who is twenty-six and has learned to keep his personality locked in the house — where it whines at doors, tears up furniture, gets into the yard at just the worst moments. "In the past," he says, "I've tried so hard to withhold myself — even down to giving a smile." The actor, who is Australian, speaks with a commonwealth accent that's both arch and street. "I didn't want to be people's opinions of who I am or what I said," he says......"
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Heath Ledger fans light up Internet with tributes
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/103909/20110123/heath-ledger-fans-internet-twitter-the-dark-knight-brokeback-mountain-gay-cownboy-australian-hollywo.htm (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/103909/20110123/heath-ledger-fans-internet-twitter-the-dark-knight-brokeback-mountain-gay-cownboy-australian-hollywo.htm)
What a beautiful testiment to his legacy and the impact he had on so many people. I'm thrilled to know that so many people honor his memory this way. Thank you for posting this Ethan.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gday-usa-dazzler/story-e6frf96o-1225993285908 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gday-usa-dazzler/story-e6frf96o-1225993285908)
ON THE third anniversary of his death, Abbie Cornish dedicated her G'Day USA award to late great Australian actor Heath Ledger.
The Aussie made an emotional speech about her Candy co-star and his pivotal influence on her career after receiving an Excellence in Film award.
She told a story about
shooting Bright Star in London and requiring a new trailer because hers was too small.
Four trailers arrived and she randomly picked one.
It turned out to be Ledger's former trailer and they found a hotel room key he had used and a stash of vitamin pills.
She accepted the accolade in "Heath's memory".
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http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/23/abbie-cornish-teresa-palmer-gday-gala-gals/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/23/abbie-cornish-teresa-palmer-gday-gala-gals/)
Abbie Cornish & Teresa Palmer: G'Day Gala Gals
Abbie Cornish & Teresa Palmer: G'Day Gala Gals
Abbie Cornish adds some glamour on the red carpet at the G’Day USA 2011 Black Tie Gala on Saturday (January 22) at Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood.
Fellow Aussie Teresa Palmer, from the upcoming movies I Am Number Four and Take Me Home Tonight, also hit the red carpet in a chic dress by Australian designer Ellery and shoes from Chloe. Teresa’s I Am Number Four co-star, Alex Pettyfer, was spotted out on a shirtless run over the weekend!
Abbie dedicated her G’Day USA honor to the late Heath Ledger, whom she worked with on the 2006 romantic drama Candy.
The 28-year-old actress accepted the Excellence in Film award in “Heath’s memory” on the third anniversary of his death.
Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/23/abbie-cornish-teresa-palmer-gday-gala-gals/#ixzz1Bt63WxWN (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/23/abbie-cornish-teresa-palmer-gday-gala-gals/#ixzz1Bt63WxWN)
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/western-australian-museum-to-honour-heath-ledger/story-e6frf9h6-1225993781511 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/western-australian-museum-to-honour-heath-ledger/story-e6frf9h6-1225993781511)
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/western-australian-museum-to-honour-heath-ledger/story-e6frf9h6-1225993781511 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/western-australian-museum-to-honour-heath-ledger/story-e6frf9h6-1225993781511)
I wish I could see this exhibition!
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I wish I could see this exhibition!
Me, too. Perhaps we need to plan a Perth gathering sometime in the future, perhaps 2013. Let's talk in Canmore. :c)
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Heath Ledger costumes up at auction
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http://swns.com/heath-ledger-costumes-up-at-auction-240950.html (http://swns.com/heath-ledger-costumes-up-at-auction-240950.html)
http://www.dnfa.com/bristol/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=20446&lotno=152&uniqueid=431009-3 (http://www.dnfa.com/bristol/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=20446&lotno=152&uniqueid=431009-3)
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RECLUSIVE supermodel Gemma Ward will return to the international spotlight this year when she makes her theatrical debut in Australia.
And ahead of her return to centre stage, the beauty has also opened up about her brief romance with actor Heath Ledger in the months before he died.
"I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years and it was something spurred by Heath's death," she said. "(Heath and I) first met in New York and we were both struggling with things that I won't get into, and we bonded over that.
"I kind of met him at first and said, 'Listen my mum's living with me right now and I'm kind of going through a hard time and I'm not interested in having a serious relationship with somebody right now' and he was like, 'You know, um, let's just be there for each other through these hard times we're both going through'. And we developed a relationship and we started seeing each other."
That was back in November 2007 and Gemma had just turned 20.
The two then spent Christmas together in Perth before heading back to New York where Ledger died less than a month later on January 22, 2008.
"There was no one like him - and no one will ever be like him," she said. "I'm just so grateful I got to meet him and get as close as I did with him.
"The time we spent in Perth was incredible because we were both from Perth and it was also a time when it was beautiful in Perth and both our families were there and we met each other's families.
"We were able to not be in any kind of a spotlight and not have to be meeting with people or be hounded by press or anything. We lived in a magical kind of world where we weren't intruded upon."
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Ledger's devotion to his toddler daughter Matilda is something Ms Ward will always remember.
"He was a devoted, devoted father," she said. "And I will never forget seeing him with Matilda and the way she looked at him and the way they were together - it was his whole life. She was his whole life and he loved her so much."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gemma-ward-opens-up-about-her-life-with-heath-ledger/story-e6frf96o-1225996705981 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gemma-ward-opens-up-about-her-life-with-heath-ledger/story-e6frf96o-1225996705981)
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Heath Ledger costumes up at auction
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??? (t) Gosh. How I'd love to get my hands on one of those uniforms...or anything Heath touched. <^( He sure looked dashing in them.
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Ledger's devotion to his toddler daughter Matilda is something Ms Ward will always remember.
"He was a devoted, devoted father," she said. "And I will never forget seeing him with Matilda and the way she looked at him and the way they were together - it was his whole life. She was his whole life and he loved her so much."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gemma-ward-opens-up-about-her-life-with-heath-ledger/story-e6frf96o-1225996705981 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/gemma-ward-opens-up-about-her-life-with-heath-ledger/story-e6frf96o-1225996705981)
Just reading about that and thinking about Heath's love for Matilda makes me cry.... :_( :_(
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Just reading about that and thinking about Heath's love for Matilda makes me cry.... :_( :_(
Me too...She was his whole life... :_( :_( :_(
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Beautiful tribute video
Heath Ledger Tribute || May It Be ( 3. Death Anniversary :( (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamgfxCXwD4#ws)
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Beautiful tribute video
Heath Ledger Tribute || May It Be ( 3. Death Anniversary :( (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamgfxCXwD4#ws)
Yes,it's beautiful indeed...And the music and being in black and white remarks the sadness of seeing him in all his splendour... :_( Thank you for posting,Keren ¡
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This was published when TDK was released, by a photojournalist who met Heath in 2001. Such a lovely story about the kind of guy Heath was. The photos he's talking about are in the link.
http://markhancock.blogspot.com/2008/07/heath-ledger.html (http://markhancock.blogspot.com/2008/07/heath-ledger.html)
In one minute "The Dark Knight" will begin showing in theaters across America. The movie stars the late Heath Ledger as a disturbingly dark incarnation of The Joker. Even before it opens, critics are proclaiming the movie as Ledger's finest work.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but Fayrouz and I plan to see it. Fay wants to see it because Ledger was a fellow Aussie. I'm anxious to see the movie because all the reviews paint the character as the polar opposite of the person I met.
I was assigned to shoot Ledger at an ultra-exclusive hotel in Dallas. He was talking with the reporter over breakfast when I arrived.
He was promoting "A Knight's Tale." It was released after "The Patriot," but before "Brokeback Mountain."
I got some standard over-the-shoulder shots during the interview (top), and then was allowed a few minutes with Ledger to make some additional images in the courtyard (bottom).
The courtyard had a nice fountain. I was about to ask him to sit on the side of the fountain when I noticed a honeybee was already there. Since we have Africanized bees ("killer bees") in Texas, I wasn't keen on letting any bee sting a movie star. So, I scooped the little bugger into the fountain.
It was a bad decision on my part.
Ledger and I spent the next 10 minutes trying to save it. I kept thinking it would sting him, and I'd be responsible. Meanwhile, my shooting time meter continued to count down. Groovy.
Nonetheless, once the bee was safe and sound, we got back to the shoot. Ledger was accommodating, and I got some decent shots.
I'm telling this story because it shows what a nice guy he was. If the critics are right about his upcoming performance, it's a tribute to his ability to play roles contradictory to his nature.
Go see "The Dark Knight," and get wrapped up in the character playing on the screen. Then remember this is the actor who wasn't willing to hurt a honeybee. Factor this tidbit into the equation when evaluating the effectiveness of the character and actor.
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;D I can imagine both Heath and the journalist trying to save the honeybee! Nevertheless,it was not neccesary to say I'm telling this story because it shows what a nice guy he was.We already knew it; for this same reason,we have felt so bad since his passing away... :-\\
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With the permission of our lovely friend Theresa Shell,here you're her interview with the cinematographer Nicola Pecorini.It's lovely (and sad) how affectionately he talks about Heath,"his brother"; and is also sad to read about the future project he and Daniel Auber were to do with Heath prior to his untimely death...Surely it has been posted before,but now Theresa has wanted to share it again. :_(
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D34&h=mAQAPa314 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D34&h=mAQAPa314)
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This interview is with make-up artist Sarah Monzani :
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D33%26p%3D39%23p39&h=nAQCBGipZ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D33%26p%3D39%23p39&h=nAQCBGipZ)
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This one with Amy Gilliam:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D30&h=YAQAE-GW1 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D30&h=YAQAE-GW1)
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With the permission of our lovely friend Theresa Shell,here you're her interview with the cinematographer Nicola Pecorini.It's lovely (and sad) how affectionately he talks about Heath,"his brother"; and is also sad to read about the future project he and Daniel Auber were to do with Heath prior to his untimely death...Surely it has been posted before,but now Theresa has wanted to share it again. :_(
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D34&h=mAQAPa314 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D34&h=mAQAPa314)
I remember reading this interview when Theresa first published it. I agree, it's so lovely how Nicola talked about Heath, all the things he said about him, you can feel what good friends they were. You can feel what an amazing person Heath was through Nicola's stories. It makes me smile and it makes me sad...
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I remember reading this interview when Theresa first published it. I agree, it's so lovely how Nicola talked about Heath, all the things he said about him, you can feel what good friends they were. You can feel what an amazing person Heath was through Nicola's stories. It makes me smile and it makes me sad...
Yes,me too...I wrote a message to Theresa commenting this link and I added that I still miss Heath.She answered this: :_(
He was just the most exceptional, loving, brilliant boy. My beautiful boy. I will miss him always and there will always be a hole in me.Something missing now that he is gone. As long as I draw breath, there will be a celebration remembering his life somewhere to remind the world of the beauty that was once with us in Heath. I'll never let him be forgotten and to know that you precious Brokies, whom I love so much, are there means more than I could ever say. Ennisjack and everyone there holds a very special place in my heart.
Hopefully the day will come when I can share stories of him and I would be honored if it were to be with you.
Theresa..
Beautiful woman...It's not strange that they both had a beautiful friendship... :ghug:
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Another link by Theresa,about Heath's heart tatoo... :)
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D77&h=9AQBL2cDe (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.manwhokilleddonquixote.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D30%26t%3D77&h=9AQBL2cDe)
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I will miss him always and there will always be a hole in me.
So true. I feel the same, even if I never met him. :_(
Hearing about Amy Winehouse brought back so many bad memories for me... Now every time I think of her death it reminds me of that horrible, horrible day.
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I will miss him always and there will always be a hole in me.
So true. I feel the same, even if I never met him. :_(
Hearing about Amy Winehouse brought back so many bad memories for me... Now every time I think of her death it reminds me of that horrible, horrible day.
Yes,me too...I think everybody who knew him,personally or by reading about his life,has some kind of hole inside them since that day.IMO,Heath was one of these persons one can't forget because there's only one among a thousand persons... :ghug:
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A nice and tender tribute to Heath from Michelle. :_(
Michelle Williams reveals her pixie haircut is a tribute to Heath Ledger
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ACTRESS Michelle Williams has touchingly revealed she lives with a constant reminder of her lost love, Heath Ledger.
The US starlet says that she's kept her stunning pixie haircut in memory of the Australian actor, who died in January 2008.
"I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it," Williams, 31, told UK Elle magazine, clearly meaning her old love.
The Dawson's Creek star first cut her hair way back in 2007, when she and Ledger were going through a rough time in their relationship.
The couple had a daughter, Matilda, now aged six, and Williams has said Ledger's spirit lives on in her.
She admits the cut took some getting used to.
We think it's the ultimate romantic gesture, and Ledger, wherever he is, would be honoured to see his ex's tribute to him.
The super-short pixie cut is a hairstyle that's recently started gaining a celebrity style following. Fellow actors Carey Mulligan and Emma Watson have also embraced the look, which suits smaller, heart-shaped faces.
"I've really grown into it - I feel like myself with short hair. And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years," Williams told the fashion magazine.
"Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair."
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That's so touching. My heart goes out for Michelle, I doubt she'll ever love another man the way she loved Heath.
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This is important so please read!!!!
Everybody, please sign this petition and say NO to a movie about Heath's death. This kind of movie only invites rumors and speculations, and we've had enough of those in the days after his passing. It will be hurtful to his family, his friends, and anybody who loves him. Michelle Williams is also strongly against this movie since she fears it would only hurt Matilda. One day a movie celebrating Heath's life and achievements will be appropriate, but certainly not a movie that focuses on the circumstances around his death. Please sign this petition and help by spreading the word - forward it to your friends, post it on your facebook page, whatever. Thank you!
http://www.webpetitions.com/signatures/say-no-to-a-movie-about-heath-ledger-s-death/8604 (http://www.webpetitions.com/signatures/say-no-to-a-movie-about-heath-ledger-s-death/8604)
This is the content of the petition:
"Recently we found out there are plans to make a movie about Heath Ledger's death..
We, the fans, are not happy to hear about these plans. This movie will be based on speculations only, it will hurt Heath's daughter Matilda, his parents, his sisters and other family. It will also hurt his true fans. Therefor, this movie will not at all contribute to anything good.
We ask everybody to sign the petition and spread it around the world. These plans for this awful movie must be stopped!
We will try to approach as many movie companies and producers and other people who matter in this industry as we can. But we need your help also. Spread this link, make everybody sign the petition.
Heath and his loved ones do not deserve to be hurt this much more."
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I agree Keren, this is terrible. I actually felt sick reading about it. I've registered to sign the petition - I really hope lots of people sign it, how can anyone want to see this? Its so hurtful and insulting to his family and friends, and will bring back very painful memories. :_( :_(
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Thats terrible. Thank you for bringing this to our attention
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If they had any good intention at all, they would make a movie about Heath's plentiful life, not his death. :(
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They are persons who don't feel the least pity for a family who has lost a son,a brother or a father in such a young age.It's disgusting and of course,I will sign the petition ¡ Thanks for sharing it,Keren ¡ >:(
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I have wanted to share with you what I consider a kind of little tribute to Heath,on the part on one of his many friends: Theresa Shell.She says in it some kind and lovely words about our boy,and that's the reason why I have included here; moreover,which tribute can be truer and more felt than the one of a friend?.The case is that I sent the link to her so that she could sign it also,what she didn't know still.Her answer was what follows:
...Please don't be sad about Heath at Christmas. He loved Christmas and would want you to be happy. He had the ability to make people feel they knew him like a brother because he was so kind and so real. In time perhaps I will feel comfortable telling stories. I hope I get to that place.
Best wishes & Merry Christmas,
Doubtless,Heath was able to leave a deep memory and a feeling of love and friendship in everybody who had known him...I really hope someday Theresa will feel comfortable enough as to be able to share with us all the good moments she shared with him; it would be as to live by ourselves too and feel him a little more alive in us... :_( :_( :_(
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Thanks for sharing x
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Matt Damon talks about Heath Ledger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4T1SdWPqW0#ws)
"I'm not being hyperbolic at all by saying this, but he's the best actor I have ever worked with ... yeah ... you know ... I don't know what to say about that ... it's just terrible and it's not something that I'll ever get over nor do I think anybody who knew him could ever get over. He is a really, really special guy and I think to people who knew him it just felt like his light was just too bright for this place."
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thanks for posting it x
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Oh my.... :_(
Yes, thanks for posting this, Keren.
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I enjoyed reading the last few posts. I found out about Michelle's reason for wearing her pixie cut...which I love...from another fan site, then I read her words here. TY.
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Recently I made a trip to Perth, here I am at the Heath Ledger Memorial.
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OMG Asali, I didn't know you went there. How did you feel, seeing the memorial? I know it would make me very emotional to be there.
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OMG Asali, I didn't know you went there. How did you feel, seeing the memorial? I know it would make me very emotional to be there.
It was very special, couldn't believe I was actually there and it's in the most beautiful peaceful spot.
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I'm very happy you got to see the memorial and hang out in Perth. What else did you do while you were there? Did you go to Cottlesloe beach?
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Recently I made a trip to Perth, here I am at the Heath Ledger Memorial.
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It was very special, couldn't believe I was actually there and it's in the most beautiful peaceful spot.
I believe you,since I know I would cry by seeing it; I take for granted that the place is as special as Heath was. :-\\ <^(
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I'm very happy you got to see the memorial and hang out in Perth. What else did you do while you were there? Did you go to Cottlesloe beach?
Yes I went to Cottlesloe Beach with my husband, nephew and his wife and their two boys. I walked on the sand but didn't go swimming.
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It was very special, couldn't believe I was actually there and it's in the most beautiful peaceful spot.
Thanks for the photos, Asali. Just reading about your trip brings me to the edge of tears :-\\
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Victor Rasuk (Lords Of Dogtown) on Heath Ledger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xTfwdMcas#)
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This was posted online by Alex Withrow on Heath's birthday:
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
In Character Special Edition: Heath Ledger
I’ll never forget the moment I found out Heath Ledger had died. I was walking out of a night class, cutting across campus, when my dad sent me a text: “Heath Ledger found dead in apartment. No bullshit. All over the news.”
Once I got home and read every single news story I could find about Ledger’s death, I stepped away from the computer and allowed myself to be devastated. And after a few moments, I was hit with profound confusion. Why, I wondered, did I feel as though I’d just lost someone close to me? How could I have feelings of such loss over someone I never knew? And then another epiphany: I felt the way I did because I did know Ledger. Not in the real sense, but I knew him as a brooding, complicated figure that could forever imprint movie characters into minds.
I’m not disillusioned. I’m perfectly aware that loving an actor is in no way the same as loving a dear friend, but when you’ve invested your life into the art of film as irreversibly as I have, then a loss like Ledger’s seems as real as life.
Ledger would be 33 today, and if he was still alive, I’m sure his selectiveness in choosing roles would’ve merited a slew of other remarkable performances. But since he’s gone, we’re left with what we’re left with, which is a rather immaculate body of work for one of the best, most in-tune actors of his or any generation.
Five Essential Roles
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Patrick
I’m no fan of romantic comedies, and finding a decent one that’s centered around teenagers is damn near impossible, but it is simply unfair to not draw attention to Ledger’s early performance as tough-guy Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You. Sure, this movie is a perfectly decent compilation of teenage romantic pop garbage, but there was something about that guy with the long, curly hair that struck viewers. He was tall and dark and funny and real. He was, in a sense, far better than the material allowed him to be. And that song. He sang that song with such charm and wit and verve. He was someone we’d never seen before, and someone we couldn’t wait to see again.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Ennis Del Mar
After generating a few worthy performances in crap films, and a few worthy performances in worthy films, Ledger blew everyone away with his deeply controlled, ungodly conflicted turn as Ennis Del Mar is Ang Lee’s masterpiece, Brokeback Mountain.
From his first moment on screen, trying so hard to not stare at the forward Jack Twist, we know we’re in for something different. Everything Ennis does (or, more accurately, everything Ledger makes Ennis do) is done with the pretense of something else. That is, he is constantly pretending to be someone he’s not, and when we finally see the real Ennis (such as during the hard, passionate embrace he and Jack share after not seeing one another for years), we realize that Ennis is just a broken, lost little boy.
It’s a performance of remarkable, nearly unfounded restraint. Everything is in the emotion, the look, the subtle gesture. Ennis says very little, but he’s always speaking volumes. It’s a performance that will only become more celebrated over time, eventually joining the ranks of Brando in Streecar, De Niro in Raging Bull, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, and so on. It is, in a phrase, the role of a lifetime.
Candy (2006)
Dan
In Neil Armfield’s little-seen Australian wonder, Candy, Ledger and Abbie Cornish play people who are deeply in love –with one another, certainly, but also with heroin. The film chronicles the life and death of drug addiction – from the ecstatic highs, to the hellish lows.
Spilt rather ingeniously into three distinct segments titled Heaven, Earth and Hell, Candy conveys how a relationship based on the shared addiction to a substance is never meant to go anywhere but down. But the film, largely due to Ledger and Cornish’s flawless performances, isn’t necessarily a downer. Both Dan (Ledger) and Candy (Cornish) are extremely kind and considerate people, fully aware of their troubles and their inability to deal with said troubles.
I’ve always been surprised that Candy never got the full, proper attention it deserved. There’s a lot here that people are missing, which, in hindsight to how Ledger died, makes the whole experience that much more painful.
I’m Not There (2007)
Robbie Clark
In Todd Haynes’ never-seen-anything-like-it I’m Not There, Ledger encompasses one of the best, most accurate personifications of the Arrogant Actor that I’ve ever seen. Robbie Clark is a young, handsome, talented actor portraying folk sing Jack Rollins (played by Christian Bale) in a new biopic. The problem is, Robbie knows he’s young, handsome and talented, so when his latest film is a flop, he slowly begins to blame everyone else for his failures.
This includes his steadfast wife, Claire (a candid Charlotte Gainsbourg), who begins to recognize the man she married less and less with each passing day. As Robbie becomes more consumed by his own conceit, which eventually causes him to stray from his marriage, Ledger and Gainsbourg embark on a tragic, doomed battle of fleeting love. Capped by Ledger’s performance is a virtuoso scene in which Robbie, at lunch with Claire and another couple, goes into a random, misogynistic rant, the final point of which is women are incapable of being true artists.
It’s a spot-on performance of a callous, egotistic man who, when no one is looking, let’s subtle glimmers of kindness shine through.
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Joker
What’s to say about Ledger’s Oscar-winning performance as The Joker that hasn’t already been said? It’s a role of such unhinged villainy, that it will be forever idolized in pop culture. When people ask me how I personally rank this role, I typically respond by saying it is a performance that completely merits the hyperbolic praise it has, and will continue to, receive.
Highlighting just one scene in particular from this performance is a completely futile exercise. The fact is, every single moment Heath Ledger is on screen, we are completely unaware that Heath Ledger is on screen. The man embodied a monster and became the devil incarnate.
I would, however, be remiss if I failed to mention that the introduction of The Joker in this film (the lifting of the mask, the swelling of the music, the creepiness of the voice, the smiling of the face) is one of my favorite character introductions in film history. Impossible to shake.
The Best of the Best
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Sonny
While Ennis Del Mar may be his technical best, and The Joker his most iconic, the Heath Ledger performance I’ve always been most drawn to is his brief turn as Sonny in Monster’s Ball.
As the gentle, tender son to Billy Bob Thornton’s unforgiving, racist Hank, Ledger did what virtually every teen icon does: he attempted to be taken seriously, but he did it with such revere and self-control, that it became impossible to not take notice of him. Sure, 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight’s Tale may have put him on the map, but Monster’s Ball proved that the kid from Australia wasn’t !@#$ around; he was here to act. He was here to be remembered.
Take, for instance, the scene in which Hank, Sonny and a few other prison guards walk a prisoner (played by Sean “Puffy” Combs) to his execution. If you watch Ledger’s face (I’m mean really watch it) then you’ll see that he’s a lost, scared shitless kid on the verge a breaking down. His initial downfall manifests itself with a momentary bout of nausea, but Sonny’s pain is decades deep.
Ledger’s final moment in this film is as moving as, well, his final moment in Brokeback Mountain. It’s shocking in its honesty and desperate in its sentiment. He was here to be remembered, all right, and remembered he is.
The article can be found here: http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2012/04/in-character-special-edition-heath.html (http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2012/04/in-character-special-edition-heath.html)
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He was here to be remembered, all right, and remembered he is.Yes,and he will remembered as the great actor he was and missed as a great actor who could have given many others unforgettable roles to all of us :_( .Thank you for sharing this article,Keren ¡ :^^)
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spot on, wonderful tribute. thanks much for sharing keren.
four years, damn . . .
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What a great tribute, I loved reading it, thanks for posting Keren :^^)
It's hard though, even now, to read about Heath in the past tense...... :_( :_( :_( :_(
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What a great tribute, I loved reading it, thanks for posting Keren :^^)
It's hard though, even now, to read about Heath in the past tense...... :_( :_( :_( :_(
I know. Sometimes I think I'll never get used to it.
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What a great tribute, I loved reading it, thanks for posting Keren :^^)
Ditto!
I like his best of the best as Sonny. It is because of this role Larry McMurtry spotted him and was sure he found the actor to play Ennis in BBM, all he needed was to convince the producers and the director, which he did, he was himself an executive producer for the movie and the co-writer of the screenplay as you know. The rest his history.
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thank you keren... ^f^
what a great tribute - and so so so true...
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Thank you for posting, Keren!
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Can't remember if these have been posted before, although they're quite old. Both Cate Blanchett and Ryan Gosling paying tribute to Heath upon winning their awards in the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Ryan's speech was incredibly moving:
Exclusive Please Watch in HD Hi-Def Actor Ryan Gosling Honors Heath Ledger Upon Winning Award (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuFSax6nfM#ws)
HD Cate Blanchett Pays Tribute to the Loss of Heath Ledger Please Watch in HD Share and Embed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkTTCtD3pKM#ws)
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Thanks for posting, Keren. Very moving, indeed.
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Thanks for sharing your pic Asali x
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I hadn't seen those vids before Keren, thanks for posting. They were very moving, and made more so because of being made as part of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which we remember so well from when Heath attended.... :_( :_(
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Andrew Garfield remembers Ledger
Andrew Garfield often thinks about his late co-star Heath Ledger.
Heath passed away in his New York City apartment in January 2008, with his death ruled an accident caused by a toxic combination of prescription drugs.
Andrew had been working on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with Heath when he died. The star still can’t come to terms with the loss and wishes people would be more respectful about his friend.
“All I know is that I love him. I love him. And I think about him often,” he told UK magazine GQ. “And I get sick thinking about the speculation around his death. You know, that’s death. It’s the one thing that binds us all. It’s like, let it f**king rest!”
http://www.film-news.co.uk/show-news.asp?H=Andrew-Garfield-remembers-Ledger&nItemID=12049 (http://www.film-news.co.uk/show-news.asp?H=Andrew-Garfield-remembers-Ledger&nItemID=12049)
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Video: Christian Bale Gets Emotional After Watching Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight'
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00051149.html (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00051149.html)
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Video: Christian Bale Gets Emotional After Watching Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight'
Thanks for sharing that, keren :ghug:
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Video: Christian Bale Gets Emotional After Watching Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight'
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00051149.html (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00051149.html)
he was shaken, wasn't he? :-\\
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Yes, he seems very moved :(
Heath was so amazing in The Dark Night.
Christian Bale was is co-star also in I'm not there.
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he was shaken, wasn't he? :-\\
Yes, you could actually hear his voice crack.
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Loved reading the tributes. We all did know him in our own way didn't we?
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I know why I avoid this thread but omg.the tributes and
Film descriptions are still so heart breaking I wonder if I'll ever heal :-(
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:ghug: Froggy :ghug:
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:ghug: Froggy :ghug:
we are all in the same boat x
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we are all in the same boat x
Yes we are... xx
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we are all in the same boat x
Yup! :( :ghug: to ya all.
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I suppose I'm not alone here, reading all the recent reviews of the The Dark Knight Rises has been so melancholy with the many, inevitable references to Heath, such as this opening paragraph from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
"The great writer-director Christopher Nolan faced an impossible challenge: follow up his 2008 smash "The Dark Knight," which was not only hugely popular and critically acclaimed but spawned Heath Ledger's Joker, a villain who reached beyond mere comics-turned-films shenanigans to become one of the greatest movie characters of all time."
Somehow it seems like its been decades. Has only been four years?
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Yes, every time I hear the new Batman film being mentioned I feel a pinch in my heart. I don't want to see it because Heath's absence in it would be too painful. :(
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Yes, every time I hear the new Batman film being mentioned I feel a pinch in my heart. I don't want to see it because Heath's absence in it would be too painful. :(
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This is an account of one of Grace Woodroofe's performances, where she was opening for Ben Harper. The writer described a very emotional moment when Grace performed the song "H." which she has written about Heath:
Ben Harper, who is producing Grace’s debut album, Always Want, joined her on stage during the opening set. Her single, I’ve Handled Myself Wrong, features Ben on backup vocals during the chorus. Grace’s presence within her songs demand a connection with the audience, and there is no where else you’ll want to be. If you pay attention to the lyrics you can hear her leaving a piece of herself behind in every line.
Grace’s second number featuring Ben was the delicately written H. Starting off with a gently finger picked chord progression, her raspy yet soft vocals fall in soon after. I may have been caught with my eyes closed, feeling the moment, but suddenly about halfway through the song Grace just stopped and burst into tears. She tried to fight it, she tried to wipe them away and turn from the crowd but it wasn’t happening. Harper walked over to her and she quickly buried her face in his shoulder. He whispered something to her and she tried again to wipe away the tears. She could have cried for hours in his arms but instead she pulled it together, composed herself, and started right back in where she left off. Everyone around me had tears rolling down their cheeks. In the moment, and especially in hindsight, it was the purest, most emotionally honest moment I’ve ever experienced at a concert. Growing up usually takes years, but Grace did it in just one song. The love and appreciation I now have for Grace Woodroofe, as an artist and a person, is abounding.
It wasn’t until hours after the show that I finally put it all together. Even though Ben Harper is producing her album it was actually Heath Ledger that first ‘discovered’ Grace and wholeheartedly encouraged her to follow her dreams. As her manager, he even directed and produced her first video for the David Bowie song, Quicksand. By introducing Grace to Ben before his death, Ledger has helped keep the dream alive, and from inside Grace’s heart, Heath has the best seat in the house every night. In homage to her dearly departed friend, Grace wrote H., the hauntingly beautiful recollection of their time together. Some people in the audience thought she made a mistake during the song and was embarrassed, but that’s not what happened at all. The outpour of emotion was real, and true.
You can find the whole blog entry here: http://www.blueskycampfires.com/post/11303518533/gracewoodroofe (http://www.blueskycampfires.com/post/11303518533/gracewoodroofe)
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Thank you for posting this, Keren. I didn't know Grace Woodroofe. I just listened to her song, H. This is beautiful and moving... Thanks again.
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Maybe it's already posted somewhere, but I found the lyrics of H. and wanted to share with you. It is incredibly moving.
H.
My dad wrote 4 words on a tiny piece of paper,
these are the stages you'll go through. He said
shock and deep denying sadness,
in time acceptance will come too.
Oh,I wish I could fast-forward time, for that matter rewind.
I know you said time was blind,
now you are in a place that only exists in my mind.
I have this image of you leaning out the window,
your lungs encapsulating smoke,
but I would give everything to smell your cigarette's burning,
you were always so impassive when you spoke.
I feel you with me all the time,
your guiding hands lead mine,
but I miss the stories that you'd share,
and the little garments that you always used to wear.
I am wearing nothing but your love,
and I can honestly say
that I think about you everyday.
I have this image of you leaning out the window,
your lungs encapsulating smoke,
but I would give everything to smell your cigarette's burning,
you were always so impassive when you spoke.
Your house is empty, shelves are bare,
your presence felt, but you're not there.
That's where you sit, I mean where you sat,
I am still adjusting to getting used to that.
You won't show up at my door.
Wherever you are I hope you find
what you were searching for.
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Thank you for posting this, Keren. I didn't know Grace Woodroofe. I just listened to her song, H. This is beautiful and moving... Thanks again.
Grace Woodroofe was a friend of Heath's younger sister, Ashleigh, who sent Heath a recording of Grace and connected between them. Heath thought that Grace had potential and wanted to help her make her brakethrough, so he flew her to the U.S. and took her under his wings as her manager. Through Heath she met Ben Harper. If you google Heath and Grace Woodroofe I'm sure you'll find articles about it. There was also a clip (on youtube I think) of Grace performing H. live and she said it was dedicated to "The Bells" - Heath's mother Sally Bell, her husband and Ashleigh Bell were sitting in the audience.
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This live is beautiful. I love her voice and her music. It's so wonderful what Heath make for her. I didn't know about "The Bells"... Thanks for telling me. I'm glad I discovered another side of Heath through this talented singer. I love (and miss) him even more.
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This is a link to a blog with different tributes and interviews and stories about Heath. Among them there's Todd Haynes speech when he dedicated the Robet Altman Award to Heath - it's a very emotional dedication, I looked for this video for ages and couldn't find it on youtube, I'm so glad that I found it here. And there is also an interesting interview with Vincent Fantauzzo about working with Heath on his famous portrait. I wasn't sure on which memorial thread to post it, so I'm posting it on both of them.
http://fiveleavesleftbehind.blogspot.com.au/2008_11_01_archive.html (http://fiveleavesleftbehind.blogspot.com.au/2008_11_01_archive.html)
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thank you dear ^f^
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thank you dear ^f^
I quote Tizi! Thanks for sharing Keren.
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I came across this quote from Michelle from about two years ago. She was interviewed to Marie Claire and talked about her life with Matilda:
"Very obviously, for me and her, there's a hole in our life," the actress revealed in the interview, "Of course the natural inclination is to want to fill it and make it disappear, but what I've come to recently is that it's impossible." She continues, "Nothing will fit in that hole because what we want back there we can't get, which is this one person. I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy. I'm trying to be respectful of the absence. I'm not trying to fill it up. It is what it is."
This is so heartbreaking. I hope she's happy now in her new relationship, but I doubt anyone can really replace Heath in her heart. and it's heartbreaking to think that Matilda doesn't even remember him. :_(
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dear keren-
I share your sentiments here with the entirety of the situation. I'm sure you have perceived, and reflected upon, the remarkable, and I would imagine wholly unintentional, parallels between what Michelle said here (I'm trying to be respectful of the absence. I'm not trying to fill it up. It is what it is.) and another summation by a famous novelist:
. . . . but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
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So true, Jackster.
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So true, Jackster.
Hopefully when Matilda is older, she will watch her dad's movies and get to know him like we have and hold a special place in her memory and heart of the wonderful man who left us all too soon.
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Ang Lee recalling working with Heath in a recent interview:
Lee doesn't need much prompting to recall, with evident emotion, the intensity of working with Heath Ledger, who died two years after earning an Oscar nomination for "Brokeback Mountain."
Hearing of Ledger's death in January 2008 after disembarking from a flight to Japan, says Lee, "I went blank."
Now, says Lee as Sharma listens, absorbed, "I want to remember the time I worked with Heath as an actor, because when you work with somebody like this" — he inclines his head toward Sharma — "it's beyond a personal level. During shooting you go through things that I don't share with my wife or children, where we just zoom right into the core of things. What may seem like torture to others, we actually like. That happens only with good actors. They just need that excuse, just need somebody like me to give them a topic so they can go through that."
Lee, amused at the thought almost despite himself, glances sidelong at Sharma: "I give actors my best, and they give theirs to me."
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-life-of-pi-20121218,0,2344380.story (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-life-of-pi-20121218,0,2344380.story)
It reminded me of things that Heath said, how shooting BBM was very difficult for him because it was a very lonely experience, and Ang didn't give him many reassurances. Ang created this atmosphere on purpose to put Heath in the right mood for the role and draw out the best from him, and Heath gave his best.
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"I give actors my best, and they give theirs to me."
Indeed.
Thanks for the post keren.
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Yup, thanks hon' for posting. :^^)
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January 22nd is coming up - hard to believe how the time passes.
* I deleted the photo on the bottom left of the first page because it was a pap shot of Heath with Matilda.
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Thanks Keren!
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My uncle and aunt lost their son in his twenties. They say it really never gets better, just different. I feel sad when I think of what could have been with Heath, such a lovely, sweet, talented person. Sad for his family who will miss him all the days they are on this earth and his little girl who never got the chance to know him.
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thank you keren ^f^
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He had such a beautiful smile, he really glowed.
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thanks Keren, we miss his smile too
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This is a video of Ben Harper talking about Heath in one of his concerts. He was probably going to perform "Happy Everafter In Your Eyes", and that's what triggered the story. It's a shame that the song isn't on the video, but his story is really touching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-W0AI4W532g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-W0AI4W532g)
I listened to it several times, trying to understand what he says, not always easy to tell... I wasn't able to get everything word for word, but this is pretty much how it goes:
Ben: …My doorbell rang in about 8:30 in the morning… (going on about hearing the Semi which is unusual in his street)… I came to the door, and, "I've got a piano here for Mr. Harper". And I say "no, no you don't… 'cause I didn't… don't think I ordered a piano. It's the kind of thing you'd remember". And he says "no you didn't order it, it's on special delivery here from Mr. Heath Ledger".
We've been up two nights before – straight – I think maybe he outlasted me – I think – if I could run 10 miles Heath could run 12, put it that way. And so I think I dozed off once, in the two days. And we were up listening to Nick Drake and just being completely overwhelmed with enthusiasm about one of his best friends, who's one of the great Hip-Hop artists I've ever known or heard, N'fa. N'fa is incredible, and one of the great humans on the planet. And so we were up and he was showing me N'fa's new video that he had cut, and we were up playing, hammering on this piano and then two days later it showed up. And that was the kind of majestic, regal human being that Heath was.
And just like me he had no sense of time. the phone would ring at 4:00 in the morning, no shit, and – (whispering, imitating his wife): "honey, it's Heath, again, would you just – we just got the baby to sleep – would you just tell him to wait 'til 7:00, you know…" and I'd go up in the corner: "Hey man… (mimicking a whispered conversation) oh, really? Oh, okay, okay okay – I'll meet you there in 10 minutes". And then I'd go – and she's, "where the hell are you going??" and I'm, "honey it's Heath, I gotta go!" and we'd be eating pastrami sandwiches in Hollywood in 4:30 in the morning.
And two days later, that piano – he called and said "you got that piano, right?" I say "yeah". And he says "ok, I've got a baby coming in about a month, I need you to write her a lullaby". And I did it right away. He needs a lullaby, it's like, "you got it man, you know, sure, I would do it". And so, this next song, I don't play and I haven't played much at all, because I haven't been able to play it, because when you do, it's just…it's…" (I wasn't able to understand what he said here). But I'm just starting to come around, and play a little bit, and I think… it is what it is… and we're in Australia, Sydney, so…
Someone from the audience asks, "where's the piano?"
Ben: I play it every morning over coffee. Wake up – cup – sit at the piano. And I think of him, and the great, incredible times… he directed this video for me. He was going to direct a video, I have a song called… (didn't get it) and he was going to direct that video, but he was hell bent on setting me on fire. "I'll set you on fire!..." (he talked some more about the emails they used to send each other back and forth, I wasn't able to get everything there).
If anybody picked up more things that he said that I missed and feels like filling in the blanks, please do...
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Thanks Keren it's a lovely video. :^^)
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From a German documentary series titled Too Young to Die, though it's dubbed in French:
http://youtu.be/j04X3B9-dLU (http://youtu.be/j04X3B9-dLU)
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Johnny Depp turns 50 today. Included in an article naming the most memorable moments in his career, was when he bought his own island and named his favorite part of it "Heath's Place" in tribute to his good friend Heath Ledger.
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Johnny Depp turns 50 today. Included in an article naming the most memorable moments in his career, was when he bought his own island and named his favorite part of it "Heath's Place" in tribute to his good friend Heath Ledger.
That was a very sweet thing to do. It always overwhelms me to see how deeply Heath has touched everybody around him.
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http://www.justjared.com/2013/06/14/xavier-samuel-wes-bentley-heath-ledger-scholarship-event/ (http://www.justjared.com/2013/06/14/xavier-samuel-wes-bentley-heath-ledger-scholarship-event/)
Heath Leger Scholarship
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Awwww, just read the interview with Heath's parents.. :_(
Still puts such a feeling of physical weight on my chest... sigh
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from The West Australian (newspaper)
Jake Gyllenhaal still misses Heath Ledger
AAP September 14, 2013, 7:58 am
Jake Gyllenhaal says Heath Ledger was a lovable guy and says he still misses the late Australian actor.
Gyllenhaal starred alongside Ledger in the 2005 Oscar-winning movie Brokeback Mountain, in which they played two cowboys who were in love.
Their portrayal of the relationship between Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) was so believable some began to question Gyllenhaal's sexual orientation.
The topic was discussed during his appearance on an episode of Inside the Actors Studio, to air in the US next week.
Far from being embarrassed by the rumours, the 32-year-old star says he took them as a "huge compliment" because it meant he had done his job well.
Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 2008 at the age of 28. During the interview Gyllenhaal opened up about their friendship, explaining their work on Brokeback Mountain wasn't what first brought them together.
"Heath and I knew each other for years before that because we had both auditioned for Moulin Rouge! together," he explained, referencing Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie.
"And I remember thinking, 'I like this guy. He's just like, super lovable.'"
Gyllenhaal was heavily affected by Ledger's death. He likened it to the loss of a dear family member and said he still misses him "to this day".
The full TV interview with the actor hasn't been released yet, but it's known he discusses what he looks for in a woman and even opens up about what turns him on according to entertainment website eonline.com.
Gyllenhaal stars alongside Hugh Jackman in the new dramatic thriller Prisoners, to be released in Australian cinemas on October 17.
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Thank you for this Jackster, that's so touching to read. I've heard that Jake is going to talk about his friendship with Heath in this show and I would very much like to see it, but unfortunately it's not aired here. I hope somebody puts it up on youtube or something...
By the way, I remember how some people were very upset when Jake didn't release any public statement after Heath's death and refused to talk about him in interviews. People were very unfair to him and claimed that he was being disrespectful, when the real reason was that it was just too painful for him to talk about. He obviously cared so much for Heath and losing him was hard to deal with. :_(
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I only found this now. Last January, 6 years to the day Heath has left us, photographer Robert Sebree posted some photos he took of Heath and his memories of Heath from that photoshoot.
http://sebreephoto.com/2014/01/22/heath-ledger/ (http://sebreephoto.com/2014/01/22/heath-ledger/)
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thanks for sharing x
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still and always a twist to my heart...
thank you dear ^f^
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Thank you Keren.
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Everyone who ever worked with him or got to know him mentions how down-to-earth, genuine, friendly and casual he was - no attitude, no special demands, never making a big deal of himself. He never let the success go to his head, never thought he deserved special treatment. He was just another guy, or so he thought.
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That was a very sweet thing to do. It always overwhelms me to see how deeply Heath has touched everybody around him.
not just another guy !!
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I only found this now. Last January, 6 years to the day Heath has left us, photographer Robert Sebree posted some photos he took of Heath and his memories of Heath from that photoshoot.
http://sebreephoto.com/2014/01/22/heath-ledger/ (http://sebreephoto.com/2014/01/22/heath-ledger/)
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How is it possible after all these years,
photos of Heath still bring tears?
Will the pain never end?
Will the grief never cease?
This must be how Ennis felt,
Looking at the two shirts,
Year after year.
I swear.
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Everyone who ever worked with him or got to know him mentions how down-to-earth, genuine, friendly and casual he was - no attitude, no special demands, never making a big deal of himself. He never let the success go to his head, never thought he deserved special treatment. He was just another guy, or so he thought.
Have only just read this article, what a wonderful tribute to Heath this is.....giving us an insight into how he is with people, and it's what we all thought, that he always tried to be "normal", down to earth and not abuse his status, and this is highlighted here, when the photographer recalls Heath turning up on his own, without the normal entourage you would expect from a very high profile actor.
"and we had a good day because Heath Ledger was a good guy"...... :_( :_( :_(
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You can check the recent interviews that came out in july "brokeback mountain 10 years of oral history" ...the cast and crew share their bbm experience, memories and of course they talk about heath.
http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2015/7/28/brokeback-mountain-10-years-oral-history
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You can check the recent interviews that came out in july "brokeback mountain 10 years of oral history" ...the cast and crew share their bbm experience, memories and of course they talk about heath.
http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2015/7/28/brokeback-mountain-10-years-oral-history
This is a fantastic article, and a beautiful tribute to BBM. I loved reading everyone's thoughts about their experiences. In particular, Diana Ossana's reflection on the scene when Ennis visits Jack's childhood home.
That day was so intense, oh my lord. And it was very intense for Heath. They did the takes over and over and over, and at a certain point Heath came down and said, “How am I doing, how am I doing?” And I looked at him and said, “You’re making me cry,” and he got so overwhelmed by emotion that he ran out of the building into the dark. I ran after him and asked if he was OK, and he said, “I just need to be alone for a little bit.” And then he came back about 30 minutes later and did the scene again. Actors like that don’t come along very often in one’s lifetime.
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You can check the recent interviews that came out in july "brokeback mountain 10 years of oral history" ...the cast and crew share their bbm experience, memories and of course they talk about heath.
http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2015/7/28/brokeback-mountain-10-years-oral-history
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O why?! I read the article. And it's like a faucet. Every anecdote of Heath just emphasized the absence of Heath. Like the giant tree fell in the middle of a forest, leaving a huge empty gap, a space yearning to be filled, an emptiness more poignant than the substance surrounding it.
Thank you for sharing the link. Anne Hathaway hit it right on the head. Heath was one of the greatest actor there ever was and few of his equal would come again. :_(
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oh my she DOES look like him... <^(
thank you hpv ^f^
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Can't remember if I posted this one before...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFpmOHPKQXY
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I found this article from 3 years ago, I was so touched by the things Kate said about the strong bond between them, and how she cries every time she sees Matilda because she reminds her of Heath so much. I can't imagine what it had been like for her to lose him... still is. :_(
Kate Ledger: 'I miss Heath everyday'
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/kate-ledger-author/story-fn9412vp-1226602500753
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Director Todd Haynes talks about Heath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0d86cTr9UI
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I wasn't completely sure where to post this but eventually decided on this thread. It's about the video that Heath had directed for Modest Mouse - or at least began to direct, I don't know how far he got into it before he died. I thought it's an interesting review.
http://www.mtv.com/news/1617556/modest-mouse-get-ugly-in-heath-ledger-directed-king-rat-video/
The video itself is very disturbing and hard to watch, but I suppose that was Heath's (and the band's) intention - to raise awareness by shocking people and making them take a look at what we're actually doing. This is the video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo
In the credits they mentioned Heath as the director and they wrote "this began with our friend, a great defender of life, and was completed in his spirit".
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There's going to be an exhibition of some of Heath's treasured personal belongings next year. I heard word that it will include some of the photos he took, as he always carried a camera with him. Now that's something I wish I could see.
His dad said that they had thought he should have won an Oscar for his role in BBM... I totally agree.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2253527/heath-ledgers-dad-pays-tribute-to-tragic-actor-ahead-of-exhibition-of-personal-belongings-nine-years-after-his-death/