Death of an Actor
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 in Uncategorized | 17 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I find the death of Heath Ledger very sad, and I wonder how long it will be before some rightwingerâRush Limbaugh, perhapsâlinks Ledger’s death to his portrayal of a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain in a “See? That’s what happens!” kind of way.
17 Responses
1/23/2008 9:35 am
I blame Heath’s probable suicide on the Giant’s pathetic journey to the Super Bowl — and the illusion that they stand a chance against the Pats, as propagated by irresponsible media hounds like you.
1/23/2008 9:41 am
“I wonder how long it will be before some rightwingerâRush Limbaugh, perhapsâlinks Ledger’s death to his portrayal of a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain in a “See? That’s what happens!” kind of way.”
Looks like you just did, Richard. Ya big dummy.
1/23/2008 10:17 am
Call it preventive measures….
1/23/2008 11:23 am
You can’t take preventive measures, Richard: the movie is called Bareback Mountain!
Oh, wait —
1/23/2008 12:06 pm
I felt it was very sad , I don’t know how old his daughter is but she should not have had to lose him as young as he was
1/23/2008 12:17 pm
He was great in ‘I’m not there’. Yes, Richard, promote SE’s parable, but only if he’s paid up for Huckabee’s SC loss.
1/23/2008 12:23 pm
Until I see the guy again the interest clock is running: 25% APR seem fair?
Let’s see — compounded continuously — e is the limit as n approaches infinity of n minus one over n to the n…. Carry the four…. times one Hamilton…..
Consider it paid!
SE
1/23/2008 6:22 pm
Seems sacrilegious to make jokes on this post. Because I feel terrible about this. He had a lot to live for. More than most. He was beautiful and I loved watching his work. He gave a lot. It’s not easy to be that good.
May he rest in peace.
eayny
1/23/2008 8:58 pm
I knew that comment was eayny by the time I got to the second line. She’s the sentimental one around here.
1/23/2008 9:37 pm
SE: do the words “too soon” mean anything to you?
1/23/2008 11:06 pm
To 7:58 - That was very sweet to say. Oddly I needed to hear that today. And I actually always thought lmpaulsen was the sentimental one around here. Where is she? I haven’t seen her around lately. I’ve missed her.
eayny
1/24/2008 12:03 am
You’re right, eayny, and I shouldn’t have tried to do two things with mine of 11:17. Agreed, very sad, and here is a good little clip of him talking about “I’m not There”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjW7vJz1g_I
If it was a cocaine overdose, hard not to think via his break-up with Michelle Williams, who plays Coco Rivington in the same movie, she being an obvious version of Edie Sedgwick, who, well you know.
1/24/2008 12:35 am
Correction: “If it was an overdose”
1/24/2008 2:06 am
Thank you for your kind words, eayny…I’m around…just been quiet lately. And I echo your sentiments about Heath Ledger, he was a fine actor…I thought Brokeback Mountain was a great movie and Heath’s portrayal of Ennis deeply touching, a sad and infinitely lonely man who couldn’t come to terms with what he was but couldn’t help himself. Heath could make you feel that loneliness.
A great loss of acting potential cut short…an apparently shy man whose craft was more important to him than his celebrity. I admired that.
lmpaulsen
1/24/2008 9:55 pm
Sadder still. Ledger seems to have been obsessed by Nick Drake, the great but troubled singer-songwriter who overdosed on anti-depression meds in 1974, aged 26.
Here’s a video Ledger did of himself with Drake’s Bright up my northern sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOowzrAT488
Talk about cries for help.
It gets worse:
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23101264-921,00.html
RIP
1/24/2008 11:10 pm
Thanks for sharing that, rt. And glad to see you around lmpaulsen!
eayny
1/25/2008 7:53 am
Nick Drake has probably been the soundtrack of more suicides…..
If, that is, Ledger committed suicide.