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Jan 22, 2008 09:07PM

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I keep crying whenever he's mentioned. =( I can't believe he's gone. I've liked him for so long.
Yeah, it's so awful. Heath was from my hometown in Australia, and as such is the only celebrity I have any kind of connection with (ie. I have friends who went to school with him, I know the area where his parents live, etc, because Perth is a really small city). I saw him this time last year, flying from Perth to LA. So weird to think that a year later he's dead.
He had so much ahead of him. My heart really goes out to his family, particularly his daughter Matilda.
He had so much ahead of him. My heart really goes out to his family, particularly his daughter Matilda.




Saw a past show of Charlie Rose and Heath was on it--he was discussing how he created the character, the dialect, etc of Ennis in Brokeback...what an incredible talent. I need to see some of his other films....really, really sad.

oh ENNIS.

By the way if you're bored today take the time to write to Fox and complain about their anchor John Gibson.
From Perez Hilton.com:
"Fox News Talk Network host John Gibson announced the sad and tragic death of actor Heath Ledger on Tuesday by mocking him and making light of his untimely passing."
Here's a rundown of what happened:
"Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, 'I wish I knew how to quit you' from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, 'Well, he found out how to quit you.' Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, 'We’re dead,' followed by his own, mocking 'We’re dead' before playing the clip again.
Gibson called Ledger a "weirdo" with a "serious drug problem" and suggested that Ledger killed himself because he had "a serious position in the (stock) market" or perhaps "watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.
Feel free to email john.gibson@foxnews.com and let him directly know your thoughts!
You can also email his show at myword@foxnews.com and the network at yourcomments@foxnews.com.
And, if you wanna email the CEO of Fox News, his info is roger.ailes@foxnews.com."
http://perezhilton.com/page/2/


I, too, was saddened by the death of Heath Ledger, which kind of surprised me. I'm normally unmoved by the passing of celebrities of any type. But I was so profoundly moved by his performance in Brokeback Mountain that I really had come to expect fantastic things from him. In reading that short story, Jack was my favorite character and I almost kind of hated Ennis. After seeing the movie, I came away thinking things like, "Wow, Ennis was in a lot of pain" and "Ennis may have loved Jack even more than Jack loved him..." That performance was just so strong, so subtle, so perfect and so goddamn spot-on. I have known that guy. Ledger pulled it off without ever once falling back on a cliche. Totally believable performance, and I can't wait to see what he does with The Joker.
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It's sad, i think he had a good future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZUHt...
One is Best Buy for exploiting Ledger's death with a display of his movies (done in a bad way), the other is John Gibson. I'm apalled at both of them. While writing to Fox I think we should also write to Best Buy.
Melissa, I know what you mean about releasing the movie, I had the same thought yesterday when seeing another countless promotion of the movie. You know that they'll release it and it will be Ledger's death that gets the majority of the people there. Sad. I heard yesterday that Jack Nicholson warned him about taking the role because it was such a deep emotional role to live with. That's interesteing.


As for writing Fox to protest the release of The Dark Knight, I don't think it would work, and anyway, Ledger chose to play that role. I think it would be a dishonor to his memory for the studio to trash the film he obviously worked so hard on.


I too am not a celebrity watcher, but Heath's death really saddened me. He was a sweet and charasmatic guy and he had the guts to take on challenging roles and not just pretty boy easy films. I admire that.
I actually think it's not exploitative to release the batman film...he obviously put a lot of thought, effort, and work into creating that role. Yes it is dark, but to just not show it, would be i think in a way saying that Heath's hard work shouldn't be shown, just because he died. Now I agree that the movie studios shouldn't exploit his death thru relentless advertising, but I do think they should release the film.


We have lost many potential great performances is losing Heath. His range was impressive and most pleasant to look upon.

Fox News has officially crossed over into the realm of complete irrelevance as far as I'm concerned. They are a gross cartoon of themselves. None of the cable news channels are reliable in my opinion, but they are by the far the worst. Unless you look to rely on completely biased and grotesque news coverage. The day they spread the rumor that Barak Obama is Muslim was the day they lost any shred of respect I had remaining for them (which wasn't much, I'll grant you). This latest news about their coverage of Ledger's death... well... par for the friggin course.


He will be missed.

I am tired of the media treating celebrities like they are here for our amusement, objects of our ridicule, jealousy and scorn. Yes they have chosen a career that puts them in the spot light but they still deserve to be treated like human beings instead of a cash crop. These people have families and friends who love them. To most of the people in the world they are just objects up on the big screen or on TV. Something to desire, resent, make fun of etc. The glossy pictures in the magazines and the big screen blurs the fact that they like us are human beings. They are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. They bleed just like we do. They cry and are hurt when horrible words are spoken of them. They have children who see and hear these horrible things and then have to explain to them how mean the world can be.
I'm also tired of people who buy the magazines and read the trash that keep the junk magazines going. By reading those magazines you keep the paparazzi employed as they hunt down celebrities to get pictures of them without make-up on or eating dinner. Get a life people! Nothing was learned from the death of Diana. Britney Spears is a good example of that.
I was glad to see that ET decided to not air the video of Heath. But they stilled showed clips of it the night before and that was a trashy thing to do. Let the man rest in peace and give his family the time to grieve their beloved son, brother, cousin and father. Remember each time the media and magazines trash his memory he has a little girl who has to grow up in this world and read and hear these horrible things being said about her father. How would you feel if that was your child?
Rest in peace Heath.

Magazines saying a friend of the family said this or that, the friend half the time is a friend of a friend's friend. They don't care how it is the family left behind to have to deal with not only the lost of a loved one, but also the crap that is being put out there. I have refused to buy these magazines since Princess Di's death. And I no longer watch shows like Entertainment tonight.
Sorry got carried away.