he was easily the most rawly talented young actor around right now. i was really bummed when i found this out. my ex girlfriend texted me while i was in class to tell me, because she had dragged me to see brokeback mountain while we were still dating and i ended up really loving it. anyways, he was a tremendous talent, hopefully the dark knight will still be released and will be a testament to his ridiculous acting range.

As far as I know, it was just like Renfro. He was despondent over a recent estrangement with a fiance/girlfriend. Renfro had a history with drugs whereas Ledger really didn't have a rap sheet.

At any rate, Pat Robertson (or some other of his ilk) is preparing his message haha as we speak. He'll recap the Paris/Britney/Lohan thingies and mention the Whore of Babylon (establish some half-truth haha) and then the insinuation will be made that Ledger died because he was in Brokeback Mountain.

It's a crazy world.

I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain yet.

Candy, Two Hands, are two of my favourites of his, to name acouple.

It's now seen as an accident.

The media prints DRUGS in bold type like he was a heroin addict.

He will also say that his soul was not save because he did not repent doing such a film.

I saw Brokeback Mountain and it was a real good film. The ending was sad, I should netflix it.

Renfro just seems like a heroin addict. I cannot be sure, but I'm pretty damn sure. And I saw an portion of a Ledger interview tonight...he's wearing some striped shirtsleeves under another shirt, and he seemed a little smacky to me.

I've seen people who shot it in their arm once every twenty minutes. And they can function fairly well only they have an ethereal, slighly shy and also slightly nervous air. (To be fair, I sort of have this sometimes myself in unfamiliar surroundings haha.)
Now, if they do too much they nod, but before nodding comes the exhausted look and the sweating.

its hollywood, theres very few of them that dont do drugs. its never much of a surprsie when "such and such actor/actress overdoses" but it certainly is always a tragedy.

the telltale sign of someone on smack would be a completely vacant look in their eyes, partially due to constricted pupils.

Oh, Ledger was far from the clean cut good guy. I'm sure he did dabble with drugs. But the cause of his death was not smack or whatever, it was sleeping pills. The media say drugs like he overdosed on smack or something. Thats what you first think when you see 'dies from drug-overdose', which is no doubt the medias intention.

That's of course very true to an extent, but the passing of a twenty-five and an twenty-eight year old in the matter of a few days is remarkable.

And watching the Dark Knight is gonna be a different experience now.

Oh, and (nobody's remarked on it, but...) the thing I wrote about the sleeves was to only designate which Ledger interview, not to call attention to that he was wearing sleeves. Okay, this post is shit.

It will be a different experience. As will watching any of his films. I used to, in a way, romanticise this type of thing when I was younger, but these days I find it hard.

There is a difference. One who overdoses on heroin or some other illegal drug, are in most cases an accident, 'a junky' as much as I hate using that word. You wouldn't see that term used for someone who uses sleeping pills to enduce sleep. And sleeping pills are often kept in the bedroom, after all, it is where you sleep.

I'm not gonna go on any further with this though as I can see it being a 20 page shit fight over nothing.

Lords of Dogtown was another favourite of mine.

i have fucking all kinds of prescriptions and prescription bottles in my bedroom, i don't think it's really an unusual place to keep them...

It's not, Cantankerous.

yeah so i'm not sure if it was worth the tabs mentioning that he had a bunch ofo prescriptions everywhere
most people do

agree about the mixing, swa(y)...yeppers i can't always squeeze it all in believe it or not/OR ELSE haha but you know ...but you're there...
and...

yeah...

wow



Ledger was found dead in his fourth floor apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City on January 22, 2008. His body was found at 3:26 p.m. EST by a housekeeper and a massage therapist, who entered the bedroom to find him face down, naked, and unconscious at the foot of his bed with sleeping pills on a nearby night table. Police said that they also found prescription medication in the bathroom and that there were "no obvious signs" of suicide, nor did they suspect foul play.
On January 23, 2008 Ledger's parents and sister appeared outside Ledger's mother's house in Applecross, a riverside Perth suburb, and read a short statement to the media:
“ "We, Heath's family, confirm the very tragic, untimely and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother and doting father of Matilda, who was found in a peaceful sleep in his New York apartment by his housekeeper at 3:30pm [New York Time]. We would like to thank our friends and everyone around the world for their kind wishes at this time. Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life, but few had the pleasure to truly know him. He was a down-to-earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving and unselfish individual who was an extreme inspiration to many. Please now respect our family's need to grieve and come to terms with our loss privately."
In reaction to his death, former partner Michelle Williams was reported as saying that she was "devastated" at the loss and had boarded a plane to New York City. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd released a statement saying, "It was with great sadness that I have learned of the passing of Heath Ledger... It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life."

Somebody told me about this last night. Pretty tragic.

did you hear heath ledger died?

latest news is it was alcohol poisoning

too many cock sucking cowboys

Noticed it yesterday, didn't see it coming though.

I didn't read this thread except the first page and I don't really know anything about Heath Ledger except that he's been in a bunch of shitty films, but.. if he intentionally killed himself (IF -- we'll find out "definitely" soon), I don't see this is as some kind of big deal. Suicide's not a tragedy; it's his life, no one has any right to say what he can do with his life, so if he wanted to take his own life, that's fine.

If it was an accidental death, fuck yeah, that's a tragedy. That sucks for anyone to die like that.

Either way, regarding the new Batman film, it will do even bigger business now because of this. Ridiculous. "GOTTA SEE A DEAD CELEB IN HIS LAST ROLE!!!!!!!!!!!" Not that it wasn't going to do big business anyway. Creepy.

Too many wild sex fantasies inside that troubled head of yours.

haha maybe so sarram maybe so

heath died of a drug overdose
rumour has it that he got addicted to crack when filming... broke back mountain..thats right..broke back mountain.. ah hehe

paul shaffer everybody!!

Is this part of the "viral marketing campaign" for the new Batman?

He's going to come out at the premiere, in full Joker atire, and go "JOKE'S ON YOU@!"

i was waiting for something inappropriate...

makes me remember all the jokes about steve irwin


being in australia, there was like a 2hr special on what must obviously have been the meaning of life for most australians, to see heath healthy n happy

today tonight's predicting a lot of sucides

haha today tonight knows shit about shit

where u from in aus sux

I love all the commentary on cable news about the trend in celebrity problems. Trend? Like this is some new phenomenon? And like, what, we should hold a congressional hearing on it or something? Cable news is surreal sometimes.

of course, i was at the gym and tv was tuned to channel 9, never would i dare watching that show

perth, you?

kalgoorlie, 600km from perth
did you get tix to the gig in perth?
i missed out, sold out in 3 days

i got the tickets the morning they came out
went back to buy them for some friends, sold out

was so glad i got them on time

at least you can make up for it by seeing the 18+ dinosaur jr concerts

yeh i been to both of those
pretty excellent
i take it you dont know anyone wanting to sell tickets eh?

this is sad news, he was becoming one of the great actors and was looking at a very great career. I know he will be missed by a lot of people here in aus.

most OLD people have alot of prescriptions. most people under 40 years olf age do NOT

okay, everyone i know has prescriptions everywhere
oh they both look really nice there
sad

Heard about it just when it happened. I couldn't believe it, I thought he was good for another 50 years or so. Real shame...:(

yeah its weird because it's like right down the street from my apartment, practically, maybe something like 5 or 6 blocks

sorry its like 7
but i walk more than that every day

Maybe you can capitolise on the visitors to his place. Sell some fake signatures or something.

i don't believe in cashing in on people's deaths
AHEM, unlike someone i know

nope... last i checked people were selling them for $200+ on ebay

sneak in?
go with a gun?