How the hell is Heath Ledger dead?

http://wcco.com/national/Heath.Ledger.Dead.2.635534.html

whoa

gotta be a heart issue or something

wha-?

i know right!

Holy smokes!

Fuck me.

fake

JESUS h. Wow.

terrible!

Yeah, I think it's probably fake.

i wanna know what associated press theyre using because its not on my ap site

it's on bbc alreads

from NYPD they say

wau

it's on Drudge...

It's on cnn.com now.

Thanks Wiki!

Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on January 22, 2008. No details have been released aside from the cause of death, listed as "Martin Luther King Day." In early 2008 Ledger was reported to be seeing Gemma Ward after media articles linked the two together at end of 2007 holiday celebrations.[19]

http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/22/heath-ledger-is-dead/

I think it just crossed alerts, not stories for publish.

damn

its on fox news. not cnn.

Never heard drugs, just the usual deep-closet-case stuff.

but... the Batman movie!!

I am sad

no, it's on cnn.com in a big red box of death

Didn't know he and Michelle Williams had split.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/

:(((

oh shit!

cnn tv is reporting on obama vs hillary still

Looks like suicide?

The police said they did not suspect foul play and said they found pills near body.

Yikes.

the patriot is my most hated of all time but dude was good in brokeback

was looking forward to him showing in serious stuff

HOLY SHIT!!!!

so sad. he's great!

Oh my god.

that is AWFUL

i really liked him a lot

does this mean he's going to get an oscar for the joker?

i'm not a huge movie dude so idk about his merits as an actor or anything but it's scary as shit anytime a 28 year old dies

craaaaaaaazy

He was only 28 :(

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/

He can't be dead, I ... just saw him in I'm Not There again tonight

:/

Impressed in I'm Not There. A waste.

shit RIP

well balls to this news
msnbc all over it

goddamn.

RIP

sad

shocked/bummed

I mean I was REALLY lookin forward to his Joker perf (and he was great in I'm Not There)

Twenty fucking eight. That's no good at all.

sucks, he was the best thing about brokeback mountain

im still lookin forward to dark knight!

Terrible news. His performance on I'm Not There was the kind of un-ostentatious excellent acting that said a lot more about his talent than the flashier roles.

i think you can still look forward to his joker, it's in the can. But... kind of a darker-than-usual twist on the character. :(

RIP

Dang! RIP.

The Batman film's pretty much finished, it will still get released.

Always a shock when someone so young and promising dies suddenly.

Wow.

What was his last film, Brothers Grimm? What a legacy. Poor bastard.

i think you can still look forward to his joker, it's in the can

I'm hoping this is true - I had figured they had probably already finished shooting...?

How fast is the internets? He was found 90 minutes ago.

What was his last film, Brothers Grimm? What a legacy.

Uh, no.

A paramedic probably called tmz.

a shame he has to exit with a kiddie movie (also big marketing headache, now)

# The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (filming)
# The Dark Knight (2008) (post-production) .... The Joker

# I'm Not There. (2007) .... Robbie Clark
# Candy (2006) .... Dan
# Casanova (2005) .... Casanova
... aka Femur (Philippines: English title)
# Brokeback Mountain (2005) .... Ennis Del Mar
# The Brothers Grimm (2005) .... Jacob Grimm

(Ledger and Williams) have a daughter, Matilda Rose, who was born on October 28, 2005. The child's godparents are Ledger's Brokeback costar Jake Gyllenhaal and Williams' Dawson's Creek castmate Busy Phillips.

So tragic when a person with good career prospects and (presumably) a reasonable financial situation feels the needs to end it.

ugh fucking saaaad

How horrible, and with a young daughter! R.I.P.

Oh dear, way too early.

^ also the child who now has no father and has to suffer the ignominy of 15 years of intense press coverage.

xxxp

w..t..f

RIP.

i mean it's possible it's not a suicide?

I love Busy Philips (did not know she was in Dawson's Creek).

:( :( :( :( :(

this guy was great!

oh no!

a shame he has to exit with a kiddie movie (also big marketing headache, now)

thanks for verbalizing what we're all thinking right now, morbs

@text:UPDATE 1-Actor Heath Ledger found dead in New York
(Adds police comment on possible overdose)
NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday, possibly of a drug overdose, New York City police said.
The Australian-born Ledger, 28, who starred in "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead by a housekeeper at his apartment in the trendy SoHo neighborood, police spokesman Paul Browne said.
"We are investigating the possibility of an overdose," Browne said.

bummers. very sad.

I think they're going to have to change the "WHY SO SERIOUS?" marketing campaign ...

yeah wtf morbius

awful. best thing about brokeback and i loved him in i'm not there. RIP

I'm more bummed about this than I'd ever expected (not that I was expecting it at all). RIP

xpost - I sympathize, I'm barely holding in a Michael Showalter joke

For some reason, seeing pictures of Michelle Williams on TV is making me even sadder than seeing the ones of him.

I love Busy Philips (did not know she was in Dawson's Creek).

-- Jordan, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Was waiting for this post.

I get him mixed up with Josh Hartnett, sorry

t 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities.

The police said they did not suspect foul play. Officials said pills were found near the body.

Jeez, what a waste.

one of my bosses is crazy about him and always has a photo of him on his desktop. i wonder if he's heard, but i sort of don't want to be the one to break this to him

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9307/160735oh7.jpg

:(

I hope Brad Renfro is there to show him around.

:(

damn, i was really starting to like him

No pills, you actors! Same goes for you musicians! Come on now!

No fricking way :(

pills, heroin of the rich.
RIP

classy work as usual, morbs

Bummer. This is the kind of thing you'd expect from Brad Renfro.

the River Phoenix-My Own Private Idaho analogies will begin shortly.

xpost - I sympathize, I'm barely holding in a Michael Showalter joke

um, which one? (sorry to continue de-classing thread)

yeah wtf morbius

no more wtf, perhaps, than "can't wait for his Joker"

hope he's bumming a smoke off Suzanne Pleshette.

For some reason, seeing pictures of Michelle Williams on TV is making me even sadder than seeing the ones of him.

OTM. I have one last episode of Dawson's Creek left to watch after a marathon Dawsonathon, and I think it might make me cry.

RIP. Can't think of anything I haven't liked him in.

i'm much more bothered by this than i ever thought i'd be.

Doesn't really suprise me that much - he always seemed to be brooding and miserable.

Also, this does not mean that Batman will be any better or worse.

RIP.

maybe heaven needed a gay cowboy, in which case i wish they would have taken jake g instead. :(

^save-a-wtf^

oh my damn

x-post

he was with an olsen twin?? this is what mycoworker just said.

this is really, really sad

i heard that too
xpost

What?! Holy shit. That's just so fucking strange and sad. :-(

at the time he died or "lately"? xpost

Why couldn't it have been Mary-Kate?

No, this isn't de-classing -- guy was young and had a two-year-old daughter and this is a pretty sad outcome.

But so if I remember the gossip correctly, Williams was dating Michael Showalter while making that movie The Baxter, and then in a weird real-life-ification of that movie, she then ditched him for Ledger while making Brokeback Mountain, and then refused to do any publicity for The Baxter, one supposes because she'd ascended to a level where that might look piddling of her. (I watch too much Law & Order and couldn't help amusing myself by imagining the part 10 minutes in where Chris Noth knocks on Showalter's door to ask a few questions.)

What's an olsen twin?

LOL!

IT'S A TWIN-BARREL GUN THAT'S USED ONLY ON FINNS

haha

it's a sex toy.

jesus christ tuomas

Named after its Swedish inventor, Gunnar Olsen

this is fucking surreal and sad. I feel so shitty for that kid.

sometimes, it's best not to leave Australia.

Okaym I googled it. It was the "an" that confused me, I didn't realize it was an actual person.

thanks for airing your moronitude at the exact right time

she's not.

(xpost)

he was definitely on my short list of celebrity crush objects, but chris pontius is still alive so i will be okay.

horrible shame about the kid, though.

i wouldn't be so sure about pontius

Looks like another smooth running project for Terry Gilliam.

this dude was a good actor, he did his part to redeem some shitty movies here and there as well as contributing greatly to his good ones.

i found his acting throughly adequate.

This fucking sucks. Heath Ledger was really talented. I'm really sad right now. Just saw the teaser for Dark Knight the other day and now this...

RIP

I quite liked him in "brokeback" and it seems like he's done a bang-up job in "dark knight", based on the trailers at least. I haven't seen "I'm not there".

he did, rather.

what, he took too many pills?

Yes, that's what an overdose is.

I guess I really only knew him from three movies: I'm Not There, Brokeback and um, 10 Things I Hate About You.

Bang up job in the first two.

Also Two Hands was pretty good I think.

he was the best thing in Monster's Ball due largely to the convincing suic ... oops.

I could've sworn I saw him in more movies, but I guess it was just Brokeback and Monster's Ball.

he was very good in ten things

I actually really liked his turn in A Knights Tale as well, and I know a lot of ppl didn't like that movie.

wtf i am surprised @ how sad i am.

rip. i'd hoped for great things.

xp
I did. Even 10 Things is cute for what it is.

so he was found dead in an olson's apt.

This is very unpopular, but he was terrific in Casanova. The dude had comedic chops he rarely used.

geez i can't believe ppl are so sad. i mean, he was cool and all, but... ::shrugs::

"The police said they did not suspect foul play. The police said they believed Ms. Olsen, 21, was in California and said it was not clear why Mr. Ledger was in her apartment."

They're thinking it's a suicide now.

I'm more surprised than anything else.

My ex-now-just-housemate just phoned me up to tell me this and I said wow, Brad Renfro only a few days ago and now this guy and she went "what the hell" having not picked up on this story which then made her even more sad. Oh dear

Two Hands is hilarious

I didn't realise him and Michelle had just split as well (according to wiki). Sad :(

sur i think it's kinda depressing when someone that age dies

not that it doesn't happen all the time but ppl forge connections w/ famous people etc. i mean this is standard dead famous person stuff i think

Well at least he can't get upset at Perth journalists bringing up his role in 'Sweat' anymore. He actually wrote an open letter to the film reviewer at The West Australian over Christmas, saying how happy he was to be back in Perth and full of thanks for people leaving him to spend time with the family. Bless. It's a shame.

i'm surprised too, but i just feel like, OK, so pretty actor boys are killing themselves with drugs. i mean it's sad in a very particular way, but not like OHMYGID ALEX TREBECK IS DEAD sad

Imagine the wailing and lamentations when Alex Trebek dies!

(wtf)

we are impressed by your ability to maintain under this kind of social pressure, Surmounter

Surm, no one's rending their garments. I'm just bored at work.

haha i know i am too.

I quite liked him in "brokeback" and it seems like he's done a bang-up job in "dark knight", based on the trailers at least. I haven't seen "I'm not there".

You should, Simon. Only good thing about this is that more people will watch it.

what next, shakey mo goes gay for lilo?

That's kind of a weird and technical "killing self with drugs" umbrella, though, to span from accidental overdose to prescription-suicide

flirting with homo roles = death for actors.

Surm, no one's rending their garments.

Hahah the hollywood reporter twat on ch9 news in Melbourne sure is! Ugh.

Cops tell TMZ Heath Ledger's death was accidental.

Heath Was at Mary-Kate's Apartment
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:33PM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has learned that Heath Ledger was found dead at an apartment owned by Mary-Kate Olsen.

Ledger's Body Face Down
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:29PM by TMZ Staff
Law enforcement tells TMZ Ledger's body was found face down on the bedroom floor. There is no visible signs of any trauma.

Law enforcement tells TMZ Heath Ledger's autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow.

Ledger Deathbed Strewn with Pills
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:20PM by TMZ Staff
Law enforcement has confirmed to TMZ prescription pills were strewn around Heath Ledger's bed. The cops are waiting for the Medical Examiner.

When it is one of "our" own (read: aussie) the media floods it like you would not believe.

erm except that I hate bob dylan.

xp to alba

lol trayce, wish i could see footage of that chick

You mean that dude - Richard Wilkins. Look him up. He's a prat.

i like this guys acting and also i saw him at rock shows and at the farmers market rip bro wtf

From NY Times:
The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan inhabited by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen,

holy shit, no! :( :( I really like Heath Ledger. I can't believe this.

i will think of beer flavoured nipples in tribute

oh that's right i forgot he lived really close in brooklyn, or used to

a new river phoenix style mythology to come?

fuckin' banner year for sack of shit tabloids...

Simon, it's OK - he's not in it.

Maybe he'll wake up in bed bext to Suzanne Pleshette. "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had."

Sky News reporting via Fox that the Mary-Kate rumours are untrue.

well that's a reputable source

it's all I got right now.

this is really sad and weird and out of nowhere.

he seemed like a total douchebag to me, though, I must say.. is it too soon? But anyway he was excellent, In Brokeback even if the movie was kind of lame... my prayers are with his daughter.

"beer flavoured nipples"...?

i don't know, i only saw him in 10 Things, which was good. he was never really in anything i cared much about, though.

"inhabited," weird term to use there

Maybe he'll wake up in bed bext to Suzanne Pleshette. "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had."

LOL

i think i would be way more sad if his acting ever meant something to me. like brad renfro, even just his role in the client meant something to me.

which probably makes me kind of weird but i'm telling you that movie is superb.

i don't think the internet is ever more annoying than it is when someone famous dies.

i've never heard of this brad renfro person

That's a terrible shame.

(Ledger's death).

i've never heard of this brad renfro person

mean neither until last week

Two Hands is awesome. My heart skipped a beat and I went a bit tingly when I heard this news. After a lengthy absence from ILX, Heath Ledger's death returns me to the fold.

Live in NYC -- Moving Body Now

Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:50PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ is live streaming video from outside the Soho building were Heath Ledger was found dead today. Authorities are on the scene -- watch as the drama unfolds.

---

I officially quit America.

in real life he dressed kinda emo

if you're outraged by this tmz thing you live under a rock

not to mention that they have live video feeds all around new york

i hope for my own sake that tmz always remains disgusting

hahahahaha gff otm

obviously today I lost my innocence. never forget. watch as the drama unfolds.

obviously today I lost my innocence.

hey, way to go tiger!

his friend saw it coming them called us magazine once it comed

http://www.usmagazine.com/exclusive_health_ledgers_friend_we_saw_it_coming

that article was def fabricated from a template

ha, that article is such bullshit.

I live under a rock. I was unaware of this TMZ bizzo until just now. I've got to get back into the ILX groove otherwise I'll never learn anything.

he was no jonathan brandis

for a second i thought you meant jonathan taylor-thomas

he was some jonathan taylor-thomas

Ledger Deathbed Strewn with Pills
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:20PM by TMZ Staff
Law enforcement has confirmed to TMZ prescription pills were strewn around Heath Ledger's bed. The cops are waiting for the Medical Examiner.

Why do they always toss tablets around the bed before swallowing them?

actors

When it is one of "our" own (read: aussie) the media floods it like you would not believe.

-- Trayce, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 09:44 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Especially when it happens in the US.

For non-Aussies: Australia treats the US like some kind of god, and if one of our own dies there it's suddenly got extra OMGCELEBRITY status attached to it.

srsly when the US media covers something that happens to an Australian we'll get a HEADLINE story about it. About the fact that it was covered in the US media. I am not making this up.

Okay no that was tacky. Seriously, though, if you're doing this intentionally, it's not exactly weird that you wouldn't be in the mindset to close and stow the bottle, as opposed to maybe having it in your hand when you pass out.

or that it got knocked over

smh.com.au is currently in full Heath Ledger mode

i mean didn't it say that the housekeeper and masseuse shook him

Yeah I must say "strewn pills" sniffs a little of deliberation (or being made up).

Why do they always toss tablets around the bed before swallowing them?

Maybe he had something wrong with him (e.g. aneurysm) that he thought was a really bad migraine and he'd just managed to open the pill box when his brain gave up.

I didn't mean it to be tacky. It's more that reports of tablets strewn around the body sound far more like journalistic posturing than actual reportage.

xp Knocked over, I didn't think of that.

xxp Migraine, yes, absolutely.

(note I don't even know if aneurysms hurt)

I think nabisco was calling his own joke tacky, not you, Autumn

Why do they always toss tablets around the bed before swallowing them?

Maybe he had something wrong with him (e.g. aneurysm) that he thought was a really bad migraine and he'd just managed to open the pill box when his brain gave up.

-- onimo, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:41 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

wtf kinda law and order shit is this

Wait, who died?

Ashley Olsen

dude out of a Nick Enright adaptation

big jim swells

dr. morbius being a catty, attention-seeking dick, shakey mo voices yet another creepy death fantasy on another female celeb, and random dudes make a point of letting the rest of us know they're not really all that bothered by the news and never cared for said person anyway.

this has been another ilx death thread. night everyone!

And the 98% of everyone else saddened and shocked by the news must be in your killfile, I guess.

RIP. Really shocked and depressed right now.

haha "killfile"

xpost

Poor MW.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_04/HeathMOS0109_468x594.jpg

killfile a poor choice of words, on reflection, heh.

shakey mo voices yet another creepy death fantasy on another female celeb

uh, what?

E--- W---- is RIP Heath Ledger :(.
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J---- S---- is long live the Joker...
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L---- M--- is shocked that heath ledger is gone.
43 minutes ago
L---- D---- is mourning the loss of Heath Ledger, the acting world will miss you.
52 minutes ago
A-- B----- is going to drink since heath ledger is dead. that sounds like a valid excuse, right?
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R---- D----- is sad about heath ledger.
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D----- D----- can't believe Heath Ledger died.
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R----- D---- wonders if she'll make it through this semester alive. Heath Ledger's ALREADY dead and it's only day one.
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E---- K---- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HEATHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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L----- E---- is mourning the loss of Heath Ledger. :(.
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C---- Freakin' P---- heath ledger is dead?
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W---- F------- is RIP the joker.
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L------ K--- is shocked about Heath Ledger.
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B---- B---- doesn't usually get sad when celebrities die, but right now she feels like crying.
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H----- G----- oh dear.
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H----- C--- is sad she'll never get with Heath Ledger.
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D-- S------ is suddenly aware how many of y'all were huge Heath Ledger fans.
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A----- Q---- is in shock...
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M------ M------- is sad about heath :(.
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W------ R---- wow, Heath Ledger died?
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L--- H----- is my brain feels like a frisbee....
2 hours ago
S---- P----- is sad for a poor little button that will never know her daddy.
2 hours ago
J---- R---- is Heath?
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H----- R--- is very sad about heath ledger.
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H----- P-------- is sad that Heath Ledger is dead :(.
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Z-- K----- omg RIP HEATH LEDGER.
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lol college

The only one who's mentioned it among my Facebook friends is my 19-year-old cousin.

Yuh i got nobody mentioning it too.

I'm in college and none of my friends care.

^^can't write English properly.
xp

gear, chaki, and remy OTM

there's a lot we still don't know (and I'm sure we'll soon know more than we want to), but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's just really, really sad.

i bet tom cruise and his church are breathing a sigh of relief right now.

?

lol xpost

Heath Ledger segment on Larry King Live...

I think he played Skip Engblom (sp?) in the dramatlization of the Dogtown & Z-Boys movie which was pretty terrible. RIP dude.

Man, i was pretty shocked when I heard this today on the radio. RIP. I was looking forward to the dude's Joker.

Also, the naked bit? I'm obv in no position to lecture omgfamous depressed people (or even assume that they're depressed) but naked?

There'll be a lot of noise in the press, and about 20% of it will turn out to be true, but if this is true, what possesses one to die in the nuddy? You're not exactly around to notice or care what people say/think once you're dead, but whacking off all your clothes and then overdosing sounds like mental instability, does it not?

I think he played Skip Engblom (sp?) in the dramatlization of the Dogtown & Z-Boys movie which was pretty terrible. RIP dude.

-- Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 02:05 (12 minutes ago) Link

Yup..

TMZ continues with the disgust. Saw the video of them aproaching lindsay lohan with the following phrase.. "Hey lindsay.. heith just died! any comment??"

....

Oh for fuck's sake.

Headline in the Aus (non-Murdoch) press:

Aussie stars devastated
11:32am | Kidman, Gibson lead tributes.

umm... k.

Yeah they also have a little video with Travolta on it.

Travolta is an honorary Aussie for some reason. He probably doesn't agree.

honorary coz qantas gave him a jet?

but whacking off all your clothes and then overdosing sounds like mental instability, does it not?

If you are depressed/suicidal how or whether you're dressed is probably the farthest thing from your mind. If it was accidental . . .well a lot of people sleep and hang around the house in the nude.

TMZ = vultures. Don't waste yr bandwidth.

xp It could be a rise in temperature as a result of the overdose, too.

W4LTER: Yeah, and he's nice. If he were an arsehole we'd hate him.

Really, really sad. He's the same age as my sister. It's just wrong. Not to sound glib, but he had a lovely speaking voice. I'll miss him.

We used to see him in the playground with his daughter. Never on a movie star trip.

Very sad.

WTF is TMZ?

flesheating bacteria.

or the worst kind of tabloid press.

Also, the naked bit? I'm obv in no position to lecture omgfamous depressed people (or even assume that they're depressed) but naked?

There'll be a lot of noise in the press, and about 20% of it will turn out to be true, but if this is true, what possesses one to die in the nuddy? You're not exactly around to notice or care what people say/think once you're dead, but whacking off all your clothes and then overdosing sounds like mental instability, does it not?

-- Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:22 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

wow no shit sherlock

Also, the naked bit? I'm obv in no position to lecture omgfamous depressed people (or even assume that they're depressed) but naked?

There'll be a lot of noise in the press, and about 20% of it will turn out to be true, but if this is true, what possesses one to die in the nuddy? You're not exactly around to notice or care what people say/think once you're dead, but whacking off all your clothes and then overdosing sounds like mental instability, does it not?

-- Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 02:22 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sorry, but I don't get this, at all. You seem to assume it's a case of suicide, which obviously can't be left disregarded. But I don't see the problem with someone being nude, ever, really. He's in a private place, alone, why would being nude be a problem? Maybe he was about to go to sleep, maybe he came out of the shower, maybe he just liked being nude.
And if it were suicide, I think he had other things on his mind at the moment he popped the pills than: "Hmmm, yeah, if I do this now they'll find me and I'll be nude oh noes! Big faux pas, must dress up for that."

Not trying to be picky here, but I don't see how this makes a case for "mental instability".
RIP though, he was one of the good ones.

Look, I really don't know. This is why I'm discussing it.

You're right btw, I shouldn't be assuming suicide at all.

Oh, and if it was, purely hypothetically speaking, his choice to 'go' nude: it's the way we came here in the first place, innit?

xp I'm not saying you shouldn't assume suicide. It's plausible. What do we know about him, really? That could be true, I don't know. It's the nudity part you see symptomatic for "mental instability" that I don't understand.

Mentioning TMZ makes me sick...but maybe this is the end of it.

TMZ has been contacted by a rep from Heath's family. The cops told the family Heath's death was accidental and there is no evidence to support the buzz that he may have committed suicide.

They are particularly distraught over media reports that he may have taken his own life. The family says he was not that kind of person.

As we just reported, Heath was ill with pneumonia when he died.

nyquil will kill u if u have pneumonmia

xxp I probably worded it badly then. Anyway, reasons for him being nude have come up since I posted that and I have a broader view now.

OT: I hadn't even heard of TMZ before tonight (being from the Netherlands). When seeing their updates reaching hundreds of comments within minutes I thought that must be the place 'to be' for alot of people. But when I clicked, dozen people simply entered "first!"... *sighs*

dozens of people

Spreading gossip makes me sad(again)...

“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” One night he took an Ambien, which failed to work. He took a second one and fell into a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing.

from perez.. that was two months ago.

and like so many others upthread.. this death has really hit me.

:/

NYT obit finishes on this note:

He responded to a question about how having a child had changed his life:

“You’re forced into, kind of, respecting yourself more,” he said. “You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. I think you also look at death differently. It’s like a Catch-22: I feel good about dying now because I feel like I’m alive in her, you know, but at the same hand, you don’t want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life.”

Goddamnit.

# Candy (2006) .... Dan

the first thing i thought was OD but then realized I was mixing him up with the character he played in Candy.

sometimes, it's best not to leave Australia.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:22 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is never true

i feel just sick for matilda and her mom

this is sad, i guess it's pointing to accidental overdose. he struck me as someone who took themselves a bit too seriously. someone i work with met him at some big hollywood event and he bummed a cig off of him, then my colleague's date asked him some harmless, if dorky, question about whether heath knew of any cool parties afterwards and he just looked at her with disgust and stormed off.

I feel sick for his family, some of whom apparently found out about this on the radio this morning before they'd been informed officially.

Fucking media.

yeah but... a movie star dies in new york and somehow the whole international information apparatus is going to keep it quiet until official word gets to people on the other side of the planet? just not going to happen. v. sorry for his family though.

I feel sick for his family, some of whom apparently found out about this on the radio this morning before they'd been informed officially.

Fucking media.

-- Trayce, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:07 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"Additional news on this... I hear from Quint that Michelle Williams is at Sundance with a film about a woman dealing with the death of her husband."

That's from aintitcool. :((

The news of his death was on the net 40(!) minutes after they found him.. So who knows how they found out.

I never even thought about Heath Ledger. Didn't stand out to me or anything. Weird that this news has completely ruined my day thus far.

The news of his death was on the net 40(!) minutes after they found him.. So who knows how they found out.

I imagine cops, dispatchers, EMTs all carry cell phones and probably know how to txt msg, and even gawkermedia types cultivate all variety of sources

Its like we've all become the freaking borg thanks to the interwebs.

DUH

eventually they will have a special wireless thingamabob that will automatically update your twitter for you when you flatline

I DIED a picturebloggityblog by I DIED

in all seriousness whether you found ledger excellent, inoffensive, or otherwise, the idea that a 28-year old father can just wind up dead on a monday night from taking the wrong medicine for pneumonia is never a good thing to be reminded of. alex in nyc's post is probably the saddest thing

alex in nyc's post is probably the saddest thing

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:46 AM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

I was about to quote it earlier. The accidental part of this makes it even worse. If the guy was depressed and found a way out then... that's it. His choice! An accidental OD because of pneumonia/stress/etc is just fucking sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIW7WXPb-dc

Most people will probably discuss Brokeback Mountain and I'm Not There over the next couple days, but, for me, 10 Things I Hate About You means a lot more...If you had asked me to come up with a top ten list circa 2000, this, along with several other classics of my youth (see Clueless, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead), would have fit somewhere.

The scene above seemed perfect at the time; i wanted to be that cool rebel character. Heath grew as an actor, yeah, but i think he had it from the start.

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You could kill yourself and be with him you know.

this has put a weird spin on my birthday. not that i was in danger of easily forgetting the guy, but this has sealed it.

he was pretty stunning in brokeback. i had a genuine fondness for him and really wanted the dude to succeed. sadly, the noise on this will get intolerable by the time The Dark Knight premieres. gonna go get drinks and try not to think about this for the rest of the night.

God, how are you people going to feel when your mom or your best friend dies? "This is like when Heath Ledger died, but worse!"

wankOtm. I'm sorry the dude's dead, I feel bad for his family, but somehow I managed to eat some pizza, drink some beer and watch Spartacus tonight.

Tonight I enjoyed both snails AND oysters

dude, no one is crying here, but it's kind of a big deal today.

or maybe i'm too involved in the film industry

We're having a Heath Ledger movie fest at our house. First Pearl Harbor then Bully. I'm crying as a type this.

MORE SOMBER
SOMBERER

hahaha kenan, sheeeit

everybody look at wanko taking the moral high ground and mocking people who express sadness that a well-known 28-year-old father died under undeniably tragic circumstances.

sorry for the sarcasm, but if you got nothing to say why don't you just ignore the thread?

Also, a talented actor

REST IN PEACE KEITH LEDGER
when i first saw this young man in a knight's table, i knew we were witnessing a star being born, a glorious luminous cinematic powerhouse. my suspicions were confirmed with his powerful role in ten things i love about you which i caught on television. this fellow had "IT"~! with his masterful command of the silver screen, i was sure that we were witnessing a new jack nicklaus or even still a young orson wellesley.
then, of course, who could forget brokenback mountains? that movie, i am not afraid to admit, moved me to tears. his role as a transgendered prostitute who was brutally murdered by homophobic young men who discovered his secret truly earned his oscar, and more. with good reason, he became the lynchpin of the gay rights movement.
now, fans of mr. ledger have only one reason to live: this summer's blockbuster in waiting THE DARK NIGHT TURNING. in this indie flick, keith plays a clown with a heart of gold.
This young Tyro of stage and screen was in talks with Gilles "Lucky" Del Mar to begin production on "I Wish I Knew How To Be Sad." But now... now I wish I didn't know how to be sad.
as keith once famously said in the movie where he is a bronco busting hellion, "i wish i knew how to quit this tortured plane."
well keith, i guess you did know after all. and like all movie fans, i am left with a tear in my eye, wishing that you didn't.

rest in peace keith alan ledger 1976-2008

rip keith fletcher

i heard a radio announcer call him keith ledger this morning.

i made a new wow toon in tribute, an undead priest named Healthledger~

a glorious luminous cinematic powerhouse

isn't that how Jean Hagen describes herself in Singin' In The Rain?

What a shame. I feel worse than when my cat died.
Posted by: fan on January 23, 2008 10:29 AM

heath doesn't rhyme with death

ILX death threads never fail to disappoint

i don't think the internet is ever more annoying than it is when someone famous dies.

-- ^@^, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:57 PM

this has put a weird spin on my birthday. not that i was in danger of easily forgetting the guy, but this has sealed it.

whatever. The US NYC WTC got attacked on my wife's birthday and Bush invaded Iraq on my birthday.

i don't wanna know what happened on your anniversary

1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

dammit.

dead heath?
death ledger?

hmm.

(sorry. never saw any of his movies - r.i.p. anyway, though)

famous of not, he was a young dad. :-(

my gf once saw him with michelle williams at a coffeeshop a bit over a year ago. she didn't even recognize him at first, just thought he was this incredibly attractive guy making faces at a baby that was seated at the next table over.

RIP Big Man, heaven I needed to listen to commercial radio at work all day with 20-something girls crying over the loss over the air.

Funeral plans are already well underway...

nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.

says a church

a "church"

^ nothing against religion but ffs, if anyone can explain how that flyer is any better than gay people minding their own fucking business I'd be ever so grateful

Uh, that flyer is the work of "Reverend" Fred Phelps.

Let me guess, he's a knob who gives religion a bad name amirite

I was at the premiere of Brokeback Mountain at the Arclight and Ledger was milling around outside - the premiere of Match Point was the same night (and in the same theater) and everyone there was more in awe of Woody Allen & co. than any of the other usual Hollywood stuff that was going on. He's not the first movie star to die at a young age and certainly not the last but I still can't help but think aw hell, why him and not someone else who's really hell-bent on self-destruction.

sigh RIP

Yeah its hard to see his death in the paper alongside Amy Whitehouse and her crack pipe. :/

Er Winehouse. Guh.

Crackhouse

Amazing:

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7488/heathledgerbd5.jpg

God hates fagsl

fags don't believe in god. fags win.

Lots of fags do, though!

wtf fag-enablers? This just crazy. Does this church do the same thing to actors who portray say, hetero-adulterers?

dude

they picket military funerals bcuz they say it's god's punishment for the united state's policies on gays

taking this seriously is a waste of all of our time tbh

the aussie govt will block this in a heartbeat anyway

Prepare to get picketed, aussie government.

Government can't and won't do shit. The police will watch the whackjobs (free speech &c.) who'll stand around with placards looking pathetic.

Yeah, Australian government need not bother. 98% of Australians hate boring fundie Xtians anyway and the protesters will be roundly mocked and despised if they go anywhere near a funeral held in Aus.

Also these nutbars can't picket Ledger's funeral until they:

1. Learn that Australia is another country
2. Learn where it is
3. Have their shots (no shots required obv but don't let on)
4. Learn how to speak Australian
5. Practice standing upside down
6. Learn how to hold something and breathe at the same time

I thought no one went to Hell till Judgement Day?

"This rancid pervert is UTTERLY INCONSEQUENTIAL but we're still going to picket his funeral right?"

love the irony in their zipcode.

Didn't the Phelps crew make it to Sweden for picketing once? I'm sure they can make it down under!

If I remember correctly, they never actually went to Sweden, despite their bravado.

This news is sad. I liked him lots in everything I saw him in, and that includes A Knight's Tale which was my favourite cheer-me-up film one summer.

whatever. The US NYC WTC got attacked on my wife's birthday and Bush invaded Iraq on my birthday.

wtf kind of stupid pissing contest is this? I work in film, think he was a very promising actor so yeah this made my big day kind of weird. This shit is unusual.

btw apparently east/west relations hinge on you and your wife getting a divorce. I'm a licensed minster, just saying.

It was levity, not a pissing contest.

wtf kind of stupid pissing contest is this? I work in film

I worked in a cinema a few years ago and saw Britney in Crossroads shitloads. This makes her mental capitulation particularly distressing for me and I'd also appreciate some sympathetic recognition of this.

Sorry, cuntish sarcastic jibes do not belong here. This really does suck.

first diana, now this.

There will never be a RIP thread without someone feeling their tender sensibilities have been offended, will there?

I was in the cinema watching I'm Not There again at the time he died, and I swear I saw a shadow ascend across his face.

Or maybe it descended - it's hard to remember now.

There will never be a RIP thread without someone feeling their tender sensibilities have been offended, will there?

Perhaps there will never be a RIP thread without people who truly don't care feeling the need to come in and smugly announce it?

that tmz is pretty grim. oh look they're bringing the body out now! (mobile phone cam)

You're not joking...wow...

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2008/01/0122_lohanheath2_tmz_video.jpg

Our cameras tried to get comment from Lohan about her former party pal's passing as she left the restaurant, but she was silent, and hid her face from cameras as her driver drove off. We're told the two were "very close" for some time.

adding to the circus, Fred Phelps supposedly at the funeral? i imagine there are some people who would be interested in meeting him.

this has put a weird spin on my birthday. not that i was in danger of easily forgetting the guy, but this has sealed it.

whatever. The US NYC WTC got attacked on my wife's birthday and Bush invaded Iraq on my birthday.

-- Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:19 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

hey! the iraq war ended on my birthday!

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5891/mayda4.jpg

lol @ mission accomplished

is that the US NYC WTC he's on?

our work forums are, uh, illuminating: http://forums.orange.co.uk/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=fs_curraffairs&tid=50003

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This man was evil. He starred in a film which was encouraging Gay perversion. If he didn't repent he is now in Hell.

apart from anything, brokeback was hardly encouraging gayosity! they killed him for it ffs.

what is that forum? i can't get on

http://www.orange.co.uk/communicate/forums/default.htm

a lot of not very pleasant people pay my wages, it seems :-(

it's kinda weirding me out how the photo circulating w/ most HL reports is the one Brokeback pic that people had photoshopped Joker makeup onto for lolz.

An autopsy of the actor Heath Ledger was performed on Wednesday morning, but the results are inconclusive, according to Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch.

Additional blood and tissue testing needs to be performed before the manner and cause of death can be determined, Ms. Borakove said in a phone interview, estimating that the process could take 10 days to two weeks. “If you have no apparent cause, you have to do further testing,” she said.

No cause of death has been ruled out, she added.

not even spontaneous combustion?

lol

Buried in this story:

Ledger's death prompted the White House to postpone an event to promote an advertising campaign aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse.

President Bush had been scheduled today to make a statement in the Roosevelt Room on the Office of National Drug Control Policy's television advertisement about preventing prescription drug abuse.

But White House press secretary Dana Perino said it would be put off.

"We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue," she said.

HASN'T STOPPED YOU BEFORE ON OTHER THINGS YA DIPSHITS.

Last night, about 12 hours after the news broke, 'er indoors said 'did you hear about heath Ledger?' I said 'who's Heath Ledger?'

my wife said the same thing, but when i mentioned "10 things" then she was sad.

brokeback encourages gayosity in latent gays, that's what that guy meant

I'm at least appreciative that his passing and the reportage of it on the Guardian website has led me to discover that his and Gyllenhaal's characters in Brokeback are call Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist.

good name for a sex cowboy, Jack Twist

Jack sauce.

Jack Gaysex

jack hassexwithothermen

Jack Likesitrough

all the Castro and Chelsea are spit-lubing this weekend (In Memoriam)

Anus Del Mar is too obvious, isn't it?

JACK NASTY

jack botw

A.O. Scott's obit:

In retrospect, the best thing that happened to him — the lucky break for his admirers, at any rate —may have been his disinclination to realize his movie-star potential.

Wow, I was about to get REALLY nit-picky about the use of the phrase "at all costs" in that piece

jeez, I totally forgot all about him in Lords of Dogtown! A riot.

Some nice recollections, along the lines of Alex in NYC's observation way upthread.

Dan Bova of Larchmont, New York
Once when I was driving in Brooklyn, I got a flat tire. As I was jacking up my car, this deep voice from behind me said, "Need a hand?" It was Heath Ledger. I couldn't believe it. He helped jack up my car and change the tire. He was really good with tools!

He was really good with tools!

There's definitely a "no wonder he worked so well with Jake G" joke here.

go on.

He gave Jake a hand too.

wait, so jake jillenhall had a flat? is it the one heeth died in?

lol reread Dan's comment.

Dana Stevens' obit, concentrating on Ledger's talent for moving in character. On Lords of Dogtown:

"This scruffy, inspirational sports picture, a fictionalized remake of the skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, can barely contain Ledger's gonzo performance. He's fresh from Val Kilmer College, comically unhinged and unprecedentedly ugly. Late in the movie, after the Z-Boys skate their way to juicy endorsement deals and desert Skip one by one, he hurls surfboards off the roof of his store in a self-destructive rage, then sprawls on the roof's edge, guzzling from a bottle of whiskey while the crowd below gasps for fear he'll throw himself off. Hard to watch on the night he presumably died of an overdose? A little bit."

jack hassexwithothermen

Surely better suited to a Native American?

You know if it was a Mel brooks movie or something...

Reiner getting back in character for another Spinal Tap?:

Director Rob Reiner added: "It's unbelievably sad. I directed a film (Stand by Me) with River Phoenix. He also died at a young age. It's so tragic when someone dies at that age, for life to be cut short."

Reiner is so eloquent.

I'm surprised that he was so young. I always figured he had a few years on me. Anyone else think that he was early-to-mid 30s? Regardless, it's damn sad.

HASN'T STOPPED YOU BEFORE ON OTHER THINGS YA DIPSHITS.

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:40 (Yesterday) Link

^^^ This = very very good anger

Heath Ledger obsessed with Nick Drake...directed eerie video for 'Black Dog'
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“I was obsessed with his story and his music and I pursued it for a while and still have hopes to kind of tell his story one day,” a soft-spoken and fidgety Ledger told the assembled media, though he also said that any such aspirations had “faded away.”

But in an eerie postscript to the actor’s own death on Tuesday, MTV News has learned that Ledger recently shot and edited a music video for a Drake song called “Black Dog,” so titled because of a Winston Churchill quote describing depression as such. It is also reportedly the last song Drake recorded before overdosing on antidepression medication in 1974 at the age of 26.

A representative for Drake’s estate described the “gorgeous” and “extremely moving” clip as a stark black-and-white composition, consisting mainly of the director turning the camera on himself. In the end, Ledger is seen drowning himself in a bathtub.

Oh dear: Two calls made to Olsen before 911 called

I think we could be in for "call an Olsen Twin!" type emergency jokes.

she couldn't tell their numbers apart

Sorry. link went wrong:

Psh. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10488511

OMG on the Nick Drake clip... what the hell.

Ban Nick Drake.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/23/gibson-mocks-ledger/

Bah, I thought it was going to be Mel Gibson.

shit @ nick drake thing

judging by all the self-righteous shit that was flung here only Tuesday, what Alan Alda MEANT to say was "tragedy + one day = comedy."

cut us a break morbs, we didn't know the dude was totally EMO.

LOL suicidal guy was totally miserable :D

I... um... *wrings hands* like Nick Drake a whole lot.

I'm sorry. :(

I mean, it's not like he was obsessed with Elliott Smith. That would just be stupid.

Brooklyn sez fock yew!

^ one for the all-time canon

Bah, I thought it was going to be Mel Gibson.

So did I. Mel's been a bit quiet lately, he's due for some sort of crazy rant.

Speaking of classy statements, here's Jack:

When asked by the London crowds for his reaction to Ledger's untimely demise, a defeated Nicholson simply replied, "I told him so."

Mel had already issued a statement of sadness and regret and etc. I was actually thinking, "Charlie Gibson? Why?"

out of context it sounds like Jack is admitted that he killed Ledger for fucking with one of his old roles.

admitting

It's been noted here that the Westboro Baptist Church is announcing that they'll picket his funeral, right?

from their website:

Yes. WBC will picket this pervert’s funeral, in religious protest and warning: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked.” Gal. 6:7. Heath Ledger thought it was great fun defying God Almighty and His plain word; to wit: God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates the sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as ‘Brokeback Mountain’ - and He hates all persons having anything whatsoever to do with it.

Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there - beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.

Losing a bit of their old pizazz, the Westboro folks, all a bit predictable this one

yeah, didn't they use slime and vomit a few times already? yawn. Get a new copywriter, folx.

I was actually thinking, "Charlie Gibson? Why?"

-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:18 PM

lol

mainly funny cause i grew up in an abc household watching gma every morning and the idea of charlie spewing vitirol inna shakey mo style is pretty funny

I really don't understand Nicholson quote

He tried the same pills that Ledger overdosed on once and nearly drove off a cliff, something like that.

Guess he had seen Heath's recklessness with pills or some such and had a fatherly word with him about it? xpost

http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/blog/2008/01/23/

The Warrior, classy as always.

no, nicholson's point was that Ambien does weird ass things to you, which is something I've heard from other people who've taken it; even taking a regular dose and then staying awake on it apparently can cause really weird things to happen.

http://imdb.com/news/wenn/2008-01-24/#2

the article doesn't get specific about any particular pills.

Wow, is that really the Ultimate Warrior's blog? He comes across as a nice, smart guy.

It is. I kinda admire Warrior's ability to bring anything back to "gays are evil, but not as evil as Terry so-called Bolea".

Wouldn't Heath's funeral be in Australia? I would think there would be travel restrictions on the Phelps clan, so that they don't spread rabies or hoof and mouth disease.

EW interview up with Christopher Plummer about Parnassus and working with Ledger and so forth.

God hates the sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as ‘Brokeback Mountain’

'Perfunctory denouement, thumbs down'

Yeah there's probably no chance our immigration would ever let a Westboro nutter into the country in the first place.

BTW Kenan I love Nick Drake, I wasn't omg-ing out of disgust or lols.

xp Their pitchforks would go off in the sensors.

"Mary-Kate and Heath were casually dating for three months before Heath's death," a source has told PEOPLE. "They were hooking up, but neither were particularly interested in making it exclusive... They had a bond that was based on partying, and they had the same tastes in partying."

Maybe the autopsy was inconclusive because he died from Mary Kate cooties.

would it be funny (in a sad way) if the olsens or lohan were partly responsible for his death?

You answer first.

They had a bond that was based on partying, and they had the same tastes in partying.

Is partying US code for drugs, sex, or both?

i think partying is this:

http://allwomenstalk.com/wp-content/thumbs/33524.jpg

cocaine and prostitutes go together like peanut butter and chocolate, don't they?

no, peanut butter and chocolate go together like cocaine and prostitutes

Who doesn't like a cocaine and prostitute sandwich?

I can't think of a bigger celebrity trade-down than Michelle Williams to Mary-Kate O. Maybe Sophia Bush/Carrie Underwood to Jessica Simpson.

Carrie Underwood to Jessica Simpson is a lateral.

No way. Even if she wasn't built like a linebacker, Simpson's father makes that a horrible trade.

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Wait, so I heard it was actually Heath's brother who looked just like Heath and had Heath's ID on him who died, and they found Heath all shermed out walking around LA. Is this true or false?

Okay, criticizing Jessica Simpson's build is the moment where the whole critical standpoint and suspension-of-disbelief that comes with talking about celebrities evaporates and I'm like wait, god's sake, who among us is seriously in a position to act superior about Jessica Simpson's body

there's no stronger position to hold in terms of "you'll never have to truly follow through on this" than the internet nerd claiming that he would never sleep with (insert ridiculously plastic-hot celebrity female).

P.S. I learned today that

(a) Heath was named Heathcliff after the one in Wuthering Heights, which is weird enough in that said Heathcliff was a wretched bastard who lost a chick and spent the entire rest of his life making everyone within a 10-mile radius as miserable as possible over the whole thing, including children who weren't even born when it happened

(b) HIS SISTER WAS NAMED CATHERINE, after Heathcliff's adoptive sister / love interest in Wuthering Heights

This is the worst and most jacked-up naming system I have ever heard of in my life, with the weird incestuous dollop just topping the guy who named his sons "Winner" and "Loser"

Also I'll happily believe anyone who says Simpson is just not to their tastes, but if you're going to start saying there's something dramatically wrong with her build, you are basically suggesting that the rest of us are in fact monsters

What, we aren't?

Results 1 - 10 of about 37,600 for "health ledger". (0.12 seconds)

Simpson's upper body (aside from Daddy's doube Ds) is huge - she has linebacker shoulders. Sorry if this offends anyone.

So is it true that his brother died and not him?

http://www.hkb.org.uk/collages/j/jessicasimpson/JessicaSimpson_TheseBoots_hkb1.jpg

http://www.milkpep.org/images/celebrities/bruschi.jpg

It's like I'm seeing double!

i note that his family appeared to have the nickname 'roast beef' for him, achewood fans

http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/our-hearts-are-broken-say-ledgers/2008/01/25/1201157647544.html

Oh no! That is sure sign he was pure depressio.

"i'm the guy who sucks" said heath. "plus i got depression"

No one wants to be found dead in one’s apartment of a possible overdose, but if it should ever happen to me, I certainly hope it isn’t by my “massage therapist.”

or an "olsen twin"

Is roast beef a depression thing?

Daniel Day-Lewis loses it on Oprah:

The clip.

How can you lose what you don't have? The guy's a bit of a nutter intense, no?

I think the reason that so many are affected is because it is NORMAL. For the past 30 years, human nature has been purposefully distorted by the PTB. Whether it's our media, video games brainwashing kids to be apathetic about violence and death, or our schools, the US has been dumbed down to a herd of sheep. Those of us who attempt to shine a light on the lies are harrassed, terrorized, even arrested. There is a war on free thinking, and us free-thinkers have a natural tendency for sympathy, truth and justice. We haven't had much of that in the case of Ledger. IMO, Ledger was murdered. Sacrificed.
Since Op Paperclip, our evil is now spinning out of control. To go further, I'd bet that Britney gets it too, just like Anna Nicole. She sure is being set up for a fall. Anna Nicole's teenage son was set to inherit too, until he died mysteriously shortly before her. How convenient...in the Bahamas and that Mr. Stern MARRIED Anna Nicole just 3 months before she died. And why wasn't Stern prosecuted for lying in court about being the father? I say Heath was murdered and there will be more to come. The media will do it's best to brainwash us with red herrings like Fox's John Gibson's insane statements he made. It's so ironic that we've had neocon "civil rights groups" like the ADL and B'nai B'rith, vehemently trying to pass "hate laws" in this country, and yet they are the most racist and hate mongering of all! They constantly berate all Gentiles, Arabs, muslims, Christians, etc. They murder and torture women and children and show no remorse. They steal millions, flee to Israel and Israel refuses to extradite.
Do you think a US liberal in the media or politics would be able to get away with calling blacks in this country "cockroaches"? Imus anyone? (www.talmudunmasked.com , www.nogw.com)
People need to trust their own instincts. Human nature and intuition are natural and don't let the media taint your god given abilities.

wtf

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312008/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

Heath's drug pal told The Post the 28-year-old star's mushrooming fame had him constantly exposed to drugs.

mushrooming

dude that guy can shrooooom im tellin ya

Accidental overdose of prescription drugs

Confirmed by AP

Hydrocodone is another name for ibuprofen.

rong

Hydrocodone is vicodin?

yeah, or lorcet. this guy was a fucking champ eh??

sad.

That's a pretty obvious fuckup in an AP story

I don't even know how anyone would confuse ibuprofen with hydrocodone.

you could if you were wasted

So he was taking percocet, vicodin (or lortabs), xanax, valium AND a couple of OTC sleep medications? All at once? Wow.

How many prescriptions drugs do you take?

shoulda stuck with the weed bra

Wtf is he taking percocet AND vicodin for? This is a cocktail for total mental annihilation. Poor dude.

Just the fact that he was on such an assortment of drugs makes a kind of tenuous, circumstancial case for suicide. Dump contents of one bottle in mouth, move on to next bottle.

Other reports have his father saying that no individual drug was found in overdose concentrations, making the "dump contents of bottle in mouth" scenario less likely.

Ledger's father Kim said: "While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy."

"doctor-prescribed drugs"

no offense to the deceased, but i'm really sick of that bullshit distinction. it's like when rush limbaugh was on "prescription drugs."

What is bullshit is that Ledger's dad's bullshit statement will have people scared to drink chamomile tea while on Advil. You don't overdose and die taking one each of the drugs mentioned in the report.

yeah and recreational abuse of these things makes them harder to get for legit painkiller purposes. (i have a friend with a chronic pain condition who was subjected to humiliating interrogation by a pain doctor recently; guy treated her like she was just another lying junkie.) being honest about how and why someone died would at least keep the lines a little clearer.

<i>You don't overdose and die taking one each of the drugs mentioned in the report.</i>

You're joking, right? One percocet, vicodin, xanax, valium plus a sleep aid is plenty enough to kill you.

I think the real killer was the Diet Coke.

if you take 6 percocets and drink a diet coke your stomach will explode.

The shame is that this tragedy could have been prevented so easily. I know this from my own personal experience.

You could have just typed "I’ve taken a similar regimen for years without any problem"

goodnight my sweet prince

"doctor-prescribed drugs"

Thankyew, Dr. Nick, thankyewverymuch

Ledger burial service.

heaven needed a joker

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9674/image021sh1.jpg

Posting this here too, fuck it:
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/Pages/testvideo.html

Gotta love his "set" there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_en_mo/heath_ledger

hmm this is interesting

That's a terrifying photo

does this mean he's going to get an oscar for the joker?

― Jordan, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:56 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

jordan otm

Oscar for Best Being Dead

i haven't seen dark knight. is it any good?

it's no Rocketeer

the cruellest dis i have ever heard

It's better than Batman Begins but not as good as Batman Returns or Spider-Man 2 or Constantine.

I see what you did there.

What? I don't see anything.

Overseers of the production of psych meds slipped his pharmacist (per usual with ''risk radicals'') a hot Zyprexa so far as I can gather from Stuart Sheiser at the Philadelphia Inquirer

Not sure if Constantine belongs with the other two you mentioned, Tuomas, that's all.

Constantine was one of the best comic book adaptations of the last few years, have you actually seen it? I expected it to be mostly shit, but was quite positively surprised. Okay, it has Keanu, but it's also really moody and character-driven (instead of effects-driven like Hellboy), and there's fab performances by Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare.

i thought the dark knight was pretty fab

Stormare is the scariest name i've ever heard

xxp

Yeah, I've seen it! I'm really just nitpicking the fact that, while BR and Spidey 2 are almost universally well-regarded, I doubt that will ever be the case for Constantine. It does have a great cast, granted.

I must watch Constantine again, then, cos I thought it was pretty dull,and I didn't like the effects.

Sums up my reaction as well.

I think the best thing about it was that it didn't rely too much of effects. Instead of some digital FX fire-breathing Satan it had Peter Stormare, you know, acting. Which was far more creepy.

if HL had lived theyd eventually have given him an Oscar for something even worse than this

what are you getting out of this?

Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

hahahaha

hahahaha @ everything

lol

ok constantine was completely retarded, guys

"Constantine" was just okay. I didn't hate it but it wasn't super fantastic, either.

I kind of cannot wait for "Max Payne" to show up in my mailbox, tho, as that will be all kinds of dumbass awesome.

i didn't hate constantine at all! i mean we had a great time all laughing our freaking asses off the entire time the film was on!

anyone read this yet? http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/08/heath-ledger200908

reevaluation based on Gibson reveal?

lols at tuomas tuomasing so hard above

What reveal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETgh7I6TEeI