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Heath Ledger Found Dead

Litany said:
And the Westboro Baptist nutjobs are planning to send him off in style.
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Don't worry, depending on where the funeral is held, they might not be allowed anywhere near it. Last October, my friend Teresa's brother was killed in Iraq, and the Phelps Klan tried to protest at his funeral. They should have taken the back roads..when they tried to exit the turnpike at the city where the funeral took place, they were met by a highway patrol troopers and told they weren't welcome in this county. The funeral procession was long, as the burial was in a smaller town cemetary a few miles away, and the entire parade route was lined with well-wishers and retired military personnel on motorcycles-they have some sort of honor brigade who's sole purpose is to provide funeral escort for fallen soldiers-to keep protestors like the Phelps Klan from disturbing the families of lost soldiers. While they won't be there for the Ledgers, I think there are enough folks who are sick of the antics of people like Fred Phelps, who'll pick up the slack.
 
I've seen the biker gang that set up their alternative protest against the Phelps. :D Hopefully when the old man dies they'll be attending his funeral to show the family just what it's like.

I did like the cheesy Ledger films, 10 Things and a Knight's Tale. Not seen any of t'others, though I am looking forward to seeing him as the Joker.
 
He was good in The Patriot too (even though it was historically all over the place), as well as Ned Kelly and The Brothers Grimm (I didn't think it was half as bad as a lot of critics thought at the time).
 
roddglenn said:
Bunch of hating scum. The laughable thing is that if there is a hell scum like that will be at the head of the queue and they don't even realise it.
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Well...Ol Fred will have to have a chat with God one day...I'm thankful I won't have to be around for that little interview. (I have enough on my plate getting ready for my own anyway;) )
 
Watching him as The Joker will probably give me the same creepy feeling I got the first time I saw The Crow.

ABC, the group you're thinking of is the Patriot Guard Riders.
 
sparkchaser said:
Watching him as The Joker will probably give me the same creepy feeling I got the first time I saw The Crow.

ABC, the group you're thinking of is the Patriot Guard Riders.
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Thanks, I couldn't think what they were called. I have a friend who is a member.
 
This was one I definitely did not see coming. Had a person mentioned Brittney or Paris, I could've seen that. The cause of death is an interesting story here. The family denies that it was a suicide attempt. Perhaps an accidentail overdose? Sometimes sick people do lose track of their meds and when they take them. Dying at 28 is just too young, not right at all.
 
SFG75 said:
This was one I definitely did not see coming. Had a person mentioned Brittney or Paris, I could've seen that. The cause of death is an interesting story here. The family denies that it was a suicide attempt. Perhaps an accidentail overdose? Sometimes sick people do lose track of their meds and when they take them. Dying at 28 is just too young, not right at all.
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I read this tidbit on another forum and it made me think:

I was reading on TMZ and they asked Jack Nicholson what he thought and he said "he warned him".....warned him about what? I guess he got really into the Joker character, maybe a little too much and couldn't sleep....I think it was accidental...
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Back when I found out he was going to be playing The Joker, I read this on the wiki:

To prepare for the role he lived alone in a hotel room for a month, formulating the character's posture, voice and psychology. While he initially found it difficult, Ledger was eventually able to generate a voice which did not sound like Jack Nicholson's take on the character in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. He started a diary, in which he wrote the Joker's thoughts and feelings to guide himself during his performance. He was also given Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth to read, which he "really tried to read [...] and put it down". Ledger also cited inspiration in A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious. Ultimately, "there’s nothing that [is] consistent", as his main objective was to frighten the audience. The challenge of the role put a strain on Ledger's sleep patterns, finding himself unable to rest for more than a few hours each night.
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It certainly is a plausible theory.
 
Good point. I'm an eternal optimist... or am I a skeptic? I guess it depends on which way you want to look at it.
 
That just makes it all the more tragic. You've got so many actors, singers and assorted celebs (and celeb wannabes) taking cocktails of drink and drugs on a daily basis and hopping in and out of rehab at will and getting away with it and then you get a genuinely talented and, by all accounts, all round nice guy like Ledger getting struck down like this. Tragic.
 
roddglenn said:
That just makes it all the more tragic. You've got so many actors, singers and assorted celebs (and celeb wannabes) taking cocktails of drink and drugs on a daily basis and hopping in and out of rehab at will and getting away with it and then you get a genuinely talented and, by all accounts, all round nice guy like Ledger getting struck down like this. Tragic.
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Drinking and taking drugs doesn't actually mean someone has no talent or isn't an "all round nice" person.
 
I didn't say it did, but a lot of people who are totally over indulging are talentless imo, but not because of that. Lohan, Britney, Docherty, Paris etc all totally talentless. But there are some that seem to be tortured geniuses like Amy Winehouse - a very talented singer/song writer who is seriously screwing up herself and her career.
 
"We live in a world where John Lennon is murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues making fucking albums..." (Bill Hicks)
 
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