on CNN now...
sad, good actor in most roles.
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heath ledger dead.... batman sequel still on!
95 durable postsStarted 2008-01-22Latest 2008-02-08
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wow, thats shocking...young guy. makes you wonder if drugs were involved. i think he has a young kid with the chick who was in brokeback mountain with him, too. really sad.
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im sure it was drugs
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Heath_Ledger.jpg[/IMG]
[COLOR=silver]Ledger was born in [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%2C_Western_Australia"][COLOR=silver]Perth, Western Australia[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver], the son of Sally Ledger Bell ([/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names"][COLOR=silver]née[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] Ramshaw),[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-heathbabycom"][COLOR=silver][2][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_car"][COLOR=silver]race car[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] driver and mining engineer.[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-1"][COLOR=silver][3][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] Ledger's mother is descended from the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Campbell"][COLOR=silver]Clan Campbell[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] of [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland"][COLOR=silver]Scotland[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] and his father comes from a family well-known in Perth. The Sir Frank Ledger Charitable Trust was named after his great-grandfather.[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-2"][COLOR=silver][4][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] Ledger attended Marys Mount Primary School, in [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry_Hill%2C_Western_Australia"][COLOR=silver]Gooseberry Hill[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver], and later [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Grammar_School"][COLOR=silver]Guildford Grammar School[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] and its [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Grammar_Preparatory_School"][COLOR=silver]preparatory school[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] of the same name.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=silver]According to the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department"][COLOR=silver]New York City Police Department[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver], Ledger was found dead in his apartment in the [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoHo"][COLOR=silver]SoHo[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] neighborhood of [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan"][COLOR=silver]Manhattan[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] on [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_22"][COLOR=silver]January 22[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver], [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008"][COLOR=silver]2008[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver].[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-17"][COLOR=silver][20][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-18"][COLOR=silver][21][/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=silver]'[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times"][COLOR=silver]The New York Times[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] [I]reports:[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=silver]“"At 3:31 p.m., a [/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masseuse"][COLOR=silver]masseuse[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver] arrived at Apartment 5A of 421 Broome Street in SoHo for an appointment with Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Ledger unresponsive. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities. The police said they did not suspect foul play and said they found pills near his body[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-19"][COLOR=silver][22][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#_note-20"][COLOR=silver][23][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=silver]”[/COLOR]
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Fuck!
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od or suicide. sucks. at least he finished dark horse [QUOTE]Ledger had recently finished filming his role as the Joker in the new Batman movie "The Dark Night" in Chicago.[/QUOTE]
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Let's hope so.
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:(
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wow that is not good :( another young hollywood person lost to drugs just in the last week...
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That's really sad. WOW. He had a lot of female fans, and I know they are heartbroken to hear this.
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sad indeed
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Its being reported that it was in one of the olsen twin's appartments.
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Bummer..
He looks awesome as the joker.. Well, least he finished on a good note then.
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[quote=lilsensa;562351]That's really sad. WOW. He had a lot of female fans, and I know they are heartbroken to hear this.[/quote]
Thats a really good point. He was my youngest sisters biggest hollywood actor crush.
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[quote][COLOR=#8c2626]Updated, 5:28 p.m. |[/COLOR] The actor [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/heath_ledger/index.html"]Heath Ledger[/URL] was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan inhabited by the actress [URL="http://movies.nytimes.com/person/126307/Mary-Kate-Olsen"]Mary-Kate Olsen[/URL], according to the New York City police. Signs pointed to a suicide, police sources said. Mr. Ledger was 28.[/quote] [URL]http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp[/URL]
strange.
by the way, he looks sick in the trailer [youtube]WaIR9dAZRR0[/youtube] I remember hearing that he spent a shitload of time in solitude perfecting his role as The Joker. Maybe the role got to him? I really wouldn't be surprised. He did say he was going into some dark territory for the Joker. Perhaps it was more than he could handle.
and to quote the joker's last words in batman beyond:
"Thats not funny..."
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[quote=threehills;562353]Its being reported that it was in one of the olsen twin's appartments.[/quote]
Where did you hear that from?
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saw my little sister this weekend and she made me take her to barnes and noble just to find some magazine with pics of him on the cover as the joker. im sure she is pretty sad today too...
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does this mean no 10 things i hate about you sequel?
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[quote=lilsensa;562365]Where did you hear that from?[/quote]
it was a rumor at first, not true though
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Well we will find out in a few days what actualy happend but truly sad and shocking.
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[quote=GerryD;562368]does this mean no 10 things i hate about you sequel?[/quote]
I'm a dude, and I liked that movie...For Julia Styles of course.
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[quote=shosh;562358][URL]http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp[/URL]
strange.
by the way, he looks sick in the trailer [youtube]WaIR9dAZRR0[/youtube] I remember hearing that he spent a shitload of time in solitude perfecting his role as The Joker. Maybe the role got to him? I really wouldn't be surprised. He did say he was going into some dark territory for the Joker. Perhaps it was more than he could handle.
and to quote the joker's last words in batman beyond:
"Thats not funny..."[/quote]
That's taking it a bit too far even for method acting!
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[QUOTE=shosh;562369]it was a rumor at first, not true though[/QUOTE]
it was cited on the CNN homepage, that's where I saw it
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^ yeah then they took it off. i guess for candy he was trying to experience the life of an addict and he even checked himself into rehab to see what it would be like...
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Very sad R.I.P. Heath :(
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Uncool, good actor, watched A knights tale on the weekend with my daughter very sad!
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Judging from the trailer, it's easy to see how this role might have gotten to him. Could have been similar to how James Gandolfini was psychologically affected from making The Sopranos.
It's amazing how dark and evil he makes the Joker. It gives me chills every time I watch the trailer at the end and he yells "Come on! Hit me!!" Very sad to see someone so talented have his life and career cut so short.
R.I.P.
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BTW his parents are denying that it's suicide and saying that it was pneumonia. Go figure...
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it saids, that it was accidental, he took sleep pills and also that he was sick of pneumonia!...not sure....
cant imagine someone takes a role so badly that he taked his life that way.....
why should he suicide?.....argh hate it....he had everything....maybe isnt that good to have it all! :(
RIP.
wonder what will happend to batman! and what christian bale and coworkers gonna say about his phisical condition or mental at work!....
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It's really sad when someone dies before their time, especially leaving a very young child.
Maybe we should wait until the postmortem before we jump to any conclusions. The family would be going through hell at the moment. :(
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[QUOTE=DIDI;562490]
Maybe we should wait until the postmortem before we jump to any conclusions. The family would be going through hell at the moment. :([/QUOTE]
i think safe to say we can jump to as many conclusions as we want on mercuryserver, doubt his family reads this board.
i've not read the entire thread, but did he finish the movie? wonder if warner bros would release it anyway if he had finished filming. what was that movie with brandon lee that the studios finished after he was killed on the set?
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I think they finished the last John Candy movie without him as well, Wagons West or something...
But damn, the joker looked AWESOME. If you asked "who's playing him" I would NEVER have guessed heath ledger.
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[quote=Jenks;562512]i think safe to say we can jump to as many conclusions as we want on mercuryserver, doubt his family reads this board.
i've not read the entire thread, but did he finish the movie? wonder if warner bros would release it anyway if he had finished filming. what was that movie with brandon lee that the studios finished after he was killed on the set?[/quote]
that was CROW...
very sad indeed, regardless if it was accidental or OD'd?
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God Hates Pretend Fags:
Unbelievable!
[URL]http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20080122_heath-ledger-brokeback-mountain.pdf[/URL]
what a delightful bunch: [URL]http://www.godhatesfags.com/[/URL]
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[quote=Huggie Smiles;562519]God Hates Pretned Fags:
Unbelievable!
[URL]http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20080122_heath-ledger-brokeback-mountain.pdf[/URL]
what a delightful bunch: [URL]http://www.godhatesfags.com/[/URL][/quote]
So, then by their argument, anyone who has played Jesus in a movie, IS in fact Jesus. What a bunch of Fucktards
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[quote=digital_junkie;562518]that was CROW...
very sad indeed, regardless if it was accidental or OD'd?[/quote]
The Crow is one of the best movies ever!
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The irony is, his death will probably cement Batman as THE box office hit of the year, I can't imagine any other summer flick coming near it after this.
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[quote=Jenks;562512] i've not read the entire thread, but did he finish the movie?[/quote]
I believe he just finished it ... it should be in post production by now.
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imdb.com says its in post production
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everything has a reason. It was no accident. Multimillionaires don't just up and kill themselves after shooting a major box office hit.