LleeLlee said:

Batman finally killed him.

Or Jack Nicholson.

optimus said:

that sounds pretty fucking tragic to me

This is really sad. funny how we sometimes take a person's presence for granted, and then their gone just like that...

ZombieKitten said:

i agree

herb4 said:

very little gets past the org. there was a thread.


peace to his family and his friends



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Personally i think his Hollywood movies arent very good, but his Aussie movies are just amazing!

Do yourself a favour and go watch "Two Hands" or "Candy" and tell me he didnt have something big on the horizon, its just too bad we will never see it come to fruition

http://www.popcrunch.com/...-williams/




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emm said:

http://prince.org/msg/100/258603

This is a shock!

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OH MY GOD! WTF IS HAPPENING!?

His face & voice seem really relaxed, but his arms are dying to get out of that interview!

I hate all the speculation and guessing when something like this happens.

Anyway, the first time I saw him was one night when I was stuck home with my bf's friend's gf. She popped in some silly teen movie (hate those kinds of movies) and I right away liked him. Since then I would watch any movie with him in it, just cuz I liked something about him.

Going from what I saw and read about him he always stuck me as a very soft spoken, kind and very sincere dude. He had this endearing awkwardness about him that I found very sweet. He was one of a very small list of actors I really liked to watch in films.

noimageatall said:

That's exactly what I was talking about. Perfect example.

Especially horrible is that he has a young daughter. I do hope it's not suicide.

NDRU said:

I thought the same thing.

More on the Associated Press article ... myFOXToledo.com.


... And in what may be his final finished performance, Ledger proved that he wouldn't be intimidated by taking on a character as iconic as Jack Nicholson's Joker. Ledger's version of the Batman villain, glimpsed in early teaser trailers, made it clear that his Joker would be less comical and more depraved and dark.

Curiosity to see Ledger's final performance will likely further stoke interest in the summer blockbuster. "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan said earlier this month that Ledger's performance as the Joker would be wildly different than Jack Nicholson's memorable turn in 1989's "Batman."

"It was a very great challenge for Heath," Nolan said. "He's extremely original, extremely frightening, tremendously edgy. A very young character, a very anarchic presence that taps into a lot of our basic fears and panic."

Ledger told The New York Times in a November interview that he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film, and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."

"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told the newspaper. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which only worked for an hour, the paper said.

Before settling down with Williams, Ledger had relationships with actresses Heather Graham and Naomi Watts. He met Watts while working on "The Lords of Dogtown," a fictionalized version of a cult classic skateboarding documentary, in 2004.

Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a mining engineer and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10 at a local theater company. He began acting in independent films as a 16-year-old in Sydney and played a cyclist hoping to land a spot on an Olympic team in a 1996 television show, "Seat."

After several independent films, Ledger moved to Los Angeles at age 19 and costarred opposite Julia Stiles in "10 Things I Hate About You." Offers for other teen flicks soon came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.

"It wasn't a hard decision for me," Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. "It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, `You're crazy,' my parents were like, `Come on, you have to eat.'"

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This is so sad. Poor Matilda and Michelle Williams.

there is a flurry of Heath photos being uploaded to photobucket right now

This sucks.. sad to hear


what the hell does it mean for the new batman? was it finished??

Sdldawn said:

He says it was finished on the youtube video.

This broke my heart when I first read it on MSN earlier today.
I adored him in The Patriot and in Brokeback Mountain. Just goes to prove we never know what is happening in other people's worlds.

Very sad to hear especially when a young child is left behind. Reminds me of the death of "inxs" singer Michael Hutchence , though his was ruled suicide it still is believed it was an accident attempting a "sexual" act that has killed many. But for Heath they mentioned he was having sleeping issues also, im thinking that possibly he may have overdosed on something prescribed for sleeping. Doctors have a habit of prescribing Ambien, which is very addictive and im sure if mixed with another drug could kill.

lastdecember said:

One of the articles mentioned him taking Ambien.

CNN's Kareen Wynter has the latest on the death of actor Heath Ledger. (video)

http://www.cnn.com/video/...videosview
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now this was a real shocker, i mean when my mom told me about this, my mouth fell open...like what the fuck??!? Heath Ledger is dead?? Damn...

And sadly, Hollywood gets to capitalize on it...

You know that if nobody was going to see Batman before, they definitely will now. It's probably going to be the biggest movie of the year because of all of this, which is very unfortunate.

That Heath could really act. Gone way too soon.

noimageatall said:

That is really disturbing and furthers my belief in that all these "legal" drugs are killing people. I have seen effects of Ambien on people and its scary its also addictive, it doesnt really help you sleep, it actually just "numbs" you but i think we all remember Patrick Kennedy being on Ambien and driving his car at 3am going to a meeting in washington thinking he had to place a vote.

lovemachine said:

you don't know that.

missfee said:

I was fucking shocked to just find out that he is joker... I aint about anyone coppin out the original joker (jack N) but.. he showed such interesting and different qualities from the previews.. this one will probably interesting.


but seriously.. Jack N is the joker. period

a2grafix said:

It's going to be so weird watching the much-anticipated Dark Knight. From what I hear, his performance as the Clown Prince is kick-ass.