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[bengraven]

Possible Batman 2 and 3 spoilers:

Spoiler

Supposedly part 2 was about the arrest of the Joker with part 3 being his part in creating Two Face (by throwing acid on Harvey's face)

Gonna fuck that up.

 

[Mato]

duh.

Don't you dare. She's fine, she said so herself.

 

[Tobor]

Maybe because he has a two year old daughter?

Who at age 2 has more money than most of us will ever have and a loving family.

I hope those of you bitching at us for lack of compassion are doing your part to help the families devastated by drug abuse who don't have millions in the bank.

My best friend died of a heroin overdose. I cried for him. I'm not crying over an actor I don't know. I'll wonder about it, and comment on it's sadness, but come the fuck on.

 

[Shins]

WHY SO SERIOUS

Er, I say the same thing when I laugh about any person dying. Just because I found the joke funny doesn't mean I don't feel a bit bad about it.

Why so serious indeed.

 

[echoshifting]

Found face down on the floor, not in bed. Gets weirder and weirder. Seems like he would be in bed if it was really sleeping pills OD.

I dunno, all the weird shit is coming so fast and furious now, it will be tomorrow at least before we really know what happened.

edit: Jesus Christ people get your personal shit and petty bickering outta here. GAF needs an alternative thread for people to go back and forth about the dumbest shit that pops in their heads whenever something like this happens I guess.

 

[Raistlin]

Interestingly, he had an appoinment with a Masseuse ... and was found naked, as though he was preparing to get the message.


If anything, this sounds like an accidental overdose, or possibly not even related to the pills. If you're going to kill yourself, why would you get ready for your appointment?

 

[Juice]

Mary-Kate Olsen date-raped him?

 

[Rezbit]

This is shocking. I feel really sorry for his baby girl. Dammit Heath why did you do it!

 

[Garcia]

the plot thickens

Oh dear... Crazy Courtney's wannabe?

Stay tuned...

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Ugh...i'm Not There, brokeback.....the god damn prime of his career, man. god damn prime.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

WHY SO SERIOUS

Look, there are few death threads on GAF where people ridicule someone's death just because it happened in ZOO, laundry, while doing sex etc. The very same day it happened. Yet here we have an actor, nerd legend and we can't joke (durrrr) about it?

Double standards FTW.

But dude, he had a daughter. That makes it very serious, and obviously we should be respectful of Heath Ledger who so unselfishly left his daughter without a dad.

 

[Shins]

Interestingly, he had an appoinment with a Masseuse ... and was found naked, as though he was preparing to get the message.


If anything, this sounds like an accidental overdose, or possibly not even related to the pills. If you're going to kill yourself, why would you get ready for your appointment?

Suicidal people aren't really too logical.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

the plot thickens

Since it's an Olson Twig, it's not exactly thickening the plot if you know what I mean.

Probably two celebrity dope fiends doing their thing and going too far.

That's unfortunate, I did enjoy The Order. :\

 

[GuessWho]

wow wtf. RIP
Must of been drugs. You can see it when he did interviews..always sniffing and scratching.

 

[PolyGone]

Suzanne Pleshette
Heath Ledger

That's the 2, right?

what about renfro?

 

[grandjedi6]

I don't believe in the whole Hollywood deaths come in 3s nonsense but Heath was third recent death

Lois Nettleton
Suzanne Pleshette
Heath Ledger

R.I.P.

what about renfro?

OMG, it's 4 deaths !

 

[xaosslug]

Mary-Kate Olsen date-raped him?

wait, wut?

 

[Fourth Storm]

Does anyone really think role research for The Joker had anything to do with this state of mind he must've been in? What exactly was this "research?"

And Mary-Kate, I know we don't have all the facts yet, but of course...

It's a fucked up world we live in...

 

[Barakov]

A damn shame. The fact that pills or drugs of some sort were involved make it even more tragic. I thought he was coming in to his own as well. Sucks.

 

[ManaByte]

Fox says that NYPD told TMZ that the death was an accident. How would they know that so soon?

 

[VeritasVierge]

sigh.. Now I have to buy a copy of 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale.

RIP Heath.

 

[Broken Arrow]

It is the first time a celebrity death strikes me so bad... RIP ='(

 

[Tobor]

I don't believe in the whole Hollywood deaths come in 3s nonsense but Heath was third recent death

Lois Nettleton
Suzanne Pleshette
Heath Ledger

R.I.P.

Suzanne Pleshette was like 70 years old, man.

 

[Mojovonio]

I'll never understand why celebrities choose this route. Sure, pressures of the career. But fuck, there are people who struggle to maybe be able to eat something once a week.

I'll never be able to understand why a celebrity would commit suicide (if this is what it is).

 

[Zenith]

And someone of her age just fucking died and let a 2 yo child behind him ? I just can't take it, it's much too hard for me. And this guy was so awesome.

wow, hope you never read a newspaper, you'd never make it to the business section.

you didn't even know the guy, you just knew his characters. no one here knew him, hence all the surprise at the pills. this is just recreational grieving.

 

[C4Lukins]

Really sad. His career started out so shitty and I could not stand him, and then he did Monster's Ball and he has been one of my favorite actors ever since. Very shocking.

 

[Xevren]

This fuckin sucks. I really thought he was a great actor and now it will be weird watching TDK. Easy birthday for me to remember I guess.

 

[GodMike]

I can't stop crying. Real tears man. This man was born 12 days before my sister, my lovely sister, shit. I mean, fuck, I can remember her having her first kiss and coming back with a sun-size smile on her face and half-dozen potential new born dreams in her head.

And someone of her age just fucking died and let a 2 yo child behind him ? I just can't take it, it's much too hard for me. And this guy was so awesome.

I'll never be able to watch TDK, despite all my love for Bale. Never.

Why you gay?

 

[beelzebozo]

couldn't it have been matthew mcconaughey

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Anyone making jokes can get the fuck out.

 

[zoku88]

It's sad to say this, but I generally didn't care about this until someone told me he was supposed to be the Joker in the new Batman movie. T_T

 

[vas_a_morir]

I'll never understand why celebrities choose this route. Sure, pressures of the career. But fuck, there are people who struggle to maybe be able to eat something once a week.

I'll never be able to understand why a celebrity would commit suicide (if this is what it is).

They are real people with real problems, I guess. Money doesn't fix everything.

 

[Juice]

Now that it looks like TDK was pretty much wrapped, I really hope we see this Olsen twins storyline play out.

They are real people with real problems, I guess. Money doesn't fix everything.

Life. Serious business.

 

[Borys]

But dude, he had a daughter. That makes it very serious, and obviously we should be respectful of Heath Ledger who so unselfishly left his daughter without a dad.

Like there aren't any other orphans in the world. You are reading words of one in this very moment BTW.

Er, I say the same thing when I laugh about any person dying. Just because I found the joke funny doesn't mean I don't feel a bit bad about it.

Why so serious indeed.

Well fuck me I was late to the joke 5 pages, sorry.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Just found this out. My day's fucked. :_( My condolences to his family.

 

[echoshifting]

Mary Kate Olsen connection completely debunked on TMZ just now.

You know when TMZ is debunking things, the rumor mill is in a sorry state atm.

 

[Mifune]

But dude, he had a daughter. That makes it very serious, and obviously we should be respectful of Heath Ledger who so unselfishly left his daughter without a dad.

Hey, let's not crucify the guy until we know what happened.

This is really sad. By all accounts he was a really nice guy.

 

[avcables]

RIP

 

[kassatsu]

Not Mary-Kate's Apt

Posted Jan 22nd 2008 5:41PM by TMZ Staff

A highly credible source connected to Heath Ledger tells TMZ the apartment where the actor was found was not owned by Mary-Kate Olsen or related to her in any way.

TMZ says no to Mary-Kate apt.

 

[Tamanon]

wow, hope you never read a newspaper, you'd never make it to the business section.

you didn't even know the guy, you just knew his characters. no one here knew him, hence all the surprise at the pills. this is just recreational grieving.

If I learned anything from when Cobain shot himself, next comes the mixtapes.

 

[Fourth Storm]

I'll never understand why celebrities choose this route. Sure, pressures of the career. But fuck, there are people who struggle to maybe be able to eat something once a week.

I'll never be able to understand why a celebrity would commit suicide (if this is what it is).

That's the point. You can't understand because your life is so entirely different from theirs'. None of us have the right to pass judgement.

 

[Busty]

I'm gutted. No other words. In shock, in fact.

I know he was a talented young man with a daughter and.....

I don't want to finish that thought. I'm shocked.

 

[shintoki]

John Belushi for the person asking is the funny side of the Belushi Brother's. He was the one in...Greatest Comedy of all time. Animal House, Also in Blues Brothers, and older SNL with Murray and Chase.

Also this is really just dissapointing. You know Warner Bros is probably happy over this since they know it will definitely give The Dark Knight even more publicity and legs. But this is just sad, Always seemed like a really good actor finally getting some good roles. Not that I didn't enjoy him in Knight's Tale and Patriots...loved those. But more out there.

 

[QVT]

The SA thread has already done the expected:

Heath Ledger dead at 28 OMG IS BATMAN STILL COMING OUT
Pages: 1234567 ... Last

This sucks. Never good to see young people die.

 

[Mason]

Why you gay?

You're treading on banstick territory.

 

[monchi-kun]

Why you gay?

facepalm.gif

 

[vas_a_morir]

Anyone making jokes can get the fuck out.

Uh, if you are this upset, GAF is not the place to be.

 

[Shins]

TMZ says no to Mary-Kate apt.

How the fuck did that rumor start?

GAF...

 

[syllogism]

Sun-Times archive: Acting was therapy for heartthrob Heath Ledger
'I get to scream and cry ... I get to purge myself,' said Aussie star. 'Once the film is over, I throw it all away'

January 22, 2008
BY CINDY PEARLMAN

The following interview with Heath Ledger was pubished in the Sun-Times on Nov. 18, 2007, upon the release of the film “I’m Not There,” in which Ledger portrayed one of several alter-egos of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

Heath Ledger is one heartthrob who is all there. The 28-year-old Aussie with the sleepy eyes and mop of messy blond hair is the first one to admit that acting is therapy for him and he brings everything pent up inside of himself to the big screen.

"I'm lucky in a sense because I have a job where I get to scream and cry," he says. "I get to purge myself in ways that don't really affect me personally.

"When the director yells cut, I just walk out the door and I'm back into my regular life," he says.

Of course, nothing has been regular about Ledger's life since he came on the scene in the teen romance "10 Things I Hate About You" and then received raves years later in "Brokeback Mountain." These days he's starring for director Todd Haynes in his ambitious new film about the many lives of singer, poet and American icon Bob Dylan called "I'm Not There."

Ledger joins a stellar cast including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere and Ben Whishaw, who each play Dylan at different parts of his life. Ledger's slice of all things Dylan comes by playing the music man during his star days when he could be found at parties with other beautiful people. On the streets this Dylan hid behind sunglasses and wanted to be left alone because he wasn't always so happy. His private life couldn't withstand the hoopla of his stardom.

"The film doesn't sum up Dylan's life or try to explain it all," Ledger says. "We're just representing aspects of his life during different periods of it."

Ledger says that he loved the idea of playing Dylan. "I found the connection obviously through his music," Ledger says. "You can't help but fall in love with his lyrics or should I say his poetry?"

To get into character, Ledger was given photos of Dylan that were from the mid '60s when the rocker spent his time in New York City hanging out and trying to avoid the press with his dark glasses that also blotted out the rest of the world. Everyone involved in the film is quick to caution that they're not exactly playing Dylan as Dylan but a vision of him or a Dylanesque sort of character.

"It was an incredible experience," Ledger says. "I consider (director) Todd Haynes to be a genius."

Ledger won't rate all the Dylans in the film, but mentions that Blanchett blew him away. "Cate has given such an incredible transformation," Ledger says. "She will really blow people away. I mean, she walks, talks, sings and smells like Bob Dylan."

Ledger will also play The Joker in the upcoming "The Dark Knight" due out in July of 2008.

"I was a fan of the comic book character," Ledger says of The Joker. "Somewhere inside of me, I kind of knew instantly that I wanted to do it. I didn't feel like I had to search for it.

"I felt like I had a plan of attack with it," he says. "That usually dictates whether I want to do something or not -- if I have an understanding of it straight away."

He says that the film "is the most fun I've ever had with a character and the most fun I probably ever will have even though at the end of the day I was absolutely wrecked." He adds that his Joker "has zero empathy" for Batman or anyone else in Gotham City. Ledger's intention from the start was to be the fierce, scary Joker. "He's really full of surprises. But I can say that I wanted him to be very sinister."

Ledger was born in Perth in Western Australia. As his story goes, he was required in school to take either acting or cooking as an elective. "I absolutely couldn't cook," Ledger insists.

Ledger made his American debut in the film "Two Hands" (1999), but became a teen heartthrob with "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999). He decided to buck that image with films including "The Patriot" (2000), "Monster's Ball" (2001) and "Ned Kelly" (2003).

He says that indie films are one of his favorites these days. "I think you're generally granted more freedom," Ledger says. "Whether or not you have a better outcome is relative to the person making the film. But I think that generally, if it's money coming from an alternate source other than a studio then you have that freedom.

"Lower budgets mean you're actually forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips and create it from scratch," he says.

He laments that most of the people he wants to work with aren't around anymore. "Look, most of them are dead," Ledger says. "Fellini. Cassavettes. Bob Fosse. Stanley Kubrick. I would have loved to work with them. I would love to work with many people who are around, but they're not lining up just yet. Terrence Malick is one person who comes to mind. I would love to be in one of his visual poems."

He is recently split with actress Michelle Williams and the two share parenting of their toddler daughter Matilda. Ledger says parenthood has changed his life, but not in sappy ways. "I didn't immediately get an urge to go out and be a voice in an animated film," he jokes. "But it definitely changes the person that you are. I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution.

"So fatherhood has changed me as an artist because I feel things on a deeper level," he says. "I think my performances will grow simultaneously."

Ledger lives in New York City where he can often be seen pushing Matilda around in her buggy.

"I kind of save the living for the time between action and cut," Ledger says. "I'm pretty good at dropping a character once it's over for the day. Certainly once the film is over, I throw it all away. Your life is what matters."

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/753159,ledgernov012208.article

 

[J2 Cool]

Not at all surprised at the number of people here talking about The Dark Knight. GAF is bizarre when it comes to things they like.

They're talking about it on the news. Showing the trailer, and speaking about his preparation for the role. On the news. He said he was taking Ambien and was having a lot of trouble sleeping during the role, or post-role. That's his career. I don't think people should overreact if somebody brings up his career.