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Title: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on January 22, 2008, 05:11:27 PM
Just found out.  Heath Ledger died today at the age of 28.

For more (but not that much more):

abc news (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=4173318)
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 22, 2008, 06:09:27 PM
I wish I could quit you.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on January 22, 2008, 06:19:02 PM
Ahhhh, I knew that was coming. 

It's kind of bizarre.  He's only 28.  Apparently the police think it's drunk related, but I didn't really think he was into that.  I guess you never know.  It is going to be weird watching Batman this summer.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 22, 2008, 06:22:15 PM
Couldn't help it.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: xolik on January 22, 2008, 06:39:11 PM
Ping Ping is all upset over this.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Dark Shade on January 22, 2008, 08:49:26 PM
It is going to be weird watching Batman this summer.

No doubt. I still can't believe it, that's really surprising.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on January 22, 2008, 08:54:32 PM
On tv someone mentioned that sleeping pills were found near his body, and that it might be a suicide.  Who schedules a massage and then commits suicide?  Anyway...it's just not right.  I understand that everyone dies, but it's just too soon.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: ivan on January 22, 2008, 08:58:31 PM
Maybe he hated massages.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Dark Shade on January 22, 2008, 08:59:09 PM
Or loved sleeping.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 22, 2008, 09:00:38 PM
Reminds me of that joke about the lion who walked into the bar.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Heather on January 23, 2008, 05:56:58 AM
1 more Aussie down 22 million of us to go ^-^
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Joe Sixpack on January 23, 2008, 10:55:01 AM
See you in gay cowboy heaven, partner.

I mean... uh...

I will *hear* about you - or talk to you on the phone - from REAL heaven.

That's it.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Novice on January 23, 2008, 02:18:30 PM
I was just thinking how good The Dark Knight looked.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 23, 2008, 02:30:06 PM
Newsflash!

Heath Ledger is still dead.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: ydnamtnediserp on January 23, 2008, 02:53:12 PM
personally, i care a little more that brad renfro's dead.  granted, not much more.   
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: jeee on January 23, 2008, 03:08:50 PM
Fred Phelps has another funeral to visit.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Novice on January 23, 2008, 10:14:22 PM
Not to spawn another discussion on Kansas, and I am not sure if you already knew this, but I just heard on the local news channel that they actually plan to be at the memorial service because Ledger played a gay character.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Dark Shade on January 24, 2008, 02:08:56 AM
Yeah, I caught that too. I can't believe it.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: jeee on January 24, 2008, 02:30:20 PM
Hence why I made the comment:

"In a news release from the church, Shirley Phelps-Roper says that she and other members will picket Ledger's memorial services in the United States, not those held in his native Australia.

"You cannot live in defiance of God," she said. "He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it's OK to be gay."


Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on January 24, 2008, 03:32:24 PM
Cults are scary.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Crystalmonkey on January 24, 2008, 03:46:43 PM
Apparently it was suicide caused by the stress of portraying the joker in the new film...
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Novice on January 24, 2008, 08:36:07 PM
Do you have any basis for that?

Not to be an ass-hole, I'm just curious. It's true he was having issues sleeping while portraying the character, but I don't see an actor taking their own life over a role in a movie no matter how "dark" the character is meant to be. I hate to be another speculator and I am sure the truth will eventually come out. I don't think that if it turns out to be drug abuse, people should focus on his role in the movie. People who overdose on perscription drugs have usually been abusing them for some time.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on January 24, 2008, 09:03:59 PM
Apparently it was suicide caused by the stress of portraying the joker in the new film...

Doubtful, though Novice is right about the having trouble sleeping bit.  Generally, people who plan to suicide aren't big on the planning.  That is, of things outside of suicide methodology.  I won't pretend to be an expert, but it just doesn't sound like suicide.  He apparently told a friend of his to call him to make sure he got up that morning, and had planned for a massage later that day.

That aside, I want to wait for the M.E. report.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Joe Sixpack on January 24, 2008, 10:03:13 PM
I think you care about this way too much.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: ivan on January 25, 2008, 11:54:41 AM
No, no-no-no, he's outside... Looking in.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: xolik on January 25, 2008, 12:13:25 PM
Too soon?
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 25, 2008, 02:01:54 PM
Nope.  :lol:
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Min on January 25, 2008, 05:29:28 PM
Why would he be stressed out about playing the Joker if all of his scenes are already filmed?
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: pbsaurus on January 25, 2008, 05:41:55 PM
Maybe the ghost of Ceasar Romero was haunting him.  Assuming that is that Ceasar Romero has already died, that is.
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: sociald1077 on January 25, 2008, 05:50:44 PM
Maybe the ghost of Ceasar Romero was haunting him.  Assuming that is that Ceasar Romero has already died, that is.

Maybe it was Keyser Söze......
Title: Re: Heath Ledger is dead
Post by: Jaepheth on January 26, 2008, 01:29:35 AM
most sources are saying it was an accidental overdose of Ambien