Heath Ledge Found Dead

[BigBadBen]

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/753139,ledger012208.article

[Ivan]

That's messed up, I enjoyed his movies.

[AlwaysOrange]

Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC
Jan. 22, 2008, 5:11 PM EST
The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met his wife, actress Michelle Williams, in 2005. Ledger and Williams had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in "The Dark Night," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins." He's had starring roles in "A Knight's Tale" and "The Patriot," and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball."

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."

Offers for other teen flicks 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.'"

His latest role was in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan — as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress

[OSUFan]

That's terrible and such a waste.

[Boss 24]

I'd probably off myself too if I found myself in an Olsen twin's apartment.

I thought he was a pretty good actor. Never saw Brokeback Mountain though.

[Verb]

Shocking, and really sad.

[CowboyJD]

I'd probably off myself too if I found myself in an Olsen twin's apartment.

I thought he was a pretty good actor. Never saw Brokeback Mountain though.

He was in his apartment in a co-op building where an Olsen also has an apartment.

[Boss 24]

He was in his apartment in a co-op building where an Olsen also has an apartment.


Initial reports listed it as hers and other reports have the maid calling twin # 1when she found him.

In any event, I'll strike and rephrase.

I'dd probably off myself if I lived in the same building as an Olsen twin.

Sassified?:p

[NYC Poke]

Initial reports listed it as hers and other reports have the maid calling twin # 1when she found him.

In any event, I'll strike and rephrase.

I'dd probably off myself if I lived in the same building as an Olsen twin.

Sassified?:p

I wish I could afford to live in her building. :(

[osutuba]

This is most unfortunate that another great young actor has left this world too soon.

Speaking of "Brokeback", according to a report I read on Fox News Channel, that radical church out of KS will be protesting his funeral. They say he is burning in Hell because of his role in said movie. Despicable.

[Ivan]

This is most unfortunate that another great young actor has left this world too soon.

Speaking of "Brokeback", according to a report I read on Fox News Channel, that radical church out of KS will be protesting his funeral. They say he is burning in Hell because of his role in said movie. Despicable.


wow, seriously?

[osutuba]

wow, seriously?
Seriously ... from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324966,00.html

Kansas Baptist Church Intends to Picket Heath Ledger's Funeral Because He Played Gay Character

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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A radical Baptist church in Kansas known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq said it intends to protest Heath Ledger's memorial service with signs claiming the actor died and is in Hell because he played a gay character in “Brokeback Mountain.”

Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka said that she and other members will picket Ledger’s United States memorial services, 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.”

A press release circulated by the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which states that “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”

“Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there,” the Westboro Baptist announcement says.

Started 1955, the Topeka, Kan.-based church has conducted over 34,000 peaceful demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle, according to their Web site, GodHatesFags.com.

The organization runs various Web sites, including GodHatesAmerica.com and others that condemn lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Muslims, Roman Catholics and Jews as well as certain nationalities, according to Wikipedia.

The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the church as a hate group and the organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, according to its Wikipedia entry.

Phelps-Roper said the church group will also be picketing the Academy Awards this year.

Both the printed release and Phelps-Roper’s verbal diatribe about Ledger were rife with homophobic slurs. She said that those who call her and other members of Westboro Baptist Church bigots must also think God is a bigot.

“God hates fags,” she said. “The wrath of God has been revealed before the eyes of this nation with the death of Heath Ledger. … This nation worships the dead almost as much as they worship their filthy sex acts. America is doomed.”

[kruxter]

Someone is going to shoot some of those brainwashed, wack jobs someday.

[jakeman]

Someone is going to shoot some of those brainwashed, wack jobs someday.

I'm not certain that isn't what they want. I'm serious.

[osupride97]

People like that give Christianity a bad name.


They will be rotting in hell one day. :mad: