Thread: Heath Ledger Dead

Great actor. Sad.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/t...ves/130042.asp

Sad yes, but the world still turns. I'm just pissed about Batman only being half done!

Batman is already in Post Production. So it should be ok

Well that's a plus. I'd heard that they hadn't done it all, but I just read they had.

I know I seem unsympathetic, but he was a known druggie. I don't sympathize with people who willingly do it to themselves *cough*Britney Spears. It's terrible, a tragedy, but he did it to himself.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Well that's a plus. I'd heard that they hadn't done it all, but I just read they had.

I know I seem unsympathetic, but he was a known druggie. I don't sympathize with people who willingly do it to themselves *cough*Britney Spears. It's terrible, a tragedy, but he did it to himself.

I hadn't heard anything about him being a drug abuser....apparently, he even had a reputation for only drinking water....

Regardless, a great loss to the cinema.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

...I don't sympathize with people who willingly do it to themselves...

I guess I won't expect you at my funeral if I die of heart disease. Or perhaps cut my throat shaving? ;-)

Bobby Fisher died last week as well.
He was a chess genius.
He was loopy (like, having his fillings removed from his teeth because the government was controling him via radio waves...)
And he was treated piss poor by his own government when he had fulfilled his role (arrested for attending a tournament in yugoslavia when that was embargoed).

Yes, Fischer certainly was an interesting and intriguing character. But he was also a hugely outspoken anti-semite who never missed an opportunity to blame all the ills of the world on Jews. The one thing that prevents me from obliterating him from my memory is the fact that he was clearly a dozen sandwiches short of a picnic. I put his hate for Jews down to irrational lunacy -- actually, that's a tautology... plain old lunacy will do.

Apologies Ron!

I thought he also starred in the film "Four Feathers" but didn't see any mention of that.
Guess he took a few too many trying to get some sleep. Poor bugger.

Originally Posted by majurey

But he was also a hugely outspoken anti-semite who never missed an opportunity to blame all the ills of the world on Jews. The one thing that prevents me from obliterating him from my memory is the fact that he was clearly a dozen sandwiches short of a picnic.

I don't want to this thread further, but that part of him (along with the removal of his fillings and God knows what else) is the reason I called him loopy. He was living proof that you can be a genius in one thing and a loony in the other.