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Heath Ledger - the grieving thread
loneleeb3:
--- Quote ---why couldn't the Lord have taken him
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Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm?
I'm afraid no matter how isolated Perth is, if a plane lands there the vultures will make the trip.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter ---An estimated 100,000 people lined the streets of New York City to pay their respects at his funeral, handled by the Frank Campbell Funeral Home. The event was a drama itself: actress Pola Negri collapsed in hysterics while standing over the coffin, windows were smashed as fans tried to get in, and Campbell's hired four actors to impersonate a Fascist Blackshirt honor guard, which claimed to have been sent by Benito Mussolini. It was later revealed as a planned publicity stunt. The New York Graphic printed a ghoulish fake composed photograph on its front cover purporting to show Valentino in his casket, before the body actually reached the funeral home.
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Gosh! I thought distasteful media/public circuses were a relatively contemporary phenomenon...
Anyway, let's pray that his family is left alone, indeed. They've been through so much already. (A lady at my office mentioned that his family found out via the news reports. Does anyone know if this is true?) Ick.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on January 24, 2008, 02:06:22 pm ---Anyway, let's pray that his family is left alone, indeed. They've been through so much already. (A lady at my office mentioned that his family found out via the news reports. Does anyone know if this is true?) Ick.
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Yes, I've read that's true.
The media won't leave his family alone, at least not willingly. They only do that for children, sometimes. But maybe the family will get bodyguards or whatever to run interference.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 24, 2008, 01:18:50 pm ---I personally don't think Heath was suicidal, or that he was overdosing on illegal drugs, but I'm afraid it's already in the public consciousness that one or both of those things was the case.
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I don't believe he was suicidal, either. I believe it was an accidental lethal combination of drugs, prescription and possibly otherwise.
--- Quote ---It was reported that Heath's mother has flown in from Australia to accompany his body back to Perth.
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Is Michelle's mother living, too? It would be nice to know/think that at least for now, little Matilda has two complete sets of grandparents.
Wishes:
At least that filthy Phelps won't be able to get to Australia. I hope so much the family will have peace while they are going through this. But I too fear the media is going to go where they have to for those pictures to be published in every magazine.
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