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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
Kelda:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 24, 2008, 03:19:38 pm ---Do we need another thread? Just seemed like another news item to me...
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oh it is I was just interested in the film in general - i think I will
Shasta542:
--- Quote from: Meryl on January 24, 2008, 01:56:36 pm ---MSN has an article up with someone describing how the drugs can interact. There are also a number of videos and other articles linked.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/101112?GT1=10755
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=294165>1=7701
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22813570/?GT1=10755
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Meryl -- I'm glad I looked back. That first link is the one that I read at work and I was going to post it. If it's all true, it seems plausible. I've had the (erroneous) thought -- "If one's good; two's better" before. And Heath, I'm sure, would want to get to feeling better fast so that he could get to work. He was so conscientious about his career.
serious crayons:
Slate has a piece explaining how sleeping pills work and what happens in your brain when you overdose.
http://www.slate.com/id/2182753/
louisev:
A beautiful appreciation tribute article from the L.A. Times with extensive quotes from Heath and a discussion of his portrayals of 21st century masculinity.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-heath24jan24,0,7037712.story
MaineWriter:
From the New York Times this morning:
January 25, 2008
Funeral Plans for Ledger Remain Cloudy
By JAMES BARRON
Two days after the actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment in SoHo, reporters and paparazzi converged on Thursday at the funeral home where his body had been taken.
The police set up barricades outside the Frank E. Campbell funeral home, on Madison Avenue at 81st Street, while a stream of mourners left flowers and scribbled tributes at a makeshift memorial outside the loft building where Mr. Ledger, the Australian-born star of “Brokeback Mountain,” died. By Thursday afternoon, someone had tacked an Australian flag beside the front door of the building, at 421 Broome Street.
Mr. Ledger, 28, was found in his apartment on Tuesday by a masseuse who arrived for an appointment and went into his bedroom, where he had been sleeping.
The police have said that the masseuse, Diana Wolozin, called the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, a friend of Mr. Ledger’s, three times before she called the police and once afterward. Ms. Olsen, who was in California, sent private security agents who arrived at the same time as emergency medical workers.
The police also said that Ms. Wolozin shook Mr. Ledger twice — before she placed the first call to Ms. Olsen, and again before she dialed 911. She could not rouse him, the police said.
Dominick Carella, an official at Frank E. Campbell, said on Thursday evening that that funeral arrangements had not been completed.
“Everyone assumed funeral arrangements were going on today, which they were not,” he said. There had been speculation during the day, heightened by no-parking signs the police posted up and down Madison Avenue, that Mr. Ledger’s father, Kim, would arrive from Australia on Friday and would then accompany the body back to Australia for burial. “I never commented on that and I haven’t gotten word on that,” Mr. Carella said.
Mr. Ledger’s spokeswoman, Mara Buxbaum, said she would not comment on when or where services would be held.
Outside the funeral home, the police stood watch in anticipation of crowds. Their mission was to prevent anything approaching the turmoil that surrounded the funeral of a far more famous movie star, Rudolph Valentino, in the Roaring Twenties. Thirty thousand fans swarmed the funeral home, then on the Upper West Side, hoping for a last glimpse of the matinee idol. In the chaos, more than 100 people were injured.
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