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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on February 02, 2008, 10:18:41 am ---One of the first things reported was a "rolled-up $20 bill" found in the apartment. It was all over the news that they were testing it for drug residue; but the follow-up that reported that they found nothing -- I only saw that in one mention on CNN. Same creative approach to news reporting we can come to expect.
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Exactly what makes me so sick about the media. >:(
Ellemeno:
Here are some more thoughts from when I watched that video of Heath in that hotel room. The version I saw had captioning at key points, because the audio was kind of hard to hear.
One caption was something like "I used to smoke 5 joints a day for twenty years." When I read that, I thought "HUNH??" He would have had to start that habit when he was 6 years old and ended it the day before he said it for that math to be true. So I replayed it a few times, listening as intently as I could, and decided that I think he said "two years" not "twenty." How come I haven't seen anyone writing about that? How can they keep saying 20? Makes no sense.
The other thing I want to emphasize is that my interpretation is that Heath felt wary and uncomfortable. He seemed to want to accept these people with good will, but wasn't finding it easy. I felt like the woman was prancing for the camera, and her push up bra I found incredibly annoying. I would say that clearly, from the portion of the video that got shown, the only mistake Heath made was walking into that room. He didn't make any mistakes on the tape.
Verona:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 02, 2008, 10:52:05 am ---Here are some more thoughts from when I watched that video of Heath in that hotel room. The version I saw had captioning at key points, because the audio was kind of hard to hear.
One caption was something like "I used to smoke 5 joints a day for twenty years." When I read that, I thought "HUNH??" He would have had to start that habit when he was 6 years old and ended it the day before he said it for that math to be true. So I replayed it a few times, listening as intently as I could, and decided that I think he said "two years" not "twenty." How come I haven't seen anyone writing about that? How can they keep saying 20? Makes no sense.
The other thing I want to emphasize is that my interpretation is that Heath felt wary and uncomfortable. He seemed to want to accept these people with good will, but wasn't finding it easy. I felt like the woman was prancing for the camera, and her push up bra I found incredibly annoying. I would say that clearly, from the portion of the video that got shown, the only mistake Heath made was walking into that room. He didn't make any mistakes on the tape.
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OMG! YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
louisev:
Did you folks catch the followup link I made to the Daily Telegraph story that the video was made as a sting? The paps were putting on the party and chatted him up and brought him to it, lying in wait with a camera and then pumping him with questions about doing drugs. It was scripted, and he found out in the midst of it that someone had a camera on the balcony and got upset and left.
Fran:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on February 02, 2008, 12:50:22 pm ---Did you folks catch the followup link I made to the Daily Telegraph story that the video was made as a sting? The paps were putting on the party and chatted him up and brought him to it, lying in wait with a camera and then pumping him with questions about doing drugs. It was scripted, and he found out in the midst of it that someone had a camera on the balcony and got upset and left.
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Too bad he didn't think to get the tape or make them erase it... but maybe he didn't feel it was necessary because he had only been sitting there before he realized he was being set up.
As a side comment, I've often wondered why it seems that celebrities tend to only date/marry other celebrities. Heath's setup kind of answers that question for me. Who else can they really trust? How can they let their guard down enough to get close to someone not in the business?
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