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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
louisev:
Germaine Greer, who was acquainted with Heath, writes of celebrities being 'victims of celebrity healthcare.'
Warning: details of his death are discussed.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2255650,00.html
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on February 12, 2008, 08:51:43 pm ---Germaine Greer, who was acquainted with Heath, writes of celebrities being 'victims of celebrity healthcare.'
Warning: details of his death are discussed.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2255650,00.html
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While I'm sure there is a valid point in this article, and while thirty years ago, I never would have imagined that I would have used a computer (!) to refute (!) an argument of Germaine Greer's (!) publicly (!), I have to question these following statements of hers:
The poorest patient on the NHS gets better treatment than a celebrity trying to live and work on both sides of the Atlantic.
That sounds so arrogantly naive. I cannot believe she could say this.
When he is pushing himself to the limit, the superstar has no time to visit a health practitioner.
The superstar would not need to. The superstar can have a doctor come to him.
Ledger went home to Perth for Christmas, but Christmas, as we all know, is more stress than rest, especially for Ledger who was being persecuted by the unspeakable Australian press.
Actually, we know that Heath made that beautiful call to the newspaper guy, thanking him and all the press for leaving him in peace on that particular trip.
His body, strapped flat to the gurney as the paramedics removed it from his apartment, struck me as much too thin to be that of the well-set young man I had breakfast with in Berlin two years ago.
Agreed.
An actor such as Ledger, who seems to tear his best work out from somewhere deep inside him, is as highly tuned and fragile as an athlete.
Agreed.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 13, 2008, 01:42:41 am ---
His body, strapped flat to the gurney as the paramedics removed it from his apartment, struck me as much too thin to be that of the well-set young man I had breakfast with in Berlin two years ago.
Agreed.
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What does that mean? That it wasn't him?
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Snavel del Snork Snater Snuit on February 13, 2008, 04:20:30 am ---
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What does that mean? That it wasn't him?
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I think she meant that he seemed much thinner than when she met him two years previous to that. Too thin.
Katie77:
Germaine Greer has made a profession of saying things for the sensationalism value. She thrives on it. I wouldn't take too much notice of what she says.
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