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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: joey on January 23, 2008, 05:05:50 pm ---I have never posted before, but as a close friend to southend.md I have met a number of you, and feel strongly that this occasion must be acknowledged. In trying to understand what Heath Ledger's death and life can mean, I have reflected on his strengths as an actor: the ability to "put on his character like a coat" (to quote Michael Chekov) - and to do that with a magical ability to show us both the color and line of the coat and his own being under it.  I usually think of dancers as those who reveal themselves most in performance.  But this paradox of Heath's - to be so revealing and yet so completely in character - is part of what made him so mesmerizing to me.  His authenticity is the gift I treasure most.

Joey

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Joey!!!! (((Joey)))  :)

Kd5000:

--- Quote from: Phillip Dampier on January 23, 2008, 05:10:12 pm ---I heard from Meryl earlier this afternoon, who placed a card for BetterMost, and a picture of our journey to the Kananaskis Lakes this past summer, as a token of thought in front of his apartment in SoHo on behalf of all of us, at the impromptu shrine.


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Yes, that's great that Meryl was able to get down there.  It sounds like a very touching tribute.

Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: joey on January 23, 2008, 05:05:50 pm ---
In trying to understand what Heath Ledger's death and life can mean, I have reflected on his strengths as an actor: the ability to "put on his character like a coat" (to quote Michael Chekov) - and to do that with a magical ability to show us both the color and line of the coat and his own being under it. 


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Welcome Joey, any friend of Paul's is a friend of mine.

There is a video of a clip from an interview with Heath, done on the set of The Patriot, where he talks about literally putting on the clothes of the character giving him entrance into that character.  In the interview, he mimes slipping on a jacket and straightening it on his body, and as he does, his bearing changes, his expression evolves, and even with the imitated gesture, he shows he becomes his part.  I will try to find it.


Meryl:

--- Quote from: Lucise on January 23, 2008, 02:57:31 pm ---It is helping to write these little poems.
I posted it in my blog, but thought to bring it here too.



You Rise Still


you slipped away
unobserved
like a silent whisper.
your spirit rises
like soft strands of smoke
from a quenched candle.
you rise far
from this chaos and loss
you rise still.

there is more
beyond this earthly vale
distant shores
where footprints remain
forever etched in sand.
you are there
where shadows are not
where your sun gleams
you are there
you rise still.

you slipped away
in the light of day
I pray you felt no fear
close to the end
for you rise still.
bits of your soul breathe
in these bereft hearts
you are here
even as you rise far
from this restless haze
you rise still.



Rest In Peace.

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Milli, this is so elegant and lovely, I wish you would also post it in the Cult thread.  I encourage all of our members who want to post something meaningful about Heath's passing to do the same.  Here is the link:  http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,3655.msg69117.html#msg69117

Lumière:

--- Quote from: Meryl on January 23, 2008, 05:28:42 pm ---

Milli, this is so elegant and lovely, I wish you would also post it in the Cult thread.  I encourage all of our members who want to post something meaningful about Heath's passing to do the same.  Here is the link:  http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,3655.msg69117.html#msg69117

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Thanks Meryl.  Will do.

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