Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Heath Ledger Remembrance Forum
SAG Awards on TNT and TBS
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 29, 2008, 01:55:06 pm ---I've been searching in vain trying to find what, specifically, Cate Blanchett and Ryan Gosling did/said. I don't doubt it - I just like to read the tasteful and heartfelt tributes wherever I can find them. Thanks in advance.
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I don't know that Ryan Gosling said much, but he wore a black ribbon on his lapel in honor of Heath.
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Kelda:
--- Quote from: Fran on January 28, 2008, 10:07:49 pm ---From E! Online:
Backstage Report: The Battle Over Heath
3:45 p.m. PT: The SAGs honor Heath Ledger tonight. I trust and hope it'll be as heartfelt as Jason Sedillo's tribute.
I met Jason outside the Shrine, where I was interviewing a protester who was holding the cruelest sign I had ever seen. It read "Heath in Hell."
Sedillo stood beside the young woman, Jael Phelps, of the notoriously antigay Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kansas, with his own sign. It read "I'm sorry for them/R.I.P. Heath."
Sedillo was sorry. I was inspired.
On Friday night, Sedillo told me, he read that Westboro Baptist was planning to picket the SAGs, Heath and his work in Brokeback Mountain.
Right then and there in Fort Worth, Texas, where Sedillo serves as a church youth minister, the 30-year-old decided to plunk down $800, fly to Los Angeles and show up at the SAGs himself. With his own sign. To say he's sorry for something he wouldn't dream of saying himself.
To be honest, Sedillo's sign wasn't much of a sign—it was a little dry-erase board, and his message was scribbled in green ink. The passengers in the passing limos probably couldn't even see it.
"Here's a guy," Sedillo said of Ledger, "who didn't do anything but perform in movies."
But that was enough. As was Sedillo's sign.
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Give that guy a pat on the back. ;D
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Rayn on January 29, 2008, 02:07:46 am --- I'd rather take my chances in a room full of rattlesnakes.
However, while I think I understand your desire to help them, Br. Patrick, I agree with Meryl. People need a reason to hate. Their reason, more than likely a good measure of homophobia blessed with more than a good amount of misguided ignorance mixed religious conviction, is one of the strongest kinds of venom (hate).
We can't change them with love any more than they can change us with hate.
But we can wisely accept them as they are, like accepting rattlesnakes. Most earthly creatures, except those that eat them, stay out of striking range and move quickly away without hesitation.
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Agree completely. Nothing we do is going to change them. THEY have to want to change. Heck and sometimes even when homophobes do change, they don't always change completely. Friend of mine is a homophobe. One year, he had a serious operation and was down and out for six weeks, laid up at home recuperating. I had lent him a bunch of books to read during his convalescence, but I never bothered to go see him (we were not that close at the time). The only people who went to visit him was a gay co-worker and his lover.
He was very touched. After that, he liked this guy a lot, hung out with him, thinks the world of him...but he still thinks being gay is a perversion, that gays should not be married or have equal rights and that they should be kept away from children. Having a good experience with a gay person changed nothing about his homophobia. He believes what he believes and to change this particular facet of it would cause him to doubt his other beliefs and he doesn't want to do that.
Shasta542:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 29, 2008, 09:29:10 am ---I love it when I am given a job!
Cate Blanchett
Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations
335 North Maple Drive
Suite 351
Beverly Hills, CA 90210-3857
USA
or:
Cate Blanchett
RGM Associates
PO Box 128
Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Australia
Ryan Gosling
1118 15th St #1
Santa Monica CA 90403
USA
or:
Ryan Gosling
c/o IFA Talent Agency
8730 Sunset Blvd.
Suite 490
Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA
Daniel Day-Lewis
c/o Gene Parseghian
Parseghian Planco LLC
23 East 22nd Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10010
USA
or:
Daniel Day-Lewis
William Morris Agency NY
1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019
USA
Leslie
News Sleuth on the job!
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Good job, Leslie!! And you're fast too!!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Shasta542 on January 29, 2008, 11:25:30 pm ---Good job, Leslie!! And you're fast too!!
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Fast...gold standard of a true news sleuth!
Thanks for compliment, Shasta!
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