The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

Heath Ledger and Ang Lee appeared on Charlie Rose
on December 07, 2005

 - just as the buzz about Brokeback Mountain
 was starting to get people
into theaters around the world.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rL78aaEsc[/youtube]

The Charlie Rose interview is more serious than most.
It starts with the theatre preview followed by the Ang Lee interview.
They [Ang and Heath] are interviewed separately and those interviews are mixed with film clips.
They answer questions about filming scenes, the story, working with actors and writers, and why each took on this task.  Link

[Fran]

Heath made his film debut in the 1997 Australian movie Blackrock, which is based on a true story.

[memento]

Heath and his sister Catherine are named after the two main romantic characters of the Emily Brontë novel, "Wuthering Heights".

[southendmd]

In 10 Things I Hate About You, Heath sings "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", written by Frankie Valli.

He kinda sounds like one of the BeeGees:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIW7WXPb-dc[/youtube]

[Fran]

Heath had his first acting experience at Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia, starring as Peter Pan in a school production at age 10.

[memento]

"Todd Haynes, his director on I'm Not There, paid Ledger the compliment he denied himself: 'Heath was a true artist.'"   

-- David Lipsky, Rolling Stone

[Meryl]

The final project of Heath's career was Terry Gilliam's uncompleted "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," a film in which he played many characters.

[southendmd]

Lasse Hallstrom directed Heath in Casanova.

[Fran]

From a review of Brokeback Mountain:

"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character.  It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn."

-- Stephen Holden, The New York Times   

[Toast]

Dark Knight director Chris Nolan wrote about "charisma — as invisible and natural as gravity. That's what Heath had ? I've never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents."

Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)  - Rolling Stone