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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #530 on: February 08, 2008, 07:12:34 pm »
And it worked....you are quite something Chrissie.... :-*

Aww, thanks. You're welcome.


Whoo-eee! You made it Berit!  :D

And it's so worth it. Love the video clip. You're right, it's a wonderful tribute. Thanks for posting it  :-*

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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #531 on: February 08, 2008, 07:20:39 pm »
I just discovered that BBM was shown in Boston Monday at the Cooledge Theater, where some of us got together to see it in the screening room last year.

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/blog/2008/02/still_wish_we_c.html

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Because it just needs to happen, the Coolidge is showing "Brokeback Mountain" tonight at 7pm. The layers of tragedy will, over time, accumulate around this imperfect movie and its great, deep performance -- and its greatish, deepish ones, too -- until everything about them assumes the impression of wisdom. We'll search this movie and Ennis Del Mar the way we might someone else's soul. We leave a little more devastated, a little more lost than we did the first time. You'll watch Heath Ledger and think the ache in his heart and in his bones seems realer, more contagious. Bad news has a way of doing that to an already iconic piece of acting. Have you seen "Rebel Without a Cause" lately? Of course, the Coolidge could just as easily have shown "Casanova" to remind us that the world has lost this happy, horny dude, too.


What a brilliant description of how most of us felt while we watched BBM again since we lost Heath.
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #532 on: February 08, 2008, 07:48:56 pm »

From Saturday's (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Feb 9, "Angry Ledger Fans Bombard US Website":

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23184699-5001021,00.html
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #533 on: February 08, 2008, 07:50:57 pm »

Also from Saturday's (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Feb 9, "Writer's Sick Attack on Heath Ledger":

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23179970-5001021,00.html
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #534 on: February 08, 2008, 07:55:37 pm »

From Saturday's (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Feb 9, "Heath Ledger Family's Private Memorial Service":

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23183537-5005941,00.html


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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #535 on: February 08, 2008, 08:00:37 pm »

From Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 9, "Aussies Enter Ledger 'Selfish' Debate":

http://www.smh.com.au/news/heath-ledger/aussies-vent-ledger-anger/2008/02/09/1202234206768.html

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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #536 on: February 08, 2008, 08:48:29 pm »
I think that this is a pretty good newspaper report on the reason for Heath's death.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ledger7feb07,1,3885175.story?ctrack=1&cset=true


Williams issued her first public comment on the death last Friday, saying that part of Ledger's legacy would be their 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, "the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl, who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day," Williams said in a statement.

Meanwhile, officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington said they were conducting a "routine" investigation, as they would in any prescription overdose case, into how Ledger got the drugs that killed him.

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Matilda, "the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl, who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day," Williams said in a statement.

I haven't actually read that part of her statement before.  It is a good, strong, statement.
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #537 on: February 08, 2008, 10:00:19 pm »

From Saturday's West Australian newspaper, Feb 9 @ 10.45am Western Australian time, "Ledger Funeral Under Way Soon":

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=22&ContentID=57786
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #538 on: February 08, 2008, 10:03:29 pm »

Heath's tribute page in Heath's home-town newspaper, The West Australian:

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=55939
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Re: Heath Ledger - News Accounts
« Reply #539 on: February 08, 2008, 10:56:41 pm »
From Saturday's West Australian newspaper, Feb 9 @ 10.45am Western Australian time, "Ledger Funeral Under Way Soon":

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=22&ContentID=57786


wow, another big memorial!  So which one is the actual 'funeral' I wonder?
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