"[For] those who knew him and those who had the privilege of working with him, it's pretty amazing the disparity between the person he was and the monster that he created for us," Nolan said. "To see that being created from this very gentle person is a real testament to his skill as an actor."
I'm reading all the praise and superlatives and sweet little anecdotes and the awed movie reviews too - and feeling happy, and then I'm realizing we're actually witnessing the making of a movie legend or -myth in real time. Raising him up pedestal-high, not only as an actor but as a human being, where the horrid media circus back in late January/early February was intent on tearing him down and draggin him through the mud. Ultimately, and not too far into the future, the real Heath who had his good character traits and his less admirable ones, like all of us do, will be lost in the mist of the Heath Myth with its canon and conflicting tales and alternate "truths" and occasional "revelations".
I suppose it's unavoidable, and I'd rather have this than have him forgotten, but first and foremost: How I wish it hadn't been, hadn't been him at all!