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

[southendmd]

Oliver Platt costarred with Heath in Casanova.

[Fran]

The final project of Heath's career was Terry Gilliam's uncompleted The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

=aside= Meryl
Thank you.

[Toast]

Ledger took an apartment in SoHo and missed his daughter. Sleep became a problem. "I need to do something with this head because sometimes I just don't sleep, it just keeps ticking." He talked medications, telling the Times he was managing about two hours a night. On an evening when one Ambien didn't do the job, he swallowed a second, passed out, came to an hour later, head still whirring. On his last film set, co-star Christopher Plummer reported that Ledger didn't seem to be sleeping at all.

Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)  - Rolling Stone

[southendmd]

Many of Heath's best scenes in I'm Not There are with Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of Serge Gainsbourg.

[Fran]

An excerpt from a review of A Knight's Tale:

"Playing William Thatcher is Heath Ledger's bid for leading-man status, and he performs quite well in the romantically flawless role of a young man who is noble at heart, but not by birth (the inverse paradox of Ademar).  The role of William is so cut-and-dry, so blissfully uncomplicated by anything more than William's unrelenting urge to win at all costs (except his honor), that one can imagine Ledger simply sinking in it and disappearing.  Fortunately, he does not; and, even though the movie runs a good 20 minutes longer than it probably needs to, he keeps it afloat, even when forced to say awkward lines like 'Love has given me wings and I must fly.'"

-- James Kendrick, The QNetwork Film Desk   

[Toast]

He was twenty-one. His body still had a kid's loose, unstringed movements, but it was clear he would become a star. There was the big frontal block of the smile, lines racing up from his chin to his ears; when he smiled, his face fanned brutal and turned warn; it was a great, manly smile, a smile that commanded.

Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)  - Rolling Stone

[southendmd]

In A Knight's Tale,, Heath's character, William Thatcher, takes an alias:  Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland.

[Meryl]

Before he passed, Heath, an excellent chess player, was in the planning stages to direct a film based on "The Queen's Gambit" by Walter Tevis.

[memento]

One of Heath's x-girlfriends was actress Naomi Watts, who encouraged him to take the role of Ennis del Mar.

[memento]

Round 646
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