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[mvansand76]

Oh God, Eric, you have to stop.

Damn, when does the crying stop?

[LauraGigs]

Eric – sheez.  These are BIG enough!!

[Mikaela]

Just passin' through on my way to bed, but had to post this. Apologies if it has been posted before, somewhere else - I had not read it at any rate and it's so lovely.

It's a feature article remembering Heath, written by Luke Davis who was one of the script writers on Candy.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23108546-28737,00.html


 

[Mikaela]

Uhm.... one more thing. I had a look at Amazon.com's bestselling DVD list. Not surprisingly there's a lot of Heath there.....

Just now it looked as follows - number indicates rank on the bestseller list:

9 - 10 things I hate about you
11 - A Knights Tale
25 - Casanova
28  - Brokeback
31 - Candy
35  - Ned Kelly
61 - Roar - the Complete Series
66 - the Patriot
83 - The Brothers Grimm
86 - The Order
90 - Four Feathers

It's getting so I have to wonder why people aren't buying Monster's Ball? Or Lords of Dogtown... maybe they are further down the list. Anyway, I suppose one should see something positive in more people getting to know Heath's films and his acting. See it as a tribute. But I'm just mainly royally depressed at this. I know it's a common occurence but it somehow seems so.... morbid. And it's so horrible to think of the REASON that this list looks the way it does. 

[southendmd]

I'll Be Seeing You

I had this song in my head all day yesterday.  Last night, I heard it in the restaurant where I had dinner.
Today, I found it associated with Heath on youtube. 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEogB89pdAc[/youtube]

"...I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you."

[BelAir]

Just passin' through on my way to bed, but had to post this. Apologies if it has been posted before, somewhere else - I had not read it at any rate and it's so lovely.

It's a feature article remembering Heath, written by Luke Davis who was one of the script writers on Candy.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23108546-28737,00.html


 

Thanks for that Mikaela.  I am particularly touched by the last line, "Yet he was just that: an enormously talented artist, whose death leaves a terrible void in the world of cinema, as well as in the lives of those who loved him."

for though he may not have known us, we did indeed love him, and hence the void that we feel.

[serious crayons]

Anyway, I suppose one should see something positive in more people getting to know Heath's films and his acting. See it as a tribute. But I'm just mainly royally depressed at this.

Do you mean because it's too "dying as a career move"? Sorry if that phrase sounds insensitive in this context -- but I've seen it applied to people like Elvis and Jim Morrison, people whose popularity shot up after they died. I remember a Rolling Stone cover about Jim Morrison with a headline something like, "He's young, he's hot, he's dead." Of course, that was many years after Morrison actually died, when the Doors were enjoying a resurgence of popularity.

Anyway, in this case I see it as positive that people are taking interest and maybe opening their minds a little bit, and in the process helping Heath's legacy live on. I'm surprised BBM is so much further down the list than the first three, though, because it's so often cited as Heath's greatest work. Maybe many of those people already own it?