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Heath Ledger dead at 28 years oldCNN is reporting that Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment today.

UPDATE- Could have been from popping pills

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3 Responses to “Breaking News”

  1. Jason Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at

    It’s a very strange feeling I had when I learned this last night. I honestly felt sad in a way I hadn’t felt about the death of a celebrity since River Phoenix. I suppose it’s how many people of my generation felt when Kurt Cobain died, but I never liked Nirvana so it made absolutely no difference to me.

    When an acting legend dies in old age, such as Marlon Brando a couple of years ago, I feel sadness at the loss, but it comes with a feeling that we have a body of work to appreciate, that he had done his best work and lived a full life. One day I’m sure I’ll live to see the deaths of Paul Newman, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro and certainly it will be sad, but the best work of those guys is likely behind them.

    Heath Ledger had only just begun. After a start as a pretty boy he moved on to some serious roles and got a lot of plaudits for performances in Monster’s Ball and Brokeback Mountain. This guy had the potential to do great things in cinema.

  2. Jason Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at

    A. O. Scott in the New York Times expresses what I could not:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/movies/24appr.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

  3. Amy Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at

    I honestly felt sad in a way I hadn’t felt about the death of a celebrity since River Phoenix.

    Same here. It’s a terrible loss.

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