Not that I believe Ledger is gay, but the fact that his girlfriend got pregnant doesn't tell me much. This guy managed to father several kids while he was flitting around the NJ Statehouse.
Posted on 01/10/2006 4:34:06 PM PST by presidio9
HOT Oscar tip Heath Ledger yesterday compared US bans on his gay cowboy film to racism. Critics' Choice Awards Picture Gallery
Ledger said he was not surprised a Utah cinema had banned Brokeback Mountain, which depicts a lifelong love affair between two Montana cowboys. "I heard a while ago that West Virginia was going to ban it. But that's a state that was lynching people only 25 years ago, so that's to be expected," Ledger said.
"Personally, I don't think the movie is (controversial) but I think maybe the Mormons in Utah do. I think it's hilarious and very immature of a society.
"If two people are loving . . . I think we should be more concerned if two people express anger in love, than love."
Ledger was in Melbourne last night with his partner and Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda, for the local premiere.
"She's (Matilda) been a big hit, had a big opening weekend and there'll probably be a sequel," Ledger said on the red carpet.
Ledger has been nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance and is tipped to be an Oscar nominee.
He earlier said he was "incredibly proud" of the film, but awards were the last thing on his mind when he was making the film.
"If you're thinking ahead and about people's opinions or how the film's going to be judged later it will affect the decisions you make on camera," he said earlier.
While filming the love story with co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, Ledger was falling for on-screen wife Michelle Williams.
"It was obviously a very personal, beautiful kind of evolving life and love that was occurring off-set, and then we'd go to work," he said.
Ledger arrived home in Sydney eight days ago but said its paparazzi would make it impossible to live there for good.
One photographer has alleged Ledger's uncle spat on him – a claim Ledger denies.
Of the paparazzi, he said: "It sucks, because it's only like it when I come back to Sydney. It's not like that here or in Brooklyn, where we live now." Brokeback Mountain, based on a short story by author Annie Proulx, opens on January 26.
Let's see, he stars in Casanova as a womanizer and stars in Breakback Mountain as a gay sheepherding butt bandit. How can he have any credibilty as either.
I suspect your sentiments are shared by many (former) HL fans, and that he's going to end up regretting this career move.
Really? 1981? Even KKK Byrd was beyond that by then.
Ledger is a real maroon.
Let me guess, Park Slope? I seriously doubt Ledger would survive in Bay Ridge or Gravesend, to say nothing of Bed Stuy or Crown Heights.
I agree with what you said 100%. That's EXACTLY what happened. The "media" is also hyping the fact that he "fell" for a FEMALE on the set of the sheepherder movie and that they were able to pull off having a child.
Heath who?
Not that I believe Ledger is gay, but the fact that his girlfriend got pregnant doesn't tell me much. This guy managed to father several kids while he was flitting around the NJ Statehouse.
FWIW, I'm originally from Bed Stuy and I look a hell of a lot more like Heath Ledger than I do Tookie Williams.
Nice work, Heath Loser. Insult an entire state and a religious group. Gee, I wish I was as open-minded and enlightened as you.
I imagine after his performance in Broke Dick Cow Girl that his foot is not the only thing that went in his mouth...
That lynching crack is gonna go over real good in the South. Dumbazz.
I liked him and was trying to ignore this queer film he was in so I could continue to watch his other movies. But no they always gotta open their stupid traps.
I heard he was looking forward to some back end participation in the grosses.
Forgot all about that. He was one bad dude.
I was thinking about renting that, is it crappy?
"Damn! I didn't know that there were lynchings goin on during the 80s in West Virginia."
Probably at Senator Byrd's house.
But five times the gross-out.
He was wrong.
Actually, it wasn't entirely his fault. He was mostly a kindly brain-dead old man. Baker was calling all the shots.
How old are you? Bed Stuy has been da ghetto since the 1940s.
I saw the movie on Sunday along with my wife and two other couples. It was not my choice but one cannot always pick the flick to see when in a group. That being said, I did expect it to be a well made movie, despite the subject matter, as most critics have been raving about it.
Well, it is over 2 hours long. For the first half hour it is so Slooooooowwwwwww. The rest of the movie is not much better. Plus Heath Ledger mumbles his way through his scenes to the extent that most of us could not make out what he was saying much of the time.
After the movie, all 6 of us felt the movie was mediocre at best, slow moving, boring, too long, etc. We could not understand how the critics could rave about the movie other than it being to push the gay agenda.
Last night the Critics Awards gave it Best Picture. My wife and I could not believe that BS. What a pile of crap. Now, I suspect the Oscars will follow through. Hollywood cannot wait to keep shoving its gay agenda down our throats. Having seen such good movies as Walk The Line and Capote, a movie about a blantantly gay writer, Breakback Mt. is not in the same league as either of them. The fix is in.
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