Posted on 01/22/2008 1:45:20 PM PST by peggybac
Just broke on Fox - details to come.
Latest fro TMZ:
Law enforcement tells TMZ Ledger’s body was found face down on the bedroom floor. There is no visible signs of any trauma.
Law enforcement tells TMZ Heath Ledger’s autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow.
My goodness...the most judgmental thing I said was that he lost me after Brokeback, which is the simple unvarnished truth, and that his role romanticized the homosexual choice, also true, and as others have said, he actively promoted/dignified in his interviews surrounding the role. I've also said on this thread, that his death, like that of any young person, regardless of their status or fame, is a tragedy...If that's, "judgmental crap" so be it...I guess I'm just a judgmental crapper.
I have to admit, I don’t think I’ve seen any of his work.
I find nothing funny about this. It’s the culture folks.
TMZ says the deathbed was riddled with pills.
Sad state the US is in.
I've never seen Anthony Hopkins in any movie where I didn't think he was fantastic. I don't see movies that I'm going to find disgusting, so I don't get a bad impression of actors that I think are good, in the kinds of movies I like. Kwim?
I agree 100%.
Olson twins? Huh? Too weird.
You ever see The Patriot?? He was one of Mel Gibsons sons in it.
I’m sickened by it. This is so sad.
Yeah, no one know why he was there, he had a place in Soho, so they don’t think he was subletting and the celebrity tv people are saying they don’t know why he was there either.
Quite welcome. I frankly cannot believe anyone gives a hoot about a(nother) drugged up Hollyweird type.
There are people on this thread actually defending this morons drug and alcohol induced death. Care to tell me how someone “accidentally” overdoses on pills and alcohol?
Dude...
Queer cowboy movie aside, this guy was a pretty good actor. We all liked him in 'The Patriot', didn't we?
It’s a mob scene in front of the building, Shortly they will be removing the body. Unless they clear the street it will be insanity on the block.
Per Defamer.com:
On The Scene Of The Heath Ledger Overdose
At ten minutes to 5pm here in New York, only a few news crews had reached the scene of Mary Kate Olsen’s loft building at 421 Broome Street, where Heath Ledger was just found dead. Just a handful of passersby were gawking at the small police presence guarding his door. But by 5, a pack of 15 paparazzi had arrived, acting far calmer than the usual frenzied pap scene, respectfully obeying the NYPD’s orders to stay back. Almost everyone there, reporters both on-air and from various print outlets, collectively believed that the actor committed suicide using sleeping pills; a bottle of prescribed sedatives were allegedly found next to his bed.
That angle will get hit hard by the tabloids.
We get it- you don’t care. Thanks for sharing...again.
If anything it might delay the release, but I doubt even that.
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