RIP Heath Ledger

[urth]

He was found in his apartment, drugs are suspected. He was 28.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpzdve6RF9k9My1ItZGj3eRprEEwD8UB6JT81

Damn shame. He could have been great.

[Gazoo]

He was found in his apartment, drugs are suspected. He was 28.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpzdve6RF9k9My1ItZGj3eRprEEwD8UB6JT81

Damn shame. He could have been great.

Awful, awful news.  I only saw him in one film, but he was excellent in Brokeback.

Pills were found by his bed.  I'd never heard of him being the self-destructive type.

[RGMike]

He was found in his apartment, drugs are suspected. He was 28.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpzdve6RF9k9My1ItZGj3eRprEEwD8UB6JT81

Damn shame. He could have been great.

Awful, awful news.  I only saw him in one film, but he was excellent in Brokeback.

Pills were found by his bed.  I'd never heard of him being the self-destructive type.

OMG. How horrible -- but a possible connection here to the breakup of his relationship?  Damn.

[mshray]

He was found in his apartment, drugs are suspected. He was 28.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpzdve6RF9k9My1ItZGj3eRprEEwD8UB6JT81

Damn shame. He could have been great.

Awful, awful news.  I only saw him in one film, but he was excellent in Brokeback.

Pills were found by his bed.  I'd never heard of him being the self-destructive type.

His marriage ended last year, my guess is self-medicated depression gone awry.

On an only somewhat macabre note, I wonder how long the list is of actors who have killed themselves on screen (Monster's Ball in his case) and then later do it for real.

[urth]

Just read in the NY Times account that according to police, the apartment where he was found was not his, but belongs to Mary-Kate Olsen, who was not there at the time. However her rep said the apartment was not hers.

ETA: The NYPD has since retracted that. The Times story now reads:

Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s deputy commissioner for public information, initially said that the apartment was owned by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, but later reversed himself and said that was not the case.

A representative of Ms. Olsen said that the apartment did not belong to the actress. “It is not her apartment,” the representative, Annette Wolf, a publicist for Ms. Olsen, said in a phone interview. “She does not own the apartment. She has never owned the apartment. She and her sister have an apartment in New York City but they are not in this building.”

[RGMike]

Interesting sidelight: apparently Ledger was the Coen's first choice to play Llewellyn Moss in NCFOM; but he turned them down and then Josh Brolin got the part.

(Brolin, meanwhile, will be playing Dubya in Oliver Stone's new Bush movie.)

[princessofcairo]

Damn shame. He could have been great.

ain't it the truth?

[mshray]

Peter Finch said this morning that there are reports that he was battling pneumonia.  Yikes.

[princessofcairo]

Peter Finch said this morning that there are reports that he was battling pneumonia.  Yikes.

only walking pneumonia could do that to a healthy young man.
od'ing is so passé.
ed note: should i die of an overdose, let no one read this post.

[mshray]

toxicology reports in this morning - he had 6 different drugs in his system, 5 of which were found on the premises, incl. anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills.  Cause of death listed as 'acute intoxication'.