Heath Ledger is the new River Phoenix.
Heath Ledger is dead. His masseuse (ahem) and housekeeper found him in bed, unconscious, next to a bottle of pills. People suspect the pills and the death are related. It’s like how could they not be? What else would a 28-year-old actor die from in Manhattan? Happiness? Good looks?
He was found in Mary Kate Olsen’s apartment!
Everyone in the office waskind of shocked and then the jokes started flying in like two seconds, including:
“I guess there’s an apartment up for rent.”
“Maybe it was an illegal sublet?”
“No that area’s landmark now. You won’t be able to get in.”
“Shit.”
“I think Mary Kate killed him so she could eat him (and later barf him up.)”
“Pills? LAME. That is not rock n’ roll. Motorcycle accident. That’s the real way.”
“No, shark attack. That’s how you do it. That’s real rock n’ roll.”
“Maybe Jack Nicholson killed him.” (Ledger was supposed to be the new Joker in the new Batman)
“Maybe he wanted a tug and some pills. Nothing wrong with that. EXCEPT FOR DYING.”
I don’t really feel sorry when celebrities die. Like are they not supposed to die because they are famous? Like oh, I’m famous, that means I can take 4x the regular amount of drugs than a non-famous person! I was bummed when Cobain died but I was, like, sixteen or something. I cried at everything. Anyway both left a kid, which is really the saddest part.
ALSO: Why are celebrities who commit suicide or die of an OD always found naked? It’s like, I’m going to take these pills, but first I will strip.
OK now I’m being insensitive. Sorry.
UPDATE: It was not Mary Kate’s apartment as newspapers had previously reported. He was renting it. Now it might not be suicide, hard to say. Autopsy is pending. I know the kid had a lot of demons, so suicide wouldn’t be surprising. Still a shame though.
Great, now I have a great story for today, I was really so worried that anything really exciting happened today in my life that I was not able to go to bed, now I can breath again.
One second, one second, Heath ledger,
Mary kate Olsen’s apartment, Pills, drugs, Manhattan, hey this isn’t the set up for a teenager series like OC or Melrose Place, sure it is not a marketing push?
P.S. Are we supose to feel sorry for every celebrity dying?, ’cause I should be crying almost everyday and that takes a lot of time. Plus, if I feel sad for someone dying should be for Bobby Fischer.
Ah I know…it’s so sad, the fast lives these people lead.
To be honest (and slightly insensitive)…the first thought that came to me was that Mary Kate Olsen DID kill him. What kind of messed up conspiracy would that be?
How many people are going to see the new Batman movie specifically to see Heath in his last movie? The answer? Many. I mean, I’m gonna see it anyway because I’m a dork that appreciates Batman and the like. But the point…that movie is gonna get a LOT of shit said about it.
RIP…it’s so sad a waste.
Bobby Fischer was an anti-Semite. And a Jew.
I thought Britney was going to die this week. Instead, RIP Heath.
My friend made the comment after finding out he was found in Mary Kate’s apt, “Maybe he snorted her!”
very sad though!
How about a list of celebrities that should be dead but aren’t?
I’ll start:
Yoko Ono
Kirsten Dunst
The entire cast of Full House
Annie, we’ve been trying to unravel the mystery of dead celeb nakedness and Cristine suggested that perhaps because they are so pretty, celebs just spend more time in the nude. Like, whenever they are not out being photographed by TMZ, they’re naked. Hence, when they die, there is a greater likelihood that they will do so without clothing on because they spend a larger percentage of their time undressed than those of us without rock-hard abs and no cellulite. what do you think?
I’m sorry to let you down but Heath Ledger was a very together guy by Aussie standards so until further notice I am guessing that his death would’ve been accidental. Oh and he was apparently acctually found in his own apartment in Broom st Soho.
He was a good actor and had far more cred over here in Aus than Gibson or Crowe. If you can find it, his very early starring piece was a small Aussie flick called “Two Hands” which is saved by his performance and shows his latent greatness. RIP mate.
Pedro: I’m pretty sure there is more important news going on other than celebrity death, but that seems to be taking over all the front pages right now. Interesting…aren’t we having an election or something?
Maddie: Yeah the new Batman movie is going to bank off this big time, which is sad. It’s coming out in July, and they’ve probably finished filming at this point. He was working on a new Terry Gilliam movie (read: flop). Also it’s confirmed now that it wasn’t Mary Kate’s apartment. he was renting it. Corcoran Realty has one up in the building for rent for $23k a month!
Doretta: Yeah I would’ve guessed Brit too, but once again, someone stole the limelight from her.
Nathan: The thing is, those celebrities are actually dead. They just refuse to go away. Like flesh eating zombies. MMMMBRAINS
Aura: I think that is a very good theory. You guys should run a story about it. I’m not sure if I’d be turned on by a naked dead Heath. Probably.
Simon: I have no doubt that he was a good actor and probably would’ve done more amazing movies given that he was only 28, it is just a total waste of life. It’s maddening. Whether or not it was a suicide, it’s still a waste.
it wasn’t mary kate’s apartment. she lived in the next building. heath died of accidental overdose of drugs. playing the role of joker in the batman movie deprived him of sleep and made him depressed.
FYI: Yeah I know, see my comments above. I’ll edit post. He was done filming the Batman movie, from what I understand. He was doing the new Terry Gilliam movie.
Michael Hutchins still owns it for Most Compromised Position in Death with Elvis still placing as Miss Congeniality.
I’ve felt like an insensitive jerk all day because, really?, this isn’t really “news”. Maybe it’s because my desk is facing the office waiting-area television which has MSNBC on all day, but every time I see the same four pictures of him on the screen, with the same snips of information under a “Breaking News” header, I roll my eyes. Although, to be fair, I do that when they talk about Brittney Spears, too.
I just think our society is in a really sad state when some actor’s either purposeful or idiotic death gets more coverage than Gazan’s destroying a wall to PAY for food.
Bryan: You are right. But wasn’t he naked too?
Georgia: Agreed. I don’t know why everyone is obsessed with celebrities. I mean, I am guilty of that too, please don’t get me wrong. But more and more it gets out of control. Also I don’t know why journalists are quoting blogs in their articles, that’s just like insane. Totally irrelevant.
Given the “speculation” of why he was found the way he was I think you could reasonably assume general nakedness. But, at least his nudity comes with an explanation, other than fame, albeit a slightly disturbing explanation.
It is not that I do not consider Heath Ledger’s death a real news, what I say it is that all this crazynnes and speculation going around makes nosense.
I think that the opinion and afinity and admire feelings or worries to a person like all these celebrities should be based on their actual skills in what they are know for.
I mean, I don´t care if Heath Ledger died because or drugs or not, I care that he did really good movies and that it is very sad and a life waste that he is dead. Eben though I think that he was not still such a great actor, Al Pacino dying would be much worst, but it won’t be much on the papers or gossips.
And the same applies to the rest of celebrities, I don’t care about Britney private life, I care about how she sings, and dude, she sings horrible.
P.S. by the way annie, great band!
There is an interesting subscript going on here that i can’t resist pointing out. That is, the relative worth of a life. Irritating as it is, fame or the lack there-of, seems to prop-up a sort of rating system in our societies that says that one or another of us is worth more grief than the other.
Woah there, humble beings. Al Pacino’s mother would cry as much as Heath ledger’s. Mine as much as yours, his as much as her’s.
Accidental or otherwise, our passing is no light matter for those left close behind us and I can’t see the point of forgetting that my pain is as acute as those I have never met in my life, when a death affects me.
The fact that a particular death does not affect me, does not absolve me from understanding that it might affect someone else.
In that small consideration is a great foundation principal of all democratic societies from the days that universal human sufferage reverberated around the world from the French revolutions, and which continue to underpin up to this minute, the continuing struggle, in war and peace, for such rights in places near and far.
Love to you all and blessings to the families of all those died only yesterday on our great blue planet.
Corcoran was the last name of my creepy computers teacher in 6th grade. Lol.
I said once I say it again…these people, no matter how incredible they are, live lives that go way too fast. In the end, many are depressed and exhausted. So whether suicide or not, Heath more than likely needed help.
Kinda takes the glamour away from that level of fame doesn’t it.
Still sad though…
Ah Pedro, that’s not fair. I am sure that Heath Ledger’s mum would cry as much as Al Pacino’s mum. Gossip or not, what mum doesn’t deep down love their own as much as the next mum.
I am not saying that one human life worths more than other, and of course from a personal and emotional point of view each life is equa, granted. And of course their mums would cry the same and even more than mine.
What I say it is that in terms of social knowledge and repercursion of these things we should consider it in terms of social impact because of their social improvement or records in whatever their field is. So Pacino is more in cinema terms that Ledger was, even thouyg Ledger was really young and we will never get to know.
That criteria is what drives what is news and what not, what should be known by everybody and what not. Sort to say and not talking about deaths, why is more important to know how britney got drunk yesterday than how I got drunk, ok, people is more interested grantes.
A celebrity’s death in the news is not about personal emtions,it’s about social repercusion, and from that point of view, all gossips and things like that doesn’t much with the “social importance” of the real news, someone dying. That’s mainly the point. Much more things going on, much more “important” people dying, to have such a big cover of this. Well that’s what I think.
And no talking about how sad is losing anyone’s life
Fair comment Pedro, if the criteria of what drives the news, is a criteria one is prepared to accept.
I for one don’t believe that the news worthiness of any individual is a fair criteria on which to be judged or to judge oneself by.
I do kind of sometimes entertain the notion that social impact (as distinct from whether or not it is reported in the papers) is a more valid means of assesing individual worth, but then i think this is more of a collective mass decision to adore someone over and above normal social distinctions. It is also a deeply personal decision at the same time.
I don’t believe that this is a situation that can be subjected to comparative analysis.
It simply is, and to apply my own relegations upon others as per worth and social impact and what-ever i might think about others is to my mind, to enter the realms of fascism.
I am not saying, sir, that you are a fascist, i am saying that to waste energy on the relative importance of your and Britney Spears drunkeness, is to miss the point of being drunk. We do it for personal pleasure and it is neither here nor there what others think of it (unless of course your making a scene like Britney Spears does on occaision)
In this sense the fact that we love ourselves is far more important than whether or not others love us enough to mention it to the press. That is the defenition of the empathy for others that I posted above.
If we know oursleves well enough we don’t need to compare. Fascism exists because it is the state of defining ourselves by what is wrong with everyone else. I believe we verge into fascism when we start to judge social impact and thence individual worth because we have to decide what is socially acceptable before we can guage its impact.
That is not something worth making our minds up about because the implications can get pretty nasty, and not making our minds up about it leaves us all open to a flourishing diversity of art and opinion and worthiness.
26, 325 people died today from hunger-related causes alone. (www.worldometers.info)
Makes me kinda sad that they’re not getting a little of the attention Heath has.
It is sad that a young person has lost his life…period.
There are new reports that his death may have been from’natural causes’ which makes it even more difficult to accept.
Heath Ledger’s death is a symbol of the idea that we can all die at any time. No matter how rich, famous, good-looking, talented and young you are you could lose it all like THAT!!
It’s tragic.
Anyone who does’t think so has no heart.
Liv: It’s true, I walked past Heath’s apartment on accident the other day and there’s literally a SHITLOAD of flowers and candles. I couldn’t believe it. The collective money spent on all of that could’ve fed Africa for a month.
Me: It is sad that a young person lost his life. I think people are saying that the attention this has received in the media and all the speculation has gone too far. The Post’s headlines have been insinutating Mary Kate had a hand in his death, whichi is just ridiculous. It just perpetuates more drama instead of letting people have their moment of silence and move on. There are presidential primaries to worry about.
Look…it’s very sad that any young life has to end, be it to hunger, drug use, depression, anything. It’s sad to lose a young life to any reason, whether it be hunger due to social circumstances or to drug use or any other reason due to social and mental concerns. No matter what, Heath was a person, somebody’s son, and whether or not his death was somehow attributable to his own indirect hand, here was a person who had a lot to contribute to society (like all young deaths do) and we, to prevent future deaths. have to look at what happened. I look back at photos of River Phoenix, and I just think: it’s been 15 years. What else might he have done. What is so sad is, in 2023, we’re gonna be looking on the interweb and finding these pictures of Heath, and wondering: where did the time go; what might we have seen. No matter who he was, the loss of a young life, no matter what the circumstance, is tragic and wrong. RIP, Heath, River, and all the young lives, no matter how they were lost. That includes my BioMom, Ginny, age 15.
Michelle: This post is so old now it’s taken out of context of what was happening right when his death was released to the public. In the media it was 24-7 Heath coverage as if a death of a young celebrity was something new. Yes, it’s a tragedy, but I think it didn’t need to warrant as much media attention as it did. Mostly because, as usual, the media outlets were not addressing the right issues. A simple story and bio and move on, tastefully, would’ve done it. Is it a tragedy that he lost his life and left his family? Of course it is. Death is all about the survivors, and not really about the dead. Am I surprised? No. Are there many young lives lost wastefully everyday? Of course. I think people think that celebrities are somehow invincible. Ledger lead a fast life and though he received treatment, he was still struggling. I am not surprised when any celebrity or any person with that kind of history passes away but I am still sad about it. I do not know why people are commenting on this post NOW it must be linked somewhere, but it’s old.
Look, I think it is wrong to make fun of a person’s death, celebrity or not. I mean, how mean is that to make jokes about someone’s death?
It is sad that this has happened more than once in Hollywood. I must admit that I was upset about Heath because he was a good actor. I was also upset for River because he was also on his way to the top.
And now it seems like River’s name will come up again from all the talk about his alleged daughter coming out of the woodworks. I am sure this next year is going to be quite interesting…
We’ll pray for all this people!
God bless us and all!!!
Peace and love for this world!!!
Happy Birthday, River wherever you are now!!!
We always love and miss you!!!
Annie this is my first time writing at this website. And my last. You are immature. You are heartless and cruel. You,my lady, are a cunt! The death of Heath Ledger is a tragedy. I don’t care what you say. You can take your stupid little quips and shove them up your callous ass! I was moved by pictures of this man in his life and he gave us the performance of his career with his scary Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT. He was better than Nicholson. If one of your asshole friends were to die suddenly would you be so flippant? Shame on you! RIP Heath Ledger and BTW he will win that Oscar!
Tony A: Please read all the comments above and try to understand the original post and its context better before smearing this blog with your name calling and “your stupid little quips.” You are committing the same acts you are accusing me of.
I stand by my original statements so go fuck yourself.