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[thehefner]

Twelve hours later. And I still have no cohesive nor eloquent response. Hell, I'm not even sure "cohesive" is the right word.

Maybe in the morning. For anyone who really cares.

Comments

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

?

[lairdofdarkness.livejournal.com]

I just heard at 7am this morning (Brit time so that would be around 1am for you guys - I think).
I am shocked
What a waste

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

*manlyhug*

[interdisciple.livejournal.com]

also with the ?

[recalcitranttoy.livejournal.com]

It totally sucks and I want to know what happened.

[bimmin.livejournal.com]

Heath Ledger's death.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Heath. It's weird that I should feel so bothered, which is part of the reason I still haven't pulled together all my thoughts.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Heath Ledger's death. Still can't quite wrap my brain around how I feel.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I should remember to use *manlyhug* when e-comforting my guy friends (and tougher ladyfriends).

[droidboy010101.livejournal.com]

You need not really say anything man... it's a bloody shame. Whether is was an accident or not, here will always be a question of "what was this guys potential? What else could he have achieved?"

I really do not care for the details, BUT.....

Another thing that morbidly jumped into my head, and I take no pleasure in this being witty or not... but here's another death involving an actor playing a comic book character that wears face makeup (the other being the Crow's Brandon Lee.) Lee was an obvious accident, this possibly not so much. Coincidence sure, but this is the second time before a much anticipated comic book film opened a lead actor has perished. I making no insiniations... just saying.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

No, I was thinking THE CROW as well. I'm right there with you. I've just been afraid to voice it adequately for fear of being tasteless or something.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

That is weird.
How are you doing NOW, John?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Well, the Tom Cruise parodies have helped. Also, the fact that I'm about to go to Seattle to plan for Hefner Monologues performances AND to try to woo my oldest crush, that has me in more energized and excited mindset.

[swimpenguin.livejournal.com]

Everytime I've gone to IMDB to look up something on other movies today, I keep flinching when I see the same headline on Heath's death over and over again. I don't want to say this but at least right now it feels like it won't be the same seeing the movie now. Like you and others said, it's The Crow all over again. I remember seeing him on this Fox show called Roar in the mid '90's and never ever thinking that this blond guy playing a Celtic warrior prince would floor me and amaze me with his acting skills (Monsters Ball, Brokeback, the trailer for Dark Knight.) And he seemed like a genuinely likable movie star-one who wanted to keep his private life private. Going off a quote from a favorite essay of mine, I mourn this about Ledger:
"When an artist dies young there is always talk of the paintings undone, the books unwritten, but that points to some imaginary storehouse of undone things and not to the imagination itself, the far richer treasure, lost. All of those works are the trail left behind, a path across time left as the sun leaves gold on the sea: you can see it but you can't ever pick it up. What makes us sweat from the sun here on earth is a fraction of the force the sun can bring to bear, and this is what this lost work is to us, these paintings in the apartment with him when died, unfinished: this is faint heat from faraway fire. What we lose with each death is like stars falling out of the sky and into the sea and gone. It is more than nothing that we have left, loss larger than nothingness; the something undone, the something that won't ever be done, remains unendurable to consider."