R.I.P. Heath

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When I opened my email and found a message with the header "Heath Ledger found dead in New York" lurking in my Inbox, I hoped it was all a sick joke. But it's not and I feel far sadder than I've done with many celebrity deaths. Ledger was one of the very few twenty-something actors I cared about, and I was looking forward to him having a long and interesting career. Alas that it's not to be.

Brokeback Mountain aside, the Ledger movies I adore most are A Knight's Tale, with it's crazy anachronisms and splendid swashbuckling, and The Four Feathers, which takes a dated tale of English colonialism and makes of it something much more interesting.

As William Thatcher in A Knight's Tale


As Harry Faversham in The Four Feathers

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I kinda was a huge fan. I wouldn't see everything he did (I passed on the The Order, 'cause promising cast and director aside,it mostly looked atrocious) but I did see most things he did (even Casanova, which really, don't ever feel tempted.) But he did have such promise, and it was such a total waste.

I feel exactly the same as when River Phoenix died, the sense of sadness and loss combined with a frustration with the stupidity and waste of it all.