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OK—our hyperventilating has died down to the point where we were able to learn some more details surrounding (can't believe we are typing this) Heath Ledger's death. The NY Times's City Room blog reports:
The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28.At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said.
The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger's bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities. The police said they did not suspect foul play. Officials said pills fear found near the body.
Defamer associate editor Molly Friedman was just blocks away from his home when the news broke. She'll be posting her eyewitness account momentarily, along with some video taken at the scene.
- Actor Heath Ledger Is Found Dead [NY Times]
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Stay away from the drugs, kiddos. Sad.
apartment owned by mary-kate olsen...
That's going to be the creepiest Joker performance ever.
For what ever reason, when I hear pill OD I think suicide, while street drug OD makes me think accident. Who would have known he was a user.
:(
i was well aware of heath's drug problems but who the fuck knew he wouldn't last longer than all the other drug abusers.
NYT is saying police say it looks like a suicide.
Regardless, this is devastating. My heart aches for his loved ones.
@NoWireHangers: I think that too. Man. I'm still in shock. He was so talented. What a fucking waste.
@pumpkinsoup: Drugs don't have a mind and life and arms of their own. The guy was clinically depressed. It's called mental illness. It's not the devil drugs coming to kill our chillins. It's a celebrity culture that hounds someone's every waking moment, that fetishizes emotional problems, and then somehow is shocked when people get flattened by the steamroller.
And at this very second, 40 million kids (a certain percentage of whom are clinically deluded to one extent or another) are making a YouTube video or a song for MySpace hoping against hope to catch their own ride under that magical sparkly steamroller someday...
It's called fame, people. The drugs are the arm or leg or whatever, but fame is the heart of the matter. Okay, enough muddled metaphors. Back to your regularly scheduled after-school special armchair drug condemnations.
@swallowyourhalo:
well said.
Blimey, wow and OMG. How very sad.
Why the hell was he on barbiturates but not antidepressants, if he was depressed? I feel so sad for his daughter.
After Brad Renfro and now Heath, the inevitable question begs to be answered; who's going to be the third under-30 to go?
very, very sad. Me thinks his Brokeback perfomance will now reach legendary status (and well-deserved - his breatihing alone made me cry in that movie).
@hack-a-rific: He should have won the Oscar for that role. It was devastating.
So so sad. His career was really starting to get interesting and to see it cut short is a shame. His passing along with Brad Renfro's is so tragic. Here's a recent interview of Heath talking about death and his own mortality.
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