If you’ve been on the internet today or flipped on E! you probably have heard this so i won’t go into too much detail. But basically Heath, actor from “Brokeback Mountain”, was found dead in his apartment in New York. And he is only 28 years old, but done very well in his career in that short time. What we know is that there were some prescription sleeping pills nearby. I kinda wish they waited to release that information so people won’t think he was a drug addict because in some blog posts all I read were drugs were found nearby, not prescription sleeping pills. Some people might not read a fallow up and will always think he did drugs and died of an overdose. Also since it was released to the media swarms of reporters/photographers went to his apartment building and probably pestering people with their thoughts but I do hope they can back down from people who want to be left along during this time especially the one’s close to him.
And for the ones who knew Heath was the joker in the upcoming new Batman movie to be released later this year, well it finished filming awhile back so there shouldn’t be too much interruption with that. But I’m sure they will do something special with it. But I’m wondering what “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the current movie he was working on, is going to do now that he is gone. Hopefully they can figure something out.
And for those still trying to remember who this guy is well if you ever watched “The Patriot” as Mel Gibson’s son, “Casanova”, and of course “Brokeback Mountain”.
Also not only is he getting press from the basics, he was getting a lot of love from the people of Digg. His story just makes it to the front page and almost instantly gets a thousand diggs, also makes it to the top story of the day and probably one of the most dugg stories on digg ever. And right now it is at 11k+ Diggs!
Update: Now it has 15k+ diggs, wow.
He will be missed and never forgotten, and we should take a moment for those who were taken by surprise and those close to him that they can get through this time.
Tags: actor, heath ledger
I think it’s kinda funny how you first refer to him as “actor from brokeback mountain”…