Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Shocking News:R.I.P. Heath Ledger

A slight buzzkill in relation to my last post is that as I was leaving Purchase they came on the radio announcing that Heath Ledger was found dead in his Soho apartment. He was 28. Police found pills by his bed, so the talk turns to death being caused by an overdose.

I don't know if that's true because no toxicology reports have been done. But if it is, it's shocking. The tabloids haven't been reporting that he was indulging in a Britney-like downward spiral or a Lindsay Lohan-like excess. He was a young family man with a two-year old daughter who is now fatherless.

My mind is making the comparison to Kurt Cobain only because I was in the car driving home when I heard he died. I wasn't as big a fan of Mr. Ledger as much as I was of Nirvana, but I can see that there was a lot of wasted potential in both cases. There was a lot of good years and good performances ahead of them, all taken from them by themselves. Tragic.

My heart goes out to his young daughter. She may be too young to remember he father. But at least she will be too young to understand the maelstrom of gossip and rumor that will spring up from his death. But I wish, for her at least, that it could have been different.

 



1 comment:

  1. I am shocked to hear the news of Heath Ledger's passing. Our prayers go out to his family and friends. I hope that his friends and family will be able to deal with the media's onslaught of atrocious news reporting that seem to follow young Hollywood today. He will be missed.



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