During Training Union hours, yesterday.
It is a tragedy Heath is no longer in this world. His brief role in Monster's Ball is haunting, the despairing relations with a prostitute that in some ways opens his heart to his black neighbors; then the Ledger character's suicide.
All of you should see the outtake in that movie where BBob Thornton does "The Last Walk" aftermath fist beating of the Ledger character in character of Karl Childers. It is hilarious dark humor.
Ledger had pneumonia and was takin meds. Jack Nicholson warned him about letting the Joker character overtake him.
Ledger had a child by an older woman when he was 17. Then his other dark, or outside the boundaries characters; he was prime to possibly become some kind of dark saint like Gabriel Byrne or Bruce Springsteen or Emily Lou Harris.
I don't think it was a suicide. He had gotten himself into an extremely fragile, vulnerable state of mind, like Christ did; and Martin Luther King, Jr in January of 1968.
Without the pneumonia, I think he would still be here. Would love to have him considered for something like the Billy character in One Foot in Eden. Could have been as remarkable as his other great roles.
Any fundamentalist who says Heath Ledger is burning in Hell; I think they are full of
The Christian Century review of Dark KNight should be fascinating.