Damn, first Brad Renfro and now Heath Ledger? It's just not right, losing young talent, young lives, like this.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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SailAweigh - Jan 22, 2008 12:26:24 pm PST #3552 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Kate P. - Jan 22, 2008 12:30:25 pm PST #3553 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh my god, that's awful.
P.M. Marc - Jan 22, 2008 12:31:36 pm PST #3554 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I do feel awfully selfish, grieving for a stranger this way. But, like many here (hi Jars!) I've loved watching him since way back when and felt such gratification when he blew up all over the place.
Yes, this.
Kevin - Jan 22, 2008 12:31:42 pm PST #3555 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I'd imagine those Why So Serious? posters will come down pretty sharpish.
Liese S. - Jan 22, 2008 12:32:21 pm PST #3556 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup. I loved him in ROAR, too. I was a sucker for that sort of show.
I think celebrity grieving is a difficult topic. Of course it's strange and offputting for the family to have a whole whack of people grieving that don't know him at all. But with artists, they put so much of themselves out there for us to consume, I think it's natural for us to feel the loss.
It's perfectly all right to grieve.
Lee - Jan 22, 2008 12:33:15 pm PST #3557 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It's really not my place to grieve, but he did his job well enough that I do.
Yes, this.
askye - Jan 22, 2008 12:33:17 pm PST #3558 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I'm really upset too and sadden. He was so talented and he was one of the actors that I liked to read about it.
If it is suicide,that's what it sounded like they were hinting at, I hope people don't say cruel things. Sometimes they do, saying oh he was selfish or how could he. Which isn't really cruel, but. I'm so sad for him and Michelle Williams and his little girl.
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2008 12:38:27 pm PST #3559 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think celebrity grieving is a difficult topic. Of course it's strange and offputting for the family to have a whole whack of people grieving that don't know him at all. But with artists, they put so much of themselves out there for us to consume, I think it's natural for us to feel the loss.
Yeah, I was thinking, you know, people die all the time, in worse ways, even younger, and we don't really feel the hit. But with artists...well, you put it very well, thanks.
Amy - Jan 22, 2008 12:42:45 pm PST #3560 of 10000
Because books.
Yeah, I'm really shaken up. It came out of nowhere. Like JZ, I was expecting to see him in so much more post-Joker. It's crazy.
So much this.
Nutty - Jan 22, 2008 12:43:09 pm PST #3561 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think it's similar to what happens when politicians die in plane crashes (which they seem to do disturbingly often). People lard their hopes or imaginations into the human figure, and have to mourn the "death" of that imagination as much as they mourn the death of the real person whom they never met.
My coworkers in 2004, who had never even lived in the same state as Paul Wellstone (and thus didn't have direct reasons to lard their hopes into him), flipped their lids when he died.