January 22, 2008
Heath Ledger is dead. I’ve crushed on him since that movie Knight’s Tale which I have seen no less than nine hundred times. 10 Things I Hate About You was viewed almost as much, but I preferred him as a blonde. I’ve seen all of his movies and swooned over his interviews. More importantly - he was a Dad. To a baby girl around NikkiZ’s age. I probably shouldn’t be this sad over someone I don’t know, but some celebrities you follow for so long you begin to feel as though you know them. This is one of those times. So sad.
I have to say I’m very saddened by this too. I’m not one to really follow specific celebrities, but he was one of my favorites.
wow. This is really sad, and one that no one probably saw coming. I am in shock
I, too, was shocked when I saw this. I can’t say I’m a big fan, or that I was even all that familiar with his movies, but to be so young and to leave a small child behind….sad, sad, indeed.
I’ve loved him since Knight’s Tale and I sucked my breath in when I read this on breaking news….very sad.
I KNOW. I’m sitting here freaking out. Hubby told me when I woke up from my nap via IM. I wish it were a dream. I too really enjoyed him. “10 Things” was one of my favorite movies (still is). Damn. DAMN. This just really really sucks. Really. SUCKS.
I don’t really ever comment..but I had to say that I am SHOCKED!! I have called everyone I know like it was a family member! I really am so so saddened by this…that poor baby
I meant “baby of his”…I hit submit by accident!
I was really shocked by this and the first thing I thought of was his little girl. So sad…
I was shocked too. And what I find interesting is that in every article they mention that he was subletting his apartment from Mary Kate Olsen. Why is that important?
I’m with you - shocking and sad - especially if this does turn out to be suicide. he was only 28 years old. what a short life. its hard to understand. peace be with him and his family.
Oh, that’s so sad! He was in Patriot with Mel Gibson too.
I am totally shocked by his death. And it’s not even that he was one of my favorite actors, because he wasn’t (although, he was a brilliant actor). 10 Things I Hate About You is one of those movies I’ll always watch when it’s on TV (did you know that even though the setting was Seattle, 99% of it was filmed in Tacoma - where I lived at the time - during the summer of 98? I lived 2 blocks from the high school the filmed out and 4 blocks away from the house they filmed at). And I cried THE ENTIRE WAY through Brokeback Mountain, because gay or straight or WHATEVER, it is one of the the most achingly painful love stories of our time. The last scene where he touches the shirt? I was bawling. And I’m not ashamed to admit I cried a few tears today, too. Way too soon.
:*(
I put my favorite clip on my blog
I’m so sad, too. I just read this online while my son is playing nearby and I don’t know how to react. It just seems so senseless. I am really so sad because of leaving his daughter. How does one explain this to a two year old? Or any age for that matter…
Aardvark, don’t the Olsen’s own the while building? Still, I’m with you, I don’t understand why it’s important to even mention?
I always got the feeling that Heath was pretty high strung, but still. The odd part to me, 2 people called us to tell us about it. That’s crazy.
I know this sounds like a completely cliched thing to say, but what an utter shock. I read the news on a message board I sometimes post on, and I thought it was someone’s idea of a bad joke.
I feel the exact same way. I’ve watch A Knight’s Tale as many times as you, if not more. I am shocked and saddened. Even worse is that his baby girl won’t know him. So very sad.
I posted about this as well and felt kind of silly so I didn’t even go into any details.
*sigh*
Very Sad. There are always a few that you kind of expect to self destruct and others that catch you completely by surprise.
TMZ says he had pneumonia that he was trying to recover from.
It’s such a sad thing to hear about. I couldn’t have been more shocked and saddened.
I read on the t.v. “Heath Ledger dies.” It shocked me then I thought he dies in a role or something. Then they actually said it. Crazy. I couldn’t really care less about Anna Nicole, but this one was sad. Its also sad, because it doesn’t seem like an accident.
I read the news on CNN and my phone started filling up with text messages. It seems ridiculous to care so much about a celebrity, but I’m with you. “10 Things I Hate About You” is one of my favorite movies of all time. And then there’s “Brokeback Mountain,” of course. An amazing actor was lost, for sure.
I am so shocked! He really is one of my favorites (Sooo cute!) and I loved him in Knights tale and in Brokeback. And yes, his daughter is almost my son’s age, so that adds to it. It is just so sad, and he was so young…
I was really sad, too. I cried for Matilda. I even wrote a post about it, too; and I never do that.
KT is one of my favorite “make me feel silly anytime” movies!
I thought it was for a role that he was doing when I saw it. I figured oh his charcter dies, not him. It’s just crazy.
It is so unfair. He was hot.
i was embarrassed by how sad i felt when i saw this on cnn this afternoon…but, it just sucks. i can’t stand to think of his baby girl, or michelle–i know they had split up, but it must still be devastating to find out that your child has lost a parent. and then i imagined his family in australia, and what it must have been like to get a phone call like that.
it’s just very, very sad.
and, is it inappropriate to say he was hot? the world lost a little bit of beauty today, that much is certain.
I have also adored him since 10 Things I Hate About You. The part where he sings to Julia Stiles in the stadium? Or when he gives her the guitar? He was so cute (I also love the part where she is dancing to Notorious Big on the table and whacks her head and he has to take care of her). I am very saddened by his death and feel bad for Michelle Williams and little Matilda.
That sucks
Too many people have died lately, it seems.
Someone told me at band rehearsal tonight and I was like “don’t you dare joke about something like that”…but apparently it is true. How sad…:-/
I’m with you, completely shocked and saddened by this. Heath Ledger was one of my big-time high school celeb crushes (I looooved him in 10 Things I Hate about You), and for some reason I find myself far more affected by his death than I have been by other celeb deaths in the past. It doesn’t really seem real; I must be in denial.
I’m really upset. He was one of my favourite actors and it was totally unexpected.
My heart feels broken.
It is so so sad.
I feel for his family especially his daughter.
I am sad to think of who may be next…you have heard that they go in threes? (celebs?) Brad Renfro died just last week I believe….
I fell in love with him first when I saw Knight’s Tale, TOO! I even went out and bought it and become mildly obsessed with wathcing it because of him. It’s so sad. Espeically for his little girl; he clearly loved her very much.
Yeah, this one bummed me out too. So sad for his little girl.
Yeah, it was really sudden and unexpected. The mister and I had actually been talking about him lately, looking forward to seeing him in The Dark Knight. So sad.
It is very sad. I thought some of his best work was done in a completely horrific and depressing movie called “Candy”. His work there was stunning.
This one really got to me too : (
I keep saying the same thing–I shouldn’t be so sad about this but I’ve been watching him since 10 things and I just can’t believe he won’t make any movies anymore, he won’t be there for his daughter…and he was a year younger than me, his daughter just about the same age as our youngest…It’s just so sad. And you’re right, you watch someone that long and you feel like you know him. I watched A Knights Tale today and kept tearing up, for pete’s sake.
It sucks.