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Friday, January 22, 2010
Heath Ledger Died Two Years Ago Today
Yup: It was just two years ago that Heath Ledger died in New York City.
And a little less than a year since he won the Oscar as best supporting actor for his turn as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Matilda Rose Ledger, his daughter with Michelle Williams, turned four in October.
More photos of Heath Ledger >>
(Photos supplied by WENN)
Labels: Heath Ledger, Matilda Rose Ledger, Michelle Williams
Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 6:21 AM6 comments 
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Heath Ledger, Video Director
From rapper N'fa (a.k.a. No Fixed Abode), comes a music video for his song "Cause An Effect," directed by the late Heath Ledger, the actor who made 2008's The Dark Knight worth watching (parts of).Cause An Effect (remastered) - Directed by Heath Ledger
No Fixed Abode | MySpace Video
A link to N'fa's MySpace page is here. The Ledger-directed video is up front.
Also interesting is a short piece with N'fa talking about the making of the video.
Labels: Heath Ledger, No Fixed Abode
Posted by Mr. Hehn at 2:52 PM0 comments
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Weird New Images From Heath Ledger's Last Film
Heath Ledger was filming a movie when he died: not Batman but The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the latest hallucinatory (and typically cursed) project from Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam.How hallucinatory? New photos below.
The flick was described this way at Cannes:
Dr. Parnassus with his extraordinary travelling show "The Imaginarium" offers to members of the audience an irresistible opportunity to enter their universe of imaginations and wonders, by passing through a magical mirror. But Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr. Nick. Now it is time to pay the price.Tom Waits, incidentally, plays the Devil.
Ledger had the lead (but not the title role -- that's Christopher "Captain Von Trapp" Plummer) and his death threw the devil's monkey wrench into production.
Gilliam solved things by casting three actors to replace Ledger: Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. They share the role with Ledger, his character now a shape-shifter in the mode of Dr. Who and his many incarnations. The film's due out this fall.
An un-cursed aside: Depp, Farrell and Law donated their pay to Ledger's daughter Matilda.
See still more photos of Parnassus/Ledger.
(Images supplied by WENN.)
Labels: Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, Dr. Parnassus, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Posthumidity, Terry Gilliam
Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 7:39 AM1 comments
