So I come back to my office just before school lets out to find a crowd of kids around my computer.
"Uh.... what's up?" I said.
One of the kids points at the monitor. I look over and see a page on Yahoo news about Heath Ledger being found dead in an apartment in New York.
"No way..." I said. I sit down and start poking around the web. Fake. Gotta be. I figure if anyone had the news it would be IMDb (Internet Movie Database... one of my weaknesses). BUt IMDb had nothing. I spin my chair around.
"See... gotta be fake. Can't find anything anywhere else." I said.
"Well, Yahoo just posted the story like four minutes ago." Said one of the students.
I got back to IMDb and hit "refresh" Sure enough, a new story pops up in the news section: Heath Ledger found dead in New York apartment.
Now... what makes me blog about this is the fact that almost every kid who came in after that moment reacted the same way:
"Hey man... Heath Ledger just died."
"Aww dude... did they finish the new Batman movie?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Oh... okay.... whew."
Oh, poor Heath.....
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Although film insider Harry Knowles confirms that Ledger finished all his post work on "Dark Knight"--and you're right, it IS sad that it's the going reaction--it's important to note that Ledger had qucikly become known in the acting community for turning down a lot of roles he wasn't interested in. He was more about the art than he was about the fame and having work. If there's a lesson for artists in here somewhere, that may just be it.
That, and you need to be VERY aware of what you're putting in your body (this guy was getting so little sleep that TWO Ambien tablets would only last for an hour).
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