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[ithildin]

You know how sometimes you have moments where you feel like you must be living in a cave or some remote foreign local? That's what it's been like since yesterday when Heath Ledger died. It's the topic on my f'list and on many of my email lists. I had absolutely no idea he was so popular. I'd heard of him, knew he was an actor, but that was about it. I checked IMDB to see if I'd ever seen any of his movies, but I hadn't. I've come across one other person who hadn't seen him before either. We must be sharing cave space.

It's very sad for his family, and I feel for his fans who are taking his death as such a blow.

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[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I felt that way in the supermarket this weekend, when I realized I didn't know any of the celebrities on the front of one of the tabloids. I couldn't say that about all of them, though, because Britney Spears was on most of them, and she's everywhere.

We just saw the big screen trailer for the new Batman film (in which Heath Ledger played the Joker) less than a week ago. The first thing I thought of, after feeling very sad for the waste of a young life and talent, and especially sad for his daughter, was how bizarre and eerie (in a Brandon Lee-dies-during-The Crow kind of way) this makes the thought of the Joker and the film itself. (I'd seen Ledger before in Monster's Ball and The Patriot, but this was what first came to mind.) My little sister, who is only a couple of years younger than he was, is a big fan. :(

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I know many of the names, but that's about it.

The new Batman movie will actually be something I'm going to see eventually. Probably on DVD, but I actually enjoyed the first one, which I'd only watched because Ken Watanabe was in it.