Well from what I heard, he'd taken half a dozen different types of prescription drugs. Unless he was a little more slow on the uptake than I thought, he must have realised it would be bad for him. My money's on suicide.
Quote: "However I am / was looking forward to Dark Knight. I hope they don't cancel it's release."
Highly unlikely, unless he left them millions of dollars in his will to reimburse all their costs of making the film. Let's face it, famous suicides just add popularity in some circles; like all of the kids walking round in Nirvana t-shirts who weren't around when the band was actually famous but feel that by listening to someone who committed suicide before they were born, they are showing their integrity and inner turmoil.
Quote: "Somebody who is truly interested in the "art" and not wanting to become famous should stick to Broadway plays."
I like movies, but not really plays or musicals or anything else. Does that mean that if I wanted to become an actor but not have all the problems that fame brings, I would be forced to spend the rest of my life trying to get a job in assorted productions that I hate?
Quote: "Ideally speaking, I think it'd be better if Newspapers/the News talked less about death, I mean they give the viewpoint of a pessimistic and darker outer world, because most headlines tend to either be gossip or something bad has happened somewhere."
Do you not feel that it would be a little degrading to squeeze, say, a terrorist bombing, some other deaths, and major world conflicts onto one page in the middle so that people who want something cheerful to read don't have to reflect on what the world's actually like to distract themselves from happy stories about talented rabbits or spelling bees? The stuff that will mostly affect more people IS negative, I would say. I dislike the celebrity culture, and to be honest I couldn't care less about whatever's going on with Britney Spears at the moment, although I do think that the media is way to judgemental seeing as in a lot of these cases the problems are at least partly their fault, or at least exacerbated by their constant attention. I mean I heard someone on the other day defending an article their paper had published, saying they really wanted Amy Winehouse to get help. If you really care that much, try and send her a letter or something (though I doubt he'd have an impact if no-one else seems to). The best way to encourage someone to make something of themselves and sort their lives out is NOT to put pictures of them smoking crack on your front page.
Quote: "We shouldn't excerpt ourselves on absorbing other peoples misery, not Ledgers family, not the McCanns, not Britney-no-kids Spears.
People who cry over this need some reality in their lives."
Although I agree with you about people who cry about celebrity news, I don't think the McCanns deserve to be included in that list. Britney Spears had a good run, but has descended into her own problems, likewise Heath Ledger wasn't doing too badly for himself. On the other hand, the McCanns were on holiday when their child was abducted, and to be honest, probably killed (at best).
Also, on a side note;
Quote: ""a roadside bomb in Iraq killed 5 soldiers at a checkpoint today," "
I'm sorry, but you've got to admit that it's an occupational hazard of being in the army that you will occasionally get people who don't just want to sit down for a chat and a lovely warm cup of tea. Of course I feel sorry for the families, but it's not like it's not something they chose. I know people who are joining the army/air force etc. (mostly ex-girlfriend's brothers actually... kind of a weird pattern come to think of it...) and of course I would be upset if they died (seeing as they're people I know or have known reasonably well, as I have worked/gone to martial arts/etc with some of them) but I don't think it's as bad as, for example, a fatal car crash...
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