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| lady wakasa |
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| My coworker's telling me that Heath Ledger is dead, and the NYT is confirming it. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:54 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: inlareviewer wrote: Animated Feature: Persepolis
They were determined to do that, not matter what anyone else was planning. "You will be an animated feature nomination, no matter what you want."
Although I think it stands an excellent chance of winning. (I think.)
I'm a little bummed they couldn't even get Lust, Caution under Adapted Screenplay, but what are ya gonna do.
The failure of the Denzel campaign, the Weinstein push, the Into the Wild rally and various Disney/Fox/Groening strategies are telling. Sweeney's absence from the sound editing and mixing categories is a shame, and I just love how Atonement directed itself, just as La Linney apparently played opposite and around herself (but am thrilled to see her recognized, and Tommy Lee for Elah, and the Mmes Jenkins, Oliver and Polley, and certainly Viggo! -- though not a huge surprise, firmly placed in the ad wars for some time, The Scene being Buzz Fodder long before the film opened in the fall). The unseen DVD/What The Peeps Are Renting factors weighed heavier than ever. I mean, Norbit got an nomination.
Norbit. If that doesn't put it all in perspective, nothing can.
Plus, it's official: Cate Blanchett is Oscar's Darling and Hollywood's Designated Mrs. Gummer Successor, for while merely the publicity shots of her Dylan turn cemented that nom, it took more than Serious Professional Awe to overcome the piece of moldy cheesy rarebit that was the Elizabeth follow-up.
However, on the aggregate, am bemused to note, having been up since 3:30 today and answering the post-filing phones non-stop until now (with the brief pop-in to Blancheland for Cinematographic sentiment's sake), nobody in Hollywood, save for the nommed and non-nommed, and even to a degree, them, nobody is in anything like the usual Aclademy morning mode. In short, the town's finally awakened to what The Debacle told them about AMPAS. Yes, the producer/writer talks informally resumed today, but they resumed and disbanded in like fashion all last year. And there's a month to go before the show goes on, while the WGA is all too conscious of both their diminishing cachet and what a statement picketing the show would be , and Gil Cates' recent pronouncements about how, essentially, it's a TV show and there are 80 years of clips to cull from, have already sucked a great deal of enthusiasm for the rituals out of an already despondant Industry before this morning's basically ho-hum return to Eclectic Diaspora. When the movies that are cleaning up are things like Alvin and Cloverfield, nobody's much interested in The Veneer of Respectability. Not to mention the unsettled, already vacillating corresponding industries, like fashion and cuisine and gift-bag-fillers and many, many, many advertisers, who hardly would throw money at a Super Bowl Clip Show, so why should they rally around ABC if that's what the movie version of the Super Bowl is going to be? As seldom, real-life concerns of self-preservation are more immediately on the minds of Tinseltownians than self-celebration and the next career arc. The looming recession is another, and the front-loaded Presidential Gold Derby a third.
And the just breaking tragic news about Heath Ledger is shocking beyond all words to tell, as the all-too-familiar sensation of white paint descends on my brain from the inside.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:00 pm |
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| Man, what a shame-- I never would have guessed he'd be the next to leave. 28 years old.... |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:07 pm |
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Man, that is very shocking news... very sad. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:18 pm |
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421 Broome St. I think that is my uncle's old building where he had his smallwares wholesale. I worked there for a few months. If it is at the corner of Broome and Mercer that's his old building. Of course he sold it before the Soho explosion and didn't get a lot of money for it.
I only saw Ledger in Knight's Story (I'm not sure if that's the correct title) which I liked and I liked him too. |
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| Jynx |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:18 pm |
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Brad Renfro, Suzanne Pleshette and Heath Ledger. Two very, very talented young men and a beautiful legend.
I'm absolutely shocked about Ledger, he always stayed under the radar so I wasn't aware that he was into drugs. I know it hasn't been determined yet, but damn. What a horrid waste.
I never expect anyone young to die by thier own hand, it shocks and saddens me every single time. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:33 pm |
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Jynx wrote: Brad Renfro, Suzanne Pleshette and Heath Ledger. Two very, very talented young men and a beautiful legend.
As my mom used to say, "They all go in three's" |
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marantzo wrote: 421 Broome St. I think that is my uncle's old building where he had his smallwares wholesale. I worked there for a few months. If it is at the corner of Broome and Mercer that's his old building. Of course he sold it before the Soho explosion and didn't get a lot of money for it.
I only saw Ledger in Knight's Story (I'm not sure if that's the correct title) which I liked and I liked him too.
The word was that it was Mary-Kate Olsen's apt., but then maybe that's wrong. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:38 pm |
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That's my point chilly but, damn, Heath Ledger? How do these young talents go without notice? Now it's being written he had a substance abuse problem and people knew. As it was with Renfro ... doesn't anyone care enough to be around these people? Renfro's problems were known to the public, obviously most of the public didn't know about Ledger. Where are their friends and families?
Gads, I get yelled at for taking a something before I go into the mall (I totally freak out in wide open spaces like that) by my best friend.
Loved Renfro in The Cure and Ledger in Monster's Ball and, of course, Brokeback Mountain.
This makes my stomach hurt. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:41 pm |
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| Yeah that's what I read. They made all those old wholesales into condos and art galleries. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:46 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: The word was that it was Mary-Kate Olsen's apt., but then maybe that's wrong.
The updated NYT article is corrected, in that it was not Mary-Kate's apartment. |
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marantzo wrote: 421 Broome St. I think that is my uncle's old building where he had his smallwares wholesale. I worked there for a few months. If it is at the corner of Broome and Mercer that's his old building. Of course he sold it before the Soho explosion and didn't get a lot of money for it.
I only saw Ledger in Knight's Story (I'm not sure if that's the correct title) which I liked and I liked him too.
I saw him in Brokeback Mountain and Casanova on the same day. Also saw him in The Brothers Grimm and Monster's Ball.
Oh, and Knight's Tale too. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:03 pm |
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Jynx wrote: That's my point chilly but, damn, Heath Ledger? How do these young talents go without notice? Now it's being written he had a substance abuse problem and people knew. As it was with Renfro ... doesn't anyone care enough to be around these people? Renfro's problems were known to the public, obviously most of the public didn't know about Ledger. Where are their friends and families?
Gads, I get yelled at for taking a something before I go into the mall (I totally freak out in wide open spaces like that) by my best friend.
Loved Renfro in The Cure and Ledger in Monster's Ball and, of course, Brokeback Mountain.
This makes my stomach hurt.
I totally understand your frustration, but addiction is so insidious that all the common sense in the world doesn't make a bit of difference until the addict bottoms out. For some, unfortunately, the bottom is six feet under. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:15 pm |
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billy, i was watching intervention the other night and the couselor said something that made me think. he said "sometimes the addict's bottom isn't there bottom, it's your bottom. if it's enough to get them into rehab maybe it's enough to make them see the damage they're doing."
very insightful, maybe going to get everyone to just shut up will do it. with any kind of addiction, something has to be better than nothing. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:29 pm |
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| This site has clips from the animated shorts up for the Oscar. I like the look of Peter and the Wolf, which combines stop-motion animation and CGI, . I Met the Walrus is visually striking and I think I'd really hate it. Can't really tell about the other three. I always enjoy tracking down the full-length versions of these. |
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