Heath Ledger

By adamg - 1/23/08 - 10:24 am

Local bloggers react to his death:

Victoria Welch writes this must be what it was like for people in their 30s and older:

... This is our first taste of what our contemporaries felt in 1955. 1970. 1971. 1993 and certainly 1994. Someone who assumed a place in the pop culture lexicon, someone we never knew but knew much of over a span of years, is suddenly gone. And while life hasn't been significantly altered, we'll wake up and go to our jobs and through our daily routines tomorrow, it's changed a little. There is a twinge of sadness for someone with whom we grew up. ...

Dan Miller counts down other artists dead of overdoses in their 20s:

... what is it about finding mega-hit commercial success and giving up on life in your late 20s?

Sad.

Lucy Starr: Shock:

... I think when older celebrities die, you have a moment of nostalgia for them and what they stood for. When young ones, like Heath Ledger, pass, you just sit there unable to believe it. He was younger than I was. He had so much more ahead of him and now it's gone and whether that was an accident due to an overdose or suicide, it's just such a waste and a loss. ...

02145: That was shocking:

... It still hasn't really cemented. It's so difficult for me to imagine why, if you've got everything going for your way, someone would ingest all those pills. ...

Supergirl: Holy shit:

Anyone who hasn't seen him in Brokeback Mountain and I'm Not There may not know what a loss this is for Hollywood.

Not to mention, you know, he was a father of a two year old, and he was only 28.

Armenian Eagle: I was shocked after hearing the news today that Heath Ledger was dead.

Howard: Well, this sucks.

Megorious: I wish I was making this up.

Riggs: True shame; he's one of the few younger actors I actually enjoyed, even in schlock like Knight's Tale and Monster's Ball.