ADDIO...Farewell...Αντίο...Ennis...
Back*Heath Ledger 1979 - 2008 The actor, who has died aged 28, carried his roles off with commitment and true feeling, and is now likely to be known forever for his cowboy, Ennis Del Mar. On the very day of the Oscar nominations being announced for 2007, the Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment. Born in Perth, in Western Australia, Heathcliff Andrew Ledger would have been 29 this April 4th. First reports of his death mentioned drugs in evidence, but no one really knows enough yet to say anything except how great the loss is. Ever since he played Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot (2000), it was apparent that his striking handsomeness went hand-in-hand with high ambitions as an actor, courage in the roles he took and a fierce intelligence. He is likely now to be known forever for his cowboy, Ennis, in Brokeback Mountain, and it is possible with this early death that that story will be used to "explain" the man he was. So let us not forget that Ennis and Brokeback Mountain were brave choices for any actor, or that Ledger carried them off with commitment and true feeling. Viewers of both sexes found him attractive. He had an edge of humor or even self-mockery and he was clearly interested in troubled people. At his death he had just finished playing the Joker in a new version of Batman - The Dark Knight - and that may reveal fresh sides to what was a developing career. But he had played knights in armor and uneducated hicks (from A Knight's Tale to Monster's Ball). He had played Ned Kelly and Harry Faversham in The Four Feathers. He had been Casanova and Bob Dylan for a few minutes (in I'm Not There). If neither of the last two was a complete success, it didn't seem to be Ledger's fault. A young actor often relies on older, wiser heads to write his scripts and shape his pictures. And so Ledger joins the line of actors who died far too young which can be traced back through River Phoenix, James Dean and Rudolph Valentino. For good and ill, early death can lead to mystery which is in turn "answered" by a cult-like legend. We may yet have to hear a lot more about Heath Ledger than we care to believe. He may even be a role for some other promising young actor. The show business devours its own creations. But Heath Ledger had moments that will stand on their own and which helped to improve the audience. *Music: Puccini "The Death of Butterfly","Dangerous Moonlight" Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell,performed by the Belgian Radio Symphony Orchestra, piano soloist Peter Scholes.
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