HEATH LEDGER ❧❧ TONIGHT WILL BE FINE ❧❧ TEDDY THOMPSON

I am still not happy with my newest upload to youtube. You can never know how it will compress and show up on youtube, so I have some glitches that I have tried to resolve, but so far they haven't resolved. And now I don't want to lose the viewer count that I have. But, having lived with me my whole life, I know me. I won't quit trying. But in the meantime, I post the text here that is at youtube, then I post the embed for now at the large size and the small size. Eventually I will delete the large size here because it doesn't fit the blog.

EDIT to original post❧

The videos on this particular post are not public at Youtube, but unlisted. I believe I have resolved one of the glitches. The public video at Youtube, still has the glitch, but it also has a prominent placement on the day and week listings under "Heath Ledger" and a respectable viewer count.

Teddy Thompson sings Leonard Cohen's song

❧ Tonight Will Be Fine ❧

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past.
We swore to each other then that our love would surely last.
You kept right on loving, I went on a fast,
now I am too thin and your love is too vast.

But I know from your eyes
and I know from your smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
the windows are small and the walls almost bare,
there's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.

But I know from your eyes
and I know from your smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me,
she's the soft naked lady love meant her to be
and she's moving her body so brave and so free.
If I've got to remember that's a fine memory.

And I know from her eyes
and I know from her smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

❧ Support the artists ❧

❧ Movies in Tribute ❧

Roar

The Patriot

Brokeback Mountain

Candy

The Four Feathers

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Order

Movie quotes from

Casanova

The Order

Charlie Rose interview

Two Hands interview

Candy Press Conference Berlin

I’ve learned a lot in a very short time. In the end the only secret people keep is immortality. from the script of The Order (aka The Sineater)

In the end the only thing that will matter is how we treated one another. Sandra Hammel

Text at Youtube ❧

Brokeback Mountain is banned from USA viewers for me. Therefore, I captured images from the movie to be able to include it in the tribute. Please, support musicians Leonard Cohen and Teddy Thompson.

I want to thank all the creative and hard working people who presented us with these wonderful movies, the TV series of Roar, the stories, the scripts, as well as the wonderful interviews with Heath. I didn’t include all of my favorite scenes in this one tribute and certainly not all my favorite interviews. Impossible in a short video. However, it was thoroughly rewarding to work on this labor of admiration and love. And it amuses me each time I watch this and it comes the place where Heath is in the interview where he is trying to avoid answering questions about his personal love life. (2:17 – 2:24)

The music can be purchased at amazon

and at itunes

Heath Ledger movies can be purchased at amazon

Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better"

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Roar ❧ If you like looking at Heath Ledger, this is a must see because the camera is on his face just the way it should be – up close. A blog post about Roar ❧TV series must see

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Darfur and Sudan

To sign the petition to President Obama ~

The letter ❧

On January 9th, Southern Sudan will hold its independence referendum. Both North and South are preparing for war, leaving civilians at grave risk of major human rights violations.

I commend your administration for being engaged, but I hope you can do much more to help support peace in Southern Sudan and Darfur. I'm supporting you to do all you can to help avert a terrible conflict there.

Specifically, I hope you can do more in three areas:

1. Peacemaking: Intensify our support for the North/South peace process and dispatch a senior diplomat to revitalize the Darfur peace effort.

2. Protection: Focus the post-referendum UN peacekeeping mission on civilian protection, particularly in border areas where civilians are most vulnerable to conflict and rights violations.

3. Pressure: You have said there will be benefits for peace and consequences for war. These should be big enough to get the attention of the Sudanese or they won't matter.

Sincerely,

My letter is posted here

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DEL POTRO MAKING THE ROUNDS ON USA TV

Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro on Charlie Rose after winning the US Open

The entire September 15 interview will be on Charlie Rose's website for a short time.

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Here is a 3:14 portion of the interview.
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Del Potro on Regis and Kelly

US Open Championship Ceremony
Thanks to quierover1234 - here is the Spanish
Del Potro said... "I want to say thanks to my team, the truth is that without them this would be very difficult to achieve. To all Argentinians in here (people shouting) and specially to my mom, my dad, to Julieta, to my grandfathers and to all my friends, the people who support me all the time, this is for you."

Championship Match Video

Click post title to go to pictures of Juan Martin Del Potro.

My complaint is I couldn't find the championship match on CBS as was promised. And that once I called and complained to my local CBS station, I was informed the match was on another channel. But the match was jumping from one TV station to another throughout the match - without warning. Name another sport that network TV would disrepect so much and do this. Ridiculous.

CBS Complaint line: 212-975-4775

CAN'T HELP BUT BE PULLED TOWARD HEATH LEDGER'S WORK

I haven't seen all of Heath Ledgers films but of those I have seen my favorite is The Four Feathers... and Brokeback Mountain and A Knights Tale are my next favorites. I love the special features on the dvds, especially those on A Knights Tale. I have many more to see.

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Harry's Journey from The Four Feathers
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Heath Ledger as Harry Faversham in "The Four Feathers" is remarkable, and this video is a tribute to the soul-searching, fear-facing, courageous journey Harry took into the Sudan to find himself and his inner-strength.

His "return to himself" is a line in Return To Innocence - a song by Enigma, which is used with this video .
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I have been recommending The Four Feathers to friends, strangers and my doctor. I loaned my copy out today to someone who has been having a hard time finding it to rent. In my state you can get dvds from any library in the state for free. Once I passionately love a movie I buy it at amazon.com Even if I can record them from TV, I want the dvds because of the special features. Love the special features.

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The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 1
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The special features of The Four Feathers are awesome. Shekhar Kapur has done a tremendous job directing this movie. A lot of wisdom is contained in this film and these clips give a pretty good indication of the sheer depth of it.
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The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 2
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A lot of wisdom is contained in 'The Four Feathers... Shekhar Kapur beautifully explains some of the deeper meanings...
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The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 3
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The special features of The Four Feathers are awesome. Shekhar Kapur has done a tremendous job directing this movie. A lot of wisdom is contained in this film and these clips give a pretty good indication of the sheer depth of it.
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The Four Feathers - One of many Special Features - Part 4
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Music video montage with pics from The Four Feathers movie and song Mea Culpa by Enigma
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Heath Ledger Parts of 60 Minutes (Australia) 2001 interview
Tara Brown interviews Heath Ledger.
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Charlie Rose with Heath Ledger
in In Memoriam
on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 7 minutes. I posted the hour long interview on Charlie Rose with Ang Lee and Heath Ledger regarding the film Brokeback Mountain on my previous post. This post's video takes portions of the hour long interview as a memoriam to Heath.

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When Day is Done by British singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Heath wanted to make a movie about Nick Drake, who died in 1974 at the age of 26. He developed a posthumous cult following. During the productions of The Dark Knight, Heath had created a music video based on one of Drake's songs, Black Eyed Dog

Drake suffered from depression, insomnia and Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, an anti-depressant. This information was taken from the current cover story of Vanity Fair (August 2009), page 134, first column.

I am not sure if this video is the one Heath did. In the comments at Youtube PlasticPunkDoll says that this is basically it, except adds this comment: "The ending is different because Heath ends up drowning himself in a bathtub. They've only shown it publicly twice, so this is the best you'll get right now."

Lyrics

A black eyed dog he called at my door
The black eyed dog he called for more
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog he knew my name
A black eyed dog
A black eyed dog.

I'm growing old and I wanna go home
I'm growiing old and I don't wanna know
I'm growing old and I wanna go home.

A black eyed dog he called at my door
A black eyed dog he called for more

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Nick Drake - source: wikipedia

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, melodic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has grown steadily in stature, to the extent that he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.^[2][3][4]

Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. By 1972, he had recorded two more albums—Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. None of the albums sold more than 5,000 copies on their initial release.^[5] His reluctance to perform live or be interviewed further contributed to his lack of commercial success. Despite this, he was able to gather a loyal group of fans who would champion his music. One such person was his manager, Joe Boyd, who had a clause put into his own contract with Island Records that ensured Drake's records would never go out of print.

Drake suffered from depression and insomnia throughout his life, and these topics were often reflected in his lyrics. Upon completion of his third album, 1972's Pink Moon, he withdrew from both live performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. On 25 November 1974, Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old.

Other songs by Nick Drake

Pink Moon

River Man

Place to Be
Lyrics
When I was younger, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older see it face to face
And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place.

And I was green, greener than the hill
Where the flowers grew and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be.

And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day is done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you.

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Heath Ledger - Rare behind the scenes video
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Rare videos and pictures from behind the scenes of the music videos Heath directed as well as footage of Heath fooling around, surfing, talking to camera and playing in the pool with Matilda. A beautiful video.
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Tribute to Heath Ledger on what would have been Heath's 30th birthday this year.
April 4th 2009

Click on this post's title to go to my favorite memoriam tribute to Heath Ledger on Youtube.

Events in Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger's lives

FEDERER, NADAL, McENROE ON CHARLIE ROSE

If you like Roger Federer or you like Rafael Nadal or both, you must see this interview on Charlie Rose with the link below. Rose doesn't keep these interviews on his web page for long, so see it now. I actually liked Roger in this interview and for me that is new. John McEnroe talks about Roger floating across the court like Misha Barishnokov. Courier agrees his movement is like an ice skater. I have before written that Roger moves like a ruby-throated hummingbird.

But this interview includes Rafael Nadal a lot too. And watching him in the interview changes nothing about how I feel about Rafa. The affection for him as a passionate tennis player and his movement on the court to me which is also like a dancer reign supreme in my preferences for who I adore watching. Anyway, take a look and enjoy. It's a delicious treat to take in.

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/09/03/a-discussion-about-tenniw-professional-roger-federer

I like to watch basketball and tennis. Probably would like soccer too if I knew anything about how it is played. The reason I love these sports is that there is grace of a dancer included in the sport. And the requirement of the mind to be able to think quickly, assess quickly and come up with the moves to make it work. It is beautiful. And bodies are a beautiful gift to the eyes. But movement of the body is even more beautiful than a body that is still.

Dancing is the best for me. And tennis has dance moves as a part of the game.

I repeat though that Rafael Nadal has it all. a colorful, dynamic and humble personality that also shows pride, great game and his body is a wondrous thing. He's fun to watch.

Vamos, Rafa!