❧❧❧ Whatever you can do or dream, you can BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe ❧❧❧
❧❧❧ You were born whole, not broken. Sandra Hammel ❧❧❧
Johanna has done it again. She has created a tribute for Heath Ledger that is "other worldly". This is the time of year when Heath left this earthly existence and many of us think of that day in January when he slipped into the sleep of sleeps.... ........................................................................
........................................................................ By jopicca Himmlisch ~ Heavenly Hervorragend ~ Superb
This is best watched at youtube where you can enlarge the screen and also watch it in 1080 p. To do that just double click on the video.
Heath Andrew Ledger April 4, 1979 to January 22, 2008
imdb Bio can be found by clicking the post title
I feel Johanna is so talented and offers Heath and his fans such wonderful tributes.
.............................................. Ever since I saw a video tribute made to Heath Ledger with this song, I Hope You Dance by Lee Womack, I have loved the words to the song. This tribute to Michael Jackson is also very fitting with this song, here sung by Gladys Knight. Uploaded by 4maxmeadows
Click the post title to find another I Hope You Dance tribute to Michael Jackson.
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder You get your fill to eat But always keep that hunger May you never take one single breath for granted God forbid love ever leave you empty handed I hope you still feel small When you stand by the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance I hope you dance I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance Never settle for the path of least resistance Living might mean taking chances But they're worth taking Lovin' might be a mistake But it's worth making Don't let some hell bent heart Leave you bitter When you come close to selling out Reconsider Give the heavens above More than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance I hope you dance Time is a real and constant motion always I hope you dance Rolling us along I hope you dance Tell me who I hope you dance Wants to look back on their youth and wonder Where those years have gone
I hope you still feel small When you stand by the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance Dance I hope you dance I hope you dance
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 wasthoroughly 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)
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
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.
I revisited The Four Feathers - a favorite Heath Ledger movie of mine. I am repeatedly amazed at how young he was when The Four Feathers was being shot...and how impressed I am with his ability to make me want to simply watch him. Short life, long on talent and genuineness.
I love this version of a Venice interview with Heath Ledger. It is uploaded by Jadranko23 No embed was available. So click your way to youtube.
It is a great job by the interviewer. Heath absorbs the essence of the interviewer in my mind and out comes a reflection of how authentic he feels that person is. It shows in every interview I have watched of him. Heath's comfort level is transparent - when he senses the interviewer's authenticity, honesty and thoughtfulness - he loses some of his discomfort and nervousness that crops up with an interviewer that doesn't provide that grounding or platform to express.
..................................................... Uploaded by my friend Johanna - jopicca—June 18, 2010 Text of jopicca A short video with (some rare) pictures and screenshots of Heath Ledger. The title of the song is Sleep by Poets of the Fall, from the album Signs of Life.
..................................................... ..................................................... Uploaded by TinyTinkebell—June 13, 2010 Text of TinyTinkebell Heath Andrew Ledger (DOB 4th April 1979) very rare photos from start to finish. I thought I'd use a more upbeat song this time.
All my worries help me put the past behind All around us this worlds in a hurry While we stand still in time Feels like we're moving to the rhythm of the music, When we're together Everything just comes together, baby So inspired by the movement We can't lose it
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Read it in full ...............................................................
............................................................... John Gorka sings I Think of You Especially for Johanna. Johanna has helped me get to know Heath Ledger and his work. She introduced me to Heath's Conor of the Roar Series.
In this video is a clip of Johanna's favorite movie of Heath's - Candy and also a bit of my favorite, The Four Feathers, as well as a clip of the Sweet Bright episode of Roar (or so it is titled on my dvd - I think it should be titled Sweet Bridget) and pictures of Brokeback Mountain, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath's final film) and The Patriot.
Youtube has made this video a "featured video" under two categories as of today: ilovemylife and Heath Ledger.
Johanna has become my friend. June 1st was an important day to her and this video is a tribute to her and this important day when her father passed away.
This is best watched at youtube, where you can select to watch it in the size of your screen. (Lower right corner of yt video - the four cornered arrows....just click on that.)
Used in this video: Candy, Roar, The Four Feathers and also pictures from The Patriot, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Brokeback Mountain.
I encourage supporting John Gorka who graciously said "yes" when I asked him if I could use his music on my youtube videos. johngorka.com His music is also available at itunes and amazon.
Lyrics I look to see the wildflowers blooming and wonder why they seem so plain Springtime rides all the brown hills over, young birds sing in the silver rain I think of you as the night rolls by, you’re on my mind the whole night through
Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you And when my world has turned to sunlight, and the dust clouds stand in the summer sky I’ll number all the climbing roses, watch to see the milkweed fly I think of you as the night rolls by, you’re on my mind the whole night through
Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you And when I hear the soft wind moaning, like an angel’s voice from a far-off shore My days slip by like light snow falling, or dry brown leaves blown by my door I think of you as the night rolls by, you’re on my mind the whole night through Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you
.......................................................... How I Got Over Mahalia Jackson The video quality needs to be overlooked - but this is great, nevermind the flaws in the video. Uploaded by elfeco
My dad loved this kind of music. And so do I. We had Mahalia's LP and I loved playing it on the record player when I was young. I bought Mahalia's music on cd and it still affects me, today. I was singing along with this song in the car yesterday...one great car ride on a beautiful ride over the Newport-Pell Bridge over Narragansett Bay here in Rhode Island.
A click on the post title will take you Kahlil Gibran'sFriendship
Lyrics: Your smile reminds me so much of me. Your laughter fills my heart. Your playfulness in everything you do. I never feel apart from you. I'm sorry that I couldn't be there to catch you when you fall, to be there for it all.
Chorus My Mattie, oh I love you baby. My Mattie, you are the diamond in my world. If you ever wonder how I feel, just look up in the sky. The star that shines the brightest is my love for you. Just know your daddy always thinks about you all the time. I'll always love you. You're my little girl.
If you ever want someone to listen, just know I haven't disappeared. Whenever that you need me, just know that I'll be there to take away your tears, to listen to your hopes and dreams, to help you find your way. I'll be near you every day.
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Heath Ledger's Mom & Sis On Young Matilda - "She's Full Of Energy Like Her Dad"
I found the Interview including with Heath Ledger's mom and sister talking about 5 year old young Matilda - video with Heath's mother and sister talking....I found the comments interesting, including what Sally Bell said about Matilda, "she's quite amazing, I'm really surprised every day that I see her, she's polite (the article states this as "she's got light") and Kate added "she's full of energy". Sally, "full of energy like her dad.....I see a lot of similarities - both. I hope that Michelle's getting ready for all that...the energy." Posted on May 14, 2010
Also, Sally said: "It's a great honor that they're bestowing on Heath, having a scholarship in his name.... I think it's just amazing, the sponsorship that's gone into it, the generosity of people.”
Some of the brightest talents from the outback hit the red carpet for Australians in Film's 2010 Breakthrough Awards at the Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills Thursday night, and RadarOnline.com was there to catch all the happenings on a night the late, great Heath Ledger was honored with a scholarship in his name.
Many in attendance, such as Australians In Film spokeswoman Sophie Scarf, praised the late star of The Dark Knight for the “incredible generosity” he displayed to his countrymen.
"He's housed hundreds of Australian actors," she said. "His house in LA was almost like a halfway house."
Ledger died at the age of 28 in January 2008 from an accidental overdose of prescription pills.
''Can I get you something?'' asks Heath Ledger, star of ''A Knight's Tale'' (in theaters May 11). ''Do you want some water? A Diet Coke?'' Yes, you heard right: EW.com goes to meet the Australian actor, 22, who isn't just ONE of the selling points for the summer comedy cum Middle Ages jousting saga, he's THE selling point -- and suddenly we've stumbled into an episode of ''Twilight Zone'' scripted by Miss Manners -- or maybe the editors of TigerBeat. Expectation: big star attitude. Reality: He's the perfect host.
Even so, there may be a few benighted moviegoers who don't yet recognize Ledger's name. But by now, even these people (peasants!) have seen his face -- on billboards, TV ads, magazine covers. The actor's been on the rise ever since his attention grabbing role as Mel Gibson's rebellious son in ''The Patriot.'' The same studio, Sony/Columbia, is also behind ''Knight,'' which just happened to be in production in Prague when Ledger's ''Patriot'' hit theaters. So an ensemble story about a wannabe knight and his friends has been transformed, if the splashy poster is to be believed, into a story about a guy who ''will rock you.''
Yet his ''Knight'' costars say the actor hardly notices the furor. ''He's walking around with a $40 million plus film on his shoulders like he's been doing it all his life,'' says Paul Bettany, the English actor who plays Geoffrey Chaucer (yes, the famous one) opposite Ledger's aspiring knight who transcends class to become a champion jousting stud. ''I just have to laugh at those posters, though'' adds Bettany. ''They make him look so butch.''
Butch enough to best an box office juggernaut like ''The Mummy Returns''? Ledger doesn't seem worried -- unless it's about you being thirsty while he talks about the knight life. (Um, we'll take that glass of water, thanks.)
You've said that when you tried out for your first U.S. role, in the Fox TV series ''Roar,'' you were a wreck. Are you more confident now? No! I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense. You're so aware that you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from this lady with a piece of paper who's going, ''I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't. Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless voice. It's foul. I hate it.
You've played a modern Petruchio in ''10 Things I Hate About You,'' a knight, a soldier. What's your role in ''The Four Feathers,'' with Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson, like -- another big adventure? Any child that would dream of being this character would be twisted. He's accused of being a coward. He's not. But society deems him one, because he hands in his resignation the night they're going off to the Sudan to fight.
Yet this is something like the fifth remake of the classic wartime coming of age story -- it's a story about courage, isn't it? It's very cool. The director, Shekhar Kapur (''Elizabeth'') is brilliant. Shakhar, shaky. Salt shaker. He's an intense man, demands a lot from you, 24 hours, seven days a week without fail for the entire shoot, total commitment. So your head is just FRIED, but it's worth it. Four months in Morocco! I didn't get a day off on the whole shoot.
You, not Mel Gibson, were on the cover of Vanity Fair when ''The Patriot'' came out. How has life been different since then? I was really slapped with the change when I went back home for two weeks. My hometown, Perth, is tiny -- 2 million people -- and it's the most isolated city in the world. So it's a big deal if you're from there and you're in this industry. It was a shock. Every move I made was written down and documented and released the next day on the front page of every f---ing paper. You kind of want to feel that if there's one place in the world that is always the same, it's your hometown or the town you grew up in. And it's gone now.
How do you deal with intrusive people? You have to find the comedy in it. People around me don't realize how funny their reactions to me are and how funny everyone else is. Last night in New York, I went out to some bar and this big dude came up to me and stands like THIS close to my face shouting, ''ARE YOU HEATH LEDGER, ARE YOU HEATH LEDGER, ARE YOU HEATH?'' over and over and over again, until I was like ''Yes!'' And then he was like, ''WERE YOU IN 'THE PATRIOT'?'' Really obnoxious. So I just turned around to him and explained, like I do all the time, ''What would you think if just a complete f---ing stranger comes right up to you and gets in your face?'' Regardless of who it is, there's no excuse. If someone's an asshole, they're an asshole. I don't tolerate it. I'm polite about it. But I don't tolerate it.
Other actors say that being a celebrity is like becoming public property. True? Exactly. It's like you're eating dinner in a restaurant and someone asks if they can take a photo with you and you explain, ''No, I'm out relaxing, I'm not working.'' And they're looking at you like, ''But... what? Aren't you just like that chair over there? I can take a photo of that chair. It's mine! It's ours!'' Whatever. I'm not really that bothered about it, I guess. I'm just talking about it because you asked.
Heath Ledger will always remember the day he saw the poster for A Knight's Tale. The young Australian actor, who made a splash in the U.S. costarring in last summer's The Patriot, was in London working 18-hour days on the period adventure Four Feathers when the one-sheet arrived. There he saw his own eyes, larger than life, staring back at him, with the words ''HE WILL ROCK YOU'' emblazoned below his steely face. And he realized the advertising blitz for a $40 million enterprise would be all about...him.
''I got really nervous. I think I started shaking,'' recalls Ledger, who, months later, is clearly still uncomfortable with being the focus of Columbia Pictures' marketing campaign. ''Sure, the story is based around this knight's character, but it's about a group of people. It's an ensemble piece -- it always was....It was like, F -- -! I've done all this work, but ultimately, these guys are making decisions that could either really make or break my career. And it's out of my hands.''
Heath Ledger, welcome to superstardom. Whether he likes it or not, A Knight's Tale, about a British commoner who impersonates a master jouster, has been positioned as a teen-idol-making vehicle for Ledger, akin to what William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet was for Leonardo DiCaprio in 1996. Like that film, A Knight's Tale is a classic story featuring anachronistic flourishes -- in this case contemporary music and dialogue -- that's targeted squarely at younger audiences. And although Ledger perceives the movie as an ensemble piece -- his character, William Thatcher, does have a ragtag band of buddies -- the 22-year-old actor is the face on the billboards, trailer, and TV ads. And then there's that poster.
Which isn't to say Ledger isn't deserving of the attention. As Thatcher (and his royal alter ego, Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein), he sings, dances, romances, and, of course, jousts. And the studio is banking on the hope that in two-plus hours, a new Leo -- or at least a new action hero -- just might be born.
Columbia execs have no problem admitting that they're pinning one of their two summer tent poles (the other being July's Julia Roberts romantic comedy, America's Sweethearts) on Ledger's hunky mug. ''We went through various choices [for the poster],'' says Jeff Blake, the studio's president for worldwide marketing and distribution. ''But I gotta admit, when it came to putting a head of armor on that image, it just didn't seem like a good idea.''
Indeed, even the film's writer-director feels the role fits Ledger like a metal glove. ''In the movie he plays that character, but he's also playing Heath Ledger,'' says Brian Helgeland, the L.A. Confidential co-screenwriter who made his directorial debut with 1999's Payback. ''I mean, Clint Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson plays Mel Gibson. Bruce Willis is a movie star because people like that Bruce Willis persona. You look at Heath and you feel like you know him, even though you don't.''
At New York City's Regency Hotel bar, the extremely fidgety Ledger is shredding his cocktail napkins. Sitting with a Camel Light in one hand and a Heineken in the other, the surprisingly tall (6'3") actor lets go of those vices only to grab a handful of crayons and doodle urgently on the white paper squares that rip apart from the force of his strokes. "I have very little patience. I get bored really quickly," says Ledger, whose mania is reminiscent of Mel Gibson on a talk-show couch, only jacked up a few notches (and with a lot more F-words). "I have ADD, I'm convinced."
It was that impatience that caused Ledger, the oldest son of Kim, an engineer, and Sally, a French tutor, to develop a love for acting and dancing while studying at Guildford Grammar School in his hometown of Perth. "I hated the school," he says. "It was about teaching kids how to fire semiautomatic weapons. It was breeding an army for the country. It was like 'Be proud for the school, fight for the school.' And I wasn't falling into that f---ing system. I'm not a patriot to a flag; I'm a patriot to my family. I found myself getting A's from the teachers that I really loved and f---ing failing miserably with the people I didn't."
After graduating at 16, Ledger cured his restlessness with a 2,700-mile soul-searching road trip to Sydney, which he knew was home to Australia's entertainment scene. "If I was going to portray a person or an emotion, I had to at least be able to portray myself," he says, adding, "I had 80 cents in the bank account. So I had to get a job." After appearing in a handful of Aussie productions, he landed the lead role in the 1997 Fox adventure series Roar. Though it was considered a Braveheart rip-off and canceled after one season, the show helped lead to bigger roles in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You and last year's Revolutionary War drama The Patriot, in which he played Mel Gibson's son.
When Columbia execs saw early footage of The Patriot, they realized Ledger could carry his own film. "From the time I read the [Knight's Tale] script, he was always the person that we wanted," says studio chairman Amy Pascal. "We offer him everything." That includes the lead role in the upcoming Spider-Man, which Ledger declined. "I just don't care for comics," he says. "Never have. Never cared for Spider-Man. It would have been stealing someone else's dream." The role eventually went to Tobey Maguire.
Ledger sees his relationship with the studio a bit differently from Pascal. "I was their investment," he says bluntly. "They saw me and they invested money in me in The Patriot and said, 'Okay, let's pop him out in that, let's get another product, let's promote it, and let's bring in the bucks.' Slightly f---ing frustrating. It's an intimidating move on their part." Pascal responds: "I don't see him as a product. He's at a time where he's having to sell a movie that is mostly on his back, which is a scary thing the first time you do it."
Though he may sound like the reluctant superstar, Ledger insists he's simply being realistic. "People [at Columbia] are really worried right now," he continues. "It's called insurance. 'See, [the film] is tracking!' They're so all about their digits that they forget about word of mouth and trusting in a good film.... I've seen the movie and I loved it, so we all are successful." Admits Columbia's Blake, "Let's face it: When you look at the competition--The Mummy Returns and Pearl Harbor--there's no question we want to compete and survive. So we're being aggressive."
Part of the studio's aggressiveness involved asking Ledger to embark on a 12-city North American promotional tour. "I'm fighting that. It's a negotiation process," says Ledger, who eventually agreed to a scaled-down version of the trip. "I flew from Perth to Sydney, the next day to L.A., the next day to Dallas, the next day to Atlanta, the next day to Chicago, and the next day to New York," he says. "I think that's compromising." While Blake says Ledger is "certainly doing what we need him to do," it's not without a fight. Says the actor, "You've got to stop and say, 'Well, no, I'm not a politician.'"
Maybe not, but Ledger has become something of a punchline--if only to his close friends. "You should hear the f---ing messages I have on my answering machine," he groans. "'You gonna rock me, man?' I'm just getting so much f---ing flak from them, it's not funny." (One can only imagine the ribbing had he accepted that Spider-Man role.)
Perhaps to avoid such pigeonholing, Ledger's follow-up projects will veer far away from teen territory. In Four Feathers (based on the same book as the 1939 film), from Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur, he plays a British military officer who is viewed as a coward when he resigns before a battle. "It's deep, deep, deep," says the actor. "It's not a movie that teenagers are supposed to come in and understand. It's, like, beyond that." As Miramax cochairman Harvey Weinstein, who's one of Four Feathers' producers, puts it, "This is 'Say goodbye to your one-minute moment of Heath Ledger, Teen Idol.' He wanted to lose that image and take on a tougher role." Later this month, the actor will head to Louisiana for two weeks of shooting opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Monsters Ball, the story of a father and son who work on death row.
As promising as Ledger's career looks now, there was a time when Hollywood didn't consider him the next big thing. A few years ago, Weinstein, who has made a career out of nurturing young talent like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, rejected Ledger for a lead role in a still-uncast European soccer flick called Calcio. "Oh yeah, isn't that ironic?" Ledger says with a grin. "Thanks, Harvey!" Both parties admit they needed to clear the air before shooting began on Four Feathers. "He joked about it in his kind of passive-aggressive way," says Ledger. Weinstein cracks, "I said, 'I don't even know whether I saw [your screen test] or not; that's how good you were, Heath!'....He's brilliant in all his movies," Weinstein adds quickly, "but even he admits he's not the best at auditions."
For now, Ledger professes indifference to A Knight's Tale's eventual box office victory or defeat. "If the movie comes out and it bombs, it's not my money that's going to be lost," he says. "And what that does to my career, I don't really care. If it's the end of it, then fine. I came in, had a sniff, and left. It's that sort of ruthlessness I guess you just have to have to be able to brush that off."
He's also had to fend off considerable tabloid interest in his love life, spurred on by a relationship with an actress nine years his senior. Ledger met Boogie Nights star Heather Graham in Prague last summer while he was shooting A Knight's Tale and she was filming the upcoming Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell; they've been together since. "It's funny," says Ledger, explaining his attraction to more mature women (previous girlfriends include Roar costar Lisa Zane, in her mid-30s when they dated four years ago). "You find a lot of women, when they get older--older than I am, anyhow--they don't have to pretend to be older anymore. So they go back to being young."
So, what if A Knight's Tale does turn him into a Leo-size luminary? Again, Ledger professes indifference. "A lot of people think ambition or success and they think dollars," Ledger says. "My ambition is all in my head. I'm on a f---ing journey. I'm on a walkabout. It's about collecting wisdom of emotions and heart and self and understanding. Being absolutely comfortable with your body and life and the earth, sun, and moon being the only truths. That's what my success is, getting underneath that." For once, he stops doodling. "At the f---ing end of the day, that's the only thing you're going to carry with you when you die." Good luck fitting that on a poster.
Originally posted May 18, 2001Published in issue #596 May 18, 2001
"A lot of people think ambition or success and they think dollars," Ledger says. "My ambition is all in my head. I'm on a f---ing journey. I'm on a walkabout. It's about collecting wisdom of emotions and heart and self and understanding. Being absolutely comfortable with your body and life and the earth, sun, and moon being the only truths. That's what my success is, getting underneath that." For once, he stops doodling. "At the f---ing end of the day, that's the only thing you're going to carry with you when you die."
Ladies Heath held hands with - I just adore how he cocooned his lady friends' hands: Naomi Watts from August 2002 to May 2004. Met doing Ned Kelly I think. Heather Graham met in Prague, while Heath was filming A Knight's Tale, she filming Jack the Ripper thriller Lisa Zane met doing Roar together Michelle Williams met doing Brokeback Mountain
A quote of Heath that I especially like: ...“The power of belief, in a sense — it’s one of the strongest of all. And like religion, if you strongly believe in something, it comes true and it becomes a reality. In acting, I find that as well. If you believe it, you discover a truth and it’s quite spiritual…. Along that path, in discovering that character, you discover a lot about yourself.” end quote ~ I so love this.
The best acting is done, not with words but organically, from the integrity of the actors spirit. Heath was a master at this. He acted with his heart. I am amazed anew each time I watch him in The Four Feathers and Candy. And Brokeback too, but read on and you will see why this video had to omit any video from BBM. Movies included: Mostly Candy The Four Feathers But also: A Knight's Tale Brokeback Mountain
I'm Not There was removed from the original because it didn't flow well. It was hard to cut it, but if you edit, you will understand.
Music Credits: Composers: Jud Friedman, Allen Rich, James Newton-Howard For the First Time ProSound Karaoke Band
The Most Beautiful Thing You Ever Said Was When Your Eyes Rested in Mine ~ Sandra Hammel
Concentration on eyes, body language, movement, artistic lines and face expressions were used to make this video.
Suggestion: Watch in your screen's full size -- just click on the four cornered arrows at the bottom right of the youtube video screen for this video. Or watch in 480 p. If you double click on the video, it will take you to youtube, so you can see it on a bigger screen.
No Brokeback Mountain This has been redone from the original which was banned in the USA, but viewable everywhere else on planet Earth. The problem was due to Brokeback Mountain clips that I used (NBC Universal). This time I removed all BBM movie clips and replaced the clips with stills. Not as good, but allowed everywhere.
It is obvious that this work was in my early days of learning how to do videos. It made it difficult to make a better video out of the finished video. And I am sorry about the different sizes of video within the video. So, this is a compromise -- some improvements, but still a little rough in concept. I simply chose some exceptional scenes that I love, especially from Candy and The Four Feathers.
The original version of October 11, 2009, that the USA couldn't and still can't see.
HEATH LEDGER ~ THE FOUR FEATHERS ~ TRIBUTE TO FRIENDSHIP, COURAGE AND INTEGRITY ~ BROKEN ARROW One of my favorite videos of my own:
I especially connected with Heath's statement: 'Cause for me, like, what a success is is, I mean the only time that I'm alive, and living and expressing and feeling, and, and relating is, is, is when I'm on set and that time between action and cut and so that's the only thing that's really important is how that experience is, and, and how that experience will affect my life and what I have to give from my life to that experience. (Transcribed from the interview of December 3, 2007 - links just below. Heath was talking about "Brothers Grimm" and working with director Terry Gilliam in this excerpt.)
Links to the "Beyond the Subtitles" - December 3, 2007 - Heath's interview with Stephen Schaefer:
I am thrilled to have two musicians that have given me permission to use their music. This makes life much better. I could make videos every day. I just love doing it. Unfortunately, I do it for free.
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An example of the sustaining admiration and affection for Heath
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Text below is taken from the aegina22's youtube page:
Heath Ledger had 28 years to live, and it was just enough to see what a talented actor we lost. Besides this he was a good man, success didn't change his honest, curious, shy, always optimistic personality. The world needs knights.
For this tribute I used scenes from:
Two Hands 10 Things I Hate About You The Patriot Monster's Ball A Knight's Tale The Four Feathers The Order Ned Kelly Casanova The Brothers Grimm Lords of Dogtown Brokeback Mountain Candy I'm Not There The Dark Knight The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus + interviews and videos from behind the scenes
„I never had money, and I was very happy without it. When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on - for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious.
"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.... I don't want to do this for the rest of my life....I don't want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much I want to discover." - Vanity Fair (August 2000)
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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RAFA NADAL -BRING BACK LONG PANTS - SLEEVELESS TOPS
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Darfur - The Abandoned Genocide - a video by Sandra Hammel
Want to help? Call 1~800~GENOCIDE
"May I Suggest" by Susan Werner
Satchita - Playing for Change
Stand By Me ~ Playing for Change
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Genocide is not only a word,
it is crying of the whole human race.
There is nothing redeeming about being silent
when speaking up is the humane thing to do.
The honor and integrity of the human race is at stake.
Youtube has made this video a "featured video" under two categories as of today: ilovemylife and Heath Ledger.