HEATH ~ THIS WORLD WAS NEVER MEANT FOR ONE AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOU

Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain
Heath deserved the Oscar for this role of Ennis Del Mar

Maybe This Time - Fan Tribute for Brokeback Mountain

Heath in I'm Not There

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Video of Morning Yearning by Ben Harper
Video directed by Heath Ledger

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Heath is proof that we are connected by the Spirit of Life.
His spirit was bright and continues to shine in our souls.

"Morning Yearning"

A finger's touch upon my lips
It's a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning

Another day, another chance to get it right
Must I still be learning
Baby crying kept us up all night
With her morning yearning

Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall
But I'm soon returning
Your love' s the warmest place the sun ever shines
My morning yearning.

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Michelle Williams speaking of her former partner, Heath Ledger:

His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees,
hugs animals,
and takes steps two at a time,
and we know that he is with us still.

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Matilda Rose Ledger
Matilda's Song
Uploaded by AshleeRBradley
Text from poster's Youtube page sidebar:
This is a tribute to Heath Ledger & the two great loves of his life, Michelle & especially Matilda Rose. Heath asked his friend Ben Harper to write this song as a lullaby for his beautiful Matilda. It's called Happy Ever After In Your Eyes

"Happy Everafter In Your Eyes"

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon

All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes

Happy everafter is in your eyes.

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Here Comes the Sun - A favorite song of
Heath Ledger

Uploaded by alexg1985

Text at the poster's sidebar at Youtube:

The body of Heath Ledger was cremated in Australia on Saturday and his remains were laid to rest.

Michelle Williams read Shakespeare at the service and some of Ledger's favorite songs were played, including the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.

After the service, mourners gathered at a beach side restaurant and many, including Williams, went fully clothed into the ocean as they watched the sunset.

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Family, friends, celebrities farewell to Heath Ledger
from Perth Now

Heath Ledger's life in pictures

You Take My Breath Away
(different song than in the video just below)

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Tribute
Uploaded by MrsLauraLedger

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Although I believe Heath didn't kill himself intentionally, I find some of the words in this song ~ Vincent ~ cause me to think of Heath. All I have is my feelings from my reading various things about Heath. I can believe that he was shy as I read and I can believe he was in despair over his break-up with Michelle and not being able to see his beloved daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger near the end of his life. It is too bad that he had too many conflicting prescribed medications that were lethal. When we are young and going through the loss of love in our lives, we don't always think clearly.

Uploaded by MrAdamBurns

Lyrics

Vincent

Starry, starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night
flaming flowers that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.

Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

And now I understand
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that
starry, starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;

But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloody rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.

And now I think I know
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

EQUALITY FOR ALL IN THE USA - MAKE LOVE LEGAL FOR ALL

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Link to video for Equal Right for All message via MILK recognition at the Oscars

Wikipedia on Harvey Milk

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Sean Penn wins the Oscar for Best Actor in Milk
Uploaded by NewsPoliticsNews

Milk - The Trailer

Directed by Gus Van Sant
Story by Dustin Lance Black
UK release date 16 January 2009.

Genre: Drama/Biography.

Synopsis (IMDB):
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.

OSCAR Winner 2009:
Best actor: Sean Penn.
Best original screenplay.

GIVE HIM AN OSCAR - VOTE FOR RICHARD JENKINS FOR BEST ACTOR

It was several years ago. I was sitting in a dark gym, that was supposedly transformed in an atmosphere of nightclub with a jazz band. We sat at large circular tables, found some average food, smorgasbord style and there was a disco ball hanging from the ceiling - saying it was expected that there would be some dancing. The music was better than the average high school band. But this school was Moses Brown - a private Quaker school in Providence, Rhode Island. My son was playing tenor saxophone in the Upper School's Jazz Band. And usually I don't mind going to things alone, but this night it felt a little uncomfortable. Everyone it seemed was there with a husband or a wife. And most people had preselected the people that they would sit with. Not me. I couldn't really see the person I was sitting next to well enough to be able to recognize him even if I might by chance have seen him before. So, I asked him what he did. Well, at least I didn't say something lame like "It's been cold lately." So he answered, "I'm an actor."

Well, a little awkward, because I was looking at him sideways, and though there was no smoke in the air to blur his face, I couldn't make out who he was. It was barely light enough to find the plate with my food on it.

I can't remember what I said next. Somehow I got his name. Richard Jenkins.

The Richard Jenkins who in 2009 is one of the five men up for the Best Actor category for an Academy Award.

Now here was my problem that evening. I hadn't kept up with his career. At all. But I knew who he was. But because years and years ago, I had seen him repeatedly in the Trinity Repertory Theatre Company plays. So, all I could come up with in my mind was to mention Trinity Rep and an actor that I also remembered as a stand out at the time, Peter Gerety. There are 84 movies or TV shows that Richard Jenkins has been in.

He was there with his wife. I remember we talked about Moses Brown and his wife thinking it was important that their son have a good education. His son was a Senior that year. Guess what instrument he played in the jazz band?

Drums.

Just like Richard plays in The Visitor.

I felt so badly afterward ... that all I could say was that I knew him from Trinity Rep - the Rhode Island professional theatre company. Geez, I wish I had kept up with his career... so I could have complimented him on his current success. So, there I was, with an opportunity to talk about acting and I squandered it. What a knucklehead.

I love where I live....as I have admitted repeatedly.

I know it may seem silly to be impressed with people we see on the screen (or in this case - somehow missed seeing on the screen), but we are, or at least some of us are. I can't imagine if I had been sitting beside my current favorite actor, Gerry Butler. I would have been blushing in the darkness.

I love where I live, because I have had the opportunity to be close to people that otherwise I wouldn't have back in northeastern Indiana where I was born. Here, Nicolas Cage has a house about 10 minutes from where I live. One of his many, but still he and his wife enrolled their son in a local private school in Newport. Years ago, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward walked past me at Rogers High School's auditorium lobby. They were there because Joanne supported the dance company performing that evening. I was just standing there and knew it was them, but it was such a fleeting moment. And unexpected.

We were in an elevator in New York City where we were spending the weekend once and there was the actor Fyvush Finkel. At the time he had just been in Picket Fences.

Last summer, I was walking along Americas Cup Avenue with two others on August 8, wearing our STOP GENOCIDE t-shirts and Chevy Chase walked by us. He was there for the Newport Jazz Festival.

Just little moments. But still. Fun moments.

The Best Actor category for 2009 includes
Richard Jenkins
The Visitor

Frank Langella
Frost/Nixon

Sean Penn
Milk

Brad Pitt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler

Source: www.oscar.com

February 22, 2009 - The Oscars

Richard Jenkins News

Here are just some of Richard's roles

1. The Cabin in the Woods (2010) (pre-production)
2. The Rum Diary (2010) (pre-production) .... Lotterman
3. Norman (2009) (post-production) .... Doug Long
4. Dear John (2009) (post-production)
5. Waiting for Forever (2009) (post-production) .... Richard Twist
   
   
6. The Tale of Despereaux (2008) .... Principal
7. Burn After Reading (2008) .... Ted Treffon
   ... aka Burn After Reading (France)
8. Step Brothers (2008) .... Dr. Robert Doback
9. The Brøken (2008) .... John McVey
   ... aka The Broken (France) (International: English title)
10. The Visitor (2007/I) .... Prof. Walter Vale
11. The Kingdom (2007) .... Robert Grace
    ... aka Operation: Kingdom (Germany)
12. Rumor Has It... (2005) .... Earl Huttinger
    ... aka Rumour Has It... (Australia) (Canada: English title) (New Zealand: English title)
13. Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) .... Frank Bascombe
    ... aka Alternative Career (Philippines: English title)
    ... aka Fun with Dick & Jane (USA: poster title)
14. Earth to America (2005) (TV)
15. North Country (2005) .... Hank Aimes
16. "Six Feet Under" .... Nathaniel Fisher (19 episodes, 2001-2005)
    - Everyone's Waiting (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - All Alone (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Ecotone (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Time Flies (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Untitled (2004) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    (14 more)

Peter Gerety roles

Regis Philbin talks about Richard Jenkins and The Visitor - Don't Miss This

This Year's Real Underdog - a video interview in Dave Karger's Oscar Watch

New York Times article about Richard Jenkins and The Visitor

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Richard Jenkins on The View
Uploaded by lester94111
Richard Jenkins agent is Rhonda Price

The Visitor

Richard Jenkins ~ Nominee for Best Actor
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The Visitor - Trailer

The Visitor trailer scenes, interviews and on set footage - 25:40

A video - As part of the ongoing Back Stage "Evening With" series, actors Richard Jenkins and Haaz Sleiman spoke to a packed house after a screening of their film 'The Visitor' in L.A. 4:05 www.backstage.com

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What Did I Do?

Where's Tarek
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Drum Circle
Uploaded by overturefilms

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Drum Lesson
Drum Lesson
This video uploaded by starzmedia

Beloved One
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Come On I Need Some Music

I Just Want My Life

Staten Island

Above videos uploaded by overturefilms

This is the text from the overturefilms

Walter (Richard Jenkins) comes home to his apartment in New York and finds an unexpected visitors living there (Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira).

The Visitor

In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.

Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him.
Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum. The instrument's exuberant rhythms revitalize Walter's faltering spirit and open his eyes to a vibrant world of local jazz clubs and Central Park drum circles. As the friendship between the two men deepens, the differences in culture, age and temperament fall away.

After being stopped by police in the subway, Tarek is arrested as an undocumented citizen and held for deportation. As his situation turns desperate, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friend with a passion he thought he had long ago lost. When Tarek's beautiful mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) arrives unexpectedly in search of her son, the professor's personal commitment develops into an unlikely romance.

And it's through these new found connections with these virtual strangers that Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life.

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