Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:47 am Reply with quote
well I liked Heath - never saw brokeback, probably won't see batman til it's on TV. I looking at him, for sure, but I enjoyed watching and listening to him in his craft - The Brothers Grimm, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale are my favorites.
I liked him because he enjoyed his craft, not into being a celebrity, he was a shy, kind, gentle young man and loved his family and daughter (2yr old)... a lot of actors are in it for the celebrity, the notority, the fortune, they don't care how they behave, they don't care who they step on... the acting is a means to their bad behaviour. To Heath that stuff wasn't important. He put his family first and enjoyed the craft of acting but the rest didn't matter to him. So many people lump all actors and people who work in Hollywood (or NY) into a bunch of shallow, selfish people... there are a lot like that, but most are just hard working family people, including Heath.
And he was only 28.
And that is why it upset me.
AND I was the one at work to not jump to conclusions. Not suicide. Telling my co-workers that if I collapsed in my bedroom, they'd find pill bottles in my bedroom - doesn't mean that's why I passed out. I reminded them of Andy Gibb being young and having something medically wrong with him and they didn't figure it out til he was gone. So yes, you can have a hole in your heart or whatever or unknown brain tumor or whatever and just be gone... no matter what your age.
They're saying now he had pneumonia... and was taking Ambian to help sleep. I've had pneumonia 5 times and it is difficult to breath when you're awake, I would think a sleeping pill would slow the breathing to shallow for sticky lungs to get enough air. We'll have to wait and see what all went wrong.
