Jaws star, Roy Scheider, succumb to Myeloma this weekend in Little Rock, Arkansas the IMDB is reporting.
He was twice nominated for Oscars but was easily best known for his role in Jaws.
On a personal note, I only had the chance to talk to him once over the phone at work (he was a friend of one of our clients) and in that brief exchange he was a very nice man; many aren’t in this business. I can’t claim to have been his friend, but in that fleeting moment he showed the kind of person he was.
I also can’t even begin to quantify the effect the film Jaws had on my personal fascination with both film making and composing scores for film. Roy was a big part of that. He was masterful in his turn there and truly shaped a generation of film goers. Some might even argue that it the influence of the film extended beyond a single generation and continues to this day.
The world has lost another fantastic actor. Thankfully we’ll always have their films to go back to.
For more info on the body of Roy’s work, check out his IMDB page HERE.
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Heath Ledger’s final memorial service breaks out into a swimming party (you should read the passage Michelle Williams read for him, touching actually–read it after the break) -Daily Telegraph Australia
Lindsay Lohan changes hair color, gets drunk with Paris Hilton at Avalon; Status quo achieved- That Other Bog
Eva Mendes goes back to rehab after brief vacation from rehab; way to commit, Eva- Pop Sugar
Britney Spears’ manager and attorney both dump her ass; things still going great for Britney Spears- People Magazine Online
Hayden Panettiere: Enough with the fucking whales already. OK? -US Magazine
Kate von D has a message for her former boss Ami James according to TMZ and she put it in autographed picture form. Awww…thoughtful!:
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So this toxicology report on Heath Ledger will come as little/no surprise to anyone with half a brain who’s been reading up on the whole tragic event: accidental overdose. The AP reports:
The cause of death was “acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine,” spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement.
The medical examiner’s office only provided generic names, so it is unknown whether he took generic or brand-name drugs. Police had said they found six types of prescription drugs, including sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, in Ledger’s apartment.
Oxycodone is a painkiller marketed as OxyContin and used in other painkillers such as Percodan and Percocet; hydrocodone is used in a number of painkillers, including Vicodin.
Diazepam and alprazolam are the generic names for the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the other two drugs are sleep aids commonly sold under the brands Restoril and Unisom.
Sorry. As sad as it is to lose such a talented actor at this young of an age, it’s hard to feel THAT bad for someone who clearly ignored the orders of his doctor in my opinion. I can’t think of a doctor alive who would suggest a patient take that cocktail of drugs.
Let’s keep this in mind folks: when the doctor tells you not to mix shit or asks you if you are taking anything else it’s for a reason. You don’t know better than them. If you are going to multiple doctors like Ledger was, you MUST tell them what you are taking. They have no other way of knowing. You could literally be killing yourself and leaving a young child behind, like Heath, if you aren’t careful.
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While Heath Ledger’s REAL parent were busy grieving the tragic loss of their child; some shit bag took it upon himself to use the situation to have some ‘fun’ and games. Page 6 reports:
Kim Ledger, a race-car driver, was spotted outside the apartment where his son died last week. He arrived in New York on a flight from LA yesterday.
While Ledger visited the apartment, police were still trying to find a twisted impostor pretending to be the grieving father. The imposter cruelly duped superstar Tom Cruise into consoling him over the phone – and nearly got John Travolta to buy him a plane ticket to the United States, sources told The Post.
The sick scammer also suckered the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan, where the tragic actor’s body was held before being flown to Los Angeles, into booking him and his “family” rooms at the ritzy Carlyle hotel nearby on Madison Avenue, sources said. The hoaxer even got them to send free stuff to their rooms “when nobody was there,” a source said.
And the man falsely claiming to be Kim Ledger spoke on the phone with the doctor who performed the autopsy on the “Brokeback Mountain” star, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.
That’s basically as low as it gets. In some ways it’s kinda funny since he did dupe Travolta and Cruise who both claimed to have been deeply touched by Heath despite never actually having met him or worked with him according to many reports. However, it’s not funny enough that he’s not a shit bag for stealing from a funeral home.
Hopefully they will find this asshole and torture his balls with a cactus and skull fuck him with a voodoo witch doctor nose bone.
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So there have been stories about Heath Ledger’s masseuse calling Mary Kate Olsen, whom Ledger was allegedly banging off and on.
Well, new details revealed to the AP have shown that she was on the phone with MKO for 9 minutes…9 FUCKING minutes before actually calling 911
A day before a Friday private viewing for the 28-year-old actor, police said the masseuse spent nine minutes repeatedly ringing “Full House” actress Mary-Kate Olsen before calling authorities for help.
The masseuse called Olsen a fourth time after paramedics arrived — at the same time as Olsen’s security guards.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to call someone other than the ambulance/police when you see someone curled up in a ball nude passed out on the floor? She better hope against hope there isn’t some way to prove that he died while she was calling the fucking Olsen twins.
In other news, shock, various reports have been coming out that the masseuse could be facing jail time in New York because you have to have a license to practice massage therapy, which she didn’t have, and must be CPR certified which again, she didn’t have.
Sound like a real winner. A real real winner.
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I won’t post the actual picture and copy here since I don’t want the same shit storm of comments going on here that is going on elsewhere causing me hours of pain as I delete user accounts of people who signed up just to say ‘fuck you’, but if your fragile heart can handle a joke, check out Heath Ledger’s ‘new ad’ at Pleasegodno.com
Don’t blame me if it offends you, I warned you.
I think the Best Buy in San Diego having a ‘tribute sale’ is far more offensive but tomaytoe, tahmahtoh.
Update: here’s another one from Pleasegodno.com again, if you are offended, it’s your own fault. (oh and lighten the fuck up)
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This item was sent in to the good folks at bestweekever.tv and it’s pretty bad.
A Best Buy manager thought it would be a good idea to run with the whole ‘he dead’ thing perhaps a bit too soon. If this works out well for them; I have a new script idea…:
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I kinda debated posting this, but I think the huge crowd by his building and all the flash bulbs kinda give a sobering and in a strange way uplifting view of how many people he truly touched with his work.
The silence is eerie and the image of a burgeoning screen icon being wheeled off to his final resting place are a reminder of the fragility and value of life.
It’s not a gory video or anything so it’s safe for work; however, it’s disturbing in it’s own way. Video after the break. Continue reading ‘Heath Ledger’s Body taken by the coroner’
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Here is some video of Heath Ledger’s family speaking about their son’s tragic passing in Australia.
Sorry for so many Heath related posts, I tend to avoid 90 posts of all the minutiae, but he was a rather big star so I’m making a semi-exception in this case.
Video after the break. Continue reading ‘Heath Ledger’s Family Speaks’
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Rev. Fred Phelps, who came to infamy by starting the ‘wonderful’ godhatesfags.com and poisoning his mindless flock with his homophobic bullshit, plans on protesting Heath Ledger’s funeral because he had the ‘audacity’ to play a ‘faggot’ in Brokeback Mountain.
Notes for Fred:
1-100) kill yourself & all of your followers NOW.
101) if you had actually watched the film, his character was highly conflicted and in many ways disgusted by his homosexual escapades. So in many ways, his character was probably more in line with you than you think. (well, aside from the fact that you are both closeted homosexuals)
102) it’s a fucking character in a film. Just because someone plays Hitler doesn’t mean they are a Nazi.
103) Who gives a shit if he did support homosexuals in anyway? You are a reverend. Desecrating a burial is a grievous sin, though perhaps Baptists take those rules a little lighter. I know the Protestants haven’t ever been keen on keeping the hard rules and yet like to pipe up the loudest about the shit that is convenient for you to trumpet up.
104) I hope you have a prefered sunblock for the eternity you are going to spend with the hell fires lapping at your anus for eternity.
105) you are no better than Al Qaeda or any other religious extremist group. Does that make you happy?
106-50000) Kill yourself and all of your followers NOW. Stop wasting so much time.
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Jaws star, Roy Scheider, succumb to Myeloma this weekend in Little Rock, Arkansas the IMDB is reporting.
