stand-up guy
I didn't want to keep making posts on this subject but some things deserve our attention more than others. Heath Ledger is dead and Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Oscar for Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. I know that. In my heart of hearts I wanted Johnny Depp to win Best Actor for Sweeney Todd but the simple truth is, it's just not his year (yet again). The award belongs to Mr. Day-Lewis. So what does any of this Oscar nonsense have to do with the tragic loss of Heath Ledger? Daniel Day-Lewis just won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. He dedicated the award to Heath Ledger. Not only that, he had to stand up for the young actor when across the street from the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles, religious protesters had assembled carrying signs that read: "Heath's In Hell" referring to his performance as a homosexual cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. This really made me mad when I read this. And it also made me respect Mr. Day-Lewis for being more than one of our greatest living actors. He was also recently on Oprah to talk about his current Oscar nominated role but instead of kissing Oprah's butt like anyone else or talking about himself he focused on how wrecked he was upon hearing the news of Heath Ledger's death. And the 50 year old Best Actor winner for My Left Foot never even knew Ledger personally. Is Day-Lewis playing some kind of Hollywood political card in going on about Ledger's death in the midst of the award show season? Absolutely not. Day-Lewis does not need the publicity or the awards. In fact, he could care less. He's simply stating in public something that many of us are feeling inside. It is possible to mourn the death of an actor whose performances have moved and entertained us and to be confused about the shock of such an abrupt end to such a bright young light. No, Mr Day-Lewis is speaking from his heart. Something that most people in Hollywood can't do these days without an agenda. As for the "religious protesters" carrying the signs, I have no words. I thought when I set out to write this blog this morning that I would end up ripping them some new assholes -- but in the end, that's all they really are. Assholes. I guess if I had to come up with some words, I would say to them: anybody that takes you seriously is an asshole too. If I were President of the United States I would make an example out of you and your pathetic behavior. But I'm not. And I don't suspect that the one we have now even knows who Heath Ledger is. All I can really say to you is, we'll see what kind of "Hell" you are in come November when there's either a Woman or a Black Man running the country. Or both. Man, is it gonna suck to be you or what?
I didn't want to keep making posts on this subject but some things deserve our attention more than others. Heath Ledger is dead and Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Oscar for Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. I know that. In my heart of hearts I wanted Johnny Depp to win Best Actor for Sweeney Todd but the simple truth is, it's just not his year (yet again). The award belongs to Mr. Day-Lewis. So what does any of this Oscar nonsense have to do with the tragic loss of Heath Ledger? Daniel Day-Lewis just won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. He dedicated the award to Heath Ledger. Not only that, he had to stand up for the young actor when across the street from the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles, religious protesters had assembled carrying signs that read: "Heath's In Hell" referring to his performance as a homosexual cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. This really made me mad when I read this. And it also made me respect Mr. Day-Lewis for being more than one of our greatest living actors. He was also recently on Oprah to talk about his current Oscar nominated role but instead of kissing Oprah's butt like anyone else or talking about himself he focused on how wrecked he was upon hearing the news of Heath Ledger's death. And the 50 year old Best Actor winner for My Left Foot never even knew Ledger personally. Is Day-Lewis playing some kind of Hollywood political card in going on about Ledger's death in the midst of the award show season? Absolutely not. Day-Lewis does not need the publicity or the awards. In fact, he could care less. He's simply stating in public something that many of us are feeling inside. It is possible to mourn the death of an actor whose performances have moved and entertained us and to be confused about the shock of such an abrupt end to such a bright young light. No, Mr Day-Lewis is speaking from his heart. Something that most people in Hollywood can't do these days without an agenda. As for the "religious protesters" carrying the signs, I have no words. I thought when I set out to write this blog this morning that I would end up ripping them some new assholes -- but in the end, that's all they really are. Assholes. I guess if I had to come up with some words, I would say to them: anybody that takes you seriously is an asshole too. If I were President of the United States I would make an example out of you and your pathetic behavior. But I'm not. And I don't suspect that the one we have now even knows who Heath Ledger is. All I can really say to you is, we'll see what kind of "Hell" you are in come November when there's either a Woman or a Black Man running the country. Or both. Man, is it gonna suck to be you or what?
