I guess this explains why SuperHeroHype is down...

[trinityvixen]

Hat tip to viridian for the link (and feiran for breaking the story to me): Heath Ledger, we hardly knew ye. Wow. I just...wow. feiran pointed out that he's all of two years older than we are. And he has a little baby. ::wants to cry::

The Dark Knight will still happen, apparently, which is good, but weeeeird. I guess I'll know how people felt going to see The Crow after Brandon Lee's spectacular, senseless death.

It's weirder still for the fact that Brad Renfro died last week, also with heavy hinting that he might have had a drug-related death. I broke that story to my former roommate, who bemoaned the loss of another former teen idol (she's still grieving for Jonathan Brandis). I wonder how she'll take this.

(Incidentally, this is making for a great argument for Elektra complexes. Having crushes on older stars makes more sense--hell, look at Robert Downey Jr. He's rolled more drugs than a pharmceutical factory--because they've at least made their drug addictions compatible with living. Sigh.)

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[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Not true, retracted. He was found at his own apartment in NYC.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Well, that's less weird, I guess. :/

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The location is less important than the state in which he was discovered. This is going to end up some Hollywood mystery that gets examined on E! or some fucking bullshit. God.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I actually read more speculation that it might've been a pure accident - one report says they were just sleeping pills and that he'd been sick and was just trying to get to sleep. That's more tragic in my mind than either possible suicide or overdose. :(