The Weekly Ketchup: The Passing Of Heath Ledger
Also: Oscar, Razzie nominations; Star Trek IX, X-Files 2 stills
In this week's Ketchup, the unfortunate passing of Heath Ledger trumps all other news. Other occurences of lesser importance include the Oscar and Razzie nominations, and some new movie stills from the next Star Trek and X-Files films.
This Week's Top News:
Heath Ledger: 1979-2008
Heath Ledger, star of films including Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You, and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, was found dead this afternoon. He was 28.
Oscar Nominations Announced. Full List Inside.
With the writer's strike going on, just how the AMPAS will present the Oscars is still unknown. For now, though, we got the who and the what. Awards heavyweights No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with eight nominations each, including Best Picture. Other contenders in the category include the Big Sweeping Romance (Atonement), the Annual Beloved Fox Searchlight Indie (Juno), and the Dark Horse (Michael Clayton).
Studio Executives Face Difficult Decisions in Wake of Ledger's Passing
For most of the people affected by Heath Ledger's unexpected death, it's difficult enough to simply absorb the shock and grief. For the executives overseeing Ledger's final projects, however, some difficult decisions need to be made -- and with millions of dollars at stake, they need to be made sooner than later.
I Know Who Killed Me, Norbit, Daddy Day Camp Lead Razzie Noms
No awards season -- even a strike-tainted one -- would be complete without the Razzies, right? Of course not. And that's why we've thoughtfully assembled all of this year's nominees in one convenient location.
New Star Trek XI, X-Files 2 Stills Revealed
In a mind-boggling convergence of sci-fi pre-release buzz, new stills from Star Trek XI and X-Files 2 were released yesterday -- and since we love nothing more than a good old-fashioned geekout, we've got 'em all right here for you to look at.
In Other News:
Around The Site:
This Week's Top News:
Heath Ledger: 1979-2008
Heath Ledger, star of films including Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You, and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, was found dead this afternoon. He was 28.
Oscar Nominations Announced. Full List Inside.
With the writer's strike going on, just how the AMPAS will present the Oscars is still unknown. For now, though, we got the who and the what. Awards heavyweights No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with eight nominations each, including Best Picture. Other contenders in the category include the Big Sweeping Romance (Atonement), the Annual Beloved Fox Searchlight Indie (Juno), and the Dark Horse (Michael Clayton).
Studio Executives Face Difficult Decisions in Wake of Ledger's Passing
For most of the people affected by Heath Ledger's unexpected death, it's difficult enough to simply absorb the shock and grief. For the executives overseeing Ledger's final projects, however, some difficult decisions need to be made -- and with millions of dollars at stake, they need to be made sooner than later.
I Know Who Killed Me, Norbit, Daddy Day Camp Lead Razzie Noms
No awards season -- even a strike-tainted one -- would be complete without the Razzies, right? Of course not. And that's why we've thoughtfully assembled all of this year's nominees in one convenient location.
New Star Trek XI, X-Files 2 Stills Revealed
In a mind-boggling convergence of sci-fi pre-release buzz, new stills from Star Trek XI and X-Files 2 were released yesterday -- and since we love nothing more than a good old-fashioned geekout, we've got 'em all right here for you to look at.
In Other News:
- Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis will star in the indie comedy Driving Lessons, with Finnish helmer Vivi Friedman set to direct.
- Adrien Brody will join Jeffrey Wright in the drama Cadillac Records from writer-director Darnell Martin.
- Dan Fogler, Judy Greer and Martin Sheen have joined Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart in Traveling, a comedy from director Brandon Camp.
- Ryan Gosling will star and Kirsten Dunst is in talks to star in the love story/mystery All Good Things, with Andrew Jarecki making his feature directorial debut.
- Ken Watanabe has joined Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly in the vampire flick Cirque du Freak, with Paul Weitz directing.
- Tim Meadows and Gillian Vigman have joined Ashley Tisdale in the comedy They Came From Upstairs, directed by John Schultz.
- Penelope Cruz will provide a lead voice for the animated comedy G-Force, from Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, joining Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Bill Nighy, Tracy Morgan and Will Arnett.
- Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson will join Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in the drama Duplicity, with Tony Gilroy writing and directing for Universal Pictures.
- Milo Ventimiglia has joined Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Jean Reno, among others, in the cast of Armored the heist action film from director Nimrod Antal.
Graduating from High School Musical.
Around The Site:
- Take a look back at the many incarnations of Rambo in this week's Total Recall.
- Check out an exclusive clip from the new horror/dark comedy Teeth here.
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on Jan 25 2008 06:11 PM X-Files 2 kinda look cheesy and boring so far to me (Reply to this) |
on Jan 25 2008 06:42 PM im still holding out hope i was watchin it on the scifi channel yesturday and started to get excited of seeing some new material out there, maybe it will be like the latest rocky or diehard in the way it shouldnt be good but for some damn reason against the odds they did it right and it was infact good...i really am hopin for that feeling with the new x files (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 25 2008 07:01 PM Books, The truth is out there (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 26 2008 06:49 AM HI I just ask to edit this for everybody to share Wednesday, August 02, 2006 WE CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE ! POST UBI DIGRESSUS LUMENQUE OBSCURA VICISSIM LUNA PREMIT, SUADENTQUE CADENTIA SIDERA SOMNOS... ILLUM ABSENS ABSENTEMQUE AUDITQUE VIDITQUE. The moon in her turn, dimming when he's gone, among shooting stars with dreamy intimations, makes the oblivious listen, and see the absent one. Virgil: Eneid book IV 80-83 Edit | Delete | 0 Comments | Add Comment | Permalink | 04:16 AM (public) Wednesday, August 02, 2006 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN FOREVERMORE: PROSPECTS OF OLD FOR TODAY SEERS NIGHT-AND-DAY SPELLS ENCOUNTER The sun in the moon: an amalgam. Their gold and silver melt together. The elusive ones finally meet: The essence and the evolving forms, Good and evil, dead and alive, everything blooms From one natural stem. If you can't see love itself, See the results. Generosity or greed. If you can't see anywhere Love Look at the face of the lover. RECOGNITION Lovers think they are looking for each other, But there's only one search: Wandering this world is wandering that, Both inside one transparent sky. IGNITION We hear a voice from the sky Calling the lovers, And the odd, lost people. We scatter lives, Like bees we build in the bee-hive air Our true hexagonal homes. Then we break what holds us, each one a blacksmith Heating iron and walking to the anvil, We blow on the inner fire, And with each striking we change. Now we are still, silent wisdom, hidden flame. EXPANSE Existence: this place we made from our love for emptiness. Free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, Free of mountaineous wanting. The here-and-now mountain Is a tiny piece of straw, Blown off into emptiness. IDENTITY Where did I come from? I have no idea. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober, but now, Put your cheek against this drunken cheek, And give me a cup of liquid, Full of gold light. Forget men planning war. You can open the wide door of the sky, As you open me. REFLECTION Tonight the moon comes dropping its clothes in the street. I fall up into the bowl of sky. The bowl breaks. When the wineglass breaks, I fall towards the glassblower's breath. I ask the moon about you: The way the night knows itself in the moon, That you are in me. THE TENT Outside, the freezing night, This other night inside grows warm, kindling. Let the landscape be covered with crust, We have a soft garden in here The news we hear is full of grief for the future, but the real news inside here, is there's no news at all. SPACE See, there are no edges to this garden. Sweet fruits, every kind you can think of, Branches green and always slightly moving. See the nervous greed Deep inside plants and animals, And see them constantly Giving themselves away. KNOWLEDGE Since we met, a game goes on. I move, and you respond. You're winning, you think it's funny. But look up from the board now. Look how we've brought in furniture To this invisible place, So we can live here. After my dead living I can still live with you. you want me to. You fix and bring food. It's a drum and arms waving, It's a bonfire at midnight On the top edge of the hill, This meeting again with you. What do you want from me?- you ask - The privacy of one truth, Reason in the abstract, And reasoning in each of us. Go on your strange journey To the ocean of meanings, Where you become one of them. Go on foot through my garden, Like the grass does. UNION We dive into the deep pool of the mountain, Folded into the river, As the split-second When the bat meets the ball, And there is one cry between us. Lord, the air smells good today, Straight from the mysteries of God. The trees in their prayer, The birds in praise, The first blue violet kneeling. Whatever came from Being Is caught up in being, drunkenly forgetting the way back. Our soul is here for its own joy. A heart has one use: For loving a true love. The mind is for learning, but mysteries Are not to be solved, And love Is for vanishing into the sky. A lover is always accused of something, But when he finds his love, Whatever was lost in the looking Comes back completely changed. Touch my eyes, so I can be myself, Let me feel you enter each limb Bone by bone, That what died last night, Can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, And feel you ebbing out? I won't do it, Now I know how it is, To be with you in a constant conversation (XIII Century pre-religionist Central Asia. Rumi) Edit | Delete | 0 Comments | Add Comment | Permalink | 06:36 AM (public) EDWARD TO JOHN ( WOULD-BE MOVIE. THE END ) ) (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 26 2008 06:57 AM These poems are HEATH LEDGER IN MEMORIAM (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 26 2008 06:58 AM These poems are HEATH LEDGER IN MEMORIAM (Reply to this) |
on Jan 26 2008 10:42 AM Armored sounds good, and I'm happy Watanabe has joined Cirque de Freak. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 26 2008 12:26 PM In reply to this comment (#1524487) Andre Pons, you're deeply mad. 'Day to night spells' was all I needed to read to know you suffer from wild paxil induced madness of atmospheric levels. Stop thinking the way you currently do, because your mind has melted into a mound of dirty questions and mistakes. You're writing heath ledger poems? I wonder how he'll read them, his eyes stopped working last week. I'm surprised you could focus long enough to get that all typed out without screaming at your hair. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 26 2008 11:29 PM andre pons, Great performance!! your work is remarkable:) Seriously, Heath would be so proud and honored and probably is up in heaven appaulding your work at this very second:) Bravo, andre pons! and of course, R.I.P. the late, great Heath Ledger. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 27 2008 02:17 PM This has just become the weirdest weekly ketchup board ever... (Reply to this) |
on Jan 27 2008 08:27 PM In reply to this comment (#1530347) No, I told you. I ordered the BIG HAMBURGER. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 28 2008 05:21 AM R.I.P Heath Ledger. You will be greatly missed. But with his passing, I don't think he'd want us to lament over this, but be happy he gave us characters to remember him by "Joker" being the last of them. But who else do you think will come close enough in playing Joker in the future? Here are my picks in a segment i'd like to call "MY JOKERS" 1.Johnny Depp 2.Ashton Kutcher 3.Topher Grace Who are yours? (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 28 2008 07:25 AM The next joker? I dunno..Jake Busey! (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 28 2008 07:35 AM In reply to this comment (#1532576) Adrian Brody. (Reply to this) |
on Jan 28 2008 11:19 AM Ashton Kutcher? MAYBE IF THE TELEPORT IT BACK TO THE DISCO 70s. You are CWAZY PERSON! Next Joker: Cate Blanchett (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 29 2008 05:44 PM In reply to this comment (#1533199) LMAO! (Reply to this) |
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