I protest Ledger being paid to act gay when there are so many real gays struggling to make it in homophobe Hollywood.
Its Al Jolson’s “Mammy” all over again.
You should read the wiki page. It’s hilarious and scary at the same time. As well as picketing the funeral for Heath, they went to the reopening of the mall in Omaha to “thank God” for the massacre.
Michael Moore organized a humorous counterprotest against the church for his TV Show The Awful Truth. He followed Phelps around the country in “the Sodomobile,” a pink bus filled with homosexuals. They even, at one point, get to meet Fred Phelps and Moore introduces the Sodomobile to him.
Moore devotes a chapter to Phelps and his wacky followers in his first book, Downsize this, which is well worth reading by the way and features no Bush bashing as far as I can remember.
It mainly centers around how the local schools around Phelps church require kids to do some kind of community activity as part of school. This is usually picking up trash at the local park, helping at an old persons home, and other worthwhile activities. Phelps threatened to sue the school if they didn’t count his grand son’s time protesting at the funerals of aids victims as community credits since it was a church activity.
The school board ended up giving him partial credit for it. Disgusting.
Opening his radio show with funeral music, Gibson callously mocked the actor’s death, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem”.
He then played an audio clip of the iconic quote from movie Brokeback Mountain, “I wish I knew how to quit you” - to which Gibson distastefully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you”.
Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger’s character says, “We’re dead”, followed by his own, mocking “We’re dead” before playing the clip again.
Heath Ledger’s death in New York two days ago caused one of the biggest internet frenzies ever, with news websites and search engines experiencing huge traffic spikes.
The news led to the third-highest day of traffic ever for nzherald.co.nz and came on the back of a strong week, with news about Sir Edmund Hillary’s funeral and the fluctuations in world stockmarkets dominating the headlines.
On Tuesday, coverage of Sir Ed’s death led to the site’s second-highest day of traffic ever. Only the All Blacks’ loss to France at last year’s Rugby World Cup led to a higher number of page views.
Terry Gilliam seems determined to finish the Heath Ledger film. Because it is a fantasy film, there is talk about using Johnny Depp to finish the part, and explain the change through magic. Sounds desperate, but like I said, you have to feel sorry for Gilliam. He’s definitely one of the good guys, trying to make interesting movies in Hollywood (12 monkeys), but things always conspire against him.
I’m going to surprise many people by joining in the request that Fred Phelps and his congregation be given information that would lead him to the funeral and burial place of Heath Ledger. Providing this information to these lunatics would, in my constitutionally protected opinion, have three principal benefits:
1. Relaxing Gun Control in Australia. Recent restrictions on gun ownership in Australia have had deleterious effects on public safety. In fact, the rise in crime accompanying the rise in gun control in Australia provides just the kind of natural experiment needed to refute the claims of anti-gun propagandists like Michael Moore. But after Fred and his violently bigoted gang of terrorists show up down under – and there are no guns handy to re-establish the peace – Australians will be demanding the return of full rights to gun owners. And, clearly, the left and right will be united against this unspeakable coward.
2. Getting Fred Phelps out of America. It should go without saying that the second advantage to getting the WBC congregation to Australia is that it will get them out of America. Once gone, we can then deny Phelps and company re-entry as a punishment for their treasonous acts as Americans. There is little use denying that WBC is a terrorist organization, which has provided comfort and aid to America’s enemies in a time of war – both with their speech and with their actions. Keeping them out of the country may seem harsh but it is not nearly as harsh as the penalty they truly deserve for committing treason: death.
3. Getting Fred Phelps ready for the prospect of hell. It would be a good idea to let Fred go down under before he really goes down under. In January, it is quite hot in Australia. It’s not as hot as hell but it should allow him to acclimate before making his final destination.
Of course, it isn’t me who says Fred Phelps is going to hell; it’s actually Fred Phelps.
I’ve always said that gays were among the angriest people on the planet and, clearly, since Fred Phelps is so angry he must be gay. And the gays would agree with my assessment. They’ve always said that people who criticized gays are also gay. Hence, the gays agree with me that Fred is one of them.
Of course, this is all bad news for the obviously gay Phelps who says that gays are going to hell. Maybe he forgot to read Matthew 7:3 about “the log that is in (his) own eye.” And maybe that log is big enough to build a log cabin for two. Or start a campfire on his personal Broke Back Mountain in hell.
Hollywood actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of six different types of prescription drugs, New York authorities have revealed.
The Brokeback Mountain actor, 28, was found dead in January in an apartment he had been renting in Manhattan.
The city medical examiner’s spokeswoman said Ledger died “as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects” of the different drugs.
They include painkiller Oxycontin and anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax.
Spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said: “What you’re looking at here is the cumulative effects of these medications together.”
Traces of painkiller ibuprofen and sleeping pills, Restoril and Unisom, were also found in Ledger’s blood.
Ledger’s father Kim said: “While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy.
Sad
I read somewhere that complications from prescription medicine was the number 3 killer in the US. Can’t find a link.
That can’t be true can it?
Either way, that’s why I don’t take any medications, or go to hospital for that matter (people die there)
Terry Gilliam seems determined to finish the Heath Ledger film. Because it is a fantasy film, there is talk about using Johnny Depp to finish the part, and explain the change through magic. Sounds desperate, but like I said, you have to feel sorry for Gilliam. He’s definitely one of the good guys, trying to make interesting movies in Hollywood (12 monkeys), but things always conspire against him.
I read somewhere that complications from prescription medicine was the number 3 killer in the US. Can’t find a link. That can’t be true can it?
Either way, that’s why I don’t take any medications, or go to hospital for that matter (people die there)
Americans take so much dope daily for every conceivable malady its ridiculous. For a country without healthcare, we spend an awful lot of time visiting the doc to get prescripton strength drugs for common, often benign ailments.
EDIT: I haven’t seen Eagle versus Shark, which I understand is pretty funny
Just watched it. Very funny, very good. That’s the style of film I like in general. Eagle vs. Shark reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite a bit, not that it was a rip-off, just similar style.
EDIT: I haven’t seen Eagle versus Shark, which I understand is pretty funny
Just watched it. Very funny, very good. That’s the style of film I like in general. Eagle vs. Shark reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite a bit, not that it was a rip-off, just similar style.
Cool. Dynamite is a film it is always compared to.
Have you seen The Flight of the Conchords on HBO?
