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...torture. Government malfeasance. Crappy health care. Not to mention one young star who shouldn't be dead, Heath Ledger, and one who might've been, Owen Wilson. (He showed up to read an intro.) Surrounded by these dour subjects, Stewart did his best to keep the tone light. He alluded to the town's relief over the end of the writers' strike by saying, "Welcome to the make-up sex." He confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home...
...only breaks in the day's jollity were the wins for Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, which co-starred the recently deceased Heath Ledger. Blanchett, who took home best supporting actress honors, remembered Ledger as one of the most "beautiful independent spirits...
...opened my web browser to The New York Times Web site and was greeted by chills running down my spine. Tucked away on the bottom-right corner of the screen, below headlines about flailing financial markets and the South Carolina primaries were the puzzling words: “Heath Ledger Found Dead...
...recurring theme of these conversations was how strangely significant the loss had been to us—this was the first time in our memory that we had lost a movie star. Heath Ledger was our Marilyn Monroe, our James Dean. He had joined the regretful ranks of stars immortalized by their premature deaths...
...sexy brute in one galvanizing package. Yet Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger--who in Brokeback Mountain gave a bold, pioneering performance--neither Clift nor Dean lived long enough to be given an honorary award...