Quoting Glenn Glazer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Deirde:
^ Arr!
> said the role actually killed the actor as he overdosed on
> the sleeping pills he took because the role gave him nightmares.
Actually, the really sad part is that Heath Ledger seems to have been
killed by an adverse interaction between his prescription medicines (two
codeine relatives, the sedative Diazepam, sleep aid Temazepam, and
anti-anxiety drug Alprazolam) on the one hand, and bog-standard
over-the-counter cold remedy Doxylamine (Nyquil) on the other. I.e.,
_nobody screwed up_, and yet a severe drug interaction, triggered by
a cold remedy you can buy at any grocery store, killed him.
He was a very talented and promising young actor. Never mind "A
Knight's Tale": Check out "10 Things I Hate about You" -- a classic in
the category of far better than it needed to be, being a very funny
retelling of _The Taming of the Shrew_ set at an American high school.
Ledger's work on "The Dark Knight" was/is complete: At the time of his
death, he's moved on to the still unfinished fantasy/adventure "The
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" -- whose director is attempting a
mid-filming rewrite to save the film.
The unlucky director? Terry Gilliam, of course. See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Killed_Don_Quixote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_La_Mancha
(Second link is to an article about an amazing documentary, "Lost in La
Mancha", about Gilliam's, er, quixotic quest to make a movie riffing on
the story of Don Quixote. Excellent, and reviewed here:
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2002/0815/lostinlamancha.html )
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