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Ledger

By The Daily Dish

Jan 22 2008, 5:15 AM ET

It's rare to actually be shocked by a young actor's possibly drug-related death. But Ledger was a really fine actor, in my opinion, and his performance in Brokeback Mountain was a gut-wrenchingly under-stated evocation of the terror and pain of the closet. I was looking forward to his Joker. How horribly sad.



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