{"id":1142,"date":"2008-01-22T17:59:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1142"},"modified":"2008-01-23T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:56:50","slug":"damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1142","title":{"rendered":"…Damn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just…  Damn!<\/p>\n

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[Update…]<\/em> Apparently initial autopsy results were inconclusive.  But…look at this from Raw Story<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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The actor’s personal strife was accompanied by professional anxiety.<\/p>\n

Ledger said in an interview in November that "Dark Knight" and last year’s "I’m Not There," took a heavy toll. He said he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film, and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."<\/p>\n

"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told The New York Times. "I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which only worked for an hour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Holy Crap!<\/em>  I had a prescription of Ambien once and just one of those things would slam me down flat all night and halfway into the next morning.  And those things are horribly addictive (it took me a month and a half of slowly cutting the pills down smaller and smaller every night to ween myself off the stuff) and I swore afterward that I’d never touch the stuff again.  And he was downing two at a time and they weren’t doing anything for him???  Wow.  Just…  Wow.\n<\/p>\n

I don’t think most of us who only watch their performances up on the silver screen really appreciate how incredibly stressful that life is.  They make it look easy and it isn’t.\n<\/p>\n

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Just…  Damn!   [Update…] Apparently initial autopsy results were inconclusive.  But…look at this from Raw Story… The actor’s personal strife was accompanied by professional anxiety. Ledger said in an interview in November that "Dark Knight" and last year’s "I’m Not There," took a heavy toll. He said he "stressed out a little too much" during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}