William Blake

“I was Socrates. I must have had conversations with him. So I had with Jesus Christ. I have an obscure recollection of having been with both of them.”

-- William Blake, near the end of his life.

Heath Ledger

"I’m shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. “Why aren’t you like this in normal life? Why can’t you act in your social life?” Because I can’t!"

-- Heath Ledger (quote from NY Post, 2001)



Heath Ledger, GQ magazine, Australia (2003)

Ledger died on 22 January 2008 from an accidental "toxic combination of prescription drugs". A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. His death occurred during editing of the film and cast a shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $180 million production.[10] Ledger received numerous accolades for his critically acclaimed performance in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously,[11] the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor[12] and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.[4] At the time of his death, he had completed about half of his final film[13] performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

-- Wikipedia

1960 Nixon vs. Kennedy

I long accepted the history that Nixon was robbed of the 1960 election, even the idea that he refuse to contest the vote because he did not want to harm the country. After all, what was LJB for? Maybe I swallowed too quickly, trying to see some possible good in the Republicans, trying to balance the story a little between the two parties. Maybe the election was not stolen, and the Nixon people definitely contested the results. But perhaps Nixon still believed firmly that he was cheated, and maybe this did open the way to Watergate.

(Source: David Greenberg at Slate.com)

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