That I absolutely adored and it was La Vie en Rose. I watched it at my house on demand, only because Marion Cotillard won the Oscar and I was curious about it. It got a poor review here at Salon by SZ (she and I are officially thru BTW, not like she cares of course; she's entitled to her opinion but it's useless to me). She wrote that she would have preferred a straight-up hollywood story to this messy, transporting, disjointed, inaccurate movie. It may have been all these things, but it was mesmerizing and I felt overwhelmed and transported into someone else's life, rather than feeling as if I were watching a slick re-enactment in period costume a la Walk the Line or Frieda. This movie got very little press and I have no idea where it was playing here in town, a large western coastal city. I have heard lots and lots about No Count and TWBB, 2 movies I care as much about as I do Semi-Pro, but so little about LVER, a movie that I would have loved to see in a theater. I watched Michael Clayton before that and I was like, not a bad story, pretty good performances. Then I watched this other movie and I had no words, which is what I want from a movie.

to just attribute HL's death to his decadent lifestyle and his drug dependency because then we wouldn't have to worry about falling into the same situation in the article. Maybe it was all his fault. Fine. That's him we don't have to worry about anymore. The truth is though that lots of regular people get addicted to pain pills prescribed by their dentists or regular doctors. Just because it's happened to Anna Nicole and Heath Ledger doesn't mean it only happens to the unstable and the famous. There is a problem with the way we do medicine in this country, from kicking people out of hospitals the same day they have a mastectomy or a cholecystectomy to prescribing medicines contraindicated in certain patients. It happens. Doctors make mistakes. By all means, hold the Heath Ledgers of the world responsible for their actions, but not the people in real power, not the doctors, the pharmacists or the drug companies and definitely not the paper pushers. We're on our own completely and we know it.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I've had problems with the medical profession too, but fortunately never lost anyone. Your story is so sad. About the snoring, often when people are dying they have what are called Cheyne-Stokes respirations which was probably the loud snoring. It has to do with the nervous system and respiration.

that Heath Ledger was a drug addict AND that prescription meds, sleeping aids, antidepressants, younameit are prescribed carelessly and with little oversight in this country? The two aren't mutually exclusive. I hadn't known that he didn't have a prescription bottle for OxyContin, only had it in his system. I'm pretty sure that stuff is only for terminal cancer patients, not for bad backs or insomnia. Healthy people aren't supposed to take it, but I have read that Winona Rider took oxycodone, the generic form, and so did Jack Osborne and Courtney Love. They get it somewhere, probably black market. Kerrrazzzeee. Gotta take your medication everyday, be a good dog, live life in a wonderful way. Tell me why you wanna be blind--(Everclear, normal like you)

I liked the rule the Canadian mentioned. If a doctor can't get your med/pharm history, you get no opiates or the like. As it is now, people go into ERs (not people like HL natch) and bully and insult a doctor or threaten to go elsewhere to get meds if he doesn't come across. Take the matter out of his hands.

Thanks for the link. I read it and it was just so sad and frustrating because it sounded so preventable. He really was an amazing talent and I think so much a part of the future. Such a tragedy he's now only in the past.

About being afraid to wake people you work for or don't know--My kids, my aunt and I were walking in a big park one day and saw a nice looking older man sleeping on a bench very silently and looking like he was in an uncomfortable position. So we just said, mister, mister, are you okay? and he woke up. He wasn't mad or anything. Better safe than sorry. I have too much time on my hands.

the lists of crimes committed by Bush (destroying this country BTW)and others scarcely gets any media attention, but this is the kind of thing they love and which will destroy Spitzer. This sucks.

I couldn't agree more. Heidi (or similar) was on David Letterman the other night, and he was pretty sly and amusing. He appeared to know and care all about her and Spencer, said "my bad," and just in a very subtle way showed how removed most people are from these situations? reality shows? I'm with you on this article 100%. A nice spread in Look or Life with people wearing nice dresses in their lovely homes, telling about their latest diet or boyfriend would do me just fine. I don't need pictures of celebrities going thru doorways or getting gas, or worse. Side note: I think in the First 5 (whatever) in Salon today, there was a heading that read "TI gets to go home for Easter." I had no idea who TI was but read it anyway. His real name is Clifford and he's a rapper. Good to know.