FYI: Heath Ledger was a badass chess player.
After sodomizing Jake Gyllenhaal (so hot) and hamming it up as a psycho, mass-murdering clown (hella artsy), Heath overdosed on sleeping pills (so in right now) and bit the dust ‘mdash; a fucking brilliant career move. Immortalized forever as a tortured actor on the cusp of glory, the former junior chess champion joined the VIP list of early-death superstars: James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee … and now our favorite, 28-year-old Australian man candy.
Forget that he was the most convincing clown ever, licking his caked-up lips in the freakiest of snakelike fashions (after all, making even the burliest bro piss his pants doesn’t make a man). It’s what happens after ‘mdash; hundreds of tribute videos from love-struck fans, thousands of Facebookers in Joker paint, millions made in box-office bills ‘mdash; that truly grants Ledger a rank among legends.
As for other Oscar nominees? He’s the checkmate from hell.