If you pick any two musical acts from the top 20 & mash them with skill, you're certain to find a large audience. It's a tried & true formula that is generally rewarding to the listener as well. Yet, the top 20 is only the tip of the iceburg as far as genre selection goes. Many bootleggers dip far deeper into the well of styles with as much artistic success. Chances are the use of less well-known source material will reduce the number of listeners, despite the quality of results. I believe I'm an exception here, since I like to follow the mixer, not the material. Give me whatever track you made.
Even with the threat of fewer listeners, many mashup creators follow their own tastes, & are we lucky they do. A quick review of new tracks shows Apollo Zero has combined Cyndi Lauper with the Style Council. Divide & Kreate have mashed AC/DC with Peaches.MP3J has even dared to pair up Weird Al Yankovic with the Beatles with fine results.In light of how good many tracks are despite unfamiliarity of sources, I now give you a more-detailed examination of three DJ's & their new tracks.
DJ Lobsterdust has come on strong in the last 2 years with many instant classics like "New York Battle Move" (Busta Rhymes vs Nina Hagen vs Lo Fidelity Allstars vs Kottonmouth Kings) & "Be Still My Burning Shadow" (Sting vs Unkle). His newest cut, released Sunday last is "Jenny's Superstitious" (The Killers vs Stevie Wonder). I'm certain most of you know of the Killers, but despite his lifetime among the charts, I meet fewer possessing a knowledge of Stevie Wonder. Maybe their parents know him, but the kids...unlikely. They will love hearing Stevie in this setting, though. The track has energy, depth, & best of all, an immediate appeal that demands replay. It's too soon to see how it will do, but I am playing it much.
djlobsterdust.com
Next up we have French mixer ComaR, he of the familiar bootlegs like "Encore Miss Jackson" (Eminem vs Outkast) & "Pere Noel Rock n Roll" (Gary Glitter vs Bikini Machine). Continuing to provide fantastically-ingratiating cuts, he now releases "Shut Up On A Blue Monday" (Rihanna vs New Order) & it's as good as you might imagine. Literally equal parts of each original song, it elevates them into an unforgettable arrangement that compels listening. It has the side effect many great mashups have, in that you will immediately play the source tracks for comparison. Many of you are aware of Rihanna, I'm sure, but the passage of time might have diminished the fame of New Order. This track will help correct that unfortunate matter.
comar.over-blog.fr/
Netherlands' Mash2Mix is a more-recent entrant into the mashup world, but is already making a name with cuts such as "Soulpleasure" (Frankie Goes To Hollywood vs Soulsearcher) & "Deepest Relax" (Deepest Blue vs Mika). He displays the variety of selection I refer to with his just-released creation, "Where's Your Mahala Rai Banda" (Basement Jaxx vs Beastie Boys vs Reel 2 Real vs Mahala Rai Banda). The track unwinds itself with the familar trio of vocals dwelling among a bed of Balkan dance music. You'll do a double-take as you acclimate to the style, but soon, a need to dance emerges & you glow with happiness.
www.tcsproject.nl/
Top 20 tunes may drive the market, but mashups like these reveal why bootleggers dip deep into the world of music. Try these three out & see if you agree.
Mix Of The Week - Lee Spoons re-presents his mix from last year's Bastard show, "Spoony's Bastard Mix", & it has not grown stale in the least. It's jam-packed with some of the best bootlegs out there, & it'll sizzle your hard drive! Grab yours now before fun becomes illegal!
leespoons.proboards99.com
Mashup Tip - There's nothing wrong with re-using an old mashup pairing, as long as you make it better. That's why it isn't done, lol.
Jim Hightower: AMERICA'S GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE (jimhightower.com)
What happened to the good ol' American notion of the common good - the idea that we're all in this together, trying to build a strong, unified society by fairly sharing the economic gains that all of us help produce?
Garrison Keillor: Presidential hopefuls 'lash out,' ever so nicely
Another fine political year is upon us with seesaw races and fresh-baked dramas daily, high dudgeon, flights of fancy, tireless flesh-pressing, and thanks to the Web, you can feast on it any time night or day.
ANITA GATES: Suzanne Pleshette, 70, 'Newhart' Actress, Dies (nytimes.com)
Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced actress who redefined the television sitcom wife in the 1970s, playing the smart, sardonic Emily Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show," died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70.
Bill Gibron: Review of "Spike Jones: The Legend [DVD]" (popmatters.com)
Spike Jones was a human cartoon. He was the best of Bugs Bunny meshed with the diabolic (and delightfully demented) worst of Daffy Duck. He was Tom Lehrer without the Harvard chutzpah (Spike came from the school of hard entertainment knocks), a music deconstructionist whose sonic satire was so smart because it played it all so dumb.
Can we just put a word in here about the cocksuckers at the RIAA? Mankind
finally learns to share and what do they do? Try to put a halt to sharing in the
name of commerce. How dare there be transactions in which nobody gets a cut
because there's nothing to cut, no money changing hands, a simple and kindly act
of sharing, one of mankind's good points that, sharing, one worth pointing out,
something we should be proud of, something we teach our children, we shout at
them "share," the opposite of greed, the joy of passing something along for no
other reason other than joy shared is joy multiplied, it actually feels
good to turn people on to new things, hell, if your best pal came by and you had
just heard some fantastic new performer, wouldn't you just sit them down and
play it for them, like I'm doing with you, pretending you're my best pal, c'mon
buddy, park it and listen to this.
Joanna Newsom plays harp and harpsichord and sings, sometimes backed by
orchestral arrangements by Van Dyke Parks, the album wise spelled "Ys," but
that's not what's strange about her. Like Victoria Williams, she passed through
puberty without her voice changing. You'll hear amazing, multi-rhythm, totally
original harp playing and then suddenly it's like Joanna invited her
seven-year-old daughter to sing along, it's a kid's voice, totally
unprofessional, irritating, they'd bounce her out at the first round of
American Idol, the opposite of what they're looking for, and at first
you think that's nice, now shut up and let your mom sing, but it IS the mom, she
actually sounds like that, so you sit and listen some more and you get over
it, the voice, like Dylan's, you put it behind you, the lyrics, the
melodies, adult and sophisticated and childlike and magical, full of hooks
and iridescent meandering, powerful stuff, a cartoon voice perfect for Pixar,
they've got to get on it and you've got to hear her before they turn her into a
mouse or a squirrel, which brings me to the cocksuckers at the RIAA who at this
very moment are considering arresting me for offering to you free of charge a
song by Joanna Newsom, one solo, The
Book of Right-On, and what the hell, another, Cosmia, backed
by Van Dyke Parks at his best, both downloaded for free with Limewire from some
other generous soul who felt like sharing.
And why am I doing this? Am I a thief? Do you have any moral compunction
NOT to download these free MP3s? Have you been brainwashed into thinking that
sharing, just sharing, just letting you in on the secret, is bad, makes you bad
person, a thief robbing candy from the mouths of Joanna Newsom's real kids, if
she has them, which would be weird because until they hit puberty, they would
sound exactly like her? Hell, what's to stop you from buying something from her
or just sending her a check if you prefer. Don't let me get in the way, hell, go
ahead if you've got scratch to burn, I don't, I'm just turning you on to her the
best way I know how, by playing her for you, and it'll never occur to you to buy
her or go to one of her concerts unless you hear her first so repeat after
me, like I'm your mom, sharing is good, in all its manifestations, Limewire and
Bittorrent, the darkside of the web, let's shed some light, so share, okay, pass
these along unless you think they're crap in which case fuck off. Sharing is a
good thing except for the fear of getting raped by Bubba when the cocksuckers
from the RIAA call the cops on you.
On The Dick Van Dyke Show, the writers' office where Rob works is a recreation of the writers' bullpen from "Your Show of Shows", where
Carl Reiner worked as a writer. The character Rob is based on Reiner and the character Buddy Sorrell is based on then-television comedy writer
Mel Brooks.
mj was first, but wrong, answering:
I'm going to go with E, because I don't recognize D, and E is the most goyish of the remaining choices. Rob and Laura made Woderbread look like whole wheat.
DanD wrote:
The only name I recognizd that would match the right time (which was
actually about 3 or 4 years before "my time") would be Sid Caesar. But
then, my young life (which literally bypassed years of reruns) was
supervised by a woman (my mother) who was conditionally insane at the
time with religious fervor ... as sponsored by the H.W. Armstrong crowd
of Judeo-Christianists, and they didn't believe (at least the NW
Louisiana cadre) much television humor was sufficiently "godly" or some
crock.
It took dear ole' Mom quite a while to shake out of that cult.
S. Bennett reasoned it out well:
It's either Mel Brooks or Neil Simon. Neil Simon is funny but not Buddy Sorrell funny so I'm going to say Mel Brooks. And by the way, Carl Reiner had made a pilot of the show with himself in the Dick Van Dyke role but couldn't sell it until he made a cast change
Purple Gene nailed it:
Buddy's character is based on "B"....Mel Brooks!
Ned replied:
The jokes of Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) tended toward schtick
and one-liners resembling that of the great Mel Brooks.
And, Joe ("..more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol."
--W.C. Fields) said:
Who else could it be but B: Mel Brooks?
Bruce S wrote:
B: MB
Marian the Teaacher answered:
Mel Brooks is my final decision since I can't phone a friend. hehe
Sally got it:
The character Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) is based on then-television comedy writer Mel Brooks or, "B." It was between he and Neil Simon, but in thinking about it, the character, "Buddy" just didn't match the very funny, but low-key cometic personality of Simon...in my mind of course :)
Alan J was right, again, with a succinct:
Mel Brooks
Jim D replied:
mel
And, Jeff and Kathy deduced correctly:
My first guess was going to be Sid Caesar, but he was the star of Your Show of Shows, so the one who makes the most sense, by process of elimination and who seems most like Buddy is:
B. Mel Brooks.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Power Of 10', followed by a FRESH'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Julie Chen and the Redwalls.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Carmen Electra, Justin Bartha, and Margaret Cho.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH'Law & Order'.
Leno is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
On a RERUNConan (from 5/10/06) are Dave Chappelle and Common.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Amanda Beard and OneRepublic.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Cashmere Mafia'.
Jimmy Kimmel is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
The CW here has LIVE'NBA Basketball', with the Kings visiting the Clips.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'The Moment Of Truth'.
MY has 'Whacked Out Videos', another 'Whacked Out Videos', and 'Secrets Of Street Magicians Finally Revealed'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rio Bravo', followed by the movie 'The Hunt For Red October', then the movie 'Navy SEALs'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2 Corry-Thomas;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Ardingly 52;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep 9 While You Weren't Sleeping;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Episode 5;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Walnut Tree;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Dancing with the Stars - Episode 3;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Dancing with the Stars - Episode 3;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Episode 2 - Night Lines;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 3;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 2;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 19 Basildon;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 20 St. Leonards;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Ardingly 51;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 Ardingly 52;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Smith;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Walters;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Reno 911!'.
Jon Stewart is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
Colbert Report is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', then the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Life After People', and 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[06:20 AM] Rank;
[08:00 AM] Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong;
[09:00 AM] The Chorus;
[10:45 AM] American Splendor;
[12:30 PM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2008;
[01:00 PM] Rank;
[02:45 PM] The Chorus;
[04:25 PM] American Splendor;
[06:10 PM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2008;
[06:35 PM] The Battle of Shaker Heights;
[08:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #105;
[08:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #106;
[09:00 PM] Bully;
[11:00 PM] Undertow;
[01:00 AM] Bully;
[03:00 AM] Undertow;
[04:50 AM] The Battle of Shaker Heights. (ALL TIMES EST)
In this photo released by CBS, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards, left, prepares to parry another possible attempt to mess his hair by host David Letterman, on the set of 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
Photo by J.P. Filo
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
George Clooney traveled to Chad on Tuesday as a U.N. "messenger of peace" after spending time in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, U.N. sources said.
Clooney, appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to promote U.N. peacekeeping efforts, had been in Darfur for two days.
The actor's outspoken views on the conflict, which he has called genocide, prompted the United Nations to keep his visit low-key. Interview requests were turned down and media were not allowed to film the star.
Comedian Dave Chappelle attends the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute between Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Sen., John Edwards, D-N.C., in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.
Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast
Ringo Starr is known for being the amiable Beatle, but the rock star showed his tough side Tuesday when he walked off the set of "Live With Regis and Kelly" rather than cut short one of his songs.
Starr, who is promoting his new album, "Liverpool 8," planned to perform the title song with fellow rocker Dave Stewart. However, due to miscommunication between his publicist, Elizabeth Freund, and the musical director, Starr didn't realize the performance had to be 2 1/2 minutes or less, Freund told The Associated Press.
When told Tuesday morning that the performance had to be shortened, Freund said Starr tried to cut about a minute of the song's 4 minute, 15 second length, down to 3 minutes and 30 seconds. However, according to Freund, producer Michael Gellman said it had to be less than 3 minutes.
"We offered to cut back our chat time and asked them to fade or go to commercial. They were not willing to do that and Ringo was not willing to cut it further, so without a compromise we were not able to stay," Freund said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Ringo left saying, `God bless and goodbye. We still love Regis.'"
Firefighters across the United States are joining forces to try to sink Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign effort.
Some local firefighters said they call his recollections of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and promises of fighting terrorism a myth and insult.
Retired Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches lost his firefighter son on Sept. 11, 2001.
"The terrorists killed my son, but Rudy Giuliani gave us bad respirators, which caused many first responders to get sick and die. We had to fish human remains out of the garbage dump, and also he had failures in communication in everything else that did lead to unnecessary deaths ... down there of civilians and firemen because his administration failed to heed the warnings of '93," Riches said.
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.
The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps to prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before the House of Representatives that would force them to do so.
But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
Director and writer George Romero poses for a photograph while talking about his film 'Diary of the Dead' at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Romero shot the first of his five zombie films, 'Night of the Living Dead', nearly four decades ago.
Photo by Amy Sancetta
The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since November 5, has picketed for several days in front of ABC headquarters in New York, primarily to protest its airing of "All My Children" episodes written by non-union members. ABC is the only network to produce all of its soap operas, while "Days of Our Lives" on NBC is produced by Corday Prods. and all of the CBS soaps are produced outside the network, including two by Procter & Gamble and one by Sony.
The networks and soap production companies have gone radio silent about how many scripts they still have from WGA writing staffs, and the writers themselves say it varies from soap to soap.
All the networks and production companies that own soaps said they have enough scripts and a system in place to remain on the air and produce fresh episodes indefinitely. That has been facilitated by a government rule that allows WGA members to cross picket lines by filing for "financial core" status. Technically, they resign from union membership but still pay dues, and the guild can't stop them from returning to work.
Two writers on "All My Children," James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten, have returned to work under the "fi-core" provision, and other soaps might each have a couple of writers who also exercised the provision. ABC, without naming names, did acknowledge that some soap writers have returned under fi-core and that producers are aiding in the writing process.
Political combat continues to hold the interest of television viewers, with Monday's Democratic debate on CNN setting a standard as most-watched debate ever in cable news.
An estimated 4.9 million people watched Monday's show from South Carolina, which featured contentious exchanges between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It eclipsed CNN's Nov. 28 debate with Republican candidates, which had nearly 4.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Cable still doesn't have the reach of broadcast TV, however: ABC's prime-time Democratic debate on Jan. 5 before the New Hampshire primary was seen by 9.36 million people, Nielsen said.
Actress Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend arrive at the premiere of 'Sleepwalking' during the Sundance Film Festival, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Fox and the CW followed CBS' lead and cut their program development slates Tuesday. Fox let go of about two dozen scripts, while the CW dropped about a dozen.
The Fox scripts are said to be nearly evenly split between comedy and drama. Most of them hail from Fox's main supplier, 20th Century Fox TV. Also affected are projects from Warner Bros. TV, ABC Studios, Sony Pictures TV and CBS Paramount Network TV.
Like the projects released by CBS, most of the scripts eliminated by Fox and the CW have not been delivered to the networks, which means that their writers won't be paid beyond an upfront fee.
The cost-reduction moves come on the heels of the termination of some 70 overall deals by the five major TV studios.
Potentially cancer-causing chemicals used as flame retardants have been found in the bodies of Tasmanian devils, suggesting a possible role in a disease that threatens to wipe them out, a report said Tuesday.
Scientists have for years been unable to explain why the animals -- the world's largest marsupial carnivore -- have been afflicted with the disease, which causes facial tumours.
A study in which fat was taken from 16 of the animals, including some with the disease, found high levels of retardant chemicals commonly used in computers and foam in bedding and furniture, The Australian newspaper said.
The National Measurement Institute found high levels of hexabromobiphenyl ether, known as BB153, and "reasonably high" levels of decabromobiphenyl ether, known as BDE209, the newspaper said.
Actress Celeste Holm is photographed during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. More than 40 Oscar, Emmy, Pulitzer, Writers Guild, Humanitas, Obie, Tony award winners gathered at 'The Players' to support for the writers guild strike.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
One year after the antics of Borat thrust Kazakhstan into the Oscars limelight, the country had greater cause to celebrate Tuesday after earning its first Academy Awards nomination.
Kazakhstan's entry "Mongol," which tells the epic story of the early life of Genghis Khan, was named amongst the nominees in the best foreign film category for this year's Oscars.
It was only the second time Kazakhstan had submitted a film for consideration for the Oscars foreign film award after last year's entry "Nomad," by the same director Sergei Bodrov.
The victims of human sacrifice by Mexico's ancient Mayans, who threw children into water-filled caverns, were likely boys and young men not virgin girls as previously believed, archeologists said on Tuesday.
Maya priests in the city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula sacrificed children to petition the gods for rain and fertile fields by throwing them into sacred sinkhole caves, known as "cenotes."
Archeologist Guillermo de Anda from the University of Yucatan pieced together the bones of 127 bodies discovered at the bottom of one of Chichen Itza's sacred caves and found over 80 percent were likely boys between the ages of 3 and 11.
The other 20 percent were mostly adult men said de Anda, who scuba dives to uncover Mayan jewels and bones.
Scotland is considering lobbying the United States to lift a ban on haggis, hoping to boost sales of the sheep-stomach-based national dish.
The U.S. banned imports of Scottish haggis after Britain's outbreak of mad cow disease, which is linked to the human brain illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Scotland's government insist its haggis -- which usually contains the heart, liver and lungs wrapped inside a sheep's stomach lining -- is safe and wants the ban lifted.
Haggis, a globally recognized symbol of Scotland alongside bagpipes, kilts and Scotch whisky, is an essential part of Burns night celebrations, which commemorate national poet Robert Burns and fall on January 25.
When Elizabeth Emerson confessed to a newspaper that her only real indulgence has been an occasional chocolate bar during her 87 years, she wasn't prepared for the sweet response that followed.
The 87-year-old Emerson was featured in a New York Times story about the impact of soaring fuel prices, generating letters from across the country, some with bars of chocolate inside.
The story about how the low-income elderly endure harsh Northeast winters gave a snapshot of Emerson's life: married for a half-century, grandmother and great-grandmother to 52, former aide at a nearby nursing home, now struggling to live on a $683-a-month Social Security check.
She hit the jackpot in mid-December with an assortment from Hershey Co.
Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan apartment, naked in bed with sleeping pills nearby, police said. The Australian-born actor was 28.
While not a marquee movie star, Ledger was a respected, award-winning actor who chose his roles carefully rather than cashing in on his heartthrob looks. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," where he met Michelle Williams, who played his wife in the film. The two had a daughter, Matilda, and lived together in Brooklyn until they split up last year.
Ledger most recently appeared in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan - as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.
Ledger had finished filming his role as the Joker this year in "The Dark Knight," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins."
Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a mining engineer and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10 at a local theater company. He began acting in independent films as a 16-year-old in Sydney and played a cyclist hoping to land a spot on an Olympic team in a 1996 television show, "Seat."
Funny Path Car 9/11, a battery-operated toy which features U.S resident George Bush riding a tank to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, on display at a roadside toy vendor in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008.
Photo by Aijaz Rahi
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