Over on the Spectator main page, Sean
Higgins has an obituary for Heath Ledger, a “good, versatile actor
[who] had a certain amount of guts” and, unfortunately, a pretty
short run. Ledger’s talent, Higgins unsubtly hints, did not
translate into knowing how to pick great scripts.
This blogger is not as down on Ledger’s films, mostly because of
one movie that doesn’t come up in the obit,
10 Things I
Hate About You, a modern remake of
The
Taming of the Shrew that was filmed at my
old high
school in Tacoma, Washington. It’s a great entertainment that I
can pop in the DVD player any time I need a good laugh or a trip
down memory lane.