"ONCE-RISING STAR IN MORRIS FINDS IT HARD TO EMPTY DESK," the headline in the Star-Ledger read, on December 21 , 1997
"This may sound a bit nerdish," he said, "but I would take The Star-Ledger and read it out loud when I was at home in summer, trying to perfect my voice".
Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper— bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us, on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives— to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did for twenty years, so I could write this poem.
No sooner had Heath Ledger's name been read out than - zoom - we got a screenful of Robert Downey Jr's upset eyes.
Day 10: A slight slip, but I had to read Heath Ledger's toxicology results.
The litigation against Sony sounds silly, as if anyone really bought tickets to the film because they read that Ledger gave the performance of the year, but the fact that litigation was taken shows that in this age deceptive promotion as commercial speech is not tolerated, at least not when its duplicity is blatantly revealed.
According to an article in the Star Ledger, the headline reads: "N.J. loses $70B in wealth during five years as residents depart".
He then pulled a faded, yellowing ledger from the shelf and read its contents: "On May 5, 1939, a client from Paraguay bought 12 caliber 1320s at a price of 60 Swiss francs," he said, referring to the internal reference number for one of Minerva's original movements.
If they hadn't read that "Heath Ledger was this year's hottest new star," they would not have seen the film and they wanted not just their $12 back but all the money that Sony made from their false reviews.
To own a content producing machine (why else would anyone read The Star Ledger or come to their website, NJ.com?), and then turn around and kill the very thing that makes the content makes no sense.
