Heath Ledger

Unsurprisingly, the sad death of Australian actor Heath Ledger has dominated Australian media over the past day. Every major paper in Australia this morning had huge front-page spreads about Ledger's death (except the Australian Financial Review, which would only have put this on the cover if Ledger had died in the New York Stock Exchange instead of at home).

And there were lots of quotes from Australian figures about Ledger's death (Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe (a New Zealander but he lives in Sydney), Cate Blanchett, etc) - not surprising.

But the Sydney Morning Herald had a weird to me para in its print cover story -"Only hours earlier, (Ledger's) Australian co-star in I'm Not There, Cate Blanchett, was nominated for two Academy Awards."

That just strikes me as an odd non sequiteur.