In “Candy,” Heath Ledger plays arguably the last person any bottom-line-minded parent would want their daughter to love: a drug-addicted poet. Having a gay cowboy for a son-in-law doesn’t sound so bad ...
He was in line to become Hollywood's next top romantic lead, a blossoming hunk primped for mainstream superstardom. This conscious change in course perhaps culminated in Brokeback Mountain, for which ...