As I’m sure everybody knows by now, the big news of yesterday was the sudden death of Heath Ledger who died in an apparent OD situation.   Now I got to be honest here.  I kind of saw this one coming.   After all anybody who dumps Scarlet Johansson for Michele Williams (aka the ugly chick from Dawson’s Creek) is clearly hiding some deep dark secrets in their soul.  But that’s really neither here nor there.    Instead the point of this random thought is I’m wondering whether people think Heather Ledger’s death qualifies as a phone call death?  Because the First Lady thought it was important enough to disturb me while I was doing my paper route to break the news.  This is how our conversation went;

Me:  Hello

First Lady:  Guess What?

Me: What?

First Lady:  Heath Ledger died

Me:  Oh yeah?

First Lady:   Yeah.

Me: So what else is going on?

First Lady:  Nothing. I was just calling to tell you he died.

Me: Ok.  I guess I’ll see you tonight.

So naturally this conversation got me thinking whether Heath really deserved his own death phone call?  I’ve got to vote no here.    I just think that the celebrity death phone call should be reserved for the crème de le crème of celebrities.   If Lindsey Lohan or Britney Spears bite the bullet then I want to know about it right away.   But Heath Ledger?   Sure it’s sad, but I can read about it in the morning paper.   I mean if we’re going to start calling people when guys like Heath Ledger die pretty soon we’ll be calling people when Carrot Top or Brett Michaels dies.  No, I don’t like it.   The celebrity death phone call should be reserved for maybe 20 people in Hollywood and that’s it.

Anyway I’m curious to hear what the Stoolies think about this one.   Vote 1 for Heath deserves the phone call and 10 for no phone call.