NEWS LITE NAMES IN THE NEWS.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski THE SHIRTS OFF THEIR BACKS They're pretty average-looking men's shirts, but the fact that they were used by Heath Ledger Heath Andrew Ledger (born April 4, 1979) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. Biography Early life Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of Sally Ledger Bell (née Ramshaw),[1] and Jake Gyllenhaal Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at 11 years old. in best picture nominee ``Brokeback Mountain'' makes them special enough to auction on eBay as a fundraiser for Variety children's charity. Adding to their cachet cachet /ca·chet/ (ka-sha´) a disk-shaped wafer or capsule enclosing a dose of medicine. ca·chet n. An edible wafer capsule used for enclosing an unpleasant-tasting drug. is the shirts' dramatic symbolism Symbolism In art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative in the story of two cowboys who fall in love and maintain a secret relationship for decades. The shirts hit the auction site at 5 p.m. Friday, and bidding was expected to be very competitive. See www.ebay.com/varietyskids for these and other Hollywood memorabilia whose sale benefits the charity. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Shirts worn by Heath Ledger, left, and and Jake Gyllenhaal in ``Brokeback Mountain'' are being auctioned for Variety children's charity. |
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