"It's like a Gen-X 'Murder, She Wrote'."

You remember that Law & Order: CI episode I mentioned yesterday? Here's the episode's short thread on the TWoP Forums. It contains a few inappropriately humorous comments involving confusion:

That was Ethan Embry? What happened?

KFC references:

he still looked like "original recipe" Ethan Embry in [Sweet Home Alabama]

and telling observations:

Brad Renfro is police custody on both TV and in real life. He must have graduated from the Robert Downey, Jr. School of Method Acting.

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But I haven't gotten past Mr. Renfro yet

This is what greeted me on the Yahoo! front page this afternoon:

Heath Ledger found dead.

Shocked, I had to confirm this news with the most accurate source, Defamer:

Breaking: Heath Ledger is Dead. OMFG.

Then it was official.

In a twist of weirdness, this is the aforementioned episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent that I'm watching on USA right now. Ethan Embry is in the episode too. Score! Though he needs to do some cardio. Ethan's still okay, right?

FYI, I was going to put up the opening scene of 10 Things in which Allison Janney calls Heath "kangaroo boy." Then the bleacher scene appeared. I'm still welling up. :(

I don't know how many times

I watched The Client when I was thirteen years old. I was just fascinated by the film's young debut star. I even watched the movie in French on a cruise ship. So while the following news isn't exactly a shock to me, it's still sad (via Defamer):

TMZ is reporting that Brad Renfro, star of Apt Pupil and The Client, passed away earlier today at his Los Angeles home at the age of 25. The cause of death is still unknown.

With the teen idols of my youth slowly dropping like flies, I must insist that someone inform me on the status of Joshua Jackson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Josh Hartnett, anyone beginning with J. I'm pretty sure Mr. Gordon-Levitt is still alive and kicking. And Joey Lawrence is almost as dedicated to fame-whoring as Mr. Singing Bee is. So those three should be okay

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