March 2001-   Heath Ledger's upcoming movie A Knight's Tale was reviewed by the film critic at Rolling Stone magazine. Below is the transcript.

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Rolling Stone  "The Cool Issue" by.  Peter Travers April 12/01 Forget Pearl Harbour, Jurassic Park 3, The Mummy Returns and the other hard-sell Blockbusters hitting mutliplexes this summer.  The real deal is coming under the radar.  A Knight's Tale is a fourteenth-century jousting adventure in which armor is pierced, and heads are cracked, while Queen roar "We will/ We will/ Rock you."  OK, sounds like it sucks. But the movie plays like a dream.  Heath Ledger got the full hype as Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot. This time he lives up to it.  The Aussie hunk plays the son of a thatcher who rises to knighthood through trick the cast of Survivor would envy.  The lady of his fantasies is played by Shannyn Sossamon, who was discovered DJ'ing at a party for Gwenyth Paltrow.  For comic foils, Ledger lucked into, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk and Paul Bettany, who energizes the role of the young literary showoff Geoff Chaucer.  Yup, that Chaucer.  Director-screenwriter Brian Helgeland-- he won an Oscar for scripting L.A. Confidential-- mixes up pop-culture style that span centuries with an unerring sense of fun and romance.  Purists be damned.  You wont be able to wipe the grin off your face.