Last month, quietly and without fanfare, the high-rise ad for The Dark Knight on the building at the corner of Hollywood and La Brea was replaced. The poster, of Heath Ledger’s grimacing, sinister Joker, had lorded over Hollywood for the past eight months, both a symbol of the film’s box-office muscle and a reminder of the tragedy that lay at its feet. A few blocks south, near La Brea and Beverly, is the office of the Masses, the film, music and art collective of which Ledger was an integral... read more