Heath Ledger

By Kaiser Aussie actress Abbie Cornish is profiled in September’s W Magazine, and it is a terrifically boring interview. Most of it is about her new film, Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, one of my faves). It’s a period film about the true romance of poet John Keats and his friend/neig...

By Kaiser The August issue of Vanity Fair has a fascinating article about Heath Ledger called “The Last of Heath”, all about his insomnia and sleeping pill usage, his own thoughts about his career, and his relationship with Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda. The issue went to print before Mic...

By Kaiser Johnny Depp shows Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley around his 45-acre private Bahamian island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay, and tells Brinkley that the island “is my decompression. It’s my way of trying to return to normalcy…. Escapism is survival to me.”

By Kaiser The actress, 33, scored three MTV Movie Award nominations, including “Best Kiss” for her lip-lock with James McAvoy in Wanted. She is also up for “Best Female Performance” and “Best WTF Moment,” a new category, for her “curved bullet kill scene.”

By Kaiser There are many similarities between Watchmen’s The Comedian and Batman’s Joker. As it turns out, the process of acting out such cartoonish sociopaths is similar for the actors too. Just as Heath Ledger famously talked about how difficult it was to shake the Joker, now Jeffrey Dean Morgan,...

By MSat The 38-year-old comedian bested runner-up Robert Downey Jr., whose comeback was capped with the blockbuster smash “Iron Man,” and the third-place vote-getter, Heath Ledger, who posthumously wowed audiences as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.”

By MSat The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has gone populist on its picks for best movies of 2008, choosing the animated smash “WALL-E” as No. 1 and the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” as runner-up on Tuesday. Danny Boyle took directing honors for “Slumdog Millionaire,” with Christop...

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By MSat Instead of paying the $10 mil, ReliaStar set out to investigate whether Ledger took his own life, despite the fact that the New York City Medical Examiner ruled the death accidental. Michelle Williams is shown at the premiere of ‘Wendy and Lucy’ during the New York Film Festival on 9/27/08....

By MSat The Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship will award recipients up to $10,000, and round-trip airfare from Australia, to pursue a career in the United States. Ledger was an Ambassador for AIF before his death in January; current ambassadors include Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman a...

By JayBird The decision comes after recent reports that actress Mary-Kate Olsen was demanding immunity before answering questions about the startling death of her close friend and his drug use. Authorities say she was the first person called by a masseuse who found the 28-year-old “Dark Knight” a...

By Celebitchy As the investigation surrounding Heath Ledger’s accidental overdose continues, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration office in New York has confirmed to Access Hollywood that they have issued a subpoena that would force Mary-Kate Olsen to testify in front of a grand jury.

By Celebitchy The statement was released following a report, confirmed by PEOPLE, that Olsen, 22, wants immunity from prosecution before she will cooperate with a federal investigation into close friend Ledger’s death from an accidental overdose.

By Celebitchy Probers have interviewed everyone connected to Ledger and his death, including his doctors, the masseuse, bodyguards, housekeepers, business associates and even the mother of his 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, his “Brokeback Mountain” co-star Michelle Williams.

By CNH Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons are shown at the arriving at the Casanova premiere in NY on 12/12/05, thanks to WENN. Sienna Miller seeks solace in some pajamas that Heath Ledger had lent her after a walk in the rain. The actress, who costarred with Ledger in the film “Casanova,”...