Heath Ledger

By Richard Lawson Summer is basically here. Your kids are more wild-eyed by the day, that tiny swimsuit seems tinier and tinier, and the television has begun to fizzle and fall quiet. Except it doesn't have to! There's so much summer television to be watched and absorbed. Why, enough for a listicle, even.

By Kyle Buchanan We've already given you our predictions for the Supporting Actress nominations—now, which four actors will have the honor of ultimately losing the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Heath Ledger? Let's find out! SURE LOCKS Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Josh Brolin, Milk

By STV Harvard alum Portman followed up a few inconsistent efforts from Colin Farrell, James McAvoy and Scarlett Johansson ("I was clinging to the edge of my seat waiting for her to explode," she wrote of I've Loved You So Long actress Kristin Scott Thomas) with a touching, articulate nugget of...

By STV While The Dark Knight's box-office trajectory has leveled out a smidge since becoming the fastest film to $500 million, the marketplace for morbidly exploitive Heath Ledger nostalgia has caught a new wave of holiday momentum. So say the proprietors of something called "Mr. Costumes," w...

By Kyle Buchanan Though no one cared enough to actually make it to her funeral, Golden Girls actress Estelle Getty was beloved in Hollywood, where actors and agents whiling down coke benders at 4 a.m. grew to love the misadventures of her sassy Sophia Petrillo during countless late-night Lifetime reruns. S...

By Kyle Buchanan Days after implicating Mary-Kate Olsen but months after it began, the DEA inquiry into the death of Heath Ledger has finally wrapped, filing charges against exactly no one. Does it perhaps seem like the U.S. Attorney's Office spent an awful lot of time and money with nothing to show for it? Ac...

By Kyle Buchanan Uncle Jesse would be very disappointed: according to the New York Post, Mary-Kate Olsen is refusing to speak (wait, they talk?) with federal investigators looking into the death of Heath Ledger — that is, until she receives immunity from prosecution. It seems the feds are making inquiri...

By STV To wit: Please! Make! The Heath Ledger posthumous Oscar talk! Stop! "That's what Warner Brothers are saying, but they'll do anything to publicize their film," says Gilliam who was directing Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in January only days before the Australian actor...

By STV But... how would that even work? Anyway, Troyer's pulling through with the help of friends, family and his lawyer, as well as by continued (if "dehydrated") work on films including Heath Ledger's unfinished final project, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Recalling the late actor's troubl...

By STV After surviving months of Dark Knight hype, viral outreach and tastefully overblown praise for late co-star Heath Ledger, Defamer finally got its chance at a screening Tuesday to see what all the Bat-fuss was about. And as editor Seth Abramovitch and senior editor S.T. VanAirsdale discov...

By Mark Graham · The eldest denizens of the Dark Knight cast, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, made an obligatory promotional stop-off to hobnob with the ladies of The View this morning. And, of course, they used the opportunity to stump for a Heath Ledger Oscar nomination. We'll weigh in tomorrow morni...

By Molly Friedman 2) The Mythical Heath/Mary-Kate Romance Remains Purely...Mythical: We won’t point any fingers (since pointing one of those fingers at ourselves just isn’t fun), but more than a few gossips and reporters launched a baseless theory immediately following Ledger’s tragic death, that he an...

By STV And you know what? While we can't vouch for how Ledger's penultimate performance might have fared in the Bay biosphere (regardless of this joke script's authenticity), at this point we can't deny we'd mind living in the parallel universe where this script would not only be written, but t...

By STV Don't believe for a second that David Letterman really broke any studio embargoes last night to tell you he loves The Dark Knight (he's not even the first to do so), but that doesn't mean the pseudo-spoilers contained herein are likely to compel you any less. In fact, the film Letterman desc...

By Molly Friedman In light of rumors that scenes from The Dark Knight may be cut or altered due to screener audiences' discomfort while watching overly dark Ledger moments, coupled with the fact that Michelle Williams is due to promote her upcoming film Deception later this month, a lawsuit claiming Ledg...

By STV The AP's Dave Germain has quite the feverish, myth-churning Heath Ledger tribute making the rounds today, positioning the late actor's final film The Dark Knight as "arguably the biggest movie featuring a posthumous role in Hollywood history." But don't get your hopes up! The A-list pa...

By Seth UPDATE: Michelle Williams's publicist refutes Us's Ledger rehab story, after the jump. The actor, who is godfather to Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda, has been devastated by last week's news. Says one Gyllenhaal friend, "Jake is taking this harder than most people." [...]

By Seth Travolta publicist Samantha Mast said, "John spoke with the guy briefly before he realized he was an impostor. He did not make arrangements to buy him a plane ticket." But a source said Travolta, who had been "making arrangements to buy [the impostor] a plane ticket from Australia to LA and s...

By Seth Let's just get on with this. A round-up of where we are so far with yesterday's shocking death of Heath Ledger at age 28: · Kim Ledger, Heath's father, made a statement to the press, confirming the "untimely and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother and doting father of Matilda....

By Seth In today's episode: Daniel Day-Lewis; Diane Keaton; Jake Gyllenhaal; Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Peter Billingsley; Doris Roberts; Joe Pesci; Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane; Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman; Adrian Grenier; Randy Jackson; Alexis Bledel...

By Seth In today's episode: Jack Nicholson; Patrick Swayze and Heath Ledger; Jake Gyllenhaal; Keanu Reeves; Halle Berry; Paul Rudd; Thomas Haden Church; Helen Hunt; Linda Hamilton; Jemaine Clement; Michelle Rodriguez; Eric Dane; Hanson and Frankie Muniz; Dylan McDermott; Dita Von Teese a...

By Seth In this week's episode: Lindsay Lohan, Topher Grace, Malcolm McLaren, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz; Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst; Heath Ledger; Bruce Willis; Jessica Simpson; Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson; Hayden Christensen; Billy Bob Thornton; Mandy Moore and Zach Braff; Jeremy Piv...

By Seth We must admit, Randy Quaid's lawsuit made us lonesome for the good ol'Brokeback Mountain days, when the Jake and Heath posts came in bushels and bloggers grew rich off the fat of the gay-cowboy-joke land. Sadly, things have slowed to a near trickle since the Oscars, though we can always rel...

By Mark Michelle Williams, of Brokeback Mountain fame, brought to the party not only her hubby Heath Ledger (gorgeous!) but another fellow Dawson's Creek actress- the girl that played Audrey (Joie's roommate in college) - who looked completely uncomfortable and out of place - After all, does...

By Mark A Defamer operative much better connected than we are (of course, your average set PA has more juice than we do) snagged invites to both the Oscar pre-parties thrown by ICM's Ed Limato and CAA's Bryan "George Clooney's Oscar Date" Lourd. It seems that Limato's shindig skewed a little old, w...

By Seth UPDATE: A publicist for Team Ledger got in touch to let us know that the actor's answer to the loaded question was not intended as some kind of slight of co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, but was meant in a spirit of celebrating the entire brotherhood of nominated actors. Competition is weird, he wis...

By Mark In today's typically jam-packed episode: Joaquin Phoenix; Ben Affleck; Warren Beatty, Courtney Love, and Ed Begley Jr; Courtney Love; Madonna; Sean Penn, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, and Robbie Williams; Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson; Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver;...

By Seth The fearless and versatile actor can look forward to many future variations on the "What's it like to pretend to be..." question, including versions ending in "...a wheelchair-bound gangsta rapper?", "...a psychic Dutch pothead prostitute?", "...a graffiti artist with Tourette's?" and, ultima...

By Mark A Defamer operative generously fulfilled our greedy request for a report on last night's screening and cast Q & A for Brokeback Mountain at the Aero, during which Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger once again faced the "What's it like to pretend to be gay cowboys?" question: Question:...

By Mark In a word (OK, three): No. She. Didn't. Call Ledger's touchingly tortured--if mumble-mouthed--performance overrated if you must, but declaring his baby's momma not hot enough is dirty pool, especially considering that her main on-screen competition was either a) saddled with progres...

By Seth Thanks to his performance in Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger is no longer just "that dude who jousted to Queen remixes," but a bankable and respected leading man. But getting to sink your teeth into this calibre of material nothing says Oscar bait like his wrenching attack of love withdr...

By Mark With Brokeback Mountain's premiere just around the corner, its producers are delighted that co-stars Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams fell in love on the set, providing a welcome counterpoint to all the "gay cowboy movie" talk. To thank his leading man, producer James Schamus kick-s...

By Mark · Fox wins Sunday night with football, The Simpsons, and The Family Guy. [THR] · Ang Lee's gay cowboy yarn, Brokeback Mountain, wins the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion. But American audiences have to wait until December 9th to witness Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's hot cowpoking a...