Archives: Heath Ledger

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January 2008

  • Remembering Heath at the SAG Awards

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    Everyone who watched the Screen Actors Guild awards show saw Daniel Day Lewis bring tears to many eyes with his emotional comments about Heath... more

  • Free speech or fireably offensive?

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    Television critic Mary McNamara took Fox talk show host John Gibson to task for controversial remarks he made in the wake of actor Heath Ledger... more

  • Fatigue factor sets in

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    PARK CITY, Utah -- Signs of fatigue were everywhere during the last days of the Sundance Film Festival: a man snoring loudly through a morning... more

  • Overdose deaths on the rise, CDC says

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    The investigation into actor Heath Ledger's death Monday as a possible drug overdose is bringing attention to a nationwide health crisis... more

  • It's time for John Gibson to go

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    Why exactly is John Gibson still on the air? Three days ago, the Fox News talk-show host opened his radio show with hate-filled, and prepared... more

  • Heath's body is moved

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    Heath Ledger's body is moved on Tuesday. Click HERE to watch a video of the removal of his body from a church in New York. The actor will... more

  • Heath's death causes carpet controversy! Vote now!

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    The Sundance Film Festival wasn't the only place where Heath Ledger's death created a clash over ethics between the media and celebrity and... more

  • Heath's masseuse not licensed!

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    Curiouser and curiouser... Heath Ledger's masseuse is not licensed by New York state to perform massage therapy, according to Us magazine... more

  • Ledger's family pays tribute to actor

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    Heath Ledger's family remembered the actor as "the most amazing 'old soul' in a young man's body." In a separate tribute, his sister said... more

  • Who will look after Heath's girls?

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    Sadder than the world's loss of a talented actor is a young child's loss of her devoted father. But Heath Ledger's two-year-old daughter... more

  • First call after Ledger was found: Olsen

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    A massage therapist who discovered a lifeless Heath Ledger in his Manhattan apartment made her first call to Mary-Kate Olsen... more

  • The ambiguous hero

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    THIS sadly underachieving decade, which the British tellingly call the "noughts," has been a troubled one for the concept of masculinity... more

  • A selected Heath Ledger filmography

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  • Faster than ink, but not indelible

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    Celebrity death: No other kind of event electrifies and illuminates so many parts of the Internet at once. Heath Ledger's sad, untimely end... more

  • Ledger's autopsy 'inconclusive'

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    It will take up to two weeks to determine the cause of Heath Ledger's death, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday, but... more