Heath Ledger

From The Room: A New Genre of Book: The Fake Autobiography

March 6, 2008 - There's a new category of book--the fictitious memoir--the most recent being Love and Consequences by Margaret B. Jones, purporting to be by a woman claiming to have been raised in poverty by a black foster mother, who sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles...

From The Room: The Oscars: There Will Be Liveblogging

February 24, 2008 - Click the 'bio' link for information about our livebloggers. 7:10p Brad Taylor Negron: Hello....I am at the Beverly Hilton Jim David: I'm currently under Tilda Swinton's dress. DISGRASIAN: What's it like in there? Jim David: I have my own video monitor. Brad Taylor Negron: Ruby...

From The Feed: I want a new drug...so, what was that URL again?

February 7, 2008 - STARTLING EXPOSE! ABC World News just set their time machine back to 1996 and found out [SPOILER ALERT] you can order drugs through the Internet without a prescription...

From The Room: After Irwin, Ledger, Paul Hogan is on Notice

February 6, 2008 - On the same day that the New York City medical examiner's office declared late heartthrob Heath Ledger's death an accidental overdose of prescription medicine, word has come that Australian actor Paul Hogan has gone into hiding. "My friends keep saying that deaths always come in threes, and after...

HEATH LEDGER UPDATE:
working out the kinks in the masseuse's story

January 31, 2008 - As the world awaits Heath Ledger's autopsy results, new details are emerging about Ledger's drug use. Page Six says Williams broke up with Ledger because of his spiraling drug problem, and a video has surfaced of...

From The Room: Other Stuff Happened After MLK Day

January 27, 2008 - Last week was an especially big week for inane news, and to help you recall it, I've put together this handy three-point wrap-up, ideal for cubicle chatter. Because nothing made my attention span for hard news wander this week quicker than Hippies vs. Beckham, faux crack candy...

Heath Ledger tributes: the good, the weird and the weirder

January 25, 2008 - Actor Heath Ledger's death at age 28 has prompted a worldwide outpouring of shock, sadness and moving tributes. The young star's...

From The Room: John Gibson Must Die

January 25, 2008 - In William Wyler's The Little Foxes, one of the greatest moments is when an evil Bette Davis says to her sick husband, "I hope you die. I hope you die soon. I'll be waiting for you to die." I find myself screaming this every time I watch FOX...

Mary-Kate may have loved Heath's "giant megaphone," but God didn't

January 25, 2008 - The tributes to Heath Ledger just keep rolling along. Everybody, it seems, has something to say—even people who didn't know him. Like Daniel Day Lewis, who said, "I have an impression, a...

From The Room: Celebrity Security

January 25, 2008 - It disturbs me that Mary Kate Olsen has her own security force. The same for Wesley Snipes. Could war break out between the two? Maybe over the same part in a bit of stunt casting. Suddenly we don't just need a dog that fits in a purse, hair extensions...

From The Room: Who Ya Gonna Call?: Phone Call to Mary-Kate Olsen Reveals Hollywood's Best-Kept Secret

January 25, 2008 - ***ONE MIN SPOT/"OLSEN TWINS EMERGENCY HOTLINE"*** DISTRIBUTION: National EMBARGO: None RUN TIME: :55 MIXED AND READY FOR AIR 01/24/08 KILL DATE: Indef. ***TRANSCRIPT*** (Fade up from black to slow dissolves of various pix of Heath Ledger, opening strains of Coldplay's "Fix...

From The Room: Fred Phelps Searches for an Angle

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Thought Process Flowchart: Mary-Kate Olsen

January 24, 2008 - UPDATE! As the timeline of 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger's death is pieced together...

From The Room: People Are So Cynical

January 24, 2008 - No traces of drugs on the rolled up 20 in Heath Ledger's room? People are so cynical. Did they ever consider he was making a tiny telescope...

Hard news gets desperate in the wake of Heath Ledger's death

January 24, 2008 - Traditional media outlets have spent an inordinate amount of energy chronicling the death of actor Heath Ledger. On Tuesday—the day that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates by 3/4 of a percent following the collapse of international markets—the...