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Heath Ledger in Top Posthumous Earners List

Karl Erikson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:36:00 GMT

Heath Ledger is amongst other dead celebrities who have earned lots more after their death than before. Joining Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Heath Ledger is on the Top Posthumous Earners List.

Heath, star of movies such as "Brokeback Mountain," "A Knight's Tale," and "The Dark Knight," earned over $30 million last year. Leading experts say he'll probably get more than $5 million this year if he gets next month's Best Supporting Actor Oscar. All of the money, of course, goes to his daughter with Michelle Williams, Matilda, 3.

Elvis still tops the high earners' list, even 31 years past his death. Second is famous Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Heath is third, followed by Albert Einstein and TV prodcer Aaron Spelling in fourth and fifth place. Others on the top 10 list include Dr. Seuss, John Lennon, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Steve McQueen.

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Heath Ledger Wins SAG Award for "Dark Knight"

sweatpantsmom — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:05:00 GMT

Late actor Heath Ledger was honored with the best supporting actor award at the Screen Actor's Guild Awards for his portrayal of The Joker in last summer's blockbuster "The Dark Knight."

Ledger's "The Dark Knight" co-star Gary Oldman accepted the award on his behalf.

"I'm quite emotional," Oldman said. "It is a great honor to be asked to accept this on behalf of Heath. He was an extraordinary young man with an extraordinary talent, and it is wonderful that you have acknowledged that and honored that talent tonight."

Ledger's performance has been generating Oscar buzz since before his death last January from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. With the SAG win and his Golden Globe win earlier this month, Ledger now looks certain to receive the supporting-actor Oscar on Feb. 22.

This must be another bittersweet moment for Ledger's family. After the actor was honored at the Golden Globes, they issued a statement saying the award would eventually go to Matilda, Ledger's daughter with Michelle Williams. I'm sure the SAG award will go to her as well.

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Heath Ledger's Friends Remember His Final Days

Karl Erikson — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:05:00 GMT

January 22 will mark the one-year anniversary of Heath Ledger's death at the age of 28. He died of a prescription drug overdose and shocked and saddened the world. The dude could freaking act, and his swan song as The Joker in "Dark Knight" has gotten tons of props and award nominations.

To remember him, some of Heath's closest friends and coworkers talked to Entertainment Weekly and told of Heath's final days.

The director of "Twilight," Catherine Hardwicke, who directed Heath in "Lords of Dogtown," said: "The pressures he was under, with his family, his daughter, everything, would stress out any yogi. Buddha would be stressed. You're being buffeted and pulled and tempted and flown across the ocean back and forth - how does anybody survive that? Obviously a lot of people don't."

Nicola Pecorini, Heath's friend and cinematographer - who happens to be working on "The Order and Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Heath's final film - said, "Separation when there is a kid involved is always very painful, no matter what. And Heath was always very hard on himself. His tendency was always to say, 'What did I do wrong?' He was really bleeding. And I'm pretty sure that all his sleeping problems had nothing to do with work and all to do with Matilda and Michelle."

Gary Oldman, who played Commissioner Gorden in "The Dark Knight" said: "Most of the conversations we had were about family. I think because I had been through being a single dad in the past, he was picking my brain a little. The last time I saw him, he said he was looking forward to spending some time with Matilda."

Terry Gilliam, director of "The Brothers Grimm" and the coming "Doctor Parnassus," remembered Heath by saying, "All of us who were close to Heath knew what was going on, and it was not the most pleasant experience... He was obsessed with his daughter. She became the center of his thoughts. He would drag her up to my house in London. Here's Heath, Academy Award nominee, and he'd just grab his daughter, stick her in a backpack, hop on the Tube, and come up to the house. Nobody would have thought, There's Heath Ledger. He was just a guy with a kid."

Terry went on to say, "The insomnia was really getting to him. He'd arrive in the morning looking really shattered. I'd say, 'Let's take it easy because you're knackered.' And he'd say, 'No, let's go.' And he'd just whip the thing up into another gear very quickly and off we'd go. By the end of the day he was transformed into this beaming, angelic presence. The work just lifted him every day. He couldn't get enough of it."

Regarding Heath's health, Nicola said, "I'm convinced Heath caught pneumonia at the end of that year. I remember I forced him to see a doctor, even though he didn't want to. The doctor said, 'Yes, you have the beginning of pneumonia. You'd better get antibiotics and go home and sleep.' He got the antibiotics, but he refused to go home and sleep. And that very night, he delivered one of his best performances I have ever seen him deliver. He went on nerves, mainly."

Heath is sorely missed by a lot of us, but mostly his darling daughter Matilda.

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Gary Oldman Takes Bride Number Four

Whit Honea — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:07:00 GMT

Gary Oldman is off the market. The actor's actor was married over New Year's Eve in a "secret" ceremony to 31-year-old jazz singer Alexandra Edenborough in Santa Barbara.

Come on, Gary, there are no secrets in Santa Barbara. Don't you watch Psyche?

Edenborough isn't just adding the title of Mrs. to her resume. She also inherits the role of step-mom to his three sons Alfie, Gulliver and Charlie.

She joins a long line of women to wear those hats, but the first one to have a sober Oldman- so there's hope!

Congratulations.

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Uma Thurman Was An Ugly Child

Karen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Uma Thurman recently admitted she saw herself as a "mess" when she was a kid.

"I didn't feel awkward, I was awkward. It's such a cliche, but it's a truism that tall, gangly women who end up all right later in life are always ugly children.

"I was funny-looking. I mean, look at my hands. Imagine having these hands at 12! By the time I was 13, I was easily 5 foot 10 inches (1.78 metres). Can you imagine? That's a mess."

Awwww Uma, we were all awkward as kids!

Guess Who's Getting Married?

Karen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:36:00 GMT

Guess which starlet is walking down the aisle for the third time?

Hint: she has two children and so does the man she's marrying....

Uma Thurman said yes to a proposal from Swiss financier Arpad "Arki" Busson and is said to be wearing an "amazing" engagment ring (eight-plus carat centre stone surrounded by 20 smaller stones). Sounds lovely!

Uma was previously married to actors Gary Oldman, then Ethan Hawke, the latter of which she has two children with.

Arki is no stranger to high-profile weddings either. He has two children with former girlfriend Elle MacPherson.