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Who's Bundle of Joy is This?

Whit Honea — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:35:00 GMT

There's a very popular toddler in this winter wrap. Can you guess who it is?

If you guessed Matilda Ledger, daughter of Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger, you were right.

Congratulations are in order.

Best of FameCrawler: Week of October 31st

Whit Honea — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Photos: Matilda Rose Ledger Turns 3!

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The Hudson Family Tragedy

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Travis Barker's Burn Pics

Jennifer Hudson's Family Confirmed Murdered; Nephew Kidnapped

Matt Damon Takes an Acting Break

I Guess It's Over: Madonna Set to Bury Guy's Memory. Literally.

Barack Obama Variety Show on SNL - Video!

This Just In- Jon Stewart Having Campbell Browns Baby

Suri Cruise Has A Private Gym!

Spying on the Neighbors: 8-27-08

Whit Honea — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:02:00 GMT

Can you believe ~~July~~ August is almost over?

Matilda scares the crap out of Michelle Williams (TMZ)

Jack Black chills with the fam (Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Katie Holmes and the magic carpet ride (TomKatCrazy)

Chris Noth's baby is awesome (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Cross, twins, ducks, park (Knocked Up Celebs)

Matthew McConaughey's mom is a trip (Gossip Girls)

Pamela Anderson and food (Jezebel)

Lil' Wayne trouble (Perez Hilton)

Spying on the Neighbors: 8-20-08

Whit Honea — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:02:00 GMT

Did you know the Olympics are still on?

Kate Beckinsale goes for a snorkel (Knocked Up Celebs)

Jennifer Garner drives green (Jezebel)

Michelle and Matilda (Gossip Girls)

No Olsens for the Maddens (Perez Hilton)

Diana Farr and the twins' nursery (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Becks ready for the Olympics (Just Jared)

Like I Needed Any More Reason To Love Johnny Depp

HerBadMother — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:42:00 GMT

Or Colin Farrell, for that matter. I never did love Jude Law, but this just might change my mind.

The three actors have donated the entirety of their paychecks for their work on The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus - the film that Heath Ledger was working on at the time of his death - to Ledger's daughter, Matilda. Depp, Farrell and Law each play versions of Ledger's character.

According to director Terry Gilliam: "They didn’t take money — it goes to Heath’s daughter. That’s extraordinary! And wonderful . . . and when you’re part of that, you think, ‘Ah, this is maybe why I went into the movies in the beginning. I thought it would be full of wonderful people.’ And we’ve got a movie full of wonderful people who did extraordinary things to help."

Wonderful people, who are also hot. It's almost too much to take. I'd almost rather that Johnny Deep were an asshole. You know, just to take the edge off of his deliciousness.

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Little Matilda Ledger Stares Down The Paparazzi

Sassy Smith — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda Rose strolled the streets of Brooklyn with a friend early on Mother's Day and later stopped to play at the park. By the look on little Matilda's face, I'd say she's telling the paps to bring it. She's too cute for words!

More pics after the jump!

Mom Michelle helps Matilda practice her skills on the monkey bars. And just a little FYI, I love Michelle's sweater!

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Heath Ledger's Amazing Portrait

Sassy Smith — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:22:00 GMT

Heath Ledger's close friend Vincent Fantauzzo painted a portrait of the late actor and father and it's won the People's Choice Award at Australia's Archibald Prize Exhibition. And the painting is absolutely amazing!

A large number of people voted - more than 32,000. A rep for the Art Gallery of NSW, said the Ledger family and Vincent will donate the prize-winning portrait to the gallery.

Mr. Fantauzzo received a $2,500 and $1,000 gift certificate with his award. He issued this statement on his website:

I would like to say thank you to those who have emailed with kind words regarding my recent portrait of Heath Ledger. I feel privileged and inspired to have known him and my thoughts are with his family.

The painting called "Heath," was done at Ledger's family home in Perth shortly before the 28-year-old actor died.

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Heath Ledger "The Joker" Dolls - Want One?

Sassy Smith — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:38:00 GMT

Are your kids Batman fans? Are they crazy about The Joker character? Better get in line if you want a Heath Ledger "The Joker" doll - they're selling like hotcakes!

Toy stores all over New York have line-ups, people waiting to pick up their very own plastic action figure of Heath Ledger as The Joker. The toys are selling out like crazy.

Bob Friedland, a spokesman for Toys 'R' us said, "We are getting these products, all of the Dark Knight action figures, on a regular basis." However, he may be trying to down play the sellout. Stores are apparently running out quickly. An employee for Toys 'R' Us said, "There are none left in the warehouse, either. You will be waiting a while if you want one."

Many other NY stores are still waiting for shipments. The doll retails for $9.99 but there have been some sold on Ebay at much higher prices. One doll reportedly sold for $55 (as a set with an other doll).

I wonder how strange it will be for Heath's daughter Matilda when she gets older, to see a doll of her daddy?

Batman: The Dark Knight is slated for a July 18, 2008 release.

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Sweetness - Michelle & Matilda In New York

Michelle & Matilda Driven From Their NY Home?

Batman: The Dark Knight - New Trailer Released Of Heath's Last Movie

HerBadMother — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:40:00 GMT

From the looks of this trailer, Heath Ledger worked the role of The Joker to extraordinary lengths - what we see of him in this set of clips from the film rocks. Obviously, the loss of such a man as a father and human being is a great tragedy, but it looks like this film will be a striking reminder that we lost an extraordinary actor.

Full screen link HERE.

Could 'The Secret' Save Britney?

HerBadMother — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:07:00 GMT

Um, fast answer? No.

In what is possibly the stupidest article that I have read all week - and that is saying a lot, because as a ~~gossipwhore~~ pop culture writer I read a LOT of nonsensical crap - a writer claimed that Britney might be saved if we all just followed the principles set down in the current ~~bogus-pop-mysticism-rip-off~~ bestseller The Secret.

Toronto Star writer Daphne Gordon wrote: "I believe in The Secret, the popular self-help book and movie that says we create the world we live in through our thoughts, and it's become increasingly obvious that we, as a culture, are at least in part responsible for what's happening to Spears...

So, starting today, I vow to stop thinking about Spears. I'm putting her right out of my mind, where she belongs, so she can do whatever she needs to get better... Are you willing to help Britney by resolving to stop buying into celebrity culture?"

Um, fast answer again? NO. I'm willing to help Britney by shouting at her through my computer to smarten the eff up, but give up celebrity culture? No way.

First of all, although I agree in part with the argument that Britney's troubles are in some important way related to her celebrity, it's absurdly reductive to suggest that by eliminating the culture of celebrity, we eliminate celebrity trainwreckage. For every Britney, there's a Natalie Portman and a Scarlett Johansson and a Christina Aguilera and a Pink and a host of other young female celebrities who, even if they do not live normal lives according to the standards of non-celebrities, are by no means trainwrecks. There's something the matter with Britney that runs much deeper than simple corruption-due-to-celebrity-whorage.

Second of all, does anyone think for a minute that if the attention stopped, Britney would get better? Part of Britney's problem seems to be that she can't survive without the attention. This is, after all, the woman who has taken up with a paparazzo and helped him set-up photo-ops to fuel pregnancy rumors. She asks the paparazzi to fetch her lattes, for fack's sake. Make her go cold turkey on the attention front and my guess is that she'll spontaneously combust.

Finally - and here is where I get really frustrated - WTF with the facking 'Secret'? Is there any bigger load of pop-spiritual rip-off crap (Buddhism For Dummies much?) out there than the suggestion that we fully think our own destinies into being? (Which, um - excuse me if I'm wrong - seems to preclude the possibility that others can think our destinies into being for us? Do we think our own worlds, or do others think them for us, as is being suggested here about Britney? Which is it, Daphne Gordon? Did we think Britney's crisis into being, or did she do it to herself? And what does this mean for our understanding of what happened to Heath Ledger? Did we think him to death, or did he do it to himself, and are not both those theories batshit crazy and the latter of them, you know, TOTALLY OFFENSIVE? Head. Hurting.)

Sure, the cult of celebrity can be toxic, and the media-complex has some responsibility to keep their contributions to the cultishness in check. But the cult of celebrity is nothing new - the ancient Greeks worshipped and pilloried their heroes with what was possibly an even greater fervor than our own. It's simply bogus to suggest that *we* turn celebrities into trainwrecks through our attention to them. Celebrities with deep-seeded issues turn themselves into trainwrecks (or, if they're very young, their parents and managers do it); the rest of them just make their money and drink their champagne.

And I write about it and make a little bit of the moneys and feed my kid. Circle of life and all. It's sometimes ugly, but that's just the way it is.

'Kay. Rant over. You may all go back to your gossipnets.

Heath Ledger's Impact on Chris Nolan

Whit Honea — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Chris Nolan, the director of The Dark Knight, wrote a very nice piece on Heath Ledger for Newsweek. It is reprinted below:

One night, as I’m standing on LaSalle Street in Chicago, trying to line up a shot for “The Dark Knight,” a production assistant skateboards into my line of sight. Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character makeup. I’d fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a proliferation of skateboards among the younger crew members. If you’d asked those kids why they had chosen to bring their boards to work, they would have answered honestly that they didn’t know. That’s real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity. That’s what Heath had.

Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.

One time he and another actor were shooting a complex scene. We had two days to shoot it, and at the end of the first day, they’d really found something and Heath was worried that he might not have it if we stopped. He wanted to carry on and finish. It’s tough to ask the crew to work late when we all know there’s plenty of time to finish the next day. But everyone seemed to understand that Heath had something special and that we had to capture it before it disappeared. Months later, I learned that as Heath left the set that night, he quietly thanked each crew member for working late. Quietly. Not trying to make a point, just grateful for the chance to create that they’d given him.

Those nights on the streets of Chicago were filled with stunts. These can be boring times for an actor, but Heath was fascinated, eagerly accepting our invitation to ride in the camera car as we chased vehicles through movie traffic—not just for the thrill ride, but to be a part of it. Of everything. He’d brought his laptop along in the car, and we had a high-speed screening of two of his works-in-progress: short films he’d made that were exciting and haunting. Their exuberance made me feel jaded and leaden. I’ve never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents. That night I made him an offer—knowing he wouldn’t take me up on it—that he should feel free to come by the set when he had a night off so he could see what we were up to.

When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where we’d have to show him the finished film—sitting three or four rows behind him, watching the movements of his head for clues to what he was thinking about what we’d done with all that he’d given us. Now that screening will never be real. I see him every day in my edit suite. I study his face, his voice. And I miss him terribly.

Back on LaSalle Street, I turn to my assistant director and I tell him to clear the skateboarding kid out of my line of sight when I realize—it’s Heath, woolly hat pulled low over his eyes, here on his night off to take me up on my offer. I can’t help but smile.

Photo/Source: The Dark Knight Blog

Heath Ledger is a Regular Casanova

Whit Honea — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:46:00 GMT

Heath Ledger apparently has a new squeeze. The actor separated from his girlfriend and baby mama Michelle Williams back in September. He is now being linked romantically to Australian supermodel Gemma Ward.

Prior to Ward he was said to be dating Helena Christensen and Lindsay Lohan- not together.

Photo: CYI

Heath Ledger is Stinky

sweatpantsmom — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:35:00 GMT

According to commuters on a crowded New York subway, Heath Ledger needs a bath. Ledger, while holding daughter Matilda in his arms, reportedly had no problem convincing the crowds to give him a wide berth. “I got quite a whiff,” said one passerby. “He smelled pretty unwashed.”

I don't find this hard to believe. Ever since he split from Michelle Williams he's been walking around looking like an extra from the set of Oliver. Get this guy a big loofah and a bucket of bleach.

Who Isn't Kate Hudson "Dating?" - A FameCrawler Poll

Whit Honea — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:19:00 GMT

I just got done talking about Kate Hudson's latest flame and she's already moved on. She sure does "date" a lot of guys. In the last month she's been connected to Owen Wilson, Dax Shepard, Dane Cook, Orlando Bloom and now Heath Ledger. That's a pretty good run.

Who do you think she'll be "dating" next?

Photo: The Superficial

Together Again: Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams Reunite

Whit Honea — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:32:00 GMT

Page Six is reporting that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got together over the weekend to celebrate the 2nd birthday of their daughter Matilda. Apparently the couple gets along swimmingly. That's always nice, you know, for the children.

I couldn't find a photo of the party so I used this picture of some homeless people instead. Close enough.

Photo: Babyrazzi

Heath Ledger Rocks The Homeless Look

HerBadMother — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:33:00 GMT

Seriously, this is Heath Ledger? How did the paparazzo even know it was him?

I mean, I know that the life of a single dad is hard, draining work and all, but still: you should be able to shower and shave, and, oh, I don't know, avoid squishy puke-colored hats.

Maybe he's been borrowing Helena Bonham Carter's stylist, although I imagine that she's not in-demand enough to be jetting across the pond for consultations. The Dickens look isn't all that hot right now. In any case, Heath sure does make homelessness look sexy. Is it wrong for me say that?

Celebrity Baby Bling: Heather Ledger and Matilda, Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Whit Honea — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:36:00 GMT

Heath Ledger dropped off his daughter Matilda (don't fret, he dropped the nanny too) at the airport. Matilda took it all in sleepy stride, riding in a Britax Roundabout (Jefferson Tan, $190) attached to a GoGo Kidz ($80).

More photos after the jump.

Photos: Pacific Coast News for use on FameCrawler

Hey Matilda Ledger, Your Daddy Wears Combat Boots!

Whit Honea — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:06:00 GMT

Heath Ledger, the Joker in the upcoming Batman film, has a very interesting sense of fashion. Poor Matilda looks mortified. She also looks just like her daddy, from the neck up.

Don't look at the boots Matilda, keep the eyes forward.