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Everybody Still Loves Heath

HerBadMother — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:01:00 GMT

In case you were wondering, no, the love for Heath Ledger will never stop.

The most recent edition of Interview magazine devotes an entire spread to tributes to the late actor, who is lauded for being a great father, a gifted actor, and an all around awesome guy. Did you doubt it? A sampling:

Amy Pascal: "He was always introducing you to 3,000 mates whose names you can’t remember."

Philip Seymour Hoffman: "Heath didn’t have the cynicism that this business can eventually put upon people, or the pretension that certain artists can carry with them sometimes. He had a really honest quality about him. He obviously had never lost his wide-eyed optimism."

Sean Penn: "Heath was not simply a quiet and gifted actor who liked to go surfing, though that is how I primarily knew him in life. In the time we spent together, we spoke a bit about family, about travels, but most of all, about film.Yet, in his unassuming way, he never revealed to me the visual poet of the first order who I discovered watching the film clips he directed, music videos and such, after his death. His talent does speak volumes of the kind man, the loving father, and, in fact, the brilliant and gifted guy I really missed out on—that we all did, in the long run. Heath might have been a giant."

Other celebrities interviewed include Michelle Williams, Naomi Watts, Ellen DeGeneres, and Heath's I’m Not There director Todd Haynes.

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Sassy Smith — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:32:00 GMT

It's been almost 2 months since actor Heath Ledger passed away - accidentally overdosing on prescription meds. And for the first time, Michelle Williams - his ex fiance and mother of his daughter Matilda - speaks out. Also, another past love of his - Naomi Watts - has only kind things to say about him. Here are excerpts from Interview magazine:

Michelle says:

"For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He just had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning. He had an uncontrollable energy. He buzzed. He would jump out of bed.

"I think that the interesting thing about Heath, which maybe people have only really fully discovered in his death, is how vulnerable he was. You can pick up on it in his performances, but it’s easy to overlook because he was so physical and beautiful and strong and masculine. But there was always that underlying sensitivity. That’s who he was."

She remembers the time following Matilda's birth as the best of her life:

"The first six weeks of our daughter's Matilda's life was this incredibly insular, protected time.

"It was just he and I and her, living in our new house in Brooklyn. No nanny, no help - not really even any family. A couple of friends came through, but we were really committed to forming a bond just between the three of us. And then that bubble got broken with work.

"Brokeback Mountain was going to come out and the press stuff just started rearing up. But those six weeks were just blissful."

What Naomi, 39, had to say:

"His acting was just so touching, so connected in truth. I think he was just getting started.

"That's the deepest tragedy in terms of his work - he was just beginning to own it and embrace it."

It's still so sad.

Other stars interviewed: Ellen DeGeneres, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and Heath's I’m Not There director Todd Haynes.

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Independent Spirit Awards: The Complete List of Winners

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:35:00 GMT

Hurray for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the hip, cool cousin of the Academy Awards. They take place the day before the Oscars in a tent in Santa Monica, and honor the best in independent filmmaking.

Here's a list of the winners from last night's ceremony:

BEST FEATURE
Juno

BEST FIRST FEATURE
The Lookout

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST MALE LEAD
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Ellen Page - Juno

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Talk To Me

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

BEST SCREENPLAY
Tamara Jenkins - The Savages

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody - Juno

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crazy Love

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Once (Ireland)

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
I'm Not There, Directed by Todd Haynes

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Hollywood Memorial For Heath Ledger

HerBadMother — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:05:00 GMT

Members of Heath Ledger's family gathered with Hollywood's brightest stars - including Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Naomi Watts - on Saturday to remember Heath Ledger.

From People.com:

Friends and celebrity colleagues – including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller, Ellen DeGeneres and director Todd Haynes – gathered on the Sony lot in Los Angeles to remember Heath Ledger on Saturday, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The gathering also included Ledger's father Kim, industry luminaries and those connected to CAA (the agency that represented Ledger), including Cruise and Holmes, who costarred with Michelle Williams on Dawson's Creek. It comes a week after relatives and close friends – including ex-girlfriend Naomi Watts – paid tribute to the 28-year-old actor at a smaller service at an L.A. cemetery.

Details about Heath's actual funeral, which is to take place in Perth, Australia, have been kept under close wraps, but the tributes and memorials continue wherever Heath had friends or family or fans. Which is, it seems, everywhere.

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