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Heath Ledger is dead

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  • #52
    Mena86
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Mena86


    I was disgusted by all the news coverage of his death! The toxicology report confirmed that he died from misuse of prescription medicine. So many people have written him off as an addict who deserved his fate, but I truly hope that story will serve to show the world his death was, an accident. Good bless his daughter and loved ones. :(


  • #53
    Eire 4Ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Eire 4Ever


    http://www.pagesix.com/story/matilda+s+godfather+jake

    Now that 2-year-old Matilda Rose is left to grow up without her doting dad, the responsibility to keep Heath Ledger's memory alive falls partly on her famous godfather, Jake Gyllenhaal.

    Jake, Heath and Matilda's mom Michelle Williams, bonded on the set of their Academy Award-winning hit Brokeback Mountain, for which they all received Oscar nominations.

    "Heath and I are best friends now — making the film was very intense for us," said Jake, 27, who played Heath's sheep-herding love interest in the Blockbuster hit. He described being Matilda's godfather as "an amazing honor."

    "I remember being in rehearsal, and the two of them had googly eyes with each other," he has said of the romance between Matilda's parents.



    After Matilda's birth in October 2005, Heath described loving every minute of fatherhood. "It's a pleasure waking up to your daughter," the self-described Mr. Mom said. "I love it. I actually adore it."

    Needless to say, Heath lavished gifts on his only child. He regularly brought Matilda to the high-end SoHo store Calypso Kids where he spoiled the little tyke, buying her life-size stuffed animals and anything she wanted, especially ice cream, a saleswoman told the New York Post.

    Despite her unimaginable loss, Matilda should expect to have an extended family in the Gyllenhaals. Jake's sister, Maggie, befriended Heath during the filming of their upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight. Maggie, 30, and Peter Saarsgard, whose daughter, Ramona, is one year younger than Matilda, also own a Brooklyn brownstone nine blocks away — a mere five minutes on foot — from the Hoyt Street townhouse Heath and Michelle formerly shared.

    Meanwhile, at 3 a.m. this morning Matilda's godmother Busy Philipps (left), who Michelle befriended on the set of Dawson's Creek, arrived at the 30-year-old's Boerum Hill home in anticipation of Matilda and her mom's return from Sweden.

    While information about Heath's will is still unclear, Matilda stands to inherit millions. He was paid well over $3 million per role and sold his Australian home in a beachside suburb of Sydney for a reported $7 million.


  • #54
    Eire 4Ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Eire 4Ever


    http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2008-02-19/#3
    Ledger Joker Doll To Go On Sale

    Late actor Heath Ledger is set to be immortalized in the form of a toy doll - with his grieving family's blessing. Ledger had recently finished playing The Joker in the forthcoming Batman film The Dark Knight when he was found dead in his New York apartment last month. However, only a week after the Aussie star's funeral, a range of The Joker dolls have been revealed by toy giants Mattel. The action figures are set to be marketed alongside the new movie - tipped to be this summer's major blockbuster. Two versions of the Heath joker doll will hit stores in May - one comes with a rocket launcher and the second is armed with a knife. A spokesman for the star's family says, "Heath was very proud of his work in the film and his family is aware and supportive of the plans for the movie." Toxicology results released earlier this month revealed Ledger was killed by an accidental overdose of prescribed medications.

    His death is going to be so used as a marketing tool for the movie


  • #55
    Mrs Roy Keane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Mrs Roy Keane


    Eire 4Ever wrote: »
    http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2008-02-19/#3



    His death is going to be so used as a marketing tool for the movie

    I find it weird and freaky


  • #56
    Nunu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nunu


    Eire 4Ever wrote: »
    http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2008-02-19/#3



    His death is going to be so used as a marketing tool for the movie
    Mrs Roy Keane wrote: »
    I find it weird and freaky


    You do realise these dolls were in production way before his death? So they are just going ahead with original plans to release his as part of the full range and ain't 'cashing in'

    Once it has his familys blessing I don't see the problem with it.


  • #57
    Y2J IS GOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Y2J IS GOD


    http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20183058,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

    Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda Rose were not included in his will but his parents will take care of them


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