Feb 23 2009
Heath was awarded Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, Feb 22, 2009. Heath’s family accepted the award and each gave a brief, but heartfelt speech.
There are so many of Heath’s fans online at Heathledger.com that the server is a little slower than normal. I will provide more details and photos a little later.
Congratulations to Heath, his family, and all his of many dedicated fans.
May he truly RIP.
Jan 22 2009
Although we don’t accept affiliates from other fansites, we’d like to acknowledge some of Heath’s most dedicated fansites.
This isn’t an ‘all inclusive’ list, but just a few that have visited our site.
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Jan 15 2009
As everyone is aware, the one year anniversary of Heath’s tragic death almost a week away. We have added a page for all of his fans to express your thoughts, memories, favorite movies, and especially your condolences to his family. Hopefully, Heath’s daughter Matilda will see the impact Heath had on his fans during his short time on earth.
The link to the page is in the navigation bar at the top ‘Tribute’, or, you can click on the photo in the left side bar. This is not a place for spammers or haters. Please respect Heath’s family and fans during this time.
Dec 19 2008
And the accolades for Heath Ledger and “The Dark Knight” continue to roll in! Nominations for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced this morning, and once again, Ledger has landed an “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role” nod for his performance as the Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker. Furthermore, “The Dark Knight” received a nomination in the “Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture” category, joining fellow comic book flicks “Iron Man,” “Hellboy II” and “Wanted.”
For Ledger, this marks the second time he’s up for a SAG Award, after being nominated and subsequently winning two Actors in 2006 for his work on “Brokeback Mountain” — one for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role” and one for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.”
The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, and 6 p.m. MT from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.tv and TBS.com live pre-show webcasts.
Dec 15 2008
Now that Heath Ledger has been posthumously nominated for a Golden Globe, there’s maneuvering behind the scenes as to who will accept the award should he win.
“Kim desperately wants to do it,” one cognoscento tells us of Heath’s father. “But the studio and the producers would rather have Michelle receive it on behalf of Matilda” – the couple’s daughter.
Some Hollywood insiders have speculated that the foreign journalists who decide upon the Golden Globes choose some nominees based on their attractiveness and star power, to goose up their televised awards show’s ratings. Michelle Williams, who broke up with Ledger four months before he died in January, is a lot purtier than the senior Ledger, who accepted an “Aussie” award for his son last weekend.
But a friend of the family tells us, “Why would Michelle be involved? She had nothing to do with the movie. They weren’t even together when he passed away. Would you have your ex-wife accept your award? And they weren’t even married. [Director] Chris Nolan or [star] Christian Bale would make more sense. Michelle makes no sense. It’s like those rumors that she would go to the premiere of ‘Dark Knight.’ That was never in the realm of possibility.”
Sep 15 2008
IT WAS supposed to be the Brooklyn bar where Heath Ledger would be most comfortable — a place that the late actor not only invested money in but helped conceive.
Only those who knew him well would discern the “Heath touches”: the engraved, granite-topped bar tables were his idea, as it was to have his favourite tattooist, Scott Campbell from nearby Williamsburg, do the engravings.
It was Ledger who wanted one table engraved as a chessboard: he played the game his father taught him at a nearby chess club and often beat the hustlers, although he declined to take their money, his business partner, Jud Mongell, said.
On the chessboard table is engraved a scrawled heart, replicating one Ledger left on a note to a friend not long before his death in January this year.
The nautical theme — the space is furnished with deckchairs and fitted with a steel, bow-shaped bar to create the impression of being at sea — was an idea Mongell and Ledger devised together. The name — Five Leaves — is a Ledger family decision, recalling the album by Nick Drake and a reference to the warning near the end of a packet of Rizla cigarette papers.
Next week the bar Ledger planned will open, not as a tribute but as a place where he would belong.
“We’re 50-50 partners still,” Mongell said. “Heath is still my partner. He was fingerprinted for a liquor licence … he was going to DJ, bartend; he was not like some removed investor. At one point he put a bid in on the whole building. He was going to live upstairs.
“Heath was a very good chess player. He wanted a chessboard or two in here, so we could never not do that. So that’s Heath’s chessboard.”
The project was completed because the actor’s father, Kim, agreed to see through a project his son began to support a friend. Continue Reading »
Sep 04 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dealt a serious, but possibly temporary, blow to a lawsuit filed by a celebrity magazine reporter who has accused a paparazzi agency of secretly filming Heath Ledger doing drugs in her hotel room.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John S. Wiley Jr. tentatively dismissed 11 of 12 claims filed against the agency and two photographers, saying most of the allegations lacked legal standing.
He allowed attorneys to file an amended complaint that could restore some of the claims.
The woman, identified in court documents only as “Jane Doe,” sued Splash News & Picture Agency and two of its photographers in April, alleging fraud, intrusion, unjust enrichment and other claims over the filming of Ledger in 2006.
The woman was on assignment for People magazine at the time.
According to the lawsuit, the tape was made after the Golden Globe awards in January 2006 and wasn’t revealed until after Ledger’s death from an accidental prescription drug overdose earlier this year. “Entertainment Tonight” and its sister show, “The Insider,” had planned to air the footage, but canceled those plans after feeling pressure from publicists and other Ledger supporters.
The video later surfaced online.
The lawsuit states the video was shot from a balcony of the reporter’s hotel room, and that Ledger became upset when he realized he was being taped. The photographers placated Ledger by telling him they would destroy the tape, the suit claims.
Ledger — who has been celebrated this summer for his role as the Joker in “The Dark Knight” — was already an established actor when the tape was made. Indeed, the suit claims the video was shot hours after Ledger appeared at the awards show, where he was nominated as best actor for “Brokeback Mountain.”
The lawsuit claims the video shows Ledger doing cocaine and that some of the drugs were supplied by the photographers. It also shows Ledger saying that he was “going to get serious (word bleeped) from my girlfriend” for being in the hotel room and rolling cigarette paper and saying “I used to smoke five joints a day for 20 years.”
The reporter’s likeness is blurred on the video.
That element, and the woman’s assignment for People, were key reasons for Wiley’s decision to remove most of the claims from the suit.
“Jane Doe is as far as the Heath Ledger public is concerned, a complete unknown,” Wiley said. “She’s not a feature. She’s some blurry bystander.”
Wiley also noted that the reporter had dated one of the photographers, and that the alleged intrusion of her privacy took place in a hotel room she had apparently rented to conduct interviews in. “It’s a professional setting, not a personal setting,” Wiley said.
The judge sided with defense attorneys, who argued that the woman could not make many of her claims on behalf of Ledger. “The tape’s valuable because of Heath Ledger, not because of Jane Doe,” Wiley said.
Neville Johnson, who is representing the reporter, told Wiley his client was also harmed by the video.
“It ruined her,” he shouted at one point during the hearing. “She didn’t get a story out of it.”
The woman’s suit claims her inclusion on the tape has damaged her ability to work.
“Just because she’s a member of the press, she has the same rights as anyone else,” Johnson said.
He said afterward Wednesday’s hearing that he thinks a revision of the lawsuit will restore many of the reporter’s claims.
An attorney for Splash News and its photographers declined to comment after the hearing.
Aug 18 2008
Heath Ledger’s daughter, Matilda, will likely not have to worry about money matters ever again, thanks to the three stars who stepped in to finish her father’s final film.
Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, who play different versions of Heath’s character in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, were worried about Matilda’s future as Heath left only an old will which did not include the little girl. So what did they do? They donated their entire paychecks to her!!!
Says 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.’ “
Aug 14 2008
Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the latest Batman film was inspired by Sid Vicious, according to his co-star Christian Bale.
Chistian Bale said: He (Ledger) modelled the part on Sid Vicious which made this punk-like character. I think it is a classic portrayal of a great villain Photo: AP/PA
Bale, who plays the protagonist in the hit movie, said Ledger, who died in January of an accidental drugs overdose, had watched video clips of the late Sex Pistols guitar player while researching the role.
The 34-year-old said: “Heath’s created an anarchic Joker unlike any ever seen before.
“He modelled the part on Sid Vicious which made this punk-like character. I think it is a classic portrayal of a great villain.”
The punk rocker, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, died in New York 1979, also from a drugs overdose.
The troubled musician – renowned for his violent behaviour – was facing trial over the murder of his former girlfriend Nancy Spungen at the time of his death.
Ledger is being tipped to win an Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.
Bale added: “Heath immersed himself in the role. I would love to see him get an award.”
Before his death, Ledger said he also drew inspiration from A Clockwork Orange for the role.
“It’s the most fun I’ve had with a character and probably will ever have…” he said.
The actor added: “It was an exhausting process. At the end of the day I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I was absolutely wrecked.”
Aug 12 2008
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