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First Look at Heath Ledger on EW Cover
Backseat Cuddler —
The late Heath Ledger is slated to be on Friday’s cover of Entertainment Weekly . Here’s a first look at the cover and accompanying article: “The tragedy struck in the midst of an already hectic day in the entertainment industry, as Hollywood reacted to the morning’s announcement of the Oscar nominations and the latest buzz emanating from Sundance. But word spread with lightning speed via cell phones and BlackBerries, and in nearly every case was met with disbelief. One high-ranking studio exec, after receiving an e-mail stating that Ledger was dead, quickly wrote back: ...
Sundance Diary: Days 6 and 7 (or: Man, it just got cold!)
PopWatch —
... was sitting on our couch being interviewed. We whispered as the cameras rolled, and then sat in a bit of shock as the editors and writers back in New York scrambled to put together our cover story on the young actor. Repeated requests flowed in from our bosses for any interviews, old or new, that might shed light on Ledger's life and work, and.... Well, it's an afternoon that's going to hang with me for a while. ...
Sundance BuzzCheck: Michelle Williams' eerie "Incendiary"
PopWatch —
... drama Incendiary (pictured) was already intensely poignant, but by Tuesday afternoon, as word of Heath Ledger's death spread across Park City, it took on an eerie new meaning for those who'd seen it. In the film, Williams — Ledger's real-life ex and mother of their young daughter, Matilda — plays a woman who loses her husband (Ewan McGregor) and child in a London terrorist attack. ...
NOT SO FAST NEGATIVE NANCY
Oh No They Didn't! —
... crossed with a nerdish pedophile, you realize that the icky sloshing sound you hear is him sucking on his cheeks; he uses his attachment to those scars to fuel his sadistic (and masochistic) whims. This Joker may be a torture freak, but he also has a lost quality, a melancholy hidden within those black-circled eyes. He turns slaughter into a punchline; he's a homicidal comedian with an audience of one — himself. In this, the last performance he completed before his death, Ledger had a maniacal gusto inspired enough to suggest that he might have lived to be ...
Heath Ledger's final performance screened at Cannes
News Briefs —
... . Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all stepped in to complete Ledger's part in the film after his accidental death last year . ...
