Keith Ledger Dead

Heath Ledger's Tragic Overdose Death And What Can be Done To Prevent Others

Tony Newman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment


Tony Newman

There is nothing we can do to bring back the life of Heath Ledger. But we can learn from the tragedy and pass compassionate and sensible legislation to save thousands of others like him.

Heath Ledger's Family Returns To Perth For Burial

AP | Min Lee | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment


Heath Ledger's family arrived back in Australia on Tuesday on the final leg of the Oscar-nominated star's long journey home following his premature de...

Heath Ledger And The Poem To Remember Him By

John Lundberg | Posted 02.02.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

In the midst of the flurry of publicity--mostly distasteful--surrounding Heath Ledger's death, a humble but fitting poem reentered the national consci...

Heath Ledger Refused Rehab In 2006

Us | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment


Heath Ledger's battle with alcohol and drugs was so harmful to his relationship with Michelle Williams that she tried to get him to enter rehab, Us We...

Deepak Chopra's Last Conversation With Heath: He Was Exhausted & Emotional

People | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment


Heath Ledger was tired and emotional before his shocking Jan. 22 death, Deepak Chopra tells PEOPLE. "He was a little depressed about not having seen ...

Heath Ledger Dad Imposter Got Tom Cruise On The Phone, Funeral Home Freebies

NY Post | JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment


A twisted impostor pretending to be Heath Ledger's grieving dad cruelly duped superstar Tom Cruise into consoling him over the phone - and nearly got ...

Heath Ledger's Final Movie To Continue Without Him

People | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment


Director Terry Gilliam is feverishly working to figure out how to keep Heath Ledger alive on film, according to one of the late actor's costars in The...

'Batman' Director Remembers His Joker: 'Heath Was Bursting With Creativity'

Newsweek | Christopher Nolan | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment


Best known for his haunting, Oscar-nominated performance as Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in 2005 ' s "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger was a mas...

Daniel Day-Lewis Dedicates SAG To Heath Ledger

YouTube | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment


Days after breaking down on Oprah talking about the death of Heath Ledger, Daniel Day-Lewis dedicated his win for best actor at the SAG awards to Ledg...

If You Want to Make Me Smile, Bring Back Heath Ledger

Taylor Negron | Posted 01.27.2008 | Entertainment


Taylor Negron

Most of us never met Heath Ledger, but we feel his loss, partly because we bond to talents on the big screen in the same way that we connect to a stranger crying on a public bus or at Starbucks.

Heath Ledger Mourned In Private Los Angeles Memorial

Huffington Post | Posted 01.27.2008 | Entertainment


Heath Ledger was mourned in a private memorial Saturday in Los Angeles attended by family, friends and former girlfriends. He was found dead in New Yo...

Mary-Kate Olsen: Heath Was A Friend... Funeral Home Barricaded

AP | Tom Hays | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment


Update: Ledger's body has been moved from a New York funeral home to an airport and is enroute to Los Angeles, and then probably Perth, for private me...

Daniel Day-Lewis Breaks Down Talking About Heath Ledger

Oprah | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment


Oprah aired an Oscar nominee special Thursday, including an interview with Daniel Day-Lewis. It seemed the interview was taped late Tuesday, hours aft...

Fox Host John Gibson Mocks Heath Ledger's Death

Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media


UPDATE: John Gibson has "apologized" for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger's death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show ...

Heath Ledger Found Dead

Huffington Post | Posted 01.24.2008 | Entertainment


There are more new details in the death of Heath Ledger Tuesday afternoon at age 28. Meanwhile, Ledger's parents and sister have revealed their immens...

Reporting on the Dead

Star Jones | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media


Star Jones

Until we know for sure how Heath Ledger died, I think the media should just shut their mouths and stop all the speculation that's been running rampant.

Keith Ledger: Heath Ledger's Death Teaches A Lesson In Google

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media


When news broke Tuesday afternoon that Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger passed away, news outlets scrambled to cover his death. Meanwhile, tens of t...

Heath Ledger's Last Costar, Christopher Plummer, Reflects

Entertainment Weekly | Posted 01.24.2008 | Entertainment


Early on Sunday, Jan. 20, Plummer boarded a plane back to New York and went on to his Connecticut home. Ledger took a different London-to-New-York fli...

Heath Ledger: Two Shirts and a Dream

Tom Gregory | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment


Tom Gregory

Because the Academy likes an impersonation more than a performance -- and perhaps because Brokeback Mountain was troublingly "gay," Ledger never had the payoff of a coveted Oscar.

The Westboro Baptist Church's First Foray Into Celebrity Funeral Protest: Condemning Heath Ledger

Chez Pazienza | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment


Chez Pazienza

Fred Phelps isn't the only Fundamentalist Christian who called Heath Ledger a sodomite in the wake of Brokeback Mountain, he's just the only one willing to take his righteous indignation to the next level.

Heath Ledger Autopsy Inconclusive

AP | Tom Hays | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment


The AP reports early Wednesday: An autopsy on Heath Ledger was inconclusive, and more tests are needed, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday,...

Page Six Reports: Heath Ledger Dead...And Available!

236.com | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics


Keep reading more from 236.com....

Heath Ledger: Art, Loss and Celebrity

Danny Zucker | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment


Danny Zucker

"Heath Ledger dead?" It strikes me as a little weird to feel a sense of loss for a person I've only come to know through the cinema. And yet, I still mourn him.

CNN Airs Brokeback Musical Tribute To Heath Ledger

Huffington Post | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment


"Larry King Live" started out the show with a half hour on Heath Ledger's death. Larry aired "bumps" into his commercial breaks of video clips set to ...

Heath Ledger: Why, Why, Why?

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment


Bonnie Fuller

None of his gifts, neither talent nor family, appears to have been enough to combat the demons that apparently led Heath to take the pills that could have ended his young life.