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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
optom3:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 21, 2008, 10:24:41 am ---There's something about following celebrity children — especially toddlers for Christ's sake — that really bothers me.
Celebs complain about media intrusiveness, and rightfully so, but they have some idea what they're signing up for with success in entertainment. But kids? They didn't sign up for this. (When I see links to this on the People site or something, I never click. Paps are paid according to the worth of the pics, and click-count factors into that. It only encourages hounding of children and splashing their images across the media for god-knows-who to see and obsess over.)
:-\
(And who were they expecting her to look like? Stevie Wonder?)
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I know I should not click as the paparazzi on the whole are lower forms of life than amoeba. I am still at the stage though, where any connection to Heath seems irresistible.
I understand what you are saying.I should know better than most. In a slightly different vein, we chose to move here to the states on an E visa, and unless we have green cards by the time the kids are 21, they are all sent back to England.We are still allowed to stay here.I feel ill every time I think about it.My youngest 2 in particular are now American through and through.They had no choice in moving here, yet they will be the ones to suffer.
The route to a green card we were originally going to take has had the goal posts moved.So we have to look at other ways now.When we left England the situation was different.The goal posts have moved since we have been here.
Brown Eyes:
Well here's a fairly yucky story that I just stumbled across on Yahoo's main page. It's one of the highlighted stories there right now.
:P
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_en_mo/people_heath_ledger_video_lawsuit
Judge nixes claims in Heath Ledger tape lawsuit
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer
Wed Sep 3, 6:57 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - 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.
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.
Mara Buxbaum, a publicist who represented Ledger, did not return a phone call or e-mail seeking comment.
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.
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 after 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.
Ellemeno:
How's this for an unfortunately worded title of an article?
Ledger's death voted top 2008 entertainment story
By JAKE COYLE
Heath Ledger's death was voted 2008's top entertainment story by U.S. newspaper and broadcast editors surveyed by The Associated Press.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAly4d5wjCHvsEBaup7Jl_JJKvcwD958NNBO0
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on December 30, 2008, 04:53:54 am ---How's this for an unfortunately worded title of an article?
Ledger's death voted top 2008 entertainment story
By JAKE COYLE
Heath Ledger's death was voted 2008's top entertainment story by U.S. newspaper and broadcast editors surveyed by The Associated Press.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAly4d5wjCHvsEBaup7Jl_JJKvcwD958NNBO0
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Oh dear. Unfortunate in the extreme. :(
RouxB:
I wasn't much entertained by it :'(
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