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optom3:
Funnu how the locusts start to swarm, when there is a sniff of big money !!!!!
I despair of humans sometimes. !!!!
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Russell Crowe may replace Heath Ledger in ’Dirt Music’
Washington, Nov 12 : Hollywood actor Russell Crowe may replace late actor Heath Ledger in a movie adaptation of a Tim Winton novel. According to website MovieHole, the Gladiator star is in talks with Aussie director Phillip Noyce to step into the shoes of Ledger in a new film titled 'Dirt Music', reports Contactmusic.
The plot of the film revolves around a couple in a loveless relationship.
The Brokeback Mountain star was attached to the film before he died in January (08).
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-44600.html
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Studio unveils plan to secure Oscars for Ledger
19th November 2008, 9:45 WST
The Hollywood studio behind this year’s blockbuster, The Dark Knight, has launched an ambitious campaign to dominate the coming Academy Awards and score Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar.
Warner Bros this week rolled out its first Oscar specific ad, a "For Your Consideration" poster aimed at members of the Academy as well as voters of the key lead-in award ceremonies, the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild of America.
Read the entire story at:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=108884
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Ledger, Mirren almost cast in 'Choke'
Chuck Palahniuk has revealed that Heath Ledger was almost cast in the movie adaptation of his novel Choke.
Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose in January, was among the actors in line to play sex addict Victor Mancine in Clark Gregg's dark comedy before the role eventually went to Sam Rockwell.
Palahniuk confessed that the actors who were circling the role prior to Rockwell's casting did not appeal to him.
He said: "For a long time it was supposed to be Ryan Gosling, who I couldn't see, and for a brief period of time it was supposed to be Heath Ledger, which I wasn't sure about. And so in a way I think it's turned out for the very best."
Palahniuk added that casting Victor's mother Ida Mancini became difficult when Helen Mirren won an Oscar for The Queen.
He explained: "It's the same with the mother character... for a while it was Susan Sarandon and then for a little tiny bit it was Helen Mirren. But then with The Queen, apparently her price went way up and they couldn't afford her anymore!
"But I was very happy with Angelica Huston because I don't think the other two would have looked very Italian."
Choke is released in cinemas this Friday.
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Lawyers to sue insurance firm for not paying Heath Ledger’s policy
ReliaStar Life Insurance has decided not to pay the policy until it finds out if 'The Dark Knight' star committed suicide in his rented Manhattan loft in January.
The New York Medical Examiner's Office rules the overdose accidental. Now, the insurance company's investigators are planning to interview actress and owner of the loft Mary-Kate Olsen, the masseuse who found Ledger's lifeless body, doctors who treated the movie star, and some of his co-stars
Matilda's lawyer William Shernoff said that the delay in payment was contributing to the stress suffered by the actor's family
Shernoff said that he would pursue significant punitive damages from ReliaStar that could amount to 'tens of millions of dollars'.
"They are causing a lot of emotional distress to the family so we are going to go after the insurance company with both barrels," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Shernoff, as saying.
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-48508.html
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