tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76939268502811101142024-03-14T00:12:10.859-07:00heath ledgerLedger Heath,Actors and Actresses,Motion Pictures,Manhattan (NYC)heath ledgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364799704166042527noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693926850281110114.post-69785188020093322602008-02-12T04:18:00.000-08:002008-01-23T04:20:41.914-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img class="article_photo" src="http://img.iht.com/images/2008/01/23/23heathpic550.jpg" alt="" height="300" width="550" /></div>heath ledgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364799704166042527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693926850281110114.post-56862539767244819932008-01-23T04:23:00.001-08:002008-01-23T04:31:11.828-08:00Heath Ledger, actor, is found dead at 28<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Heath Ledger</span>, the Australian-born actor whose breakthrough role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie "Brokeback Mountain" earned him a nomination for an Academy Award and comparisons to the likes of Marlon Brando, was found dead Tuesday in an apartment in New York with sleeping pills near his body, the police said.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The police said Ledger, 28, was found naked on the floor near the bed in an apartment in SoHo that he had been renting. The chief police spokesman, Paul Browne, said the police did not suspect foul play.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">"There was no indication of a disturbance," he said, adding that there were no signs that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ledger</span> had been drinking. Nor were any illegal drugs found in the loft, which neighbors said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ledger</span> had occupied for several months.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Police officials said that a bottle of prescription sleeping pills were found on a nearby night table, but that they did not know whether the pills had anything to do with Ledger's death. Officers who checked the apartment found other prescription medications in the bathroom. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said an autopsy would be conducted on Wednesday.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Browne said no obvious indication of suicide, like a note, was found in the bedroom.</p><br /><br /><span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags:<br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/heath+ledger" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for heath ledger">heath ledger</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/dies" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for dies">dies</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/actor" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for actor">actor</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/us" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for us">us</a></span><br /><span class="sociallinks">Add to: | <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Technorati</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Digg</a> | <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F;title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">del.icio.us</a> | <a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028&u=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Yahoo</a> | <a href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&Title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">BlinkList</a> | <a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">Spurl</a> | <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">reddit</a> | <a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028&u=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Furl</a> | </span>heath ledgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364799704166042527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693926850281110114.post-27847709370630347142008-01-23T01:25:00.000-08:002008-01-23T04:31:51.096-08:00Ledger, who became one of Hollywood's hottest young stars<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ledger</span>, who became one of Hollywood's hottest young stars with "Brokeback Mountain," had become a familiar figure in the neighborhood — and something of a fixture in gossip columns — since moving there after he broke up with the actress Michelle Williams. He had clashed with paparazzi in Australia and had partied in New York, but unlike some stars, he was not remembered as a difficult celebrity.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">"He was always really polite and nice," said Paul Sevigny, an owner of the Beatrice Inn, a West Village club that Ledger frequented. There is no shortage of problem-causing partygoers in New York, Sevigny said, "but he certainly wasn't one of them."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The police first said that the apartment, at 421 Broome Street between Crosby and Lafayette, belonged to the actress <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary-Kate Olsen</span>, one of the waiflike twin stars of "Full House." Later Browne, the police spokesman, said it was not Olsen's.</p><br /><br /><span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags:<br /><a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/heath+ledger" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for heath ledger">heath ledger</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/dies" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for dies">dies</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/actor" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for actor">actor</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/us" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for us">us</a></span><br /><span class="sociallinks">Add to: | <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Technorati</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Digg</a> | <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F;title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">del.icio.us</a> | <a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028&u=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Yahoo</a> | <a href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&Title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">BlinkList</a> | <a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">Spurl</a> | <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&title=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028" target="_blank">reddit</a> | <a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Heath%20Ledger%2C%20actor%2C%20is%20found%20dead%20at%2028&u=http%3A%2F%2Fheath%2Dledger%2D2008%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F" target="_blank">Furl</a> | </span>heath ledgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364799704166042527noreply@blogger.com0