Yahoo! news is reporting that Oscar winner Charlton Heston is dead at 84. The family has declined to comment on the cause of death, but the actor revealed six years he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease.
Actor Thomas Jane was arrested in Kern County, CA this morning for driving under the influence of alcohol. The Punisher thesp was traveling at “an extremely high rate of speed” on I-5 in his Mazerati and subsequently failed a number of breathalyser tests, according to the California Highway Patrol. The 39 year-old was also cited [...]
Christian Bale may move seamlessly between genres better than any actor around, but you can be sure he loves doing the big blockbusters as much as artier fare like last year’s I’m Not There and Rescue Dawn. Take Batman, the franchise that he reinvented with director Christopher Nolan in 2005’s Batman Begins and returns to [...]
Heath Ledger’s will leaves nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was never updated after they became part of his life.
A copy of the three-page will, filed in Manhattan Surrogate Court, shows the 28-year-old Australian actor left everything he owned to his parents and three sisters. Kim Ledger, the actor’s father, [...]
Patrick Swayze, the dancer and starring actor of such hit films as Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, published reports said on Wednesday.
Swayze, 55, was diagnosed with cancer more than a month ago, the New York Post reported on its Web site, citing a representative for the actor.
Gavin O’Connor, whose March 14 release date on Pride and Glory was scrapped late last year by New Line, wants answers.
O’Connor is blaming the AWOL status of his movie on New Line chairman Bob Shaye. The writer-director is so incensed that he said he will withhold Warrior, a script he’s due to deliver to the [...]
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie Jaws, has died. He was 75.
Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release [...]
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Heath Ledger died from an accidental overdose of prescription medications including painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills, the New York City medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.
“Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine,” the office said in a short statement.
“We [...]
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Michael Ausiello, senior writer for TV Guide, has posted a moving tribute to Heath Ledger. Read it here.
TV Guide also has a photo gallery for the departed actor here.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - Danny Glover has been convicted in Niagara Falls, Ontario, for trespassing in a hotel during a union rally in 2006. Glover, who wasn’t in court, was convicted Thursday along with UNITE HERE union representative Alex Dagg and Ontario Federation of Labour President Wayne Samuelson.
Canadian Niagara Hotels charged the three [...]