Jake Gyllenhaal Defends Heath Ledger In Bar Fight

Posted by Crushable Staff on 3/23/10 • Categorized as Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julia Roberts, Kate Gosselin, Mariah Carey, News, Sarah Jessica Parker

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• Gotta love Jake Gyllenhaal. There’s a rumor he got in a Canadian bar fight over the weekend, defending the memory of Heath Ledger. (E! Online)
• Well, Kate Gosselin didn’t come in totally last on DWTS, but close. We liked her hair, though. (Popeater)
• Our new favorite lady, Zoe Saldana, graces NYLON’s front this month, and talks about race in Hollywood: “When they say ‘We want to go white,’ they have a very smooth way of saying it, and the recent one is the word traditional. [I've heard] ‘Oh, you know, you’re just not what we were looking for, your skin is a little darker.” (Jezebel)
• Transformers 3 MIGHT be awesome, now that John Malkovich has signed on to star. (TheFabLife)
• Julia Roberts shopped for yogurt all by her lonesome, and caused quite a stir. (Page Six)
• Pete Doherty is back in trouble with the law, has been arrested in connection with a drug death. (Telegraph UK)
• Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s parents are no doubt thrilled that her style choices include androgyny, caps with skulls, and gun holsters. So are we. (Us Magazine)
• Sarah Jessica Parker goes on a rainy outing with cute daughter Loretta. (People)
• The release of Mariah Carey’s new album, Angels Advocate, has allegedly been canceled. (Digital Spy)

Tagged as: Entertainment, john malkovich, pete doherty, PopEater, shiloh jolie-pitt, Zoe Saldana

Glenn Beck is Heath Ledger’s Joker. I’m serious: same intonation, same delivery. It’s terrifying because the guy actually exists in real life, and has millions of followers. Listen to the clips below and make your own comparison.

Americans are freaking out, as they should be, as their society and economy crumbles down around them. If you don’t know that’s what’s happening, then you’re not paying attention. Glenn Beck is one of the few prominent voices who’s connecting full-on with that very appropriate anxiety.

But he’s using a classic, uncreative stunt to do it: demonizing a false enemy — in this case “communists,” a category that includes for Beck everyone from Woodrow Wilson to Obama to Wallis and even to little old me.

But over the past few months he’s gone beyond political attack to almost sexualized sadism (“pounding” the Reverend Jim Wallis “all night long”???). He has been taunting and threatening his targets in breathless whispers and hysterical screams, separated with dramatic pauses and prolonged evil villain cackles. Listen for yourself.

Joker:

Beck–”Hammer” Jim Wallis “all night long”??:

Joker:

Beck:

Joker:

Am I the only one who thinks Heath Ledger is the finest thing in the world?
So many people are like “ew, gross…” but he is!
Im not sure if its because he looks EXACLY like my brothers bff, but something about him, is hott!

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That split screen madness I did for actress and supporting actress is never as much fun for men so I’m foregoing due to time constraints. But needless to say I was very happy for Jeff Bridges (long time coming/The Dude abides), loved watching him tear up while he listened to Michelle Pfeiffer’s Fabulous Baker Boys memories and I was almost even happier to see that Colin Firth (my personal fav this year) seemed so happy for Bridges, just beaming from the audience.

While we’re on the subject… the film experience ballot if you could only hold the Oscars once a decade (GOD FORBID!):

Nathaniel’s Choice For Best Actor 2000-2009

• Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (the Oscar winner)
• Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean (nominated, lost)
• Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (nominated, lost) – my decade winner
• Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises (nominated, lost)
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (nominated, lost)

I think that’s what it would be. Hard to narrow it down that much. Depp’s complete genius as Capt. Jack Sparrow has been unfortunately depreciated by calcifying returns to the same role but I will never dispute nor stand for others doubting his creativity the first time round. Maybe if reconsidered, Mortensen would have to step down for Sean Penn (Milk) or Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) or Christian Bale (American Psycho) or… well, you get the point. It’s always a close call for that fifth spot.

Here’s my favorite of Oscar’s winners this past decade.

With apologies to Denzel Washington in Training Day… King Kong aint got shit on him. Best Actor wins are much kinder to me than Best Actress wins. Even though my #1 in any give year is almost never shared with Oscar, fairly often they do choose my 2nd or 3rd favorite of the year. And that’s good enough when it comes to Oscar. How often does the Best Actor winning performance work wonders for you?

Oscars in Review: worst & weirdest moments, most wonderful moments and all 09/10 awards season posts

AP – Heath Ledger’s latest directorial work has been released.

by Claudine Zap It may not be Gotham City, but some joker’s gone wild in L.A. A poster that mashes up an image of President Obama with the smeared face paint and red lips of Heath Ledger’s Joker from “The Dark Knight” has hit the streets, guerilla style.

In Touch’s Amy Palmer talks about new episodes of “John and Kate Plus Eight.”

AP – Heath Ledger’s zeal roused his co-stars to up their game in his final film, and his death inspired them — and three A-list friends who completed his role — to carry on with a story the late actor had wanted to see, director Terry Gilliam said Friday.