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CAN WE PLEASE GIVE A HURRAH! FOR THE LEDGER FAMILY AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS. THERE WAS NO FIGHTING NO BICKERING! THEY GAVE ALL HIS MONEY TO HIS DAUGHTER FOR HER AND BECAUSE THAT IS THE WAY HEATH WOULD HAVE WANTED IT. I KNOW IT MUST HAVE BEEN HARD TO GIVE UP THAT 20 MIL..BUT MAYBE ALL OF US COULD TAKE A LESSON FROM THIS FAMILY!!!!

 

Heath Ledger and his daughter Matilda Rose Ledger on November 17, 2007.Us Magazine

Heath Ledger's 2-year-old daughter Matilda Rose will inherit the late actor's entire estate, according to Perth, Australia's Sunday Times.

The Dark Knight star -- who died last January of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 28 -- had named his parents and sisters as the beneficiaries in his will.

But the will was made before the birth of his daughter. Some reports speculated that Ledger's ex Michelle Williams would lodge a claim.

But Ledger's father Kim tells Perth's Sunday Times, "There is no claim. Our family has gifted everything to Matilda."

Look back at memorable photos of Heath Ledger and daughter Matilda.

In March, Kim issued a statement: "Matilda is an absolute priority and Michelle is an integral part of our family. They will be taken care of and that's how Heath would want it to be."

Both Williams and Ledger's family recently pledged to contribute an undisclosed amount to a scholarship to help emerging Australian actors and honor the memory of Ledger.

Applications are available online and will be accepted from Oct. 1 to Nov. 28, with the first beneficiary to be announced by mid-February.

 

SHANNON

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Conan O'Brien will take over the "Tonight" show next June — and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess.

Leno's last show will be Friday, May 29, and O'Brien will start the following Monday, June 1, NBC executives told a Television Critics Association meeting Monday.

NBC is angling to keep Leno with NBC Universal but the late-night king has indicated he's ready to jump ship. Eager NBC competitors, including other networks and syndicators, are prepared to help him make the leap.

Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff, NBC Entertainment co-chairmen, were asked about the specter of Leno being hired by ABC and overpowering O'Brien and top-rated "Tonight."

"We really believe in the decisions we've made with our partners, including Jay," and stand by them, Silverman replied.

Graboff disagreed with the premise of the question, saying talks aimed at keeping Leno within NBC Universal post-"Tonight" are continuing.

But, Graboff added, "we've made our decision, we're happy with it, we're very confident the `Tonight' show will remain dominant in its time period."

Despite its prime-time woes, NBC has managed to maintain its late-night ratings dominance, although O'Brien has been challenged lately by Craig Ferguson on CBS. Now NBC is attempting a tricky transition based on a promise made nearly four years ago that O'Brien would succeed Leno.

The network attempted to defuse the issue Monday with humor: Leno was seated among the press corps, disguised as a bald, bearded reporter who was armed with questions about himself.

But the exchange came off as more pointed than funny, unlike a similar staged encounter between ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and a network executive last week at the critics' meeting.

Kimmel, identifying himself as a Florida newspaper reporter, tweaked his bosses as he posed questions about his job security if Leno comes to ABC; Leno, on the other hand, represents a threat to NBC if he goes elsewhere.

"(Green Bay Packers quarterback) Brett Favre retired and then wanted to come back," Leno said to Silverman and Graboff. "The Packers said no. What do you make of that?"

Favre retired in early March but recently expressed second thoughts about playing in 2008. The change of heart has drawn lukewarm enthusiasm from the Packers, who spent the offseason planning to move ahead with Aaron Rodgers as their starter — akin to the O'Brien-Leno switch.

"Everyone's entitled to change their mind. But I'd imagine that puts management in an impossible situation," Silverman replied, gamely.

"Is it true you've offered Leno a fifth hour on the `Today' show?" Leno said.

"That's a great idea, actually," Silverman said.

Nah, replied Leno, "It's a crappy idea."

Jimmy Fallon is poised to take over O'Brien's "Late Night" in March or April of 2009, after honing his approach in brief Internet shows, Silverman and Graboff said.

O'Brien will wrap his "Late Night" run sometime in the first quarter of the year, with exact dates to be determined, the executives said. O'Brien reruns will fill the gap until Fallon takes over.

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NBC is owned by General Electric Co. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.

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MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) _ Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested in Riverside County for investigation of drug use and sexual battery. The Sheriff's Department says Dick, 42, was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot near the Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar in Murrieta. Details were not released. The former co-star of the TV sitcom "NewsRadio" is being held on $5,000 bail. In 1999, Dick was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana after driving his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood. He went into a diversion program. Last year, he was cited in Columbus, Ohio, for urinating in public.

YOU ALL KNOW THE DEAL BY NOW..BUSCH BUY-OUT!

 

WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHO SHOULD OWN SEAWORLD IF IT'S UP FOR GRABS???

what are you doing on your 4th of july?

clay aiken a daddy..okay first of all why do we report these things right before dinner time.

yes folks he is having a baby after AI. his best friend who is over 50 is using his sperm for a child!

first lindsay marrying her girlfriend and now this.

hollywood needs help!!!!

 

shannon

 

 

i must say i am shocked he got that much time..is anyone else?

did anyone see that yesterday on oprah?

i thought i was going to be so amazed and i thought i would be embracing the whole thing...but i gotta tell you i am disturbed.

 

what do you think?

 

shannon

 

if this is true...

 

how sad...

 

they are talking about the money being split, but what about all these years the kid has lived without his father. why isn't anyone talking about that?

 

"THE DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTS" LEDGER GOT A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN PREGNANT WHEN HE WAS JUST SEVENTEEN.

THAT WOULD MAKE THE CHILD TEN-YEARS-OLD TODAY.

APPARENTLY, THE ALLEGED MOTHER REALIZED SHE WAS PREGNANT AFTER THE TWO SPLIT UP.

ONE OF LEDGER'S UNCLES SAYS - QUOTE - "THERE'S A REAL POSSIBILITY THAT HEATH WAS THE FATHER."

IF CONFIRMED, IT COULD FURTHER DIVIDE LEDGER'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE.

LEDGER HAS A DAUGHTER, MATILDA, WITH ACTRESS MICHELLE WILLIAMS.

"Stop! Or my mom will read your fortune through your BLEEP! That's right, Jacqueline Stallone is the mother of Sly Stallone and she has the mystical powers of reading your future based on an imprint of your butt. .
"She calls it rumpology

It's only $125 to get your cheeks read.

 

hmmm?

lou pearlman pled guilty today! defrauding people of millions of dollars. what do you think his punishment should be.

 

shannon

first can we discuss gary busey..what was that? first to ryan seacrest and then jen gardner? you are telling me with all that security there no one stopped that crazyman?

 

and then that black dress that looked like the statue of liberty? what the heck, i guess winning an oscar does not give you fashion sense.

 

 

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British industry magazine The Bookseller has announced this year's shortlist for the oddest book title of the year, with a typical mix of the quirky and eclectic.

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Visitors to the magazine's website, www.thebookseller.com, can make their choice from six mostly non-fiction titles unearthed by publishers, bookstore workers and librarians from around the world.

The winner will be announced on March 28.

The nominees for The Diagram Prize are:

-- "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" by Jasper McCutcheon;

-- "How to Write a How to Write Book" by Brian Paddock;

-- "Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues" by Catharine A. MacKinnon;

-- "Cheese Problems Solved" by P.L.H McSweeney;

-- "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs" by Big Boom;

-- "People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood" by Dee Gordon.

Horace Bent, The Bookseller's diarist, said on the magazine's website: "I confess: I have been anxious that as publishing becomes ever more corporate, the trade's quirky charms are being squeezed out.

"Lists are pruned, targets are set, authors are culled. But happily my fears have been proved unfounded: oddity lives on."

Last year's winner was "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification", by Julian Montague.

The Diagram Prize has been running since 1978, when the winner was "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice".

DO YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT TORI'S LIFE?

 

NEW MEMOIR, STORI TELLING, WHICH REVEALS SHOCKING DETAILS ABOUT HER PREVIOUS MAR RIAGE, LIFE WITH HER PARENTS AND HER TIME ON BEVERLY HILLS 90210. THE STAR ALSO TALKS TO PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT HER SECOND PREGNANCY. I WAS SHOCKED! SAYS THE ACTRESS, WHO FOUND OUT SHE WAS EXPECTING BABY NO. 2 THE WEEK AFTER SHED REACHED HER POST-BABY GOAL WEIGHT. TO BREAK THE NEWS TO HUSBAND DEAN MCDERMOTT , SHE WROTE, IM A BIG BROTHER ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND PINNED IT TO THEIR 11-MONT H-OLD SON LIAMS SHIRT. DEAN SAID, CUTE SHIRT, DID YOU MAKE IT SPELLING SAYS. IM LIKE, BABE, IF HES A BIG BROTHER HE FINALLY WENT, OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY? HE WAS SO EXCITED. BUT IT TOOK HIM FIVE MINUTES! SPELLING SAYS HER SECOND PREGNAN CY HAS BEEN TOUGHER: BUT BEING A MOTHER IS AMAZING. I GET TO DISCOVER LIFE ALL OVER AGAIN. IN STORI TELLING, SPELLING DISHES ABOUT HER YEARS ON 90210. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CAST AND CREW FUNCTIONED AS A CLOSE FAMILY. AND IN THE COURSE OF THE TEN YE ARS THE SHOW WAS ON THE AIR, EVERYONE IN THE CAST PRETTY MUCH SLEPT WITH EVERYON E ELSE. WE ALL WOULD LAUGH ABOUT IT YEARS LATER, WRITES SPELLING. OF HER CO-ST ARS SPELLING SAYS SHE HAD AN INSTA-CRUSH ON BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN AND CONFESSES SHE CHEATED ON HER FIRST BOYFRIEND WITH HIM.

Lipstick on the collar has landed

some men in hot water. Lipstick streaks on an evening gown almost

got a beauty queen in trouble.

The red streaks on Jessica Wittenbrink's gown were discovered

backstage during the Miss South Florida Fair pageant on Saturday

night. Pageant organizers and Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies

met with the 13 contestants, but deputies say there's not enough

"conclusive evidence" to name a suspect. It wasn't clear if the

lipstick was sabotage or random vandalism by someone unrelated to

the pageant.

Wittenbrink went on to win the pageant. She even wore the

light-blue dress with the lipstick stains clearly visible on the

back.

Wittenbrink will next compete in the Miss Florida pageant.