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Fox News’ John Gibson mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger by opening his radio show with funeral music. Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” who had a “serious drug problem.”
He then played a clip out of Ledger’s movie ‘Brokeback Mountain’ where the actor says “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Gibson mockingly said “Well, he found out how to quit you.”
Gibson played another clip from the film where Ledger said, “We’re dead” before repeating the quote himself. Throughout the rest of his segment Gibson continued making fun of Ledger and at one point joked the 28-year-old may have been suicidal over the presidential debate.
“Apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was completely irreverent,” he said.
A US talkshow host has caused outrage by mocking the death of actor Heath Ledger.
Fox News presenter John Gibson began his live radio show with a funeral anthem and described the actor as a "weirdo" with a "serious drug problem".
He played a clip from Ledger's film Brokeback Mountain, ending with the line "I wish I knew how to quit you". He then said: "Well, he found out how to quit you."
Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”
Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you.” Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, “We’re dead,” followed by his own, mocking “We’re dead” before playing the clip again.
The late Heath Ledger. Who would have thought we'd be muttering those awful words about this powerhouse Aussie actor at 28?
With the dust from Brad Renfro's death barely settled (the 25-year-old actor died on Jan. 15), the tragic news of Ledger's death shot around the world late Tuesday aftenoon. With it came a deluge of entertaiment "authorities" hitting the airwaves, the lot of them spouting their possible theories about Ledger's death.
Heath was addicted to sleeping pills said some. He was depressed about his breakup with Michelle Williams said others. One longtime showbiz reporter even spewed out the theory that Hollywood and it's many pressures doesn't kill people. It's those deep, longtime issues Ledger bore about his parent's divorce that probably influenced this "situation."
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities said the autopsy on Heath Ledger was inconclusive and that it would take about 10 days to determine a definitive cause of death for the "Brokeback Mountain" actor, whose fans remembered him Wednesday by leaving flowers and candles outside his Manhattan apartment.
The Australian-born actor was found dead Tuesday by his housekeeper and a massage therapist — lying naked and face-down on the floor at the foot of his bed, police said.
Prescription sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills were found in bottles in Ledger's bedroom and bathroom. Police said the death was caused by a possible drug overdose and appeared to be accidental.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said the autopsy on the 28-year-old actor was inconclusive and that more would be known after more thorough tests can be completed.
News of the death stunned family, fans and colleagues.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Relatives of Heath Ledger are expected to arrive from Australia on Friday in preparation for his funeral, a funeral home spokesman said. Ledger's body was taken to the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan Wednesday, the mortuary confirmed to CNN.
A private viewing will take place Friday, The Associated Press reported.
The funeral arrangements have not been made public.
The 28-year-old actor, star of "Brokeback Mountain" and the upcoming "Dark Knight," died Tuesday afternoon.
An autopsy Wednesday morning was inconclusive, and a cause-of-death determination will take 10 to 14 days, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said.
"There were no illegal drugs found" in the apartment, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday.
US actor Brad Renfro has been found dead in his home at the age of 25.
Renfro, who won acclaim for his childhood role in The Client, had struggled with drugs and alcohol for several years.
The cause of death was not immediately determined, but a post-mortem examination was due to be conducted.
Renfro had reportedly been drinking with friends the evening before his death, according to an investigator for the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Renfro's lawyer, Richard Kaplan, said he did not know whether the death was connected to any problems with addiction. "He was working hard on his sobriety," Mr Kaplan said. "He was doing well. He was a nice person."
Brad Renfro, an actor best known for his roles in the movies "The Client" and "Ghost World," was found dead Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
He was 25.
Renfro's body was found in his Wilshire-area home in the 1000 block of South Ogden Drive by his girlfriend, authorities said.
Renfro, who had a history of drug abuse, was declared dead by paramedics at 9 a.m., according to coroner's spokesman Ed Winter.
The cause of death had yet to be determined, he said.
"There is no suspicion of foul play," LAPD Lt. David Evans said.
The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home this morning. The cause of death has not been determined, however, Renfro had a history of drug abuse.
Sources tell us Renfro, who had starring roles in "The Client" and "Apt Pupil" had been working valiantly to stay clean, especially since this summer. Renfro had been convicted of several drug offenses, including attempted heroin possession.
Susan Sarandon
"I had the pleasure of working with Brad when he was eleven in THE CLIENT. It was obvious to everyone that he was the sweetest, most incredibly gifted young actor to come along for some time. My heart goes out to the family for their tragic loss."
Brad Renfro's girlfriend told a 911 operator that she thought the 25-year-old actor "might have taken a couple pills," according to a recording of the call released Wednesday.
The woman, who found his body on Jan. 15, tells the operator: "We're not sure if he's breathing or not. His nose is bleeding. ... We can't tell if he's breathing."
Ashley Spencer Caught Stealing Kids Photos And Using Them In Her Testimonial
Ok so here is the story as I know it. This Ashley Spencer stole a picture from Flickr of This Womans kids and used them in a fake testimonial for her book "How To Conceive The Gender of Your Choice".Not a book I would part with my hard earned $47.00 for even if the testimonials were real. If this keeps just 1 person from being scammed then this post will be well worth putting up...
For anyone who has seen the movie Alpha Dog. This is the true story behind the movie. I have done some research on the story and would like to share with you what I have learned. This is a work in progress so check back often. I have also done the same with the movie 'Bully' The Story Of Marty Puccio and Bobby Kent and you can find that on this site also. I hope you enjoy... BJC
Susan's Blurbs About me: I am the Mother of~ Nicholas Samuel Markowitz 9/19/84-8/9/2000 Information all over the internet, if you can't find it there, you can ask me. To get the jest of it, rent or buy Alpha Dog. May You Be Blessed With Many More Hugs~
Do not stand by my grave or hold my locket and weep. I am not there.I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow. I am a diamond glint in the snow. I am the sunlight on the ripened grain. I am the gentle Autumn rain. When you awake in the morning hush I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft star shine at night. Do not stand by my grave or hold my locket and cry. I am not there... I did not die.
POMC has been very helpful in helping me through the initial months after my only child Nick Markowitz 15, was kidnapped and executed.
You can watch the movie Alpha Dog to understand the story it is very confusing! No I haven't received a penny from the movie, maybe someone has connections there? I refer that movie to thousands of people and it could help pay for my medical bills that this tragedy has incurred. Is that tacky? I hope not, I just feel guilty sometimes for getting the help I know I need. And that I feel just shouldn't be!
I am trying to bring us together online and maybe somehow get to know each other to give the support no one else understands.
On August 6, 2000, Nick Markowitz, a handsome 15-year-old boy with an endearing widow's peak crowning his dark brown hair, ambled down a street in West Hills, California. It was just after noon on a searing hot Sunday that would top off at 99 degrees before sunset, and Nick was in a foul mood.
The night before, he'd had a run-in with his parents when he came home at midnight with something suspicious bulging in his back pocket. His parents had good reason to be concerned — they'd caught Nick with Valium and marijuana in the past. When his father demanded to see what was in his pocket, Nick bolted out the door.
At 19, he bought a 3-story white stucco home for $200,000, just a few blocks away from the Markowitz family, making the $41,000 down payment in cash. He drove a black Mercedes and a blue sports car.
Neighbors often saw him in the front yard hanging out with a group of young men similarly dressed in jeans and tank tops, smoking in the shade of large elm tree. In the backyard, he kept two pit bulls. They also noticed strange goings-ons, cars that would pull up to the house night and day, drivers who would dash inside for a minute before leaving again.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday ordered a deputy district attorney removed from a high-profile death penalty case because the prosecutor had shared confidential files with movie producers. Defense attorneys had asked for the entire Santa Barbara County district attorney's office to be removed from the case against Jesse James Hollywood.
Hollywood is accused of masterminding a plot to kidnap and kill 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz in August 2000 because the teenager's older half-brother owed Hollywood a $1,200 drug debt.
From a stack of exhibits in a cramped room on the top floor of Santa Barbara's Moorish-style courthouse, evidence clerk Alicia Romero pulls out a weathered cardboard container, about the size of a large box of chocolates.
The stubby black Intratec Tec-9 machine pistol is still dirty in spots. Ms. Romero insists on rubber gloves. She's concerned about the bodily fluids and the chemical residue that remain on the weapon's dark brushed-metal finish.
SANTA BARBARA – Longtime fugitive Jesse James Hollywood has been yanked out of a comfortable life in Brazil and back to California, where he faces charges of kidnapping and killing a 15-year-old boy.
Hollywood, 25, taught English and was living with a young woman in a fashionable beach district at the end of his five years on the lam, Brazilian authorities said. He allegedly paid his expenses with $1,200 he received each month from his parents.
This is a companion case to Haraguchi v. Superior Court (Oct. 5, 2006, No. B191161) (Haraguchi). In this death penalty case, Jesse James Hollywood, petitioner, seeks a writ of mandate directing the respondent trial court to grant his motion to recuse the Office of the District Attorney of Santa Barbara County. In the alternative, petitioner seeks a writ of mandate directing the trial court to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on the recusal motion. Petitioner contends that, because of the role of the assigned prosecutor's, Ronald J. Zonen's (Zonen), role in the making of a film about the case, "that prosecutor has demonstrated a bias and conflict of interest warranting recusal." "Based on the lack of evidence that [the District Attorney] was unaware of the prosecutor's disqualifying conduct," petitioner also contends that the entire prosecutorial office should be recused.
At first just another outside observer, attorney Michael Mehas may now be the difference between life and death for alleged pot dealer-turned-killer Jesse James Hollywood
By Matthew Singer It’s no wonder Michael Mehas decided to go into law: He looks good in a suit. It shows off the height that made him a star shooting guard in high school better than his casual clothes do. At the Santa Barbara Superior Courthouse on Jan. 10, however, the suit is wearing him. As a criminal defense attorney, Mehas is familiar with this scene, but not the view. He’s used to addressing the witness stand, not speaking from it, and he’s obviously nervous about the reversal: He’s clutching his bottle of water like a life preserver.
She once filled her days with projects at home: gardening, decorating and caring for her son and two stepchildren. All that changed for Susan Markowitz on an August day in 2000, when a knock on her door brought news of the unthinkable: Her son, who had been missing for a week, was found shot to death and hastily buried in a shallow grave in the foothills of Santa Barbara.
"All I wanted was to be a mother," Markowitz said. "I lost my job the day Nick died."
Jeff, Susan and Nick Markowitz at Nick’s bar mitzvah The film, "Alpha Dog," based on the 2000 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old West Hills resident Nick Markowitz, has received mixed reviews but growing notoriety. The fictionalized Universal release has become increasingly tied to the very case it portrays -- the manhunt for Jesse James Hollywood, whom prosecutors allege ordered the hit on Nick Markowitz, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave outside of Santa Barbara.
On a sunny day in May, Jack Hollywood and his ex-wife, Laurie, sat holding hands in the courtroom waiting for deputies to bring their son, Jesse James Hollywood, into court. It was two months after Jesse�s capture in Brazil. Four burly deputies escorted the 25-year-old accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz. Sitting on the opposite side of the court, Jeff and Susan Markowitz studied him as he walked in. With his tan and sun-bleached hair, he looked like a college student back from spring break, nothing like the smirking skinhead on his wanted poster.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Marijuana dealer Jesse James Hollywood faces a possible death sentence after his conviction for kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old boy over an escalating drug debt, a crime that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."
A Santa Barbara Superior Court jury on Wednesday also found Hollywood guilty of the special circumstance allegation of being a principal in a murder committed in the course of a kidnapping and being involved in a crime in which an assault weapon or machine gun was used, making him eligible for the death penalty.
The jury deliberated for about four days. Hollywood, 29, stared straight ahead as the verdict was read.
"I can't believe they found him guilty of that murder," his father, Jack Hollywood, said outside the courtroom.
The victim's parents said they were relieved but declined to comment further because of a gag order issued in the case. Prosecutors and defense attorneys also declined to speak.
The tragic tale of a young life snuffed out prematurely in it’s prime, came to a somewhat cathartic end after nine long years, with retribution finally catching up with the perpetrator.
The long drawn-out trial of Jesse James Hollywood, accused of kidnapping and murdering 15 year-old Nicholas Markowitz nine years ago, culminated with the jury finding him guilty as charged, on counts of kidnapping and first-degree murder, and awarding him with the death penalty.
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