Jan 23, 2008 1:31 PM Australian actress Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman says her heart goes out to Heath Ledger's family after the Australian actor was found dead in New York on Wednesday morning. "What a terrible tragedy," Kidman said through her publicist Wendy Day. "My heart goes out to Heath's family." One of Kidman's closest friends is Australian actress Naomi Watts, who dated Ledger for two years from 2002. Australian actor Mel Gibson "I had such great hope for him," Gibson told the Entertainment Tonight website. "He...
Orlando-area actor makes impression in beer ad
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
MOUNT DORA - You might have seen the TV commercial where a waitress slides a bucket filled with bottles of beer across a bar to a man sitting alone. The man calls his friends, announcing "Code Blue," which sets off a chain of events as the friends...
Judge sentences actor Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
TOOLS OCALA, Fla. - A federal judge has sentenced action star Wesley Snipes to the maximum three-year sentence on...
Olympian, film actor, WWII vet
The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte Observer
GERRY HOSTETLER He missed, at the whim of a movie director, what could have been total immortality. That director preferred Paul Newman for the role of "Brick" in the 1958 Oscar-nominated "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Native Charlottean Floyd "Chunk"...
Italian actor visits Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
He's in town for movie festival Staff writer A movie star went sightseeing Saturday in Syracuse, taking in the sights and enjoying the town. Luca Capriotti, 16, the star of the Italian film "Red Like the Sky," made his first trip to the United States...
As Speed, actor left subtlety in dust
The Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Dispatch
"I'm really a safe driver," Emile Hirsch says. "Believe it or not, I haven't really gotten a ticket." Not one? "OK, I got one for driving my friend's car," he concedes. "It was actually his mom's car. My friend's mom didn't have front plates. It was...
It's Super Year for once-troubled actor Robert Downey Jr., starting with Iron Man'
The News & Observer
The News & Observer
Actor keeps some secrets
The Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON -- What a difference a couple of years make. At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Chiwetel Ejiofor was attending the U.S. premiere of the British cross-dressing comedy Kinky Boots. When asked the hardest thing to get used to in the role of...


