Daily entertainment news covering Candy en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/09/family_friends_bid_farewell_to_heath_led Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:11:48 EST Entertainment News 77471@http://www.starpulse.com/news PERTH, Australia (AP) - Heath Ledger's family joined celebrities and hundreds of other mourners Saturday to bid farewell to the actor at a memorial service in his Australian hometown that began with a haunting Aboriginal dirge.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/25/ledger_claimed_to_have_never_been_addict Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:06:01 EST Entertainment News 75638@http://www.starpulse.com/news Heath Ledger found it hard to play a junkie in 2005 Candy, because he had never been addicted to anything stronger than tobacco.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/23/heath_ledger_career_full_of_artistic_ris Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:31:33 EST Entertainment News 75336@http://www.starpulse.com/news NEW YORK (AP) - Heath Ledger turned down more teen movies after starring in the romantic comedy ''10 Things I Hate About You,'' waiting for the kinds of grueling, intense roles that would become his trademark.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/12/jake_gyllenhaal_was_too_scared_for_broke Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:23:49 EST Entertainment News 37907@http://www.starpulse.com/news Jake Gyllenhaal was too scared to take part in the naked cliff jump scene in Brokeback Mountain, leaving his co-star Heath Ledger to do the honors. Ledger, who also acted nude in his latest movie Candy, says he had no fears over the scene, but Gyllenhaal quickly opted out.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/11/14/opening_november_17_candy Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:12:12 EST Entertainment News 21423@http://www.starpulse.com/news A free-spirited art student and a roguish poet find their addiction to each other taking a back seat to their taste for heroin in director Neil Armfield's intensely personal tale of recreational drug use gone bad. When Candy (Abbie Cornish) and Dan (Heath Ledger) first fell in love, they both thought they had found all they ever needed in life. Continue Summary... Photo gallery / More

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/11/11/heath_ledger_learned_to_shoot_up_for_can Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:28:54 EST Entertainment News 21198@http://www.starpulse.com/news Heath Ledger checked himself into an Australian rehab facility and learned how to shoot up heroin from a junkie to perfect his latest movie role. The Aussie actor plays a drug addict in new movie Candy, but he had no idea how to portray his sick character on the big screen because he has never stuck a needle in his arm.

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