The estate of actor Heath Ledger has been tied up for some time now, with legalities and family squabbles and such, but it seems a decision has finally been reached.  Heath’s family have decided to donate the whole estate to his daughter Matilda:

Two years before his little girl was born, the Dark Knight star – who died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January – signed a will leaving his fortune to his parents and sisters.

But Ledger’s father, Kim, says they have decided that all the money should all go to 2-year-old Matilda (the actor’s daughter with ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams).

In fact, he tells PEOPLE, that was the plan “from the moment my boy passed away.”

It’s been a while now since the family promised that Matilda would be taken care of, and it was thought that perhaps she wouldn’t receive her fair share, especially with the familial infighting that was going on between Heath’s father and his brother.  However, it seems good has won, and while his millions will never bring this little girl’s daddy back, perhaps it will at least secure her future so her mom wouldn’t have to worry about it.  He and Matilda’s mother, actress Michelle Williams, remained close even after they separated, by all accounts he doted on his daughter, and I think it was what Heath would have wanted.

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Wow.  You know it’s got to be bad when one of your own fan clubs turns on you.

Over at sienna-miller.org, a fan site devoted to the actress, it seems that the person running it has had enough of Sienna’s shenanigans and is jumping ship:

It must be obvious that my heart has not been in this site for the past couple of years. This is due to several reasons, the main ones being the loss of Katy and Maddie from the site staff, a lack of time, and how Sienna has changed. Regarding the change in Sienna, I know others at the forum feel the same, and while some may argue she has simply grown up and reacted to events in a normal way, I cannot get past the fact that to me she has completely changed from the Sienna I became a fan of back in 2004. I don’t say that lightly because (believe it or not) I do still have a lot of respect for Sienna and still consider myself a supportive fan.

I’ve tried to forget about that and update whenever I can (although yes, that has not been much!) … however, recent events - that of Sienna’s affair with a married father of 4 and extremely public PDA’s - have heightened my lack of interest in the site and Sienna. We do not know the whole story behind this affair, and some may argue it is not our place to judge BUT when Sienna can cavort so publicly and so shamelessly with this man who IS married and does have 4 children (including a baby only a few months old) with his wife, my respect for her goes out of the window. One minute she says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress and she’s sick of all the false stories about her in the press … and the next she’s topless on a beach with a married man’s hands all over her - come on Sienna, you know the paparazzi are going to be around. If she was serious about being taken seriously she would, well, not display herself so publicly like this.

I do have a huge amount of respect for Sienna’s career - I think she chooses fantastic roles and I am genuinely excited to see how her career is going to progress. However, unfortunately her career is always going to take a back seat to the tabloid rubbish, and no matter how hard we try to avoid the gossip we just can’t.

Therefore I am looking for someone to become a co-webmistress/master here at Sienna Online. You will be responsible for keeping not only the gallery, but also the news and all other content up-to-date. You need to have excellent sources, be willing to buy magazines to scan etc., have a similar ‘work ethic’ to me (ie must like original content etc!) and have time to update regularly/at least a few times each week. You must be able to keep up with everything in Sienna-world. To apply just send me an email. I’m aware I have asked for this a few times before and never actually got back to anyone - that is because no-one has fully fitted the bill.

If I do not find someone suitable soon, then I’m sad to say that Sienna Online will be closing. I am reluctant to close because of the work that has gone into this site over the years, the fact that we have been here since Sienna’s career first took off, and because we are the only website with complete, in depth content. However, I’m at a point now where I would close the site if I can’t find someone to run it properly, like it deserves.

Wow.  Sienna has fans?  I thought they would have all bailed by this point.

To get you up to speed, Sienna was caught cavorting on the beaches of Italy with Balthazar Getty, very married actor and father of four shortly after dumping boyfriend Rhys Ifans.  To some, this was a case of life imitating life, as one of the reasons she and Jude Law separated was because of his affair with his kids’ nanny.  Her “friendly” ways may have contributed as well.  She’s also been romantically linked to various other men/co-stars.  She’s just real friendly!

So anyway, the position as Sienna’s fan is open.  I’d go apply for it myself, but…I don’t like Sienna Miller.  I think that kind of disqualifies me.  So, I am passing along this golden opportunity to you.  Here’s a dream job just chock-full of opportunity for advancement…that is, if you’re married.  And kind of cute.  And male.  Well, perhaps not necessarily.

(btw, the post on the Sienna Miller fan site was made August 6, and it is now September 30.  Seems the position is still open.  Ain’t sayin’, just sayin’.)

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Wow.  You know it’s got to be bad when one of your own fan clubs turns on you.

Over at sienna-miller.org, a fan site devoted to the actress, it seems that the person running it has had enough of Sienna’s shenanigans and is jumping ship:

It must be obvious that my heart has not been in this site for the past couple of years. This is due to several reasons, the main ones being the loss of Katy and Maddie from the site staff, a lack of time, and how Sienna has changed. Regarding the change in Sienna, I know others at the forum feel the same, and while some may argue she has simply grown up and reacted to events in a normal way, I cannot get past the fact that to me she has completely changed from the Sienna I became a fan of back in 2004. I don’t say that lightly because (believe it or not) I do still have a lot of respect for Sienna and still consider myself a supportive fan.

I’ve tried to forget about that and update whenever I can (although yes, that has not been much!) … however, recent events - that of Sienna’s affair with a married father of 4 and extremely public PDA’s - have heightened my lack of interest in the site and Sienna. We do not know the whole story behind this affair, and some may argue it is not our place to judge BUT when Sienna can cavort so publicly and so shamelessly with this man who IS married and does have 4 children (including a baby only a few months old) with his wife, my respect for her goes out of the window. One minute she says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress and she’s sick of all the false stories about her in the press … and the next she’s topless on a beach with a married man’s hands all over her - come on Sienna, you know the paparazzi are going to be around. If she was serious about being taken seriously she would, well, not display herself so publicly like this.

I do have a huge amount of respect for Sienna’s career - I think she chooses fantastic roles and I am genuinely excited to see how her career is going to progress. However, unfortunately her career is always going to take a back seat to the tabloid rubbish, and no matter how hard we try to avoid the gossip we just can’t.

Therefore I am looking for someone to become a co-webmistress/master here at Sienna Online. You will be responsible for keeping not only the gallery, but also the news and all other content up-to-date. You need to have excellent sources, be willing to buy magazines to scan etc., have a similar ‘work ethic’ to me (ie must like original content etc!) and have time to update regularly/at least a few times each week. You must be able to keep up with everything in Sienna-world. To apply just send me an email. I’m aware I have asked for this a few times before and never actually got back to anyone - that is because no-one has fully fitted the bill.

If I do not find someone suitable soon, then I’m sad to say that Sienna Online will be closing. I am reluctant to close because of the work that has gone into this site over the years, the fact that we have been here since Sienna’s career first took off, and because we are the only website with complete, in depth content. However, I’m at a point now where I would close the site if I can’t find someone to run it properly, like it deserves.

Wow.  Sienna has fans?  I thought they would have all bailed by this point.

To get you up to speed, Sienna was caught cavorting on the beaches of Italy with Balthazar Getty, very married actor and father of four shortly after dumping boyfriend Rhys Ifans.  To some, this was a case of life imitating life, as the reason she and Jude Law separated was because of his affair with his kids’ nanny.  She’s also been romantically linked to various other men/co-stars.  She’s just real friendly!

So anyway, the position as Sienna’s fan is open.  I’d go apply for it myself, but…I don’t like Sienna Miller.  I think that kind of disqualifies me.  So, I am passing along this golden opportunity to you.  Here’s a dream job just chock-full of opportunity for advancement…that is, if you’re married.  And kind of cute.  And male.  Well, perhaps not necessarily.

(btw, the post on the Sienna Miller fan site was made August 6, and it is now September 30.  Seems the position is still open.  Ain’t sayin’, just sayin’.)

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Seriously, are there any people left in Showbizland who have even a modicum of sense?  Or did they sign that away when they agreed to fame and fortune?

Case in point:  Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid.  Former spouses who went so far as to have a child together before going their separate ways, they had pretty much kept hushy-mouthed over personal details in their lives.  Until now, that is…when one has a movie to promote and interviews to give, all bets are apparently off.  Meg has been running her mouth about the painful breakup of her marriage, saying that while she may have had an affair she was simply following Dennis’ lead:

Ryan’s freedom from conventional values revealed itself when she began an affair in 2000 with Russell Crowe, her co-star in Proof of Life, as her nine-year marriage to Dennis Quaid was falling apart. Suddenly, much of the enormous public affection for her turned to anger, and everything was affected: her image, her career, her sense of self. “It was a great story,” she says. “But what wasn’t in the story was the reality of my marriage…” And what was the reality? After a pause, Ryan says quietly, “Dennis was not faithful to me for a long time, and that was very painful…”

This is surprising—the story splashed across magazine covers at the time cast her as the cheater. “I think when things get played out that simply in black-and-white, it makes people feel good… The tabloid culture can’t tell a complicated story.” But Ryan is committed to the complicated story. She wasn’t the stereotypical long-suffering wife, nor was Quaid a monster. Meg is adamant: “I am not a victim. I was there. I was in that marriage for a really long time.”

Ryan did get a little lost in the tabloid story of her marriage and divorce. “Some days you think, This is so crazy, and you are all intellectual about it,” Ryan explains. “And other days, it’s just really, really painful.” She knew she could have filled in the details of Quaid’s cheating, which would have made it clear that she was not the one who wandered over the many years of their relationship. And she now wonders about her choice to say nothing at all: “I think I made a mistake in not talking more specifically.”

Dennis, for his part, is so angry that Meg has been talking about their personal, uhm, affairs to the press, that he has unleashed his ire, and you guessed it, it appears in the media:

“It was eight years ago, and I find it unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship,” the actor tells us exclusively. “Also, I find it regrettable that our son, Jack, has to be reminded in a public way of the turmoil and pain that every child feels in a divorce.” [...]

Quaid, who went on to marry real estate agent Kimberly Buffington and have twins last November, adds: “I, myself, moved on years ago and am fortunate to have a happy, beautiful family.”

Nothing says “I hate my ex slamming me in the media,” like using the media to slam your ex back.  Way to think about your kid and their feelings, you two chuckleheads.

I think my work here is done.

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The Many Faces Of Casey Anthony

As the global community sits on pins and needles waiting to see how the economic crisis brought on by avarice greed on Wallstreet plays out, some is still quite rotten in the State of Florida.

Glosslip’s been covering the sad story of missing 3-year old Caylee Anthony since the story broke in July. While there are thousands of children who go missing each year, and each and every single one is horrific, this one in particular as captured the fascination of our collective consciousness like so few have.

Caylee, who would have turned 3 on August 9th, is presumed dead by the Orange County Law Enforcement community and the Orlando police. DNA testing taken from her mother, Casey Anthony’s impounded car revealed decomposition and that testing points to the death of little Caylee. Casey, who waited 31 days to report her child missing, only did so after being tracked down and cornered by her family who’d grown worried about the missing tot.

Casey has claimed from the beginning that her daughter was kidnapped by a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez who police have cleared of any wrong doing, and who maintains she doesn’t even KNOW Casey or her daughter Caylee. In fact, having her name implicated with this sensational case, despite being exonerated early on in the case, is now suing Casey Anthony for ruining the innocent woman’s reputation and making it impossible for her to get a job.

Casey’s parents, Cindy and George Anthony, grandparents to Caylee have been embroiled in their own nightmare and have been battling the public at large both in the media and in front of their home, which has now become a local tourist destination. Really? I mean REALLY!?

So far, Casey has been arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, child neglect and check, theft, forgery and larceny charges stemming from stealing money and checks from family and friends, as well as, gas cans and her parents car. While she is a “person of interest” in her daughter’s disappearance, she has NOT been charged with any crimes relating to Caylee being missing. While we can only speculate as to why, we do know that the prosecutors and law enforcement officials have allowed extremely incriminating evidence to be leaked to the public, but still no charges filed.

What seems obvious to some, may not be obvious to all.

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