Ledger, 28, died in his New York apartment January 22. A medical examiner ruled his death an accidental overdose of six prescription drugs identified by their generic names: oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, commonly known as Valium (RHHBY.PK), temazepam, alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax (PFE), and doxylamine. “Heath’s accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication,” his father, Kim, said in a statement. On February 2, Hollywood friends of Ledger including Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller and Ellen DeGeneres gathered at the Sony Lot for a private memorial service.
An unexpected tragedy is difficult to recover from emotionally, but some advance planning can make it easier to pay for financially. “Most funerals are unplanned and take place within a week or shortly after death,” says Sarah Orr funeral director of Adams Funeral Home in Ozark, Missouri, who says funerals can run as high as $13,000 or more.
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On maroon-mystery TV show Lost:
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Rony's Photo Booth (first pic). At a minimum, will have to change the entire theme of its home page. BJ Panda Bear (second): More of a dabbler in the format. Gorilla Vs. Bear (third): Many Polaroids here. Also: Panda Toes, Not On The Guest List.
Web series director Liz Cackowski mocks people who think they can invent a viral video; College Humor comedian Donald Glover (of the funny-actually-you-should-watch-it group Derrick Comedy) points out that you can't wait a week to make a joke, because someone will beat you to it. And one of the million people who parodied Tom Cruise the other week admits that not all his ideas are gold, which is kind of funny when his only famous video was the most unoriginal idea since "Leave So-and-So Alone."
Thanks to Roy Scheider, it was okay for the good people of Amity Island to go back in the water again.
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After the Portfolio story, the Times said:
Mr. Berenson did receive a misdirected e-mail from Pepper, but that e-mail did not contain a detailed description of the status of the settlement talks. Mr. Berenson had known independently about the settlement talks for some time, and he obtained the details he published in the Times from sources other than Pepper.
The Portfolio version was incorrect.
What the Times didn't say is that Berenson's prior "independent" knowledge of the Lilly talks was on an off-the-record basis, as revealed in the NPR excerpt below, and that the email became the trigger for new reporting by Berenson in which Berenson described the email, a potent piece of leverage, to at least one source. Also, while the two-sentence email -- read aloud in the full NPR piece -- was short, it was also the the point, explaining who Eli Lilly was negotiating with, that they wanted a deal and how the feds were looking for a settlement "in the stratosphere ."
The lawyer who accidentally emailed the Times reporter clearly had him in an autocomplete contacts list; the natural question (already raised elsewhere) is "why?" Was the lawyer a source? After speaking with Berenson, NPR said the reporter has been in "disputes with the law firm... about his stories in the past," so it is possible the lawyer had emailed him complaints.
Strange, then, that Berenson has gone to such lengths to protect the emailer, including by acceding to the lawyer's request to omit the incident from his story on the topic. He also clammed up when Portfolio called, but nevertheless ended up on NPR, allegedly to set the record straight. Including about the existence of his new book, which was plugged at the end of his appearance.
Who says the British don't have a soft spot for the French?
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