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From Huffington Post: just another reason to love Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper Thanks Cher For Putting Up With His 'Creepy Behavior' (VIDEO) Jul 03, 2013 Anderson Cooper loves Cher so much that he dedicated a segment on his Tuesday night CNN show to thanking the diva for putting up with what he called his "creepy fan girl" behavior. Last week, Cooper rushed downtown after taping his CNN show so he could see Cher, who was appearing on Andy Cohen's Bravo show, "Watch What Happens Live." Sure, the CNN host's enthusiasm for the world wonder that is Cher was on full display -- what with his dramatic faux fainting, dropping of his Cher impersonation and giddily wondering if the icon was a sister of sorts. Viewers understand, AC. You were talking to Cher! Emotions were running high! Time was limited! We get it. But Cooper seemed to think that he had some explaining to do, even though he appeared on the show quite a few nights ago. It's possible that the CNN host has been slowly coming to terms with his encounter since then and was only able to put it into words days later. "What can I say," he said. "You try keeping a 46-year-old gay man away from Cher." Cooper made fun of himself for showing up to see Cher in a T-shirt (a valid statement) and displaying what he described as "borderline creepy behavior" (another valid statement). He also said that he would totally braid Cher's hair if she let him and made this face, so that kind of negates the whole "sorry for acting totally obsessed,"

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My "Michelle Williams" letter to the editor

Last week I wrote a letter to People Magazine about Michelle Williams. However, Kim Kardashian had a baby the next day, stopping the world from reporting anything else, and my letter wasn't printed. Luckily, I am sharing it here.

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Subject: Michelle Williams
To: "editor@people.com"

In the June 24th issue you praised Michelle Williams' most recent relationship with Artist Dustin Yellin.  I believe it was in PEOPLE's cover story Love Gone Wrong Over Drugs, where unknown "friends" of Michelle Williams were quoted as saying that Michelle kept Matilda away from Heath in his final months of life because of his drug abuse. You, the most trusted celebrity magazine never wrote a retraction to this when there was never any evidence, nor did you mention when you reported on the Vanity Fair article where his friends reported Heath's side that Ledger said it was incompatibility that led to the relationships demise or that he had not had so much as an alcoholic drink in months. However, what really irritates me is Williams continues to play the poor lonely widow, who wants nothing but the best for her daughter over five years later after Ledger's death.  The reality is before Ledger's death she was dating dating Spike Jonze, who admittedly
does drugs. Then last Spring she had no problem leaving her daughter with a guy she had been dating only for a few months and who is reportedly an alcoholic (Jason Segel) while she was in another city, nor did she have a problem living with him. Now after a few months post Segel, whom Matilda had reportedly become very attached to, she has introduced her daughter to yet another boyfriend, Dustin Yellin who has a rather shady history involving drugs, overdoes and even stabbing. As recently as an April 2013 interview he even freely acknowledged dropping acid to get inspiration for his art.  I'm not judging these men's lifestyles and, as a 32 year old, Michelle is free to date whomever she chooses. However, her continuing to introduce her young daughter to all of these men, who inevitably leave her life forever, is surely detrimental to the child's psychological development. 

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Heath Ledger's Joker Diary

When talking about his upcoming roles as the Joker to Empire Magazine way back in 2007, Ledger mentioned having kept a dairy as the character as part of his getting into the role process.

"I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh.

I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.

'He's just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown, and Chris has given me free rein. Which is fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."

It made me excited about the movie and, after Ledger passed I have often wondered if the diary would ever be published. Last year it was revealed by Ledger's father Kim during an hour long documentary about the actor for a German series called "Too Young to Die."

I managed to find the entire episode on YouTube this past winter, and tough I couldn't understand all of it, it was enjoyable. For some reason, today the internet was all a flutter about the clip with the Joker diary so I figured I'd share here.

http://youtu.be/j04X3B9-dLU

TRANSLATION:

"This is the Joker's diary.

In order to inhabit his character, he (Heath) locked himself up in a hotel room for weeks.

He would do that. He liked to dive into his characters, but this time he really took it up a notch."

"The hospital scene is interesting because when he was a kid, his sister Kate liked to dress him up as a nurse. He was really funny like that. He also was in the movie.

This is a make-up test which was done eight months before. Before the end of the shooting he wrote "bye bye" on the back of the page. It was hard to see this.'