Now that I am home with my trusty internet, I found out that I HAD heard that radio DJ correctly. Heath Ledger is dead.

NEW YORK (CNN)— Heath Ledger, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain,” was found dead today in a Manhattan apartment, New York police told CNN. A possible drug overdose was suspected. Ledger was 28. Ledger was found naked and unresponsive, facedown on the floor at the foot of his bed by a housekeeper trying to wake him for an appointment with a masseuse, said police spokesman Paul Browne. “Pills were found in the vicinity of the bed,” he told CNN. “This is being looked at as a possible overdose, but that is not confirmed yet.”
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