Heath Ledger’s publicist Mara Buxbaum, along with Ina Treciokas, runs the New York office of public relations firm I/D PR. (On the West Coast, power publicist Kelly Bush leads the charges.) It’s Buxbaum who sent out an email to other Hollywood rep firms, including PMK-HBH, 42 West, and BWR, calling on them to protest Entertainment Tonight and The Insider’s decision to run video of Ledger at a 2006 SAG Awards party, which they paid $200k for, that showed another man snorting “something” off a table and Heath discussing his drug use.
To ET executive producer Linda Bell Blue and Paramount exec Brad Bessey, this email, which included both of their email addresses and a call to speak out, meant something else entirely: If they moved ahead with airing the video, they would effectively lose access to all of I/D PR’s clients, as well as those of allied powerhouse agencies. Not that Buxbaum would go on record saying so.
So exactly who would the CBS-Paramount tabloid shows wave goodbye to? Here’s a short list: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ellen Page, Mira Sorvino, James Marsden, Kevin Kline, Ethan Hawke (who Buxbaum just confirmed is about to be a daddy), Sarah Jessica Parker, Winona Ryder, Sean Penn, Diane Lane, America Ferrera, and Elijah Wood. Dozens – and dozens – more follow.
From names compiled through various agency listing services, I/D PR could’ve threatened to kill access to all of the following (and this doesn’t include the clients that email recipients PMK-HBH, 42 West, and BWR represent):
Jake Gyllenhaal
Ellen Page
Ben Stiller
Mira Sorvino
Julie Taymor
Kristin Scott Thomas
Christina Ricci
Robin Williams
Mary Tyler Moore
Ethan Hawke
Marion Cotillard
Kevin Kline
Gina Gershon
Winona Ryder
Luke Wilson
Robin Wright Penn
Michelle Williams
Olivier Martinez
Rufus Sewell
Evan Rachel Wood
Christopher Walken
Emile Hirsch
Sean Penn
Gabriel Byrne
John Lee
James Marsden
Michael Cerveris
Steven Weber
Franka Potente
Stephen Colbert
Ana Gasteyer
Emily Deschanel
Diane Lane
Stephanie March
Paul Reubens
Willem Dafoe
America Ferrera
Peter Sarsgaard
Skeet Ulrich
Dave Annable
Tom Jane
Jennifer Coolidge
Shalom Harlow
Ben Foster
Oliver Platt
Ellen DeGeneres
Natalie Portman
Josh Brolin
Sam Rockwell
Jensen Ackles
Seann William Scott
Jake Gyllenhaal
Paul Giamatti
John Krasinski
Laura Breckenridge
Vernon Chatman
Marla Schaffel
Casey Affleck
Tobey Maguire
Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000
Willem Dafoe
Catherine Keener
Eric Idle
Paul Reubens
Natalie Portman
Ellen DeGeneres
Ben Stiller
Elijah Wood
Jennifer Hudson
Dustin Hoffman
Josh Brolin
Diane Lane
Patrick Stewart
John Wells
Mandy Moore
America Ferrera
Sarah Jessica Parker
George Lopez
Catherine Keener
John Leguizamo
Anna Paquin
Benjamin Bratt
Saffron Burrows
James Perse
Samantha Daniels
Guy Pearce
Eion Bailey
Norman Reedus
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Liev Schreiber
Dane Cook
Hugh Laurie
Simon Baker
Famke Janssen
Owen Wilson
Laura Harris
Ray Romano
Brendan Fraser
Vanessa Ferlito
Mike Myers
Dustin Hoffman
Justin Theroux
Tobey Maguire
Carson Kressley
Katie Holmes
Woody Harrelson
David Schwimmer
Claire Danes
Garry Shandling
Jon Favreau
Alice Braga
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Heath Ledger on the list? Kind of goes without saying I think
Hmmmm, I wonder why Natalie Portman and Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t come to Anna Nicole’s defense when all those vidoes of her whacked out on meds were making the rounds? Let’s face it, Heath Ledger was a well-respected actor so people want to give him respect post mortem. People think Anna Nicole, Britney, Lindsay are all jokes so they don’t give a rat’s ass about “respect” for them….
I agree that, although this is ‘noble’ of the celebs, where were they when the Amy Winehouse video of her smoking crack aired? I know she isn’t dead (yet), but what about respect for her. Airing these videos is either immoral and reprehesible or not. It shouldn’t matter who the ‘celeb’ is. It is tragic all the same.
Yes it is interesting how the Hollywood cesspool tries to pretend they have “morals.” How about a list of “drug-free” Hollywood names for Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. Hollywood is worse than a cesspool from top to bottom, inside and out. These people simply get paid way too much money and look what they do with their money. I barely knew this “actor’s” name but I think he is every bit as revolting as all the druggie actors that came before him. Lastly- thank you INTERNET and BLOGGERS for allowing us access to information these supposedly “powerful” agents don’t want us to see. We saw it anyway !
Why are some of them listed twice?
Dustin Hoffman, Jake G, natalie portman etc..