Fascination with Heath Ledger no doubt swells the mobs going to see "The Dark Knight," the new Batman movie. Ledger's brilliance as the psycho Joker has spawned speculation that the actor's own descent in drug madness had fueled his demonic performance.

Ledger died of an apparently accidental prescription-drug overdose last January, just as the main filming ended. The 28-year-old actor's hopes seemed boundless at the time, and his death shocked the public.

There was no ...

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