2008's Most Shocking Celebrity Story?

For Heath Ledger, a Surprise Ending
Heath Ledger's January 2008 death took everyone by surprise. But was it the year's biggest? (AP) My first few years in a newsroom, I was tasked with assembling year end packages -- the kind of thing that made up yesterday's amalgam of 2008 lists. So, when confronted with eulogizing a fading year, some primal instinct to call in sick takes over. Which is all to say that you can thank me now for not getting all emotional, pithy, poetic or needlessly verbose in the commission of banging out a farewell 2008 story. But what kind of celebritologist would I be if I didn't try to make some kind of sense -- no matter how tangential or obtuse -- out of the year that was? The kind that passes the buck on to you. I'm ashamed, but a leopard can't change its stripes any more than Tara Reid can do
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