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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - The father of "Brokeback Mountain" actress Michelle Williams will be extradited from Australia to face tax evasion charges in the US.

Larry Williams, 65, has been wanted in the US for allegedly evading $1.9 million in taxes between 1999 and 2001.

Williams, who once ran for the US Senate in his home state of Montana, originally travelled to Australia in May 2006 for a series of finance seminars and to promote his stock market trading books.

He has since fought extradition all the way to Australia's High Court without success.

Williams became well known while in Australia as he continued to give finance lectures around the country.

Williams will leave Sydney for Los Angeles on a Qantas flight on Monday.

His lawyers have negotiated bail for him in Los Angeles while he continues court proceedings in the US.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Michelle Williams is talking about the death of her daughter's father, Heath Ledger in an interview with Newsweek magazine.

"I just wake up each day in a slightly different place—grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by 'it's always changing'," she told the mag.

In Michelle's case, the grief has definitely not lessened with time. "It's a strange thing to say, because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. In some ways it gets worse. That's what I would say."

Michelle also goes on to say that the constant attention on her personal life may be too much for her to handle. "If it gets to the point where I can't situate my life in a way that they stay away more, then I'll drop a match on the thing," she said. "I'll be sad. I like to act. It's saved my life over and over again. It's given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I'm in love with—acting—and now it has this baggage."

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Should Heath Ledger win the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture for his performance as the Joker, Michelle Williams will not be on stage to accept the award, according to Access Hollywood.

"There have been no conversations about Michelle Williams presenting or accepting an award having to do with Heath nor are there going to be,” a spokesperson for Williams told Access.

Ledger, who died in January 2008 at the age of 28, is up for the award against Tom Cruise (“Tropic Thunder”); Robert Downey Jr. (“Iron Man”); Ralph Fiennes (“The Duchess”); and Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Doubt”).

Kim Ledger, the actor's father and "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan have been called the likely choices to represent Ledger at the awards ceremony on January 11th.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams has been offered the role of the good witch, Glinda, in Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful, the prequel of The Wizard of Oz, which tells the story from the point of view of the wizard and how he became the ruler.

The film already has James Franco as Oz; Mila Kunis as Theodora; Rachel Weisz, as Evenora, on board with Sam Raimi set to direct star-studded the cast.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Carey Mulligan will be honored with the 2011 Hollywood Supporting Actress Award at this year’s Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards.

The Oscar-nominated actress will receive the award in recognition of her performances in Shame and Drive.

Other recipients include Michelle Williams, who will be awarded with the Hollywood Actress Award for her performances in My Week with Marilyn, Meek's Cutoff, and Take This Waltz; the cast of The Help with the Hollywood Ensemble Award; and Bérénice Bejo, Jean Dujardin, Elle Fanning, Amber Heard, Andrea Riseborough, Shailene Woodley, and Anton Yelchin with the Hollywood Spotlight Award, which recognizes breakthrough performances by up-and-coming actors.

Awards will be distributed at the Annual Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Oct. 24.