Michelle Williams, who’s tried to distance herself as much as she can from Dawson’s Creek but won’t be able to because I’m going to mention it every time she’s in the news, and Jason Segel were caught holding hands while on a “romantic stroll” through Brooklyn. “He put his arm around her and made her laugh as they walked. [They] seemed very relaxed.”

The two know each other through mutual friend Busy Philipps who Jason worked with on Freaks and Geeks but only now have they started dating. Hey, if Jason plays his cards right maybe he can get a threesome. Though I don’t think Michelle is that type of girl. She looks like she’ll get weepy over anything.

Michelle Williams graces the cover of the most recent GQ. She plays Marilyn Monroe in some movie. I think. I don’t know.

Michelle Williams on her education, and how she ended up being home-schooled (a better fit with her acting work):
Her last formal school was Santa Fe Christian in San Diego; later its principal would denounce Williams after she appeared in Brokeback Mountain. (“Michelle doesn’t represent the values of this institution,” he said. “She made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn’t approve.”) “It didn’t really bother me,” she says, when I allude to this.
No twinge, I ask, when you suddenly found out that you’d been living a sinful, artistic career?
“It wasn’t any surprise to me,” she says. “I knew. I remember my mother saying to me at one point, ‘Just don’t make anything your grandmother couldn’t see.’ And at that point I knew I was living a sinful artistic career, because I had done, and I knew I would do.”

…on how the role that first made her famous—the Dawson’s Creek bad girl Jen—still somewhat played into regular sexy-girl stereotypes, only made her swerve in the opposite direction with all the more resolve.
“I wouldn’t say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being—being sexy,” Williams reasons. “And I think because my character on Dawson’s Creek was sexy…sexualized…sexual…I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly.”

…on why she thinks her and Heath Ledger were drawn to each other:
“There’s an answer that I know,” she says, “but I don’t want to say.” She talks around this not-saying for a while, then says, “Our initial meeting, the circumstances of how we first met, were cosmic or something.” They were together through the shoot, and soon she was pregnant. “Yeah, a lot of things happened at once,” she says. “It’s a bit like: We had a lot of things to do, because we didn’t have a lot of time, or something.”

Writer Chris Heath asks if she thought there was a part of her that imagined she and Ledger would have somehow ended up together:
“That would make me way too sad to answer,” she says quickly, and I hurriedly begin another question, about something completely di­fferent, hoping that if I say it fast enough these new words will chase the old words away from where they are hanging in the air between us, and maybe she will let me pretend that it was something I never said.
“No, no,” she says, and I can see the tears forming, and I think she means that she doesn’t want to answer any more questions about anything. I mutter some kind of apology under my breath.
But, even now, I’m wrong about everything. Mostly she is just trying to stop my new question. She has something to tell me.
“No,” she says. “I said it would make me too sad to answer but it’s also…”—and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears—“…one of my favorite things to imagine.” And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. “It’s actually one of my favorite places to visit.” GQ

How many more years people are going to keep asking her about her dead husband who probably banged Lindsay Lohan at one point after their split. No wonder she has to go to her happy place whenever they bring it up.

Oscar nominated Michelle Williams tells Hobo Magazine — I’m not even going to try and find out what that magazine is about because it’ll shatter the illusions I have of it being a magazine for the homeless — that she had an epiphany while watching a live stage show in Paris.

“I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef, or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living,” Williams reveals.

“Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge,” she explains. “And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise.” — Us

I’m assuming she was high as that’s the only way anyone can get through a live stage show in Paris and it would explain her wanting to do people’s laundry for a living. The day a famous actor gives up living in the lap of luxury is the day the doctor declares them legally insane.

“When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell,” Williams tells Hobo Magazine. “It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.”

So what Michelle is trying to say is acting will never walk out of her life. That’s… disappointing.

Sarah Silverman and Michelle Williams were filming Take This Waltz and in one scene they had to be in a pool and you know what that means. Gratuitous bikini shots! Frumpy swimsuit shots!

Hopefully Sarah Silverman will always be facing forward in the movie. I thought National Geographic was filming elephants crossing a river again when I saw the header pic.

Us reports that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams split a few weeks ago.

“The relationship had been rocky recently. They tried very hard to make it work but finally decided to separate. They just grew apart.”

Together Heath and Michelle formed the most boring couple in Hollywood. Between Heath’s constant sobbing and Michelle’s constant, um, sitting there and looking dopey, it’s no wonder it didn’t work out. It’s like what happened with me and my pet tiger. I wanted him to play fetch, but he just wanted to bite me all day long and that made me sad. Eventually, we grew apart so I set it free in its natural habitat. The jungle gym at the park. I expect Heath to do the same.

It was reality Wednesday for me. Beauty and the Geek is still rigged and American Idol um, well it’s American Idol. Four years since I’ve watched an episode and it’s pretty much the same.

• Now Katie Holmes has a nose job? [Celebrity Smack]
• Rachel Ray-cist? [Evil Beet]
• Brad Pitt wants to be more man. [Glitterati]
• Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams are married. [Celebitchy]
• Cassie sexes up the night. [CityRag]
• Leonardo DiCaprio has girlfriend troubles. [ICYDK]

Proving how much of a stone cold bitch she really is, Michelle Williams has shut down her own fan sites by sicking lawyers on them.

The Michelle fan-site Monopoly is now over. The Williams Center–the longest running Michelle Williams fan-site on the net, with the most respect for her is now closed. We met a lot of nice people–and we are thankful to everyone for their help over the years. When the site was created, we were all 7 years younger. It’s time we move on.

The only reason people have come up with is Michelle didn’t think she looked good in the posted pictures. It makes sense now that I think back and remember how she made a fuss over some magazine cover. How much of an ass do you have to be to take down a site dedicated to you swarming with all your fans? This idiot should be thankful she has any at all because I can’t stand her. The only memorable role she’s had was in Brokeback Mountain and the only reason I even know her name is because she’s Heath Ledger’s girlfriend. I hope she gets confused with the chick from Destiny’s Child. Or confused with a baby seal and gets clubbed.

I like this. Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams gave the paparazzi a real subtle message. To fully understand the meaning of this, you have to read between the lines. These actors are so avant-garde it amazes me. Just look at their positioning and body language. Exquisite.