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No, it didn't quite have the deliciously unprovoked comeuppance or the ensuing victimized indignation of the Tom Cruise trick microphone red carpet dousing of last summer. But what it lacked in subtlety, the Munich-style revenge attack more than made up for in scale: Five paparazzi, who claim to have been on the receiving end of a Ledger loogie, launched a retaliatory attack on Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams with water pistols as they strolled down the red carpet for the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain. The soaking lasted a reported 10 seconds, during which Ledger chivalrously shielded his partner from the blast, bravely unconcerned that a suspiciously warm-seeming stream might have originated from the pants of a particularly enraged paparazzo.