This weekend, after several false alarms, searchers finally found some bodies from Air France 447, which "disappeared" over the Atlantic Ocean one week ago.

[Elton John with the three kids who shared the Best Actor in a Musical Tony award last night for their performances in "Billy Elliot: the Musical"; image via WENN]

Today is showdown day! In one corner: the Boston Globe, a storied failing newspaper. In the other corner: the NYT Co., a storied failing newspaper company. Neither one will give in until they're both dead.

Today we have a reporter exploring lesbianism, an actor with a wondering eye, another actor having a relapse, two hyper protective parents, one wildly unprotective dad, and the crazy oil lady.

• Rupert Murdoch's Centre Island estate is back on the market. The 11-bedroom Rosehearty mansion, which Murdoch and wife Wendi Deng pulled off the market last October, has been re-listed with Dolly Lenz for $12.8 million. The five-acre estate isn't sitting empty while the couple wait for a buyer, though: As Newsday first reported back in April—and as this week's New York confirms—Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are renting it for more than $100,000 a month. [NYM, PDE]
• Norman Reedus—the actor, model, and father of Helena Christensen's son Mingus—has paid $1.75 million for a two-bedroom loft in the Machinery Exchange building at 136 Baxter St. [Cityfile]
• Julia Roberts is renting two apartments at 1 Morton Square this summer while she's in NYC to film Eat, Pray, Love. She's reportedly paying a combined $50,000-a-month for the two pads, one of which is for her nanny and staff. [P6]

The 63rd annual Tony Awards took place last night. As expected, Billy Elliot had a big evening, winning 10 awards, including best musical; God of Carnage won for best play, best director and best actress. The full list of winners is here. [NYT]

Joan Rivers turns 76 today. Kanye West is 32. Actress Julianna Margulies is turning 43. TV host Maria Menounos is turning 31. Jerry Stiller is 82. Model Irina Lazareanu turns 27. Barneys fashion director Julie Gilhart is turning 51. CBS exec JoAnn Ross turns 56. Legendary artist LeRoy Neiman is 88. Tech pioneer Tim Berners-Lee is turning 54. Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank, is 69. Tennis star Lindsay Davenport is turning 33. And former first lady Barbara Bush celebrates her 84th birthday today.

Brad and Angelina are getting married in New Orleans, Brooke Shields settled with the National Enquirer for kidnapping her mother, Mariah Carey is getting fat, Pete Doherty shot up on a commercial flight, and Denise Richards is addicted to boob jobs.

• It looks like Heidi and Spencer Pratt and NBC concocted yet another clever PR stunt over the weekend. Heidi was rushed from the set of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! to a hospital in Costa Rica for a stomach ulcer and later blamed NBC for "torturing" her. For its part, NBC is reminding the public they can see what really happened on an upcoming episode of the show. [NYDN, E!, TMZ]
• The police had to called to the Greenwich estate of Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant on two occasions last Thursday after Seymour got into an altercation with Brant's bodyguards. [P6]
• Why did David Carradine end up dead in Bangkok hotel room? According to his family's lawyer, it may have been the work of a "secret sect of kung fu assassins" who "silenced" him because he was looking into "their shadowy activities." Or it could have been a case of autoerotic asphyxiation since according to his ex-wives he had a thing for being tied up. [NYP, NYDN]

On Sunday the New York Post ran an article in which attorney Mark Geragos suggested that David Carradine was murdered by "groups working in the martial-arts underworld" and "secret societies of martial artists." We know what that's code for! Ninjas! Reports the Post:

The cast of the Broadway musical Hair performs at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards on Sunday night. The show won the award for Best Revival of a Musical. [AP Photo/Seth Wenig]

Dawud Yaduallah says that an anti-psychotic drug administered to him by a nurse at an upstate prison caused a 55-hour erection, leaving his penis "irreparably injured" and in need of a prosthesis. [New York Post]

Barack Obama used his weekly YouTube address to announce his intention to address health-care reform in the coming months, an announcement that incited Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa to make a Herculean ass of himself by raging incoherently on Twitter.

Laura Ling, the sister of former The View co-host Lisa Ling, and fellow Current TV journalist Euna Lee have been sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp by a North Korean court for crossing that country's border.

Were we the only ones feeling ill having to choose between watching the last minute of regulation of Game Two of the NBA Finals or the performance by the cast of Hair at the Tony Awards? Regardless, here are the winners.

The global economic downturn is forcing parents of Williamsburg hipsters to drastically scale back their monthly allowances, forcing many of them to turn to drastic measures to pay for their PBR and Edensoy, drastic measures like actually getting jobs.

In a move destined to improve US/China relations for years to come, the Chinese have quarantined woefully inept New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin after a passenger on his flight overseas showed symptoms of the H1N1 virus, popularly known as swine flu.

It's 9:30 PM, do you know where your biological clock is? Phyllis Nefler does. It's somewhere in the Weddings and Celebrations section of the Sunday 'New York Times,' and TICKING LIKE THIS. Pledge Phy Nef and watch the score:

So, this just happened: there's a Tony-nominated musical called Rock of Ages, which is a "jukebox" of 70s/80s anthem-rock staples, starring American Idol alumnus Constantine Margulies. Bret Michaels performed with the show tonight, and it did not go well.

The one night theater dorks theater people get to shine yearly is here: The Tonys (SPARKLEHANDS) are starting as I write this! Like every year, though, the inner-scandal behind the scenes always exceeds the show's entertainment factor without fail.