[Juno writer Diablo Cody chats with actress Anne Hathaway at the post-Oscars Governor's Ball last night; image via AP]

[Actor Tom Hanks backstage at the Oscars last night; image via AP]

[Japanese actor Taichi Saotome arrives for the Japan premiere of "The Golden Compass" in Tokyo; image via AP]

[Senator Hillary Clinton on her campaign plane in Ohio yesterday; image via AP]

[Actress Penelope Cruz at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday; image via AP]

[Actress Goldie Hawn at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday; image via AP]

[Singer Chaka Khan who won Grammy awards last night for her album "Funk This"; image via AP]

Reverend Billy is the kitschy faux-preacher who organizes rallies against consumerism and corporate monoliths like Starbucks and Disney. The Reverend and his 40-member Earthalujah Choir tour the world (but primarily the United States), racking up arrests as they spread the gospel of their Church of Stop Shopping.

[Members of German band Tokio Hotel outside the Golden Camera awards yesterday in Berlin; image via AP]

[Ellen Page, star of the indie sensation "Juno", attends the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon today in Hollywood; image via AP]

[Paris Hilton on TRL today, chatting with VJ Damien Fahey about her new movie "Hottie or Nottie"; image via AP]

[Actress Cate Blanchett speaking yesterday at the Santa Barbara Film Festival; image via AP]

[Tom Arnold and Jimmy Fallon at the Sundance premiere of their film "The Year of Getting To Know Us" last night; image via AP]

Record company sources told the AP Yahoo wants to offer DRM-free MP3s for sale or for free via an ad-supported service. Thank you, in-the-know record executives! Ian Rogers, the general manager of Yahoo Music, publicly said much the same thing back in October.

[Delightful celebrity couple William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman at the Sundance premiere of Macy's new film, "The Deal", Jan 22; image via AP]

Predictably, both TMZ and the New York Post's Pagesix.com are claiming exclusives on news of the apparent suicide of Heath Ledger. The New York Post's boast is rather marred by the borked timestamp on their web story, which was 4.41am, a full eleven hours before the death of the 28-year-old Australian actor. (Update: Perez Hilton claims an exclusive even though the purple-haired blogger was an hour late to the story.) But the earliest report we found was a rumor on Radar magazine's Fresh Intelligence blog, courtesy of Alex Balk, about five minutes before TMZ and Pagesix.com. And the most impressive coverage has been the New York Times' City Room blog, which had the news early, and quickly gave it texture, with recent quotes from the young actor, hinting at his depression. The Gray Lady has long refused to cover celebrity news, except in the most indirect of ways, despite the appetite of the reading public; online, at least, the Times has surrendered.

"A New York Police Department spokesman says the actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence," according to the AP. The Times says a masseuse and a housekeeper found his body at 421 Broome Street.

[Director Austin Chick poses with actors Adam Scott and Josh Hartnett, the stars of his new September 11th-themed film "August", at the Sundance Film Festival today; image via AP]

Trendwatch: The AP's decision to draw up an advance obituary for 26 year old Britney Spears is being replicated for many other young, at-risk stars. The AP got caught without pre-written death stories for Anna Nicole Smith and the recently deceased Brad Renfro, but now the wire service is preparing canned obits for a bunch of 20-somethings. But why bother? After the jump, New York Sun obit guru Stephen Miller says that the AP should just calm down:

[Oscar nominated "Sideways" actress Virginia Madsen (who we actually like) exiting a gifting suite at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah yesterday; image via AP]