[Two members of flamboyant charity group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence embrace during a memorial service at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco today in honor of World AIDS Day. Image via Getty]

For those on the East Coast, today was dark, damp, and windy as a storm front worked its way toward the Atlantic. Don't worry, it's supposed to be sunny and clear in NYC tomorrow. Leave your umbrellas at home!

Under pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks.org off its servers. But why stop there? There's all kinds of controversial customers the cowardly but remarkably convenient e-tailer can flee from.

Meet Trevor Neilson. His job is helping famous people "build [their] brands" by finding charitable projects for them. He's the philanthropic powerbroker behind Angelina, Ashton, Demi, Shakira, and Bono. If he ever uses his powers for evil, we're screwed.

Well, some good news. Michael Douglas is returning to work — on a Liberace biopic no less — after undergoing treatment for throat cancer. So that's good! Unfortunately some fellow celebrities aren't faring so well.

In your drenched Wednesday media column: the NYT pay wall draws near, a royal wedding can't sell magazines any more, Anderson Cooper reams an old Texas man, James Hibberd moves to EW, and Romenesko is all weird now.

Barack Obama pledged in March to expand offshore oil drilling. Shortly thereafter, BP spilled 172 million gallons of oil into the water. So now drilling on both coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico will be re-banned for years. Hooray!

Tom sneaks mascara and facials behind Katie's back. Jim Carrey likes kissing Ewan McGregor. Brad Pitt's nose hair secret revealed! Gwyneth Paltrow has a filthy sense of humor. Wednesday gossip ranges from superficial to superficially sordid.

A while back, we filed a Freedom of Information Law request looking for e-mails between New York Gov. David Paterson's flacks and a bunch of reporters. The governor's office tried hard to keep them secret, but we finally got them.

Rep. Charlie Rangel narrowly avoided a reality TV-esque fiasco by walking out of his ethics trial, because the ethically-sound Donald Trump was set to testify against him, along with another upstanding citizen, AIG chief Hank Greenberg. Too bad! [Metropolis]

Who: Hathaway made her bones as the star of syrupy Disney tween flicks like The Princess Diaries, but she's grown up fast in movies like Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, and Rachel Getting Married. Her latest film is Love and Other Drugs.

[Passersby might have a hard time not stumbling when checking out artist Kenny Scharf's psychedelic new mural (which replaced Shepard Fairey's) on Bowery and Houston in Manhattan. Image via Getty]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told an interviewer today that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign if she had her diplomats "engage in espionage in the United Nations." Hillary Clinton, however, is unlikely to listen to Julian Assange.

According to at least one fashion blogger the Mankini—that strange hybrid men's bathing suit—is here to stay. Why is this idea patently ridiculous? Could this be just the thing that a new generation of men needs?

Police finally caught up with Uma Thurman's stalker Jack Jordan a month after he broke a protective order by phoning her. He went berserk and is being held for observation. Someone set him off talking smack about My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

Congressman Joe Barton, the infamous BP apologist and lightbulb warrior, is vying for the powerful Energy and Commerce committee chairmanship. And his vision, as detailed in a children's PowerPoint presentation, is to role-play as a WWII general and shoot liberals.

Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is more than just "saber-rattling," and Justice Department officials are claiming he violated the Espionage Act. If that's true, isn't the New York Times guilty as well?

Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe pull the plug on their predatory credit card. Lindsay Lohan wants a restraining order against paparazzi. Tom Brady battles male pattern baldness. Brad Pitt's plague of poor fashion choices returns. Tuesday gossip is a lost cause.

Digital superhero Julian Assange has struggled to find a place to live. Sweden denied him, then issued an arrest warrant for rape. But he's found a friend in Ecuador — the country offered Assange residency "without any conditions." How sweet!

Convicted murderer Stephen Michael West was due to be executed tomorrow in Tennessee by lethal injection, but the state's Supreme Court put it on hold until a lower court figures out if authorities are killing prisoners the right way.