● The 95-year-young night life doyenne Zelda Kaplan died yesterday in the front row at Joanna Mastroiann's New York Fashion Week show. [NYDN]

● The AP plans to host an online stream of Whitney Houston's funeral for those who feel they need to bid a digital adieu. [AP/Huff Post]

● He said he wouldn't, but it looks like Seal has gone ahead and taken off his wedding ring. Perhaps so as not to distract from his canary yellow manicure? [TMZ]

● T-Pain has named his next mixtape The Heath Ledger Project because, as he says, "that’s how much I love music." "I want to master my craft like [Ledger] tried to do before he died,” he continued. "I think he went so crazy trying to master his craft that he died for what he loved doing."  [Rap-Up]

● Meryl Streep will play Julia Roberts's mother in John Wells's Oscary adaptation of August: Osage County, set to begin production this fall. [THR]

● With a MoMA retrospective on the approaching horizon, Cindy Sherman is using photoshop to try something new. "It’s horrifying how easy it to make changes,” she says. [NYT]