● What’s the greatest thing about being divorced? Reese Witherspoon says it’s being able to go to more concerts with BF Jake Gyllenhaal. [JustJared]
● LaToya Jackson believes someone paid Conrad Murray to kill Michael Jackson because of the wealth they stood to gain in doing so; she now fears she’ll be killed for this knowledge. [Celebrity-Gossip]
● Sienna Miller wishes she could be like pal Keira Knightley, who has managed to keep her personal life out of the press. Miller admits not being too “bright” in that department. [Showbizspy]

● Despite internet rumors, Jeff Goldblum did not plummet to his death on a film set in New Zealand; he’s alive and well in Los Angeles. [Stuff]
● Celebs like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dane Cook, and John Mayer did what any sensible person would do and expressed their grief for Michael Jackson’s death via Twitter. [TMZ]
● Madonna is so devastated by the news of Michael Jackson’s passing that she hasn’t stopped crying. [People]

● It’s a sad state of affairs when Ashton Kutcher has surpassed President Obama as the most-followed person on Twitter, with a million followers. Kutcher does update multiple times a day with ever-more-inane details of his life, while our President has been a tad distracted running the world and all. [CNN]
● In case we didn’t already know, Diane Kruger would like to remind us Brad Pitt has a "sweet family" and that Angelina Jolie is "beautiful." [Us]
● Lindsay Lohan is slowly crawling back to the top, or maybe it’s the middle; she's mounting a palimony case against ex Samantha Ronson. Lohan feels she’s entitled to a cut of Ronson’s DJ gigs, as they’ve gone up from $10,000 to $100,000. [PopCrunch]

With just over 48 hours to go, all our favorite leading ladies are frenetically booking last-minute lipos, emergency colonics, and marathon pilates classes -- while simultaneously managing miracle master cleanses. All of this in order to assure that they're able to squeeze into constrictive gowns while showing off a demure gait on the red carpet when Sunday rolls around. And while this year's best ladies (and their supporting counterparts) effortlessly snag one headline after another, even past grande dames of Oscar prominence are enjoying an uptick of increased notoriety. Sure, we won't care about more than three percent of all the winners come Monday morning (or today if you're betting by this leaked list of winners), but we can revel in everyone's temporary relevance anyway.

The early noughties were kind to comedian Ben Stiller. He milked cats with Robert De Niro, struck blue steel opposite Will Ferrell in Zoolander, and wore a heavily imitated red tracksuit in one of the best films of 2001. But then there were flops, so many flops, that seemed to position Stiller as, well, an unfunny funnyman. Along came Envy, Polly, and Duplex. There was an abysmal night spent in the museum with Robin Williams. But then Stiller pulled together a husky Tom Cruise, a beminstreled Robert Downey Jr., and a cast of greats to star in the hilarious Tropic Thunder, out later this summer. Then word came today that he would star opposite Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon in an untitled romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe. We're still a little worried, however, because Stiller, when things aren't looking so good laughs-wise, tends to retreat into sequels and animated fare. Up next for him? Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian and the pixellated Monsters vs. Aliens. And, as Stiller once said, you can milk almost anything.