This morning in official denials of inaccurate reports emerging in the wake of Heath Ledger's untimely death: "Absolutely at no time are we going to be interviewing her. We never had any plans to interview her. At this point we are just waiting for the Medical Examiner's report," says the NYPD in response to a story that they intended to lock Mary-Kate Olsen in an interrogation room lit only by a single, flickering lightbulb until she revealed all the secrets of her phone calls with the 911-bypassing masseuse who discovered the actor's body. "[A] complete crock of s[hit]," hisses the oft-embattled publicist for Mel Gibson, annoyed about an item spuriously claiming that Gibson is anti-gay-cowboy, and "turned cold" towards Ledger for ignoring his allegedly terrible career advice about turning down Brokeback Mountain. [People, Rush & Molloy]

Is Mary-Kate Olsen a murderess or is she just really good about picking up her cell phone when it rings four times in a row? Contrary to the New York Post's front page today, cops say they have "absolutely no interest" in talking to Olsen about her role in the events the day of actor Heath Ledger's death. The Post's funny print format that can't be fixed on the fly will look silly all day, but the least they could do is update their website, which is still running with a big Olsen-interrogation splash. Of course, they're not the only ones.

[An examination of 100 recent headlines on Google News, categorized by the angle on the Australian actor's mysterious demise.]

[Pat O'Brien, host of celebrity trash TV magazine "The Insider" smokes and stalks outside Michelle Williams' Brooklyn apartment yesterday; image via INF]

Oops. The mics on Al Roker and his trusty 'Today' team failed to cut away during this morning's weather segment! What were formerly fat Al & Co. dishing about when they thought they were off the air? Nastily enough, it involved Ann Curry, a massage, the phrase "oil all over me," and much giggling. Deep apologies to those of you who just ate. Unfortunately for NBC's morning trio, their little off-camera gaffe introduced a segment on Heath Ledger's maybe-masseuse-related death. Isn't that just hilarious?

Fox News radio and television host John Gibson is the complete idiot who made offensive and unfunny remarks about Heath Ledger on his radio show the other day. Something along the lines of playing a clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger's character says, "I wish I knew how to quit you" and then saying, "Well, hehe, you certainly did find a way to quit him." To appreciate the stupidity, check out the original clip. Immediately Gibson started getting heat from gay groups and well, anyone with any sense of what is okay to say and what isn't. He wouldn't back down. "Why pass up a good joke?" Two reasons, asshole. It's not good and it's not a joke. Also, he backed down.

Memo to John Gibson, the Fox News shockjock who found so much humor in Heath Ledger's death. Yes, you might have had some mildly homophobic fun with the Brokeback Mountain star's famous line in the gay cowboy movie, "I wish I knew how to quit you." Unwise to continue with the line after Ledger died, or "quit" life, as you joked. And even more idiotic to bluster so unrepentantly, in this more recent clip, when the gays are coming after you with their tire-irons. "I'm not giving that up," Gibson says of his Brokeback banter. Let him sacrifice something else instead, like his job.

Unlucky Heath Ledger. Lucky Entertainment Weekly, which closes on a Tuesday evening, after news of the Australian actor's death. Here's tomorrow's cover, already on sale on Ebay. [Radar]

Semi-network CNN Headline News actually won the Tuesday night 6 p.m. cable ratings war with its "Nothing At All But Heath Ledger" programming strategy. Number two Fox News, which included only a woefully insufficient dash of Ledger, trailed by more than 25%. Headline News staffers also found it 75% harder than usual to wash the filth off upon returning home from work and showering for two hours. (Except, notably, the crew at Nancy Grace.) [TVNewser]

Yesterday we poked fun at the Huffington Post for tagging their Heath Ledger posts with Tuesday's second fastest-rising Google search term "Keith Ledger." But according to commenters, tipsters and your mom, it turns out they did it on purpose, in order to catch web traffic from the legions of deaf, misspelling Google searchers who have never read USWeekly ever.

Does merely knowing the same masseuse mean you're dating? That's what breathless stories in both the New York Post and Us Weekly are claiming. The Post is reporting that Heath Ledger's masseuse, Diane Lee Wolozin, made her first phone call to Mary-Kate Olsen immediately after discovering Ledger's lifeless body at 2:45pm on Tuesday (fifteen minutes before her scheduled appointment with him). Wolozin, a possible felon, allegedly told NY police that the two had a "mutual relationship," and that she'd called Olsen using Ledger's phone, where it was programmed in. Added to erroneous early reports that Olsen owned the apartment where Ledger was found and more recently, news that Olsen's bodyguard called the two "an item," we're starting to wonder if all this hubbub is a whole lot of sound and fury, without any real substance.

And so, with two days to let the devastating news sink in, Variety now asks the inevitable question of what's to be done with Heath Ledger's final projects—the wrapped The Dark Knight, and Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Morbidly running through the history of productions faced with surprise cast deaths during shooting (apparently CGI has now taken over for stunt doubles and very low lighting as the re-animating technique of choice), the report then addresses the issue of how such misfortune might cast marketing campaigns in an unpleasant new light. As we pointed out on Tuesday, The Dark Knight's focuses squarely and gruesomely on Ledger's chillingly effective performance as The Joker, providing an unwelcome creative predicament for WB's marketing czar:

Hotelier Jeff Klein, blogging for T's The Moment, gushes that Heath Ledger was so cool he was even a friend of the gays. Seems some 70-year-old queen thought that Ledger had been checking him out. Obvs, he totally wasn't. But! Brokeback gay icon that he is, Heath winked at the little old fag anyway. What a gent. [The Moment]

You know what really cracks up Fox News host John Gibson? The untimely death of Heath Ledger! The one thing John Gibson knows about Heath Ledger is that Heath Ledger kissed a boy in a gay movie for gay gays, and therefore, he was probably a total gay himself, in real life. Therefore, his death is hilarious! On his radio program the other day, the hero journalist mocked Ledger's death something like half a dozen times, opening his show with a hilarious quip about Ledger quitting us and wondering if perhaps the actor killed himself after witnessing the poor performace of John Edwards in the last presidential debate. It's funny 'cause the authorities no longer suspect suicide! Even the guests joined in, with funnyman Tom Sullivan calling him "Keith Bledger" and the lady cohost whose name we didn't catch wondering, mockingly, if Keith was perhaps a "deep thinker." Can you believe that wacky morning zoo crew went there? They're saying what we're not really thinking, because what the fuck? Listen and sputter! [Think Progress, MSNBC, Previously]

What did the Mary-Kate Olsen's official blog have to say one day after the actress received the first call that Heath Ledger was dying in New York?

Maybe that despised manager at Best Buy, who rushed to display of DVDs starring Heath Ledger, understood us better than we did ourselves. Amazon.com's chart of the most popular DVDs for sale, usually dominated by those recently released, contains three new arrivals: 10 Things I Hate About You, A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain — in 6th, 11th and 13th place respectively. All three movies on the online retailer's top 25 list star the Australian actor who died, of an apparent overdose, on Tuesday. (Of course more want to remember Ledger as high-school hero, or lusty knight, than as sad gay cowboy, the 28-year-old star's most critically acclaimed role.) After the jump, the chart.

The autopsy conducted yesterday morning of Heath Ledger failed to produce any definitive answer as to why the actor died. According to a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner's office, "the results were inconclusive and blood and tissue tests need to be completed." That will take anywhere from ten days to a couple of weeks. This means ten days to a couple of weeks of massive and wild speculation. In the meantime there is plenty to ponder including the casual revelation that Diana Lee Wolozin, the masseuse who found Ledger dead and called Mary-Kate Olsen two times before calling 911, might be a felon. Report after the jump.

Recently deceased actor Heath Ledger's ex Michelle Williams arrived in Brooklyn last night with the couple's two-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose. Needless to say, the steps in front of the Brooklyn home they shared were mobbed by photographers. According to the Age and not very surprisingly, Williams ignored them.

If you've been trying to communicate to your friends in the Latino community that Heath Ledger has tragically died telling them, "Heath Ledger esta muerto" but have been confounded and angered by their replies of "Me gusto Cocktail pero el video es loco, cabron!" we might have figured out why. Apparently, at least according to the geniuses at Google Translate, the Spanish for "Heath Ledger" is "Tom Cruise." Interestingly, the Spanish for Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise. Try it yourself. Go to Google Translate, type in "Heath Ledger is dead" and watch what happens.

According to reports published earlier today by WCBS-TV reporter Scott Weinberger, the body of Heath Ledger was discovered yesterday with "a rolled up $20 bill with narcotic residue on it" and "several drug packets containing an unknown substance" lying nearby him. Too bad it turns out that not a stitch of that actually ended up being true. At least not according to the NYPD and Entertainment "ALL QUOTES MUST CREDIT ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT!" Tonight. Also of note: the first phone call that massage therapist Diana Wolozin made after discovering Heath Ledger's unconscious body was not to 911 or even to 411, but to Mary Kate Olsen. [AP]