AFP - A Cairo court confirmed a death sentence against an Egyptian tycoon and an ex-cop hitman for the murder of a Lebanese pop star after the verdict was approved by the country's top cleric.

Reuters - If ever there were a time that the town needed a jolt of adrenaline, Wednesday was it -- but from, of all places, the staid, mostly predictable Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences?

AP - Rosie O'Donnell is returning to the airwaves.

AP - Perez Hilton struck back Wednesday with a civil lawsuit filed against the Black Eyed Peas manager accused of hitting him outside a Toronto nightclub.

E! Online - Johnny Depp is all over the posters for this Public Enemies movie. But Christian Bale is MIA. Shouldn't he be on the posters, too?

E! Online - Glory be, it's over.

E! Online - The Oscars have been awarded and DVD sales have already gone through the roof. But, in the alternate reality known as Hollywood, it's never too late to bestow yet more hardware on the best films.

AP - One of the stars of Bravo's television series "Real Housewives of New Jersey" went to court Wednesday to avoid getting a little more exposure than she wanted.

AP - Harmless comic characters or racist robots? The buzz over the summer blockbuster "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" only grew Wednesday as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures. Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact hatchbacks, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.

AP - Billy Crystal is taking his acclaimed stage autobiography, "700 Sundays," on the road this fall.

AFP - Irish-born film star Jonathan Rhys Meyers was detained for several hours after allegedly punching a waiter in a drunken scuffle at a Paris airport, airport sources said Wednesday.

AP - Lady Gaga doesn't get why some people don't get her.