Why did it take Heath Ledger's masseuse nine minutes to call 911 after finding the actor's body? What did she say to Mary-Kate Olsen in three phone conversations? Did Mary-Kate Olsen's body guards sweep the apartment? These questions and more will be answered - well, we don't know yet. Soonish…. Update: Never.

GLAAD got their wish. Fox News man John Gibson apologizes for his offensive, crude and just plain tacky comments on Heath Ledger. Watch the video after the jump.

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The presidential race claims another victim…

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MSNBC's Dan Abrams won't take anti-gay shit talking about Heath Ledger's death. Watch the video, after the jump…

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Fox News man John Gibson mocked Heath Ledger's death last night. The exceedingly unattractive journo called Ledger a "weirdo" and poke fun at his Brokeback role. Dick.

Heath Ledger's death has definitely become the most important news story of the 21st century. Period.

For example, GLAAD released a statement within minutes of the actor's reported overdose. Meanwhile, it took the media watchdog four days to release a statement on the MRSA scandal. So, what gives? That's exactly what Michael Petrelis and his pals have been asking - and GLAAD has been answering.

Excerpt from one of the non-profit's PR pros, Cerissa Cafasso:

The MRSA story involved complex medical research. When we first heard of the story, we needed to get fully educated on all the issues.

To this end, we consulted with The Gay & Lesbian Medical Association. Their expertise informed our ability to analyze the media coverage accurately.

We felt it judicious to take the necessary time, care and caution to understand completely the story so that we could offer the best suggestions for media to report on the MRSA strain in the most fair and accurate way.

That's fair, although even we knew the story would blow up into a gay panic. It doesn't take a media activist to figure that one out…

Heath Ledger's death truly does has serious implications.

President George W. Bush canceled a scheduled anti-drug speech out of respect for the actor, who died of an apparent accidental drug overdose:

The death of Heath Ledger prompted the White House to postpone President Bush's event Wednesday promoting an ad campaign aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse.
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White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush's event had been scheduled for a while.

"We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue," she said.

Wow. We're surprised. The White House did, after all, use 9/11's nearly 3,000 deaths to launch a seemingly endless war.

They grow up so fast!

And we thought the cretinous, vulturous paparazzi were bad!

Fred Phelps and his brood of Westboro Baptist bigots have announced plans to picket at late actor Heath Ledger's funeral. Why? Because his role in Brokeback Mountain made him a fag enabler, of course!

Heath Ledger thought it was great fun defying God Almighty and his plain word; to wit: God Hates Fags! & Fag Enablers! Ergo, God hates the sordid tacky, bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as 'Brokeback Mountain' - and He hates all persons having anything whatsoever to do with it.

Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there - beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.

Christ almighty these people are insane!

We wonder whether Phelps and company will be traveling to Ledger's homeland of Australia for the funeral. If, in fact, that's where he'll be laid to rest. Regardless, these people are vile, disgusting and, most of all, press whores.

CNN's reporting that 28-year old actor Heath Ledger has been found dead in his Brooklyn apartment a SoHo apartment.

More as story develops…

Update: From NY Times: [Ledger] was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan owned by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28… [He] unconscious on a bed, with pills scattered around his body."

Update 2: TMZ reports that the SoHo apartment was not owned by Mary-Kate Olsen.

Also, here is a picture from outside a mysterious SoHo apartment, where Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon. The photographer tells us that the man in the photo on the right is a detective who answered questions. Said photographer also writes, "Cops were kicking paparazzi off the street and 20 feet away on the sidewalk…Medical examiner truck has pulled up. Awaiting the body" Thus begins what will no doubt become a maddening scene the likes of which SoHo has not seen since the Apple store opened.

Just when we hoped the Brokeback Mountain jokes would go away, OK! claims Heath Ledger's "in talks" for a sequel to his gay cowboy drama.

Although we won't be seeing his pal Jake Gyllenhaal, 26, Heath Ledger, 28, is currently in negotiations to reprise his role as Ennis. "It will follow the nasty process of being openly gay in 1963 Wyoming, an insider tells OK!.� "Ennis will finally come out of the closet."

First, that sounds kind of like bullshit. Two, what exactly is the "nasty process of being openly gay in 1963"?

Harnessing their journalistic imaginations, the OK! staffers end by suggesting Ennis find a new profession with the Village People. The wit!

Marc Jacobs drew stars galore at his show last night, including this fine - and perplexing - trio: Vincent Gallo, Heath Ledger and Michael Stipe.

See some more crowd shots - and a monstrous looking Courtney Love - after the jump…

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Stefan Olsdal and Brian Malko weren't the only boys locking lips this weekend.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Farrell got down and dirty - no, seriously, they were down on the ground getting dirty - when they received their MTV Movie Best Kiss Award for their smooch in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. As AfterElton points out, this marks the second year in a row that two men have won the honor. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger took home the prize last year for their gay lovin' in Brokeback Mountain.

Take a peek at the Cohen/Farrell make-out session, after the jump.

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• Not only is George Michael admitting he is a complete mess, he is writing a song about it. Hopefully he'll include the lyrics in the liner notes. [ITN]

• Michelle Williams may have a sort-of-lesbian romance with Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Bob Dylan movie and Heath Ledger will co-star! What a reversal. [PEN15 Club]

• Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette period drama got booed by the press at Cannes. Coppola says it's "not for everybody," but we expect the gays to love it, though we wonder how arch Kirsten Dunst is capable of being. [Gabsmash]

• It's hard to get onto the cover of Vanity Fair nowadays. Really hard, in fact, unless you're dreamy and tragic like Anderson Cooper. [The Bosh]

• The queer animal kingdom was doing so well, what with gay pink flamingos and pink penguins making the news this month. That is until those gay Israeli vultures ran back into the closet. [Haaretz Daily]

• Playing gay has been so good for Heath Ledger's career, he might just give it another go. [Post Chronicle]

• After her performance at the Grammys last week, Madonna had a surgeon perform on her. Bitch had a hernia. That's what you get for wearing nothing but constricting leotards. [NY Post]

• Traditionally leftist Canada has gays worried that their new Bush clone of a leader might take away their same-sex marriage rights. We adore our neighbors to the North for their progressive stance, so let's hope not. [USA Today]

• Once the current uproar over that controversial Mohammad cartoon dies down, some traditional Muslims are going to have another thing to protest: a documentary about Islamic gays. [Variety]

• Gays from Newark to Trenton could be shopping for wedding dresses and tuxes. Same-sex marriage is going to the New Jersey Supreme Court. [Newsday]

• Two of our favorite media subjects come together in one place. Tyra Banks tackles gay cowboys on her show today. [The Advocate]

• It won't be Return to Brokeback Mountain, but Jake Gylenhaal and Heath Ledger might end up onscreen once again. [NY Times]

• We don't know why the normally anti-gay Focus on the Family is endorsing a pro-gay bill, but we'll take what we can get from them. [LA Times]

• There was a time when Madonna's controversial performances were much more risqué than form-fitting purple leotards and a few sexy dance moves. Malaysia's government needs to take a look at Truth or Dare to see what the real definition of provocative is. [In The News]