Wesley Snipes Beats (Most Of) The Rap!

AMERICAN GANGSTER Wesley (Photo: Getty Images) • Snipes acquitted of tax fraud and conspiracy charges: Yeah, seriously. The tax code gambit is known in accountant circles as the 861 argument, and your 2007 taxes are due ... well, we don't know when they're due. But they're coming up. Not that it matters, since you don't have to pay.

• Eva reckoning: When Wesley Snipes was in the seminal drug/ghetto-culture movie New Jack City, he portrayed a powerful narcotics kingpin responsible for sending many young people to their deaths or rehab—but never anyone like a full-fledged celeb of the Eva Mendes variety, who's quietly recouping in Utah.

• Michelle Williams reflects: What with all this Snipes acquittal news, we nearly overlooked the heartfelt words of Michelle on the untimely passing of Heath Ledger, the father of her baby, Matilda.

• Hot new track!: Heidi Montag's new single debuts over at the Us Weekly site. It's called "Higher." You know who's probably totally high right now? Snipes.