Philly native DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), 36, who was found dead Aug. 28 in his New York flat, had eight undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and a ninth in his mouth, an anon "law enforcement source" tells People mag, adding that the presence of the powerful painkillers supports the theory that Goldstein committed suicide.

Police also found a Valentine's Day card from Haley Wood, who was - depending on the source - the DJ's current or ex-girlfriend. "Thank God you're in my life. I love you," read the card, which was dated Feb. 14. On Tuesday, Wood told Usmagazine.com that rumors Goldstein committed suicide because she had broken up with him were untrue, adding that they were still together.

Meanwhile, an anon source at the Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in West Los Angeles tells E! that Goldstein was scheduled to be buried there yesterday in a hush-hush ceremony. And MTV says there will be a private memorial tonight at the Hollywood Palladium.

Levi lays it bare in Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair's new genius cub reporter, Levi Johnston, takes his baby's momma's momma, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to town in the scathing mini-memoir, "Me and Mrs. Palin," in the mag's new issue.

Levi, who fathered a child with Sarah's teen daughter, Bristol, says Sarah and her husband Todd did not seem to share their lives or their bed. "In all the time [Sarah's daughter] Bristol and I were together, I've never seen them sleep in the same bedroom," Levi says. (That's less contact than those asexual amoebas enjoy.)

Levi claims that Sarah, who was the GOP's vice presidential candidate in '08, tried to avoid bad press by adopting Levi's baby with the then-17-year-old Bristol: Sarah "didn't want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid."

Levi paints Sarah as lazy and entitled. He claims she never worked past 5 p.m. and sometimes not even past noon. At night she'd lounge by the TV, "watching house shows and wedding shows," he writes. And if she wanted food ("like a Crunchwrap Supreme from Taco Bell") or a DVD, she'd expect Levi and Bristol to go out and fetch it.

Palin people, who in the past have dismissed Levi's tales, have yet to comment.

Whatever doesn't kill me . . .

. . . makes me a better thesp. That's the lesson Cate Blanchett learned yesterday, when she was injured in an accident onstage during a Sydney Theater Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

"She had blood streaming down the back of her head and blood on the back of her neck," an unnamed audience member told Sydney's Macquarie Radio. Company rep Tim McKeough said that "another actor lifted [a] prop above his head and she somehow sustained a minor blow to the head." The show was stopped, but Cate, 40, promised to be back on stage today.

Top four 'Idol' idols snatched up

American Idol's recording company partner, 19 Recordings/RCA Nashville, has signed Idol third-place finalist Danny Gokey. This is the first time every one of the Final Four have won recording contracts: Champ Kris Allen, runner-up Adam Lambert, and fourth-place finisher Allison Iraheta were signed in June.

Tidbits 'n' pieces

Kate Hudson is living "in sin" (as they used to say) with Yankees star and fellow divorced person Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez, says In Touch mag.

Katherine "Foot-in-Mouth" Heigl will take a five-episode leave from Grey's Anatomy to shoot her 90th big-screen romantic comedy.

Elisabeth Röhm, who turned in a flat, uninspired, wooden performance in Law & Order, has been hired to, um, be flat, uninspired and wooden on Heroes, Life & Style Weekly says. NBC's comic-book show premieres Sept. 21 with a two-hour episode.

Jackson estate to foot the bill

How much will Michael Jackson's funeral - to be held today at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. - cost? Millions? Billions? Gazillions? More? "The expenses will be extraordinary," Jackson estate lawyer Jeryll Cohen yesterday said at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, which ruled that the estate must foot the bill. MJ will be laid to rest in a palatial mausoleum that replicates 13th-century Italian architecture, and houses a copy of Michelangelo's Moses and a stained-glass replica of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. MJ will share his new digs with Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Jean Harlow, and other luminaries.

Adkins to commemorate Flight 93

Country crooner Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins, 47, will perform the national anthem at this year's ceremony to commemorate the 33 passengers and seven crew members who died on United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver the keynote address. Flight 93 crashed in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville in Somerset County, when passengers tried to resist hijackers who had taken control.

A 'Late' night with Tony, Julianna

David Letterman will represent our great nation Tuesday when he plays host to former British prime minister Tony Blair, who'll be making his first guest spot on The Late Show.

Sadly, Blair doesn't have a CD or movie to promote. Instead he'll chat about his hopes for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Fellow guest Julianna Margulies will hype her (Eliot Spitzer-inspired?) CBS drama, The Good Wife, about a woman whose politician hubby is sent to jail for various seedy acts.

Cosby: Heal our schools

"All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts. No jobs in the area."

So said Philly's proud son Bill Cosby on Tuesday in Detroit. Cosby, 72, was in town to lend support to emergency financial manager Robert Bobb's campaign to persuade parents not to take their kids out of Detroit's financially strapped 172 public schools. Bobb, who has visited residents across the city, took Cosby along on a door-to-door trek. "This has a chance," Cosby said of Bobb's efforts.

Rimes to divorce; nation yawns

In the most expected announcement of the year, chanteuse LeAnn Rimes, 26, who reportedly is romancing Invasions and Third Watch stud Eddie Cibrian, 36, says she's divorcing Dean Sheremet after seven years of matrimony. The split was "amicable," Rimes says. "We remain committed and caring friends." Eddie's wife of eight years, Brandi Glanville, recently left him - reportedly because of his alleged affair.

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