What’s the verdict?

I’m off to Phoenix for the weekend to attend a fabulous charity ball, and I’m gonna do my best to have fun and have a life and not spend the weekend chained to a laptop. I’ll check in periodically, of course, but posting will be slower than most weekends.

xoxo,
Beet

I’m not sure what to make of this.

Jessica Simpson’s new movie, Blonde Ambition, was determined to be not good enough to show in theaters, so it’s going straight to DVD.

However, they are giving it a limited theatrical release in Texas.

I guess it’s because Jessica and Luke Wilson are both from Texas, but if I were a Texan, I’d be a little offended by this. Like, the rest of the country is too sophisticated for this film, but Texas? They’ll dig it.

Says a spokeswoman for the production company: “It is a very cute film that Jessica fans will love and be thrilled with. We’ve done a second film with Jessica, Major Movie Star [slated for 2008 release], and we have all the confidence in her.”

“I would have had Britney Spears last year when I thought she was trying to get it all back together again,” Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe told Usmagazine.com in a conference call Thursday.

“Britney, at this moment in time, I don’t think is well enough to do anything,” he continued. “I think she needs looking after. I think she needs to pull herself together.”

The new season of AmIdol starts in January.

Is everyone psyched???

Patrick Dempsey doesn’t just know how to juggle women … [INO]

Woody Harrelson smokes some weed. [Celebslam]

David Hasselhoff’s back in rehab. It’s sad because he’s going to die of alcoholism soon. [Celebitchy]

The Batman trailer leaked. [DListed]

Wanna see Karolina Kurkova’s underpants? [Ninja Dude]

Obama coming between Oprah and Stedman? I love it! [popbytes]

Adrian Grenier — along with his mother — volunteer at the Neighbors Together Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn.

Marry me. Marry me. Marry me.

Marry me now.

“If you don’t obey a court order, you can be held in contempt … We’re not really interested in punishing her … We’re interested in getting facts and information that are inconsistent with her position or consistent with my client’s position.”

K-Fed’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, talks to Extra.

Meet Julian, a male model who Paris met on her recent trip to China.

Looks like she dragged his ass to Germany with her.

Here they are partying at a Berlin night club called Felix.

Awww, that Pizza Boy must be so sad.

Images via WENN