I would expect someone as brilliant as Chris Rock to be above accusations like this, but someone is claiming that he stole the idea for his movie Good Hair from a flick that had already been made. Filmmaker Regina Kimbell says that back in 2005, she showed Chris a her movie My Nappy Roots on the set of Everybody Hates Chris and now four years later, he’s releasing pretty much the same movie under a different title.

Kimbell’s film has a similar format– celebrities talking about different hair styles that are commonly worn in the black community– and Rock’s big-budget wide-release is bound to make her hard work get blown off the map. While Kimbell has already filed a lawsuit, comment from Rock’s camp has yet to be released and the amount that the suit was filed for is still unknown.

I’m still definitely going to check out Good Hair, but now I also want to find a copy of My Nappy Roots. It’s not that I want to compare the films, I just don’t think that there’s possibly enough movies about weaves to ever satiate my needs.

Victoria’s Secret held the first of its “national model searches” at Yankee Stadium today. Thankfully, unlike the last major open casting call for models that took place in NYC, this time there were no stampedes, and no “bitches pissing in cups.”

If you are at least 5′8″, are reasonably good-looking, and can put one foot in front of the other without thinking too hard about it,  you too have a chance to walk around in a room full of strangers in your bikini while news outlets take pictures of you. Sounds fun, right? (You couldn’t pay me enough money.)

Once all the finalists have been chosen, the public will get a chance to vote for their favorite on the Victoria’s Secret website. The winner of the search will don a pair of wings and walk the runway with the other angels during the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in December.

Pop quiz time!

1. Which beautiful size 4 contestant will get cut for being “too fat?”

2. Which contestants need to get down and nasty with a couple of half-pound burritos, like NOW?

Answer both of these questions correctly and you’ll win self-respect and a healthy body image. Congratulations!

Ashley Jewell, also known as A.J. the ex-fiance of Real Houswives of Atlanta cast member Kandi Burruss, was killed in a fight in the parking lot of an Atlanta strip club last night. Police aren’t saying what the fight was about, just that he was “involved in an altercation and struck in the head” by a man named Fredrick Richardson. Richardson has been arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter.

Kandi took to her Twitter account early this morning to express her despair:

I’m about to give my swollen eyes some rest now. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their prayers. I gotta get up and go to my uncle’s funeral. I could never in a million years imagine this happening. Please pray for AJ’s children. That’s who I’m the most concerned for. I’m just in one of those moods where i don’t wanna talk, I don’t wanna be held and told it’s gonna be ok. I just wanna cry myself to sleep, alone.

The second season of Real Housewives of Atlanta followed Kandi and A.J. as they planned their wedding and attempted to raise their collective seven children. Six of those kids are A.J.’s children- six children who are now without a dad.

Keanu Reeves went shopping yesterday in Los Angeles and one over-eager store owner just couldn’t let her dream man go without stealing a kiss. Granted all she got was a peck on the cheek, but these photos make it look like she was going in for the kill. Keanu seemed nonplussed per usual, but probably was thinking that he’d never bother to go back to Sunset Plaza again without security.

Peter Sellars has been heading up a production of Othello that’s playing at NYU’s Skirball Auditorium.  He was fortunate enough to land Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for the lead, but that’s where his luck ended.

Sellars’ production is so bad that a mass exodus occurs during the intermission of every show.  According to Will Pulos, a student and digital journalist at NYU, “I basically haven’t seen a theatrical exodus that large since sitting through a community theater production of ‘Clue: The Musical’ in northern Michigan.”  I’ve only seen a bunch of people file out of a show one time — during the movie From Justin to Kelly and no, I don’t want to discuss why I was there.

One night, in response to all the empty seats, Sellars came on stage and announced, “Move up. Please move up. The closer you are, the better.”

When I found out our sponsor for this month was Carmex, I was delighted. I am, in actuality, a Carmex devotee, so I don’t have to make up something that sounds positive about a product I’ve never heard of. That’s a relief. I’m one of those girls who, starting at the age of about 5, went through around 30 jars of Carmex each winter. This year, they were kind enough to send me five samples of their latest product, Carmex MoisturePlus lip balm, which is basically Carmex in a lipstick tube. That should be enough to last me through mid-October. Seriously though it’s a way cool product, and I’m not sure why they didn’t think of it sooner. It tastes yummy and makes your lips tingle and works as well as any other Carmex product, but it’s less messy.

As a thank-you to Carmex for funding us this month (all together now: “Thank you, Carmex!”), we thought it would be fun to put together a couple galleries of celebrity lips. Carmex wanted to do a gallery of the hottest celebrity lips. And I was like, “Okay, we can do that, but only if I can accompany it with a gallery of the most botched celebrity lip injections.” Hee hee. I like to remain true to my craft. So we agreed to do both. You can check out the Luscious Lips Photo Gallery here, and the Hollywood’s Most Botched Lip Injections Photo Gallery here. Enjoy, and thank you again to Carmex MoisturePlus lip balm for keeping us in business!!!

Many of you were kind enough to head me in the direction of where I could go watch former Glee episodes so I could catch up.  Did I do that?  No, not yet.  Now, I’ve missed yet another episode with one of my favorites: Kristin Chenoweth.  Folks, this weekend the iPhone and Mac are being unplugged until I catch up on this show.

Chenoweth’s voice always amazes me.  How does so much sound and strength come out of a person who’s the size of a Pez dispenser?  Anyway, last night she sang the always-hopeful “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret, accompanied by Lea Michele (Rachel Berry).  You can’t not be happy after listening to this song.  And I could be wrong, but I think Beet really enjoyed Kristin’s guest appearance too.