I’m taking off in the wee hours of tomorrow morning (read: 10 a.m.) for fabulous Park City, Utah, where I will be covering the Sundance Film Festival for Film.com through Monday. I’m taking Spiteful Lars with me, because he makes me laugh and he’ll carry my bags.
This means we are leaving The Beet in the very capable hands of Miss Evil T, who will be popping in every now and then to make you laugh and to keep you updated on the very latest gossip on the five celebrities who will not be with me, snorting cocaine off Christina Ricci’s ass-cheek in a predominantly Mormon state whose bars close at one in the morning.
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Ewan McGregor is now rumored for the part of Kurt Cobain in the story about the Nirvana frontman’s life.
I’m a fan of this idea, not because I can see anyway in hell the story will be worth watching but because Ewan seems like a pretty friendly guy. And friendly guys deserve shots too. I’m sick of all the rewards going to heartless bastards like me.
Also, he played a guy who chased the dragon in Trainspotting so he has some experience there.
The cast of Grey’s Anatomy continues their love-fest, with T.R. Knight appearing on Ellen to formally recommend Isaiah Washington for sainthood. [Defamer]
Even into the sixth season, the American Idol auditions continue to hold a strange power over America. Film.com’s live-blogging it. [Film.com]
Breaking: Paris Hilton treats another human being like crap for no discernable reason. [Celebslam]
Larry Rudolph shocks the world by announcing that Britney Spears is actually not pregnant. [Hollywood Grind]
Meanwhile, a definitely pregnant Tori Spelling knocks back a few glasses of wine. [DListed]
Hugh Hefner generously agrees that he will maybe possibly at some point consider allowing Holly Madison to demand child support from him once she ages out. [Celebitchy]
Gasp! Aniston confidante Courteney Cox was spotted fraternizing with the enemy at the Golden Globes. [The Blemish]
Pam Anderson parties at the Playboy mansion, narrowly avoids a crotch shot. She is not fast enough, however, to evade the ginormous Wynonna Judd lookalike who’s grabbed her by the leg and is now threatening to lick something. [TBYLTH]
Says Lohan through her rep, “I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health. I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you please respect my privacy at this time.”
Things have not been going well for Cameron Diaz lately. For starters, she and longtime boyfriend Justin Timberlake split early this month. When Justin left, he apparently took with him all of Cameron’s ability to choose dresses and hair colors, as she’s looked like hell since. Her People’s Choice dress looked like it might eat her, and her Golden Globes ensemble gave Bjork’s swanfit a run for its money. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Cam totally lost her cool at a Globes after-party when she saw JT chatting up Jessica Biel (whose relationship with baseball star Derek Jeter is rumored to be “open.”
According to Page Six,
Sources say the temperamental star “blew up” at Biel after she saw Timberlake flirting with her. Diaz followed Timberlake to the In Style party at the Hilton Oasis, where “they had an awkward conversation.” The “Charlie’s Angels” star then trailed Timberlake to the Beverly Hilton rooftop for the Universal party, where she found him chatting up Biel - and screamed at the “Illusionist” star. “If that’s how she wants to get him back, it won’t work,” said our insider. “She’s desperate.”
Looks like it’s going to be interesting to have these two back on the singles scene.
When I watched the Access Hollywood thing I thought to myself, well if Isaiah is denying (calling his castmate the f-word slur regarding sexuality) what does this T.R. Knight fellow have to say? It seems to me that if you’re innocent you get the alleged victim to defend you, especially given you’re on the same show and good PR is needed at this point.
It’s now clear that Knight didn’t rush to Isaiaiaiah’s aid because he was lying. Allegedly of course (full article here).
Knight says… Washington referred to Knight, who was around the corner, using the slur. “Everyone heard it,” Knight says. At the time, Knight had not gone public with his sexuality.
So there you go. I’m not sure why you would deny something months after the fact if there was a chance you actually said it. Mel and the other guy just said sorry and moved on. They’re still jerks but at least no one is talking about it right now.
Maybe he just forgot he hated our gay brothers for “one night only.”
Oh man, if this is true, Britney Spears’ child is going to have way bigger problems than having Britney Spears as a mother: namely, fetal alcohol syndrome.
That’s right. The rumor du jour is that Brit has once again been gifted with the chance to carry a human life in her temple of a body for the upcoming nine months, during which this lifeform will have the opportunity to ingest vodka and cocaine directly into its bloodstream at all times without lifting a finger, the kind of blessing the denizens of Skid Row can only dream about.
To be honest, I believe this rumor about as far as I can throw Britney Spears, but if you’re interested in the details, apparently they’re blaming Brit’s recent vomiting incident on the pregnancy (even though she’d been drinking immediately before), and they found some eyewitness who claimed that, for one night, Britney sat at a club and drank water. See? She’s totally preggers!! Oh, and something about “the sparkle in her eye. She always gets that sparkle when she’s pregnant, like she’s relaxed and happy.”
You can read 800 blogs trying to track down all the red carpet photos from the Golden Globes, or you can just go to Film.com’s photo gallery, which has more of them than you could ever want to see. [Film.com]
I assume by now most of you have read the stories about Katherine Heigl telling an interviewer that Grey’s costar Isaiah Washington needs to “just not speak in public,” after Washington announced “No, I did not call T.R. a faggot. Never happened, never happened,” while backstage at the Golden Globes.
Anyway, my first thought upon reading this was “Holy shit, please tell me someone has this on video.” And, because Jesus loves me, Access Hollywood does. Heigl’s complete anti-Washington rant is here. Washington’s annoying little defense of himself is there, too.
Thankfully, Paula Abdul’s PR whiz kids thought to tie her to her bed for the entirety of the day before this appearance on The Tonight Show, so she managed to seem pretty sober during it. But I guess they were so busy keeping her away from her Vicodin that no one sent her the memo regarding the formal excuse her publicist fabricated for her drunk-tastic Seattle interview last week. Exhaustion, Paula. Your rep said it was “exhaustion.” I think he also mentioned something about the sound guys dropping the feed. But he didn’t cite the fact that you were doing 30 interviews at the same time. And no one ever accused you of answering the wrong questions. You were answering the right questions. It’s just that you were doing it while you were drunk. See, that was the problem. The drunk part.
But I’m happy to report that your PR team is heading in the right direction, in that you seem to have put together at least a half-day of sobriety prior to this interview. Baby steps, guys, baby steps.
Good News. Jennifer Aniston is going to guest star on the show Dirt starring (and I use that term loosely) Courteney Cox. This is good news because Jennifer needs something to do and the Friends cast is in danger of being swallowed whole by the universe.
Plus it will be low pressure because no one will watch the show; the gals can just kick back and relax.
The info is here, but I’ve given you all of it anyway, trust me.
Man, I cannot tell you how grateful I was to read today that Renee Zellweger has been dating Luke Perry. See, I think Renee’s a fine actress, but for the past decade or so, she just hasn’t had much luck picking scripts. Projects like Bridget Jones, Chicago and Cold Mountain must have looked good on paper, but just didn’t fly with audiences as finished products. As a result, Renee hasn’t really been on anyone’s radar lately — audiences just don’t care about her at all anymore — and her true talent gets overlooked again and again.
But with the star power of Luke Perry behind her, Renee’s certain to become a household name. Perry, with such recent cinematic hits as Dishdogz, Descent and the upcoming The Sandlot 3, is simply on fire right now. The eyes of the world are trained upon him, breathlessly awaiting his every brilliant career move, and as a longtime fan of the lesser-known Zellweger, I am grateful that she will soon be awash in the glow of Perry fandom, her profile reflecting some of the light from his shining star.
Luke Perry can do for Renee Zellweger what Tom Cruise did for Katie Holmes, what Tom Cruise did for Penelope Cruz, and what Tom Cruise did for Nicole Kidman. This Renee Zellweger is one to watch this year, folks. With that Luke Perry on her arm, she’s soon to have a successful career of her very own, very soon.
