Today's Evil Beet Gossip

Steven Tyler Airlifted to Hospital After On-Stage Accident

eb_81123a1_tyler_s_b-gr_04 After an accident while performing "Love In an Elevator" (too awesome) at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota yesterday, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler found himself being airlifted to the closest hospital after suffering neck and shoulder injuries. Tyler was initially assisted backstage until it was realized that the aging rock icon was in need of more serious medical attention. The event's spokesperson told the Associated Press "He was good-natured about it. He was in good spi...

Tacky Michael Jackson Painting Valued at $2.1 Million

finding_838_large Like when anything happens with any celebrity, there's a quick clamoring of the masses to see what they can get out of it. The death of Michael Jackson is no exception and if anything, it's way worse. We've seen Cheetos shaped like the moonwalker being sold on eBay, tacky memorial t-shirts, boxed sets, and now, the one and only painting that Jackson ever posed for is going back on the market for the first time since 1990 because of "renewed interest" in the King of Pop. The painting went for a...

Brad Pitt Says Smoking Weed Made Him Fat

evilbeet_90702x1_pitt_b-gr_17 OK, so I know that you all saw the Parade Magazine interview with Brad Pitt that came out yesterday and it's great that he supports gay marriage, but hello-- I think we already knew that. Let's concentrate on this sound byte about his teen years, shall we? I liked to smoke a bit of grass at the time and I became very sheltered. Then I got bored. I was turning into a damn doughnut, really. A damn doughnut, really. I have to say as someone who is barely known but maybe more commonly associated with smoking le grass (French points!) than Brad, that nothing gets my rocks off more than hearing celebrities talk a...

More Trouble in Tweet Paradise for Lindsay and Samantha?

lindsay_tweeet I don't know why I'm up at 3 am. Scratch that. I'm up at 3 am because I have a very serious West Wing addiction. I'm helplessly buying and watching every single episode from iTunes. I was just going to do one tonight, but that turned into two, and now I'm pondering a third. This is, like, the sort of thing that warrants a 12-step program at this point. The good news about being up at 3 am is that you get to catch Lindsay Lohan's crazy tweets to Samantha. From this I gather that Samantha told Lin...

Justin Timberlake’s “Open Road” Appears to Go Nowhere

Wooooooooow. Did Hollywood fire all its half-decent trailer directors because of the recession? Bad idea. I mean, there are shitty trailers, and then there are shitty trailers. This one falls in the latter category. Not one of these jokes is funny, and not one of these shots make Justin Timberlake look like a competent actor. Why does he keep trying? Justin, you're really good and making music and dancing. You're not good at acting. Give it up. By the way, the poor girl who got sucked into this cinematic sinkhole is Kate Mara, who was in Brokeback Mountain and was also totally awesome in Transiberia. This script choice was a notable misstep on her part. Note to talented up-and-coming actresses: If a "singer-turned-actor" is involved, you shouldn't be. Taryn Manning, I'm looking at you. /> Wooooooooow. Did Hollywood fire all its half-decent trailer directors because of the recession? Bad idea. I mean, there are shitty trailers, and then there are shitty trailers. This one falls in the latter category. Not one of these jokes is funny, and not one of these shots make Justin Timberlake look like a competent actor. Why does he keep trying? Justin, you're really good and making music and dancing. You're not good at acting. Give it up. By the way, the poor girl who got sucked into this...

Quotables

bp-002 "I have love in my life, a soul mate--absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it--hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environmen...

Oprah Sued for $1 Trillion

Oprah Winfrey Yeah, you read that right. $1 trillion-with-a-T. Here's the story: In an intellectual property case filed July 31 with the US District Court in Washington, D.C. author Damon Lloyd Goffe of the Bronx, New York is suing the talk show titan and her production company Harpo, Inc for damages he claims to be worth $1 trillion. In the legal papers, Goffe says that "in April 2008 Oprah confessed to seizing original works of authorship" and published on the internet the first draft of his work "A Tome of...

It’s Paula Abdul Day!

paula_abdul_90s The news broke on Tuesday night that Paula Abdul won't be returning to American Idol, and Wednesday the news outlets scrambled to capitalize on her departure. How many angles can you take? Well, Reuters has a piece on how the Idol ratings are going to continue to slip now that Paula's gone. E! used it to address the issue of women's compensation in Hollywood and later did a piece on Paula's upcoming role in Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva. Not to be outdone, the AP has an interview with Simon Lythgoe ...

Ashley Judd’s Going to Harvard

ashley_judd Congrats to Ashley Judd, who somehow manages to be an Angelina Jolie-style without making a scene of it, Angelina Jolie-style. The actress has enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) program. The MC/MPA is designed to "increase the knowledge and skills of well established, high-performing professionals, who seek to enhance their public service careers or to move from the private sector to a leadership position in either the public or non-profit s...

Jon Gosselin: She Started It!

picture-12 Jon Gosselin talked to In Touch magazine to set the record straight on how his marriage ended.  I thought they were taking a 45-day break from talking about each other to the media?  Oh, he's such a man of his word. I tried to parse the most important parts of the interview from this week's edition, but it's all truly so good.  He wanted to work on his relationship with Kate (the original Kate) and she wanted no part of it.  That's when he decided to start dating multiple women.  You k...

The Most Foretelling Quotables Ever

picture-111 “I don’t regret anything I’ve gone through…. I don’t know what the future holds, but I hope that my life, as it is now, doesn’t change. I’m very happy and comfortable—it’s a great place to be in. If this article comes out and we’re not together, I’d still love [Tony], and he’d still be a huge part of who I am today.” Jessica in a pre-split interview with Glamour mag for their September issue....