Today's Evil Beet Gossip

DJ Qualls Claims He Was Beaten By a Cop

Photo: Actor DJ Qualls in November 2010 Remember DJ Qualls (Road Trip; The New Guy)? In the wee hours Saturday morning, Qualls saw a "dude punch a girl," he says. But when he tried to point out the woman's attacker to law enforcement, a cop beat him up, right there on the streets of Vancouver. From his Twitter (via TMZ): The actor was eventually rushed to the hospital by ambulance but, he adds, the officer "taunted" him as he was waiting. "I cannot understand it," he tweeted later. "I'm sitting here with a busted face, in t...

Quotables: Kirsten Dunst on Depression

Photo: Kirsten Dunst at the premiere of 'Melancholia' at the Toronto International Film Festival People are embarrassed to talk about it. I would never put anyone down [who] was in that kind of space. I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life---and if they don't, I think that's weird. ---Kirsten Dunst, in Flare Magazine. Oh, Kirsten! I love her more every day. And she's right about the embarrassment thing. I think, in my own family, the word "depression" is never used. Never. (In fact, my great-grandmother always described her own condition as "mel...

Kim Delaney Seriously Screwed Up This Speech

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Well, an orator she isn't. Actress Kim Delaney---who currently stars on Lifetime's Army Wives---was a guest speaker at an awards ceremony honoring former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. She was hurried from the stage after her prepared speech became incoherent (and, according to some reports, "inappropriate"). By most accounts, Delaney just seemed, er, wasted: she was "fidgety," "slurry," and "rambling," and she clearly struggled as she explained that she had "served in active milita...

Watch This: the Film Debut of Stephanie Plum, Starring Katherine Heigl

Photo: Book cover of Janet Evanovich's 'One for the Money' Last year, I very abruptly decided I should start reading paperback mystery novels. I have no idea how I arrived at that realization, but once I was there, I had zero idea how to begin. Both my best childhood friend and my beloved high school English teacher gave me the same recommendation: Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. Read the books in order. Start with One for the Money. So, OK, I was a latecomer (One for the Money was published in 1994). Is the novel a work of great literature...

Happy Birthday, George Costanza! Nice Hair!

Photo: Jason Alexander, bald and not bald Whoa! Seinfeld's Jason Alexander is looking snappy. And what a difference three months can make! (The photo on the right is from June.) Jason Alexander celebrated his 52nd birthday yesterday, but his new follicles (and weight loss) make him look 22 again. Uh, kinda. Speaking of 30 years ago! Here he is in his first movie, a slasher flick called The Burning: Image via TMZ...

Bristol Palin’s Bar Fight: “Is It Because You’re a Homosexual?”

Photo: Bristol Palin with Don Rickles on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, July 14, 2011 Let me clarify: the heckler was old and bald, but he was not actually Don Rickles (pictured). Bristol Palin just wanted to have a quiet evening to herself---in the middle of a restaurant in West Hollywood, on a mechanical bull, taping her new reality TV show---and props to her, too, because I don't think I'd be able to keep myself perched on a bucking robot like that. Eventually she slips out of the saddle and lets herself flip off of the bull. Just as soon as she pulls herself upright, a voice calls out, loud and clear: "DID ...

Watch This: Kanye West, Before He Was Famous

Here's a baby Kanye---age 23ish, I'd guesstimate---performing some slam poetry. I know! And he's pretty good. The poem itself is all about posing and posturing even when, deep down inside, you're just insecure, neurotic, and consumed with self-loathing. Huh. Side-note: the MC, Mos Def, introduces Kanye as "the Future of Hip-Hop." Wild. /> Here's a baby Kanye---age 23ish, I'd guesstimate---performing some slam poetry. I know! And he's pretty good. The poem itself is all about posing and posturing even when, deep down inside, you're just insecure, neurotic, and consumed with self-loathing. Huh. Side-note: the MC, Mos Def, introduces Kanye as "the Future of Hip-Hop." Wild....

Watch This: Sesame Street’s ‘Glee’ Parody

I'm not claiming that this video is hilarious, because it isn't. I am claiming that someone at the Sesame Workshop knows how to make a muppet hella look like Matthew Morrison. Actually, there is one funny thing, and that's when 'Sue' goes, "I didn't ask YOU, Guester! I was asking the funny-shaped kid." Haha! You'll see. /> I'm not claiming that this video is hilarious, because it isn't. I am claiming that someone at the Sesame Workshop knows how to make a muppet hella look like Matthew Morrison. Actually, there is one funny thing, and that's when 'Sue' goes, "I didn't ask YOU, Guester! I was asking the funny-shaped kid." Haha! You'll see....

Ted Haggard to “Wife Swap” with Gary Busey

Photo: Ted Haggard and Gary Busey are slated to appear on Celebrity Wife Swap together Do you understand how much I hate my job right now? It's like I've been transported through the looking-glass to an alternate dimension where I can't make any jokes, one where reality is stranger than fiction, one where Ted Haggard and Gary Busey will appear on the same episode of Celebrity Wife Swap. And where does that leave me? GOBSMACKED AND JOKELESS. Pastor Ted Haggard---right, that's the one---will send his unconditional wife Gayle off to spend some alone time with actor Gary Busey. ...

Highlights from the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen

Photo from Comedy Central's Roast of Charlie Sheen, starring Charlie Sheen So I finally watched the Roast of Charlie Sheen yesterday---it aired Monday night, yes, but I was busy---and I have to admit this Roast was pretty good. Not Bob Saget good, but then again, what is? There was a real likelihood of the evening falling flat. How do you parody a parody? How do you make light of wife-beating? And who invites Mike Tyson to do stand-up, even? But the jokes were scathing, and the Roast bit to the quick. I've rolled my eyes at Charlie Sheen's recent I-Don't-Have-a-Job Humble Pie Remorse Tour, and I don't like him, but...

Miley Cyrus, Wearing Some Pretty Weird Pajamas

Photo: Leaked pic? Miley Cyrus, and her satin sheets, wearing some racy lingerie Don't get me wrong, Miley---this is some fairly tasteful lingerie/sleepwear, and your boudoir has been sumptuously decorated, too. I especially like the wicker headboard and/or chair you have. It's kind of grandmotherly, but in a cosmopolitan Pier One way. Also, the drapes. For my own part, I, too, check Facebook on my iPhone when I'm getting ready for bed. That's fine. But I can't imagine why you'd put that much jewelry back on. Sometimes I forget to take off my earrings, it's true. But personally,...