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Elinor Burkett, the pushy broad that looks like Madam Medusa from Disney’s The Rescuers, has been making the rounds in the media to defend her actions at the Academy Awards Sunday night.

Joy Behar, who seems determined to be a sh*t disturber (that’s my girl!), had Burkett on her show to explain herself.  Burkett says she had as much right to be on stage as Williams (she did get an Oscarfor the movie as well) and said her thought at the time was ”if I don’t make it to that stage within 3 seconds he’s not going to thank the band, he’s only going to talk about himself.”  

Burkett also told EW that both the Producers Guild and HBO certified her as a producer on the project, even though she removed herself from it due to a seething hatred creative differences with Roger Ross Williams.  Needless to say, he does not agree.

I’m just happy the whole thing happened.  Those WTF?! moments are few and far between in these award shows lately.  No wonder so many of the attendees rely on booze and other substances to keep things lively.

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Looks like the celebrity feud between Project Runway’s Tim Gunn and Kim Kardashian that didn’t happen might kick into gear yet.  

To recap, last month the Kardahian’s debuted their new line with Bebe during New York Fashion Week.  Tim chimed in on his thoughts when asked if he supported them saying that he felt “the Kardashian’s have an absense of taste“. 

Hee!

Last week on the Joy Behar Show, instigator Joy got Tim going on about the subject again.  Tim called out the Kardashian look (skin tight, cleavage barring, rear enhancing outfits) as “cheap” and “tawdry“. 

While Tim admitted that their look may “have some sexiness to it“, he says he finds it “rather vulgar“.                                         

As for Kim herself, Tim Gunn told Joy, “She’s pretty, but she’s a poser.  I find that when she’s static and still, she has an attractiveness. I find that when she’s moving, it all goes away for me“.

Surprisingly, the Kardashian sisters have remained quiet about Tim’s opinions about them.  So far. 

Kim probably doesn’t really care anyway as she has a mini-empire to run, a reality TV show to famewhore for and Tweets to post.  La-la-la-la-la…

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So now it’s come to this.

With little else to turn to as acting, paid escorting, fame-whoring for money, and designingcreative consulting all seem to have fallen by the wayside due to her behavior, Lindsay Lohan is turning to that tried and true way to make a buck, the frivolous lawsuit.

According to the New York Post (via Gawker) Lindsay feels that the above Superbowl ad in which a baby named Lindsay that’s a “milkaholic” is mentioned is really all about her and is seeking damages to the tune of $100 million dollars. 

In the suit filed yesterday, Lindsay’s lawyer is seeking an injunction to ban the ad from being shown and wants all copies of the ad as well.  “They used the name Lindsay. They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan.”

Riiiiiiiiiight.

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By wishing his detractors get ass cancer.

Penn brought a bunch of doctors and medical supplies down to Haiti to help with relief efforts after the earthquake.  This being the cynical 10’s though (I’m trademarking that saying , so don’t steal it) some questioned his and other celebrities motives, saying it was a PR stunt to look better, and that it was hypocritical to help people in need then return to their mansions back  home. 

In an interview with CBS’ Sunday Morning, Penn responded to those allegations saying, “I guess I’ve been so away from it all– and our tent camp in Haiti that I haven’t had an awful lot of time to pay attention to them. You know, do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.”

Heh. 

You know, regardless of his intentions, the fact is Penn’s done way more to help than most of us have (or are able to), so unless his critics brought more relief to Haiti than he did and sold their houses to give the proceeds to charity as well, they should muzzle it.

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Naomi Campbell is off the hook for giving her driver one.

Early this week, police in mid-town Manhattan were on the look-out for Campbell when her limo driver accused her of beating him.

Miodrag Mejdina recanted his story once the cheque from Naomi cleared and issued a statement through his lawyer saying,  “I had an argument with Naomi Campbell. I got angry and overreacted.  I regret involving the police. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and I apologize to Ms. Campbell for causing that to happen.”

Naomi is talking for the first time about what happened and while she neither confirms nor denies that she hit him, she says “I was accused of unacceptable behavior towards a driver in New York. I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past. I try to treat everyone with respect and I am pleased the driver has apologized. I would like to put the last few days behind me and move on.”

Of course, “treating everyone with respect” to Naomi means leaving them semi-conscious instead of KO’d after lobbing cell phones at their heads.  

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When word came out that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp were going to be starring in a movie together, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the tabloids would be having a field day with it.

After all, to much of the Soccer Mom Brigade, Angelina Jolie represents the “other” woman, the beautiful hussy that will use her feminine wiles to lure away your, yes your man!  It doesn’t help that she was rumoured to have pursued and ended up having relationships with men that were currently attached to others at the time, first with Billy Bob Thorton (from Laura Dern), then Brad Pitt from the now sad, lonely, and chronically abandoned Jennifer Aniston.

The New York Post is starting the charge, claiming that once Johnny Depp’s partner (they’re not married) Vanessa Paradis found out that about a love scene in the script for The Tourist she’s been “demanding” that Depp quit the movie.

Some source (Aniston lowering her voice?) told the Post “Vanessa found out that there was a real long and intense love scene between [Depp] and Jolie. He’s currently trying to [get out of the movie], but I don’t know if he’s succeeded. But he’s trying and they’re talking about replacing him with Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio.”   

Yeah, I’m not buying any of this either.  Principal photography has started in Venice, Italy and Johnny has been reporting for work as required.  Angelina and her whole family is there to, probably to try and stem the reports that she and Depp are trying to find “moments” to be alone together.

The folks at Celebitchy made an interesting observation.  The Post is owned by News Corp (Rubert Murdoch’s company) which also owns The News Of The World, the tabloid which is currently being sued by the Jolie-Pitts over that break-up story that went viral and was reported worldwide last month. 

Speaking of the Jolie – Pitts and tabloid f*ckery….

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Unless it wins big on Sunday night at the Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow’s film about a US Army bomb disposal unit member in Iraq will be best known for all the drama surrounding it off screen.

First, producer Nicolas Cartier was barred from attending the Academy Awards earlier this week, punishment for sending out e-mails to Academy members urging them to vote for The Hurt Locker and “not that $500 million dollar movie“, a reference to Avatar.  Apparently, promoting a film while slamming another is a major no-no in la-la land. 

Now a man who served with the US Army as a bomb disposal expert himself has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the makers of the film, including Summit Entertainment which is the films distributor, claiming they cheated him out of “financial participation” and that Jeremy Renner’s character in the movie is based on him. 

Jeffery Sarver says that he was interviewed by Mark Boal in Iraq in 2004, who was imbedded in his three person unit for 30 days.  Boals experiences led to a story in Playboy the following year, which was then eventually adapted by Boal into the screenplay for The Hurt Locker.

Sarver and his lawyer also claim he came up with the phrase “The Hurt Locker” as well as the call signal “Blaster One” which was used in the movie.

Summit Entertainment (which is probably at this point just wishing it had stuck to films about sparkly, fang-less vampires) says it’s looking for a “quick resolution” to the claims made by Sarver.

Guess serving your country may turn out to be quite profitable, provided Hollywood gets invloved and you get yourself a good lawyer.

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Oh brother now what?  Did a woman appear in public without her ankles covered?

Apparently the IOC, who seem to have about as much of a sense of humour and fun as the Taliban, have got their collective tits all in a knot over the way the Canadian Woman’s Hockey Team celebrated their win over the USA yesterday.

Smoking cigars and drinking on the ice???!!!   Quelle Horror!!!

Showing they have absolutely nothing better to do with their time or their money, they released a statement saying “The International Olympic Committee will investigate the behavior of the Canadian women’s hockey players who celebrated their gold medal at the Vancouver Games by drinking alcohol on the ice”.

Bitches please.

The IOC really needs to lighten up before they manage to suck every last drop of fun out of the Winter Olympics and become the butt of jokes (they already have).

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Looks like those rumours about someone putting a hit out on Jon Cryer of Two and a half Men may have had some substance to them after all.

Apparently, Cryer and his ex-wife Sarah Trigger are in the middle of an extremely bitter custody battle.  How bitter?  According to TMZ, she asked her ex boyfriend Eddie Sanchez to take Cryer out (meaning as in kill, not as in date). 

For her part, Trigger (perfect name for a murder plot) and her lawyer claim that the ex-boyfriend is now recanting his previous statements to the FBI.

With Charlie Sheen currently in rehab, and now this, you have to wonder if the show-runners are thinking of renaming the sitcom  A Half Man, until all this drama involving the Two subsides.

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Condoms would have been waaaaaaaay cheaper.

A judge has ruled that Levi Jonston must pay Bristle (name spelled in error on purpose and it stays) Palin $18 500 in retroactive child support payment for their son Tripp.   Johnston must also begin coughing up $1688.42 per month as well. 

In a statement that doesn’t at all sound like it was written by one of mother Sarah’s flacks, Bristle said, “I have received limited and sporadic financial assistance from Levi“.

According to documents her lawyers forced Levi to submit, he made over $100 000 grand last year famewhoring, but only paid $4 400 in child support.  Dumb move (then again this is Levi Johnston we’re talking about).

Bristle’s lawyer says that she’s happy with the outcome is looking forward to solving her remaing issues with Levi, as long as they come out in her favor. 

Maybe Levi should reconsider that offer to do porn from Corbin Fisher if that Desperate Housewives gig falls through.  He’s going to need the money.

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