Dakota Fanning is totes “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards on Tuesday night. At 14, she’s finally starting to shed her little kid face, but it’s still there. (Compare this to Ali Lohan, who’s the same age but looks to be about 28.)

And I know we’re supposed to say “they grow up so fast!” and all, but, really, I feel like Dakota Fanning has been a little girl forever. That girl has had the longest damn childhood ever. Every time I hear about her, I’m like, “Man, Dakota Fanning must be so old by now” and then it turns out she’s still pretty much pre-pubescent.

Hurry up and age, Dakota. You’re sooooo boring like this.

If you can believe it, sources on the set of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s show, The Ghost Whisperer (Seriously? That’s still on? And they canceled Studio 60? There is no God.), say that she’s seemed less than happy since she ended her relationship with longtime boyfriend and fiance, Ross McCall.

“She is usually very bubbly, but she is more quiet and seems sad,” the source says. “She usually hangs out with the crew between takes, but [Tuesday] she is only hanging out with her bodyguard.”

The source adds that skipping work wasn’t an option for the actress. “She is always so professional,” says the source. “She would never even think to miss a day of work because of personal problems.”

Eh, I like giving JLove a hard time as much as the next guy (remind me some time to tell you guys my Jennifer Love Hewitt story from before she was famous), but my heart goes out to her here. This woman has been in and out of more relationships than I care to count, and one of them finally looked like it was going to stick, and then BAM. It’s over. She’s like a Jennifer Aniston in training. Actually, that’s not true. Jennifer Aniston never got fat. Ba-dum-bum-CHING! Your rants go in the comments.

Ahem.

Total. Awesomeness.

In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images on page four and five were taken by Marty Odom (who can be reached at martyodm@gmail.com if you’re interested in licensing the photos). In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being “suspended for approximately seven minutes.” The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that “the man was caught on the chair.”

Source via High Industrial

Today in questionable lawsuit threats:

A young woman selected by police to trick the paparazzi assembled at Los Angeles International Airport for the recently hatched teen’s arrival back in September is threatening to sue the LAX Police Department—because apparently she didn’t agree to pose as the younger Spears sister.

Counsel for the would-be plaintiff, Adessa Eskridge, is demanding $2 million to fully compensate for the “humiliation, fear and harassment” Eskridge suffered when she deplaned and, without prior knowledge of what awaited, walked right into the flashbulb jungle.

Per the claim and attached letter, dated Sept. 30, Eskridge agreed to assist the police, but had no idea what she was actually signing up for.

“Ms. Eskridge had no idea and was NEVER informed that upon deplaning, she would be mobbed by the paparazzi, that she would be in fear of her well-being, that her picture would be taken, that video of her would be all over the world-wide-web as well as being played and replayed on TMZ…who, as LAX-PD is aware, is stationed at LAX full time,” wrote Marina Del Ray-based attorney R.J. Molligan.

Furthermore, Eskridge “had no idea that her privacy would be invaded and her identity made synonymous with ‘fake Jamie Lynn Spears—a nobody,’ ” Molligan continued.

Jesus Christ, what did she think she was being asked to do? I’ve read the complaint (it’s here) and basically they’re like “Pay up or we’ll tell the media about all the trickery involved here.” Like, what the fuck did the LAX PD tell her if they didn’t tell her the truth?

I remember that, after the fact, there was some trouble at LAX because the police there were in no way authorized to pull this decoy shit.

I for one would like to hear the whole story.

Congrats to the happy couple, who became parents to a healthy baby girl on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The couple already have one daughter, Violet, age 3.

So far, no news on what the baby’s name might be, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for Magenta.

Hey kids!!!

While the rest of the economy is kind of tanking, we’re still doing pretty good around here, and that’s in large part due to the awesomeness of you readers. Thank you for your loyalty and your e-friendship. You guys make my day, every day.

I know that you guys want to see more frequent posting, and I can appreciate that. I want to do everything I can do accommodate that, but it’s tricky because I’m a one-man show during the weekdays, and this job isn’t actually as easy as it looks. So, in the next month or so, Wendie is going to start helping me out during the weekdays — no, I am not leaving, you’ll just get more frequent updates from Evil Beet Gossip in general during the week.

As such, we’re looking to hire a weekend writer again. This is a PAID position. The requirements haven’t changed:

- Weekend availability
- Comprehensive knowledge of and love for celebrity gossip
- Strong, well-developed, unique writing voice
- Impeccable spelling and grammar
- computer know-how (you don’t have to be a genius, but you need to know your way around a computer and be able to use some basic image editing software)
- You must be at least 18 years old
- You must either have a mailing address in the U.S. or able to accept payment via PayPal

If you applied last time, please feel free to apply again. You will not be penalized for using the same writing samples, although you are, of course, welcome to change them up.

If you have a blog, please send me the link to it, even if it’s not about celebrity gossip. I definitely found going through applications last time that I gave priority to the people who submitted their blogs — it’s just the best way for me to see how you write for an Internet audience.

If you don’t have a blog, or if you feel your blog isn’t a complete representation of your writing, please send along writing samples. Again, the samples can be about anything, but obviously I’m looking for something that shows off your voice and sense of humor.

Applications should be sent to evilbeet@gmail.com with the subject line “EB Job Application.” If you send it with a different subject line it will probably not get looked at. Deadline is 5 pm PST on Monday, January 13.