Sep 20, 2009 at 05:03 pm by Evil Beet

January Jones Dress at the Emmy Red Carpet 2009 Pictures Photos

Love love love love LOVE January Jones’ dress. AMAZING. I’m obsessed with this look.

Sarah Silverman Dress at the Emmy Red Carpet 2009 Pictures Photos

Sarah Silverman is, per usual, a giant fail. I bet she’s wearing sneakers underneath that thing. Sarah, I love you, I think you’re a comedic genius and support you in all you do, but can you PLEASE just ONCE live up to your potential on the red carpet? Hire Rachel Zoe. Just for one day. Please?

A bunch more looks from the carpet are below. For even more, check out part one of the Emmy dresses.

Sep 20, 2009 at 05:02 pm by Kelly

Suzanne Somers in 2007

I love it when celebs pontificate on complex issues such as Middle Eastern politics or life-saving medical treatment, as if being able to cry on cue makes them an expert in every field. Suzanne Somers is particularly adroit at this method of putting her perky little foot in her perky little mouth.

Recently, Somers — whose oncological experience consists of one season of Three’s Company and stage kissing Patrick Duffy –  asserted that Patrick Swayze died not from pancreatic cancer, but because his doctors poisoned him with chemotherapy.

“They took a beautiful man,” Somers said, “and put poison in his body. Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins?… I hate to be this controversial… but I have to speak out.”

Of course! Everyone knows that the cure for aggressive pancreatic cancer is organic veggies and squeezing out a few rounds on your ThighMaster.

It’s too bad Ms. Somers has not yet discovered a cure for leather neck-itis

Sep 20, 2009 at 04:35 pm by Kelly

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Monday, Wendie reported that Elton John’s request to adopt a Ukranian boy named Lev were rejected by the Ukranian government because their adoption laws require any prospective adoptive parent to be married, and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage.

But it seems that the issue is not as straightforward as all that. In addition to being too gay, John is also too old, and too foreign. The child also has a mother and an older brother, and therefore is not even eligible for adoption.

In spite of all this, the government has still offered a compromise which would allow John to take guardianship of the boy and supervise his upbringing– along with the boy’s older brother and mother, who have fallen on hard times.

[Ukranian Minister] Yuri Pavlenko has now said that John “has the right and opportunity to invite the family of this boy to visit him, take them under his guardianship and help him grow into a good person”.

“I’d like everyone to be tolerant to this boy,” he said. “This is not an orphan, the child still has a mother and an elder brother and so he cannot be adopted by law.

“He has a difficult fate, like his mother. Help has been provided to his mother to find strength to bring the family back together.”

The proposal would mean that Lev’s mother would be encouraged to visit John in the UK with her two sons.

A source said: “It would be entirely up to the mother if she agreed to this arrangement. It could allow her to stay involved in their upbringing under Elton’s guidance.”

Sep 20, 2009 at 04:33 pm by Evil Beet

Olivia Wilde at the Emmy Red Carpet 2009 Pictures Photos

Heidi Klum Dress at the Emmy Red Carpet 2009 Pictures Photos

It’s beginning!!! The Emmys don’t actually start for a couple more hours, but you better believe we already have some action on the red carpet. It’s 102 degrees in Los Angeles this afternoon, and celebs started showing up earlier than ever, some hitting the carpet by 2:30 or 3 pm. We’ve started to get photos in of all the dresses, and we’ll post the rest when we have ‘em. So far my faves are Olivia Wilde (she is always one of my faves) and Heidi Klum, who chose to wear an uber tight-fitting dress around her uber pregnant belly, and I think she looks phenomenal.

We’ve got a bunch more looks below. I’ve got all the photos titled with who’s in them, just like you guys like. Enjoy!

Sep 20, 2009 at 03:50 pm by Kelly

Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover of the October issue of Shape magazine

Well,  it’s happened again; needless and debatably immoral airbrushing on the cover of a magazine. And just like last time, it’s yet another “women’s health” magazine that claims to focus on “Diet, Fitness, and Healthy Eating.”

Jennifer Love Hewitt appears on the cover of the October issue of Shape magazine. Now, she is by no means an overweight woman, but even so, this health and fitness magazine airbrushed her size 2 ass. You can see the October cover on the left and pictures of a slightly hippier, thicker in the waist Love Hewitt on vacation in Hawaii last month.

Part of the blurb for the October issue on Shape‘s website reads:

“For the most part, yeah, I’m happy with my body, but there are days when I’m like, ‘Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?’ That’s when I say to myself, ‘I look this way because I’m supposed to. If we all looked the same, we’d be boring.’” Here, she reveals her stay-healthy-and-happy strategies as well as her work out that she uses to stay slim and confident.

I’m not blaming Jennifer. What the magazine chooses to do with their cover is their business. It’s not often that I take the moral high ground– mostly because I spend so much time traversing the moral low ground that taking the high ground represents a rather strenuous and perilous climb for me. But if Shape magazine were a person, it should be downright ashamed of itself.

I can understand airbrushing out cellulite, blemishes, or shadows to present a cosmetically pleasing image. I can even begrudgingly acknowledge that a high fashion magazine– whose modus operandi is to present unrealistic images of clothing and women– might digitally eliminate a few pounds from a model to make her look thinner than she actually is.

But the hypocrisy of magazines that claim to be devoted to fitness, exercise, and “Total Body Confidence” airbrushing inches off someone as thin as Jennifer Love Hewitt to make her look even thinner while plying its readers with exercise moves guaranteed to “Take an Inch off your Hips” is just disgustingly impalpable….Unless their method for taking an inch off your hips involves Photoshop. And it doesn’t.

Seriously, if you have a subscription to Self or Shape magazine, you should probably cancel it. Right now. They’re just proving themselves to be full of crap and lies.

Sep 20, 2009 at 02:56 pm by Kelly

Oh, Paula.

Is there anything sadder than this devastatingly un-funny send-up of the popular, successful, funny, sober woman who took your job? It’s just a bit of goodnatured ribbing with really poor timing, right? It doesn’t at all smack of bitterness.

Oh, Paula.