Is it me, or does the entire shape of Drew Barrymore’s face look different?  What happened?  Could the dyed-black ends of her hair really make her look that angular?  If so, pass me some Miss Clairol like, yesterday.  I can’t figure it out … it’s like she stole Cate Blanchett’s nose or something.  I was looking through all the photo agency pics taken of Drew this year and she did go through a little phase in June where she was wearing a winter scarf.  Maybe she got that Leno chin shaved down a millimeter or two?  I do think she looks great — just really different.

The top picture is Drew as she appeared this weekend at the Toronto Film Festival and the bottom pic is Drew as she appeared doing press in January for He’s Just Not That Into You.

Updated to say:  I just did some research and I’m happy to report that the folks over at Awful Plastic Surgery are wondering the same thing.

If you read accounts of Elton John’s life, it is widely-known that he has never wanted children.  Previously content to be godfather to at least a dozen little rugrats, it sounds like Sir Elton has changed his mind.

The pop signer[sic] toured a hospital for HIV-infected children in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as part of a charity project and said that he and his male partner David Furnish wanted to adopt an HIV-infected boy named Lev.

But the country’s Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told The Associated Press that adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage.

John and Furnish, his longtime partner, tied the knot in 2005 in one of the first legalized civil unions in the United Kingdom.

Well, it’s a shame that the Ukraine doesn’t recognize gay marriage — he could probably go all Madonna-ish and throw some bucks at that law –but there are bigger issues at hand here.  Saturday (aka 48 hours ago) I wanted to change my hair color to red.  I’ve never wanted to be a red head in 37 years, but Saturday it just struck me as a good idea.  Now it’s Monday and I’m over it.  Sometimes you just have to ride out these fleeting fancies.

In addition to never having had a desire to be a parent before this past weekend, Elton is 62 years old.  If he was a woman with a viable uterus and a sperm donor, the public would be freaking out right now.

This picture of Joe Jackson accosting his VMA date from behind is just jarring.  Jarring and scarring.  I hope you fare better than I.

Kanye West showed on the red carpet with his on-again alien, Amber Rose.  He had a bottle of booze on his other arm — I think we can fairly conclude that the cause of West’s outburst was fueled by whiskey and his overinflated inner child.

Stephanie Pratt, best known as a certain someone’s little sister on The Hills, was there and her photos are now identifying her as a recording artist.  Stephanie Pratt is a recording artist?  I set a new voicemail on my iPhone this weekend.  Am I a recording artist too?

Russell Brand was tiring as always as the show’s host — Oh!  Speaking of tiring, Jon Gosselin was at an after party.  Why?  I don’t know. — and Pink hung from the rafters (when she wasn’t wearing the exact same dress as Shakira on the red carpet) during a truly amazing performance that involved a heart-shaped pastie.  That bitch is strong and maybe just a wee bit crazy.

Madonna continues to go with her Mennonite-lite look, Janet Jackson was fierce, Perez Hilton was icky and I’m having a difficult time viewing Pete Wentz as a dude who’s into chicks.  Rihanna got frosted, Jamie-Lynn Sigler seemed toasted and Lady Gaga had a hidden Mickey on her head at a party after the show.

In other words, it was just your average night in the music industry.

Here’s the screen grab from Kanye’s website where he posted an apology — it’s gone now — to Taylor Swift.  So he’s sorry, he likes her, he just didn’t feel she deserved the award.  That seems reasonable.

Oh, how this pains me.  You all know that I’m not a huge fan of Beyonce’s — molls is a die-hard fan and I really wish this story broke while she was still working — but you have to watch this.  Last night, after Kanye acted like the biggest asshole in the universe, Beyonce won Video of the Year and turned over her acceptance speech time to Taylor Swift so that she could have her moment.  I begrudgingly admit that Beyonce was a true class act.  I searched far and wide for a quality clip that didn’t involve the camera cutting to Perez, but I failed.  As an aside, Lady Gaga looks like a fantasy danish.

Kanye was supposed to perform but his time was scrapped.  It’s all rumor at this point, but people on Twitter were saying that he was escorted to the door.  Oh, how I hope that is true.  People reports that Kanye did post an apology to Taylor on his blog.  I didn’t see it there this morning, but People would never lie to me, so it must be true.  I’m sure it read something like:  ”TAYLOR I’M SORRY BUT BEYONCE IS THE BEST AND YOU ARE IRRELEVANT”

Katy Perry may have summed it up best on Twitter last night:  ”FUCK U KANYE. IT’S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”

We have an unspoken rule around here where we try not to use bad language unless the situation calls for it.  All things Mischa will always call for it.  So will Kanye West’s actions at the VMAs tonight.  

Okay, this just happened.  I don’t even have video for it yet.  Taylor Swift won an award for Best Video.  In the middle of her acceptance speech, Kanye ripped the microphone out of her hand and announced to the audience that Beyonce had the best video.  The camera flashed to Beyonce who looked horrified, the audience went nuts and Taylor almost burst out in tears.

I can’t even properly express my level of disgust for taking Taylor’s moment away.  There is something seriously wrong with that dude — something that extends far beyond “unprofessional”.

Video will be up when it hits the Internet.  You can bet on that.