Today's Evil Beet Gossip

La Toya Jackson’s New Memoir Maintains that Michael Was Murdered

La Toya signs her memoir I do honestly believe that Michael Jackson was a sad and misunderstood man-child, doomed to isolation, who never knew a normal life. Maybe a certain amount of retconning is required to arrive at that conclusion: I'm soft. La Toya Jackson's new memoir, Starting Over, is a real downer. Much of the book centers on her brother's paranoia that people were out to kill him (she still shares his suspicions, not to mention his fake nose). And while La Toya Jackson isn't my go-to for facts-based narratives, this is some pretty dark ...

Titillating, Terrifying, or Tired: Charlie Sheen Masks

Charlie Sheen! Thumbs up!(Photos via Facebook) Artist Landon Meier's nightmarishly realistic masks have been making the rounds at horror conventions nationwide (and on Regretsy, hee). He's got baby masks, he's got Jack Nicholson masks, but his most startling silicone likeness is probably that of Charlie Sheen. Incredibly, the Charlie Sheen mask looks great from every angle---unlike cadaverous Charlie Sheen himself. Or, well, OK, they're both pretty creepy. Either way, it's like a cartoon come to life! Eek! ...

Japan’s Newest Pop Idol Is a Fake

Aimi Eguchi(Image from Shueisha’s Weekly Playboy via Kotaku) And by "fake," I mean that she is computer-animated, a digital Frankenstein assembled piecemeal from 6 other members of the (61-member) girl group, AKB48. Aimi Eguchi debuted in this Japanese candy commercial for Glico---she's the one front-and-center at the end, a digital composite made from each of the other girls who appear in the ad: Glico would have gotten away with it for a little longer, too, if it weren't for those pesky J-p...

Lindsay Lohan Violates Probation, Returns to Court

Lindsay Lohan's preliminary hearing, April 22, 2011 Breaking news that hits me anywhere between my "schadenfreude" and "just sad" glands: Lindsay flunked another alcohol test while living on her rooftop. Whoops! I'm sure this is all simply a misunderstanding. She's scheduled to appear before Judge Stephanie Sautner this morning. Just as a reminder---because this is understandably a little confusing for the rest of us---Lindsay is under house arrest for stealing a necklace, but the terms of her probation were part of the whole DUI thing. Y...

Cameron Diaz Removes Jon Stewart’s Stitches on Television

Cameron Diaz and Jon Stewart's stitches Last night, in the most riveting piece of television in the history of colonoscopies, Jon Stewart invited Cameron Diaz to extricate his stitches one at a time. And then she totally did. It is too disgusting to miss. You may remember how, earlier this month, Jon Stewart cut his wrist on The Daily Show---he was making margaritas during a fake press conference when a glass shattered---and as he stood there bleeding, he remarked that he might actually need stitches. No kidding, man. Anyway. Cameron Di...

And Now, Tom Hanks with the Weather

Tom Hanks is going to try to eat a chili pepper Yesterday, Tom Hanks visited the set of ¡Despierta América! ("Wake Up America!"), a Spanish-language morning show on Univision. Below, the Weather Report, which is already making the rounds online: The clip, approximately: - Today's guest, Tom Hanks! - Tom Hanks is sweating. - Tom Hanks is sweating because he ate a chili pepper on a dare during the last segment. - Tom Hanks preemptively begins dancing. Not yet, Tom! - Maybe Tom Hanks is sweating because today is the hot...

Judy Greer Is Engaged!

Judy Greer, 01/27/11 Poor 27 Dresses' Judy Greer! Always a bridesmaid and never a---wait, what? Oh. Scratch that. The offbeat Judy Greer, forever relegated to playing the quirky "best friend" (13 Going on 30, Love and Other Drugs, The Wedding Planner) and the "sexy weirdo" (Kitty Sanchez in "Arrested Development," Fern in Jawbreaker), will finally play the lead in her own production! That is to say, she's newly engaged to her boyfriend of one year, Dean Johnsen. Well, that's it, boys: Judy Greer is officially ...

Miss USA Believes in Evolution, Definitely, and Marijuana, Kind of

Alyssa Campanella at Sugar Factory on June 19, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thank God my mother didn't catch this year's Miss USA pageant on TV. I mean, I missed it, too---does anyone between the ages of 13 and 60 watch it anymore? (And do let me know in the comments if you did, weirdos. I just know there's one 40-year-old dude here who turned off his cell phone and popped himself some kettle corn.) Oh, mom. The times, they are a-changin': this year's pageant winner, Alyssa Campanella of California, believes that evolution should be taught in schools. (That stance isn't ...

Actor Doug Hutchison, 51, Weds “Singer” Courtney Stodden, 16

Introducing the Hutchisons! Wedding bells pealed Friday, May 20 for actor Doug Hutchison and his bride, 16-year-old Courtney Stodden! The couple married in Vegas. Hutchison, a talented character actor who briefly trained at Julliard, is 51. He played my favorite alien serial killer on X-Files. But you might remember him best from his gut-turning portrayal of creepy sociopathic prison guard Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile. The new Mrs. Hutchison is a self-described "upcoming recording artist, a model, inspiring actres...

Obama Impersonator Yanked from Republican Stage

Obama impresonator Reggie Brown Comedian Reggie Brown has made a career out of his Barack Obama impersonation---his cadence is right-on, and with a little makeup, Brown is nearly a dead ringer for the 44th president. Plus he's pretty funny. It's small surprise, then, that Brown was hired to do a set, in character, at the Republican Leadership Conference held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside this weekend. The set started well, and it made pretty funny use of a slideshow presentation, but after about 18 minutes-...

Bristol Palin’s Autobiography: Levi Johnston Is a “Gnat”

Bristol Palin, April 29, 2011 I absolutely cannot abide 20-year olds who write memoirs because, unless your parents died and you are raising your little brother all by yourself or you made it all up, how am I to care? But Bristol Palin has accounted for my ageist ire by titling her new autobiography Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far. Ah! Bristol's journey so far! I like how the title already leaves the door open to a sequel. In her new book, Bristol treats us to certain revelations about her private life. For instance: she drunkenly lost her virginity to ...