Please note Brett Ratner's photobomb.

The Women In Hollywood issue of Elle magazine features a beautiful photo of Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer: Nice lighting, pretty makeup, come-hither gaze, shiny hair. Well done! We're willing to forget all about that unfortunate Elle cover starring Gabby Sidibe, in which her hair/weave/wig looked awful and her…

In this weekend edition of Tweet Beat, no one can tell Sherri Shepherd and Octavia Spencer apart even though they have very different faces, everyone is rallying around Sandra Fluke, Brad Goreski loves studs and Katy Perry dines on fiber glass.

Okay, so the Oscars happened — or, as I've taken to calling them, Hollywood Gets One of Its Ribs Removed So It Can Suck Its Own Dick for Eight Hours: The Movie — and, as you've probably heard, they were very, very dull. Wet paint was bored. String cheese had to go lie down. If you opted to spend your evening watching…

In a segment taped the day before the Oscars for Today, Octavia Spencer talked to Al Roker about losing weight: "I love my body… I'm not trying to be a thin mint," she clarified. "I want to be a thick, chocolate mint." Mmm. Sounds good. Note to Girl Scouts: Get on that. She also told Al: "I'm going to get my boobs…

"O" as in "ovation" not "orgasm."

This awards season has been all about The Help, but for the cast it's been all about, well, their boobs. First Viola Davis wowed us with her impressive display of cleavage at the NAACP Image Awards, then discussed how it was all a delightful accident, and now Octavia Spencer is getting in on the action. While most…

It seems like Jessica Simpson has been pregnant for a really long time, and she's not a notoriously private person. So it's surprising there hasn't been some kind of official announcement about whether she's having a girl or a boy. She speculated early on that it was a girl, and today it looks like her mother's…

Viola Davis, director Tate Taylor, and Octavia Spencer at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards. Images via Getty.

A woman claiming to be Drake's ex-girlfriend and writing partner is suing the rapper for allegedly ripping her off (and for pretending they never dated, although that's not technically a criminal offense). In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Ericka Lee claimed that she and Drake agreed to write the song "Marvin's Room"…

Quoth the actress to Ellen: "I triple-Spank. Which is not good. Spanx really, really work, but you don't need to overdo it." She also recalled a recent conversation with pal Melissa McCarthy: "I could not party that night because I was being pinched in places that I didn't know it was possible… I said, 'Oh my God,…

She won big at the SAGS, but of course all the backstage interviewers seemed to care about when it came to The Help's Octavia Spencer was her weight – one of them going so far as to call her a "foodie" actress. Condescending much? Anyway, she said that while she could stand to lose "a little round the middle," women…

Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel famously said she would rather get paid $700 a week for playing a maid than $7 for being one, after civil rights groups criticized the portrayal of black characters in Gone With The Wind. Seventy years later, The Help and Viola Davis are enmeshed in a similar controversy.