Oh my God, is that a broken chair leg?

TMZ regularly uses blurry, badly-cropped photos of celebrities to accompany all of their stories, because it creates the illusion that the photo was hastily snapped as the celebrity was running away from the scene of a scandal. They do this regardless of where, when, or in how high-quality the original photo was taken (exhibit A, B, C).  Strangely, they’ve apparently taken the same approach to pictures of Charlie Sheen’s “HOTEL ROOM CARNAGE!”  This despite the fact that hotel rooms presumably don’t run away or cover your camera when you try to photograph them.  C’mon, man, take some time! What were you, being chased? Here are some of the photos, and I swear I actually tried to make these look better.

Mother of God, there are pillows EVERYWHERE.  What kind of sick person would do this?
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James Cameron was walking through LAX (the airport, not the nightclub) recently when a fan asked him to sign an Avatar poster.  Cameron refused.

The man went back to Cameron and asked again to which James replied, “I don’t owe you a f**king signature … just get out of my f**king personal space.”
That’s when the fan lost it and replied, “I’m an a**hole because I ask someone I admire for their autograph that makes me an a**hole? I make $15-an-hour at work to go see your film and I’m an a**hole?”
Ultimately, James calmly walked away from the situation while the fan continued to yell at him. [TMZ]

TMZ got the whole thing on video (attached below), because even though you can’t park your car there for more than three seconds and have to take your shoes off to get on a plane, TMZ is allowed to just hang out at the airport with video cameras all day.  Anyway, the easy thing to say is that Cameron could’ve just taken two seconds to sign the guy’s poster and only the tiniest effort would’ve kept him from looking like a total prick, but would it really surprise anyone if TMZ put this guy up to it specifically in the hopes that something like this might happen?  Meanwhile, if this guy’s looking for reasons why he might be considered an A-hole, I’d say that hat is tops on the list.

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Woody Harrelson roughed up a TMZ photographer at La Guardia airport the other day, but it was okay because no one likes TMZ photographers and because he had a really good excuse.

Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.

“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.  “With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said. [CNN] [pointless annoying boring video of the "attack" here]

This would be a funnier story if Harrelson wasn’t still being sued for $2.5 million dollars by some other TMZ asswipe over a similar incident in 2006 (Key quote: The photographer then flagged down an LAPD patrol car and told the two officers inside, “Hey bro, I just got assaulted by Woody Harrelson. He choked me out right now.”). As my lack of pants would indicate, I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure you can’t claim an assault was very serious if you continue chasing your alleged assailant down the street yelling “this is assault!”  No, it’s not.  If anything, it’s a one-sided game of grabass.  In fact if I were Harrelson’s lawyer, I would’ve advised him to use the “why are you hitting yourself?” defense.