Elinor Burkett -- the redhead who infamously pulled a Kanye West at the Oscars -- claims she's only being painted as the bad guy because she was too damn slow to get to the stage.
In a moment of red-headed solidarity, Burkett agreed to tell her side of the story to Joy Behar, where she claimed Roger Ross Williams "bigfooted" her to the stage -- instead of waiting for her to join him so they could accept together.
Burkett -- who's name is on the Best Documentary Short award for "Music by Prudence" -- said she felt she had to butt in and hijack Williams' speech because he was only talking about himself ... and not giving proper due to the film's disabled star, Prudence Mabhena.
As for why she didn't just keep quiet, Burkett quipped, "I'm really not very good at keeping my mouth shut."
Roger Ross Williams tried giving his Oscar speech again last night on "Larry King Live" -- and for the second time, he was abruptly cut off.
This time crazy redhead producer Elinor Burkett wasn't to blame -- but Larry's own producers, who needed him to stop blabbing because of a time crunch.
The look on Roger's face when they tell him to wrap it up is just priceless.
Roger Ross Williams -- the guy who got Kanye'd last night on the Oscars by that crazy redhead -- will get a second shot at his acceptance speech tonight on "Larry King Live" ... so our spies tell us.
Williams -- who won the Academy Award for "Music by Prudence" -- was interrupted mid-acceptance by producer Elinor Burkett.
Burkett and Williams had been feuding over creative control of the project, and they struck an out-of-court settlement. Burkett had been removed from the movie, but still kept her producer credit.
Here's the best part: Burkett tells Salon.com, when she stood up to go onstage, Williams' mom tried to block her with a cane.
UPDATE: Burkett will tell her side of the story to Joy Behar on her show on HLN at 9:00 PM on Tuesday night.
Anderson Cooper, always the gentleman, walked former First Lady Nancy Reagan to her car after an event in Los Angeles yesterday ... and then drove off with her.
Nancy Grace's deposition could make you sick .... if you were sitting in the same room with her.
Grace sat for her deposition in Atlanta today, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a woman who killed herself after getting grilled by Grace.
We're told Grace had an epic cold and barely made it through the depo. Various people in the room were bringing her Vicks cough drops, Kleenex and other accoutrement.
Our sources say the depo wasn't groundbreaking ... no smoking gun.
Much to the chagrin of Grace and CNN, the deposition was videotaped but the tape is under wraps.
It's classic. Nancy Grace does not want her deposition taken because she's afraid someone will manipulate the videotape and take her out of context.
Grace is being sued by the parents of Melinda Duckett, who killed herself -- allegedly after Grace went on the air and suggested the woman might be responsible for the disappearance of her child.
Grace's deposition is scheduled to be taken this Thursday in Atlanta. Grace and CNN have objected to the videotaping of the depo.
In her legal papers, Grace's lawyer says, "The risks associated with releasing deposition videotapes prior to trial are high due to video's unique ability to be abused as they can be cut and splice and used as 'sound bites' and taken wholly out of context."
The papers go on to say there have been threats against Grace and a videotaped deposition "would serve no purpose but to further harass, embarrass and intimidate Ms. Grace and corrupt the jury pool."
Anderson Cooper raced to the aid of a badly injured boy in Haiti yesterday -- dropping the camera and carrying the bloodied child away from a violent incident in the middle of a chaotic scene.
Cooper claims he had heard gunfire in the area and raced to see what had happened -- when he noticed some people on the top of a store throwing slabs of concrete down at looters ... one of which smashed a child in the head.
As blood streamed down his face, Cooper carried him to a safer area and handed him off to a local for treatment.
Cooper says he has no idea what happened to the boy.
There's nothing more vicious than an old-fashioned Twitter fight -- which is exactly what just broke out between Larry King and his handlers at CNN.
Larry's wife Shawn says CNN asked him to stop posting details from his personal life on KingsThings -- his official Twitter account -- interesting personal stuff like him and Ryan Seacrest arguing over who's gonna pay for dinner.
So King let his rebellious side shine and started his own personal account -- then immediately let his non-rebellious side shine by naming it ShawnKingsHubby.
That'll show 'em who wears the pants around there.
Anderson Cooper was outed as a Lady GaGa fan last night -- and the eternally short-shorted Richard Simmons didn't miss a beat challenging him to a "Just Dance" dance-off.
Cooper didn't take the bait, but the 100% authentic awkwardness is just as entertaining ... if not more.
Carrie Prejean told Larry King the Miss California USA people were pushing the gay agenda so hard they couldn't hide it -- even asking her to go to a gay event in disguise.
Prejean insinuated pageant officials wanted her to pose in Playboy -- they've told us they were merely passing the offer along, per her demand.
Prejean did not address Donald Trump's statement to us ...that she treated people in the pageant like s**t and refused to participate in 30 sanctioned events.
Nancy Grace's deposition could make you sick .... if you were sitting in the same room with her.
It's classic. Nancy Grace does not want her deposition taken because she's afraid someone will manipulate the videotape and take her out of context.
There's nothing more vicious than an old-fashioned Twitter fight -- which is exactly what just broke out between Larry King and his handlers at CNN. 
