DIANA ROSS TO SMEAR BEYONCE'S DREAMGIRLS

According to the rumor mill, movie insiders fear that the original diva Diana Ross is planning to wreck Beyoncé Knowles' Oscar hopes for Dreamgirls. Ross made it clear she wasn't a fan of the project when it first appeared as a Broadway musical because it was loosely based on her career with The Supremes. Sources now claim she's planning a subtle 'diss' campaign to ruin the film's Academy Award chances.

Los Angeles Times' Hollywood insider Tom O'Neil claims "the original Dreamgirl" could easily create the kind of negative publicity that turns Oscar voters off if she "publicly disapproves" of the film, in which Knowles plays her.

He says, "A longtime friend and colleague (of Ross) tells me that Miss Ross hates Dreamgirls because she feels like she's been ripped off, like its creators changed just enough key elements of her story so they didn't have to pay her royalties and then refused to give her any input on how her story would be told."