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Taylor Swift wins five American Music Awards

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country crossover star Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five prizes including artist of the year.

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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Twilight" sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young women swooned over the complex love triangle involving a high school girl, a vampire and a werewolf.

  • A woman looks at a sequined glove that once belonged to the late pop star at the MJ46 Japan Tour, an exhibition showcasing various Michael Jackson items, in Tokyo November 9, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
    Michael Jackson's glove sells for $350,000 at auction Sun Nov 22, 7:31 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's famous white glove sold for $350,000 at a memorabilia auction on Saturday, soaring far past pre-sale estimates, while a black jacket he wore during a 1989 world tour fetched $225,000.

  • Singer Robbie Williams to court investors: report Sat Nov 21, 12:41 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Robbie Williams may sell the right to half his future album, touring and sponsorship earnings in a 50 million pound ($83 million) deal, one of his managers was reported to say on Saturday.

  • A preview of the Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" is seen at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, September 13, 2009. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
    Michael Jackson's doctor says others gave him propofol Fri Nov 20, 8:56 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal physician told investigators he was not the first doctor to give the pop star propofol, the powerful anesthetic that was one of the drugs to cause his death, according to court papers unsealed on Friday.

  • Taylor Swift's dream year brings out naysayers Fri Nov 20, 4:10 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At what may be the height of her early career, teen sensation Taylor Swift finds herself facing the downside of stardom -- naysayers.

  • "New Moon" rises to No. 1 at midnight box office Fri Nov 20, 3:42 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Vampire romance movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" raked in $26.3 million at North American box offices in midnight showings, breaking the record set by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," studio officials said on Friday.

  • LA attorneys distance Polanski from French lawyer Fri Nov 20, 9:43 PM ET

    PARIS/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday.

  • Celebrity photographer Adnan Ghalib stands outside the Los Angeles County courthouse in this January 14, 2008 file photo. Ghalib, who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career meltdown, was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining order. The 37-year-old, one of the paparazzi who trailed Spears night and day in 2007, was also ordered to complete an anger management program.  REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files (UNITED STATES ENTERTAINMENT CRIME LAW)
    Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend, photographer jailed Fri Nov 20, 7:08 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A celebrity photographer who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining order.

  • The Willis Tower, at left, is dwarfed by a reclaimed warehouse converted to apartments and various small business in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago across the street from Harpo Studios, the home of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'  Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 in Chicago. Winfrey announced Friday she was taking her show off the air in December 2011 after 25 years. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
    Oprah Winfrey says ending TV show "feels right" Fri Nov 20, 1:01 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey said on Friday that she will end her popular TV show in 2011 because it "feels right in her bones" after 25 years, and urged viewers not to believe rumors of why she's quitting.

  • "Idol" wild child Adam Lambert readies first album Fri Nov 20, 11:34 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Adam Lambert -- the man with the outsize personality who delivered an audacious octave-and-a-half sitar-tinged purr of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on the most-watched TV show in the country, dodged sex toys thrown at him onstage during the "American Idol" tour and did it all without smearing his eyeliner -- is curled in the fetal position.

  • Sting's "Winter's Night" inspired by magical tales Fri Nov 20, 6:49 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sting's "If on a Winter's Night..." may feature holiday-inspired songs, but don't call it a Christmas album. "The whole season is much broader than that," he says. "Winter is about inspiration and imagination."

  • Singer Miley Cyrus, one of the featured Divas, arrives for the VH1 Divas show in New York September 17, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East
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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The driver of a tour bus for Miley Cyrus died on Friday when the vehicle crashed in Virginia, but the teen singer was not on-board, police said.