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(CBS/AP) This year the MTV Video Music Awards will be hosted by Dan Aykroyd and 아산출장샵 Bette Midler and feature performances by Madonna in a wedding dress and Cyndi Lauper babbling about how the awards work. Ho ho! Just kidding! That was 1984. This year, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne are returning to the MTV VMAs stage, while Adele will make her first appearance. Pictures: 2010 VMA HighlightsPictures: 2010 VMA red carpet These are  the first performers announced for the Aug. 28 ceremony in Los Angeles, at the Nokia Theatre. The announcement was made Thursday. Brown’s star, once tarnished because of his attack on Rihanna, is shining bright this year, and MTV has taken note. “He is having a moment with multiple hits this year, and he always delivers on the VMA stage,” said Amy Doyle, executive vice president of music and talent at MTV, on Wednesday. She called his 2007 performance at the VMAs one of the most memorable: “He will give an energetic, bombastic, jaw-dropping performance.” Adele, who is nominated for seven VMAs, is also scheduled to perform. Only Katy Perry has more VMA nods with nine; Adele is tied with Kanye West with her seven. Doyle predicted Adele would “bring chills down everybody’s spine, if not bring them to tears, too.” Adele has the year’s best-selling album with “21,” but Doyle notes that her live act...

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Turner’s “Bamborough Castle,” a watercolor not seen in public since 1889, went on exhibit at Sotheby’s in New York on Friday before its Dec. 5 sale in London. Considered Britain’s greatest watercolorist, Turner executed his painting of a castle on the edge of the North Sea in the mid-1830s. In 1890, the painting passed into the hands of the Vanderbilt family, where it remained for several generations, 오산출장만남 becoming effectively lost to much of the art world. The work is considered one of the finest watercolor drawings in the world, according to the auction house, and is expected to fetch from $3 million to $5 million. The highlights of Sotheby’s sale of impressionist and modern art next Wednesday and Thursday in New York include Paul Gauguin’s “Te Poipoi” (“The Morning”), a portrait of a Tahitian woman expected to bring up to $60 million. Van Gogh’s “The Fields (Wheat Fields),” painted in early July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, may be the last landscape ever painted by the artist, who died later that month. Its sale price was estimated at between $28 million and $35 million. The sale also includes Pablo Picasso’s 31½-inch sculpture of artist Dora Maar – Picasso’s muse, model and lover – that Sotheby’s describes as the finest sculpture by the artist ever to appear at auction. It could sell for as much as $30 million. 2Christie’s sale...

NEW YORK — DMX and his attorney feel that the artist best expresses himself through his rap songs, even in court. DMX is counting on a little rap to help him beat the rap at his tax evasion sentencing. Attorney Murray Richman said in a court document made public on Monday that he wants to play a few DMX compositions at Thursday’s sentencing in Manhattan for the rapper also known as Earl Simmons. The lawyer said the music will help U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff “understand him genuinely in his voice” since DMX may be too emotional to speak. DMX, 47, has been incarcerated since his bail was revoked in January by Rakoff, 슬롯 카지노 who scolded him for failing to obey bail conditions. More in Celebrities DMX, whose hits include “X Gon’ Give it to Ya,” has appreciated his time at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and is “sober now and invigorated,” Richman wrote. “It was a salvation of sort to shut out the noise,” Richman said. The lawyer sent the judge lyrics to “Slippin'” and “The Convo,” among other compositions. The lyrics to “Slippin'” include lines like, “I’m slippin’, I’m fallin’, I can’t get up,” while “The Convo” includes lines, “Thou shall not steal, but I will to eat. I tried doin’ good, but good’s not too good for me” “It is raw Earl,” the lawyer said....