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Berry Gordy founded what would become Motown Records a half-century ago with an $800 loan. Today, that would get you two tickets with a bit to spare to the Motown 50 Golden Gala. For $200 more, you can attend a VIP event and a swanky party afterward. The event is set for downtown Detroit Saturday, with a scheduled appearance by Gordy and planned performances by Aretha Franklin, The Temptations and duet partners Stevie Wonder and Kid Rock. The high-wattage night is a fundraiser for the Motown ...

I called it 'Motown,' rather than 'Motor City,' because there was more warmth here   -Berry Gordy

 

Over the years there have been style highs and lows on the red carpet of the American Music Awards . While some stars like Paula Abdul stepped out in their lingerie, others, like Rihanna , were literally dressed to kill!  

Scott Brown knows he faces an uphill battle as a Republican seeking to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. Until last week, when Jack E. Robinson filed nomination papers, Brown was the only member of the GOP seeking the seat, which is also the goal of four Democrats. Although the seat has been in Democratic hands since the 1950s, and more than a decade has passed since Massachusetts voters sent a Republican to Congress, Brown, one of just five Republicans in the state Senate, said there is no inevitability to a Democrat victory.

This isn’t a Democratic seat; it’s a seat of the people of Massachusetts   -Scott Brown

 

Oprah Winfrey's decision to end her Chicago-based syndicated show raises many interesting questions -- among them, who may be in line to assume the daytime TV throne, should it indeed become available. Daytime has increasingly become the territory of the tawdry and tasteless occupied by the likes of Jerry Springer and Maury Povich -- although pockets of politeness remain with Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres. There is already speculation among industry insiders that ABC may move its morning talk ...

I'm not so sure there will be another Oprah   -David Scardino

 

Music notes...Would you like to workout with American idol winner and country music sweetheart Carrie Underwood - she reveals some body secrets and work out tips. Taylor Swift is a real doll - or a reasonable facsimile of - at $19.99 each. Follow the young country music star latest notes below.

My hours are crazy, so I try to work out as much as I can. She also revealed that she is a firm believer in not having to join a gym to get in shape, and said that she prefers to work out at home.   -Carrie Underwood

 

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. Balled up in a patio chair on the 10th-story balcony at the offices of 19 Entertainment in Los Angeles, Lambert is the portrait of the goth as a young man ...

They put you through it to see if you can hang   -Adam Lambert

 

SUSAN BOYLE vs. Adam Lambert in a steel-cage match? Well, not quite, but the year's two biggest reality TV superstars both drop hotly anticipated debut albums Monday, setting up an epic battle for sales supremacy and a stark contrast in musical style and personality. In one corner, we've got Boyle, the shy Scottish homebody whose soul-stirring ballads made her a global sensation on "Britain's Got Talent."  

The head of the Republican Party in a North Carolina county wants election officials to check on Clay Aiken's registration after a political outburst. Wake County GOP Chairman Claude Pope filed a complaint Friday challenging whether the former "American Idol" runner-up can vote lawfully in the county. Records show Aiken voted last month using the address of his mother's home in Raleigh, where he once lived.  

One of the leading celebrity news magazines, People , released its annual Sexiest Man Alive issue earlier this week. Johnny Depp , not Robert Pattinson, took top honors. Check out People's full gallery and pick up its popular issue for the full roster of hunks and why they made the list.