Today in Los Angeles, Adam Lambert, Paula Abdul, and Snoop Dogg (what a delightful trio!) unveiled the nominations list for the 37th annual American Music Awards, and announced a preliminary list of performers, including Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez and, yes, Glambert himself, making his pre-album, post-Idol performance debut.
Taylor Swift leads the pack this year with six noms, followed by Michael Jackson with five, Eminem with four, and Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon and T.I. with three apiece.
The show, set to air Sunday, November 22, will have its winners determined by voting at ama.abc.com, amavote.com, and mycokerewards.com. See the full noms list after the jump.
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“It’s a hell of a movie!” says Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz, who is laughing, but not joking, about the band’s legendary concert film Stop Making Sense. “It was one of those situations where everybody just exceeded our expectations to the point where we have a timeless kind of movie.” In fact, it is now exactly a quarter of a century since the original release of the Jonathan Demme-directed big screen venture. To mark the occasion, the film is debuting today on Blu-ray. Extras include a short film, in which singer David Byrne interviews himself about the movie while wearing a variety of disguises, and never-before-seen footage of the quartet at a press conference to promote the film’s 1999 re-release. (One of only a handful of occasions that the four members have been together in the same place since officially splitting in 1991.) Of course, the film itself also features Byrne wearing his fabulous, unforgettable, and, with all due respect, fairly hilarious “big suit.” “It was hilarious,” says Frantz. “I mean, KISS have some big suits. But they’re armor suits. This was some kind of Havana linen suit. Extra wide!”
The manager of the singer Safire has weighed in on the growing controversy surrounding the new Michael Jackson single “This Is It.” Sal Abbatiello told EW earlier this evening that “This Is It” is “exactly the same” as the song “I Never Heard,” which was written by Jackson and 
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