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Reese Witherspoon to receive MTV Generation Award at star-studded ceremony Sunday

It's a sea change at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Celebrity watchers won't need to dress up to feel like they're at the Oscars this year....

And Lucy vows not to yank the football away from Charlie Brown at the last second. Here’s one tip for the producers of the Academy Awards: tell presenters not to waste time on the show complaining about how long the show is. If you subtracted all the time people wasted talking about how long the show is during the show, you’d actually be able to end the show by 11:00 PM Eastern.

Lady Gaga in an egg and Justin Bieber resulted in a slight ratings bump for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on CBS. From 8-11:30PM, the show, which crowned Nashville-based Lady Antebellum as the night's big winners, drew 26.55 million viewers and a 10.0/26 in adults 18-49. Compared to last year's highly-rated telecast that aired on Jan. 31, outside the February sweep, the Grammys were up a tenth (1%) in adults 18-49 (from 9.9/24) and 3% in total viewers (from 25.87 million). It was the best delivery for the awards show in adults 18-49 since 2004 and in viewers since 2001. CBS won the night with a 8.2/22 in 18-49 and 23.7 million viewers.

The Facebook tale "The Social Network" won top honors Sunday at the Golden Globes with four prizes, including best drama and director, solidifying its prospects as an Academy Awards favorite.

The King's Speech, the acclaimed historical drama about King George VI's triumph over a speech disorder at the brink of World War II, received the most nominations — seven — for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards announced this morning.

Out with the old, in with the young: James Franco and Anne Hathaway will co-host the 83rd Academy Awards in February, an apparent bid to attract younger viewers to the telecast.

Just think, it was only 12 months ago that Taylor Swift became the nation's most supported underdog; Kanye West became, well, not; Katy Perry was first publicly propositioned by her now-fiancé (and last year's VMA host) Russell Brand; and Chelsea Handler was making waves by pissing off celebrities…in the funniest way possible.

Music's wildest party - on television at least - convenes Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles and the guest list couldn't be any more outrageous.