LONDON-The son of an Arab monarch took the King of Pop to court Monday, charging that Michael Jackson took $7 million as an advance on an album and an autobiography that he never produced.

NEW YORK-Carson Daly chatted with Eminem, Beyonce gave a showstopping performance, girls shrieked at the sight of Justin Timberlake and hundreds of fans lined up outside in Times Square for a glimpse at superstars. For a few hours, it seemed like old times at MTV’s Total Request Live - back when the show was not only music's most powerful force but a dominant part of pop culture. Unfortunately, it took the show’s demise to make it relevant again.

NEW YORK-The Gap considered removing smiling portraits of Jennifer Hudson from its new holiday ads after her recent tragedy, but decided to keep the images after the grieving star said she wanted to go ahead with the campaign, a representative for the clothing chain said recently.

R&B singing sensation Usher may have some more Confessions to make, after a steamy performance Nov. 13 at the House of Blues that featured scantily clad dancers and a fair amount of simulated sex. Thousands of shrieking fans packed the downtown venue on a drizzly Thursday night to see the Yeah! man himself, as part of Usher’s One Night Stand Tour.

Porgy and Bess was performed several times during the 20th century, however George Gershwin's greatest masterpiece will be stage–for the first time–as an operatic production with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as part of it's 54th season repertoire.

LOS ANGELES–A judge has awarded nearly $58,000 to a man who claims Prince failed to pay him for editing work and unreturned equipment. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Alarcon issued the judgment on Wednesday after conducting a brief trial last month that included testimony from the video editor, Ian C. Lewis.

RALEIGH, N.C.–Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton–affectionately referred to as the nation’s first Black president–asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama’s election, but she does not expect another command performance.

In one of the last performances before his death in August, Bernie Mac stars along with Samuel L. Jackson in Soul Men.

Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as Mama Africa, performed in her last concert in Castel Volturno, southern Italy, late Sunday night.

She had her fair share of troubles as a child, but always turned to smiles and laughter to get her through. Kellye Howard, a comedienne from the south suburbs, said cracking jokes was her specialty, but didn’t necessarily channel it the right way during her elementary and high school years.