Buzz Briefs: Kimmel, Springsteen

Jimmy Kimmel To Bring The Laughs To American Music Awards

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to provide more laughs for the American Music Awards.

The comedian and talk show host is slated to host the annual event on Nov. 23 live from Los Angeles on ABC. Pink and the Jonas Brothers are among those scheduled to perform.

Kimmel has hosted the American Music Awards four previous times.

In a statement, Orly Adelson, president of Dick Clark Productions, the show's producer, called Kimmel "a masterful host with incredible spontaneity and wit; audiences can expect a great night."

Kimmel's response? "I agree with Orly completely."

The American Music Awards are voted on by fans through online voting.

"The Boss" Delivers At Ohio State

For the second day in a row, rock star Bruce Springsteen sang a few songs and urged thousands of potential voters in a battleground state to register and support Democrat Barack Obama.

Springsteen's free acoustic concert at Ohio State University in front of about 10,000 followed Saturday's performance in Philadelphia, where he called the Bush administration "a disaster." He repeated that comment Sunday, and indicated that Obama would lead an "American reclamation project" to restore the country's international reputation.

"Despite the terrible erosion to our standing in the world, we remain for many people a house of dreams," he said. "And 1,000 George Bushes and 1,000 Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down."

Springsteen's appearance was aimed at encouraging Obama supporters to take advantage of Ohio's weeklong same-day voting period, in which state residents can register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day.

Springsteen plans to play at an Obama gathering in Michigan on Monday. On Oct. 16, he will join Billy Joel at an Obama fundraiser in New York City.

"American Idol's" LaKisha Jones Takes The Plunge

Former "American Idol" contestant LaKisha Jones has tied the knot.

The Flint, Mich.-native married financial adviser Larry Davis at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday.

Some fellow "Idol" alums attended the wedding, including Sanjaya Malakar, Haley Scarnato and Melinda Doolittle.

Jones was booted from "Idol" in May 2007, finishing as fourth runner-up. She has an album due out in February 2009.

The couple will honeymoon in Barbados.

It's Official: Paramount & DreamWorks Split

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks say they are formally separating following DreamWorks' deal to partner with Reliance Entertainment of India.

In a statement Sunday, the companies' principals say DreamWorks will take the lead on some projects, which Paramount can choose to co-finance and co-distribute. Of the projects that remain at Paramount, the new company can co-finance those attached to DreamWorks' star director Steven Spielberg.

Most DreamWorks employees are expected to be hired at the new company being set up in partnership with Reliance, with which DreamWorks announced a financing deal last month.

Paramount, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc., bought DreamWorks for $1.6 billion in 2006.

Fashion Victims Beware

Fashion critic and illustrator Michael Roberts pokes fun at the industry in a new book that he says is as much a satire as it is an homage.

"Fashion Victims" features 26 poems with accompanying illustrations based on the letters of the alphabet, ranging from Auctions to Zips. The letter "B," for example, is given to the word "Bimbo" and illustrated by a silhouette of women stabbing each other in the back.

"There's a huge amount of folly, yes, in the fashion business, but it's not as though it causes wars or people go around killing each other," Roberts told The Associated Press on the sidelines of Paris Fashion Week.

Now the fashion director of Vanity Fair magazine, Roberts has been compared to French artist Jean Cocteau for his prolific output, which ranges from cut paper collages to photography, poetry and painting. His illustrations have frequently been used on the cover of The New Yorker magazine.

It is clear from Roberts' work that the elegant British critic enjoys observing the foibles of an industry often targeted as superficial.