Grammys Winners Complete List ; Beyoncé Is Fierce, but Taylor Swift's Fearless Rules
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Beyoncé Knowles and Sasha Fierce almost proved to be an unbeatable team.The 28-year-old diva collected a field-dominating, record-setting six Grammys tonight, but it was 20-year-old Taylor Swift who was standing tallest at the end of the night, her five-times platinum Fearless a winner for Album of the Year.
"When we're 80 years old and we're telling the same stories over and over to our grandkids and they're so annoyed with us, this is the story we're going to be telling over and over again," she said. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Swift, who entered the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards with a whopping eight nominations, made it out with four wins overall, including Best Country Album and Best Female Vocal Country Performance and Best Country Song, both for "White Horse."
Get the complete list of winners.
Knowles, who came into the night with 10 nominations, set a record for female artists with her half-dozen wins. She had previously been tied with Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones and Alison Krauss, each of whom had tallied five Grammys in one ceremony.
"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" earned three pieces of hardware—Song of the Year, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song—while Knowles' presidential inauguration-approved rendition of "At Last" earned her Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance honors, and "Halo" was the top Female Pop Vocal Performance.
During that Apple town hall meeting we mentioned earlier this week CEO Steve Jobs reportedly had some choice words regarding Google that left little doubt about how the outspoken executive sees the competition. Updated.
Kristen Bell is engaged to Dax Shepard, her rep confirms to UsMagazine exclusively.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has returned to the public eye at a New Year's party for Chinese entertainment industry professionals in Beijing on January 31 after a a personal scandal last month.
Former actress Gigi Lai who changed her name and consulted a celebrity fertility specialist in hopes of getting a child, is now two months pregnant. 
Don't despair if the graphics of Dragon Age: Origins turn you off, BioWare intends to pump them up in the future.
Electronic Arts is (unsurprisingly) declaring Mass Effect 2 a huge success, citing "rave reviews," and the fact that it has sold-in over 2 million units worldwide in its first week of release.
So many performances, so many speeches, so much screen time! And that's just the Black Eyed Peas!
Britney Spears?! Fancy seeing you here. And with your new man, Jason Trawick, no less.
MJ's children were joined onstage by cousins to accept the award on behalf of the late King of Pop.
The Internet is a funny place. After Apple announced its new iPad, I cringed at the hate being directed its way on sites such as Slashdot and Digg. Even the guys at Penny Arcade, whom I normally agree with, said “that iPad presentation had to be the worst thing I’ve even seen on on the Apple stage” and that Apple had failed to make a case for the device.
Amazon said Sunday that, while it still believes a $14.99 price tag for e-books is "needlessly high," it will have to give in to Macmillan's demands to sell electronic versions of its books at a higher rate than Amazon's usual $9.99. 
Rookie band C.N.BLUE seemed quite offended by the plagiarism allegations made earlier this month, but the band Ynot isn’t backing down so easily.
I was at Apple's iPad launch on Wednesday, and maybe it was just Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, but I don't quite understand why the haters are piling on. A lot of PC-centric commentators are dismissing the iPad as an overpriced gadget, wondering why it's lacking features that are standard on even the cheapest notebook computers, like Flash support, multitasking, USB inputs to connect peripherals, and video outputs (HDMI would be nice). These are legitimate complaints--for a notebook replacement. But the iPad isn't a notebook replacement, and I don't think users will carry it with them on business trips. (Apple's iWork demo confused matters, admittedly.)
"Down With Love" will be telecast this evening at 10 pm. Accordingly to [Shi Bao Magazine Vol 1667], Ella is most proud of her on-screen kiss with Jerry Yan, despite having kissed many male idols in her past serials and joked, “To have kissed such a big handsome idol, I’ve really gotten a big advantage!” Since starring in idol drama serials, she has on-screen kisses with Blue Lan, Jerry Huang, Wu Chun etc. However it was the on-screen kiss with Jerry that she felt was the most real, with emotions, natural and at ease.
BioWare's best work is "still ahead of us", says co-boss Ray Muzyka.
Macmillan's US CEO, John Sargent just confirmed that Amazon pulled its inventory of Macmillan books in a powerful response to Macmillan's new pricing demands. Macmillan offered the new pricing on Thursday, just a day after Apple announced Macmillan as a major publishing partner in its new iBookstore -- a revelation that certainly factored into the discussions along with Skiff and other emerging e-book distribution and publishing models. During the meeting with Amazon in Seattle, Sargent outlined what he calls an "agency model" that will go into effect in early March. Under the terms offered, if Amazon chose to stay with its existing terms of sale then it would suffer "extensive and deep windowing of titles." Amazon's hardball response was to pull all of Macmillan's titles from its Kindle site and Amazon.com by the time Sargent arrived back in New York. 
