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Pop-princess Britney Spears (1981)

Late soprano Maria Callas' most intimate possessions will be auctioned in Italy later this year. Private letters, photographs and musical scores from the opera singer's husband's estate will be sold at auction house Sotherby's in Milan in December.

"Everybody is retouched, stretched... slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now? It's because I never have. I'm more upset about what they haven't done.

The Grammy Awards got off to an early start last night when iconic rockers The Doors, folk singer Joan Baez and The Grateful Dead picked up prizes for lifetime achievement. Opera singer Maria Callas, saxophonist Ornette Coleman and soul band Booker T. And The MG's

In October, Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness, announced that he's leaving the band because he can't live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle again after completing rehab... Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy becomes the parody singer's first ever top-ten hit... and legendary NYC nightclub CBGB, where bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie got their start, closed; Patti Smith was the final act...

Recipients of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical Grammy Award were announced today. Joan Baez, Booker T. & The MG's, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, the Grateful Dead and Bob Wills will receive The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Happy Birthday to pop-princess Britney Spears (1981), Canadian singer Nelly Furtado (1978), Lance Armstrong's cycling rival Jan Ullrich (1973), Serbian tennis star Monica Seles (1973), Foo Fighters bass player Nate Mendel (1968), "Charlie's Angels" actress Lucy Liu (1968), Def Leppard bassist Rick Savage (1960), ex-Doobie Brother Michael McDonald (1952), fashion designer Gianni Versace (1946; d. 1997), "That's Incredible" co-host Cathy Lee Crosby (1948), film director Penelope Spheeris (1945), actress Julie Harris (1925), opera singer Maria Callas (1923; d. 1977), "My Favorite Martian" actor Ray Walston (1914; d. 2001), and French pointillist painter Georges Seurat (1851; d. 1891).