Chris Brown Wins a Leading 4 BET Awards

The BET Awards honor various arts, but Sunday's ceremony was all about the music.
There were more performances than awards during the 3½-hour show at the Shrine Auditorium, where singer Chris Brown and rappers Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and DJ Khaled did double-duty, each taking the stage twice to perform.
Brown made a few extra trips to the stage as the night's big winner. The 21-year-old won four awards, adding

momentum to a comeback that began with his Michael Jackson tribute at the BET Awards last year and continued with his album, "F.A.M.E."
Brown has been working to repair his image since he pleaded guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. He hit a stumbling block this year when he tore up his dressing room after an appearance on "Good Morning America."
He was named best male R&B artist and won best collaboration for his song "Look At Me Now" with Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes. The three performed together Sunday as part of a medley of Brown's songs.
"Public-speaking is not my strong suit," he said, thanking BET and his fans before passing the microphone to Wayne, who expressed gratitude to God, his fans and Brown for including him on the track.
Earlier in the ceremony, Brown also thanked his fans and the network, saying, "I appreciate all the support. I know it's been a long road, so I appreciate every blessing in front of me."
Brown was back on stage to join Big Sean on his song, "My Last," and again to close the show, which he did on a bicycle alongside host Kevin Hart, who was on a Segway scooter.
That's when Hart announced that Brown also won the Fandemonium award and the Viewers' Choice prize.
Moments earlier, Drake had accepted the Viewers' Choice award when Rihanna was announced as the winner. But there was apparently a glitch with the digital tablet devices that replaced the show's traditional winners' envelopes.
A fan was brought on stage to announce the winner, and she initially said Brown won. Then she corrected herself to say Rihanna won. Hart clarified after a commercial break that "there was a mistake," and Brown had indeed been the viewers' choice.
Apart from the accidental award acceptance, Drake also appeared on stage with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and DJ Khaled for a performance on "I'm On One."
Lil Wayne did lots of stage time. He performed with Brown and Drake, et al, and was on stage again when Nicki Minaj won her award for best female hip-hop artist.
"I can't believe for the first time I get to share a moment like this with the person who saw me rapping on a staircase," she said of the rapper and producer, who was incarcerated when she won the same prize last year. "Lil Wayne, I love you."
Mary J. Blige set the tone for the performance-filled program when she opened the show with a pair of hits: "All Night Long" and "Real Love." Surprise guest Anita Baker joined her on stage, and it was a diva duet as the two sang Baker's classic, "Caught Up in the Rapture."
Steve Harvey's acceptance of the Humanitarian Award was punctuated by a gospel celebration, as Donnie McClurkin, Deitrick Haddon and gospel artist winners Mary Mary gathered to perform "Thank You."
Following a musical tribute that included Cee Lo Green wearing a Patti LaBelle-inspired headdress and blouse, LaBelle punctuated her own Lifetime Achievement Award win by performing a couple of classics, including her breakthrough hit, "Lady Marmalade."
Alicia Keys unveiled a brand new song and performed two hits: "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," for which she was joined by Bruno Mars.
Queen Latifah and Snoop Dogg delivered heartfelt performances as part of a memorial segment that recognized Nate Dogg, Teena Marie, Clarence Clemons and Gil Scott Heron, among others.
The final performance of the night came from across the pond: Beyonce's headlining set at the Glastonbury Music Festival was beamed into the Shrine Auditorium from England.

People: Chris Brown trashes dressing room after 'Good Morning America' appearance (Video)

Chris Brown's occasionally discomforting quest for career rehab hit another roadblock Tuesday, when an appearance on "Good Morning America" concluded with the singer trashing his dressing room and storming shirtless out of the ABC New York studio.

The reported meltdown came off-camera, after an interview with co-host Robin Roberts, who asked him about his 2009 assault of Rihanna, and after he performed a song in the "GMA" studio.

He was scheduled to perform another song after a commercial break, but unidentified witnesses told the Associated Press and other news outlets that Brown went to his dressing room, smashed a window -- reports say shards of glass fell several stories onto the street -- broke

several other items and stormed out as security officers were arriving.

Brown was on "GMA" to plug his new album "F.A.M.E." (the title stands, he says, for "Forgiving All My Enemies") which came out Tuesday and already has garnered three hit singles and largely positive reviews. But Brown clearly seemed agitated when Roberts asked him about the assault and continued to emphasize the new album.

"This album is what I want them to talk about and not what happened two years ago," he said.

Brown is still on probation for the Rihanna assault, but ABC said Tuesday it did not plan to press criminal charges against the singer.

Brown is also slated to appear on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" next week; and so far the gig is still on.

KESHA NIXES JAPAN SHOW; CYNDI LAUPER DOESN'T: Pop singer Kesha, known for her gleefully raunchy songs and stage shows, says she has postponed an upcoming concert tour in Japan, in deference to the earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear power plant crisis there.

She urged fans to donate to relief funds.

"My heart is with Japan right now through this disaster and these hardships," the singer posted on her website. "I genuinely don't think right now would be appropriate timing for me to perform in Japan given the content and the spirit of my show, which is all about feeling exuberant, rowdy and wild."

But Cyndi Lauper has decided to go on with her current tour in Japan and will use the shows to raise funds for relief efforts.

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER LOHAN ARREST: There are new legal problems for Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael Lohan. He was arrested by Los Angeles police on three felony charges Tuesday after a woman accused him of domestic violence at a nearby apartment, police say.

Police said they arrested Lohan after receiving a call at 9 p.m. about a domestic dispute. Lohan was detained while he was walking on the street near a police station. Police said he did not appear to be intoxicated and was cooperative.

Lohan, 50, was booked for inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant, false imprisonment and preventing a report of victimization, police said.

No other details of the alleged incident were revealed.

His daughter Lindsay, meanwhile, is expected to inform a judge by today whether she will accept a plea deal with jail time or go to trial in her felony grand theft case.

Reports say a judge has offered Lindsay Lohan a term of 60 to 90 days in county jail, rather than state prison, if she pleads guilty to grand theft, RadarOnline.com reported.

She could face a worse sentence if she rejects the deal and is later convicted.

Lohan is accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store near her Venice home last month.

JA RULE BROKE DA RULES: Rapper and actor Ja Rule pleaded guilty Tuesday to failing to file tax returns and will pay more than $1 million in back taxes and penalties, Reuters news service reported.

Ja Rule, 35, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, 35, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court to three counts of failing to file a tax return, from 2004 through 2008, even though he was making money from royalties and live tours. Atkins was free after posting $500,000 bail, and will be sentenced June 13. He faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison on each count.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Our family weathered a huge storm, and I feel we are stronger than we have ever been." -- Tish Cyrus, referring to her husband Billy Ray Cyrus's decision to halt divorce proceedings against her.

• 1775: Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

• 1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific Coast, began their journey back East.

• 1919: Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

• 1933: The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

• 1956: Pakistan became an Islamic republic.

• 1981: The U.S. Supreme Court, in H.L. v. Matheson, ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teenage girls seek abortions.

BIRTHDAYS

Comedian Marty Allen (89), Sir Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954 (82), movie director Mark Rydell (77), Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove (74), singer-producer Ric Ocasek (62), singer Chaka Khan (58), actress Amanda Plummer (54), actress Catherine Keener (52), actress Hope Davis (47), rock singer-musician Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz (43), actress Michelle Monaghan (35), actress Keri Russell (35), gossip columnist-blogger Perez Hilton (33).