People: Adam Lambert's American Music Awards Smooch

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NO CHANGE
DOUBLE STANDARD STILL STANDS
ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's behavior at the American Music Awards. Before his performance, Lambert said that he wanted to break down a double standard that allows female performers to be sexually provocative but not men. During his act, Lambert fondled a dancer, led another around on a leash, had a dancer briefly stick his head in Lambert's crotch and kissed a man.

ELDERLY
SIGNAL TO RETIRE IGNORED
Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery in Nashville. The 76-year-old asked a family friend to tell fans "to get ready to rock 'n' roll with him in the new year because he's coming back strong."

COOKING
IT'S NOTHING A STICK OR TWO OF BUTTER WON'T FIX
Paula Deen is sore but unhurt after being hit in the face with a flying ham as she distributed food to the homeless in Atlanta Monday. The target was apparently a storage bucket, not Deen. "She's OK now and is icing her face," a representative told Usmagazine.com.

OFFERINGS
'CEASE YOUR WEEPING, SUBJECTS. SEE WHAT I HAVE BROUGHT THEE'
Another interview coup for Oprah Winfrey: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. In her first interview since her husband's death, Vicki Kennedy will appear on Winfrey's show Wednesday, along with her stepson Ted Kennedy Jr. and her two children from a previous marriage. Edward Kennedy died in August at age 77, weeks before the release of his memoir, "True Compass." Winfrey, who announced Friday she would end her program in 2011, recently had the first interview with ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin as she promoted her memoir, "Going Rogue."

PHILANTHROPY
GOODNESS GRACIOUS
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave more than $6 million to charity in 2008 via their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, according to a 2008 tax return. This is double what they donated in 2007, says the Hollywood Reporter. Among the recipients: Global Health got $2 million; Human Rights Watch got $ 1 million; and the Make It Right Foundation got $1 million.
» Pictured above: The Jolie-Pitts also donated about a million dollars to projects in Cambodia.

WISDOM
J. LO'S COGNITIVE DISSONANCE GENERATES BIZARRE APHORISM
"The measure of things isn't what happens when you fall; it's how you recover when you fall," Jennifer Lopez told Ryan Seacrest Monday on his radio show. The singer fell on her backside after she jumped off a pyramid of male
dancers at the American Music Awards Sunday.

With contributions from The Associated Press
Photos by Matt Sayles/AP; Francois Mori/AP