NEW YORK - Stars appearing at Tuesday's American Music Awards will depart with a piece of the moon.
Lindsay Lohan, Will Smith, Missy Elliot and the dozens of other entertainers that are either presenting or performing at the award show will each be given a gift basket that contains nearly 100 free items - including ownership of an acre of land on the moon.
The gift bags will also include clothes, perfumes, watches, BlackBerries and other various electronics - adding up to a total value of approximately $33,000. They were assembled by Hollywood Connections, a gift bag specialist.
The moon "ownership" is done by a company called Lunar Federation that plans to have the first private mission to the moon, thereby allowing it to create a Moon government and secure land rights - or so it claims. Steve Stein of Hollywood Connections, though, acknowledges the gift is more for fun than anything.
The 33rd annual special will air live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Tuesday on ABC (8 p.m. EST). Cedric the Entertainer will host.
The American Music Awards honor the past year's elite in contemporary music as voted by record-buyers.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Professional golfer John Daly is joining the legions of Paris Hilton, Ozzy Osbourne and Donald Trump in the world of reality TV.
Daly will star in "The Daly Planet," a 13-part series for The Golf Channel beginning Jan. 18. The weekly Wednesday night episodes will follow Daly's daily life on and off the golf course.
The long-hitting, 39-year-old Daly has for years been one of the most popular golfers on the PGA tour. A two-time major championship winner, Daly has also battled problems with alcohol, weight and his temper.
Daly's life has seemed the stuff of fiction before. At an 1998 tournament, Daly shot an 18 on one hole, hitting shot after shot into a water hazard - virtually mimicking Kevin Costner's character in the 1996 movie "Tin Cup." In it, Costner plays a regular guy - a driving range owner - who has a chance to win the U.S. Open before stubbornly hitting balls repeatedly into a pond.
"I still say they made that movie after me," Daly said at the time.
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