Justin Bieber

LOS ANGELES - Justin Bieber thanked his haters after winning the first award at the American Music Awards, while Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift performed their new singles. The 18-year-old won favorite pop/rock male artist in the first award handed out at Sunday's American Music Awards and gave a shout-out to those who didn't think he would last on the music scene. "I want to say this is for all the haters. . .," he said. "I feel like I'm going to be here for a very long time," he said, also thanking his mother, manager, family, and his "beautiful, beautiful fans.

THERE WILL BE NO rebound relations for Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. Sources close to the Disney starlet say that another woman was definitely involved in the split. To prove her point, Gomez has blocked Bieber from "her phone numbers and other communication devices," according to TMZ, although the site also notes Gomez is still following Bieber on Twitter. TMZ doesn't get it, but every girl likes to check up on her man, even if she's kicked him to the curb.   Lemon, linked Liz Lemon of "30 Rock" - played by Upper Darby's own Tina Fey - is getting hitched.

Here's yet another incentive not to get drunk near a Vegas wedding chapel: Janeane Garofalo says she recently discovered she's been married for 20 years . Seems she and Big Bang Theory producer Rob Cohen got drunk one night and got married as a lark. They thought that since they were kidding around, it wouldn't be legal. Doh! Cohen's lawyer found out the truth after Cohen got engaged to fellow TV producer Jill Leiderman . Needless to say, Garofalo and Cohen got a quickie divorce.

With her varied dating experience ( Joe Jonas , Taylor Lautner , John Mayer , Jake Gyllenhaal ) and her penchant for mining her breakups for songs, Taylor Swift is verily an expert. Dating, she tells Harper's Bazaar, demands equality. "If I feel too much like I'm wearing the pants, I . . . feel uncomfortable and then we break up," Swift, 22 says. "It's wonderful to hand over the reins to your boyfriend when you control so much of these big, high-pressure decisions.

Skyfall , the 23d James Bond film, hauled in a franchise-record of $87.8 million in its first weekend at U.S. theaters. We at "Sideshow" know it's because Daniel Craig is the most dashing Bond in the history of Bonds. Please, Hollywood, don't let him go! Or, let him go and send him to stay in Philadelphia. Either way . . .   Pretty good for a smock Follow the yellow brick road: Judy Garland 's blue pinafore from The Wizard of Oz nabbed $480,000 at Julien's auction of Hollywood memorabilia over the weekend, $441,600 more than Julie Andrews' Sound of Music dress fetched.

WHAT WITH all the juicy, men-behaving-badly gossip relegated to national (former CIA Director David Petraeus : need we say more?) and business news pages (Lockheed Martin honcho Christopher Kubasik resigned last week over a relationship with an employee), Tattle has to make do with . . . boys behaving mysteriously. Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have broken up - yes, our world hiccupped on its axis, too, when we heard the news over the weekend. But why they've come undone is still in question.

LONG WAY from Hollywood to the Hollywood Diner, but Anthony Michael Hall has been hanging out for weeks at the Woodbury Heights, N.J., restaurant. We're told that the Brat Pack actor, who appeared in "National Lampoon's Vacation," "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles," has been in the area visiting a girlfriend and has stopped several times at the bar. No word on whether Hall has gotten drunk and re-enacted his classic scene from "Weird Science" in which he shared a story of unrequited love for "this crazy little eighth-grade b----.

This may fall entirely within the expectation of his fans, but Justin Bieber's concert at a packed Wells Fargo Center on Sunday night turned out to be a religious experience. Bieber started the show descending from the rafters equipped with a set of massive metallic wings, shedding them for a rave-up version of "All Around the World. " He closed with a testament of faith, a towering treatment of "Believe," the title track from his latest album. Yes, he encored afterward with his two biggest hits, "Boyfriend" and "Baby," but that was sheer pandemonium.

Bruce Springsteen , Jon Bon Jovi , Billy Joel , Sting , Christina Aguilera, and now Mary J. Blige will be among the acts performing on Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together , a one-hour telethon hosted by the Today show's Matt Lauer to be broadcast at 8 p.m. Friday. The event (on Comcast-owned NBC channels) will also feature NBC's Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon (and The Roots ?), and will be shown on Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, SyFy, USA, and NBC.com.