Lady Gaga

Adele scored six Grammy nominations Wednesday night, including for record, song, and album of the year, but the owner of 2011's best-selling album with 21 wasn't the night's top nominee - and that wasn't the evening's only surprise. Kanye West came away with a leading seven nominations, including a bid for song of the year for his all-star song "All of the Lights. " However, the album from which it came - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, heralded by many critics as the best album of 2010 - was shut out of the best album category, and all of his other nominations were relegated to the rap fields.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg is going gaga. The nation's oldest senator, Lautenberg will hold a fundraiser at Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour at the Verizon Center in Washington on Sept 7. The Washington Post reports the 86-year-old New Jersey Democrat is offering seats in a private suite for $2,500 a person for political action committees and $2,400 for individuals. An aide says the fundraiser was Lautenberg's idea. The senator and his wife celebrated his birthday in January at a Gaga show at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

'I'm feeling particularly slutty tonight," Stefani Germanotta purred to a sold-out Susquehanna Bank Center on Thursday night. Known to her fans - as well as anyone who's passed within hailing distance of a working radio or TV set in the last year - as Lady Gaga, she arrived with the kind of explosive force that can incinerate artists unprepared for the spotlight. Since the success of her insidious, inescapable single "Poker Face," Gaga has staged a blizzard of reinvention, from sex kitten to bondage queen, as well as what might be a visitor from a far more stylish future.

Until Friday's Electric Factory show, the hype surrounding Lady Gaga seemed too good to be true. Lada Gaga's 2008 debut, The Fame, offered a mirthful mix of theatrical electronic disco and grand glam pop filled with snitty, pithy lyrics and coy vocals rich in cold soul. While Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, had her hands in Fame's production, playing and songwriting, she's also a fashion maven with an eye toward wearing asymmetrical '80s tops, bodysuits instead of pants, and complementing her ensembles with an eyewear selection of disco-ball masks and TV-screen sunglasses.

You say you're rushing out Wednesday to get the new Rolling Stone when it goes on sale, to read about Gen. Stanley McChrystal dissing Veep Joe Biden . But we know what you'll really do: ogle Lady Gaga on the cover showing a lot of flesh (the weapons on her chest could kill), then turn to the Gaga story, titled "Tells All. " "Sex is certainly not, like, a priority at the moment," she, like, says. Other Gaga-ntuan news: Her highest priority is her relationship with fans; she models her celebrity on Michael Jackson ; she has a recurring dream starring "a phantom and a blond girl who's tied up with ropes" and is wearing her shoes from the Grammys.

What could Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama possibly have in common? Both are really powerful, awesome women, says Forbes. America's two proudest daughters appear on Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list, Michelle Obama at No. 1 and the Gaga at No. 7. President Obama 's wife beats out The Queen of America's Heart, Oprah , who is at No. 3, while Hillary Clinton is No. 5. (Non-celebs occupy slots two and four.) Her Gagaship's ranking has rankled some critics.

L ADY GAGA HAS been booted from YouTube after her account was suspended yesterday. The notice read that the suspension was due to "multiple or severe violations of YouTube's copyright policy. " Who complained, Madonna ? The Google-owned YouTube declined to comment (but maybe someone could post a video commenting for YouTube). YouTube's policy is to remove accounts after three copyright violations, though they can be restored after being corrected. Reports have suggested that the infringing video was a recently uploaded clip of Gaga's performance on Fuji TV. The account, "ladygagaofficial," is one of two for Gaga and is run by Gaga's camp, which isn't really a camp except it involves a lot of athletic, young people who have fun. Gaga also has an unaffected Vevo account.

NEW YORK - Lady Gaga sold more than 1.1 million copies of her new album "Born This Way" and set a digital sales record last week - with an assist from Amazon.com. Billboard announced Tuesday that "Born This Way" debuted at No. 1 on its Billboard 200 album chart, becoming just the 17th album to sell a million copies in its first week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and the top-selling digital debut. The dance pop provocateur is just the fifth female with an album that sold more than a million copies in the SoundScan era. Lady Gaga's first No. 1 album sold the most copies of any debut since March 2005 when 50 Cent's "The Massacre" sold 1.14 million.

I've avoided writing about Lady Gaga because, frankly, the woman scares me. OK, maybe scares is too strong a word, but one must admit: Her getups are unsettling. I mean, she wore a costume of blood and exposed bones at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. And remember the raw meat dress and matching shoes she donned at the VMAs in September? Eww. But as we wrap up this year in fashion, I must admit - albeit warily - that I can't ignore the blond songstress anymore. 2010 was the year of Gaga.

As you read this, Lindsay Lohan is enjoying sobriety tucked up in the luxurious if not extravagant bosom of that famed former-First-Lady-inspired celeb rehab, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., TMZ reports. LiLo, who has racked up more arrests, jail time, rehab stays, drunken fights, boyfriends, and breakups at the tender age of 26 than many a world-class rogue accrues in a lifetime, got to the center via a tortured and circuitous road. Ordered to spend 90 days in an inpatient program in lieu of jail, LiLo was supposed to park her neuroses at the Seafield Centre in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., but balked when she found out it was a nonsmoking joint.

A NTHONY MACKIE , star of "Pain & Gain" with Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson , walked the makeshift red carpet at South Philly's UA Riverview on Tuesday night. But Mackie wasn't going to stay for long. After introducing the Michael Bay action-comedy, Mackie headed out to the Phillies game. Turns out, despite hailing from New Orleans, he's a big fan Phillies fan. Why? A horse, of course. When Mackie was a kid, he would watch syndicated episodes of the talking-horse sitcom "Mister Ed. " "There was a 'Mister Ed' commercial and he had this thing where he would go (imitating Mister Ed)

Second of two-part profile series. Troy Carter was at his lowest. The Philadelphia high school dropout had come so far, built a talent management business, sold it for a big payday, and then lost the money, as entrepreneurs do, on a bad swing of the bat. His biggest client fired him. He was broke and in debt. Then, sitting in his office in Los Angeles, where he was about to face eviction, in walked two people who would change his life. First came Vince Herbert, a record producer, who had asked Carter to manage this new talent he had just found, a singer named Lady Gaga, who was right behind him. "Vince is a big guy," Carter recalled, "and I see him walking through the reception area.

  Scene One: January 1990: Troy Carter, 17, was so obsessed with music and the record business that he dropped out of West Philadelphia High School. Every day he walked to Delaware Avenue, to the studio of hip-hop icons DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. He went with his rap group, 2 Too Many, a name they chose because there were three of them, but always only bus fare for one, or food money for one, or whatever they needed or wanted, only enough for one. They hoped to find a way inside, a chance to perform.

THE LITTLE MONSTERS are in mourning this week. But will they soon start sniffing around for fresh meat to chew? Another icon to idolize and adore? These "monsters" are the rabid fans of dance-pop queen Lady Gaga. And, at the moment, these lovers of all things Gaga are hearing nothing but bad news. Last week, she reluctantly shut down her touring "Born This Way Ball," a huge hit on the arena circuit. (Tuesday's canceled show at the Wells Fargo Center was sold out.) The 26-year-old has been crippled by a long-festering hip ailment, which requires surgery and months of rehab.

Nihilistic fatalism . Not a term one usually associates with Seth MacFarlane . But that's how he feels about doing the most dangerous job he's ever done: hosting the Oscars. "There is sort of a comfort in knowing that no matter what you do, you're going to get the same reactions in the reviews," the Family Guy creator says. "So I could put on the worst or the best show in the world and I will still be flayed by the press. " Seth, 39, is stuck: If he does what he's famous for - sharp, gutter-level jokes à la American Dad , then the chi-chi crowd will walk out. He says he'll try to strike a balance between Billy Crystal 's classic charm and Ricky Gervais ' shark-toothed satire: "The whole point of their bringing me on was to give it a little bit more of an edge.

WAR HAS AGAIN broken out on Twitter. In a battle that could send Bieber Fever spreading through the Little Monsters, the fans of Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are at odds as to who now has the most Twitter followers. Entertainmentwise.com, who counted each follower by hand, reported Monday that Bieber had pulled 1,000 ahead of Gaga. The latest count had Bieber at 33,307,144, Gaga at 33,306,429 and the possibility that there's any real hope for society at zero. * Speaking of the Beebs, and we are oh-so-proud to be part of the 33 million who are, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Justin is not too happy about the involvement of his mom, Pattie Mallette, in the anti-abortion film "Crescendo.

NEED A little Christmas, right this very minute? Many's the musician ready to help, with new holiday-themed album releases to take the chill off the coldest wintry night and occasionally remind us what the day's all about. This year's crop of seasonal sets (all available as downloads and most in CD form) started falling out of the skies as early as August from artists major (Rod Stewart, Lady Antebellum) ironically re-paired ("Grease" co-stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton John)

Taylor Swift is packin' 'em in everywhere! Tickets to her July 20 show at the Linc evaporated , yo, in five minutes. Seriously! Three hundred seconds . ¡No más! No prob: Tay-Tay is laying on a new show, July 19!! Also at the Linc. Also with guest stars Ed Sheeran and Austin Mahone . Tix for the new show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Buy 'em by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000. Baba re LiLo Barbara Walters tells In Touch mag she's concerned for her pal Lindsay Lohan . Lilo, says Babs, is "a very vulnerable, very sweet girl.

LADY GAGA is opening her wallet to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The native New Yorker announced on her website that she will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross. Gaga said that she was giving because of the destruction Sandy caused in NYC: "New York is relentless ambition, a drive to succeed, a place where there is a natural pursuit of diversity through compassion. " Other celebs also have given to Sandy relief efforts, such as Barbara Walters , who donated $250,000.