Upon the completion of last night's disaster of an award show, my first thought was that it's going to be uglier than Britney's extensions at the MTV offices today. I foresee heads rolling. My second thought was that I needed to rewatch Britney Spear's performance, but I realized I couldn't. It was that bad, for those of you lucky enough to miss it. The woman who used to bring the house down couldn't even lip-sync properly, had serious trouble standing still, let alone dancing, and pretty much put on the most listless, embarrassing, shoddy performance in VMA history. I'm sure there was some sort of sedative and/or alcohol involved. Anyway, it's rough watching a career terminate before your very eyes. Don't think I can do it again any time soon.

And the new format, with the main stage and all the little parties in other rooms, was confusing and annoying, even though it allowed for more performances. The whole thing was sloppy and unorganized. My highlights and lowlights, plus pics galore after the jump.

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• Laurie Ann Gibson's obligatory explanation video for her and Diddy's Making the Band 4 blow up, complete with the "creative editing" excuse. Filming it in a carriage in Central Park was a nice touch. [C&D]

• I have no reason for expecting more from Jamie Foxx than this, but I do. [Bossip]

• Apparently, Nicole Richie was more surprised than we were by her short stint in jail. [TMZ]

• The latest on the rumor mill is that Toni Braxton is suffering from breast cancer, which I guess kind of trumps her check-bouncing issues. [SR]

• The College Dropout wants kids to stay in school. [AHH]

Oprah expects people to pay $2,300 a head to come to her house and mingle with A-List celebs and politicians and not take pictures? Well, yeah she does. She's Oprah.

All recording devices are banned from the Sept. 8 event at the talk-show queen's $50 million estate in Montecito, Calif., reports Santa Barbara News-Press columnist Richard Mineards. And to avert limo-lock, the 2,000 guests must go to a "Greeting Center" eight miles away to have their cars valet-parked before shuttling to the bash by bus. The guest list is secret, but such Obama supporters as Jamie Foxx, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are expected.

I wonder how many "regular," camera-toting people will actually be there, anyway. Even if there are only a few, I expect fuzzy camera phone shots of the back of Halle Berry's head to pop up on the Web around Sept. 9.

[NYP]

Jamie Foxx has limited himself to action movies and musicals since his turn in the Oscar spotlight. He's sticking with the formula, and probably hoping for another chance at an Oscar. He's signed on to play Nathanial Anthony Ayers, a Julliard-trained musician who ended up homeless on skid row after suffering from schizophrenia. If Jamie Foxx, an expert imitator, is good at one thing, it's a biopic. Oh. I guess some people would have said comedy there instead of biopics.

The movie's based on a series of articles on Ayers that appeared in the LA Times in 2005. I didn't read them all, but they are worth checking out.

[HR]

Are we surprised that Tyra Banks has donated $2300 to Barack Obama? I am, but only because she is the self-proclaimed "Queen of Cheap."

The Huffington Post has a handy new feature called Fundrace 2008, where you can search by name or address for campaign contributers. Although it contains information that was already available on other sites, it's, well, newer and nicer to look at. People put in some search work and found that Tyra, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, and Will Smith are all team Obama. In Hilary's corner, she's gotten money from the less interesting (but no less loaded) Donald Trump, Jr. and Martha Stewart.

I searched for a few famous names and all I came up with was that Michael Jordan's an Obama fan. The paparazzi would certainly have a better time shooting a party filled with his campaign donors than Hilary's.

[People]

• Nick Cannon announces he's co-hosting the Teen Choice Awards with Hilary Duff. Expect Selita Ebanks to announce soon that it's time to find a grown man. [People]

• Tameka Foster's manipulative, Usher's a sucker, blah blah blah. [NYDN]

• This is the best and worst idea ever rolled into one. [MG]

• At $250 a person, it's cheaper than Oprah's Obama party, but Area ain't a Santa Barbara estate. [TMZ]

• Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, and Denzel Washington are supposedly (it sounds kind of improbable to me) in talks to star in a heist movie set in Trump Tower. Which they could all buy if they wanted to. [SOHH]

Nelson George, director of HBO's Life Support and Jamie Foxx are teaming up to make a documentary examining Black America's favorite word. Can you guess what it is?

"I've done a ton of research on it and Jamie's going to work on it and also be on camera," Nelson George told AllHipHop.com. "We're going to do this whole funny, humorous look at the history of this word that black people use so much. Hopefully, God willing, we'll be working on that this summer."

The film will mark the second time George and Foxx have worked together.

I've never been able to find anything to confirm this — although I haven't looked very hard — but I've heard two versions of the origin of "motherfucker." The first is that it was a slur used against slaves who were forced by their masters to procreate with their mothers, sisters, and other relatives to increase their numbers on the plantation after the slave trade was abolished. The second was that it came from overseers and slave masters sleeping with female slaves. If either story is even close to true, the word was born out of something very painful. Leave it to us to turn it into a joke!

[AHH]

When I first glanced at this photo, I wondered whether Oscar trumps Grammy in the groupie universe. If so, Usher should be worried (or grateful?) about how well his fiancee Tameka Foster and Jamie Foxx seemed to be getting along at DJ Irie's festivities in Miami this weekend.

On second glance, I realized that Jamie Foxx is just making fun of the size of her engagement ring. It was more interesting before, but I still wouldn't put it past her. Check out more pics from Miami after the jump.

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A panel of stars, including Jamie Foxx, Herbie Hancock, Chris Tucker, Mos Def, and famed fashion designer Ozwald Boateng, joined Isaiah Washington Friday at the African Union Summit promoting African American interest in Africa. Somehow, the ex-Grey's Anatomy star's participation in this rings truer than his pro-gay PSA. I mean, he's not trying to keep his job anymore so I figure this comes from the heart. In terms of ringing true, Jamie Foxx seems a little like he came to hang out with his boys rather than do some charitable work. More after the jump.

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Michael A. Johnson, a rather disgruntled double amputee, has called upon disabled people the world over — that means you Stevie Wonder and Darryl "Chill" Mitchell — to boycott Jamie Foxx and Sony BMG because he claims Foxx's "Heaven" is a rewritten version of his song, "One Of God's Angels Is A.W.O.L." Johnson, who is promising public demonstrations, doesn't realize he's just giving Jamie Foxx material for his next barely-funny comedy special.

[PC]