August 28 – Music videos may be a smaller part of MTV’s programming these days, but the annual Video Music Awards draws top talent from the music and film worlds. Beyonce Knowles, 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Missy Elliott were among this year’s big winners. The showstopper was Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera opening the show with Like a Virgin, in imitation of Madonna on the VMA’s first year in 1984. Madonna joined the two onstage, sang her latest hit, Hollywood, and then kissed Britney on the lips, with tongue. As cameras segued to Britney’s surprised ex, Justin Timberlake, Madonna turned to Christina and kissed her too! Backstage, Timberlake apologized to photographers for not posing as he entered on the red carpet, saying he didn’t know he was supposed to stop. Gosh, talent, looks and brains too! Mayhem was the order of the evening, and barely-there was the dress code, at least for the women. Pamela Anderson was spectacularly underdressed, but teenaged queens of the universe Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's outfits were tame. (And no doubt, they'll sell millions of copies through their clothing line.) Rapper Snoop Dogg sure knows how to accessorize - he arrived with two shapely women tethered on leashes.