Just when you thought the star power at the 2009 American Music Awards couldn’t get any brighter, Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston have been announced as performers. Jackson, who releases her greatest hits album Number Ones on November 17, will open the 37th annual show by performing a medley of hits spanning her illustrious career.Whitney Houston is also set to return to the AMA stage for her first primetime U.S. network performance in five years. She will sing her powerhouse ballad “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” and receive the International Artist Award. The 2009 American Music Awards will air live from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 22, at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.

Rihanna is set to premiere the video for “Russian Roulette,” the official lead single from her forthcoming album, Rated R, at a yet-unspecified time Friday on ABC. In yet another instance of her promotional schedule colliding with that of her former boyfriend Chris Brown, his new video, “Crawl,” will premiere on the same day.

As if things couldn’t get any worse on Friday the 13th. Well according to label reps, Chris Brown is scheduled to pay Wendy Williams a visit this Friday at 10am on Fox for a brief and “exclusive” pow wow session discussing, yep you guessed it, the night in question. Oh and he’s debuting the visual to THIS as well!

Rihanna apparently sent back a $10,000  bottle of champagne because she didn’t know the people who bought it for her. The singer, who was at LA nightclub The Bank with friends, was given a bottle of bubbly as a present from American footballer Braylon Edwards and his teammates. One onlooker is quoted by the New York Post as saying: “She didn’t know who they were, so she sent it back.” Edwards reportedly introduced himself to Rihanna later in the evening.

Oscar winner Denzel Washington, after a spin aboard the 6 train in “The Taking of Pelham 123,” is back on the Broadway local. The handsome star of the big screen returns to the Great White Way next April as the lead in a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Fences”. He steps into the role of patriarch Troy Maxson, originally played by James Earl Jones in the 1987 production. The show received the Tony award for best play along with its Pulitzer. Washington, 54, was last seen on Broadway in 2005 playing Brutus in the revival of “Julius Caesar.”

The comedian and “30 Rock” star was performing as part of the New York Comedy Festival, but fans were not laughing as they walked out on Morgan’s bawdy routine. The Daily News, the first to report the story quotes a source saying: “There was a continuous flow of people getting up and leaving throughout the show.” The paper said that middle-aged women were the most appalled, especially when Morgan started acting out sexual escapades on stage. But not everyone was offended, not even close. “The audience members around  were mostly in their 20’s and 30’s and were enjoying the raunchiness.

We’re pretty sure there’s not much Jay-Z and Beyonce could do to top their successes in their professional lives…sounds like they agree. Jay-Z has revealed to Gotham magazine that now that he and Beyonce have no career worries in sight, they’re very much invested in baby-making.While chatting up Gotham mag editor in chief Cristina Greeven Cuomo, the rapper let it slip that procreating is high on the duo’s priority list right now.

Alicia Keys covers the latest issue of Billboard magazine, sharing the story behind ‘Freedom’s’ title and theme, Keys tells Billboard ” I was trying to find the way to totally be myself and what that meant; figuring out what choices I wanted to make and not make in order to truly honor myself. That was the beginning of learning how to do that. And now it’s culminated into “The Element of Freedom”: the ability to have nothing holding you back; to be totally brave enough to be completely yourself in all of its glory.”

After being charged with burglary and criminal trespassing in Coweta County, Georgia, on Sunday, comedian Katt Williams was released on $41,150 bond on Monday afternoon, according to TMZ. The “Wild ‘N Out” alumnus reportedly had a crowbar when he entered a home in Newman, Georgia, from which he allegedly stole $3,555 in jewelry and collectible coins. A lawyer for the comedian (born Micah Williams) told TMZ that his client had been staying at the home of producer Barry Hankerson while filming a movie in the area. Attorney William Briggs added that his client was involved in a dispute with one of Hankerson’s employees, who fabricated the incident, Briggs claimed.