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Well, Kanye West certainly came out swinging. He just needs to work on his follow-through.

Despite a year-old vow to any media outlet that would listen that he would never again show his face on the backstabbing airwaves of MTV—a proclamation made after being relegated to a small stage and shut out despite five nominations at last year's Video Music Awards—West has apparently forgiven and forgotten and signed on to perform at this Sunday's show.

West will join Britney Spears (whom the rapper previously claimed was exploited by the network at last year's wingding) in book-ending the 25th anniversary edition of the VMAs do, with the hip-hop star set to close the night's censor-ready proceedings.

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Ann and Nancy Wilson are hoping the Republicans change their tune—and aren't planning on waiting until November to find out.

The sisterly duo known as Heart sent a cease-and-desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign Thursday afternoon after their hit "Barracuda" was used—twice—without permission as the official rallying cry for the vice presidential candidate after her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

The song was chosen as a would-be cute tie-in to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's past—"Barracuda" was her high school nickname.

Only problem, campaign officials failed to ask either the group, Universal Music Publishing or Sony BMG whether the song was fair game to use. It wasn't.

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Despite a brief, and quite public, war of words, it seems that all is once again well in the Lohan household. Or at least on its way to being so.

Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, told E! News he is set to call truce and reunite with his famous daughter and the rest of his offspring at a burial for his father, Richard, who passed away in New York last Thursday after a battle with cancer.

While devastating, the elder Lohan said the passing of his 73-year-old father has brought his family closer together, and while Lindsay was not present for her grandpa's funeral, she will be present for the final service.

"She is going to be at the burial," Lohan told E! News. "All my kids will be there."

And it's not just with his daughter that Lohan has laid down his verbal swords.

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She may have had nothing but vitriol for cohost Elton John, but at Tuesday night's London-set GQ Men of the Year Awards, Lily Allen did have some kind words reserved for one British icon: the bobbies.

Before berating the Rocket Man onstage—and, as it were, before dispatching plenty of complimentary tipple—the 23-year-old "Smile" singer had nothing but praise for the London Metropolitan Police, thanking them publicly for rescuing a friend who had recently been abducted at gunpoint.

"My friend Charlie was kidnapped a few weeks ago and was kept in a car boot for six days without food or anything," she told reporters on her way into the show. "It was really scary."

Scarier even than going head-to-head with a cantankerous knighted pop star, if you can believe it.

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After Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson blogged out their Michael Lohan frustrations on MySpace, we knew it was only a matter of hours until M.Lo came up with some kind of response. He tells ABCNews.com:

"Who's out of control? Whose life is out of control? Give me a break. Going from place to place, being dragged around by Samantha so she can make more money off of Lindsay being there when she spins...She's gone from making $7 million to less than a million a movie. Who's out of control?

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Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson took a break from all the fun they've been having lately to address comments Michael Lohan made in an E! News report about Sam planning to pen a tell-all book.

Earlier this week, he told us: Sam’s “using my daughter. People never even knew who Samantha Ronson was until she met Lindsay. She was just some L.A. DJ.”

Not cool, Mike, according to Linds' blog: “He has become a public embaressment (sic) and a bully- To my family, my co-workers, my friends, and a girl that means the world to me (its obvious who that is).” His motivations are pretty obvi to her. It's all because of “an ADDICTION THAT HE HAS- FAME.”

Poor Linds was so upset she was even listening to her daddy-issues anthem “Confessions of a Broken Heart," according to her MySpace profile. Probably on full blast while destroying an innocent room.

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Shannen Doherty is Hollywood's original bad girl, but you wouldn't know it from the press she's doing lately—especially the latest Us Weekly cover story in which the actress insists she's found an "inner peace" and refuses to comment on her turbulent relationships with her former 90210 castmates.

This is not the exposé we Doherty devotees expected. Seriously, not even a tiny spat with her reunited costar, Jennie Garth? Au contraire, says the "grown up and evolved" Shannenbot.

What is going on? In her day, ShanDo put the antics of Young Hollywood to shame...

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Beverly Hills, 90210 enthusiasts were either dealt a major blow or breathed a deep sigh of relief earlier this week when we learned that Tori Spelling would not be reprising her role as Donna Martin because her costars were making twice as much as her.

Jennie Garth, not one bit like catty Kelly Taylor, sounded very sympathetic towards Tori’s plight of equal pay when she talked to EW.com: "I’m really bummed...I think she should definitely get paid as much as either of us is getting paid. Her father created the show. It just seems wrong if that’s the case."

As for Shannen Doherty, the woman born to play bitchy Brenda Walsh, she doesn't care about anything but the facts, “They didn’t even get the numbers right. So I don’t know if it’s about the money either.”

Cast your vote for or against the Tori & Dean star after the jump...

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"No! What?! Right. I can give you a definite no on that. In one word: No. In two words, hell, no!"

—Kid Rock, on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show Wednesday to promote his single "All Summer Long," discussing the possibility of teaming up with Britney Spears for a special VMA performance

The Jonas Brothers left their New York City hotel Sunday to the usual sound of shrieking tweens—which is just like any other day for them, except Kevin decided to stir things up with a “Team Demi and Selena” shirt.

Not only does this make us almost positive that the bros are behind this whole feud that both Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez say doesn’t exist, it also proves that Kevin would like more attention.

There's no way either Nick or Joe could wear such a shirt—that would be a serious drama bomb worthy of an Us Weekly cover. But have Kevin, the oldest brother who gets the least amount of tween doting, wear it, and the other two come off clean. Meanwhile, Kev gets some much-needed attention and keeps this silly fight going.

Good work, boys. You got mad skillz.