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Latest articlesYouth Rules at the American Music Awards, Happy Birthday, Miley!  NEW YORK – Miley Cyrus, America’s most provocative teen, is finally an adult. From her revealing Vanity Fair shoot to her infamous lap dance video, revisit her most outrageous moments. Los Angeles – Miley Cyrus celebrated her 18th birthday two days early by hitting the stage at the American Music Awards barefoot and belting out "Forgiveness and Love," but it was a true teenager who swept the fan count on Sunday, Nov. 21, at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Sixteen-year-old Justin Bieber trounced the competition at the 37th annual popularity contest, that is voted on by the general public and sponsored by ABC-TV, becoming the youngest person ever to win Artist of the Year. And as the show aired live, screams echoed for him from the upper tiers all night long. As one teen fan shrieked in a quiet moment, "Justin, I love you!" You could barely hear Bieber sing as those adoring fans went crazy as he took to the stage midway through the show, following Rihanna's exuberant opening number, Cyrus' heartfelt ballad, Diddy-Dirty Money's rapping romp and the Black Eyed Peas' cool techno riff on their new single "The Time." Perhaps it was a sign that today's music business belongs to the young, as screams and cheers also met Taylor Swift as she sang her new single "Back to December" and accepted the favorite country female award. "I want to thanks my fans," said the often-maligned Swift, one of America's most popular recording artists of the moment. "It's wonderful and rare to be understood, and you guys really get me." Other top acts who performed included Kid Rock, Bon Jovi, Enrique Iglesias, Train, Pink, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Santana, Ne-Yo, Christina Aguilera and Usher, who took home two awards of his own. But the finale was the thing that kept stars like Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba, Christina Milian, Samuel L. Jackson, Jenny McCarthy, Mandy Moore and Sheryl Crow in their seats to the end. For when the combined "boy bands" of New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys bounded onto the stage, not a person had left the three-hour-long show. Promoting their combined tour that launches in 2011, the not-so-young nine reminded many of the older set of their own youth, singing a medley of their hits from 15 years ago. Later on, the adults in the crowd headed to the hottest after party, the opening of the new Rolling Stone Restaurant and Lounge, where that magazine's publisher Jann Wenner held court in a private room. He greeted most of the night's stars from the earlier show, everyone from Bon Jovi, Iglesias and Kid Rock to Perry and her husband, Russell Brand, along with Jamie Foxx, Brandy, Brittany Snow and the "Glee" guys, Mark Salling and Matthew Morrison. 'Deathly Hallows' Designer Reveals Scene Secrets 'Harry Potter' production designer Stuart Craig talks to MTV News about helping Harry retrieve Sword of Gryffindor from a frozen lake.In the weeks leading up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 fans were in a frenzy, trying to figure out just how much of the book would make the first film, which scenes would delight and disappoint, and what characters might not return ever again. And trying to get the tight-lipped folks in the Potter camp to discuss those key points was a bit of a struggle. However, now that the film has opened, MTV News has enlisted the expertise of longtime Potter production designer Stuart Craig for a few behind-the-scenes tidbits. Much has been said of the production moving away from Hogwarts and out on multiple locations, which Craig described as a "movie on the run." "We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We traveled quite far, we built sets, and they spend a lot of time in a forest," he explained. "We built forest sets and integrated them into the real forests, so there were challenges there, as you might imagine." Another one of the production's major challenges — and accomplishments — was shooting the sequence in which Harry retrieves the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of a frozen lake. "There was a really demanding, complicated special-effects requirement there to do the ice," Craig said. "I think that all works remarkably quite well, actually. Harry breaking the ice, diving in and then subsequently strangled by the Horcrux around his neck and is struggling and can't get up quickly because of the ice above him. It's good stuff." Which begs the question: How did Craig and his team pull off that scene, and what do they use to make the ice look so real? "As always, well, as nearly always, there's more than one solution. The camera on top, looking from the outside down on it. It's big, thick sheets of Plexiglass with frosty texture on top of that," he revealed. "When we're underneath, it's actually an area of wax which floats on top of the water. And wax makes very effective ice. They're tried and tested movie techniques; there are a lot. You could write a book one day, a guidebook, to the very movie techniques — frost on window panes with some Epsom salts and brown nails." One of the great pleasures in chatting with Craig, whose credits outside the world of Harry Potter include "Ghandi," "The English Patient" and "Notting Hill," is the fact that he has such an informed perspective on the inner-workings of the industry; specifically, how advanced film-making technology is now. "The great thing about movies these days is that you can fix everything," he said. "I have to give a talk at a film festival early next month, and I've just been looking at films that I've done in the past. In particular, 'Ghandi,' years ago in India. The thing then was: If sometimes there was a compromise, it was filmed and it was there, locked. Forever. You look at the movie 20 years later, and there it would be. "These days, with visual effects able to do so much, you can do face replacement, you can put Dan Radcliffe's head on somebody else's body. There's nothing they can't do, it seems. I mean, at a cost, it's not cheap, so terrible things seem to get fixed, which is very reassuring," he added, chuckling. What was your favorite scene in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1"? Tell us in the comments below! What’s My Name – Rihanna Feat. Drake Lyrics (Rihanna) Ooh na na, what’s my name (Drake) Ooh na na, what’s my name (Rihanna) hey boy I really wanna see Ooh na na, what’s my name (Rihanna) You’re so amazing Ooh na na, what’s my name Ooh na na, what’s my name hey boy I really wanna see hey boy I really wanna see Gonna Get This – Hannah Montana Feat. 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