Los Angeles, August 31 – Don’t worry about the fact that the World Music Awards went on for five hours. The last act went on at 2 a.m., but that’s our problem (yawn), because the televised version that ABC will air on September 13 will be whittled down to a comfortable two hours.

The WMA is probably the most honest awards program; honors are based solely on record sales, and so winners are determined at cash registers.

We had a few laughs during our long night at the Kodak Theater. Rapper The Game, who often publicly airs his grudges, not only was positively mild mannered, we actually got him to smile in the press room. That might be a first.

Someone’s stylist is getting fired - Paula Abdul and Carmen Electra wore the same dark blue dress on the red carpet! Perhaps over time, they’ll get past this fashion nightmare. At least the horror was short-lived; as host of the show, Carmen changed outfits.

We asked Sharon Osbourne to place her hand on the crotch of the giant golden WMA statue in the lobby, and she obliged, to the mortification of daughter Kelly, who covered her face with her hands and groaned, “Oh mom”.

This was the WMA's first time in L.A. After years in Monaco, organizers moved it to Las Vegas in 2004.