Celebrity-scandal girl du jour Miley Cyrus returned to the stage this weekend for a concert in Orlando, Fla., but the 15-year-old wasn't saying much (surprise!) about that racy picture in Vanity Fair. The Associated Press, and just about every gossip Web site you could click through yesterday, reported that Cyrus performed several songs to be included in the Disney Channel Games series in July. But she didn't attend the red-carpet party at Disney's Epcot Center, where she would have faced the media (gulp!).

Cyrus has said she is embarrassed by the photo, which shows her wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed. She spotted a sign in the crowd Saturday that said, "Miley, I'm praying for you," and responded: "I can't be more appreciative of that."

Scandal Girl, L.A. report

OK, not today, but it's easy to make that "scandal" connection whenever Lindsay Lohan's name surfaces. It seems LiLo will make a guest appearance on the May 22 season finale of ABC's Ugly Betty, playing an old schoolmate of America Ferrera's character. Citing Variety and Usmagazine.com reports, AP says Lohan began shooting scenes over the weekend and is expected to appear in five episodes next season. Tame stuff.

Scandals R Us, London chapter

From across the pond, we hear (via AP) that Mark Ronson says he and Amy Winehouse have abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because she's not ready to work. Ronson, who produced much of Winehouse's Grammy-winning album Back to Black, told Britain's Sky News that the two started on the track for the Bond movie Quantum of Solace, but that - what with her issues with drugs, the police, and jailed hubby Blake Fielder-Civil - it would take "some miracle of science" to finish it.

At the box office

We'll forgo all the bad allusions to alchemy and say just this: Iron Man pounded its competition at the cineplexes this weekend, making $100.8 million, $104.3 mil since its Thursday-night opening ($201 mil-plus worldwide, if you're counting), according to studio estimates released yesterday. Which means Robert Downey Jr.'s comic-book hero totally stomped Patrick Dempsey's rom-com McDreamboat in Made of Honor, which debuted in second place, earning $15.5 million. Rounding out the top five were Baby Mama ($10.3 million), Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($6.1 million), and Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay ($6 million).

Lawyer: DNA says it's true

Peter Shahid, an attorney for the 6-year-old boy in question, says a DNA test has confirmed that James Brown fathered the child with a woman claiming to be the singer's wife when he died in December 2006. Shahid, representing James Brown II, says the boy was tested in April, before a South Carolina judge ordered a paternity test. (Those results have not been released.) Little James' mother is Tomi Rae Hynie, who used to sing backup for the "Godfather of Soul." No callbacks to AP from her spokesman or the trustees handling Brown's estate.

Schedule switcheroo

NBC10 is flipping its late-afternoon lineup, starting tomorrow. All That and More, the Tracy Davidson-hosted feature show, will move to 5 p.m. The former 5 o'clock news, hosted by Vince DeMentri and Dawn Timmeney, will run from 4 to 5 p.m.

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