MMVA vets Avril Lavigne and City and Colour are officially on the guest list and scheduled to rock, as are MMVA newbs Bruno Mars and The Black Keys. More performers and presenters are expected to be unveiled in the weeks leading up to the show, which will be co-hosted by Selena Gomez. As for nominations, they'll be released on May 17.
The MMVAs will be broadcast live on MuchMusic on June 19 at 9 p.m. Actress Marlee Matlin is selling her Los Angeles-area house and taking her four children out of private school to ease a cash crunch that has left her owing $50,000 in back taxes.
Matlin, 45, told People magazine that she was working out a payment schedule with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to settle her tax bill from the 2009 fiscal year.
She said she and her husband, a police officer in the Los Angeles municipality of Burbank, "have always made ends meet in the past - and we will in this circumstance as well." Her spokeswoman confirmed the details of the news report.
In this case, the couple are seeking $899,000 for their modest, five-bedroom, 2,600-square-feet home in the suburb of Pasadena, according to a Reuters search of public records.
Matlin told People that the family planned to move to a suburb with a good public school. As a middle-class working actor without a steady paycheque, Matlin said she and her family do not live an extravagant lifestyle.
Nor did her tax woes mean she was "a bad person," she told People. "It's reality. It's the reality that a lot of people in America are facing."
Matlin, perhaps the best known deaf actress in Hollywood, is a contestant in the current season of "Celebrity Apprentice."
She won an Academy Award in 1987 for her lead role in "Children of a Lesser God," and made Emmy-nominated guest appearances in episodes of "Seinfeld," "Picket Fences" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Today's celebrity birthdays:
* Actor Danny Trejo is 67
* Actor Pierce Brosnan is 58
* Actress Debra Winger is 56
* Former NBA star John Salley is 47
* Bassist Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 46
* Singer Janet Jackson is 45
* Singer/actress Danielle Spencer is 42
* Actor David Boreanaz (Bones) is 40
* Personality Tori Spelling is 38
* Actor Jim Sturgess is 30
* Actress Megan Fox is 25