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FILE - In this March 6, 2010 file photo, U.S. singer Toni Braxton performs during the Java Jazz concert festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, file)

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In this June 10, 2010 photo, Carrie Underwood performs during the CMA Music Festival at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. The Country Music Association is donating more than $2.9 million to Nashville-area flood relief and music education programs. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

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In this publicity image released by Fox, Heather Morris portrays Britney Spears, center, in the "Britney/Brittany" episode of "Glee." (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Yarish)

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FILE - In this July 14, 2006 file photo, Steve Lee, frontman of Swiss rock band Gotthard, performs on stage during the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival at the Stravinski hall in Montreux, Switzerland. Authorities in Nevada say Lee was killed when a tractor-trailer skidded into his motorcycle on a wet highway northwest of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2007 file photo, rapper Beanie Sigel enters court in Philadelphia. Sigel is facing criminal charges for alleged tax fraud. Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia say the entertainer born Dwight Grant made $1.5 million from 2002 to 2004, but filed no tax returns. The tax charges come in a federal information filed Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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FILE - In an Aug. 1, 2000, file photo Teddy Pendergrass performs at the Good Neighbor Community Outreach Celebration in Philadelphia. The son and second wife of Pendergrass are locked in a battle over the late R&B singer's estate. Teddy Pendergrass II and Joan Pendergrass have produced conflicting wills since the singer died of colon cancer in January. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

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FILE - In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson is shown at a press conference in London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra member Karl Pituch plays his French horn as he serenades fellow members walking a picket line outside the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. Musicians have called a strike after refusing to accept pay cuts of more than 30 percent demanded by the financially struggling Detroit Symphony Orchestra. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Winning the Nobel Prize for literature "is totally unexpected, a real surprise," Mario Vargas Llosa tells reporters. (Associated Press)
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Books by Mario Vargas Llosa are displayed at a public library in Lima, Peru. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." (Associated Press)

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This undated photo from the biography section of CNN's website, shows former CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez. CNN fired Sanchez on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. (AP Photo/CNN)

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The image made from video broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location. Graphic at top right reads "Exclusive to Al-Jazeera." At bottom right is the Al-Jazeera television network logo. At top left is "recorded." (AP Photo/Al Jazeera, File)

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In this Tuesday, July 4, 2006 file picture, a woman looks out through a destroyed window after a bomb exploded in Kabul, Afghanistan in front of a cinema near the presidential palace, wounding at least four people, police said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

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In this publicity image released by ABC, Margaret Cho, left, and her partner Louis Van Amstel perform on the celebrity dance competition series, "Dancing With the Stars," Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Larkey)

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Ed Rosenthal, a Los Angeles real estate broker who spent six days in a Joshua Tree desert canyon after getting disoriented during a day hike, describes his ordeal on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Jose Alaniz, an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, sits in his office reading one of his favorite comic books, one of 10 he kept when he donated the rest of his collection to the library there. (Associated Press)

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Mr. Alaniz browses through boxes of his comic book collection, which dates back to 1974. (Associated Press)

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CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview. (AP Photo/CNN)

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In this Oct. 1, 2010, file photo, a South Korean worker watches a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's third son Kim Jong-un as she waits to head to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office for North Korea near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS This image released by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts shows Pablo Picasso's "The Goat," 1950, which is part of a traveling exhibition of essential works by Pablo Picasso at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va. "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris" will include paintings, drawings, sculptures and etchings by the artist and serves as a retrospective covering each notable artistic period of his eight-decade career.