MIAMI (AP) – Alicia Keys has resurrected “MTV Unplugged.”

The singer and pianist has performed an acoustic set for the dormant MTV series, to air Sept. 23 (10 p.m. ET). MTV also announced Tuesday that the show will first premiere on Overdrive, MTV’s broadband network.

“I’ve always been a very big fan of the show and when they stopped doing it, I was like, what happened to ‘MTV Unplugged?’ I specifically went in there and said we have to do an ‘Unplugged,”‘ Keys told AP Radio.

Keys’ performance, filmed July 14 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a group effort. Mos Def, Common and Damian Marley are her guests, as well as Maroon 5’s Adam Levine.

“Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Wild Horses’ and it is right up my alley, that whole style” Keys said. “It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement and I love it.”

Previous bar-bones performances on “Unplugged,” which debuted in 1989, include those by Eric Clapton, Nirvana and Jay-Z. Dashboard Confessional and Shakira were two of the most recent acts on the series back in 2002.

After Keys’ “MTV Unplugged” episode airs, it will be released as a CD and DVD on October 11.

NEW YORK (AP) – Charlize Theron is giving the critically acclaimed but ratings-starved “Arrested Development” a boost of star power.

The Oscar-winning actress will guest star on the Fox show for a five episode arc, the network announced Tuesday. She will portray Rita, a British woman whom Michael (Jason Bateman) dates.

Theron, 30, is to begin shooting this week. Her first episode is scheduled to air Sept. 26 (8 p.m. ET), one week after the series’ third season premieres on Sept. 19 at the same time.

The South African actress, who won an Oscar for her performance as a female serial killer in “Monster,” will star this fall in the action film “Aeon Flux,” an adaptation of the MTV animated series.

“Arrested Development,” which also stars Jeffery Tambor, is currently nominated for 11 Emmy awards including best comedy series. Though it has failed to bring in large numbers of viewers, Fox has expressed confidence in the quirky show and moved it to a cushier Monday night slot.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) – Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, has again been charged after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said.

The 63-year-old Garfunkel, who lives in Manhattan, was charged Sunday after being pulled over for failing to stop his vehicle at a stop sign.

Upon approaching Garfunkel’s car, a trooper noticed a strong odor of marijuana and a subsequent search turned up a joint in the ashtray, the newspaper reported. He was issued a ticket and is due back in Woodstock Town Court on Sept. 22.

In January 2004, Garfunkel was charged with marijuana possession after state police stopped his limousine for speeding in the Ulster County town of Hurley, which is near Woodstock some 55 miles southwest of Albany. During that stop, police found a small amount of pot in Garfunkel’s jacket.

The next month, he pleaded guilty and paid $200 in fines.

Garfunkel, who with Paul Simon made up the legendary duo Simon and Garfunkel, produced a string of hits in the 1960s, including “The Sound of Silence,” “Mrs. Robinson,” “Old Friends” and “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy).”

CHICAGO (AP) – Hip-hop star Kanye West has filed a lawsuit accusing a Chicago DJ of possessing 10 unreleased songs that West produced before he was 18.

The 20-page lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Chicago alleges that Eric “E-Smoove” Miller improperly tried to distribute some of those master recordings earlier this year.

Miller, who helped record the songs before Chicago native West became famous, falsely claimed he had a contract to distribute the music, the lawsuit claims.

The disputed songs include “Ho!!!” and “Stop Frontin’,” which West’s attorneys claim Miller offered to distributors using a fake contract with West’s fake signature.

Miller, who owns Focus Music Group, did not immediately return messages left seeking comment. He began his career as a DJ in the early 1980s and is closely associated with the creation of “house music.”

In the lawsuit, the 28-year-old Grammy winner seeks payment of no less than $1.3 million. The lawsuit also demands that Miller cease from ever using West’s name or voice in connection with the master recordings.

West’s attorneys say the dispute over the old master recordings is particularly damaging now, as the singer releases his latest album, called “Late Registration.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The son of TV psychologist Dr. Phil has proposed to former Playboy playmate Erica Dahm, one of the triplet Dahm sisters.

Jay McGraw, 26, got engaged to Dahm in Dallas, Chandler Hayes, a spokesman for Dr. Phil McGraw, said Monday.

Dahm exclaimed, “Oh gosh, is this real?” after the Aug. 26 proposal, Hayes said.

The couple will wed in Los Angeles but the date was not revealed.

Jay McGraw designed the 5-carat diamond, emerald and platinum engagement ring.

He told syndicated TV show “The Insider”: “I asked her father for her hand in marriage first. I finally told my parents and they are ecstatic. She’s the one I want to spend the rest of my life with.”

Dahm, 27, and her two sisters appeared in the December 1998 Playboy.

McGraw is a best-selling author of self-help books himself. They include “Closing the Gap” and “The Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens.”

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DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) – The star of the cult hit “Napoleon Dynamite” said making the film gave him the chance to “celebrate the nerd within me.”

Jon Heder, who plays the film’s curly haired, awkward namesake, appeared with Aaron Ruell, who plays Napoleon’s older brother Kip, at Ohio Wesleyan University in nearby Columbus Sunday.

They said they could relate to the movie, which follows Idaho outcasts trying to find their place in the world.

“We created Kip and Napoleon from ourselves and from people we knew and experiences we had,” said Heder, 27. “It was fun to celebrate the nerd within me.”

The movie’s low budget – it was made for $400,000 over 22 days – forced the cast and crew to improvise.

“All of our clothing came from thrift stores or Wal-Mart, and we did our own stunts,” said Ruell, 29.

“Napoleon Dynamite” grossed more than $45 million at the box office and has made more than $104 million in DVD sales.

The movie also has opened new opportunities for Heder and Ruell, both Mormons who met at Brigham Young University’s film school.

Heder stars alongside Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo in “Just Like Heaven,” which is to be released Sept. 16. Ruell is working on an untitled feature film that he wrote and will direct.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Television journalist Judy Woodruff has been named a visiting fellow for the fall semester at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the center announced Monday.

Woodruff, who has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at NBC, PBS and CNN, will lead a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism.

She left a job hosting CNN’s “Inside Politics” in June to pursue other journalism opportunities, but plans to continue as a consultant and occasional contributor to the cable network. Woodruff served as an anchor and senior correspondent at CNN for 12 years.

At PBS from 1984 to 1993, she was chief Washington correspondent for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.”

At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982 and as chief Washington correspondent for the “Today” show from 1982-1983.

The Shorenstein Center, based at Harvard’s JFK School of Government, brings journalists and scholars together to explore the relationship between the press, politics and public policy.

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NEW YORK (AP) – The gavel has sounded on Diane Dimond’s time at Court TV.

The anchor’s contract has run out with cable network, said Patty Caruso, a spokeswoman for Court TV, on Monday. The network isn’t renewing and Dimond is leaving to concentrate on her book.

“Dimond is a respected journalist who has been a tremendous asset to Court TV News and was key to the network’s successful coverage of the Michael Jackson trial,” Caruso said in a statement.

Dimond, whose title was executive investigative editor, will release a book this November chronicling her 12 years covering Michael Jackson, “Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case.”

Earlier this month, she dropped a restraining order against a Jackson fan, Bobby Joe Hickman, who Dimond alleged incited people to attack her.

In her twenty years in television, Dimond has also reported for Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC and the syndicated program “Hard Copy.”