Country music singer Taylor Swift is going to make her first appearance on "The View." The 19-year-old Swift is scheduled to perform two songs on today's show. She comes fresh from her high-profile appearance Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards. She was giving her acceptance speech after winning best female video of the year when Kanye West jumped on stage and said Beyonce should have won instead.

Swift's fans aren't the only people outraged by West's outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards. The celebrities are backing her, too.

"I feel really bad for Taylor Swift. I think it was really disrespectful," Kristin Cavallari told E! News.

"Dear Kanye, What happened to you as a child? Did you not get hugged enough?" Swift's fellow Best Female Artist nominee, Kelly Clarkson, blogged immediately after the event. "Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we're all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like[expletive] ... I was actually nominated in the same category that Taylor won and I was excited for her, so why can't you be?"

West apologized to Taylor's mom backstage and on his blog.

Also backstage at the VMAs, Serena Williams -- whose outburst with a line judge at the U.S. Open on Saturday provoked a Kanye-sized reaction of its own -- mingled with the celebrities. Her request for gum was met quickly by stagehands -- perhaps even quicker considering her profanity-laced, finger-pointing tirade at a linesperson for penalizing her for a foot fault that helped her lose a semifinal match against Kim Clijsters.

The night out must have done Serena some good. She and sister Venus won the U.S. Open Women's Doubles championship yesterday.

They remembered with love and a lot of laughter the star of television's "Maude" and "The Golden Girls," a woman who also appeared in such hit Broadway musicals as "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Mame."

Memories of Bea Arthur filled Broadway's Majestic Theatre yesterday as friends, family and co-stars recalled the tall, tart, baritone-voiced actress who died last April of cancer at age 86.

The celebration was hosted by Angela Lansbury, who first worked with Arthur in 1966 in "Mame," playing Mame Dennis opposite Arthur's Vera Charles.

Among the participants were "Maude" producer Norman Lear, Rosie O'Donnell, "Fiddler" lyricist Sheldon Harnick and several of Arthur's television co-stars including Rue McClanahan and Adrienne Barbeau.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences says Tina Fey, Kiefer Sutherland and Simon Baker will be among the presenters during Sunday's live telecast of the Primetime Emmy Awards.

Each is a nominee. Baker's freshman hit "The Mentalist" earned him a nomination for best actor in a drama. Sutherland won that award in 2006, and is nominated this year for his role in a special "24" movie. Fey is up for best actress in a comedy, the award she won last year.