Miley Cyrus celebrates Sweet 16 at Disneyland

Anaheim, Calif. – Miley Cyrus’ 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet.

Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday – even though she doesn’t actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree, which included a four-song performance by the teen queen and a fireworks display above Sleeping Beauty Castle and 16 giant inflatable candles.

“Miley is really hard to surprise,” her father Billy Ray Cyrus said at the event.

Organizers estimated over 5,000 people attended the special party, which cost $250 a ticket. On the event’s purple carpet – that’s Cyrus’ favorite color – the star of the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” bragged that her parents bought her a new puppy for her birthday. What else does Cyrus want for her birthday? A new car? Perhaps a later curfew?

“My parents shut down Disneyland for me, so I’m good for a while,” Cyrus said.

Partygoers ogled celebrities roaming around the park throughout the party. David Archuleta and his entourage skipped the line to ride Space Mountain. Jennie Garth and her family ducked out before the fireworks display capping the celebration. Other stars in attendance included Steve Carell, Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Heather Locklear and Demi Lovato.

Colbert on Colbert: It’s fun playing a jerk

New York – Stephen Colbert was raised in South Carolina to be a Southern gentleman. But he spends his days being a jerk. It must be tough.

Not really, says the Comedy Central star.

“I was taught to be nice, so it’s not in my nature to be a jerk,” he told a crowd of fans over the weekend at the New Yorker Festival. “But I do enjoy it.”

Colbert figures that’s because he’s embarrassment-proof. “There’s an essential embarrassment to being a jerk, and I just don’t get embarrassed about things,” he explained.

The host of “The Colbert Report” spent 90 minutes out of character, regaling interviewer Ariel Levy about how his career was launched and deconstructing the process of playing the right-wing blowhard pundit named Stephen Colbert.

Before every interview, he said, he explains to his guest exactly what he’s doing. “I tell people, ‘He’s an idiot,'” Colbert said, referring to his alter ego. “I say, ‘Disabuse me of my ignorance.”‘

Still, there have been a few people who didn’t quite get the joke – or at least didn’t laugh. Colbert says he knows he has offended Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and early in the show’s run, Bob Kerrey, the former governor of Nebraska who is now president of The New School, a university in New York, didn’t seem to get that he was fake.

The comedian added that he does care about how people feel they’re treated on the show.

“I don’t care what they think of me, but I am worried about their feelings,” he said.

May-Treanor out of ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Los Angeles – Misty May-Treanor is too hurt to keep dancing.

The 31-year-old “Dancing with the Stars” contestant and Olympic gold medalist volleyball player appeared at the conclusion of Monday’s show on crutches and with a cast on her left leg to announce that she’s out of the popular ABC dancing competition after injuring herself while rehearsing Friday.

“I heard a pop,” said May-Treanor, who was practicing the jive on the show’s ballroom set when she ruptured her left Achilles tendon. “I was doing the Lindy Hop. I thought I flew out of control and hit the judges’ stairs, or it felt like I got hit in the back with a baseball bat. Then, I just couldn’t put weight on it.”

‘Idol’ LaKisha Jones weds in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills, Calif. – Former “American Idol” contestant LaKisha Jones has tied the knot.

The Flint, Mich.-native married financial adviser Larry Davis at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday.

Some fellow “Idol” alums attended the wedding, including Sanjaya Malakar, Haley Scarnato and Melinda Doolittle.

Jones was booted from “Idol” in May 2007, finishing as fourth runner-up. She has an album due out in February 2009.

The couple will honeymoon in Barbados.

Broderick will return to Broadway next spring

New York – Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway next spring in a revival of “The Philanthropist,” a comedy by English playwright Christopher Hampton.

The Roundabout Theatre Company production, directed by David Grindley, will open April 26, 2009, at the American Airlines Theatre, Todd Haimes, the Roundabout’s artistic director, announced Monday. It will begin preview performances April 10.

Broderick, in his first Broadway appearance since the 2005 revival of “The Odd Couple,” portrays Philip, an insular college professor. Other casting will be announced.

“The Philanthropist” had a 64-performance run on Broadway in 1971 in a production that featured Alec McCowen, Jane Asher and Victor Spinetti.