Hello, everybody. Well, all the flak surrounding it may have died down slowly, but I'm sure the world have waited a day or two now for my complete take on Miley Cyrus and the photo you see on your left not only raising eyebrows, but drawing firestorms as well.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz took this shot of the "Hannah Montana" star posing in nothing but a sheet for an article on her in the June issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine, out this week. At first she liked it ("I think it's really artsy...and you can't say no to Annie"), but now Miley took it back saying, "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed."

Meanwhile, the Disney Channel ("Hannah Montana's" network) didn't like what they saw either, quoting "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines." But as you can see in this video from the shoot, Miley and father Billy Ray were on hand for it, and only her grandmother and teacher were present for this last shot. And don't fret, folks: she was fully clothed wearing jeans.

Leibovitz has now said she's sorry that the portrait was "misinterpreted" and thought it was "very beautiful'; Cyrus issued an apology, stating "I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about." And right now, Miley and her family are at home in Nashville, where the teen star is doing pre-production work for her upcoming "Hannah Montana" movie.

Now that I have refreshed your memory...what do I make of all this???? Well, Miley is the mastermind behind the "Hannah Montana" craze, which along with "High School Musical" are huge cash cows for the Disney Channel; the show on occasion usually beats "WWE Raw" in the cable ratings and sales of merchandise has topped over $1 billion. All this brouhaha surrounding this one photo is not really going to hurt the franchise, but is going to help it a bit. And as far as the pic is concerned? Don't expect Chris Hansen to jump on me, but I see nothing wrong with it whatsoever and find it not only classy, but a bit sexy as well.

After all, Leibovitz shot a nude and pregnant Demi Moore for the cover of that very same magazine years ago, and it was artsy. And last week, the cast of the CW's hot "Gossip Girl" posed provocatively for the cover of "New York" magazine...the very same publication who two months ago made headlines around the world over Lindsay Lohan's re-creation of Marilyn Monroe's "The Last Sitting." Its website received over 60 million hits from those photos being on there; "Vanity Fair's" site got only 4 million over those Miley shots.

Just like "High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens after some very personal shots of her were leaked onto the Internet last summer, Miley Cyrus will no doubt come out of this scandal unscathed. It's just that Annie Leibovitz might have went a bit too far into tricking Miley out of her clothes.

Now moving on to other matters...Cyrus' "Hannah Montana" tour packed venues all across America last year, and getting tickets for them was a huge challenge. And speaking of packing venues, one superstar will be doing just that in Alaska in late May, not only in Anchorage...but right here in Fairbanks as well!!!!

That's right! The AllenBlog learned yesterday that Elton John will be coming to Alaska during his latest tour with two shows here: May 28 at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, followed by the Carlson Center here in Fairbanks on the 29th!!!!! And you can damn well bet that with tickets costing up to $115 (ouch!), all of Alaska from the Interior to Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Valdez, to the North Slope in Barrow to even the rural areas in Bethel, Kotzebue, and Nome...we're all going to be awaiting the Rocket Man's arrival.

For Fairbanks? They can forget all about John Leguizamo from two years ago. And me? Well, I've been to superstar concerts starring Britney Spears (in New Orleans and Los Angeles, both in 2000) and B.B. King; the latter was here in 2001 but Elton John setting foot in the Golden Heart City? I'm sure I'll be spending my hard-earned money to watch him shake the Carlson Center to its foundations on May 29 as only he can; and with that note, so long and stay strong!