Posted on 07/07/2009 7:58:55 AM PDT by kristinn
The Jackson family has decided to bring Michael's body to the memorial service being held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, putting off the announced plans for a private internment at Forest Lawn cemetery from 8 a.m. PDT to after the service.
The 10 a.m. PDT service is being broadcast on all the major American broadcast and cable news networks, as well as in theaters across the country, the Times Square jumbotron in New York City and on TV screens around the world.
From Entertainment Weekly, performers and friends expected at the service include: Kobe Bryant, Mariah Carey, Berry Gordy, Jennifer Hudson, Shaheen Jafargholi, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, Bernice A. King, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Usher and Stevie Wonder.
Michael's Jackson's close friend Elizabeth Taylor declined an invitation to speak at the service, writing in part on Twitter: "I cannot be part of the public whoopla."
In a strange but fitting twist of fate, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant parade through the streets of Los Angeles is set to take place this morning with the elephants arriving at the Staples Center just hours before the service for the circus' scheduled run at the arena.
FILE - In this July 15, 2008 file photo originally supplied by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, take an early morning stroll en route to the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Stefano Paltera, file) (Stefano Paltera - AP)
[The 10 a.m. PDT service is being broadcast on all the major American broadcast and cable news networks, as well as in theaters across the country, the Times Square jumbotron in New York City and on TV screens around the world.]
You have got to be kidding me!
Pedophile worship.
Is John Fan Kerry going to drop by and salute the casket as he did when he crashed the Ronald Reagan funeral (cutting the line and bringing his own photographer in tow).
If there ever was a memorial service that the Phelps’ Crew would show up to, you’d think it would be this one.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah
The newscaster on the radio said that there is no country in the world that is not carrying the proceedings. My TV is off.
Maybe MJ is really alive and this is all hype. They will roll that gold plated casket in there, Michael will pop out and start singing Thriller!
ROTFL
Did the Pope get this much coverage? I think his funeral was cable only, but don’t remember exactly. This is obscene.
It’s no joke. This dysfunctional (But talented in his way) is a God to many brain dead, Media stoked people.
Says a lot about our New Ordered Society, eh.
Turning the TV/Radio off for the rest of the day!
So its ok to be a pedophile as long as you are a great entertainer?
May this SOB rot in hell! 20 million dollars don’t buy your way into heaven. Hasta La Vista, baby!
So the filthy pedophile is STILL dead....
....who gives a rats @$$????
There are some great entertainers out there that will never get this kind of coverage. I wonder if some of them with large egos are pissed off.
CNN doing 4 live shots AND facebook entries on the same page
Oh.My.Damn.
Talk about “Derangement Syndrome”!!!!!
Michael Jackson died?!!
I'm going to guess that that should be "interment", i.e., burial.
On the other hand, with Wacko Jacko, it could very well be an "internment".
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