More than two months after his passing, Michael Jackson was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., yesterday. About 200 people attended the funeral service, including a Time reporter who noted that the proceedings had their own appropriate set design, namely a “‘Thriller’-esque moon tinted orange by the smoke from the nearby forest fires.” Thanks? The Jackson family’s post-funeral release, detailing the proceedings and the attendees (which included Elizabeth Taylor and Lisa Marie Presley, among others), after the jump. MORE »
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Michael Jackson Finally Laid To Rest
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Michael Jackson: Officially The New Elvis Presley
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmonger, I’ll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Michael Jackson is alive! OMG, there’s blurry cameraphone video proving it!
TRUTH THRESHOLD: Well I mean… the Chicago Tribune is running with it, right? So it has to be true? Uh… MORE »
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Get Ready For The Second Coming Of Michael Jackson Radio Marathons
Michael Jackson would have turned 51 on Saturday, and to celebrate the fallen pop star’s memory, New York dance-pop station WKTU will flip to an all-Michael format from 5 p.m. Friday all the way through Sunday evening. I’m sure that the ratings spike WKTU saw in the wake of Jackson’s death, when it switched to a similar programming strategy, has nothing to do with this flip! MORE »
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If You Buy A “Kanye Is A Whiny Bitch” Shirt With Your Own Money, And Subsequently Wear It, Doesn’t That Kind Of Make You A Whiny Bitch Who Also Spends Money On Stupid Things?
I mean, I was always taught that whining about whining just added up to a hell of a lot more whine noise out there. But you can feel free to disagree, and you can certainly spend the $25 or so this shirt will cost you! Just remember that at the end of the day, someone has to win this argument, and whether it’s the T-shirt’s maker Fresh Jive (for getting your cash) or Kanye himself (for at least mattering enough to be on a shirt), it certainly will not be you. [in4mants via broken cool] MORE »
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Michael Jackson May Be Dead, But The Rides At Neverland Will Live On
Last year, the carnival company Butler Amusements bought six rides from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, and the California State Fair, which is set to take place at the end of the month, will have four of them on its midway. The first 5,000 piece to show up at the fair every day will get a free pass for the rides, which they can enjoy while, say, waiting for MC Hammer to play. Details on all the rides after the jump! MORE »
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Oh My God: Perez Hilton Inexplicably Thinks His Fans Will Have Good Taste In Anything At All
Gossip scourge Perez Hilton’s foray into the music business is continuing full-speed ahead; over the weekend the Technicolor-haired argument against the Internet announced that he’d be putting on a branded tour called Perez Hilton Presents, which is taking place this fall and which will apparently include “the hottest acts on the planet—from all over the world!” (To be fair, some of Perez’s readers might not be all that sure what the word “planet” means.) Today Perez announced that one of the acts on the tour would be none other than the Idolator-beloved Norewgian singer Ida Maria. Which is kind of a bummer, for a lot of reasons! MORE »
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T-Pain For President Of Florida State University? Sure, Why Not?
Times have been tough at Florida State University, with the school’s president announcing that he was resigning and the school’s reputation as a party school falling short of that achieved by its in-state rival, the University of Florida. How will the university bounce back? One group of students has an idea: Make the Autotune-happy T-Pain, who just so happens to be from the Tallahassee area, the university’s next president. Hey, he does have a “proven track record of success,” or at least more than one single that was a hit from his most recent record. What more do you need these days? The next generation of student activists offers up their manifesto after the jump. MORE »
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Things I do not understand: Why is this blind item about a “Pitchfork-magazine indie-music darling” who happens to enjoy a martini or two–despite claiming that he doesn’t—worthy of a post on Crazy Days And Nights, the blog that usually serves as my chief fix for bemused commentary on the famous and semi-famous people who double as occupational hazards for anyone employed by the celebrity-industrial-complex? A lot of the commenters seem just as confused, with one going so far as to say, “I can’t blame a guy who’d rather drink martinis than work on a record.” Gasp! We’re so out of the music zone, you guys. [Crazy Days And Nights] MORE »
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Diddy Wears His Sunglasses At “Late Night”
Last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon featured multiple appearances from Diddy, including him assisting Fallon on “Slow Jam The News” (top) and an interview in which Diddy forgot first what show he was on, and then which late-night host named Jimmy he was talking to. After the jump, Diddy’s chat with Fallon, which swings from awkward to awkwardly self-promotional and back again. Watch how discussion of his delayed Last Train To Paris takes a, for lack of a better term, back seat to discussion of the entrepreneur’s other ventures, including his nascent mixological adventures. (I’m not going to lie: The cocktail he’s talking about, which brings together the Diddy-endorsed vodka Ciroc and grapes and lemonade, sounds quite refreshing.) MORE »
