According to TMZ: Michael’s Body is in the Golden Casket
From the desk of Harvey Levin:
There are various news reports that Michael Jackson’s body is not in the casket — absolutely not true.
Our sources — who know — say 100% Jackson’s body is in the coffin that is being taken to Staples Center. [link]
Michael Jackson’s Body Won’t Be At Public Memorial?
I just got a call from an industry friend in L.A. who urged me not to believe the hype. She said Michael Jackson’s body won’t be at Staples Center for the public memorial service as previously reported.
She said Michael’s private memorial was held last night for over 1,000 family and friends and that his body (minus his brain) will be interred in a crypt at Forest Lawn Cemetery this morning.
According to UK’s Daily Mirror, the L.A. coroner’s office is withholding Michael’s brain as evidence in an ongoing potential homicide investigation — although no charges have been brought.
His brain will either be cremated or placed in the crypt at a later date. The family will make that ultimate decision.
TMZ.com has the live feed of the motorcade (sponsored by Rolls Royce and Range Rover) that left the Jackson residence in Encino on its way to Forest Lawn for the funeral — not a memorial.
She said a casket will be onstage at Staples, but the public is being duped into believing his body will be at Staples. I don’t know what to believe. Judging from the pics, it sure looks like a funeral to me.
Photos: INF DAILY
Clueless Brooke Shields Says Michael Jackson Was “Asexual”
Add Brooke shields to the long list of clueless celebrities who continuously ignored the fact that Michael Jackson wasn’t into females.
Shields told the Rolling Stone magazine that she and Michael became close friends in the 80s, but sex wasn’t involved in the equation. She claims Michael was “asexual” because he didn’t try to go to first base with her.
Shields said that as Jackson grew up, “the more asexual he became to me.”
“He was like a little kid who talked about the bases _ what first base was, what second base was,” Shields said. “It sounded very odd to the outside, I can imagine, but to the inside, to someone who’s never really left his bubble, you can understand how he would be curious.”
No, sweetie, he just wasn’t that into you because you were the wrong gender and age.
Photo: Wireimage/Getty
Celebs Out & About
A bedraggled looking Whitney Houston was spotted after arriving in Los Angeles where she is scheduled to sing at the Kin of Pop’s Memorial today. The Jackson family had a change of heart and now Michael’s body will be present at the Staples Center for a public memorial service following a private memorial service held for 1000 of his friends at Forest Lawn last night.
Photo: Splash News Online
MORE pics of Celebs Out & About after the break!
I have one word for Halle Berry: EAT!
Am I the only one who thinks Halle Berry should stop taking pictures in or around restaurants if she’s not going to sit down and eat? It’s clear that Halle has an eating disorder. Is everyone going to ignore Halle’s plight until it’s too late and then talk about what a great actress she was when she’s gone?
The (now) pint sized Oscar winner was spotted out & about in Miami with her sperm donor Gabriel Aubrey and their seed Nahla.
MORE pics after the break!
Powell Has Doubts About Obama
Former secretary of state (under George Bush) Colin Powell changed parties last year to throw his full support behind Barack Obama’s campaign for president.
Powell was a staunch Obama supporter, frequently appearing on left leaning news programs to help push Obama’s socialist agenda. Along the way to the White House, Obama and his camp served Kool Aid on ice to the fawning multitudes and pulled the wool over their supporters eyes.
But now Powell can see clearly, and he is expressing growing doubts about Obama’s ability to lead this country.
“I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them,” Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN’s John King that aired over the weekend.
Powell expressed his concerns about Obama’s reckless spending amid rumors that another wasteful stimulus bill is in the works.
“One of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all.”
Not everyone will memorialize Michael Jackson today
Long Island Congressman Rep. Peter King is mad as hail. In this clip from a news broadcast, King discusses his disapproval at the media’s blanket coverage of Michael Jackson’s sudden death two weeks ago.
King refers to Michael as a pedophile and hurls other choice insults intended to inflame Jackson’s fans. It’s King’s opinion, of course. But sadly, many in the media share his sentiments — they’re just not admitting it publicly.
Last night, Bill O’Reilly & friends let their feelings be known about the wall-to-wall Jackson coverage. O’Reilly claimed not to understand why there was a “racial component to all of this” since the adult Michael so evidenty did not want to be black anymore.
O’Reilly mentioned the fact that Michael drastically changed his appearance to look more European (read:white) and even paid a white woman to breed white children that he then claimed he sired.
O’Reilly has a point there. How many black men would claim to have sired obviously Caucasian children — or go to the bizarre lengths that Michael did to erase his blackness.
The media won’t touch on any of this right now out of respect to Jackson’s fans — and because the network ratings are just too high.
But I predict the media’s white gloves will come off tomorrow or in the days following Jackson’s memorial. And it won’t be pretty.
