Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times
Fans line up outside Staples Center on Tuesday morning for Michael Jackson¡¦s memorial. About 1.6 million people sought tickets to attend.
In a city fabled for its televised car chases, bejeweled Oscar shows and boisterous Lakers parades, residents and visitors alike have grown accustomed to spectacle, planned and spontaneous.
But Michael Jackson’s category-defying [...]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Many dignitaries and celebrities shared songs, memories and praise for Michael Jackson at the singer’s memorial service Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Broadcast live around the world from the Staples Center, musical titans performed gospel-tinged versions of his songs and their own between testimonials to Mr. Jackson’s talent and achievements on and off [...]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales was watched by 2.5 billion across the world Photo: PA
Fans lay tributes to Michael Jackson - his memorial Photo: AP
The Princess’s funeral in 1997 had the biggest global television audience ever. It was seen by 2.5 billion people across the globe, more than one [...]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Michael Jackson’s memorial service will be a theatrical event too, as digital events company Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. has arranged with AEG and the singer’s family to broadcast the event live in 88 movie theaters.
Approximately 17,000 people will be able to watch the service at 10 a.m. Tuesday in theaters equipped with digital projection systems [...]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Fans will need to a ticket and wristband to enter the Staples Center
Efforts by those trying to sell tickets they won to the Michael Jackson memorial service are being thwarted.
Hours after lottery winners collected their passes, postings went up on Craigslist and eBay offering tickets to the highest bidder.
Some were offered for as much [...]
Monday, July 6, 2009
LOS ANGELES - The organizers of the Michael Jackson memorial were to begin e-mailing the lucky few at 11 a.m., and 19-year-old Deanna Collins commenced checking her iPhone that very instant. “Please, please, please,” she said quietly to herself as she stood with her mother in front of the Staples Center, where 1.6 million applicants were [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 5, 2009
Some memorial tickets went out to “friends and family” on Sunday.
“OMG OMG OMG OMG i got tickets to the michael jackson memorial service!!!” Deka Motanya wrote Sunday afternoon in a Twitter message.
The 8,750 fans chosen were summoned to Dodger Stadium Monday to pick up their tickets and have a wristband placed on [...]
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Bette Davis is among the notables buried at the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn park.
Although the Jackson family hasn’t made an official statement, all signs seem to point toward Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, the not-for-profit organization that has buried a vast number of Hollywood’s notables.
Forest Lawn officials were working with the [...]
Sunday, July 5, 2009
They’ll descend on the city like the zombies in the “Thriller” video. Los Angeles is bracing for the massive throngs of mourners who’ll descend on the city Tuesday to say goodbye the late King of Pop. Free tickets to the mega memorial at the Staples Center were awarded to 17,500 fans Sunday. Some 1.6 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 5, 2009
Alexandra Belayeva, left, and Zhenya Iordanskaya visit the Michael Jackson memorial in Moscow.
Young Russian fans, some of whom don’t even speak English, bring homemade signs, pictures and drawings of Jackson, Russian religious icons, candles, teddy bears — all signs of how much they loved the singer.
“At first I couldn’t believe it had [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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