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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Maks and Karina's broken engagement today?



Dancers Karina Smirnoff, left, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have split according to a rep for Smirnoff.



The Stars‘ Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff have called off their engagement with dancing. It was Breaking News to People.com, and newsworthy enough for an Update by E! Online’s Marc Malkin, who reports that the duo will fulfill their obligation and dance together at this month’s Emmys (but have now requested separate dressing rooms). With EW’s Dancing With the Stars expert Annie Barrett out of the office, I thought I’d be able to get through the day without having an actual conversation about the break up. Jessica Shaw and I, however, just had an impromptu meeting in the ladies’ room about it (her initial response: “Duh”).

"I can confirm that this is true," the rep says. No reason was given and the rep says no further statement would be issued. Chmerkovskiy's rep didn't immediately comment.
Smirnoff, 31, and Chmerkovskiy, 28, who became engaged in December, had planned on getting married in June 2010, but prolonged their engagement in July because of their busy Broadway schedules.

"We're not rushing," Smirnoff said at the time. "As long as we're together, tying the knot is a plus, it's something extra."

Kate Gosselin offered $400K for posing nude for Playboy





Kate Gosselin is willing to go bikini bare to pose nude but won't go all the way for Hugh Hefner.

The octomom is said to have received a $400,000 offer from Hef to take it all off for Playboy, but Kate Gosselin doesn't plan to reveal her lady bits in the nudie mag.

"Hugh sent her a letter, but Kate Gosselin was totally mortified and threw it away!" a source told Star Magazine. "Kate Gosselin didn't think it was appropriate because of the children."

Despite being "proud of the way she looks," Kate Gosselin was baffled by the offer.

However, more embarrassment has come her way as her estranged hubby Jon kicked off his two-part interview with Chris Cuomo on ABC's "Good Morning America" today.

"I took a lot of abuse from her. I was put down," Jon, 32, said. The Ed Hardy-clad dad also defended his loose living by pointing the finger at Kate.

"Kate Gosselin will call me like, almost like a lame fish," he claimed. "Like I wasn't going anywhere. "Well, excuse me, I'm taking care of the kids. She's on book tours, she's doing all these things. You know, she's gone a week. You know, comes back. Packs up and leaves again. I'm standing there like, 'Oh, OK. Your Mom's gone again.'"

Star also reports that Kate Gosselin, 34, is busy getting revenge on Jon by draining him financially in the divorce.

"Kate Gosselin is so upset and disgusted over Jon's cavalier 'single guy' behavior - and the money he has been wasting to fund it - that she'd leave him without a penny, barefoot and homeless on the street if she could," said a snitch. "She's prepared to do all she can to insure she gets most, if not all, of the millions that are at stake.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Michael Jackson mourned among great celebrities





The pop star Michael Jackson was mourned by his family and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Barry Bonds and Macaulay Culkin on Thursday night outside the elaborate mausoleum where the King of Pop will be no more.

The funeral began about an hour and a half late because of the tardy arrival of his parents, Joe and Katherine, and other family members. They included the singer's three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris Michael, 10, and Prince Michael II, 7, known as Blanket.
The invitation notice indicated the service would begin promptly at 7 p.m.; it began closer to 8:30.

A large, blimp-like inflated light, the type used in film and television production, and a boom camera hovered over the seating area placed in front of the elaborate marble mausoleum. The equipment raised the possibility that the footage would be used for the Jackson concert documentary "This Is It."
About 250 seats were arranged for mourners over artificial turf laid roadside at the mausoleum. Nearly double the number of media credentials, 435, were issued to reporters and film crews who remained at a distance from the service and behind barricades.
Maria Martinez, 25, a fan from Riverside, Calif., who was joined by a dozen other Micheal Jackson admirers at a gas station near the security perimeter, gave a handful of pink flowers to a man with an invitation driving into the funeral.
"Can you please put these flowers on his grave?" she told him. Martinez said she picked them from a nearby park. "They were small and ugly, but I did that with my heart. I'm not going to be able to get close, so this is as close as I could get to him."
The man consented, adding, "God bless."
Glendale police said all was going smoothly early in the evening and there were no arrests.

By late afternoon Thursday, media tents had cropped up all along the boulevard across from the wrought-iron gates that serve as the main entrance to Forest Lawn. That vantage point offered no view of any mausoleum — just a fountain and a building containing the gift shop.
The Jackson family had booked an Italian restaurant in Pasadena for a gathering Thursday night, said Alex Carr, assistant operations manager at Villa Sorriso, in the city's Old Town district. She wouldn't specify the menu or number of people, but said the entire restaurant, which can accommodate 200 guests, had been reserved for the event and that security would be present.
The ceremony ends months of speculation that the singer's body would be buried at Neverland Ranch, in part to make the property a Graceland-style attraction. An amended copy of Jackson's death certificate was filed Thursday in Los Angeles County to reflect Forest Lawn as his final resting place.
In court on Wednesday, it was disclosed that 12 burial spaces were being purchased by Jackson's estate at Forest Lawn Glendale, about eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, but no details were offered on how they would be used.

Michael Jackson's burial done with Tight security


The pop star Michael Jackson finally will be buried near Los Angeles on Thursday evening, after 70 days after his death, and authorities are going to great lengths to ensure the total securtiy as if there would be rest in peace.

The historic cemetery at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the city of Glendale, where the pop star will be laid to rest, has been closed to all but members of the Jackson family and friends attending the 7 p.m. PDT (0200 GMT Friday) funeral.

Surrounding streets and even the air space over the area also have been restricted.



Police helicopters with infra-red technology started buzzing the 290-acre (117-hectare) cemetery on Wednesday night to make sure no one slipped in. Police dogs, plainclothes officers and private security guards are patrolling the area.

The Jackson estate was to reimburse the Glendale Police Department for its expenses, which the agency has estimated will be up to $150,000.

By contrast, the city of Los Angeles has absorbed the estimated $1.4 million cost of Jackson's televised memorial service in July.

Police in Glendale, a city of 200,000 in the shadow of a giant wildfire sweeping nearby mountains, have advised fans to stay home and watch the proceedings on television.

But the programing is unlikely to be scintillating. News media will be corralled in a park down the road, and will have to strain for a glimpse of the limousines speeding past.

No one is saying what will take place at the service in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum. One detail to emerge, courtesy of celebrity website TMZ, is that fellow Motown veteran Gladys Knight will sing.

Jackson will be in stellar company at Forest Lawn, a stately park dotted with elaborate mausoleums and rolling lawns. Celebrities buried there include Walt Disney, singers Sam Cooke, Sammy Davis Jr. and Nat "King" Cole, and Hollywood icons Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable.

Jackson died of a drug overdose on June 25, at age 50, in what the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled last week was a homicide.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Michael Jackson Funeral To Take Place in Glendale, California Tonight and Family and friends gather







After some delays,at last the unwelcome incident occers tonight for all people of the world that is Jackson's signs will be no more in the world.Tonight Michael Jackson will be buried in a private ceremony at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

More than two months after Michael Jackson's death, the singer will finally be buried on Thursday (September 3) at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. But unlike the star-studded public memorial held in July, the final goodbye to the 50-year-old pop icon will be a private affair for friends and family only.

Michael Jackson will be interred in the Great Mausoleum on the grounds of Forest Lawn, the final resting place for a number of Hollywood legends, including George Burns, Clark Gable, Nat King Cole, John Wayne and Walt Disney. Police promise a heavy presence during the event — including canine units and air support — and have encouraged gawkers to stay away. CNN reported that Gladys Knight, a longtime friend of Jackson's, will perform an undisclosed song at the service. No media will be allowed at the funeral and the family has not announced anything about the program.



In addition to replicas of Michelangelo's "David" and "Moses" sculptures, the mausoleum where Jackson will be buried features an ornate stained glass rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," making it a fitting resting place for the singer, who once commissioned for his bedroom a "Last Supper" portrait in which he appeared as Jesus among disciples that include Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Elvis and Walt Disney. The huge mausoleum is normally open to tourists but was closed on Wednesday in preparation for the funeral.

It is unclear where the golden casket that took center stage at the July celebration at the Staples Center in Los Angeles has been since that event, though it is rumored that it has been kept in the Forest Lawn crypt of Motown founder Berry Gordy.

As with most things relating to the singer, there has been controversy around the funeral, with some balking at initial reports that the city would pick up the costs of security for Thursday's event. A Glendale police official told the Los Angeles Times that the funeral could cost upwards of $150,000, but unlike the $1.4 million it cost the city of Los Angeles to provide security and traffic services for the Staples Center event, the Jackson family has said that the late singer's estate would pick up the tab for the funeral.

Another controversial aspect of the funeral centered on the reported divide in the family over where Jackson should be buried. Brother Jermaine Jackson has said he wanted to see Michael buried at the singer's Neverland Valley Ranch estate, a home Jackson vowed never to return to after a raid on the compound led to charges of child molestation for which Jackson was acquitted in 2005. Neighbors of the rural Santa Barbara County, California, ranch had balked at the idea and feared a potential onslaught of fan traffic to their bucolic neighborhood. Other members of the family also rejected the idea because of Jackson's expressed desire not to live there again.

Jackson, whose death is still under investigation by police, was originally set to be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday on August 29. But after those plans were announced by the late singer's father and later confirmed by his spokesperson, the funeral was pushed back without explanation.

Police have ruled Jackson's death a homicide, and the pop star's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, has reportedly become the focus of the criminal investigation. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office — which has concluded its investigation but withheld the final autopsy report in order to allow police to conclude their investigation — has determined the cause of death as "acute propofol intoxication," a reference to the surgical anesthetic Murray has reportedly told investigators he administered to Jackson several times in the hours before the singer's death on June 25. Murray has not been charged with any crime in the case.





Friends and family will come in the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale this evening for the burial of Michael Jackson.Authorities will be out in force for the funeral, though they don't expect huge crowds of spectators. The funeral begins at 7 p.m. Jackson will be interred in the expansive cemetery's Great Mausoleum. The pop singer's remains will be placed in a crypt in the Holly Terrace section of the mausoleum, a massive building that is the final resting place for stars from film's golden age, such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.

The burial caps months of rumors about where he would be laid to rest. One report had his body stored in a crypt owned by Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., and there was widespread speculation that an elaborate grave -- and ultimately, a Graceland-style museum -- would be constructed at the entertainer's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County.

But Jackson's family, led by his 79-year-old mother, Katherine, selected Forest Lawn, a 20-minute trip across the San Fernando Valley from their Encino home.On Wednesday, it was decided that Jackson's estate will pay the undisclosed expenses for the singer's funeral today -- a sum one attorney called "extraordinary."

Probate Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved the payment at a hearing Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles after an attorney for the estate's administrators assured him that the estate had the financial resources to pay for the funeral and that it would not affect its solvency.

"The expenses are extraordinary; however, Michael Jackson is extraordinary," said attorney Jeryll S. Cohen, who told the judge that the administrators did not object to the expenses. "They may not be appropriate for an ordinary person, but Michael Jackson was not ordinary."

Attorneys for the singer's mother filed papers under seal late Tuesday asking that the estate foot the bill for the funeral she has planned. Burt Levitch, Katherine Jackson's attorney, said outside of court that he did not find the expenses extraordinary.
The bulk of the cost was going to the fee for Jackson to be interred at the cemetery, Levitch said. There, Jackson will be laid to rest amid lavish decorations, including statues and stained glass windows.Margaret G. Lodise, an attorney representing Jackson's children, said she had no concerns that the funeral costs would overburden the estate. The sum is "not going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back," Lodise said.

Glendale city officials have said the public costs associated with the burial, including traffic control and other police services, would be passed on to the family.Police spokesman Tom Lorenz said the cost of police services for Jackson's funeral would be $150,000 at most. Under a contract with Forest Lawn, police will provide "elaborate" security, including dogs and air support, he said.
He declined to specify how many officers would be deployed for the funeral, but said it would not affect the department's ongoing fire efforts, which he said were now down a handful of officers dealing with street closures.

Winning night of Federer and Serena


Under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Federer defeated Simon Greul of Germany in a slightly more difficult way that was unexpected at 6-3, 7-5, 7-5.

Federer will play Lleyton Hewitt on Saturday in the third round. Hewitt beat Juan Ignacio Chela, 6-3, 6-6, 6-4. Federer is 15-7 against Hewitt and has won their last 13 encounters. Roger Federer has stretched his U.S. Open winning streak to 36 matches by reaching the third round.Federer is trying to become the first man since Bill Tilden in the 1920s to win the American Grand Slam tournament 6 years in a row.Next up for Federer: a match against 2001 U.S. Open champion Lleyton Hewitt.





In another late match, No. 2 Serena Williams was pretty close to perfect in beating 51st-ranked Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour.Also yesterday, Venus Williams moved on, Rafael Nadal came back and Marat Safin said goodbye.

Her left knee heavily wrapped, the third-seeded Williams defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-4, 6-2, in a less taxing match than she had 2 nights earlier when she fell behind a set before rallying against Vera Dushevina.

"I'm still playing well and I feel I'll continue to play better as the rounds go on," she said. "I'm trying not to make this injury a factor at all."

Breaking with tradition, the Federer match was played first at Arthur Ashe Stadium ahead of the women’s match, in which Serena Williams routed Melinda Czink of Hungary, 6-1, 6-1 in 53 minutes.It was the first time the sexes had switched starting times since 1986, when a match featuring Jimmy Connors was played before a women’s match headlined by Gabriela Sabatini. The United States Tennis Association is expected to have at least one more card in which the men play first.

“Seems like it was a success so far,” Federer said. “We’ll see how it goes.”

But whether playing first, second, day or night, it mattered not to Greul, who was ranked 65th in the world entering the tournament and as low as 208th a year ago.After a listless first set, Greul played more aggressively, attacking Federer’s serve and forcing him to fight off two set points on his serve before Federer held and broke Greul in the 11th game. Federer hit three consecutive backhand slices and then changed the pace with a topspin backhand, following it up with a wicked forehand winner.

Federer won the match in 1 hour 58 minutes. As Greul walked off the court, he was cheered warmly by the 24,206 fans, a night session record.Greul said that because of the circumstances — playing against the world’s best player on center court at night — he could take more out of the loss than some of his victories.

“It was a great experience,” he said. “I’m really happy how it worked.”

The Hewitt-Chela match did not expose lingering rifts between the players. Chela once spit in the direction of Hewitt at the Australian Open. They amiably shook hands when it was over.

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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Angelina Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Angelina Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR. Angelina Jolie has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported.


Born

Angelina Jolie Voight
June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 34) at Los Angeles, California

Occupation

U.S. Occupation Film actor

Years active

1982; 1993 – present

present Spouse(s

Jonny Lee Miller (1996 – 1999)

Billy Bob Thornton (2000 – 2003)

Domestic partner(s)

Brad Pitt (2005 – present)







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