Detroit — Police officials criticized the use of a four-car police escort for two hearses jammed with stuffed animals in memory of Michael Jackson on Friday morning as it headed to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Detroit police officials couldn’t say how much the escort cost the city…
The escort guided the hearses from the funeral procession through red lights.
Mourners had left the toys and other items at the Motown Museum on West Grand Boulevard since the singer died June 25. After sitting outside for three weeks, the toys were not safe to donate to a children’s museum or orphanage, museum CEO Audley Smith said.
“We have now concluded that it would be best to bury the items,” Smith said Friday morning.
Once at the cemetery, the toys were unloaded from the tops of the hearses and from boxes inside the vehicles. They were then placed into clear plastic bags and then inside donated vaults. The cemetery donated the equivalent of three graves for the vaults.
Jackson’s songs from more than 40 years of performing played over speakers as a service was held. “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough“ played as the hearses arrived and “Ben” as the service ended. About 50 people were present…
Weren’t some of you just wondering what happened to Octomom and what kind of craziness she would pull to wrestle a little entertainment media attention away from MJ and the Gosselin’s? Well, it turns out the fastest way to get back into the news is to have your child eat a volcano.
Suleman’s 2 year old son Caleb was taken to the hospital this morning after ingesting the contents of his older brother’s volcano kit. Reports are that Caleb vomited up most of the chemicals from the kit (which is a different kind of volcano altogether).
Suleman called the paramedics– just to be on the safe side– then posed for souvenir photos at the request of one of the firemen that arrived. Classy.
I’m sure most of you have heard the news by now, but I would be derelict in my duties as a blogger, and would generally feel bad about myself as a human being, were I to blog about the passings of Billy Mays and Farrah Fawcett but leave out the esteemed Walter Cronkite.
Cronkite passed away peacefully yesterday evening at the ripe old age of 92.
For me, and for many of you as well, Cronkite is someone that I knew better for his legendary name than for any actual newscasting. By the time I was old enough to give a crap about watching the evening news, Cronkite was long gone. And yet, even to me, his name is synonymous with television news. He covered the most important events of and amazing, tumultuous century– from the Kennedy assassination (watch the video above, it will give you chills) to the Nuremberg trials, to man’s first steps on the moon.
He was one of a dying breed of newsmen and women– someone whose lifelong commitment to delivering the news was fueled, not by a desire for sensationalism or dramatization, but by a desire to disseminate important information to the American public so that we might all be better informed about what’s going on the world, and be better equipped to make important decisions.
In times like these, tv news could really use a man like him. His straightforwardness and candor will be missed.
Don’t worry, folks. Lest you think we were done scraping the bottom of the Gosselin barrel for stories today, I’m pleased to bring you just one more (I think): Jon Gosselin has officially purchased an apartment in Manhattan. It’s a 2-bedroom in the Alexandria at 72nd and Broadway. It’s apparently a nice building, but nothing super fancy. However, I did a quick little check, and it looks like 1-beds in the building sell for around a million bucks. So you know he probably paid $1.5M or up for the 2-bed. It’s certainly not a place for his eight kids to come visit him, but something tells me it fits Hailey Glasspipeman and her weed perfectly well.
As I previously mentioned, today is a very slow news day. A slow news day is a Z-lister’s best friend. Which is why we’re finally hearing news about Leelee Sobieski getting engaged last month to her boyfriend, menswear designer Adam Kimmel.
In fact, the above pictures were taken June 23 at the Public Enemies premiere in LA, and Leelee’s making absolutely no effort to hide her engagement ring. On the red carpet, she told Us Weekly that she was “leaving to meet [Adam] in Paris” the next day. This was nearly a month ago and we’re just now hearing about it. Fame is fleeting, folks.
Oh, happy day! Samantha and Lindsay back together, in broad daylight, like the star-crossed, coke-fueled lovers that they are. Lindsay and Sam had lunch at a Mexican restaurant in LA yesterday, and then headed out to see the American Idol tour. Yeah, you read that right. The American Idol tour. They both clearly loved it, Twittering about how Matt Giraud and Adam Lambert were so amazing. (No comments on Kris Allen, though.)
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