LOS ANGELES (AP) - Official Michael Jackson merchandise will soon arrive on store shelves, but the fate of a proposed tour of the King of Pop's memorabilia remains in limbo after the singer's mother expressed renewed concerns on Monday. Attorneys for Katherine Jackson withdrew their objections to an agreement with merchandiser Bravado to bring everything from Jackson trading cards, apparel and cell phone themes to consumers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge greenlit a major Michael Jackson movie deal Monday, and the film is scheduled to be in theaters later this year. The accompanying Michael Jackson merchandise will have to wait - for now.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Down a crowded merchant-lined street in downtown Los Angeles called Santee Alley, a handful of vendors are selling Michael Jackson T-shirts. Two shirts memorialize his passing, but one gets the date of his death wrong. The other has no collar tag.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The wishes Michael Jackson expressed in his will began to come into reality Aug. 3 during a lengthy court hearing, with his mother placed firmly in charge of rearing his children and the two men he designated still at the reins of his financial empire.
NEW YORK (AP) - Whitney Houston says her daughter's support helped fuel her as she geared up for her comeback record.
"She was with me every step of the way: 'Mom, you can do this.' When I get discouraged and I get like, 'This is tiring, this is wearing me out, I'm just not at that point,' she'd just go, 'No, mom, you can do this, get up, get up,'" Houston said of 15-year-old Bobbi Kristina in an interview on July 21.
Bobbi Kristina in an interview on July 21. "She encourages me and inspires me, when I look at her and I look at her eyes and I see myself, I go, 'OK, I can do this. I can do this.'"
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has ordered Nas to pay Kelis nearly $40,000 in monthly support for the near future, a day after the "Milkshake" singer gave birth to the divorcing couple's baby boy.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Louis Meisinger issued the order at a Thursday hearing.
Rogers will receive $30,471 in spousal support per month; the couple's son will receive $9,027, according to the court records.
Rogers gave birth to the boy, named Knight, at a New York hospital Wednesday. The 29-year-old filed for divorce from the rapper in April. The couple was married in July 2003.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson's personal doctor is the target of the manslaughter investigation into the singer's death, according to court documents filed July 23, the day after agents seized items from the physician's Houston clinic and a rented storage unit.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Harry Potter continues to work box-office alchemy, turning his latest movie adventure into an overnight blockbuster.
The sixth installment, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," took in $79.5 million domestically over opening weekend and $159.7 million since debuting July 15, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros. on July 19.
The movie also took in $237 million overseas since Wednesday in 54 countries, bringing its worldwide total to $396.7 million.
With some of the best reviews of any "Harry Potter" movie, "Half-Blood Prince" was off to the fastest overall start in franchise history.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and the state's top transportation official want Congress to help pave the way for private businesses to operate highway rest areas and head off a budget-cutting plan to close many of the stops next week.
NEW YORK (AP) - Us Weekly magazine has obtained video it says shows never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson's head catching on fire during filming of his 1984 Pepsi commercial. Jackson suffered severe burns after a pyrotechnics mishap caused his hair and scalp to catch afire.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gay Austrian fashion devotee Bruno has landed the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, though it's uncertain how much staying power he has.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson's public memorial, watched by millions around the world, struck a tone more spiritual than spectacular July 7, opening with a church choir serenading his golden casket and continuing with somber speeches and gospel-themed musical performances.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Like a modern-day Willy Wonka tale, fans celebrated Sunday after beating the odds to win coveted tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service at Staples Center. More than 1.6 million fans registered online for free in the random drawing of only 8,750 names.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prehistoric creatures and robots were in a photo finish for the Fourth of July box-office crown July 5, with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" tied with $42.5 million each.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The BET Awards are undergoing "a total overhaul" as the show is retooled as a tribute to Michael Jackson, the network said June 26. The telecast is being lengthened, performers are being added to the lineup and additional guests are expected to attend, said Debra L.
NEW YORK (AP) - "Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died," the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken.
Within minutes of Jackson's arrival by ambulance at UCLA Medical Center, people began arriving by the hundreds outside. As word spread that he was dead, people burst into tears. Others stood in disbelief.
NEW YORK (AP) - When Michael Jackson anointed himself "King of Pop" over two decades ago, there was considerable rumbling about his hubris: Yes, he may have become a world sensation with record-setting sales, and yes, he may have had a string of No. 1 hits, but the KING OF ALL POP MUSIC?
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the "King of Pop" and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, June 25. He was 50.
Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones. "He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him."
NEW YORK (AP) - Jamie Foxx is the comedian, but he provided the music and Justin Timberlake got all the laughs at a charity event to honor their record label boss. Timberlake, Foxx and others paid tribute to RCA/Jive Label Group President Barry Weiss on Thursday as Weiss was honored by the UJA-Federation as the group's music visionary of the year.
NEW YORK (AP) - The new iPhone went on sale June 19, greeted by much smaller lines and less hoopla than previous models.
A few hundred people were in line just before the 7 a.m. opening of Apple Inc.'s flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a fraction of the people who lined up around the block for last year's launch.
That launch turned into a debacle as Apple's servers failed to cope with the load of new customers trying to activate their phones. People who already had iPhones were trying to install a software update on the same day, adding to the pressure.
On Wed. June 10 a massive crowd of 17,500 fans packed Virginia Beach's Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. The Pop-Punk Quintet Paramore got the crowd in frenzy when the Drums, Bass and Guitar began blaring through the Amphitheatre's skyscraping speakers. As soon as vocalist Hayley Williams, 20, stepped to the stage forefront there was an absurd up roar.
After nearly two years of marriage R&B singer Usher and wife, Tameka Foster, have called it quits. The couple filed for divorce June 11, in Atlanta, GA.
According to In Touch Magazine the two have lived apart for a year.
This report follows Foster's cardiac arrest four months earlier, after complications during a cosmetic procedure in Brazil. Usher flew to Foster's side, but was unaware of the surgery.
Although reports claim that the two have split, a source, of TMZ,mentioned that Foster has yet to sign any papers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath May 31, with "Twilight" taking five trophies, including best movie. But it was Sacha Baron Cohen who gave the show it's trademark bizarro moment when he landed upside-down on the lap of Eminem.
Already facing potential jail time, singer Chris Brown is being sued again. On Wednesday, May 27, a photographer filed charges claiming the singer's bodyguard roughed him up outside a Las Angeles fitness center when he tried to snap a photo of Brown. The photographer, Robert Rosen, said he shot the photo of Brown and his friends playing basketball at the fitness center on March 13.
Baby Phat CEO and fashion model Kimora Lee Simmons shared with the world that her baby was on its way, while in labor! Simmons, in labor, updated her Twitter status saying, "It's time!! No turning back! At hospital in labor right now," E! Online reported.
For month rumors have been circulating that Grammy and Oscar winner, Jennifer Hudson is expecting a child, but the rumors have been put to rest. Hudson's friend, Felicia Fields, confirmed with the Chicago Tribune that the singer had a baby shower Saturday in her hometown, Chicago.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech's student newspaper is suing the West Virginia State Police to obtain documents related to the investigation of a graduate student's disappearance in September 1998. The lawsuit filed by Educational Media Co., operator of The Collegiate Times, seeks to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request for records on missing architecture student Robert Kovack.
ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. told fans he would stay optimistic when he heads to prison on a federal weapons conviction.
The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., performed for a packed audience Sunday night in Atlanta's Philips Arena less than two days before he is to begin serving the sentence of a year and a day.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Up-and-coming rapper Dolla was killed in a shooting at an upscale shopping mall, and a man was arrested for investigation of murder, police said Tuesday, May 19.
NEW YORK (AP) - Miss California USA lost some goodwill with controversies over semi-nude photographs and her association with a conservative advocacy group for marriage, but she gets to keep her crown.
NEW YORK (AP) - Paulina Porizkova got a pink slip from "America's Next Top Model." That's what the model-actress said Tuesday night on CBS' "The Late Late Show," dropping this bombshell to host Craig Ferguson: "Do you know why I'm in Los Angeles, besides seeing you? .
NEW YORK (AP) - Kanye West doesn't like impostors. And he doesn't care much for Twitter, either.
In a blog posting, the outspoken rapper railed against the micro-blogging site for allowing users to set up accounts under fake names. West called on the site to take down the user tweeting under his name - and Twitter listened.
The user - named KanyeWest - was suspended Wednesday, May 13. The site doesn't allow impersonation, but does allow parody impersonations clearly meant as a joke.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Danny Gokey is dancing off "American Idol," leaving showy Adam Lambert and twangy Kris Allen to duke it out in the finale of the popular Fox singing competition next week. Gokey, the bespectacled 29-year-old church music director and recent widower from Milwaukee, was revealed to have received the fewest viewer votes on Wednesday, May 13.
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