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The Michael Jackson memorial service will be televised, and it will be televised for the many millions who can't see the Michael Jackson memorial service in person at Los Angeles' STAPLES Center. The Michael Jackson memorial service shall be televised on all the major networks and cable channels. The Michael Jackson memorial service is a shaping up to be a televised media event unlike any funeral or special service before it.

Variety reports that the sentencing hearing for former Broadway producers Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb got under way Monday in Toronto, with the prosecution calling for a sentence of eight to 10 years for each defendant.

Michael Jackson was rehearsing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles just two days before his death. The rehearsal was for his hoped for comeback tour in that would of begun in London.

Color symbolism is a literary device that is hammered home by high school English teachers around the country. Students are encouraged to ponder why Jay Gatsby reaches out to the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock and what Robert Frost meant when he wrote about two roads diverging in a yellow wood. Why did these authors choose the colors green and yellow? What did they mean?

Entertainment Tonight announced that screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has tweeted about her plans for today's public Michael Jackson memorial in Los Angeles.

Britain's Got Talent star Shaheen Jafargholi has been invited by Michael Jackson's family to sing at his memorial service in Los Angeles today at the Staples Center.

Variety reports that actress Jane Lynch will not be returning to the second season of Starz comedy 'Party Down' because of her commitment to Fox fall series GLEE. Starz was hoping that the schedules could be coordinated to accommodate Lynch, but the timing did not allow her return.

Variety is reporting that Katie Holmes has teamed up with Hairspray director Adam Shankman, reality TV mastermind Nigel Lythgoe and Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba to set up the Dizzy Feet Foundation. 'Dizzy Feet' is a dance scholarship fund that will give underprivileged youngsters the opportunity to take part in dance programs and win grants to enroll in accredited dance studios.

The producers and cast of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) have dedicated the one-night-only benefit performance on Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30pm to the memory of Lovette George, who starred in the original off Broadway production and died in September, 2006 from ovarian cancer, at the age of 44. The benefit will be presented at The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Church, (54th Street and Lexington Avenue).

The producers, cast and creative team on 'Thriller - Live' will mark the funeral and memorial service for Michael Jackson with their own stage tribute on July 7th.

Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet has announced via their website that Kristin Scott Thomas will play Desiree Armfeldt and Leslie Caron will play Madame Armfeldt in Jonathan Stockhammer's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music.

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, the hit show that won the coveted 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, continues its sit-down, open-ended run at New York's Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, Monday, July 13, at 7:30pm with a cast that includes Craig Bierko, Rachel Dratch, Jackie Hoffman, Kristen Johnston, Carol Kane, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Jackson family has released the official list of participants for tomorrow's Public Memorial Service for Michael Jackson. As was announced earlier Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hudson will attend and perform.

Superheroes are not infallible it seems, as The Toxic Avenger sustained an injury that caused two performances (July 5th at 7PM and tonight's performance, July 6th at 8pm) to be cancelled.

Sienna Miller will make her Broadway debut this Fall in Roundabout's production of After Miss Julie. Sienna is featured on the cover of Vogue Magazine (July Issue). Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter sits down with Sienna to discuss her upcoming movie, her Broadway debut and her After Miss Julie co-star, Jonny Lee Miller. Original photographs of Sienna Miller are included. The magazine is on stands now.

Tony Award winning actress Lea Salonga and television actor George Takei will star in a staged reading of a new musical Allegiance at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on July 13th, 2009.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Long Wharf Theatre presents Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein with Patch Darragh (Tom Wingfield), two-time Tony® Award winner Judith Ivey (Amanda Wingfield), Keira Keeley (Laura Wingfield).

On Saturday, July 4th, cast members from the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning international hit JERSEY BOYS performed live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. for PBS' 'A Capitol Fourth' TV special.

On Friday, July 3, Cheryl Hines of HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' attended the 7 p.m. performance of Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular at The Venetian. Cheryl Hines is a huge fan of The Phantom of the Opera and has seen it several times in London, Broadway and on tour but never in Las Vegas and was very excited to be there. Following the performance she went backstage to congratulate the cast on a thrilling performance.

Michael Jackson's memorial service is expected to be a truly star-studded spectacular, according to news reports today, Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson and r&b songbird Mariah Carey are set to perform at the memorial tribute concert.