Michael Jackson

Don't remove love for Michael Jackson I am writing regarding the July 14 article "Michael Jackson's resting place defaced." I disagree with removing the fans' messages that are written on outside walls of Michael Jackson's mausoleum. I am surprised that Forest Lawn officials consider it vandalism. How can they consider these messages defacement, when fans try to give Michael Jackson their true love, and express themselves to him in a way that they could never get the chance to when Michael was still alive?

Michael Jackson, who had been rehearsing in a nondescript building near Bob Hope Airport in preparation for an upcoming sold-out 50-show tour, was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon. The singer arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times. Paramedics were called to a home in the 100 block of Carolwood Drive off Sunset Boulevard and rushed Jackson to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. News of his death comes as Jackson, 50, was attempting a comeback after receiving the backing of two billionaires.

BURBANK – Hoards of fans surrounded the perimeter of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary in the Hollywood Hills this morning, waiting for a caravan of SUVs and limousines carrying the family of Michael Jackson. The California Highway Patrol temporarily closed parts of the 405, 101, and 134 freeways for the procession. The eastbound Riverside Drive was also closed, as was both directions of the Forest Lawn Drive ramp. Crowds outside Forest Lawn, which began gathering late last week, meandered around the sprawling facility in search of access.

When my family and I emigrated from Iran, arriving in Glendale in the late 1980s, I didn’t know any English, didn’t have a single friend, and found out rather quickly that there was a gaping rift between my parents’ conservative Armenian upbringing and the bold sense of freedom and individuality taught and valued in America. This rift would continue to be the core of our conflicts for much of my teenage years, but for a majority of the late ’80s to early ’90s, one powerful, supernatural force would effortlessly bridge this cultural gap: Michael Jackson.

Jselph @GlendaleNP Thanks GNP for your Twitter coverage tonight! You guys rock!! ? MohammedMAhmed @GlendaleNP Yup, family was saying they will end the pictures once casket is out. Family/Friends only. ? Deadkingofpop Defintely! Love it! MJ would have it no other way. ? Cowhateration NICE! (mj burial in g?dale) ? RT @GlendaleNP: Yup. It appears at least some of the ushers have a single white glove on. ? TAINTEDLUVV@glendalenp its one glove ?

Morrie Fiss, manager of Glendale Flower Mart, has been a media darling lately. Reporters from London and Germany have swung by his flower store asking for interviews and insider tips about the neighboring Forrest Lawn Memorial Park across the street on South Glendale Avenue. The cemetery is now the final resting place for Michael Jackson and could become a pilgrimage of sorts for fans of one of the greatest pop stars of all time. And so if location is everything, Glendale Flower Mart is poised to see big business.

Fans express their gratitude for pop star Michael Jackson. ? ?He was the greatest entertainer of all time. Can?t get any better than that. I got on my shirt. I got my hat. I even got on my glove.? KEVIN HARRIS Ventura ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?He was a humanitarian and people took him for granted. He meant a lot [and] changed my life for the better,? said Martinez, who unbeknownst to her husband took a three-hour train ride from Riverside to pay her final respects.

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday cleared the way for payment of Michael Jackson’s funeral by his estate, with the event set to take place today at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Before doing so, Judge Mitchell Beckloff questioned whether John Branca and John McClain, the estate’s administrators, had the cash available to cover the funeral without affecting their ability to pay off creditors or other beneficiaries. “I don’t know how many creditors’ claims there are out there,” Beckloff said.

Don't remove love for Michael Jackson I am writing regarding the July 14 article "Michael Jackson's resting place defaced." I disagree with removing the fans' messages that are written on outside walls of Michael Jackson's mausoleum. I am surprised that Forest Lawn officials consider it vandalism. How can they consider these messages defacement, when fans try to give Michael Jackson their true love, and express themselves to him in a way that they could never get the chance to when Michael was still alive?

GLENDALE— Forest Lawn Memorial Park officials confirmed Tuesday that visitors defaced the outside walls of Michael Jackson's mausoleum with messages written in black marker. Fans appeared to have written the messages of adoration for Jackson, but it was unclear when the words were written, said William Martin, Forest Lawn's communications manager. "It's unfortunate people are deciding to deface private property and not respecting the serenity of the park," he said.

Dozens of fans from across the globe filed into Forest Lawn Memorial Park this morning to pay tribute to Michael Jackson on the first anniversary of the pop icon’s death. Fans starting lining up outside the cemetery gates at around 6 a.m. for a chance to pay tribute to Jackson, who is interred inside the Great Mausoleum. Lydia Gimenez-Llort, 44, said she timed a business trip from Barcelona to coincide with the anniversary, and planned “to do the rounds” today, with visits to Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his family’s home.

CENTRAL GLENDALE — First- and second-graders at R. D. White Elementary School on Monday donned black paper fedoras sparkling with silver glitter as they serenaded hundreds of fellow classmates with two Michael Jackson tunes in tribute to his life. Two weeks before the first anniversary of the pop icon's death, the first- and second-graders stood outside on the school's footsteps and belted out the lyrics to "Heal the World" and "I'll Be There" while using hand gestures to illustrate the songs.

It’s been a huge news week here in Glendale — from the Station fire to Michael Jackson — filled with near-scoops and tragedy, inanity and pathos. The story line reads a bit like “The Paper,” told by TMZ. First, though, a preemptive apology: I’m exhausted, my mind is running on office coffee, and I have no earthly idea how this column will turn out. By the end of my 650 words, I may be just typing like Jack Nicholson in “The Shining.” Then again, it may be one of the most brilliant things I’ve written.

Jselph @GlendaleNP Thanks GNP for your Twitter coverage tonight! You guys rock!! ? MohammedMAhmed @GlendaleNP Yup, family was saying they will end the pictures once casket is out. Family/Friends only. ? Deadkingofpop Defintely! Love it! MJ would have it no other way. ? Cowhateration NICE! (mj burial in g?dale) ? RT @GlendaleNP: Yup. It appears at least some of the ushers have a single white glove on. ? TAINTEDLUVV@glendalenp its one glove ?

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday cleared the way for payment of Michael Jackson’s funeral by his estate, with the event set to take place today at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Before doing so, Judge Mitchell Beckloff questioned whether John Branca and John McClain, the estate’s administrators, had the cash available to cover the funeral without affecting their ability to pay off creditors or other beneficiaries. “I don’t know how many creditors’ claims there are out there,” Beckloff said.

GLENDALE — Media from across the world packed into tents facing the entrance of Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park Thursday, beaming reports to Russia, Brazil and Japan in an effort to sate the voracious appetite for information about the slain pop star, whose lyrics needed no translation, they said. “For me it’s a mixed experience,” said Jessica Maldonado, a reporter whose Univision dispatches on the life and times of Michael Jackson have informed the Spanish-language audience for years.

Fans express their gratitude for pop star Michael Jackson. ? ?He was the greatest entertainer of all time. Can?t get any better than that. I got on my shirt. I got my hat. I even got on my glove.? KEVIN HARRIS Ventura ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?He was a humanitarian and people took him for granted. He meant a lot [and] changed my life for the better,? said Martinez, who unbeknownst to her husband took a three-hour train ride from Riverside to pay her final respects.

Michael Jackson’s funeral Thursday at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park was, for all its anticipation, a relatively subdued affair — absent of the chaos that poured into streets for his Los Angeles memorial in July. The crowd that amassed outside the cemetery’s South Glendale Avenue wrought-iron gates was largely made up of local and international media, who were confined to the area immediately outside. The funeral service, which was to begin at 7 p.m., started late, with the 26-vehicle Jackson motorcade arriving about 8:30 p.m. Dozens of fans carried signs and cheered as the motorcade passed Los Feliz Road and Glendale Avenue as Jackson’s music played in the background.