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Michael Jackson’s public memorial starts in approximately ten minutes, at 1:00 pm EST/10:00 AM PST. Live footage was shown of the body being transported in a motorcade along the freeway, which was closed down specifically for the funeral. It’s an impressive motorcade said to be made up of 15 Land Rovers lent by the Land Rover Encino and multiple other black cars and Rolls Royces.
At least 50 theaters around the country are simulcasting the memorial tribute live. You can watch live online through the video above or on CNN.com.
This is so surreal .
R.I.P. MJ
I am watching the memorial in FOX NEWS- FAIR AND BALANCED.
Michael Jackson. RIP. Your fans will miss you and your music will be alive in their hearts.
I don’t care for all of the Jesus music. What the hell was Michael’s faith at the time of his death?
RED HOTS! RED HOTS! GIT YOUR RED HOTS, FOLKS! Comin’ up, it’s the Funeral Circus of the Year, with a special appearance by Bubbles the Monkey.
Yep….line right up here, folks!
I just want to say, thank you Celebitchy for doing your job without getting too weepy on us. I find the outpouring of emotion and support for this pedophile to be disgusting.
WHO CARES, enough already. For ten years now, just before his death, everyone from the media to celebrities and the rest of the public sneered in disgust and distaste at the thought of Michael Jackson, that always resorted to derogatory name calling and snide remarks. Now everyone suddenly acts like Jesus died once again. Bloody Hypocrites, everyone of them who ‘mourns’ him right now. Leave the man to be buried in peace and everyone should stop making themselves look like hypocritical fools. It is depressing how shallow, canting and dimwitted human beings can be.
I love Stevie Wonder so much. Sigh.
Enonymous, I never once throughout the past 10 or so years thought he was guilty. I think people attempted to take advantage of a very odd, eccentric, and rich man, and damn near got away with it.
The people who tout his guilt are the same people who take no interest in researching before vilifying. Settling out of court because you are being sued in a CIVIL (not criminal) case is in no way admission of guilt, and I think if the people who are using this as their sole basis for believing he’s guilty actually read up on the cases a little more, or on law in general, they’d see that (well they probably wouldn’t but that’s neither here nor’ there, stupidity is stupidity after all).
So tell me, am I a hypocrite for being a little saddened by this whole situation???
Grandma shouldn’t have to raise these children.
Oh, f-ck. Mayer.
Mayer was making his O face for sure.
Liz, I don’t know exactly what you are on about and you might not have though he was guilty on those abuse charges or whatever but like the rest of us, even the people who might have liked him, deep down I am sure you thought he was a weirdo from the way he looked and how he lived his life and laughed at him for it. Some might respected him for his music but I am sure almost all of them looked at Michael Jackson as a freak one way or the other. Now, they are making him to be some kind of a perfect human being that they always loved and respected him. Yeah right. Even most of those celebrities paying tribute to him right now that claimed how much of a role model MJ has always been to them, have taken the piss of him in their music videos, movies etc. Michael Jackson was the butt of all jokes and now everyone acts so serious like a real king has died. So yeah, those people are hypocrites.
Sorry, but i had to post something here. I’m seeing the memorial live, and i’m almost falling asleep. Booring! This is not a memorial. This is an MTV Award Show. Wish i could see more of MJ musical legacy, parts of his life, early sucess, and less of this pseudo- celebrities talking bul…ts about him. And do anyone think that it’s normal to have his casket during the memorial in front of millions of people? WTF!!! This is sick and MJ’s family should be ashamed to expose his body like that. And yeah, the only person who seemed really sad was Brooke Shields. She made me cry during her speech…
Glad i didn’t get the tickets to see this “circus” going on.
JohnnieR you are ridiculous. I can’t see the streaming thread, but from the reports I’m reading (msnbc) everything is calm and peaceful, not chaotic or a “Funeral Circus of the Year”, as you put it at all.
Once he’s buried, on whom will you spew you cynicism then?
CB – LOL @ Mayer’s O Face. What did Mayer have to do with MJ anyway?
I liked Brooke Shields, though.
Prissa, honey, you are delusional. Go drink some more MTV Kool-Aid and keep on smokin’ whatever it is you are. You’ll be fine.
I spew where spewin’ is richly deserved.
/begin rant
“deep down I am sure you thought he was a weirdo from the way he looked and how he lived his life and laughed at him for it.”
No, I really didn’t. I’m not trying to say I don’t make fun of people, because that would be a lie. In fact I can be quite vicious, which is not something I’m proud of whatsoever. I’ve just never chosen to point my venom in his direction. Call it childhood whimsy or whatever, but I’ve not been able to squash my complete awe of his abilities. They’re mind boggling.
I know I’m weird, not run of the mill, not like everybody else… I don’t laugh at myself for it, in fact I think it’s great. Screw being just like everyone else. I refuse to condemn someone just for being weird/odd/eccentric.
Now if you’re a bad person/asshole/abuser/all around crappy excuse for a human being…. then I consider you fair game.
And I wasn’t going on, nor was I attacking you, I was merely putting my opinion out there. If there was anyone I was going after it’d be the very rude commenter that was previously above you (it looks like it’s since been deleted). So if you took my words as attacking you, I’m sorry for that, but that was not the case. Hopefully you can see my point of view, and if not, oh well.
/end rant
Wow, Smokey Robinson’s opening line is “I wrote that song!”
Tacky, but the rest of his speech was really nice.
Still, this “funeral” is really tacky. It’s more like a concert. It should be separate from a funeral! The casket shouldn’t be there while everyone performs..
One more note, that kid wasn’t the best choice for that song. Should have went with a kid who sing gospel…
Liz, it’s cool, I did not think you were personally attacking me and I was not personally attacking you, I was just trying to make a point how most people (maybe not you, maybe not all), but most out there who have turned a 360 from resorting to derogatory name calling and snide remarks to singing Michael Jackson’s praises are plain hypocrites that just seemed to have jumped on the over hyped bandwagon. All these ‘love’, ‘support’ and ‘respect’ MJ could have used when he was alive, now it is meaningless that he is dead. I say too a little too late to all these people that mourn him to this extent.
michael jackson was green before the prius, he was lending a hand to africa before madonna and jolie made it cool, he was always trying to bring people together in life… and i’m glad he’s managed to do it in death also… RIP
Thre world has lost a great humanitarian and his life woks has shown that. To all the people posting negative blogs about Michael Jackson pause look at the man or woman in the mirror and ask yourselves what have I done to make this world a brighter place? And if you don’t have an answer to the question then it is time to get off the couch stop bitching, and start doing like Michael did. God bless the Jackson Family.
…and now I’m crying. Jesus, that little girl was devastating.
Marlin and Paris made me cry so hard, especially the line about hugging his twin in Heaven. Bless that family.
i think this memorial is tacky – a quiet, family centered service would have been more appropriate. it’s a memorial, not a circus. ugh…his poor children.
Poor kids.They r going to be exposed in the most brutal way …so sad
This whole thing is so sad. At the end watching his daughter was really hard. 🙁
I recorded this both on FOX and CNN. Those FOX bastards were always bringing up the trials, one of teh reporters on FOX said “I will always remeber Michael for ths day he stood ontop of that car and danced after his molestation case, that’s the michael jackson moment I will remember” and I yelled so loud at the TV I blew out my voice.
WHY THE FUCK DO THEY HATE HIM?!
Im still in denial you know…till the kids came up on stage and thats when my brain finally started letting it sink in and I was like ‘good god he really is dead…” this whole time I was still holding on too, like apart of me wanted him to pop out of that casket and the concert would start.
The thing Ill remeber from one of the speeches was this line “We needed michael but God needed him more” that was the sinking moment for me.
I was fine until his daughter Paris spoke and his bro Marlon . I just broke down .
Through all this the kids suffer the most .
When paris spoke, I cried, so many people seem to forget that these three innocent children lost thier father..I also agree with posters above that Michaels casket should not have been put on display, he should have been buried days ago..
I know and I wonder if this is how harry and willian took it too. In a way I am glad they shared their grief with us, it only strengthened their bond. People will really pray for those kids as opposed to just saying so. But god damn was that an unexpected moment. I was hugging the couch and crying.
I feel horrible for his gorgeous children! Paris was such a brave girl to speak. Brooke Shields did a brilliant job humanizing him and showing what a great friend he was…not always the superstar. Lovely memorial, in my opinion.
I don’t know if that’s my opinion, but i dont think they should brought Paris to speak in front of the public. It was devastating for all of us, especially for her. Poor child. She seemed so attached to her father but at the same time i felt like she was pushed to speak by her aunts and uncles. And then, to complete the set, some stupid guy screams: I love you Janet! A-hole!!!!!
I feel sorry for MJ’s children. Hope they find happiness despite all this crazy “circus” around Mj’s death. And to finish, i’m glad that i was not the only one to think that the casket shouldn’t be there. Wonder what would happen if MJ jumped out while Mariah Carey was performing! lol. That would be a moment.
I just went to a family funeral so I might have a slightly different view, but I can’t judge the memorial – everybody grieves differently.
While I’ve certainly had my opinions on his press, since he’s gone and the issue is no more, maybe more people will have put away their skepticism and fear of future danger, and can mourn the loss of a gifted artist. He’s now in the hands of God/The Universe/Thor/pick-your-hereafter, and I guess we don’t have to slam him anymore.
Sixteen squillion fans can’t all be wrong. I have to respect that.
Hey, I view all your blogs, keep them coming.