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MADONNA has upset dignitaries in St. Petersburg, Russia by using foul language to promote an upcoming show in the city.
The pop superstar proclaimed the Russian for "It’s f**king great" at the beginning of an online audio teaser for her Sticky and Sweet concert in Palace Square on 2 August (09).
Reports suggest members of the legislative assembly in St. Petersburg have addressed Governor Valentina Matvienko, with a proposal to sue Madonna for her comments.
It’s not the first time Madonna’s Palace Square show has come under fire - many city officials fear the concert could offend the moral and religious sensibilities of the citizens of St. Petersburg.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the head of the city’s Heritage Museum, has urged the pop star not to swear during the show.

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s longtime costumers, DENNIS TOMPKINS and MICHAEL BUSH, will design the suit the King of Pop will be buried in.
The Los Angeles-based designers, who have worked with Jackson for the last 20 years, had been creating costumes for the late pop star’s This Is It comeback concerts in London.
A private family funeral will be held on Tuesday morning (07Jul09) in Los Angeles before a public memorial at the Staples Center.
Reports suggest Jackson will be laid to rest in a replica of James Brown’s bronze casket at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, where his grandmother was buried in 1990.
Other stars whose final resting place is at Forest Lawn include Lucille Ball, Bette Davis and Liberace.

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Actress MISCHA BARTON was reprimanded in a London nightclub toilet after trying to bundle a pal into a cubicle with her.
The former The O.C. star and a girlfriend were stopped from sharing a cubicle at Whisky Mist club in Mayfair during a recent night out by a toilet attendant.
A bystander tells Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, "Mischa looked like she was having a good night. After sitting with a few pals at her VIP table she dragged her friend Bridget into the loos.
"They tried to go into the toilet cubicle together but they were stopped by the toilet attendant. The lady said to her, ‘What are you doing? You are not allowed to go in together, you have to come out now.’ "Mischa looked really p**sed off and embarrassed." Barton then entered another cubicle alone - and spend several minutes inside in silence, prompting the attendant to ask if she was OK.
A loo user adds, "She took so long to emerge that everyone was worried about her. At one point the toilet attendant had to knock on her door twice to ask if she was alright. Then her mate was knocking to check she was feeling OK.
"When she came out of the cubicle, she was complaining about people knocking on the door."

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s personal physician has chosen not to attend the singer’s memorial service next week (07Jul09) - because he fears his presence will be too much for grieving fans and family members.
Dr. Conrad Murray was by Jackson’s bedside when the King of Pop died on 25 June (09); he conducted CPR on the singer after finding him unconscious at his rented home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.
Police have questioned Murray about his treatment of Jackson.
The doctor has decided not to be a part of next week’s tributes, stating he’ll be "mourning in private".
His spokeswoman, Miranda Sevcik, tells People.com, "He (Murray) is in seclusion, not speaking even with family and friends, and won’t attend the singer’s memorial next week.
"He feels his presence would remind people of Michael Jackson’s death, and the doctor would prefer that people remember his friend as he was in life." Murray has declined to comment publicly on his care of Jackson, pending the outcome of toxicology tests.
Sevcik adds, "He is completely off the radar until the toxicology results are revealed."

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MADONNA is to pay tribute to MICHAEL JACKSON at her London concert on Saturday night (04Jul09) with the help of a dancer who has mastered the King of Pop’s moves.
The pop superstar has posted dress rehearsal pictures on her official website and the shots feature Madonna looking on as a Jackson dancing doppelganger performs signature Jacko moves.
The Material Girl’s publicist Liz Rosenberg has confirmed Madonna will perform a song and dance tribute to Jackson. It is not known what that will consist of but Madonna used to perform Jackson’s Billie Jean live.
The Sticky & Sweet show will take place at London’s O2 Arena, where Jackson was billed to start his 50-date residency later this month (Jul09).

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More than 120,000 MICHAEL JACKSON fans-per-second visited the website of Los Angeles’ Staples Center for the first 90 minutes of Friday’s (03Jul09) memorial ticket giveaway.
Devotees were told they could register for free tickets for next week’s (07Jul09) tribute via the site at a press conference on Friday morning, and the fans weren’t hanging around - 90 minutes after the tickets became available over 500 million people had visited the site, which briefly crashed a couple of times. An additional server was brought in to accommodate the volume of traffic.
More than 8,000 fans will hear if they’ve been lucky enough to land a pair of tickets on Sunday (05Jul09). The registration closes at 6pm on Saturday (04Jul09).
A celebration of the late pop superstar’s life will take place at Staples Center and the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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The stars came out for SLASH as the rocker headlined Norway’s Quart Festival on Tuesday (30Jun09) - OZZY OSBOURNE and RON WOOD joined him onstage.
The Velvet Revolver and ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist was also joined by Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie during the show.
Slash’s back-up band for the gig included Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham, Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 and members of Jane’s Addiction and Scars On Broadway.
His set was a run through rock music history with renditions of songs by Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
Slash also included a tribute to Michael Jackson, who the rocker joined onstage at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards and appeared on his Give Into Me hit.

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LOST BOYS star COREY FELDMAN regrets not making amends with his old pal MICHAEL JACKSON before the King of Pop’s death last week (25Jun09).
The former child star was one of the pop star’s closest pals 10 years ago, but the pair had a public falling out in 2001 and Feldman further distanced himself from Jackson during his child molestation trial in 2005, when he suggested his relationship with the singer may have been inappropriate.
Now, a week after Jackson’s death, Feldman admits he wishes he could have met with his old friend and patched up their differences.
He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "It (Jackson’s death) makes you realise that you really have everything you value in life, and every moment and breath. I really learned it’s a bad idea to let unfinished things go unfinished.
"It’s nice to have closure. It’s unfortunate to me that I will never have that closure."

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Moviemaker WIM WENDERS has halted work on new film PINA following the death of the movie’s subject, PINA BAUSCH.
The legendary choreographer died on Tuesday (30Jun09) days after she was diagnosed with cancer. She was 68.
The Wenders film she was working on when she died was billed as the first 3-D dance film.
A spokesman for the filmmaker claims Wenders will decide how to proceed with the film after talking with Bausch’s family.

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HARRY POTTER star IAN HART felt terrible for one young mum on the set of his new film A BOY CALLED DAD - because her triplets were always cold, soaking and in peril.
The unnamed mum agreed to let her babies alternate as the child star of the movie - but Hart feels sure she had no idea what was expected of the tots.
In one scene, his movie son, Kyle Ward, was standing on the edge of a cliff in wind and driving rain - with one of the babies cradled in his arms.
The Backbeat star says, "We did some of that scene with a doll and then we did the rest of the scene with the baby. The mother of the baby was watching it get further and further away from her arms and closer and closer to the edge of a cliff handled by a child, effectively.
"What was going through her mind I don’t know! It was raining and it was wet and slippery… We had rain galore and wind.
"The poor little baby was getting rained on. It was freezing cold and the baby was crying; by take two this little baby was soaked! His little face was covered in water. It was terrible."

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DIANA ROSS’ actor son EVAN phoned home in tears from the set of new movie LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN - because playing a violent hoodlum left him exhausted and upset.
Ross’ character Romeo is a thuggish gangster in the gritty new film, and insists he needed support to get through the project.
He explains, "First I called Terrence Howard, who I worked with in Pride, and asked him what he thought, and he told me to follow my instincts with the role, but I didn’t grow up with gangster qualities.
"There is a scene at the end of the movie where I’m yelling and we did the scene so many times. I had to go to the trailer for a second because I couldn’t stop crying and I didn’t feel like I could do it again.
"I left that day and I called my mom because I live alone now and I don’t see her all the time, so I can’t just go home. I called her and I told her I was riled up and I needed to calm myself for a second." And the sage-like soul star gave him advice that he’ll always hold dear: "She was like, ‘Go outside and find light. Go to where the sun is and just breathe.’ She gets worried about me when I get into that dark place."

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JERMAINE JACKSON has dismissed his former sister-in-law DEBBIE ROWE’s bid to gain custody of her two children with MICHAEL JACKSON - insisting it isn’t what the King of Pop wanted.
After a week of silence following Jackson’s sudden death, Rowe spoke out on Thursday (02Jul09), revealing she wanted to fight for Prince Michael and Paris.
Her lawyer later insisted Rowe was still considering her options ahead of a potential custody battle - but Jermaine insists his late brother’s will details his wishes, and that should be respected.
He says, "The will was really written well. And it was executed by the executors. And they did a great job. It’s what it is.
"No, (I don’t think she has a shot at custody) because this is what Michael wanted. If we’re looking at Michael and this is all about Michael, this is what he wanted." Jackson’s will hands over custody of his three kids - including youngest son ‘Blanket’ Prince Michael II - to his mother Katherine. Diana Ross is named as an alternative guardian.

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More than 17,000 fans of MICHAEL JACKSON will get the chance to bid farewell to the late King of Pop at an official memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday (07Jul09).
At a press conference outside the venue, where Jackson was rehearsing for his This Is It comeback shows in the days before his death last week (25Jun09), AEG Live President and CEO Tim Leiweke laid down the rules of next week’s tribute to hundreds of fans and media representatives on Friday morning (03Jul09).
Joined by Los Angeles City Council official Jan Perry and Jackson family publicist Ken Sunshine, Leiweke made it clear fans turning up at the Staples Center would not be able to gain access to the memorial.
The AEG Live boss stated he hoped the event would be a "dignified and very uplifting memorial for the Jackson family", which has made available a "worldwide (TV) pool feed from the services for every network for free".
He said, "The family has also made available 17,500 tickets for Michael’s fans to be part of this service. 11,000 of those tickets will be at Staples Center, 6,500 of those tickets will be at the Nokia Theatre for a simulcast of the funeral on three big screens across the street." Fans will be able to register for tickets on Staples Center’s official website until 6pm on Saturday (04Jul09). Those people selected in a lottery will be alerted on Sunday (05Jul09) and they will be able to pick up tickets and wristbands on Monday (06Jul09).
Leiweke, whose company is planning the memorial, insisted, "There will be no tickets sold for this memorial service… There will be no distribution of tickets at Staples Center… There will be no outside broadcast of the memorial service in or around Staples Center of L.A. Live.
"We request and encourage everyone to join us for the memorial service by following the worldwide pool. There will be no funeral procession." Councilwoman Perry added, "I want to stress to those people who are coming or thinking about coming here to our city for this special event that you might want to consider watching this from the comfort of your own home." Publicist Sunshine stated, "No details are forthcoming about the memorial; it’s still being developed."

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Tuesday’s (07Jul09) MICHAEL JACKSON memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles will be one of many taking place around America next week, according to the King of Pop’s brother JERMAINE JACKSON.
Jackson has revealed there will be a private funeral ceremony for family and "special guests" early on Tuesday, before the public memorial, which will feature eulogies, tributes and all-star performances.
Reports suggest the late pop star will be buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood before the memorial.
Jermaine insists there are other memorials planned.
The Mayor of Gary, Indiana, where Jackson was born, has been in talks with the Jacksons about staging a tribute there.

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MICHAEL JACKSON didn’t snub his father by excluding him from his will, according to the superstar’s brother JERMAINE.
A will drawn up by the King of Pop back in 2002 hands over his entire estate to a family trust comprising of his mother Katherine and his three children.
Much has been made about the absence of his dad Joe, who Jackson claimed had physically abused him and his siblings as a child.
But Jermaine insists Joe will benefit from his late son’s estate.
The singer says, "(Joe’s exclusion) doesn’t bother me, because if my mother’s mentioned, my father’s fine. I mean, if my mother’s fine, we’re all fine. But most important, it’s not about money. It’s not about property. We’re a family. We don’t let that get in the way. That’s not important to us. That’s not important." Joe and Katherine Jackson wed in 1949 but have been separated for years; they have never filed for divorce. Joe lives in Las Vegas, while Katherine resides in the family compound in Encino, California.

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The concert promoters behind MICHAEL JACKSON’s comeback tour will receive a multi-million dollar payout from the show’s insurers if reports linking the superstar’s passing to drugs are correct - because their policy covers death by overdose.
AEG Live bosses took out a $17.5 million (£11.7 million) insurance policy from Lloyd’s of London in the event a health crisis would cause Jackson to pull out of his 50-date London residency.
Following his sudden death last week (25Jun09), rumours have swirled about the Thriller hitmaker’s prolonged dependence on prescription drugs, with some reports suggesting his cardiac arrest was triggered by an accidental overdose.
Further tests to determine the singer’s cause of death have been ordered by the Los Angeles coroner’s office and the results are expected within weeks.
If drugs are proved to have played a part in Jackson’s untimely passing, AEG executives will be able to recoup some of their massive losses - but not if he’s ruled to have died of natural causes, according to the company’s chief executive Randy Phillips.

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MICHAEL JACKSON underwent surgery to remove a cancerous lesion from his nose just days before his sudden death, according to new reports.
The pop superstar passed away last week (25Jun09) after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Rumours about his cause of death have been swirling ever since, with reports suggesting a lengthy dependence on prescription drugs contributed to his untimely demise.
Now Jackson biographer Diane Dimond has caused a stir with shocking new claims - alleging the Thriller hitmaker had shown early signs of skin cancer.
She tells Usmagazine.com, "Last week, I had two real sources call me and say he’s getting surgery right now for removal of skin cancer off his nose." Results from Jackson’s autopsy are expected within weeks.

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HARRY POTTER star RUPERT GRINT has been harbouring a crush on co-star EMMA WATSON for years - confessing both he and DANIEL RADCLIFFE battle to win favour with the pretty actress during filming.
The trio met as kids when they were cast as the leading stars of the boy wizard franchise for the first movie in the series, 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
They have all featured in every Potter film since - and Grint admits he couldn’t wait to lock lips with Watson on film for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when their characters share a kiss.
The 20 year old is prepared for rumours of their on-screen relationship crossing over into real life - and Grint will revel every minute of it, even if it’s not entirely true.
Speaking before he filmed the love scene with Watson, Grint told FHM magazine, "A lot of people think there’s something going on (between me and Emma Watson) because I have to kiss her on film soon.
"I’ll be honest with you: it’s not something I’d say I’m dreading. Emma’s a pretty girl. Have Daniel or I ever hit on Emma? Well, she’s quite popular with the cast. As for who has the worst crush on her - me or Radcliffe - I’d rather not say." But Grint’s movie kiss with Watson wasn’t as good as he had hoped. He recently admitted, "We’ve known each other for 10 years so it was a bit like kissing my sister."

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