Barney goes to Hollywood!
I'm thrilled to tell you that my fave, Neil Patrick Harris, has been asked to host the 2009 Emmys!
The 61st Annual Emmy Awards will air on September 20 on CBS, the network that's home to NPH's How I Met Your Mother.
If you saw Neil host this year's Tonys, then you'll know he is absolutely up to the task. He's hilarious, endearing, and I just get can't enough.
Suit up for the Emmys, kids!
Update: At a press conference this afternoon, attorney Eric George said that Debbie "has not reached a final decision on pending custody," and she has chosen to keep silent "out of respect for Michael's children."
It would be a "distortion of the truth" to say she is going after custody, the lawyer said. He promised when Deb makes her decision, the media will be notified.
Debbie Rowe is going after the kids.
The mother of Michael Jackson's two eldest kids, Prince, 12, and Paris, 11, "is going to be pursuing custody of the children," her attorney, Iris Finsilver said. "Frankly, she won't have to fight for them," the lawyer told People.com. "She is the children's biological mother. She loves her children."
The kids, including Michael's youngest son, Blanket (who's biological mother is not known), are temporarily in the care of the pop star's mother, Katherine Jackson, who was named as guardian in Michael's will. But Debbie says she's willing to take custody of Blanket, as well, to keep the siblings together.
It looks like she will have a battle on her hands, though, as the Jackson family says they intend to seek permanent custody. "They will fight," says an insider.
In an interview with a Los Angeles television station today, Debbie said, "I want my children. I am stepping up. I have to."
It's going to get ugly.
Here is Michael Jackson's last performance.
Filmed just two days before his death, Michael looked top notch rehearsing for his sold-out This Is It tour, performing "They Don't Really Care About Us."
It's so sad -- especially if you had tickets for one of the sold-out London shows. It looks like it would have been legendary.
After all the speculation regarding Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial service plans, we now know what's going to happen.
Michael's actual funeral will take place at Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Mortuary Tuesday morning. Following the service, a memorial will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 10 am PT, reps for the Jackson family announced. A simulcast will play at the Nokia Theatre. 11,000 tickets for the Staples Center event and 6,500 tickets to the one at the Nokia Theatre will be distributed to the public free of charge. You can sign up for the random drawing for tickets here.
We still don't know if Michael's body -- which will be buried in a $25,000, 14-karat gold-plated casket -- will be at the memorial.
Jermaine Jackson went on the Today show this morning and shared his grief over his brother's death with the world.
"He went too soon," said Jermaine, of Michael Jackson, who passed away last week at 50. "I wish that it was me. I've always felt that I was his backbone, someone to be there for him. I was there and he was sort of like Moses. The things he couldn't say, I would say them."
Jermaine described what it was like to get the news from his devastated mother, Katherine.
"She was crying, saying he was dead. To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine," Jermaine explained to Matt Lauer.
"I tried to console her," he went on, "but I wanted to see Michael and I wanted to see my brother. To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said Michael, 'I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'"
Michael's children got to say goodbye to their dad, as well.
"I know it's tough, but I think it was the best thing to do. At first I was against it, but what do you say if you don't show them?" Jermaine said of the decision to let them see his body.
As for the rumors of Michael's possible drug use, Jermaine says that he would "be hurt" if they turned out to be true "because Michael has always been a person who was against anything like that."
But he also doesn't think it's impossible. "I'm not saying it's right, because it's not right," Jermaine said of the drug talk. "But in this business, the pressure, and things that you go through -- you never know what people might turn to."
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