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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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