Custody deal for Jackson children

LOS ANGELES: A custody deal has been reached for Michael Jackson's children that will see the biological mother of the two eldest have parental rights and their grandmother retain permanent custody of all three, US media reported yesterday.

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In Tinseltown, a dead man steals a live show

THE final, posthumous performance of Michael Jackson was in the transcendent tradition of his previous shows: part musical feast, part religious experience, part examination of a man who seemed not a man but something else his public was always trying to figure out. Boy? Demigod? Alien? It was, at times and fittingly, odd. There was deep, heartfelt, intimate emotion at the public memorial mixed with fantasy, sequins, Mariah Carey and Al Sharpton.

In Tinseltown, a dead man steals his own live show

THE final, posthumous performance of Michael Jackson was in the transcendent tradition of his previous shows: part musical feast, part religious experience, part examination of a man who seemed not a man but something else his public was always trying to figure out. Boy? Demigod? Alien? It was, at times and fittingly, odd. There was deep, heartfelt, intimate emotion at the public memorial but it was mixed with fantasy , sequins, Mariah Carey and Al Sharpton.