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Family and friends gather tonight for Michael Jackson burial in Glendale | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times

Family and friends gather tonight for Michael Jackson burial in Glendale

September 3, 2009 |  7:24 am

Friends and family will converge on Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale this evening for the burial of Michael Jackson.

Authorities will be out in force for the funeral, though they don't expect huge crowds of spectators. The funeral begins at 7 p.m.

Jackson will be interred in the expansive cemetery's Great Mausoleum. The pop singer's remains will be placed in a crypt in the Holly Terrace section of the mausoleum, a massive building that is the final resting place for stars from film's golden age, such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.

The burial caps months of rumors about where he would be laid to rest. One report had his body stored in a crypt owned by Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., and there was widespread speculation that an elaborate grave -- and ultimately, a Graceland-style museum -- would be constructed at the entertainer's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County.

But Jackson's family, led by his 79-year-old mother, Katherine, selected Forest Lawn, a 20-minute trip across the San Fernando Valley from their Encino home.

On Wednesday, it was decided that Jackson's estate will pay the undisclosed expenses for the singer's funeral today -- a sum one attorney called "extraordinary."

Probate Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved the payment at a hearing Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles after an attorney for the estate's administrators assured him that the estate had the financial resources to pay for the funeral and that it would not affect its solvency.

"The expenses are extraordinary; however, Michael Jackson is extraordinary," said attorney Jeryll S. Cohen, who told the judge that the administrators did not object to the expenses. "They may not be appropriate for an ordinary person, but Michael Jackson was not ordinary."

Attorneys for the singer's mother filed papers under seal late Tuesday asking that the estate foot the bill for the funeral she has planned. Burt Levitch, Katherine Jackson's attorney, said outside of court that he did not find the expenses extraordinary.

The bulk of the cost was going to the fee for Jackson to be interred at the cemetery, Levitch said. There, Jackson will be laid to rest amid lavish decorations, including statues and stained glass windows.

Margaret G. Lodise, an attorney representing Jackson's children, said she had no concerns that the funeral costs would overburden the estate. The sum is "not going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back," Lodise said.

Glendale city officials have said the public costs associated with the burial, including traffic control and other police services, would be passed on to the family.

Police spokesman Tom Lorenz said the cost of police services for Jackson's funeral would be $150,000 at most. Under a contract with Forest Lawn, police will provide "elaborate" security, including dogs and air support, he said.

He declined to specify how many officers would be deployed for the funeral, but said it would not affect the department's ongoing fire efforts, which he said were now down a handful of officers dealing with street closures.

--Victoria Kim

Photo: Michael Jackson will be interred today in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, where stars such as Clark Gable have also been laid to rest.

Family and friends gather tonight for Michael Jackson burial in Glendale | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times

Filming locations of TV Shows, Made-for-TV Movies & Music Videos

Filming locations of TV Shows,
Made-for-TV Movies & Music Videos.

    

• The "GOLDEN GIRLS" house was supposed to be located at 6151 Richmond St., in Miami, Florida.
  
  In real life, the original home was located at 245 N. Saltair Ave, in West Los Angeles.
  
  Later, the Disney company built a copy of the house at their Disney Studios in Orlando's Disney World, and it became part of the studio tour there, until it (the replica) was torn down in 2003.
  
  But the original home still stands in the hills of Brentwood (although a wall &  high foliage makes it difficult to see much of the home when you drive by).

Remember: this is a private home.  Do not trespass on their property,
knock on their door, or do anything else that might disturb the residents.

• A jungle treehouse played a key role in the kid's series, "LAND OF THE LOST," wherein a family is sucked into a portal and ends up in a prehistoric world with dinosaurs and cavemen.

That treehouse still stands, in Descanso Gardens, which doubled as the jungle in that TV series. It's located at 1418 Descanso Drive, in the city of La Cañada/Flintridge (northwest of Pasadena).

• In the 1982 music video "THRILLER," Michael Jackson is chased by ghouls through a neighborhood of old Victorian homes.

That neighborhood is Carroll Avenue (east of downtown L.A., the same street where you'll find the "Charmed" house), and the main house in that video can be found at 1345 Carroll Avenue. *





• Michael Jackson made the news in 1984 when he managed to set his hair on fire while filming a PEPSI COMMERCIAL.
  
  This happened while he was on stage at the Shrine Auditorium (665 W. Jefferson Blvd.) near Exposition Park. *
  
  
  
  
  

    

• That famous 1985 music video, "WE ARE THE WORLD," with its host of superstars (Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, etc.), was taped at A&M Records - which used to be Charlie Chaplin's studios and is now the Jim Henson studios - located at 1416 N. La Brea Avenue, in Hollywood.  [Buy the video]
  
  
  
  

• The outdoor scenes at the Carrington mansion from the 80's TV series "DYNASTY" were shot at a Pasadena home, located at 1145 Arden Road.
  
  

• The Colby mansion from "THE COLBYS" is at 1060 Brooklawn Drive, in Bel-Air.
  
  
  
  

• The 1987 music video of the song "Where The Streets Have No Name," by supergroup "U2," was performed on the roof of a row of stores located at the corner of 7th Street & Main Street, near the Skid Row section of downtown Los Angeles (before the cops broke it up). *
  
  
  
  

• Those twin skyscrapers with the tall fountains out front, which you saw each week in the TV detective-romance series "REMINGTON STEELE" were in fact the twin Century Plaza Towers, at the ABC Entertainment Center (2040 Avenue of the Stars) in Century City, as seen from Avenue of the Stars. [Buy the videos]
  
  The same towers were used in "MOONLIGHTING" with Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. [Buy CD]
  
  
  
  

• If you've seen the TV series "CHiPs" or any other number of Hollywood productions about the weird side of L.A. beach life, then you've glimpsed the infamous Venice Boardwalk (Ocean Front Walk), just south of Santa Monica. It's here that producers love to capture mimes, jugglers, fire-breathers and bikinied blondes roller skating while wearing headphones...
  
  
  
  

From 1979-1976, in the TV series "BENSON," Robert Guillaume went from butler to chief executive at the Governor's Mansion. That mansion was actually a Pasadena home, located at 1365 S. Oakland Avenue.