Tuesday July 07, 2009 at 11:31
“… because when I see you smile, I can face the world…
For your smile, I can do any thing.
When I see you smile at me, shines a light…
… which illuminates my life.”
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Tuesday July 07, 2009 at 14:53
The Michael Jackson Memorial: By the Numbers
Tickets distributed via Internet lottery: 11,000 (Staples Center), 6,500 (Nokia Theater)
Requests for tickets: 1.6 million
Odds of winning ticket: roughly 1 in 183
Price of tickets for memorial: free
Highest price for ticket quoted on eBay: $20,000
Price of domain name officialmichaeljacksonmemorial.com: $9 million
Michael Jackson Facebook fan pages: 548
Reported number of Facebook friends: 6.4 million (vs. 80,000 before his death)
Number of times his friend Elizabeth Taylor Tweeted about Jackson memorial: 8
Estimated length of ceremony: 90 min
Number of Grammy awards by performers at ceremony: 40
Number of Grammys won by Michael Jackson in his lifetime: 13
Number of police officers to be staffed around Staples Center: estimated at 3,200
Cost to the city of Los Angeles: estimated at $3.5 million
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Tuesday July 07, 2009 at 15:36
Participants in the morning, lunch, and closing plenary sessions will include:
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* President Bill Clinton
* Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
* Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
* John Oliver, The Daily Show Correspondent
* Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, White House Council on Environmental Quality
* Daniella Gibbs Leger, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Message Events, The White House
* Joel Madden, leader of the band Good Charlotte
* John Prendergast, Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project
* John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress
* Spoken word artists Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and Staceyann Chin
* David Halperin, Director, Campus Progress
* Erica Williams, Deputy Director, Campus Progress
TOMORROW!
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