The King of Pop, Michael Jackson was remembered at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles today in a moving ceremony that included musicians, actors, sports celebrities and of course family.

From the funny story Magic Johnson told about Michael having Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner when he visited, to the stories Brooke Shields told of her childhood friend, the tribute was moving and respectful.

I think we can all agree (to those who watched) the most moving part was when Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, spoke on stage:

“Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine,” “I just wanted to say I love him so much.”

You can see from the pictures how close his children are with Paris paying extra attention to her little brother ‘Blanket’.

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“There were times when he would ask me to marry him, and I would say, ‘You have me for the rest of your life, you don’t need to marry me, I’m going to go on and do my own life and have my own marriage and my own kids, and you’ll always have me.’  “I think it made him relax. He didn’t want to lose things that meant something to him.”

….Brooke Shields telling Rolling Stone magazine (for their Michael Jackson tribute edition) that she turned down countless marriage proposals by MJ

Karina Smirnoff rocks some outfits from the Ed Hardy outlet at their corporate head office.   She and Maks are busy planning their wedding, and by planning I mean they`ve hired a wedding planner, picked a month (June 2010) but not a day.  They did want to originally have it in a castle, but Maks nixed that idea:

“We’re probably going to do something in Manhattan, I don’t know what,” he told PEOPLE “We’re moving along, but it’s not a fast process.” 

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Robert Pattinson is on  the set of Remember Me trying to be incognito with that hoodie, but he will need to do better than that to be unrecognizable.  Um, especially on a movie set.

Also on the movie set (but not filming together) the very handsome Pierce Brosnan filming his scenes.  That man can totally rock a suit like nobody else.

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Jason Statham out with the woman I hope to one day replace 

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