At approximately 12:21 pm PST this afternoon Los Angeles paramedics responded to a call to his home. It’s been reported that Jackson was not breathing when the paramedics arrived and resuscitation attempts were made as he was transported to UCLA medical center.

The health crisis came as the singer was trying to mount a massive comeback with a series of London concerts after his acquittal on child molestation charges in 2005.

In the last few months there have been reports that Michael Jackson was suffering from skin cancer and a lung disorder however his concert promoter has denied those rumors. Michael had to undergo several medical tests in order to be insured for his upcoming UK concert series and his health, as stated by the concert promoter was good.

Jackson had apparently been preparing for the upcoming concerts by working out so he’d be able to physically withstand the toll the concerts would take on him. He was training with Lou Ferrigno, the star of the TV show The Incredible Hulk. Perhaps his concert preparation weakened his heart.

It’s thought that Michael Jackson passed away due to a cardiac arrest. An autopsy will be performed on Friday.

As word of Jackson’s death spreads fans are gathering outside the UCLA medical center. His fans were always deeply faithful.

There are reports that some of Jackson’s family is already at the hospital and his parents who have a home in Las Vegas are on route to Los Angeles.

Michael has three children Prince Michael Jackson, born in 1997, and daughter Paris Michael Jackson, born in 1998 with his wife Debbie Rowe. Jackson later had a third child, Prince Michael Jackson II (nicknamed “Blanket”)

From People Magazine:

The tragic turn of events was just the latest twist in a life that will be remembered for career highs and personal lows. In his 50 years, Michael Jackson went from the cute little singer in his family’s group to dazzling headliner and unquestionably the reigning pop star of the ’80s to – amid accusations of child molestation – social outcast.

Early Career
The seventh of nine children of Joseph and Katherine Jackson, Michael was born in Gary, Ind., on Aug. 29, 1958, and began his career performing with his brothers. His professional debut with the Jackson 5 came at age 11.

The group set chart records with its first four singles, including “I Want You Back” and “ABC.” As a solo artist, Jackson also recorded four studio albums for Motown Records before moving, with his brothers, to Epic Records, where they continued to record as the Jacksons until 1984.

Forming a partnership with producer Quincy Jones after working together on the 1978 movie musical The Wiz – in which Jackson played a rather sheepish Scarecrow to Diana Ross’s Dorothy in this urban adaptation of The Wizard of Oz – Jackson released his solo album Off the Wall, which he co-produced with Jones. The disc spawned enduring hits including “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Rock With You.” His second Epic solo album, 1982′s Thriller, is often cited as the best-selling album of all time.

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Photo by: Toru Hanai / Reuters / LandovMichael Jackson Dies at 50| Michael Jackson
The video for Thriller all but defined the music video genre and sent the album to the top of the sales charts for 37 weeks. (All told, it remained on the list 80 weeks.) It was also nominated for 12 Grammys and won eight.

On March 25, 1983, Jackson performed his single “Billie Jean” live on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever TV special, where he debuted the moonwalk, which was to become his signature dance move. The following year, the singer was filming a Pepsi-Cola commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where he suffered second-degree burns after pyrotechnics accidentally set his hair on fire before a full house. The singer settled out of court and established the Michael Jackson Burn Center with the $1.5 million he won after settling out of court.

In 1984, Jackson did his final tour with the Jacksons to the support the album Victory. The one major hit from the recording was Michael’s duet with Mick Jagger, “State of Shock.” The next year, Jackson began to put charity first and co-wrote and sang (along with Willie Nelson, Tina Turner and nearly every pop star known at the time) “We Are the World,” on behalf of USA for Africa.

Then came the 1987 album Bad, which was when some slippage in his popularity was beginning to show. But still, the album contained many hits.

Also at this time, the reclusive Jackson, who was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, started construction on a mini-Disneyland as his residence, which he called Neverland, to make up for the childhood he claims he never had.

In 1993, Jackson addressed some personal rumors telling Oprah Winfrey on her TV show that, contrary to reports that he was bleaching his skin a lighter shade, he in fact suffered from a condition called vitiligo. He also said that his father physically abused him as a child.

Not long after, Michael himself was accused of abusing a 13-yerar-old boy who slept over at Neverland, though police found no evidence to support the claim when they searched the ranch. The case was settled by Jackson for an undisclosed sum. When other allegations of a similar nature emerged, Jackson maintained his innocence.

In August 1994, Jackson and the daughter of the late rock icon Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, were married – and very soon split up. After their 1996 divorce, Jackson married Debbie Rowe, a nurse in the office of one of his doctors. Two children were born to the couple through artificial insemination: son Prince Michael Jackson, in 1997, and daughter Paris Michael Jackson, in 1998. Jackson later had a third child, Prince Michael Jackson II (nicknamed “Blanket”).

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She was in St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica, Calif when she passed away. She was with longtime partner Ryan O’Neal, friend Alana Stewart, friend and hairdresser Mela Murphy and her doctor Lawrence Piro. She had recently returned to St. John’s for treatment of complications from anal cancer, first diagnosed three years ago.

Ryan O’Neal, her long time companion stated “She’s gone. She now belongs to the ages,” he also confirmed that she received the last rites of the Catholic Church. “She’s now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She’s in a better place now. She was with her team when she passed … Her eyes were open, but she didn’t say anything. But you could see in her eyes that she recognized us.”

Just a few days ago there were reports that Ryan and Fawcett had planned to wed before she died however, in the end, there just wasn’t time.

Friends and family plan to honor Fawcett with a funeral service at a Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles in the next few days.

A little background on Farrah Fawcett from People Magazine:

In 1973, Fawcett married actor Lee Majors, forever known as Col. Steve Austin on TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man. Three years later, she appeared in the cult sci-fi film Logan’s Run and began her stint with costars Jackson and Jaclyn Smith on Charlie’s Angels. Well-coiffed and scantily clad, the threesome created an instant sensation, with a weekly following of 23 million fans.

Farrah Fawcett’s 1976 poster Photo by: Pie InternationalFarrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer at 62| Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O’Neal
Fawcett moved on after just one season. By then, she was already a phenomenon, having donned a one-piece red bathing suit and a perfect smile for her legendary pin-up poster, which sold a still-record 12 million copies.

“I became famous almost before I had a craft,” Fawcett told The New York Times in 1986, four years after her divorce from Majors. (By then, she was already involved with Ryan O’Neal.) “I didn’t study drama at school. I was an art major. Suddenly, when I was doing Charlie’s Angels, I was getting all this fan mail, and I didn’t really know why. I don’t think anybody else did, either.”

Bumpy Film Career
Though she left TV for what was assumed to be greener pastures – feature films – Fawcett’s initial three big-screen vehicles all crash-landed. Her first, 1978′s Somebody Killed Her Husband, was lampooned in MAD magazine under the title, Somebody Killed Her Career.

It took some serious dramatic TV roles, including that of a battered wife in 1984′s The Burning Bed (which earned her an Emmy nomination), as well as starring in small-screen biopics about pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and ill-fated Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, for Fawcett to bounce back.

“What would you do if someone said to you, ‘You’re so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop’?” Fawcett told The Times after she had emerged from one of the valleys of her career.

Still, she said of fighting for survival in Hollywood, “That’s life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.”

We’ll miss you Farrah.

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The actor, who’d had a long battle with cancer, died surrounded by his family and close friends.

Newman’s long career on the stage, screen and television included nine Oscar nominations and a win for The Color of Money. He truly was one of his generations greatest leading men. Newman remained in demand as an actor from the 1950′s through the 2000′s. His final on screen role was as a conflicted mob boss in Road to Perdition.

In later years his interests turned to philanthropy and racing cars.

Here’s a brief bio of his life and acting career from TVguide.com

Newman was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up as the son of a successful sporting goods store owner in Shaker Heights. He acted in grade school and high school plays, then joined the Navy, serving in the Pacific in World War II. After his discharge he enrolled at Kenyon College, then spent a year at the Yale Drama School. He finally headed to New York, where he attended the famed New York Actors Studio.

He married his first wife, Jackie, in 1950. They had three children — Scott, Susan and Stephanie — before divorcing in 1958. In the same year Newman met and fell in love with his future wife, Joanne Woodward, when they filmed the The Long, Hot Summer. They married in Las Vegas, and went on to have three daughters, Elinor, Melissa and Claire.

The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in January. He was often asked how a Hollywood marriage could persevere so successfully.

“I have steak at home,” he once explained. “Why should I go out for hamburger?”

In the decade after his marriage he made some of the most important films of his career. Newman’s rebels meshed perfectly with the mood of the 1960s, when he made such box office and critical hits such as The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

In 1968 he directed his first feature, Rachel, Rachel. The film earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination and a Best Actress nomination for Woodward.

After his only son, Scott, died of an accidental overdose in 1978, Newman started the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention. He later started The Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, an organization for terminally ill children that took its name from Butch Cassidy.

Perhaps the most recognizable effort by the Newman clan is their food company Newman’s Own, which produces all-natural food, with proceeds going to charity.

An avid and passionate race car driver, he became co-owner of Newman-Haas racing in 1982.

He earned his Academy Award for his portrayal of The Hustler’s Fast Eddie Felson, now middle-aged, in The Color of Money.

After a public appearance in which Newman looked weak and gaunt, family friend A.E. Hotchner confirmed in June that Newman had a form of cancer, but said the actor was “dealing with it nicely.” More recent reports have said the actor decided to end treatments so he could die peacefully at home.

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Keith himself mentioned his back problems to his fans at a concert in Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in Kelseyville, CA on Saturday night.

Urban, 40, has been dividing his time between his North American tour dates and spending time in Australia with Nicile Kidman and their new baby daughter Sunday Rose. The baby is just 7 weeks old.

If you’re following Urbans tour dates he’s next set to perform at this weekends Country Rocks Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, after that he’ll be in New York City at Columbus Circle for the NFL’s kickoff show on September 5th.

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Carlin had a long career, but he was probably best known for his anti-establishment stance and routines involving dirty words and drug related themes. It’s also well known that he had a history of drug abuse and dependency.

The comedian was admitted to St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon for chest pains and he died a few hours later at approximately 6 pm.

Carlin achieved icon status for his 1970s routine, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” His edgy material and use of some of those “dirty” words on the radio sparked a 1978 FCC lawsuit. The court ruled in the government’s favor, charging Carlin with indecency and allowing regulators to ban the use of certain words on the radio when they thought children might be listening.

Carlin is survived by his wife Sally Wade and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.

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I’m a nurse and I used to work for a plastic surgeon. After seeing so many people come in to everything from signs of aging to lopsided breasts treated I even began to consider the possibility of having some work done. I never did have any treatments, but I did consider trying Botox to get rid of a few lines and some of the other products that fill in lines or that are used to plump lips.

One of the reasons that I never tried any of the popular treatments while I worked with the plastic surgeon was that I really didn’t need it at the time nor could I justify the cost. Sure I probably would have had a great discount since I worked at the clinic, but it still would have been expensive!

I wasn’t that big on the idea of having injections in my lips either. Ow! I can only imagine how painful that would be! Plus, what if the treatment went wrong? We’ve all heard stories of people with lumpy lips or frozen expressions after some of these treatments. I’ve even seen the results of treatments gone bad! Oh not by the doctor I worked with … no, it was clients coming in to see if a treatment that they’d had done elsewhere could be fixed.

Luckily for those of us who want to have fuller sexier lips there’s a topical product that we can try. Think about it … you can have fuller lips without the pain of having injections! Oh and the price is more than reasonable too.

So what product am I talking about? Well, it’s called celebrity sexy lip plumper. It will give you a sexy pout just like many of your favorite celebrities. Think perhaps Angelina Jolie’s lips … full, beautiful and very sexy.

I’ve never tried any of the lip plumping products that are on the market, but I’ve heard that some can cause a stinging or cause dry chapped lips. Luckily this lip plumper doesn’t cause any drying or chapping nor does it cause burning or irritation. Just apply it as you would lip gloss and the active ingredients will draw moisture in to plump your lips while also protecting and nourishing your lips at the same time.

Sounds like it’s worth trying, doesn’t it? The website states that Celebrity Sexy Lips is the only plumper with both immediate and long term results. They also have a fantastic guarantee. If for any reason you aren’t completely satisfied with their lip plumper you can return it for a full refund. No questions asked.

Celebrity Sexy Lip plumper has also been discussed over at Something Stylish, OH! Oxygen, E Entertainment Television, Extra, Ok! Weekly, Style and VHR. This lip plumper must be gaining in popularity if all of these celebrity and entertainment related companies are buzzing about it.

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The latest news on the fires is that stars are not only being forced to evacuate their homes, but filming is being disrupted as well! If these fires continue to rage some of beloved television shows may end up having serious delays in production.

Richard Gere and John Travolta who flew into the Los Angeles area on Monday for the 11th annual Hollywood Awards got a fantastic aerial view of the fires. Gere was quoted by Access Hollywood as saying “It’s as far as you could see in both directions,” Travolta then added “The smoke was actually in the plane as we flew through. It was a large area, surprisingly large. I mean I never like to see that.”

Kelsey Grammer who was evacuated from his Malibu home told E! Online “All I see is smoke, but we’re okay.” he said of his family and pet dog.

It’s also been reported that land owned by Sean Penn has been fire blackened and two of his trailers parked on that land have been charred.

Other stars that have had to be evacuated include Mel Gibson, and Victoria Principal. Victoria was kind enough to have donated $50,000 to the Malibu evacuation center so that food and blankets could be provided to evacuees. She also donated another $10,000 to an animal shelter that rescues stray pets.

Television productions that have been affected by the fire include Big Shots which canceled a cycling sequence that was scheduled to shoot on Tuesday in Malibu; A scene on 24 with Kiefer Sutherland had to be canceled due to the smoke that was drifting in from nearby fires; and one of my favorite quirky shows, The Riches, had to rewrite a scene that was to include a real sheriffs deputy – naturally the deputies were dispatched from the set to help the fire crews and evacuation efforts.

Nobu, a famous Malibu restaurant closed it’s doors on Sunday, but it’s said that they will open again to serve meals to local firefighters.

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Personally, I prefer that the products that I use contain mainly natural ingredients. That’s why the dietary supplement R.G. Skin Revitalizer which is made from the tropical superfruit Gâc caught my attention.

Gâc has a long history of medicinal use throughout Asia. This fruit, formally known as Momordia Cochinchinemis Spreng is a large, cantaloupe sized bright red fruit that grows in abundance on vines throughout sub-tropical Asia.

This fruit is choke full of beneficial carotenoid antioxidants, lycopene, and beta-carotene which if you’ve been reading recent health related reports, have all been found to help support strong cellular rejuvenation and boost the immune system. Antioxidants are said to protect our skin from damaging free radicals so it only makes sense that we try to eat foods that are full of antioxidants isn’t it? It’s also known that Carotenoids assist in a plants pigmentation process and help protect them against excess sunlight which likely means that they will assist us in protecting our own skin and keeping it healthy.

Now, I’m fairly certain that I’ve seen this tropical fruit here in the markets of Toronto. It’s a very diverse city and you can find just about anything here, but hunting it down regularly would probably be a chore that I would not do regularly. That’s why I’m pleased to hear that the benefits of Gâc can be found in the R.G. Skin Revitalizer dietary supplement.

If you’re concerned about your skins health and your general overall health you might want to look into this interesting natural skin revitalizing product.

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Ok well this is what he used to look like during the bands heyday:

Here’s another shot of him on one of their album covers:

And uhm … here’s what he looks like now:

He’s now 48 years old and over the years he’s undergone a number of cosmetic surgeries. He’s almost unrecognizable!

Here’s a final look.

Just how large does ones lips really need to be?

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His rep, Phaedra Parks, stated that he’s in great spirits and that he hopes to perform this weekend at the V100 Taste of Soul concert and festival in Los Angeles. Hello … he just had a heart attack. Cancel the gig!

Bobby is only 40 years old! I wonder if all the partying and drugs like coke caught up with him.

On Tuesday afternoon Brown began to feel chest pains and he was rushed to the hospital. By Wednesday morning he apparently “has a great prognosis from his doctors” said his rep. He was even expected to be released later that day.

Brown is still going through divorce and custody proceedings with Whitney Houston, 44. Their next court date is scheduled for October, 22nd.

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