69flavors Febuary 6

Laugh out Loud

Dougie E. Fresh @ L.E.X Hosted by The Original Party Boys!

Dowtown Dover The L.E.X hosted a great performance by the greatest entertainer Dougie E.  Fresh with a local r & b  artist  opening for him. Which the show was delayed due to directions Dougie’s On star directions, coming straight into the door grabbing the microphone introducing himself and letting some of the latest track play while the crowd was dancing and screaming and chanting is dover in the house , then going into some of his hottest songs from the beginning of his career which are still classics hits today such as (ladi dadi,  the show , freak it out  , keep rising to the top , and so on after leaving the stage and  greeting his fans  signing autographs, and pics taking by local celebrity   Photographer Andre’s Prattis of 69flavors Studio. Then explaining to the owner what made him late and telling him how nice the club was and he would definitely   come again to do a show anytime the crowd was nice he likes dover he also remembers performing at delaware state college homecoming years ago ( see pic).

The show was promoted by The Original Party Boys

Michael Jackson’s casket to be taken to memorial

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson’s body will be taken to the singer’s star-studded memorial in downtown Los Angeles, adding to the spectacle that promises to be among the biggest celebrity sendoffs of all time.

“Mr. Jackson’s remains will be going to the Staples Center. We’re not giving any details,” Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said Tuesday.

Police have blocked off roads and warned those without tickets to stay away because they would not be able to get near to the downtown venue. Some fans were allowed past street barriers into the immediate area around the Staples Center early Tuesday.

More than 1.6 million people registered for free tickets to Jackson’s memorial. A total of 8,750 people were chosen to receive two tickets each.

Among the memorial participants will be Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Martin Luther King III.

About 50 theaters across the country, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kan., to Washington, D.C., were planning to broadcast the memorial live, for free. Jackson died at age 50 on June 25.

“There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people’s imaginations. And in death, they become even larger,” President Barack Obama told CBS while in Moscow. “Now, I have to admit that it’s also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.”

All those involved say the heart of Los Angeles will become a circus. In one way, that characterization became literal early Tuesday.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey starts a run at Staples Center on Wednesday, a booking long planned in advance. In the pre-dawn hours before Jackson’s memorial, the elephants walked from the train station to the arena, arriving some five hours before the memorial.

Early Tuesday, roads were closed and media massed at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. The night before, activity had been spotted there involving the Jackson family.

La Toya Jackson, wearing sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat, was seen being driven away from the cemetery. KCAL-TV showed helicopter footage of a hearse backing up to the Hall of Liberty — a circular building at the cemetery that contains a 1,200-seat auditorium — to deliver a casket.

A few hours later, the casket was reloaded into the hearse and delivered to another nearby building, this time covered in a blue cloth.

Los Angeles was the epicenter of Jackson-mania, but the outpouring of emotion was worldwide. Belgium’s two national public broadcasters were to broadcast the memorial live later Tuesday and several hundred Jackson fans gathered at a Hong Kong mall late Tuesday.

Holding white candles, Hong Kong singer William Chan and Taiwanese pop star Judy Chou led the audience in observing a 30-second silence. Many of the fans clutched red roses and wore black; some donned Jackson’s trademark fedora hats.

Debbie Rowe, Jackson’s ex-wife and the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children, had planned to attend Tuesday’s memorial but backed out Monday. “The onslaught of media attention has made it clear her attendance would be an unnecessary distraction,” her attorney Marta Almli said in a statement.

ABC News on Tuesday aired portions of a 2003 interview with Rowe that was largely unaired in which she called Jackson’s children “the ultimate love children.”

“If it hadn’t been for how much I love him, I would have never had children,” she said. “People make remarks, `I can’t believe she left her children.’ Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they’re supposed to be.”

She said Jackson was upset when his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley broke up because he wanted to be a father, so she told him “let me do this.”

Rowe said Jackson was not a pedophile.

“He would not do anything inappropriate with a child, ever,” she said. “It’s not in him. I believe there are people who should be parents, and he’s one of them. Always. From the day I met him. I could do something for him, and this is what I wanted to do.”

Disney World monorail crash kills driver

A monorail train at Walt Disney World crashed into the back of another train early Sunday, killing one driver, according to an amusement park spokesman and a witness interviewed by CNN.

The crash occurred about 2 a.m. at one of the monorail stops at Disney World in Florida, said the witness, who requested anonymity.

“Today we mourn the loss of our fellow cast member,” said a statement by Mike Griffin, Disney’s vice president for public affairs. “Our hearts go out to his family and to those who have lost a friend and co-worker.”

The statement said the monorail was shut down, “and we will continue to work closely will law enforcement to determine what happened and the appropriate next steps.”

The witness said one monorail train rammed into the back of a stationary train. A photo of the crash provided by the witness showed the front car of a train badly damaged where it hit another train at a station.