What you missed on Monday June 29th 2009
Eddie Van Halen is no longer on the market: Saturday night he married Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years.
The ceremony took place in the garden of his seven-acre estate in the hills above Studio City, Calif., starting at 7 p.m., when Liszewski walked down the aisle to Van Halen's 'When It's Love', performed by the Sonus Quartet.
The 54-year-old groom's 18-year-old son, Wolfgang, served as best man, while brother Alex Van Halen, an ordained minister, officiated at the 20-minute, nondenominational service.
Details about Michael Jackson's autopsy have leaked in the British tabloid press, and the picture isn't pretty. According to the London Sun, Jackson, who stood five-10, weighed 112 pounds at the time of his death. There were partially dissolved pills in his stomach, but no food -- he reportedly only ate one small meal a day. Jackson's hips, thighs and shoulders were dotted with needle marks, which appeared to come from pain injects he'd been getting three times a day for years. A network of scars lined Jackson's face, a result of at least 13 plastic surgeries. Jackson also had lost virtually all of his hair, with only peach fuzz on his scalp. A scarred section above his left ear was apparently due to the infamous 1984 Pepsi commercial accident, when his hair ignited. Jackson's back had cuts on his back, indicating a recent fall, and there was unexplained bruising to his knees and shins. Jackson also suffered several broken ribs and there were four injection sites in the area of his heart -- all a result of efforts to revive the fallen King of Pop.
Other reports indicate that investigators at Jackson's residence found no Demerol or OxyContin, the highly addictive painkillers that Jackson had allegedly grown dependent on.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the Jackson family is considering a Janet Jackson and Jackson Brothers tour. The proposal is that the Jacksons would get together to fulfill at least some of Michael Jackson's London shows or do a U-S tour, performing Michael's his and the Jackson Fives' hits. Janet would apparently front the family act.
The former co-owner of the Station nightclub in Rhode Island - where one hundred people were killed in the February 2003 blaze at a Great White concert - has been released early from prison for good behavior.
A spokesman for the state prison said Michael Derderian was freed Thursday. He was initially due out this fall.
Derderian spent less than three years behind bars after pleading no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the West Warwick nightclub fire.
As expected, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had a big opening -- though it wasn't quite as big as The Dark Knight's. The Transformers sequel made off with 112-million dollars in its first weekend and 201-point-two million since opening on Wednesday. That was just short of The Dark Knight's five-day record of 203-point-eight million in 2008.
Last weekend's top movie, the Sandra Bullock comedy The Proposal, fell to a distant second with 18-point-five million. The Hangover was right behind with 17-point-two million in its fourth weekend.
Up was fourth with 13-million, pushing it past Star Trek as the highest-grossing movie of the year so far, with 250-million.
And the weekend's other new release, the Cameron Diaz tear-jerker My Sister's Keeper, landed in fifth with 12-million.
If you believe the rumor mill, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones is working with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme Earlier this year, Jones said he was "working on some other music, which is more rock based, with a couple of other people," but couldn't reveal who they were. Now there's speculation on a Zeppelin blog that it could be Grohl and Homme.
Infomercial king Billy Mays, 50, was found dead in his Tampa, Florida home Sunday.
It wasn't clear how Mays died, but he had said he hit his head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday. His wife Deborah said he didn't feel well before he went to bed that night. According to FOX News, police found no signs of a break-in at the home and do not suspect foul play. An autopsy is expected to be complete by today.
The bearded salesman with the booming voice was best known for his T-V ads for OxiClean and Orange Glo. Most recently, he's been part of the reality series Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel
