Liza Minnelli talks Michael Jackson

(source: showbizspy.com)

LIZA Minnelli claims her pal Michael Jackson was “used and abused” by his father.
Speaking to Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, the singer and actress opened up about her friendship with the late Thriller hitmaker.
“He was a supremely gifted human being but he didn’t survive, in my opinion, because he’d never been taught the rules of the game,” she said.
“He and his brothers and sisters were forced to rehearse round the clock while other kids were playing basketball.
“Michael’s life was precisely the one dictated by his father. The family’s religion [the parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses] means the children weren’t even meant to be in show business. But, when they started making money for their father, that was it. Michael was used and abused almost from the time he was born.
“Eventually, he distanced himself from his family, created this wonderful place — Neverland — for kids and supported different families. Then, one day, the father in one of those families called up Michael and said, ‘Unless you give me $30,000, I’m going to tell everyone you made a pass at my son’. And that’s when Michael called me.
“Michal Jackson was a supremely gifted human being, but he didn’t survive because he’d never been taught the rules of the game.
“When he’d finished his story, I remember pausing and then saying: ‘Michael, maybe you should tell your lawyer about this’. He said: ‘But it’s insane.’
“So I repeated my advice. ‘It’s blackmail, though,’ he said. ‘It is,’ I replied, ‘and that’s why you need to involve your lawyer’. But he wouldn’t.
“What everyone forgets is that, when kids stayed at Neverland, their parents came, too. And they were treated grandly. But then other people jumped on the bandwagon.
“I remember he was going with this girl and he was so in love with her. He came to show me the ring he’d bought for her. I asked him what he was going to say and he didn’t know. So I said: ‘Let’s rehearse,’ and that’s what we did.
“But the girl turned him down. She said she wasn’t ready to commit right now. She told him to ask again in six months. And it all but killed him. He was heartbroken. I knew all his girlfriends including Lisa Marie who became his wife.
“In the end, the scorn, the cruelty, the vicious meanness — these are the things that took his life. He was one of the best performers we’ve ever had. He changed everything. But he was only a king when he was on stage.”


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Demi Moore Splitting From Ashton Kutcher

(source: foxnews.com)

A 23-year-old woman has come forward with the bombshell claim that she had a fling with Ashton Kutcher at a San Diego club last Friday, the same weekend of his six-year wedding anniversary with wife Demi Moore, according to a report from Radar Online.

According to Radar, the unidentified woman has gone into hiding and hired a top Hollywood attorney.

The “Two and a Half Men” actor and his movie star wife’s anniversary was Saturday, September 24, the night after the alleged incident took place. Sources told Radar that Ashton, 33, partied into the wee hours of the night Friday and was not behaving like someone “celebrating a wedding anniversary.”

The woman’s claims follow a Star magazine report that Kutcher and Moore have separated as a result of his alleged constant cheating.

“Ashton and Demi have separated and the marriage is over,” a source close to the pair told Star magazine.

On September 23, the night Kutcher was allegedly out partying, Moore, 48, sent a cryptic tweet, quoting Greek philosopher Epictetus. ""When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger," she wrote.

Days later, she tweeted a photo of herself with her eyes closed, writing "I see through you...." Comments under the photo included "stay strong" and "Hope everything is ok."

Earlier this week, Moore walked the red carpet alone at the premiere of “Five,” her new Lifetime project with Jen Aniston and Alicia Keys. The actress’ super skinny frame shocked onlookers.

Last year, Kutcher was accused of having a fling with 21-year-old Brittney Jones while Moore was filming a movie in Detroit. He denied the claims and threatened legal action after tabloids published the report.

Kutcher and Moore have not responded to the allegations.

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Apple holding iPhone 5 event on October 4

(source: cnet.com)

As expected, Apple will be holding an iPhone event next Tuesday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.
The company sent an e-mail to select reporters earlier today, saying the event will start at 10 a.m. PT next week with an "executive presentation." Although Apple didn't specifically mention the iPhone 5 by name, speculation abounds that the company will unveil one, or perhaps two, iPhones at the event.
Rumors have been swirling for months over when Apple would finally unveil its next iPhone. In previous years, Apple has shown off a new version of its popular smartphone at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. However, the new iPhone was conspicuously missing from this year's event, prompting the rumor mill to speculate that Apple would wait until September or October to show off its latest handset.
Last week, All Things Digital reported, citing sources, that Apple would be holding a special event on October 4 that would be led by its new CEO Tim Cook. The publication's sources said that the new iPhone would go on sale "within a few weeks" after the announcement, pegging the release at late October.

Exactly what Apple might show off at the event, though, is unknown. Some reports have suggested that the company could offer a new iPhone boasting only minor updates compared to its predecessor, the iPhone 4. Still others have said Apple's next iPhone will boast 4G connectivity, an edge-to-edge display, and several other major improvements.
There is also some question over how many iPhones will be demoed at the event. Early rumors have suggested that Apple would show off a single iPhone, but J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz said earlier this month that he expects Apple to launch two new smartphones this year. That sentiment was echoed by former U.S. Vice President and Apple board member Al Gore, who hinted last week that Apple was readying two iPhones.
"Not to mention the new iPhones coming out next month," Gore said during the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in South Africa.
Besides the iPhone, Apple will likely discuss iOS 5 and its cloud-based service, iCloud, which it unveiled at WWDC earlier this year.
Lost amid the discussion of new iPhones and iOS 5, however, is Tim Cook. Although Cook has quite a bit of experience at Apple events, this will be the first time he'll attend a launch as CEO. As noted, AllThingsD reported that Cook will lead the event, assuming the role that Apple Chairman Steve Jobs took on when he was CEO by coming out in the beginning and discussing major launches, while leaving many of the details to other executives.
There is a lot riding on Cook's showing at the event. The Apple CEO's presentation could go under the microscope of shareholders that want to see if he has the stage presence to deliver the larger-than-life persona Jobs brought to his company's major product announcements. What's more, shareholders will want to see if Apple's event with Cook at the helm will carry the same weight as those led by Jobs over the years.
But Cook isn't the only one to be lost in the iPhone's shadow. Conspicuously missing from Apple's invitation is any hint that music might be involved. The invitation itself is a clever play on iPhone icons that tell recipients when and where the event is, but it's also a departure from the display of a musical instrument or anything suggesting that we'll see iPods too.
For the past several years, September has been the time we see new iPods, but the month is nearly over, and it now seems unlikely that they'll be getting any fanfare of their own. Of course, that won't be much of a change, considering that there has been a general lack of iPod-related rumors over the past six months, short of reports of a white iPod Touch model and a return of the camcorder to the touch-screen version of the iPod Nano.
Then again, trying to predict what Apple will do at an event is difficult. Although discussions on the iPhone, iOS 5, and iCloud are a sure bet, there's no telling if Cook will pull out a "one more thing" at the end of the presentation.

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How To Enable Facebook Timeline

(source: techcrunch.com)

This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.
Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime in the coming weeks… which is great and all, for everyone else. You’re the type of person who reads TechCrunch, and are thus likely the type of person who likes their new and shiny things right now.
That’s okay. We can make it happen.
Fortunately, enabling Timeline a bit early isn’t too difficult — but it’s not at all straight forward, either.
You see, Facebook is enabling Timeline early for open graph developers. You, too, can be an open graph developer — even if you’re just looking to dabble.
A few things to note:
- You probably don’t want to do this unless you’re actually a developer. Expect bugs.
- Only you will see your timeline at first (unless you decide otherwise), but it will automatically go public after a few days. My timeline was automatically hard-set to go public on September 29th.
- It seems that if you login into Facebook on another machine, Timeline gets disabled automatically on all of your machines. With that said, it seems you can get back to your timeline (but ONLY after following the steps below) by navigating to http://www.facebook.com/YOURUSERNAMEHERE?sk=timeline
- You’ll need to have a “verified” account for one of the steps, which means you need a credit card or phone number attached to the account.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Log into Facebook
2. Enable developer mode, if you haven’t already. To do this, type “developer” into the Facebook search box, click the first result (it should be an app made by Facebook with a few hundred thousand users), and add the app.

3. Jump into the developer app (if Facebook doesn’t put you there automatically, it should be in your left-hand tool bar)
4. Create a new app (don’t worry — you wont actually be submitting this for anyone else to see/use). Give your shiny new app any display name and namespace you see fit. Read through and agree to the Platform Privacy agreement. This is the step you need to be verified for.
5. Ensure you’re in your new app’s main settings screen. You should see your app’s name near the top of the page
6. Look for the “Open Graph” header, and click the “Get Started using open graph” link.
Create a test action for your app, like “read” a “book”, or “eat” a “sandwich”

7. This should drop you into an action type configuration page. Change a few of the default settings (I changed the past tense of “read” to “redd” — again, only you can see this unless you try and submit your application to the public directory), and click through all three pages of settings
8. Wait 2-3 minutes
9. Go back to your Facebook homescreen. An invite to try Timeline should be waiting at the top of the page
And you’re done! We’ve seen this work quite a few times now, so it should work without a hitch for just about anyone.



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