>>>Give me a BREAK.
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>>>Didn't know whether to put this in News or Entertainment.
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>>>MJ's "funeral service" was on 2 of the terrestrial channels simultaneously this evening. I made the mistake of watching it whilst eating my dinner (nothing on the other sides). Nearly made me gag. With filibustering speeches by politicians and all, gold coffin, schmaltz, and overall sickening jackophancy.
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>>>Noticeable also just how few famous faces were there - no E Taylor, D Ross.
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>>>WFT!
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>>The thing lasted almost 4 hours! Good grief.
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>It actually lasted 2 hours - altough if you include the pre-news hype and the post-news hype it probably ate up 4 hours of network time. Anyway - the service itself was 2 hours.
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Thanks for the correction. I did not watch it (obviously), just flip to cnn.com periodically and caught both the banner headlines at the beginning and end of their coverage. Lots of aerial shots of the hearse coming and going, I imagine.