Like much of his life, Tuesday's Michael Jackson memorial service looks to be an over-the-top spectacle attended by thousands of fans and throngs of media. News outlets are reporting that after a private service for family members at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Hollywood Hills at 11AM ET, Jackson's body will be transported to the Staples Center for the public memorial. The lucky 17,500 fans who won tickets to the memorial -- 10,000 in the Staples Center and 7,500 across the street at the Nokia Theater -- have been filing in since 9 AM ET, while police prevent anyone without tickets from entering the one-block radius around the venues. Police estimate that over 250,000 fans will crowd the sidewalks despite pleas for them to stay home.

Sometime after the private funeral, the public service will include appearances by Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Martin Luther King III. Jackson's longtime friend, Elizabeth Taylor, and the mother of two of his children, Debbie Rowe, will not be attending. For continuing updates and photos, visit PopEater.

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The Internet long ago changed the music industry's star-making machinery, but perhaps nobody has benefitted by the new bottom-up food chain quite as much as Toronto rapper Drake.

He's hardly an undiscovered nobody, having spent eight years as wheelchair-bound shooting victim (and, of course, aspiring rapper) Jimmy Brooks on the cult-smash TV series 'Degrassi: The Next Generation.' But over the past few months, 22-year-old Aubrey "Drake" Graham has ascended to the top of the hip-hop mountain -- including entering the Billboard charts with top ten hits with 'Best I Ever Had' and the Young Money posse cut 'Every Girl' -- without so much as a record deal, much less a commercial album release.

Now that the reportedly $2 million major label bidding war for his debut album has finally ended (he just signed with Lil Wayne's Universal-distributed Young Money imprint) Drake is poised to become not just Canada's biggest-ever rapper, but the biggest rap star of 2009 -- from anywhere.

A seemingly impossible feat, even without the 'Degrassi' baggage.

"I'm gonna fart on Usher! He deserves it!" --Kid Sister

The rapper attacked Usher for his current radio hit, 'Trading Places,' which she "can't stand."

"I have made love to my songs. 'Love You Gently' is one of my favorites. Make her call you 'Daddy' when you put that one on." --Usher

The crooner offered TMI, along with some seriously creepy advice in a recent interview.

"Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men."--Usher

You can almost hear the cringes and eye-rolls, can't you? And during Gay Pride Month! Nice work, dude.

• Usher's father, Usher Raymond III, died in an Atlanta hospital on Friday. The cause of death is currently unknown.

• Actress Cate Blanchett was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as one of six Bob Dylan portrayals in the Todd Haynes-directed, 'I'm Not There.' The Oscars are currently scheduled to be handed out on February 24, pending the ongoing writers strike.

• Universal Republic, Amy Winehouse's record label, released a statement on Tuesday, in response to the recently revealed photos and video of the embattled singer's alleged drug use, saying: "We are deeply disappointed and upset by these latest revelations and are doing everything we can to offer Amy our full support in dealing with her problems."

• Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen will return to the road later this year after a 15-year hiatus. The soon-to-be-Rock & Roll Hall of Famer's tour details will be revealed in February.

• Blind Melon will release their first album in more than a decade, titled 'For My Friends,' on April 22. Travis Warren will serve as the replacement for late frontman Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995. A tour behind the effort is set to kick off in late February.

• The Stars will kick off a U.S. tour in support of their latest album, 'In Our Bedroom After the War,' on March 19 in Baltimore. The jaunt is set to wrap on April 1 in Buffalo, New York.

Winner: Christina Aguilera

The pint-size mommy-to-be scored points with reader caiotexy for not allowing her baby to be "overly exposed" but none from Ting for "wearing heels." Ouch.

Christina Aguilera ... 46%
Jennifer Lopez ... 34%
Usher ... 13%
Joel Madden ... 7%