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...Wednesday night's rehearsals, the middle-aged man of 50 was showing the kids how it's done. "He'd take the stage with this group of dancers, all in their 20s, but you couldn't take your eyes off him," says Dorian Holley, vocal director for Michael Jackson's This Is It series of concerts, planned to begin this month in London. During Jackson's run-through at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, "he was giving a clinic to those dancers," recalls Bashiri Johnson, the percussionist on the tour. "Whenever he would do a move, he'd raise...
...Fallen, another movie with war and robots and stuff blowing up - and which the critics roundly denounced - earned $26,000 per screen. But it invaded 4,234 screens in the U.S. and Canada, and in doing so, it smashed the five-day record for a movie opening on a Wednesday. Big news: reviewers have no impact on a mass-marketed movie. (Read TIME's Transformers review...
Transformers 2, sequel to the 2007 hit based on the '80s TV cartoon series, is expected to have earned an astral $201 million, according to Paramount, its producing studio. That's nearly a third higher than the previous top Wednesday-to-Sunday take - $152.4 million, for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 - and within a hair of the all-time five-day total, $203.7 million (Friday to Tuesday), for last year's The Dark Knight. Add the $200 million or so that this Armageddon for machines picked up in foreign theaters over the same stretch, and you have a $400 million...
...colleagues. He marveled at the major set pieces that had finally been installed in the rehearsal space. "He was just glowing, and you could see it, that he was finally seeing it all come together," says Dorian Holley, the vocal director for Jackson's upcoming tour. "Up until Wednesday, it had always been [just a concept], but that last day you could see it in him, that he was seeing the show finally come together for the first time. It was a big moment." (See TIME's complete Michael Jackson coverage...
Before his death, Jackson had apparently been rehearsing intensely for his 50-concert comeback, which was to launch in mid-July at London's O2 Arena, but there are no reports yet of whether the physical strain had left him dehydrated Wednesday evening...