An estimated 1.6 million people entered a lottery on Thursday to win one of 17,500 tickets available for J.D. Salinger's Memorial Concert scheduled for Saturday at the Los Angeles Staples Center.
For those unable to land a coveted ticket, the memorial also will be televised on Showtime and available on DVD in time for Valentine's Day, per the author's final wishes. CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other cable networks also will be on hand.
Already, tickets for the massive event are selling for $10,000 on Craigslist and eBay. Performers scheduled to appear include many of Salinger's closest friends - Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher and Thomas Pynchon. Sir Elton John is expected to perform a rewritten version of his classic "Candle in the Wind."
Hollywood insiders say this is the ceremony to see and be seen at this season and the glitz and glamour are exactly the way Salinger would have wanted it.
Salinger - a longtime regular in the Hollywood club scene and a constant paparazzi source - died tragically on Thursday in Paris in a fiery crash.
Jerry Bruckheimer is directing a screen adaptation of Salinger's novel "Catcher in the Rye" starring Zac Efron as Holden Caufield. The film is scheduled for release in July 2011.
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I was laughing at the title alone. Well done! :)
"I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
The title is awesome and it just kept getting better. Poor JD.
I heard he was shot by Yoko Ono coming out of the Dakota Hotel.
I rather have tickets to SuperBowl.
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Well, I'm not sure why everybody feels the need to celebrate a guy who hated ponies. Who doesn't like ponies???? They're cute and fluffy and.....
Oh. It's phonies. Well, that certianly changes things.
You are a riot! I think the Bruckheimer adaptation was the funniest part but it was all good.
bummer, i think it is on the same day as the Anna NIcole Memorial Concert
I wonder who will play Ackley Kid? I identified with him cause I read it in high school when I had horrific acne. I think the buff kid from New Moon would be good as him with lots of acne makeup. Maybe I just want to see him with some acne cause his damn body is so perfect. I hate the world, kind of like Holden.
Wasn't JD schtuping Anna Nicole?
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