Michael Jackson to be buried tonight

Friends and family will converge on Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale this evening for the burial of Michael Jackson, according to a report on www.latimes.com.



Authorities will be out in force for the funeral, though they do not expect huge crowds of spectators. The funeral begins at 7 p.m.



Jackson will be interred in the expansive cemetery\'s Great Mausoleum. The pop singer\'s remains will be placed in a crypt in the Holly Terrace section of the mausoleum, a massive building that is the final resting place for stars from film\'s golden age, such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.



Yesterday, it was decided that Jackson\'s estate will pay the undisclosed expenses for the singer\'s funeral today, a sum one attorney called \"extraordinary.\"



\"The expenses are extraordinary; however, Michael Jackson is extraordinary,\" said attorney Jeryll S. Cohen, who told the judge that the administrators did not object to the expenses. \"They may not be appropriate for an ordinary person, but Michael Jackson was not ordinary.\"



The bulk of the cost was going to the fee for Jackson to be interred at the cemetery, Levitch said. Jackson will be laid to rest amid lavish decorations, including statues and stained glass windows.