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Well over a hundred fans of the King of Pop and celebrities including Justin Bieber and Jackson family members watched the song and dance spectacle and listened to the three children talk about the legacy of their father.

“My dad won the lifetime achievement award. It was an award he strived and worked the hardest to get but for me, and I think for him as well, this right here is his lifetime achievement award. This is what he strived to get and this is what we are giving him now today,” said Prince Michael, 14, Jackson’s eldest son.

Jackson’s daughter Paris, 13, imprinted her father’s iconic silver sequined glove and scrawled his name into the cement, adding a heart in between Michael and Jackson. Prince Michael and his brother Blanket, 9,wholesale Miss Sixty jeans, put their father’s shoe into the cement, and all three left their own handprints next to dad’s.

The hour-long ceremony included spoken tributes and musical performances from Jackson’s friends and family, including his brothers Tito and Jackie, who were part of the Jackson 5, and mother Katherine who called the event “a very very solemn occasion for my son.”

“Michael, we miss you, that’s for sure. There’s hardly a day that goes by without him going on in my mind somehow, some way, and I know he is here today with us,” said Tito Jackson.

Musical producer Quincy Jones, who worked with Jackson on one his most successful album, “Thriller,” Motown singer Smokey Robinson and comedian Chris Tucker, a friend of Jackson’s, shared their personal memories of Jackson while Canadian pop sensation Bieber called him “an inspiration.”

“People are going to remember him for his dancing and his singing, but people need to remember him for who he was,” said Bieber.

“Everything I do, I look at Michael and I want to be as good as he was,” said Bieber, 17, whose rise to fame was compared to the late singer by Paris as she introduced him.

Jackson gained success with songs such as “ABC” and “I’ll Be There” as a child singer with his brothers, and later pursued a solo career that earned him worldwide fame and fans with hits such as “Rock With You,” “Bad,” and “Beat It.”

His sudden death from a drug overdose in 2009 aged 50, sent shockwaves around the world. Late last year, Jackson’s doctor at the time was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering a surgical anesthetic to Jackson as a sleep aid.

Jackson’s glove and shoe imprints will be placed alongside Hollywood screen legends such as Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Sidney Poitier outside the iconic Hollywood theater that has been a tourist attraction for decades.

Notably absent from the ceremony were Jackson’s sisters Janet and LaToya as well as brothers Jermaine and Randy.

The event, hosted by the late singer’s estate, showcased dancers from Cirque du Soleil’s Jackson tribute show and featured “Glee” cast member Harry Shum, Jr. ahead of the show’s Jackson tribute episode next week.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

At least 16 Buddhist monks, nuns and other Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of southwestern Sichuan province. Most have chanted for Tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled to India amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.

“As they were taking him away, people nearby tried their best to block the way, shouting slogans, and warning the police that if they arrested Tarpa they would provoke a mass protest. The police responded by firing into the crowd. According to our sources, one person was killed on the spot and several wounded.”

He wrote his own name on the leaflet and posted a photo of himself, saying that Chinese authorities could come and arrest him if they wished, group spokeswoman Kate Saunders said in an email.

Security forces arrested Tarpa about two hours later, Saunders said.

The incident, as with most reported clashes in Tibetan areas, could not be independently verified because of a heavy security presence and lack of access for outsiders.

Saunders said the Tibetan shot was a 20-year-old friend of Tarpa’s, a student named Urgen. She said the area was under lockdown Friday.

The London-based group said a youth named Tarpa posted a leaflet in Sichuan’s Aba prefecture “stating that the reason for the self-immolation protests was that Tibet must be free and the Dalai Lama must return, and until these demands were met, there was no way for the campaign to be stopped.”

BEIJING Chinese security forces fired at Tibetans, killing one and wounding several others, an activist group said Friday, in the third reported deadly clash in a politically sensitive Tibetan region in a week.

The Tibetans were trying to stop security forces in southwest China from detaining a youth who posted a leaflet saying that self-immolations wouldn’t stop until Tibet is free, the International Campaign for Tibet said.

On Monday, several thousand Tibetans in Ganzi prefecture in Sichuan province marched to government offices and police opened fire into the crowd, killing up to three people, witnesses and activist groups said.

China says Tibet has been under its rule for centuries, but many Tibetans say the region was functionally independent for most of that time.

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The show features key pieces from The Coe Collection of American Indian Art, the life’s work of a Ralph T. Coe, a collector and museum director who played a central role in reviving interest in American Indian art.

“The exhibit honors Coe and the role he played in the acceptance and understanding of the Native American work,” said Julie Jones, head of the museum’s Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

The show includes about 40 objects representing a wide range of materials, from stone to animal hide, as well as time, place and distinct peoples.

Most of the Coe collection dates from the 19th to early 20th century when Native Americans came in contact with outsiders ranging from traders to missionaries to the U.S. army.

“Coe had some particular interests, one of them being objects that have come to be called souvenir art,” Jones explained.

Souvenir art melded Native American art with European art, such as mocassins embroidered with European-like floral designs. Work from the people of the Great Plains evokes the men on horseback wearing feathers and buckskin.

Masks and head dress ornaments, sometimes used in theatrical ceremonies and story-telling, are another aspect of the exhibit.

An imposing sculpture of a Noble Woman by the Northwest Coast Haida artist Robert Davidson, dated to 2001, is a contemporary expression of a long tradition of carving wood. Most of the objects were made by artists who were schooled by their predecessors.

“Traditions were handed down,” Jones said.

THE MAN BEHIND THE COLLECTION

Born in 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, Coe grew up in a home with filled with works by Renoir, Pissarro, Monet and Manet, all collected by his father, a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

“Coe came from a solidly Eurocentric point of view. He grew up in a house full of European paintings and learned to love them,” Jones said.

But a book by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican artist and amateur archaeologist sympathetic to tribal art, was a catalyst for Coe to turn his attention to the art of Native Americans.

Soon after reading it, Coe bought a carved model of a totem pole, his first work of American Indian art that would eventually form part of the Coe Collection, a group of more than 1,100 objects, some dating from prehistoric times.

He became a champion of American Indian art, a mutualism that continued for the next half-century.

By 1962 Coe, a curator at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, organized “The Imagination of Primitive Man,” an exhibit designed to illuminate the creative imagination of tribal peoples.

The most ambitious campaign Coe waged on behalf of this art resulted in “Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art,” shown in London as part of the United States Bicentennial in 1976, and in Kansas City one year later.

Its nearly 700 objects revealed the Indian approach to nature and nature’s relationship to man, myth, time and space to a public that was unfamiliar with it.

“‘Sacred Circles’ changed the popular presentation of American Indian art and influenced a generation of collectors and museum professionals,” Jones said.

For his last large exhibition - “Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965 -1985″ - Coe crisscrossed North America, seeking works of art that used traditional forms and materials, but were redefined by contemporary visions.

It marked Coe’s transition from art historian to an advocate for the new, larger world of North American Indian contemporary art, and was shown in several museums in 1986.

(Reporting by Ellen Freilich; editing by Patricia Reaney)

Taking questions from reporters at the Television Critics Association winter press tour Friday, she brushed off an inquiry into whether NBC wanted someone younger to play the twentysomething Chelsea of the show. (Handler is 36.)

“I have a job, every single day,” said the host of E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and author of multiple memoirs. “And then I have another job. And then I have another job. I don’t have time to star on my own TV show. If I did, I would.”

Handler will play her own sister on the show, a character named Sloane. Handler has a sister in real life with a different name.

Asked if whether she considered leaving her talk show, she responded, “I like my E! show. I like being under the radar,” earning laughs from the room full of reporters. “I really do love my show. I love my job. And it’s ridiculous. … This is a great thing to have as a bonus and I can come in and come out and it creates jobs for others and that’s kind of what I’m all about.”

Handler will appear in seven episodes of the first season of the series, which premieres Wednesday at 8:30/7:30c.

She recently renewed her contract with E! through 2014.

PBS announced Wednesday that the 20-episode series from the producers of “Antiques Roadshow” will send professional antiques dealers in a nationwide hunt for the best vintage bargain. The dealer whose item snares the biggest profit at auction wins.

The producers of “Market Wars” promise the show will expose the “real, rough and tumble competition” in the antiques marketplace. The series will begin next summer, teaming on Monday nights with “Antiques Roadshow.” The debut date was not announced for “Market Wars,Wholesale Abercrombie Fitch,” produced by public TV station WGBH Boston.

The two series make a good match but viewers need not worry that PBS will be overtaken by reality shows, PBS chief Paula Kerger told the Television Critics Association.

The Colombian government says the U.S. embassy on Thursday submitted the necessary documents for Jakadrien Lorece’s (Ja-KAY-dree-un Lo-REES) Turner to come back to the U.S.

The Colombian government also says the girl is in the care of a welfare program. It says Turner had been working in a call center before Dallas Police Department found her and alerted U.S and Colombian officials that she was a U.S. citizen.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Turner maintained after being arrested in Houston for theft and through the deportation proceedings that she was a Colombian adult in the U.S. illegally.

A spokeswoman for Renner, 40, who also played the lead in Oscar-winning Iraq war movie “The Hurt Locker”, denied media reports that the actor was hurt in the bloody incident in the Thai resort of Phuket early on Wednesday.

“Jeremy Renner was indeed in a bar in Phuket Thailand as a vicious attack on a patron took place but was not injured or involved. He exited as the fight took place,” Renner’s publicist said in a statement.

Renner, who co-stars with Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol”, is currently working in the Philippines on “The Bourne Legacy” — the latest in the Bourne action movie franchise, the publicist said.

The Phuket Gazette said on Thursday that six staff at the pub were arrested and charged with attempted murder of the general manager of a local resort hotel.

Manager Vorasit Issara was stabbed in the stomach and slashed in the neck with an ax, Phuket police told local reporters.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant,Cheap Juicy Couture, editing by Christine Kearney)