Lady Gaga lettuce dress proposal; Michael Jackson, this year's biggest earner
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MAILA, Philippines First it was the meat dress. Now will Lady Gaga be wearing one made of lettuce soon?
Thats what Indian animal rights activists have been asking Lady Gaga to do as the pop superstar visits India this weekend to grace the unveiling of the countrys first Formula 1 race.
PETA India is hoping that the Born This Way singer would honor Indias reverence for animals by turning vegetarian for the duration of her visit and to pose for photos in a lettuce gown to promote the importance of refraining from eating meat.
Lady Gaga, in one of her more outrageous fashion statements, famously wore a dress made of meat at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
If she agrees, well make her a dress entirely of lettuce and held together by pins and threads. It will be a full length gown, and well make sure it looks sexy. The dress would be constructed leaf by leaf [on] the singers body, taking some five to six hours and someone will be on hand to spray water on the lettuce so that it doesnt wilt. said Sachin Bangera of PETA India.
Lady Gaga will be performing at an invitation-only show in a five-star hotel in New Delhi as one of the highlights after the country holds its first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix race.
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Michael Jackson is number one in life and in death.
For a second straight year, Michael Jackson racked up enough earnings to be hailed as the worlds top dead earner. This according to a list compiled by Forbes magazine of stars whose earning power remains beyond the grave.
The Thriller singer, who died two years ago at the age of 50, brought in $170 million for his estate for the past year. This places him ahead of almost every pop music act, both living and dead, as the biggest earner. Jackson only fell short of beating super rock band U2.
The King of Pop beat the ! King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, who came in second at $55 million because of his song catalog and a hit Las Vegas stage production featuring his songs by Cirque De Soleil. Coming in at third was eternal hottie Marilyn Monroe, who earned $27 million in earnings over the past year.
Forbes consulted agents, lawyers and other experts to come up with the year's 15 deceased top earners.
The list also contains cartoonist Charles Schulz of Peanuts characters fame while another rock and roll legend, John Lennon of the The Beatles, and screen legend Elizabeth Taylor both earned around $12 million in revenues.
Completing the macabre Forbes list is theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, childrens book author Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, writer Stieg Larsson, actor Steve McQueen, composer Richard Rodgers, who all also earned substantially.
Beatle George Harrison, American pin-up girl Bettie Page and pop art creator Andy Warhol rounds up the list.
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