>>> and ryan o'neal's shocking behavior at farrah fawcett's funeral. he says he hit on his own daughter after putting the casket in the hearse. >>> hi, everybody. those are our big questions tonight. we start as we always do with "the mash-up" -- our look at all the stories making an impact, the stories you may have missed today. we're watching it all so you don't have to. the>>> the white house tonight struggling to put out a political brushfire set by treasury secretary tim geithner and larry summers on their sunday shows yesterday refusing to rule out a middle-class tax hike, something the president himself has ruled out many times. read their lips. >> what the country needs to do is we're going to do what it takes to fix it, whatever is necessary. >> it's never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what. >> definitely off message. reaction was swift. here's the view now from the right and the view from the left from "the view." >> at this point you need a promise to go back and look back at the promises that were made during the campa

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. >> ahead, alana stewart remembers her best friend farrah fawcett in her first television interview nce farrah's death. >> and a programming note, thursday on "today," an exclusive interview with brad pitt. the actor is coming out with a new movie. he's part of the hollywood power couple and some even want this guy to run for mayor of new orleans, where he has a house and he spent a lot of great work. brad pitt opens up to ann about it all in an exclusive interview thursday morning right here on "today." >> oh, sure, ann. let's begin with some new developments in the michael jackson case. the cause and manner of death have now been determined but not released. nbc's jeff rossen is in los angeles with the latest on this. jeff, what can you tell us? >> matt, good morning to you. it is official now the coroner's investigation is over. they're done. they know what killed michael jackson, and they have also answered a key question in this case, was it a homicide? but they won't release the results. turns out the lapd has asked them to hold back, saying they need more time to build the cri

he says he was so fraz zeled at farrah fawcett's funeral that he hit on a woman who turned out to be own daughter, tatum o'neal. she's like, dad, it's me. now they're questioning whether his devotion to fawcett was just an act. she reportedly left the bulk of her estate to redmond and left nothing to ryan. >> she was like, yeah, he came up. and she's like, it's me, daddy. >>> president obama promised no tax hikes for the middle class. money expert jennifer westhoven is here. now there's allegations he's backtracking. >> some people behind the scenes are saying, i don't know how we can afford this without taxes. because on sunday, we talked about this, here were these two top money men out on the talk show circuit and they were asking, oh, is he going to raise taxes on the middle class and they kind of did that mealy-mouth thing like, oh, yeah, maybe it will to meet the deficit. the president's press secretary says he shot that down. >> the president's clear commitment in the clearest terms possible, that he's not raising taxes on those who make less than $250,000 a year. >> one propos

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we started the show and, of course, yesterday, we lost two pop icons, farrah fawcett, who was amazinge of the original "charlis angels." and we have one of the n "chaie'sngels" on our show tonight, cameron diaz. farrah was just awesome, and i don't think there was a better poster the world in my life, than the poster of farrah fawcett. every kid, i meanthat's just -- i mean, it's up there with the "hang in there" posterith the cat. [ laughter ] that was the only one i can compare. and she's a legend. and we we're starting the show and then there was this rumor going around th michael jackson had passed away. and it was just a rumor, and of course, you have those people that come up to you and they want to be the first person to tell you the news, and you don't know if it's real or what. like i have a friend who just reads stuff out of the newspaper. you know, he's like, "hey, did you hear that apple sold stock?" and you go, "yeah, there's a lot of information in that newspaper." [ laughter ] journalism, yes. some journalist went out and got a story and you're repoing it? okay, so we d

it's been more than six weeks since farrah fawcett lost her battle with cancer and it was her best friend alana stewart who spent two years videotaping that fight that went on to become an nbc's documentary called "farrah's story." >> the first time she and ryan and i met with dr. jacob she handed me the camera and she said here, you film it. >> what is working against this kind of tumor. >> suddenly i'm filming this whole scene, this first meeting with them. and that's how i started filming. and then every time we would go to a procedure or a surgery or a doctor's meeting, i started filming everything. >> alana stewart continues to pay tribute to her friend in a candid minimum our called "my journey with farrah: a story of life, love and friendship." good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about what some people may be immediately asking upon hearing that you've written a book. they may be wondering why so soon, only a month after your best friend's death, would you come out with a book that's so intimate and so revealing? >> well, i had been writing these diaries for a long time. a

it's really sad in the wake of farrah fawcett's death.f you believe what griffin was telling larry king last night, ryan o'neal only stayed close hoping to cash in. he thought he was going to get everything. it turns out ryan's son redmond got the windfall. he claims that's why ryan stays close. he claims he was mad at farrah for having cancer because it was taking the spotlight away from ryan, and also that he cheated on farrah fawcett. watch what griffin o'neal told larry king about that. >> larry: was he faithful to her in the marriage? >> no. >> larry: he saw her women? >> are you kidding? she walked in on him and he was with some other woman. >> larry: do you know this for a fact or is it hearsay? >>, sir, i know it for a fact. she told me. i was 11 years old when he gave me cocaine. i was 11. and i looked down at my little 2-year-old and i go, you know what? i'm so sorry, but i could never, ever, ever do that to my child. >> also on the drug use, richelle, griffin claimed that ryan would party with his son redmond and that ryan was

millions of americans watched farrah fawcett's courageous battle with cancer in the emmy nominated documentary"farrah's story." . >> because you have to be in good shape. >> usually after these procedures farrah just wanted to get back to l.a. as soon as possible pt and the doctors tried to discourage her from flying so soon. . >> so good to have you here, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> you have just completed a book called my journey with farrah, a story of life, love and friendship just out, already, you're getting criticized. people are saying, you're just exploiting your friendship with farrah, that's not at all what happened. i've read the book, this is a very, very touching story of two bonded friends, tell me why you did the documentary and the book? >> well, the documentary was originally not meant to be a documentary, we were in germany when we first got there. farrah handed me her little hand head camera, will you film this doctor's meeting so i can remember what they say. i said i didn't know how to film anything. she showed me, it was easy. we started filming it all just to

during the 1980s, farrah fawcett and ryan o'neal were a hollywood power couple.d fame, fortune and beauty, but they also had their share of troubles. their 30-year romance is detailed in a new article. half of the cover for the september issue features farrah fawcett, the other half features michael jackson. good morning. title of this article, i know you didn't write this, "beautiful people ugly choices." in the article you compare farrah and ryan to angelina and brad, basically they were the angelina and brad of their time but they made some bad choices in life. issues like drug abuse, infidelity and also family feuds. what toll did that take on their relationship? >> well, really, looking at their 30-year relationship, it's a story of family dysfunction on an epic scale. what one of the things that interested me about it was that, yes, they were the brad and angelina of their day, they had a child and didn't get married which was much more uncommon back then than it is now. they were rebels in a lot of ways. >> ryan referred to them as rebels. >> he says, they

. >> the voice of alanna stewart talking about her best friend, farrah fawcett.actress document her valiant battle with cancer. she'll be joining us tomorrow live here on "today" to talk about the best friend that she lost. >>> meanwhile inside studio 1a, i'm ann curry. here with jenna wolfe and lxtv's sara gore is joining us because al and natalie are off today. we also have stephanie abrams here as well in for al. >>> coming up in the next half-hour, michael jackson died the same day as farrah fawcett. we'll talk about the latest surrounding jackson's children. >> the godfather of michael jackson's three kids now claims to be the biological father of one of them. we'll find out why he's coming forward now and what the jackson camp is saying about everything. >>> on a much lighter news, good news about growing older, about being middle aged. there are five things "prevention" magazine says we can do, mostly eat, to help feed our eyes, ears, heart and bones to stay strong and actually probably look younger because we feel younger. all about that. >>> also ahead,

and he's not holding back on a relationship with his father ryan o'neal and what happened with farrah fawcett. those accusations are next. (announcer) you can make a bigger difference in the world. you can make a positive change in your career. you can make a greater contribution to the greater good. and you can start today, by earning your degree online... at walden university. where advanced degrees advance the quality of life. >> larry: we now welcome griffin o'neal, the son of ryan o'neal, the half-brother of redmond o'neal and the son -- he's the mother of the late -- the son of the late farrah fawcett. farrah died june 25th -- wow, seems like yesterday -- after a long battle with cancer. when was the last time you saw her? >> i do believe it was the night before her birthday. >> larry: farrah is not your mother. >> my mother was joanna moore. they were really never married, so she was more my friend than anything. >> larry: was she a good friend? >> she was a great friend. at first she was so nice, i came from a not so nice kind of a world, a battling, kind of crazy family, and she was

i had a stnge light-brown wig and i looked like farrah fawcett and andy warhol's love child. >> withf his new book, rewraps up his career as a food critic as a thin man. >> i don't know that i would give a name to my affliction. i am after five years as a restaurant critic as healthy as i was at the beginning. no heavier than i was at the beginning. and that suggests to me that i've worked something out of my head and i hope it lasts. >> yet somewhere inside, are you still a fat kid? >> somewhere insidide i'm still wondering liken thfrframe righnow,w, do i look heaeavy? >> you're eatiting.. >> do th fro time time. >> i'm john berman for "nightlinene" in n york. >> frank bruni reportg wiwill onon be seen in hehe new yorkk times" magazine where he will ite about matters her than food.our thanks to jo berman. > when we e comeme back,k, the by the pool. it's's "a sign of the mes". (woman) i'm taking an antidepressant, but i think i might needmore help., (announcer) apprximaly two out of three people being treated for depression still have .depression symptoms. (man) i' on an antidepressa

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entonces dice que en el momento en el que ryan o'neal supo que farrah fawcett tenÍa cÁncer terminal elestarÁ viviendo la misma calle que elvis presley y marilyn monroe. dicen que lo han visto. la gente todavÍa no ede creer que Él haya desaparecido. por otra parte, a la mamÁ por fin le dieron la custodia de sus hijos, y resulta que debbie rowe dijo que iba a mantener el mismo trato que habÍa hecho con michael jackson, pero que lo Único que quiere es que le den chance de ir a visitarnos, a saludarlos, ser un poco mÁs parte de la vida de ellos, ya que si no estÁ michael, yo creo que puedo darles un poco de amor y cariÑo. no sÓlo quiero quitar a la familia ni quiero la herencia ni nada pero si quiero formar parte de la vida de ellos. >> yo creo que es un bonito gesto y mal que bien es la madre, ella los tuvo nueve meses en el estÓmago, los dio a luz... y creo que al verlos tan desprotegidos, entre comillas, por mÁs que estÉn rodeados de gente en realidad h@tqepzrp@@k y ana kournikova. lo que se estÁ rumorando en mÉxico es que pedro torres y charlene estÁn saliendo. charlene es una niÑa de

leslie bennett wrote explosive cover story on ryan o'neal and farrah fawcett in the latest issue and me did you hear what ryan o'neal said? seriously, to his daughter at the funeral. and there are a hundred horrible stories. it's shocking stuff. also, speaking of shocking and crazy, lawrence o'donnell next. new blackberry, huh ? yeah. ♪ me too how sick is the web browsing !? all the apps... gps... video. yeah... you didn't get your blackberry with the verizon network, did you ? no. sorry. so it doesn't work here, does it ? no. umm... but... paperweight mode. alright ! blackberry runs better on america's largest 3g network. and now get the new blackberry tour for only $199.99 you must be looking for motorcycle insurance. you're good. thanks. so is our bike insurance. all e coverage you need at a great price. hold on, cowboy. cool. i'm not done -- for less than a dollar a month, you also get 24/7 roadside assistance. ght on. yeah, vroom-vroom! sounds like you ran a 500. more like a 900 v-twin. excuse me. well, you're excused. the right insurance for your ride. w, that's progressive. ca

even though most are from another era and many find tiny westwood ceremony and natalie wood and farrah fawcettnot all celebrities want their grave sites to become tourist attractions. jim morrison's original marker was stolen and parts of james dean's head stone has been chipped away for fans looking for a souvenir. >> people mark their own emotional lives, the way they grew up, the way they felt when they were 7 years or 17 years old, they mark it the in relation to celebrities. >> the house where george burn lachbd died. >> reporter: the tour cost $40, money carla valenzuela was glad to spend to help her deal with michael jackson's death. >> when i was a child, i i was in love with him and i used to kiss the "thrill ever" a.m. bum every day before i went to school. and his death such a shock to me. >> reporter: gone but not forgotten, their star power and in n some cases earning power und undiminished. chris jan, sing, nbc news, from los angeles. >>> i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and then right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions b

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office buildings near ucla is the final resting place for many hollywood celebrities including farrah fawcettarilyn monroe that draws the most public attention. in 1992 "playboy's" hugh hefner brought the crypt next to her saying spending eternity next to marilyn monroe was too sweet to pass up. it was richard poncher's request to be entombed in the crypt above marilyn monroe. he insisted on being faced there face down. now elsie saying she needs money to pay off her mortgage put the crypt up for auction on ebay where there are a number of bids above $4.5 million but there's no way of telling whether the high bids are real or someone's idea of a joke. >> if they are real bids in today's economy, maybe that just shows there's some people out there with a lot more time and money or their hands than we think. >> reporter: the bidding will close this afternoon and if there is a legitimate buyer -- >> i would question whether or not someone would be able to enjoy it. the real question is how big is your post-mortem ego? >> george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >>> coming up next, getting the most

you know, the passing of michael jackson and farrah fawcett and ed mcmahon, it seems like we didn't get time to properly mourn the death of tv pitchman billy mays. he's the guy with the beard who sells the mops and stuff. he died a couple of weeks ago, but i keep seeing him in infomerci infomercials. they have him on every night. they say sales of his products are up 25% since he died and there are a bunch of new commercials that haven't come out. i think it's a strange thing. how is billy mays still pitching products? >> hi, billy mays, here to share with you the most important product you have endorsed? have you ever wondered how i am able to sell these products? even though i'm dead? it's easy. with my new products, the resurrectifier. jab at into a loved one's eyeball and it instantly brings them back to life. so if you're dead, or know someone who is, get on the phone. when you call, you'll get to talk with one of our friendly and caring licensed agents. >> i'm so sorry. i'll send you a resurrectifier right away. >> buy it right now. works on pets too. [ laughter ] [ cheers and app

. >>> and did farrah fawcett's long-time love, ryan o'neal, really broker a reality show deal for his jailed son, redmond? we have got the details. >>> also, we have got heartfelt tributes from some of the biggest stars in hollywood to the late ted kennedy. that is your "showbiz tonight" news break. it's tv's most provocative entertainment news show at the top of the hour.

germany and dominican republic and had stem cells and he wrote they had been in the same clinic as farrah fawcett with all of the noted celebrities who have died. even an article in the "washington post" about it comes in threes, but this has been waves and waves and waves. >> o.j., even some kennedy family trials he covered, as well. >> we talked about this earlier. we teased it. bob dylan is the rock icon. guess what kind of album he is coming out with. >> christmas. >> she coming out with a winter wonderland little drummer boy he is getting in the christmas spirit. it will release october 13th and proceeds go to charity and it is a group called feeding america and he hopes to give food to people in need. 1.4million people is how many people they think they will touch. u.s. open starts this weekend. look at how the williams sisters tune up. they get in to the dance. maybe we will see them on dancing with the stars. who knows. they were doing a prelim against the brothers at leg mason. >> show us your moves. come on, andrea. >> later on. >>> it is not dance party thursday, okay. >> i get wise, i

first, ryan admits he hit on his own daughter at farrah fawcett's funeral. now ryan's son is lashing out. the son says ryan didn't like that farrah was dying of cancer because she got all the attention. this is really an unbelievable father versus son blowout. >>> plus, is michael jackson's dermatologist the real father of his kids? tonight, we're wondering why is dr. arnold klein requesting that he have a say in the lives of michael's children. >>> and jennifer aniston speaks out about being unlucky in love. wait until you hear why jen says she doesn't mind being known as the lonely girl. that is your "showbiz tonight" news break. it's tv's most provocative entertainment news show for tuesday night under way at the top of the hour here on hln.

ryan o'neal's bizarre behavior at farrah fawcett's funeral.e says he actually hit on his own daughter. we're going to have the details plus all our -- plus, rather, our mashup of the other top stories of the day at the top of the hour. lou? >> thank you, campbell.

a farrah fawcett wants very painful last days. evidence the obama administration is now picking on fox news. is that possible upcoming. it'st most for headaches. for arthritis pain... in your hands... knees... and back. for little bodies with fevers.. and big bodies on high blood pressure medicine. tylenol works with your body... in a way other pain relievers don't... so you feel better... knowing doctors recommend tylenol... more than any other brand of pain reliever. bill: as you know farrah faucet died. her last days were difficult. joining us now is a close friend alana stewart my journey with farrah. there has been so much written about her tabloid press all over the full-time days and stuff like that what in your book you can tell us that we don't already know? >> well, i think, first of all, she was a very down home person. she was a texas gal and i'm from texas. i think that's why we bonded in the first place. but, she was very like average. i mean, she liked staying at home. christmas eve we stayed home and cooked pecan.

"vanity fair" did a major interview with ryan o'neal, who's longtime love, farrah fawcett, just passedway. >> right. he was so no love with her that he hit on her daughter in front of her casket. >> he also went on to say he hates each of his kids. he's got three boys and this daughter, and typically children can hate their parents. that's rebellion, that's life, and then you grow out of it and love your parents. parents shouldn't hate their kids. i know it can happen, but it's not the typical they think, and don't talk about it. >> aren't you supposed to have a publicist with you when you're talking to "vanity fair"? >> and coming from him, a drug addict, the whole thing, who's he to talk. >> in deep trouble. i'm going to turn to another thing you brought to my attention. which is monroe college -- you want to jump in on that one, mort? >> i don't. >> monroe college graduates, or recent college graduate, you said, sued their college. tell me more about that. >> well, she says they didn't do enough to help her get a job and she doesn't have a job, therefore she wants her tuition back.

last night griffin o'neal alleged alana stewart sold farrah fawcett's things on ebay.lawyer who told us the allegation is categorically false and went on to say as far as griffin is implying there was or is an inappropriate romantic relationship between alana stewart and ryan o'neal that is false and

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when farrah fawcett was diagnosed with cancer, a hospital worker sold her medical records for more thanfed up she set up a sting. with america's insatiable appetite for gossip at any cost, sarah jessica parkers now focusing inward away from the public eye on her newly expanded family. for "good morning america," andrea canning, abc news, new york. >>> and we turn now to a "gma" exclusive with prosecuting attorney shawnhervey bringing the charges against those two police chiefs. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. have you been in touch with sarah jessica parker and her husband matthew broderick about the case. >> no, we haven't. we try to respect people's privacy. that's a lot about what the case is about. >> we heard some of the details, shawn. fill in some of them more if you can. who actually is alleged to have brokoken i io the home of the surrogate. >> what we have here is an allegation that threregentlemen, bruce kaler. c., chaddojack a one more home.ired to break into t the it is leged that callarik owned the hotel where the photographer stayed that dojack was the co

ryan o'neal apparently hit on his own daughter at farrah fawcett's burial.hearse when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. i said do you have a drink on you? do you have a car? she said, daddy, it's me, tatum! i kid you not. "vanity fair" asked tatum about it and she said, quote, that's our relationship in a nutshell. you make of it what you will. yeah. by the way, he said he should have never had kids and after that admission, i am tending to agree with him. >>> you want to talk about computers replacing people? it's happened. this is from japan. look at this. our producer shannon called this the dancing robot. but this does look like a dancing robot. they are supposed to be making noodles but i don't see how. they say they are turning out bowls of noodles at this japan noodle shop but this really just looks like -- this is not -- >> this looks like a robot that got knocked on his ass and is trying to get up. >> wow. i don't really know what to make of this. where are the noodles? i'm hungry! >> if that's who is taking over, i'm not that afraid