The list of possible witnesses read to the 240-member jury pool in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial-of-the-century in Santa Maria sounded like the VIP guest list at some tired nightclub: Elizabeth Taylor, Jay Leno, Quincy Jones, Kobe Bryant, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Chris Tucker, Corey Feldman, Brett Ratner, Nick Carter and his younger brother Aaron, Larry King, Ed Bradley, Deepak Chopra, Uri Geller, David Blaine, Steve Wynn, relatives of Marlon Brando, plus hundreds of others. Even Star Jones wouldn’t be interested (but she’d try to get on the list anyway).

But selecting the final jury today has been postponed until the 22nd because frail flower Michael Jackson became ill with the flu en route to court and had to be taken to a local Santa Maria hospital emergency room and promptly admitted. Hmm. Some people here at the WOW offices have had the flu recently, including this editor, and none had to be treated with anything other than over-the-counter geltabs. But it must be difficult getting nasal spray up that tiny nose without surgery. Unless the sudden illness is a stalling move. (Yahoo, My Way)