Michael Jackson will be buried this week — without his brain. As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests.

They faced the grim choice of waiting up to three weeks for Jackson’s brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it — which they have decided to do.

I love it when tabloids save the best for last:

Michael Jackson starred as the Scarecrow in The Wiz, the 1978 musical version of  The Wizard of Oz — playing the character without a brain opposite Diana Ross as Dorothy.