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LATIMES.COM/CALENDAR D3 Strong start for Swift album Taylor album, which was released Monday, is shaping up to have possibly the biggest first- week sales of any album this year, according to Billboard. The 20-year- old third album is expected to log sales of at least 800,000 to 900,000 copies by Sunday, Billboard reports. That would put it ahead of the current first-week sales champ, which posted initial sales of 741,000 in June. The enthusiastic response to the album runs counter tothe downward trend of overall record sales, which in the latest reporting period were lower than the same period last year, according to Nielsen Sound- Scan. Just two weeks ago, Toby in the set a record for the lowest sales figure for aNo.1album debut 71,000 copies since SoundScan began monitoring retailsales in 1991.

Lewis T.I. told when to enter prison Federal authorities have ordered the rapper T.I. to report directly to a federal prison in Arkansas by Mondayto start serving his 11-month prison sentence. U.S. Marshal Beverly Harvard on Tuesday ordered T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris to report to the Forrest City low-security prison where he served parts of an earlier 10- month stint on federal weapons charges.

Afederal judge in Atlanta sentenced the rapper this month to serve an additional 11months in prison for breaking his federal probation after he was arrested Sept. 1in Los Angeles on drug charges. press DioGuardi gets show on Bravo The Bravo network is bringing former judge Kara Dio- Guardi back to TV in a se- ries of her own. will be a songwriting competition that pits contestants against one another as they live together, all vying for a $100,000 grand prize. DioGuardi will be head judge of the 10-episode series.

Singer-songwriter Jewel will serve as host. It will premiere next year. press ABC to drop Whole joins three other freshmen series that failed to make the grade this fall. The drama, starring Rob Morrow and Maura Tierney, will complete production on 13 episodes, according to co- executive producer Kristie Anne Reed, but that will be the end. It joins and among shows canceled this season.

Elena Fernandez papers are acquired More than 300 boxes of Maya personal papers, including letters from Malcolm and James Baldwin and several scribbled revisions of the poem she wrote to celebrate President Bill inauguration, will be made public at a New York library, the author said. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture a research unit of the New York Public Library plans to announce the acquisition this week. press QUICK TAKES Spirit Awards on move After a move to downtown Los Angeles last year, the Spirit Awards are heading back to the beach in Santa Monica. As previously announced, the Oscar-weekend ceremony also will return to a Saturday afternoon (Feb. 26) instead of the Fridaynight slot it occupied last year.

Film Independent, the group that administers the awards, had made the switch to Friday night which saw the awards held in a cavernous space on the event deck at L.A. Live to breathe new life into the event. But although attendance was high, the show faced backlash from some in the industry over both the space and the timing, with other industry parties competing for attention on Friday night. Zeitchik Chris Pizzello AP JUDGE: Kara Dio- Guardi will be on series. latimes.com MOVIES He follows the money Charles anatomy-of-a-financial-crisis film in which he buttonholes academics, government officials and Wall Street executives he believes were responsible for the 2008 economic crash provokes plenty of rage about how we got into such a fiscal mess.

For an interview with Ferguson about where he sees things now, particularly with the coming departure of Lawrence Summers as President Oba- top economic aide, read the 24 Frames blog at latimes.com/movies THEATER Star vehicle hits Broadway A new production of Alfred play Miss has opened on Broadway with James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave in the lead roles. To find out what the New York critics thought, visit the Culture Monster blog at latimes.com/culturemonster Getty Images TOP AIDE: Lawrence Summers, President departing economist. Steve Goldstein knows where all the famous bodies are buried. By day, a businessman who owns a payroll service. But in his off hours, one of best-known grave hunters.

Author of Companion: Where the V.I.P.sR.I.P” and creator of the website www.beneath losangeles.com Goldstein knows all the stories behind the stars and their final resting places. So with Halloween approaching, what better way to spend All Hallows Eve than to visit the cemeteries to pay your respects to Goldstein led me in a personal tour of two of the most star-studded cemeteries: Hollywood Forever and Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary. Sitting outside the Cathedral Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever, Goldstein explains that growing up in Boston as a history buff he loved roaming the cemeteries and reading gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries. That fascination moved with him when he moved to L.A. 36 years ago and began visiting local cemeteries.

came across Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino he says. I went to Westwood one day looking for Marilyn Monroe. Over time you see that Natalie Wood and Dean Martin are The most popular tourist site at Hollywood Forever is crypt at the Cathedral Mausoleum. tucked at the end of one of the aisles. On this day, the flowers next to his nameplate Rodolfo Guglielmi Valentino 1895-1926 had outlived their welcome; there was a fresh ruby-red kiss painted on the wall.

was meant to be Goldstein says of the crypt. were supposed to build an elaborate memorial. The money never materialized. His family eventually bought the crypt from June family. Mathis was the screenwriter who discov- ered him and she died a year later and is now buried next to (A memorial service is held for Valentino in the vestibule of the mausoleum every Aug.

23 at 12:10 p.m., the anniversary of his death.) West of the mausoleum is the Fairbanks Lawn, a valley that features a pool leading to a lavish memorial for silent screen actor Douglas Fairbanks, who died in 1939. Just behind the memorial is where Cinespia screens movies on the weekends during the summer. The sarcophagus in front of the memorial now also houses the remains of his son, Douglas Fairbanks who died in 2000. Goldstein says heard from an eyewitness that when they opened the sarcophagus to bury Junior, Fairbanks senior was still perfectly preserved 61years after his death. was so embalmed, they must have used stronger Walking across the road from the mausoleum, one finds a treasure trove of the famous, including the twin crypts of producer-director Cecil.

B. DeMille and his wife; the resting place of MGM musical star Nelson Eddy; a simple marker commemorating the grave of Charlie beloved mother, Hannah Chaplin. Marion Davies, the actress and mistress of publisher William Randolph Hearst, donated the grave site to Chaplin. Nearby is a memorial for actor Tyrone Power, who died in 1958 of a heart attack while making and Engraved on the bench at the grave is the sweet speech from The phrase also adorns the Fairbanks Memorial, though now it says sweet since the death of Fairbanks Jr. On the other side of town, at the intimate Westwood Memorial, which is nestled behind the Avco Cinemas, is Marilyn crypt.

Since her death in 1962 at age 36, the wall of her crypt has been replaced numerous times because of all the fans touching and kissing it. Hugh Hefner, who made Monroe his first Playboy centerfold, has bought the crypt to her right. Just as with Valentino, there is a memorial service held for Monroe every year on Aug. 5, the anniversary of her death. In fact, Westwood, says Goldstein, is known as cemetery of tragic because so many buried there died at a young age.

Besides Monroe, NatalieWood, Dorothy Stratten, Minnie Ripperton and Dominique Dunne. Moving down to the southern part of the cemetery is George unmarked grave. Roy Orbison and Frank Zappa both have unmarked graves on the lawn. Near Scott are the final resting places for Walter Matthau and his second wife, Carol, as well as Farrah Fawcett. In the row directly behind Matthau is his frequent costar Jack Lemmon.

His gravestone simply says Lemmon which Goldstein says was his billing from Like It To his right is Carroll and next to the man who was Archie Bunker is Lemmon and Mat- good friend and recurrent collaborator, director-writer-producer Billy Wilder, who got in the last laugh on his gravestone incorporating the final line from Like It a Writer but Then susan.king@latimes.com Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times GRAVE HUNTER: author Steve Goldstein inside Hollywood Cathedral Mausoleum, where Rudolph Valentino is interred. The crypt meant to be he says. CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SUSAN KING Six feet under, or up Where do celebrities go when they die? Steve Goldstein knows exactly. Bob Chamberlin Los Angeles Times TOURIST DESTINATION: Goldstein sits under Marilyn crypt in Westwood. Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times FAIRBANKS LAWN: Goldstein walks toward the resting places of Douglas Fairbanks and his son.

Bob Chamberlin Los Angeles Times ACTRESS: Coins adorn Natalie marker at Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary. Online sites on Hollywood graves Steve website: www.beneathlosangeles.com www.hollywoodforever.com www.pbwvmortuary.com Besides site there are also www.findadeath.com www.cemeteryguide.com and www.seeingstars.com For Karie walking tour of Hollywood Forever, go to www.cemeterytour.com latimes.com ClassicHollywood Go online to see more photos of celebrity grave sites and additional Classic Hollywood features..