Sideshow: Motown bids farewell to Esther Gordy Edwards

A cadre of musicians, including

Smokey Robinson

,

Claudette Robinson

of the

Miracles

,

Martha Reeves

and

Rosalind Ashford

of the

Vandellas

, and

the Four Tops

'

Duke Fakir

gathered at Detroit's Bethel AME Church on Wednesday to bid farewell to Motown Historical Museum founder

Esther Gordy Edwards

, who died last week at 91.

Stevie Wonder

, 61, sang a medley of "Sweetest Someone I Know" and "Isn't She Lovely," and a rendition of the hymn "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," says the Detroit Free Press. "If we all had a [family member] who cheered our own family as much as she cheered hers, we'd have world unity," Wonder said. Edwards' brother,

Berry Gordy Jr.

, said his sis was a tough cookie.

"The women were the bosses, and they were serious," he said. "The men in my family were clowns." The funeral program included copies of proclamations from Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and other local politicos. Gordy said the service was "the most beautiful I've ever seen."Thou shalt not paraphrase

The recently unveiled Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington is drawing protests from an unlikely source - King's fellow civil rights icon, poet Maya Angelou.

Angelou takes issue with the inscription on the statue, which reads, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness," saying the quote makes King look like an "arrogant twit."

The inscription is paraphrased from a famous sermon King delivered at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church two months before he was murdered. The problem, Angelou says, is that the inscription is missing an all-important qualifying "if."

King, who was speaking about ways one could eulogize him, actually said, "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, say that I was a drum major for peace."

Angelou tells the Washington Post that the inaccurate quote "minimizes the man. . . . It makes him seem less than the humanitarian he was."

Rapper

T.I.

(

Clifford Harris Jr.

) was released Wednesday from a low-security federal prison in Arkansas a month earlier than expected, says the Los Angeles Times.

T.I. was sentenced in October to 11 months in jail for violating his probation on federal weapons charges. "Feels great to be back where I belong," T.I. tweeted minutes after his release, "back in the arms of those who need me the most." He's bound for a halfway house near home in Georgia.

The world's most beloved 17-year-old, Canadian YouTube sensation

Justin Bieber

, was unharmed when "his superexpensive Ferrari" was in a fender bender with a (super-cheapo?) Honda on Wednesday, TMZ says.

Awesome thesp and recovering addict

Robert Downey Jr.

, 46, and his second wife, film producer

Susan Downey

, 37, are expecting their first child in February.

"Robert and Susan could not be more excited over this news. They can't wait to welcome this new baby into their wonderful family," his rep tells People mag.

Robert met Susan on the set of his 2003 psycho-horror movie Gothica, and they married two years later. He has an 18-year-old son, Indio, from his 12-year marriage to actor/warbler Deborah Falconer.

G-Unit

rapper

the Game

(

Jayceon Terrell Taylor

) has won serious consumer hearts and minds with his eagerly awaited fourth LP,

The R.E.D. Album

, which debuted this week at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, selling 98,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The L.A. rapper dethrones

the Throne

's

Watch the Throne

. The Jay-Z/Kanye West collaboration drops to No. 2 in its third week with 94,000.

Adele's 21 remains in the top three with 82,000, while fourth place belongs to cultural icon Barbra Streisand, whose collection of Marilyn and Alan Bergman songs, What Matters Most, sold 68,000 copies.

Billboard says next week's entry, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV, will bury all comers with expected first-week sales of 900,000.

Attorneys general in 45 states have sent a letter to the Village Voice voicing concerns over the legendary alternative weekly's handling of adult classified ads on its online site, Backpage.com. The prosecutors say they worry that the site is a hotbed - a veritable Petri dish - of (alleged) illegal activity of the prostitutional type. They demand the Voice prove it monitors its site for illegal content.

Voice reps have yet to comment.

Jennifer Aniston

has addressed vicious claims by fashionistas that she's a festering sore on the face of fashion because she's been caught on film wearing The Exact Same Black Bikini for two years. (

Horrors!

)

"I'll wear it for as many years as the strings still tie!" an unrepentant Jen tells Glamour mag (via Gawker). "Bathing suits now have so much hardware on them that they singe your skin. When you take your bikini off, it looks like you've been branded with crop circles and lightning bolts."

RadarOnline reports that days after

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

star

Taylor Armstrong

's estranged husband

Russell Armstrong

committed suicide, his business associate

Alan Schram

shot himself in the head. There are unsubstantiated rumors the two were involved in a financial scam, and Taylor reportedly planned to turn over Russell's papers to the FBI. Russell had a previous felony conviction for tax evasion and was sued several times for fraud.

Heather Bormann

, 29, the bus driver who claims

Matthew Fox

assaulted her in a Cleveland-area bar, is taking her relationship (as it were) with the

Lost

star to the next level: She's suing him, CNN reports. Bormann claims Fox punched her repeatedly in the groin and chest areas in the wee hours Sunday morning.

"He was swinging at my legs and, ultimately, my chest and my crotch area," she tells CNN. "He reeked of liquor."

She says Fox attacked her when she forbade him to board her bus, which had been chartered for a bachelor party.

Fox's reps have yet to comment.