- Fans of Michael Jackson flocked to Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday as they learned of the singer's tragic death - only to find they couldn't leave tributes on his sidewalk star.

Jackson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was blocked off by scaffolding set up for a movie premiere, Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno."

Extra security guards were brought in to keep distraught fans with candles and flowers away from the sidewalk star.

"I grew up with Michael Jackson," said Suzette Jones, 45, a Virginia woman who was in Los Angeles visiting her son at the University of Southern California.

"I saw the Jackson 5 in concert. Who cares about Bruno?"

"I think it's disrespectful."

Jones and her son, Erik Douglas, 26, wandered around Hollywood Boulevard for an hour, dazed by the news and searching for the star to leave flowers before they realized it was under the scaffolding.

"He's a pop icon," she said tearfully. "If anyone should be remembered in Hollywood, it should be him. How come we can't honor him?"

Some fans gathered on Vine Street at a star labeled "Michael Jackson" - apparently unaware that it was named for the radio personality of the same name.

Rafael Landa, 46, of Hollywood, was struck by the two celebrity deaths Thursday, Jackson's and actress Farrah Fawcett's.

"Hollywood was struck twice today," said Landa, who left a candle at Fawcett's star.

From;www.contracostatimes.com