If Hollywood superagent Rick Yorn had any doubts about representing Paris Jackson, a new video on YouTube should make him feel fine. Paris — or someone–posted this video on May 31st without any fanfare. But you can see this 15 year old girl is incredibly poised and personable as she shows how she puts on her eyeliner. If nothing else, she has a career as a spokesperson or infomercial queen.If she goes to J school, Paris could be Katie Couric.

And while Paris no doubt inherited some of her talent from her father, Michael Jackson, she is really an apple that has not fallen far from the tree of her mom, Debbie Rowe. Paris’s various guardians and parent are going to have their hands full with this one. Please, Paris, finish high school!

So here we are, surprise! Paramount Pictures has flown me to London so I can witness the international premiere of Marc Forster’s “World War Z” on Sunday night in Leicester Square. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be here along with “Extra” and “Access Hollywood” and “ET,” etc.

The movie doesn’t open for two more weeks, but Paramount is a little nervous. Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly and others have run stories about the movie’s rollercoaster ride to release. But last week Paramount did show the film in New York and Los Angeles to tastemakers and media people who weren’t in Cannes. They got a positive response.

I checked with a few of those guests before agreeing to come here. They assured me “WWZ” is no “After Earth,” that it’s very entertaining, and should do fine. After the screening tomorrow night there’s also a big concert by the group Muse. Their music is all over the film.

Here’s a little strange coincidence: the novel “World War Z” is written by Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and the late great Anne Bancroft. I don’t think it’s a funny book– although I could see Mel doing a parody of zombie movies a la “Young Frankenstein.” Good for Max. On Thursday next week, the American Film Institute’s annual gala guest of honor is…Mel Brooks. I will be there. It’s quite a week for the Brooks family, that’s for sure. Anne Bancroft was the most brilliant actress and loveliest of human beings. She must be grinning from ear to ear in heaven. We miss you, Anne!

PS in notes-– In the last day or so it was reported that famed jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller died of a stroke on Thursday at age 57. I am in shock. Miller flew in from a gig in Chicago two months ago and played at Aretha Franklin’s 71st birthday party in New York. He was a gentle giant, a great man, and an extraordinary musician. When we saw him at the end of March he looked fine. Life is short and there are no guarantees. Condolences to his family and friends…

“After Earth” has turned into a disaster movie. On Friday night the Will Smith sci fi movie finished not first or second but in third place. The $200 million movie featuring Smith’s 14 year old son Jaden took in less than $10 million last night. That means Sony-Columbia is looking at less than $30 million for the weekend.

The reviews are terrible and word of mouth can’t be much better. Sony will survive this easily– they have plenty more hits coming– but Smith is becoming a little like Tom Cruise in that he’s not able to open a non-franchise film. In this case, it’s worse because he made his son the focus of the film.

At the premiere the other night, people were trying to leave the theater simply because the movie is do damn boring and preachy– and this is aside from the Scientology references.

“After Earth” finished behind “Fast and Furious 6” and “Now You See Me” with $9.8 million.

Opening and sustaining a box office hit this summer is not easy. Warner Bros. has struggled with “The Hangover Part 3” which is underperforming with $77 million so far. It’s doing about 50% of the business of its predecessor.

Meantime this reporter is in London tonight preparing for the premiere tomorrow of Marc Forster’s “World War Z.” Paramount Pictures actually flew me here today so I can tell you all about the big opening and a concert by the group Muse–their music is all over the soundtrack.”WWZ” has been plagued by problems and also cost well over $200 million. But guests at a private screening in New York about ten days ago seemed to like it– surprise! We’ll see on Sunday.

I am so sorry to report that Marvin Junior, the amazing and outstanding lead  singer of the Dells, has died at age 77. His voice graced the Dells’ many hits over 50 years including the extended 1969 hit version of “Stay in My Corner”– which you must listen to in its whole version below– as well as “Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation” and so many more.

I met Marvin in 1999 when we were shooting “Only the Strong Survive.” His ridiculously short sighted partner, Charles Barksdale, wouldn’t let film the Dells because he was convinced Robert Townsend had ripped them off for his feature film, “The Five Heartbeats.” And so the Dells weren’t included in our doc, but we shot The Chi Lites instead. Marvin Junior was one of my heroes, and I got to see him perform a few times. The Dells were only included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame very late because Seymour Stein insisted– they’d been passed over many times.

But they were the longest running group with all their original members. The amazing thing about Marvin is that even on the Dells’ last recording, circa 2002 or so, he still sounded tip top. His voice was unique as Levi Stubbs’, and made the Dells the pre-eminent group to come out of Chicago.

Listen to this piece of heaven. Marvin, you will be sorely missed and never forgotten:

“Stay in My Corner” begins at 12:45. Around 16;50 Marvin sings the most extraordinary note. Or watch the whole thing:

“Mad Men” fans can start speculating about the titles of the last four episodes for Season Six. This Sunday comes “A Tale of Two Cities,” followed in order by “Favors,” “The Quality of Mercy,” and “In Care Of.” There’s no other information about them so far. It’s possible “A Tale of Two Cities” will be about New York and Detroit, where the Sterling -Cooper-Draper et al. ad team is trying to deal with their Chevrolet account. (They’re working on the Chevy Vega.) The show is now up to mid June 1968, so it’s a little early for mention of the Chicago Democratic Convention in late August 1968. But nothing is ever explicit on “Mad Men.” Last Sunday’s episode was so well done– indeed, the last four or five were so amazing– that we’ll have to wait and see what they have in store for us.

Mariah Carey has Tweeted her exit from Idol. And promoted the new video for her single “#Beautiful” which features Miguel inserting the word “f—in'” before “beautiful” as an adverb. What I do know apart from this cryptic message: Mariah’s new album was played for Universal Music execs in London this week, and they liked what they heard. The album is due in the next month or less, as Mariah prepares to perform at the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show. In August Mariah appears in the opening segment of Lee Daniels’ The Butler with Vanessa Redgrave.

W/ global success of “#Beautiful” (#1 in 30+ countries so far) @mariahcarey confirms world tour & says goodbye 2 Idol mariahcarey.com

— PMK•BNC (@PMK_BNC) May 30, 2013

The Michael Jackson trial goes on in Los Angeles, and some people are twisting what’s going on with the testimony. To clarify; AEG Live never paid Conrad Murray to be Michael’s doctor or anything. Emails from AEG may indicate, rhetorically, that “we’re paying him.” But AEG never paid him. Or hired him. AEG was giving Michael Jackson the money to pay Dr. Murray. But Michael had been paying him already. He was Jackson’s doctor.

There’s no smoking gun unless there’s a check made out to Murray from AEG or a receipt that Murray has from them. Promoter Paul Gongaware may be shaky on the stand. But his testimony is not going to win the case or lose it.

The headlines coming out of the trial can be misleading. All the back and forth about Jackson’s health and his disposition to working, etc are irrelevant at this point. All that matters now is establishing who was responsible for Dr. Murray, the man who presided over Michael’s death. Whether Michael was thin or eating or tired or sleeping all day or not rehearsing on schedule–none of that is pertinent to this case.

Who hired Conrad Murray? From the beginning it was clear that Michael Jackson hired him, chose him, approved of him, and wanted AEG to provide him with the funds to keep him doing his bidding. The rest of it can be written about or debated for years to come. But it won’t bring the Jackson family the millions and billions they expect to reap from this case.

Any hopes of Hilly Krystal’s legacy at CBGB being furthered by a new movie about the punk rock club are dead. “CBGB,” directed by Randall Miller, has been sold to a D List distributor of movies you’ve never heard of. XLRator Films is just releasing “Storm Surfers 3D” and a variety of junk headed straight to video. What a shame that the 23 listed producers of “CBGB” couldn’t make a better deal. The film stars some names, like Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Johnny Galecki, Mickey Sumner, and Malin Ackerman. But it must be very, very bad if they couldn’t get Magnolia or IFC. Now “CBGB” will be in the slasher film bin. They’re even debuting it at the CBGB Film Festival– come on, this is sad. Punk is really dead. Lawrence “Muzzy” Rosenblatt– who makes $300,000 a year running the Bowery Residents Committee–the landlord that kicked out CBGB, shutting it down forever– must be so proud.