BRITTANY MURPHY BURIED

Tragic actress Brittany Murphy was buried in a twilight ceremony on Christmas Eve, four days after her sudden death last Sunday, aged 32.
A Rabbi and a pastor led the co-denominational service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, which started with Chet Atkins singing My Funny Valentine and ended with Murphy's own version of Smile.
About 24 people attended the private service in the cemetery's Church of the Hills, including her mother, Sharon, her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack and actor Eric Balfour, a longtime friend who, with his brother Simon, was a pallbearer.
After the service, which included with traditional Jewish mourning prayer The Kaddish, the hymn Amazing Grace and a reading from The Little Prince, she was buried in the memorial park's Bright Eternity section.
Murphy died of an apparent cardiac arrest at her Hollywood home, though the official cause of death will not be announced for several weeks, until toxicology results are returned to the coroner.
During the funeral Monjack called his wife his “soul mate,” according to a family statement.
“He went on to say that mystery is the nature of love and you never know when or where it will strike or how quickly it will be taken from you,” the statement said.”
One person who did not attend the funeral was Murphy's estranged father, Angelo Bertolotti, 83, who lives in Florida.
Bertolotti, who had not spoken to the Clueless star for more than a year and had never met her husband, told E! News: “If I wanted to go I would go but I don't want to see her that way.
“She was flawless to me. She was a little bright child. I have only good memories about her. She's a memory to me now. To me, she's off making a movie somewhere.”
It was not clear if Murphy's mother-in-law, Linda Monjack, arrived in Los Angeles in time for the service.
The family plans a bigger memorial service next year.
Family spokesman Alex Ben Block, who was also a pallbearer, said before the funeral: “There are plans to have a more public memorial sometime in the New Year when other people can come remember and share memories of her, but today is just small and very private for those close to her.”
Murphy had finished work on three films, including the Sylvester Stallone action-adventure The Expendables, when she died.
She was due to star filming a romantic comedy, Shrinking Charlotte, next month, but her role will be recast.