It's been nearly two months since his death, and Michael Jackson is worth more than ever. Today's Times notes that, in the last seven weeks, the late King has made over $100 million in film and merchandising deals–think "commemorative coins, a line of school supplies and a $150 coffee table book." And another $100 million is expected to materialize before the year is out. His albums have also been consistently outselling  new releases, which shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who has ventured out to a bar or party or drugstore this summer. There's talk of turning Neverland into a new, somehow flashier and more haunted, Graceland and the creation of a "permanent attraction" in Las Vegas.

In the meantime, the Verard Gallery has started the bidding on a 1984 Andy Warhol portrait of  Jackson in his red-blazered heyday at $800,000. 30-by-26-inches, it will be on display at the LOS Angeles Art Assn. Gallery in LA today and tomorrow, until one very devoted Pop fan arrives to take it home.