LIZ PLOTS TO JOIN JACKO

It's official: Movie queen LIZ TAYLOR's funeral will be a "Thriller!" While grieving at MICHAEL JACKSON's Forest Lawn funeral, Hollywood's Last Empress issued her final decree - she'll spend eternity just a tomb's-throw away from The Gloved One, insiders reveal.

Actually, the 77-year-old star still owns a cemetery plot in Wales, homeland of twice-upon-a-time hubby RICHARD BURTON, but when he died, his last wife, Sally, refused to encourage eternal hanky-panky between him and La Liz, so Taylor lost the plot, so to speak.

But when she sat through Michael's funeral service at the legendary Great Mausoleum, with its magnificent stained-glass windows and replicas of Michelangelo's artworks, she later told pals: "I felt a sense of peace there that I've never experienced before."

Folks, I'm predicting two MJ songs will be featured at Liz's final bow: "I'll Be There"...and "Will You Be There?"