Timmy84 said:

i was telling my mother, maybe it was best that he left now. if had stayed, there probably would have been more turmoil of some sort, and the children need to be, and would have wanted to be, out in the world more and i'm not sure how mj would have negotiated that. at least he seemed to be happy in these last moments, looking forward to performing, writing songs and music again. but yes, i think the fact that he became so frail during the trial, and never looked the same again says a lot about his frame of mind. the more i hear, the more broken hearted *i* become so i know how he must have felt.

when was this? the paps don't know when to stop.

Timmy84 said:

i was telling my mother, maybe it was best that he left now. if had stayed, there probably would have been more turmoil of some sort, and the children need to be, and would have wanted to be, out in the world more and i'm not sure how mj would have negotiated that. at least he seemed to be happy in these last moments, looking forward to performing, writing songs and music again. but yes, i think the fact that he became so frail during the trial, and never looked the same again says a lot about his frame of mind. the more i hear, the more broken hearted *i* become so i know how he must have felt.

suga10 said:

Wow...

when was this? the paps don't know when to stop.

Jackson considered moving to Montreal, according to new tell-all book
Nelson Wyatt, THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - A new book about pop icon Michael Jackson's final years says the singer once considered moving to Montreal because polls indicated Quebecers rejected child abuse allegations made against him.

"Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson," says the megastar behind such hits as "Thriller" and "Bad" spurned the United States after surveys indicated many Americans still thought him guilty even though he was acquitted of child abuse charges in 2005.

Author Ian Halperin, who oddly enough predicted in December 2008 that Jackson would be dead in six months, writes that Jackson's first choices for a new home were Britain and Berlin, followed by Montreal.

Jackson died June 25. The cause of death has not yet been determined.

"Quebec had always held a special affection for Jackson and it happened to be the only jurisdiction in North America where polls showed that the majority of residents firmly rejected the child abuse allegations against him," Halperin writes in the book, released Tuesday in English and French by Montreal's Transit Publishing.

Halperin cites unidentified associates of people who dealt with Jackson as well as "one of the city's leading realtors" for his information on the possible Montreal move.

The realtor told him and a group of people at a June 2007 cocktail party at the Montreal Grand Prix that she was in the process of selling Jackson a house and that he had already been to Montreal twice to look at potential properties.

"He came incognito," Halperin quotes the realtor as saying. "He even attended a hockey game while he was here."

Although Jackson was shown places in the upscale Westmount and Outremont districts, he didn't see anything that suited his needs. Privacy was paramount to him, the realtor said.

Jackson did like a "swanky mansion once owned by the Bronfman family," although it wasn't for sale.

Halperin also explored other Quebec connections, including negotiations between Jackson's Neverland Entertainment Group and a Montreal film company to start a new film production division.

Despite announcements a deal had been struck, it eventually fell apart because of Jackson's financial problems, Halperin writes.

He also recounts a conversation he had with now-deceased Montreal broadcaster Ted Blackman, who told him of a chat between the singer and a francophone journalist Blackman overheard in the mid-1980s.

"They were discussing whether or not Quebec would be better off being separate from Canada," Halperin quotes Blackman as saying of the backstage encounter at a Jackson show in Montreal.

"Jackson replied, 'Oui, oui.' I was amazed. Jackson said he thought Quebec could be another Paris and that Canada was too culturally lame to sustain Quebec."

Blackman reportedly said Jackson ignored anglophone journalists and spoke to French-language media in broken French, accepting a fleur-de-lis key chain from one reporter.

Halperin's book was literally on the printing presses when news of the pop star's sudden death was announced. It was pulled so a brief update could be included.

Halperin says in his conclusion to the book that while he started his investigation believing that Jackson was guilty of child abuse, he couldn't find any evidence to support the allegation.

While he criticizes sensationalist media, he also says Jackson also bears blame for his own misfortune because of behaviour that "bordered on criminal stupidity."

The author, who says he got his information from friends and associates of Jackson, paints a disheartening picture of the pop star's declining years. He says ill health likely would have prevented Jackson from completing a comeback tour that was scheduled to start recently.

Timmy84 said:

how do you know this guy is telling the truth oh yeah you don't

dreamfactory313 said:

2nd and 3rd degree burns, it's horrible i can't believe he didn't sue pepsi instead he built a burnt center he was really too forgiving and generous almost to a fault
[Edited 7/15/09 21:22pm]

:talktothehand: for that culturally lame bit Mike

cdcgold said:

wtf? that looks like an aerial shot. That's just wrong.

www.tmz.com


Paris and Prince attending Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall

trueiopian said:

Looks like Life and Style Mag has people on helicopters taking pics.

kibbles said:

It's all really complex. At one point Mike seemed up to anything and at another, he was drained from a lot of shit. I'm pretty sure that Michael's heart just couldn't take anymore despite what some folks are trying to point out. It's all a mess. And there's no clear answers on anything. I wished we could all rewind our lives and discover what's wrong so we can fix it, I would hope if there was such a thing, Michael would've done the same thing.

Timmy84 said:

I can't fucking stand this shit at all I want all these fuck bitches like Martin Bashir to go fuck himself in hell. I just hate the thought that even though MJ is a spirit I still think he's still suffering. Man life's a bitch and we screw her all the damn time.

MJ at two years old.

EmeraldSkies said:

I have this as a large poster. A great shot of his gorgeous, hypnotizing eyes. One of my all-time favorite pictures.

MJ at two years old.

Mike favored Quebec Separtism

Post more J5 pics!