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Reply #120 posted 04/05/13 6:08pm

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“Michael was very spiritual, and always led his band in prayer before each show. I was late arriving from make-up one show, and the prayer was just ending. Seeing my disappointment, Michael pulled me aside, and prayed just him and me. He was just that caring and attentive. He was a beautiful soul.”

~ Seidah Garrett

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Reply #121 posted 04/05/13 9:10pm

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sexy flower broken

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Reply #122 posted 04/05/13 11:11pm

alphastreet

so beautiful, I feel crying

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Reply #123 posted 04/06/13 9:24am

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heart mushy

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Reply #124 posted 04/06/13 9:39am

mookie

It's hard to not think to yourself as you see some of these older pics of MJ with certain people, you wish he had kept so many of those people in his life, instead of the later set of leeches who clearly didn't care about him. I truly believe he would be here today if he had had folks like Siedah Garrett surrounding him.

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Reply #125 posted 04/06/13 1:02pm

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Reply #126 posted 04/06/13 1:03pm

Emancipation89

^^^Yeah...but too bad Michael was drawn to those leeches who wouldn't question his dependency on drugs. =(

The trial won't be televised. If Prince Michael and Paris really get called as witnesses at least now they won't have to do that in front of millions of viewers...of course I bet that's what exactly Katherine's lawyers were going for to win public sympathy...

Judge: No cameras in Michael Jackson death trial

By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 9:40 PM EDT, Fri April 5, 2013

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The wrongful death trial of concert promoter AEG Live filed by Michael Jackson's mother and three children will not be televised, a judge decided Friday.

CNN had requested its camera be allowed in the courtroom during the trial, but Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos issued a ruling Friday denying the request.

California law leaves the decision to the trial judge's discretion based on 19 factors to be considered. Palazuelos did not say in her ruling what factors swayed her decision.

AEG Live's lawyer argued televising the trial could create a frenzy among Jackson fans at the courthouse that could pose a threat to witnesses.

Jackson lawyers argued in favor of having a camera in court, saying it would be the best way for the world to see justice done.

Without cameras, only a handful of journalists will have seats in the small courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.

The Jacksons' lawsuit accuses AEG Live of liability in Jackson's death through the negligent hiring of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

AEG Live contends Murray was never its employee, but was chosen and hired by Jackson.

If AEG Live is found liable by a jury, it could mean a multibillion dollar judgment for the Jacksons, based on the potential earnings of Michael Jackson had he lived past his 50th birthday.

Opening statements and the first witness could be heard in about two weeks in the trial that is expected to last for two to three months.

The pool of potential jurors reached 60 Friday afternoon after four days of eliminating jurors for hardship reasons. The process will continue Monday and Tuesday or until about 100 potential jurors are identified. On Wednesday, the lawyers will start the voir dire process of eliminating jurors based on cause or their jury strikes allowed under court rules.

Until then, the lawyers are studying their answers to a long questionnaire the potential jurors completed. The process is expected to continue for another week, perhaps ending around April 16 or 17.

It is unclear how soon after a jury is seated that the judge will have lawyers deliver opening statements and call the first witness. Some judges allow the jury a day or so to take care of personal business after being selected.



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Reply #127 posted 04/06/13 3:49pm

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Michael Jackson and Paul Anka duet version of "This Is It". With the original MJ vocals from 1983.

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Reply #128 posted 04/06/13 4:06pm

JoeTyler

I've been listening to "Threatened" all day long, truly an underrated masterpiece

just as good as any song of Bad or Dangerous

that "opening tomb" effect is just mind-blowing

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Reply #129 posted 04/06/13 6:31pm

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Militant said:

Michael Jackson and Paul Anka duet version of "This Is It". With the original MJ vocals from 1983.

Very cool. I like this version. Thanks for posting Militant thumbs up!

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Reply #130 posted 04/06/13 6:35pm

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I found this posted on someone's Tumblr today...

What people don’t know about the chrome outfit, particularly the plastic chest plate, is that on the right side of the crotch area, we drilled a one inch diameter hole. Michael’s intent was to unhinge a hose from his space pod, hook it to his crotch, and, through a valve connected to the hole, spray the audience with smoke. “The fans are going to love it” Michael said excitedly with the idea first came to him in Bucharest during the tour. “And nobody has ever done it before.”

Yeah, well. I wonder why. As outlandish as it sounded, though, it was typical Michael. I was rooting for it to happen, and I think it would’ve if the pyro technician had more warning. But even though this idea wouldn’t come to fruition, it didn’t stop Michael from sharing his other wild ideas. And we were so glad for that, as it was Michael’s compulsion for pushing the limits that always sent Dennis and me in search of the next.

-Michael Bush

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eek hmm eek hmm whofarted !?!?

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Reply #131 posted 04/06/13 6:46pm

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NaughtyKitty said:

Militant said:

Michael Jackson and Paul Anka duet version of "This Is It". With the original MJ vocals from 1983.

Very cool. I like this version. Thanks for posting Militant thumbs up!

I like the production of this better than the demo although the demo is nice too

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Reply #132 posted 04/07/13 3:07pm

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“Michael loved art a lot. He — he loved paintings, he loved water colors. He loved even the crayons. And he would always draw. And when he was even in school, he would draw pictures and they took one of his drawings and put it on the front of the yearbook. He taught himself. … Just the talent that he had. And I can’t say too much more about him, only his father — his father was an artist, too. He loved to paint and draw. So I thought maybe he might have picked it up from him. But he had a natural talent for it, Michael did.”

-Katherine Jackson

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Reply #133 posted 04/07/13 5:25pm

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NaughtyKitty said:

“Michael loved art a lot. He — he loved paintings, he loved water colors. He loved even the crayons. And he would always draw. And when he was even in school, he would draw pictures and they took one of his drawings and put it on the front of the yearbook. He taught himself. … Just the talent that he had. And I can’t say too much more about him, only his father — his father was an artist, too. He loved to paint and draw. So I thought maybe he might have picked it up from him. But he had a natural talent for it, Michael did.”

-Katherine Jackson

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Aw yeah, he was amazing at art. It would have been amazing if he lived to study art history as he planned to. We also know mj wrote about diana ross doing art with him

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Reply #134 posted 04/07/13 6:11pm

Emancipation89

^^ What WASN'T he good at seriously lol? I would LOVE to see ALL of his paintings someday!!!

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Reply #135 posted 04/07/13 6:12pm

alphastreet

I miss him so much and want to cry tonight :*(

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Reply #136 posted 04/07/13 6:34pm

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I miss him so much and want to cry tonight :*(

aww hug hug hug x 100000! I know the whole trial thing is not helping you at all but I hope you can be strong and make a decision to not let any of this affect your every day life smile

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Reply #137 posted 04/07/13 7:54pm

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New Michael Jackson Book: ‘Untouchable’

*Michael Jackson has been dead for more than three years now, and new books attempting to “analyze” and “explain” who he was are still emerging.

Will this never end?

Enter “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson.” It’s the brainchild of one Randall Sullivan – a tenured former Rolling Stone magazine journalist; and needless to say, its getting a lot of heat from those who feel they knew Jackson best, his family.

But we hear a lot of folks, “celebrity sources” included, are trashing the claims set forth in the book. Sister Janet Jackson has a bone to pick with Sullivan because he wrote that she refused to allow Michael’s remains to be interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery until she got her money back. Seems she upped $40,000 in burial costs and wanted Michael’s estate to reimburse her first. Through her attorney, the allegation was called, “false and defamatory,” and a retraction was demanded by the singer; but Vanity Fair, who ran an excerpt of the book recently with this claim in it, says, in essence, that’s the story and they’re stickin’ to it.

Then Sullivan had to go and say that family matriarch, Katherine Jackson, tried to contact Grace Rwaramba, the longtime personal nanny to Michael Jackson’s three kids, because she was trying to locate her son’s cash-stash. Supposedly, as Sullivan claims in his book, Michael kept tons of money under the flooring of his house. This claim was described as “simply ridiculous” by Mrs. Jackson’s attorney.

Did you know that Michael Jackson and Mark Wahlberg faced-off following 9/11 about which one of them would get to charter a private jet out of New York? Of course this, too, was refuted by “sources close to Wahlberg,” who told TMZ the former boy-band-member-turned-serious-actor maintained his own transportation…a private plane of course.

The book is said to hold a few “minor revelations” to cast Jackson in a new light; and veer away from the child-molestation accusations that shrouded much of the entertainer’s existence. In “Untouchable,” the singer is labeled “presexual” as opposed to “asexual.” And Sullivan writes, (from a “knowing place” of course),

He died “a 50-year-old virgin…never having had sexual intercourse with any man, woman or child, in a special state of loneliness that was a large part of what made him unique as an artist and so unhappy as a human being.”

Randall Sullivan

Randall Sullivan

Guess Sullivan is straight out calling Lisa Marie, who didn’t blink as she looked Oprah straight in the eye and said she and her one-time husband had a normal sex life, a damn liar.

Sullivan goes on to talk about Jackson’s desire to be a movie studio mogul; attempting to purchase the Marvel comics empire and play iconic cultural icons onscreen; bringing to life a dormant biopic about King Tut, with Mel Gibson in the director’s seat; and he even details a laundry list of drugs allegedly consumed by Michael Jackson in the final months of his life. Here, he reveals one of the questions asked on a questionnaire had to complete as a requirement for the ill-fated, “This Is It” tour.

“Have you ever been treated for, or had any indication of excessive use of alcohol or drugs?” Jackson circled “no” and somehow passed the examination with flying colors.

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #138 posted 04/07/13 8:21pm

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I have missed a lot of these threads so I'm sorry if these have already been posted.

Gene Kelly's widow revealed last year that Gene wanted to do a musical with Michael.

“He always got the new records,” his widow says. “He stayed current. He appreciated break dancing. He really liked ‘Purple Rain’… He tried very hard to get Michael Jackson to do a musical, but I guess there was this thinking that, oh, Gene’s too old to get it.

“Well, when Michael Jackson died, and all the obits talked about Michael dancing in penny loafers — where do they think that came from?”

At 7:30 you can hear her discussing it.

http://www.voicebase.com/...jackson%22

She thinks that it would have been amazing.

Gene was very interested in all types of music and actively kept abreast of what was new and “hot.” Whenever the LA Times critic Robert Heilburn published his list of the most popular recordings, Gene cut it from the paper and sent me to Tower Records to buy copies of each album (actually cassette tapes back then!). I remember in particular picking up copies of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Prince’s Purple Rain, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Janet Jackson’s Control, Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A. He would listen to them all. Gene always said that dance followed music, so he wanted to know what would be influencing the new styles of dance. He said, “Styles change, things change. When Elvis and the Beatles came in, Astaire and I went out. They had a whole new kind of music and a whole new kind of youth following. Television was in and the first mass media was not the motion pictures. It changed to television.”

http://patriciawardkelly.wordpress.com/

On to Astaire:

In the early 80s I was working on an autobiographical project with Hermes Pan who was Fred Astaire’s dance collaborator and longtime friend. About that time Michael Jackson got himself introduced to these two men who, although no longer working, had produced possibly the greatest oeuvre of dance performances in the history of film.

Their meeting might have come through Hermes, who was a very sunny man with an elfin-like appreciation of people and dancers especially, and far more congenial and socially accessible than Astaire.


“Dancers,” Hermes once said, “are like children; they have to be in order to get up there and do that.” And then he chuckled at the reality.


I don’t know which of the two men – Hermes and Fred – saw Michael Jackson’s work first but whoever it was, he immediately told the other. Fred Astaire thought Michael Jackson was the greatest dancer of his age. He regarded Michael as his peer. Hermes agreed. He thought Michael was Fred’s natural successor.

After Michael and the two men became friends, Michael one day sent Fred Astaire all of his gold records. Or was it platinum. There were a lot of them and in their frames. Astaire was non-plussed. There was nothing ethereal about the man off-screen, and this sort of thing struck him as bizarre. He sent them back. It did not affect his relationship with Michael, however, because Michael was his peer. Furthermore Fred Astaire was flattered to see that the pop mega-star who he considered the greatest dancer was inspired by certain Astaire dance moves.


I never quite understood that last bit about the dance moves when Hermes mentioned them. Michael Jackson seemed like such a different breed of cat, style-wise, than Fred Astaire to this non-dancer Nevertheless, I knew they knew what they are talking about.

Thinking about that last night, we found couple of clips of the two boys doing their thing, thrilling us masses of millions in their thrall. Coincidentally they bear out what Hermes Pan told me about Michael and Fred and their dancing: they were the resident genius of their time.

Whatever it was for him, it was a tortuous, troubled, and possibly even tragic life for the boy/man, this Nijinsky child who wanted his peers to have his prizes, to gain some camaraderie, to share some space in that strangely lonely place called fame. In summation he was the dancer. The rest of us got the best of him and that will be his legacy.

http://www.newyorksociald...ode/512718

Then come the landmark videos of the early nineteen-eighties: “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” and “Thriller,” all of them for songs that appeared on the collection “Thriller” (1982), which is the best-selling album of all time. At this point, Jackson has just about everything you would want in a dancer. He is very fast, and, now that the adult musculature has come in, his whole body is “worked.” (This means that every muscle is stretched, and operating in the service of the dance. Nothing is blurred.) As a result, he has a sharp attack, and wonderful clarity. Watch him—as you can, for example, in “The Way You Make Me Feel” (1987)—dancing, silhouetted, alongside other men doing the same steps. You can’t see the faces, but you know which one he is. He dives into a step more intently, and shows it to us more precisely, than anyone else.


The “Thriller”-period videos were instrumental in converting MTV from a backwater to a sensation. Jackson consciously aimed at doing that. “I wanted to be a pioneer in this relatively new medium,” he said in his 1988 memoir, “Moon Walk” (a book, incidentally, edited by Jacqueline Onassis). He spent a fortune on these projects. The 1995 “Scream” video cost seven million dollars—a record at that time. He didn’t like to call these works videos. They were “short films,” he claimed—and rightly, for he had them shot not on videotape but on 35-mm. film. “We were serious,” he said.

Jackson took his choreography from a number of sources: hip-hop, sock hop, “Soul Train,” disco, and jazz dance, plus a little tap and Charleston. By his account, he constructed some of the movement himself.

But on most of his dances he did not work alone. Michael Peters, Vincent Paterson, and Jeffrey Daniel, all of them experienced stage and TV choreographers, collaborated with Jackson. On the PBS special “Everybody Dance Now” (1991), in answer to a question from the dance historian Sally Sommer, Peters said that Jackson’s method was to put together some steps and ideas and bring them to a choreographer, who would then organize them into a coherent dance.

But, whether he went it alone or got help, the result was much the same. He didn’t have a lot of moves. You can almost count them on your fingers: the gyrating hips, the bending knees (reversing from inward to outward), the pivoting feet (ditto), the one raised knee, the spins, and, above all, the rotated or raised heel, which is what he gets around on. These steps are generally done staccato. He finishes the phrase and freezes, then finishes the next phrase and freezes. He also has some moves so natural that one hesitates to call them steps: lovely, light-footed walks, struts, jumps, and runs. He made at least one important innovation in music-video choreography—the use of large ensembles dancing behind the soloist—but beyond that he created very little dancing that was different from his own prior numbers, or anyone else’s. Yet many people were happy to see him, again and again, do the thing he did. Long after the critics soured on his music and his videos, they still liked his dancing.

Jackson, who had a thorough knowledge of the movie musical, revered Fred Astaire. He records in his memoir how thrilled he was when Astaire praised him. The old master even invited him over to his house, where Jackson taught the moonwalk to him and his choreographer Hermes Pan. (Astaire told Jackson that both of them, he and Jackson, danced out of anger—an interesting remark, at least about Astaire.) But despite Jackson’s awe of his predecessor, he never learned the two rules that Astaire, as soon as he gained power over the filming, insisted on: (1) don’t interrupt the dance with reaction shots or any other extraneous shots, and (2) favor a full-body shot over a closeup.

To Astaire, the dance was primary—his main story—and he had it filmed accordingly. In Jackson’s videos, the dance is tertiary, even quaternary (after the song and the story and the filming). The camera repeatedly cuts away, and, when it comes back, it often limits itself to the upper body. Jackson didn’t value his dancing enough.

The last known video shows him at a rehearsal for the London season he was about to embark on. He struts, he boogies; he snaps and pops. As CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, said, “This doesn’t look like someone who’s very sick to me.” That’s not to mention that Jackson was fifty years old and, because he was in rehearsal, was probably not performing “full out.” He was still a great dancer. Two days later, he was dead.

http://www.newyorker.com/...rentPage=1

I don't remember the source for this but:

I think it's worth noting the style in which Jackson's clips were filmed: long takes, fluid camerawork with minimal editing, often framed full-on, like Fred Astaire's numbers. So you can see and appreciate everything he's doing.

His film performances eventually grew compromised by a reliance on special effects and directors with no talent for shooting dance -- among them Francis Ford Coppola, who managed to undermine Jackson, Gregory Hines and Fred Astaire in various projects, making him Hollywood's champion dance-killer.

Can anyone, then, dance like Michael Jackson? Only if you can rise up on your toes without toe shoes, stay there, and keep up what is basically a nonstop two-hour solo.

Marcel Marceau, the great mime, would do the backwards walk. It was never called Moonwalk and I doubt Marcel invented it either. But I am pretty sure it originated with mimes. And Marcel was a lot older than Cab Calloway and all those jazz fellows of the 30's. And you'll notice in MJ's videos that his movements, were always very mime-like. And his dance moves were clearly Astaire and Kelley. When he'd combine those with the mime and a faster beat, you got Michael Jackson. So MJ did not invent dance or mime, but he did invent the combining of all of them.

The movements are best described as pulses that travel through the body, arriving at another area and continuing the beat. Joan Acocella, journalist and dance critic for the New Yorker, cites Jackson’s sources of movement as break dancing, “hip-hop, sock hop, ‘Soul Train,’ disco, and jazz dance, plus a little tap and Charleston,”

She suggests that Jackson’s virtuosity lies in the precision of his movements, coupled with their speed and pacing.49

In fact, the two qualities that writers refer to consistently as Jackson’s most stunning qualities are his quickness and control; he adds in steps between the musical beats so swiftly they can scarcely be seen and yet maintains full control over his body—all while maintaining a consistent flow. Hamera calls the dance “liquid and percussive,” Reece Livingstone “fluid yet disjointed,” but either way, critics agree about the sharp attack of the movement that somehow manages to remain fluid.50


On the kick, the leg actually fully extends but does so quickly enough that one registers only the bent knee, raised and held at ninety degrees, demonstrating Jackson’s ability to fully complete each movement no matter the speed of the movement itself.51

One might suspect the embellishments and tapping to be improvised or added to regain balance, only Jackson repeats exactly the same sequence in the other direction. Every move is perfectly controlled, executed at blinding speed and with perfect musicality, characteristics that defined all his movements and played such a role in his signature.

Despite the rigid control, Jackson attacks each movement with intensity and commitment, which comes across as unmatched clarity and efficiency.52 The easiest way to see this is by comparing his dancing with that of his backup dancers, such as during the silhouette sequence of The Way You Make Me Feel.

The differences between Jackson and the dancers are subtle, but telling. For example, during the split-second pause before the right knee drops, the dancer next to Jackson never comes to a complete stop. His right leg displays a very slight movement in preparation to go to the ground, a compensation to remain balanced. This preparatory movement is absent from Jackson, who arrives at the pose and comes to a complete stop before moving on. As the knees open and close under the body, the dancer pulses his shoulders, using them to gather his knees underneath him or embellish the movement. Jackson’s shoulders move very minimally, so the movement of the knees is unmarred by any other movement in the body. The cleaner movement creates a more startling visual effect. In analyzing other similar sequences of Jackson and his backup dancers, the others consistently display these subtle preparatory movements or add slight embellishments.

These are not obvious, but the lack of them in Jackson’s body creates the impression that movement simply explodes from it without being forced. It is a characteristic that defines all Jackson’s movements.

The same effortless quality is, along with the unparalleled sharpness of quick movements, one of the most significant aspects of Jackson’s movement signature. In the forward to Moonwalk, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote that Jackson was a dancer who “seems to defy gravity,” something that can especially be seen in his moonwalk, struts, and glides.53

The effect of floating can be seen in all of the dancer’s upper bodies, but the telling differences are found in the feet. In very general terms, the move is accomplished by turning in the right foot and taking the weight on the ball of the foot, while the left slides backwards to join it. For the other dancers, the left food slide is heavier and the circle traced by the feet is much smaller than Jackson’s. With the other dancers, there is always the slight betrayal of shifting weight, in a bending knee or a more sudden step. Jackson, on the other hand, gives no hint whatsoever of which foot is carrying the weight. As a result, neither appears to have it, and he simply floats around the circle. All his struts, spins, and of course, moonwalks, reveal this effortless, weightless quality.


The idea that Jackson’s dancing seemed to transcend the laws of physics is perhaps the best way to sum up what made it so particular to him. His dancers are remarkable in their own right, but never quite as clear, as quick, as sharp, or as effortless as Jackson. He arrives fully at each new pose before moving on, taking each movement to its full potential, so that movements that are not technically difficult appear technical but are executed without any apparent effort. He is perfectly controlled, yet his dancing is visceral, wild, and explosive.

What is so remarkable is that Jackson himself is the only one who can perform these moves in this way. Although the moves are not “his,” his ability to perform them in a unique way allows the spectator to view them as though they were Jackson’s own composition.

One way to see this is by studying Michael Jackson impersonators, people who have dedicated much of their lives to replicating the quality of Jackson’s movement signature. The best come close, but they are always betrayed by 19

the smallest visible changes in weight, taking the movement past the line (instead of exactly to it as Jackson does), not coming to a full stop of motion, or simply losing, for a second, the attack of the movement omnipresent with Jackson.

From MJ's autobiography and a Hermes Pan book.

It was the greatest compliment I had ever received in my life, and the only one I had ever wanted to believe. For Fred Astaire to tell me that meant more to me than anything. Later my performance was nominated for an Emmy Award in a musical category, but I lost to Leontyne Price. It didn't matter. Fred Astaire had told me things I would never forget - that was my reward. Later he invited me to his house, and there were more compliments from him until I really blushed. He went over my "Billie Jean" performance, step by step. The great choreographer Hermes Pan, who had choreographed Fred's dances in the movies, came over, and I showed them how to Moonwalk and demonstrated some other steps that really interested them."

He received a call from Fred Astaire asking him to come home immediately. Thinking it was some kind of emergency, Hermes rushed over only to find Astaire excitedly watching a videotape. “Just wait till you see this,” he said by way of greeting. Pan sat beside him and the two watched Michael Jackson perform “Billie Jean” on Motown 25:Yesterday, Today, Forever, which had aired the night before. Impressed by the performance, Pan persuaded Astaire to call Michael Jackson to congratulate him.

Somehow Fred tracked (Michael) down. He told him that he was one hell of a dancer… “You really put them on their asses that night. You’re angry dancer. I’m the same way.” …I was surprised that a person that dances with such anger would have such a soft voice. I told him how much I enjoyed his work, and he was very gracious, very excited to hear from us. For a moment, I thought he believed it was a practical joke. I liked him right away because he seemed unaffected by show business and seemed star struck. He really could not believe that Fred Astaire had called him. –Hermes Pan: The Man who danced with Fred Astaire

Mozart:

1.) Mozart showed prodigious abilities in music at a very early age. The same can be said with Michael Jackson's vocal and musical abilities.

2.) At the age of five Mozart began performing before European royalty and all over Europe. Michael Jackson made his debut at a talent show in Gary, Indiana and later performed throughout the Midwest and in nearby Chicago night clubs.

3.) Leopold Mozart, his father, became his teacher, mentor, and manager. Joe Jackson became his son's manager, coach, and advisor.

4.) Mozart and his sister, Maria Anna or Nannerl, performed together as child prodigies. MJ and Janet performed together as children on television variety shows with the Jackson 5.

5.) At seventeen Mozart was hired as a court musician to the Prince Archbishop Colloredo in Salzburg, Austria. He composed and performed many of his symphonies, sonatas, serenades, and other musical pieces to a huge following in Salzburg. Michael Jackson debuted as an entertainer at age 10 with the Jackson 5, later to a recording contract with Motown Records in Detroit, and by having a huge legion of fans, selling out concerts, and having hit songs on the pop charts.

) Mozart broke free of his restricting ties in Salzburg to the Prince Archbishop and to his father. He then embarked on being a freelance performer and composer in Vienna, Austria. In 1971 Michael Jackson embarked on a solo career while still a member of the Jackson 5. In 1979 he joined forces with record producer, Quincy Jones, for his first album "Off the Wall".

7.) During Mozart's Vienna years he composed his world famous opera in 1786, "The Marriage of Figaro", which is still performed in opera houses throughout the world. Michael Jackson in 1982 gave the world "Thriller", the best-selling album of all time.

8.) Mozart was a small man, very thin, and pale. MJ was described by many journalists, after his death, who had seen him during the trials and his last rehearsal as a small man, very thin, and pale due to his skin condition, which grew worse in later years.

.) His wife Constanze described Mozart's voice in a letter as rather soft in speaking and delicate in singing. However, when it was necessary to exert his singing voice it was powerful and energetic. Michael Jackson was well-known for his very soft-spoken speaking voice, yet his singing voice was powerful and energetic.

11.) Mozart and Michael Jackson had extremely conflicting feelings about their fathers due to the controlling and manipulative ways early in their careers as well as in childhood.

12.) In the film "Amadeus" Mozart came across as childish, immature, and crude. MJ was a child-like man in later years, highly eccentric, and displayed illicit behavior with his infamous crotch-grabbing moves after the release of his "Bad" album.

13.) In the latter part of their lives each were in deep financial debt.

14.) Mozart was in the midst of composing his famous work, the "Requiem". Michael Jackson was in the process of preparing for his "This is It" 50-city tour before their deaths.

http://voices.yahoo.com/michael-jackson-mozart-3738106.html?cat=33

Mozart also had an older mentor in Joseph Hadyn. Musically they aren't on the same level obviously.

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Reply #139 posted 04/08/13 12:33am

alphastreet

Emancipation89 said:



alphastreet said:


I miss him so much and want to cry tonight :*(



aww hug hug hug x 100000! I know the whole trial thing is not helping you at all but I hope you can be strong and make a decision to not let any of this affect your every day life smile



Yeh I would rather not keep up this time
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Reply #140 posted 04/08/13 4:28pm

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how do fans keep up with the trial since it is not televised, will reporters be aloud into the courtroom to give people a run down, or how exactly does that work, i have never kept up with a trial that wasnt televised.

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Reply #141 posted 04/08/13 7:07pm

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dm3857 said:

how do fans keep up with the trial since it is not televised, will reporters be aloud into the courtroom to give people a run down, or how exactly does that work, i have never kept up with a trial that wasnt televised.

Online media sources. TMZ probably has their 'inside sources' selling them the scoop every so often. Twitter, etc... fans will probably be outside the courtrooms, but I wouldn't keep so much focus on the fans, there are those with their own theories who enjy spreading rumours and the likes.

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Reply #142 posted 04/09/13 6:50pm

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mookie said:

From another board:

According to a fan at the court house, Sneddon showed up today. Mez says he will testify for the Jackson's about the '05 trial since the judge allowed the molestation allegations in.

eek doh! Ok, but I cant see what kind of testimoney he could offer that would help the Jacksons? whofarted And they need to have strict guidelines on what all can be asked and discussed in regards to the 2005 trial. Having that brought up in this trial could really open up a pandora's box of mess. How in the world can anything Sneddon says help the Jacksons? headache

What do they expect from Snedon? They can't trust anything that this guy might say. Do they expect him to admit that he railroaded Micheal?

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Reply #143 posted 04/10/13 6:27pm

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Reply #144 posted 04/11/13 11:31am

KCOOLMUZIQ

Michael Jackson gold pants

More details are emerging about Michael Jackson’s drug dependency as Katherine Jackson’s $40 billion lawsuit against AEG gets underway.

Jackson died of heart failure and respiratory arrest caused by an overdose of an IV anesthetic on June 25, 2009 at age 50. Former Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of negligence in his death.

According to British tabloid The Sun, the LA coroner found a Naloxone (Narcan) implant under Jackson’s skin during his autopsy in 2009. Narcan is a drug used by emergency room physicians to reverse the effects of opioid (Heroine or morphine) overdose in patients.

Narcan is prescribed to heroine addicts to curb their craving for heroine (and other opioids) by blocking the release of dopamine in the brain. As you know, dopamine is the brain neurotransmitter (chemical) that stimulates the pleasure centers in our brains. Dopamine is responsible for most addictions, including sex, food, cigarettes, marijuana, etc. Dopamine also causes most humans to falsely believe we are in Love.

Naltrexone, a drug often confused for Narcan, is more commonly prescribed as an implant for patients with drug dependencies.

The discovery of Michael’s implant was mentioned in court papers released by one of Michael’s past doctors, David Fournier. “Fournier believed Jackson had deceived him by not telling him about a ‘Narcan implant’ Jackson had inserted before a surgical procedure Fournier was helping with,” state the papers.

Fournier’s papers are included in evidence to help the defense team of AEG Entertainment, the company which booked Jackson to perform 50 concerts at London’s 02 Arena. Katherine Jackson is suing AEG for hiring Conrad Murray. The trial is expected to last 3 months.

Poor MJ he will never rest in peace....disbelief

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eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #145 posted 04/11/13 11:32am

Emancipation89

I just randomly came across a year old article about Herb Ritts and read that when Michael saw this cover of Rolling Stone he called Ritts and asked him if he was trying to ruin his career lol. I don't know if it's true but if he didn't like this picture he's crazy...this is one of my favorite pics of Michael! Truly iconic!!!

Also noticed when this pic was used for the TIME commemorative issue they did some unnecessary photoshop and created bumpy volume on the back of his head....like why. Does that make the ponytail look more natural? I prefer the original lol

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Reply #146 posted 04/11/13 3:44pm

mookie

Someone bought the Time issue for me and I have yet to read it. I doubt I ever will sad

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Reply #147 posted 04/11/13 6:00pm

alphastreet

Stupid article, if he got in the implant in 2003, he should be applauded for it, not criticized and be called addict. He got addicted in 1993 cause of the accusations and was smart to take care of himself to make sure the same thing didn't happen in 2003 when he was accused again, and must have been afraid to tell anyone including medical professionals about the implant, he just couldn't trust anyone and ultimately paid the price by taking risks sad

I love that rolling stone picture, he looks really beautiful. If he didn't like it, it was for his missing trademark curls or having an insecurity about his skin or nose though he looks fine. I have that issue in fact, which is why I felt better about not buying the Time magazine which I heard was not that positive anyways.

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Reply #148 posted 04/11/13 6:50pm

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Believe it or not I have The Time issue. But never read it. Just keeping it as collectors item... biggrin

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #149 posted 04/11/13 11:16pm

Javi

Hi there, I don't usually read this thread, but I'm a huge Michael fan. I'd like to know which "tribute album" to Michael you'd recommend. I'm thinking of an album with covers of Michael's songs, whether it's of an artist or of various artists.

Thank you!

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