suga10 said:

It's funny how all of a sudden people are 'approving releasing these secret details' from rehearsals, so that means they're credible? I can just as easily say "I know a dancer who says that MJ can't squeak a note out to save his life", BFD.

It's funny how all of a sudden people are 'approving releasing these secret details' from rehearsals, so that means they're credible? I can just as easily say "I know a dancer who says that MJ can't squeak a note out to save his life", BFD.

Anyone familiar with this: "Michael Jackson - Chosen To Entertain: A collection of Never Seen Photos, Rare Interviews and Facts"?

Who is the sanest MJ fan here that I can reach out to?

Seriously though...

sosgemini said:

[Flame snip - luv4u]

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

Okay, one down.

I ask my questions with the utmost sincerity. Any help would be appreciated via this thread or by private orgnote.

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

Okay, one down.

I ask my questions with the utmost sincerity. Any help would be appreciated via this thread or by private orgnote.

Fair enough...my questions stand minus the sane part.

That hairstyle suits him better i think.

sosgemini said:

you should know better anyway, you're a moderator.

seeingvoices12 said:

thank god, he got rid of that weave.

sosgemini said:

if you're gonna come in here and comment..make sure you respect others..not just being another [Snip - luv4u].

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

Wow...MJ is some serious & racist internet business for you, eh?

was i just called a whiteboy?

He reveals a phased three-year touring plan that will take Jackson to Europe, then the Far East, winding up in the Americas in 2011. He estimates that Jackson will make $50m-$100m from the London dates, and that this could rise to $500m if the world tour materialises. When Phillips approached Jackson in 2007 with his offer of 10 dates at the O2, he knew Jackson was broke. Everybody did. Headlines blared that Jackson was struggling to refinance a $270m debt borrowed against his main asset, a 400,000-song catalogue, including the entire Lennon-McCartney oeuvre, which he had jointly owned with Sony since 1995. Rumours suggested that Sony was about to assume control of all of it. More unserviced debts had reportedly forced him to surrender the keys to Neverland to a private-equity group, Colony Capital, which basically bought his mortgage.

The optimists point to the fact that the Jackson who turned up for the O2 press conference in March looked considerably sturdier than he has so far this century. Technicians working on the show rehearsals in LA report that he is full of energy and ideas, and always on time. One who met him at his rented mansion in Bel Air, a French chateau-styled spread furnished entirely in gold, found him “much fitter than expected and very on-the-ball”.

A more troublesome unknown might be his mental state, which looked fragile as he refused to follow his teleprompt script at the press conference. "I don’t know if that was stage fright," Randy Phillips says. "He was a little reticent maybe, but that was more him being out of practice." His confidence was boosted, according to Phillips, by the ovation he received from the cast and audience of Oliver! when he entered his box at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the Saturday following the press conference. "Whatever insecurities he might have had evaporated right there."

Phillips’s main worry has been how to keep Jackson away "from all these characters I have to fend off from his past". He won’t name them, and you hope they don’t include more litigious parents. One is almost certainly Jackson’s former spokesperson, the American PR Raymone Bain, who served during his spell in Bahrain. Claiming to have instigated the AEG deal, Bain is now reportedly suing Jackson for $44m. Phillips says he has built "a protective wall to stop people getting to him the way they used to". Jackson has tried to reconvene what he calls 'the old team' that is, his collaborators from the glory days of the 1980s. Frank DiLeo, his former manager, who, according to Phillips, "has a real good way of dealing with Michael", is back on board. His original producer, Quincy Jones, however, declined to help Jackson with new recordings and has reportedly warned others to "be careful" when dealing with him.

However things turn out, Phillips insists, these concerts will probably not mark the end of Jackson’s career as a performer. Calling the show 'This Is It' was not so much Jackson’s way of signalling farewell, Phillips says, but more a thanks-for-waiting. "When I asked him why he was doing this tour now, he said it was because his kids are old enough to appreciate it and he still felt young enough to do it. He’s told me that whatever profit he makes from these shows will go into a trust fund for his children."

Profits, however, are still some way off. AEG expects to see no return on its investment of at least £20m until Jackson has played one-third of the O2 shows. The start-up costs for This Is It have been huge, covering the biggest stage set built for an indoor arena show and a number of what Phillips calls "grand illusions". His hope, along with that of the 800,000-odd fans who have bought tickets, must be that their trust in pop’s most charismatic but accident-prone Peter Pan doesn’t turn out to be the grandest illusion of all.

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

think of it this way, my question is no longer directed towards you. move along now.

sosgemini said:

where in the world did you come from?

ehuffnsd said:

i got asked by a dear friend to help him out with my questions....he thought i was a diehard mj fan....and well, this is the only place i know that could possibly help, so here i am.

It's confirmed. The curls are back. Michael Jackson, is back.