Michael was insecure about his acne as an adolescent and I think he never got over it. He talked to Bashir about how some lady said "Oh where's little Michael?" and when his brothers pointed him out, she said "UUGH" right in his face...totally disgusted. Talk about a mental beatdown.

The plastic surgery stemmed from there.

Michael trusted no one to care for his children in the family. Didn't list a single sibling. MJ must have felt very disconnected to his siblings, including Janet Jackson. It has to be a really sad moment when you sit down to write your last will and you only have one relative out of many that you actually trust. Of course the court can decide who they want to raise his children. During an interview, Janet said it was difficult to film the "Scream" video with Michael.

Family does not mean closeness.

The Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service will take place on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles, California and simulcast inside to Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE across the street. A limited number of free tickets to both venues will be made available for Michael Jackson's fans to attend.

Due to the expected overwhelming demand, the following procedures have been set to accommodate registration for the tickets. Please note that by registering for tickets to attend the Public Memorial Service, it does NOT guarantee the registrant tickets.

The opportunity to register for tickets begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, July 3, 2009 and ends at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Please enter your information below for your chance to receive two tickets, that will be randomly distributed for either STAPLES Center or Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE to attend the Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service. Only one entry per individual will be accepted. Registering to attend the Public Memorial Service is NOT a guarantee of tickets. Two tickets will be issued to each randomly selected attendee. Offer valid to residents of the United States only.

The Staples Center website has crashed! I was up at 10am on the DOT and I registered for my 2 tickets! I just hope I get picked! We'll be notified on Sunday. Everyone is trying to register, but they're all saying the site is officially down.

Copycat said:

So the fans Internationally are shit out of luck!!!

I finally made it through!!!!

The oldest son, Prince, outside of the Jackson home in Encino

Sending love to these kids. I hope that they are well and that people will respect them and their family, now and in the future.

Countthedays said:

Around the time he claimed to own an oxygen chamber his people made up the story that he wants to live for 150 years. Imagine that, we would have him around another 100 years!

We put some of these public figures on a very high pedestal and feel that because they're famous, they're so above being questioned on their actions.

I love Michael and will play his music till I die. Hell, Christmas isn't Christmas for me if I'm not playing the Jackson 5 Xmas album.

Michael obviously had unhealthy interactions with children and should have seeked a phyciatrist. I don't think Michael is gay, but he obviously wasn't interested in sexual relations with woman! Plus he's been taken advantaged by so many adults that he may have only found comfort in children.

Honestly, Michael did snub black networks, because even though the BET awards is recent, he never bothered to be interviewed by Donnie Simpson on Video Soul before BET went downhill. Michael has only recently made company with blacks in his later years because whites turned their back on him.

Also, if Michael wanted kids and couldn't have any of his own, why choose a white and sperm, you dig. Quincy Jones was right! I am not sorry for how I feel. Michael saw who had his back in the end.

Copycat said:

Oh well, there goes Joes expected 'millions' of people to attend. I don't get why they're shutting out International people. I wonder if they'll have anything else planned for people overseas? They should have it on some huge oval and given about a weeks notice so everyone who wanted to come could. But I guess maybe LA wouldnt be able to accomodate that amount of people.

OldTeenager said:

All true.....

Arnotts said:

I think Michael should be shipped in every country where he sold more than one million copies of Thriller.

Than many, many countries and millions of fans will be able to watch him a last time.

Then, after this quasi tour, he will be shipped back to the US and be buried in Neverland, so that the company he partly held can make a fortune out of it.

michael, farrah, billy mays, ed mcmahon, karl. This month is so cold, death isn't coming in 3's but 5's.

OldTeenager said:

Those were bold statements coming from Quincy, a man who loves Black women so much he dates and marries White women exclusively. Fuck him.

My true belief about those allegations wobble my brain a little bit. Although He had HUNDREDS of little boys at Neverland, my assumption at both trials was that many more boys would testify against him. Since they didn't, I looked more at his innocence.

Until - that interview he did on TV where he indicated that he liked sleeping with kids in his bed (Come on people!) As a mother, you can't tell me that doesn't bother you, or any parent out there.. I believe that's when he started going heavy on the drugs... I have a feeling that he almost died previously, which would prompt the will being drawn up (in case of an accidental death).


Since Michael didn't donate his own sperm for his children.
It could have been because he had lupus.

Countthedays said:

Karl? Lagerfeld?

Graycap23 said:

Mike was never a big dude, has always been skin and bones. I remember Eddie Murphy's Raw movie he said Mike weighed "a buck 0-5" (105 lbs.) Wasn't he 110 in 2002?

Coming from a big family myself I can totally relate to Mike not being close enough to his siblingss that he'd want them to raise his kids... it is said Miss Janet performs high on the regular, Jermaine Randy and Jackie are whore-hoppers (and said to mistreat their kids), LaToya sold 'em out long time ago.

Tito, Marlon and Rebbie seem to be the only ones who keep out of the press.

I think Mike figured out the showbiz world perfectly: it loves Black when it looks white thus he turned himself into an Elvis-like creature (Elvis was a Blackified white).

Mental illness or not he is still the greatest entertainer that has ever lived.

Chic35 said:

i remember hearing about this, what a horrible woman...

There should be a series of concerts being held like Live 8 or Live Aid being held simultaneous around the world and televised. Now THAT would be a worthy tribute.

OldTeenager said:

There is a possibility he may sterile, but even if that were the case he could have used a black spem donor. The fact of the matter is those things do not matter anymore. The children are now here to stay and will be forever associated with Michael. All the criticsm, ridicule and negativity Michael endured in life is now directed towards a ghost. The only people that will hurt and continue to hurt are the children and the rest of the family.

Mike was forced to act like an adult when he was a child and then preceded to go backwards into a child like state as he grew older.

A white radio host out of L.A. is wondering why blacks are so gone over MJ when he tried to separate himself from our race. He referrenced the bleached skin, the white kids, the white wives and his many white friends. One of those so called friends of his the one who leaked the photos of MJ and his
kids.

OldTeenager said:

What are you talking about snubbing BET? Michael didn't give interviews to anyone in general. In fact in the 80s while everyone wanted to interview him, he insisted doing interviews for Ebony, Jet, Right On!, Rock And Soul, and Blues and Soul instead of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and other magazines.

Just like he didn't do Video Soul and Soul Train, he also didn't do American Bandstand and MTV programming after 1982

graecophilos said:

Actor Karl Madden

Timmy84 said:

Karl Malden

bboy87 said:

exactly

OldTeenager said:

Either way you can't keep white out of chocolate or chocolate out of white. In other words!

whatsgoingon said:

that's nice said.

I really hope they can say something about his supposed skin diseases. If they say he really suffered from Vitiligo, his ass will be saved.

BUT...

if this turns out to be a lie, MJ will lose some of his black fan's loyality, that's for sure.

BaileyWalker said:

Couple of things about this:

* All you've seen is 90 seconds of a rehearsal. You don't know how long rehearsing went on for that day or week or month. You really can't come to any conclusions regarding MJ's health based on these 90 seconds, other than that his voice sounded great, and that he looked kinda thin... but then he's been looking rather thin for a few decades already. For me personally he looked in far better shape then I had assumed.

* Right now AEG is in full damage control mode, their ass is on the line in a major way. Somewhere in the next few days and weeks, they'll have to refund tens of millions of dollars to people who bought tickets. It's highly unlikely that AEG has this amount of money freely at their disposal, they'll need to borrow, and they need to do it quickly because once people start going to court over this (which is what will happen if AEG takes too long to refund), costs will spiral completely out of control.
So that leaves AEG in a rather precarious situation ... who will lend AEG a few truckloads of cash, and how favorable can the terms of such a loan be given time pressures and AEG options for eventually making good on such a loan. Also, and perhaps at least equally as important, who will make any type of business deal with AEG right now, knowing that it's all but certain they'll still be in business 6 months from now.

So, given this background, let's look at what AEG has been communicating to the world since Michael died... and for those with a interest in business, this is actually quite entertaining.

1. AEG announces that fans will have the option of either a refund, or they can opt to receive the actual ticket as a keepsake. They announce for the first time that Michael Jackson had a hand in designing these, that there are 8 different tickets, and that Michael always approached these tickets as a must have item. Funny detail is that even tho apparently MJ specifically designed these tickets as fan keepsakes, and that the shows were about to start, AEG has so far been unable to produce a single picture of these tickets.
My personal take here is that AEG is, per usual, full of shit and is just trying anything to recoup part of this, for them potentially lethal, loss.

2. AEG announces that the 50 London shows could actually just go ahead as planned. Obviously MJ himself won't be there, but his family members and other artists could fill in his spot.
Rrrrright.... Where as I respected the sheer creativity of the "MJ designed memorial tickets" scam, this one seems unrealistic and just stupid... AEG is clearly worried.

3. AEG shows us a 90 second clip of a rehearsal. We're told that it was recorded with multiple HD camera's and multitrack sound, and actually the most significant piece of information coming out of AEG regarding this is their claim of ownership over this material.
It seems highly unlikely to me that AEG can actually claim intellectual property on this footage, but we'll see how this one pans out.
What you should get by now is that AEG is not showing us this video to prove that Michael was fit. They're showing us (or actually, potential financial and business partners) that they have "property" potentially worth a lot of money, nothing more and nothing less. If your supposition is that your property will eventually be bought, packaged and marketed to a global audience, your "glimpse" preview is going to be understated, you need to leave enough for marketing to play with later on.

Correction - edit I just checked, AEG now has a picture of the 8 tickets up. From their description now, it seems obvious that these were invented after MJ's death, and not the tickets they would have actually issued.
[Edited 7/3/09 12:54pm]

PDogz said:

MALDEN! Right.