NastradumasKid said:

cool pic! This is from the 1984 Grammy Awards,only a few weeks after the Pepsi commercial accident.People were thrilled to see that MJ was okay and he won 8 Grammys that night,which was totally unheard of back then.

on grammy that nite he wore wig

thebanishedone said:

It must have been a very good wig,it looks like his real hair!

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SoulAlive said:

Not just back then... in the 25 years since only one artist Carlos Santana has equalled that feat in 2000 with his Supernatural album. (of course many commentators at the time recognised that the number of categories had grown quite considerably in the 16 years between the two albums.

Swa

Swa said:

Yeah,the kind of success that MJ enjoyed back then won't ever be duplicated by ANYONE.

michael jackson scalp was on fire just a weaks before grammy,that is a hair piece

Sony Eyes Oct. 30 Release Date For Michael Jackson Film
July 22, 2009

Michael Jackson may be thrilling audiences in theaters around Halloween.

Sony Pictures, which is finalizing a deal to acquire concert rehearsal footage from the singer's "This Is It" tour from AEG Entertainment, is eyeing an Oct. 30 release date for the film.

The opening bid for the performance footage started at $50 million, and Sony is said to be ponying up close to $60 million for the 80 hours filmed.

Fox, Universal, Paramount and Relativity were also interested in putting in bids.

Sony made more sense, however, considering Sony Music Entertainment owns music publishing rights to Jackson's songs.

Terms of the deal are still being worked out, but the Jackson family estate is expected to collect 90% of what's left after AEG recoups its production costs for the tour.

AEG owns the footage, filmed by "High School Musical" helmer Kenny Ortega. He'll assemble the pic, which will feature at least three videos, including an alternative version of Jackson's "Thriller," shot to be interstitial programming during Jackson's 50-night concert stand in London that was to have started this month.

The footage was meant to play in 3-D, but it's unclear as yet whether the feature film will present it that way.

Sony declined to comment on the deal.

thebanishedone said:

Yeah,and it's a good hairpiece

Michael Jackson’s Last Days: The Comeback That Never Was
7/22/09, 8:25 am EST

In the days just before his death, Michael Jackson was working harder than he ever had in hopes of staging “the greatest show on Earth” according to our latest cover story.

Claire Hoffman retraced the pop icon’s final moments for “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, and found that Jackson was well aware of how the public came to perceive him in recent years and that he had fully dedicated himself to a comeback tour that he hoped would erase that perception.

“He wanted people to see his work and not just talk about his lifestyle,” AEG CEO Randy Phillips tells Hoffman in her cover story.

(Click for photos from Jackson’s remarkable life and career.)

He was also eager to finally clean up his finances and settle down in Las Vegas. “He was ready to stop living like a vagabond and settle down and earn money again,” Phillips tells Rolling Stone.

And those who were inside his final rehearsals say that the show he was prepared to mount may have actually succeeded on all fronts.

“He was so brilliant on stage,” tour director Kenny Ortega tells Hoffman. “I had goose bumps.”

“I turned to somebody and said, ‘This is amazing,’” adds Ken Ehrlich, the longtime Grammy Awards producer who sat in on rehearsals. “For so many years I have watched Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake and Usher and the Backstreet Boys and En Vogue all imitate Michael Jackson — and now here we were this many years later, and he was going to do it again. I got chills, literally. The hairs on the back of my neck were raised. Those are the moments you hope for.”

Claire Hoffman’s “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” can be found in Issue 1084, on newsstands now, and you can get the story behind her cover story in our exclusive video.

source: http://www.rollingstone.c...never-was/

Copycat said:

So basically,it'll be a concert film consisting of rehearsal footage? I know it'll be a huge success at the box office.

^^ I highly recommend watching the video on the rolling stone article

Swa

OMG, the tears keep on coming back.




Swa, could you please post the link to the video?

RS Video

http://www.rollingstone.c...r/29263623

aerdna25 said:

Thanks. Really interesting to watch. It´s funny how all these stories are so contradicting. Some say he was sick, in debt etc., others he was happy. I just wish the latter part is true. I hope he died happy. Damn...

SoulAlive said:

it's a "fall"- you leave the hair all along the edges and a part in the front out- but thehe rest is covered by the wig piece-

I've worn them before and no one knows it's not my hair- it's called a "half wig" sometimes- the trick is you find one ssimilar to how you always wear your do

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The Michael Jackson Case: The Return of the Nanny
By Bryan Alexander / Los Angeles Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009


An enigmatic woman in Michael Jackson's inner circle is re-emerging just as the battle over the guardianship and paternity of his kids continues. Grace Rwaramba — the Rwandan nanny of Prince Michael I, 12; Paris Michael Katherine, 11; and Prince Michael II (known as Blanket), 7 — is the woman Jackson insiders describe as the most maternal personality the children have known. She left Jackson's employ, perhaps dismissed, last year but is now staging a comeback that may be key to the fate of the three young Jacksons. Indeed, her return to the side of the children — and the Jackson clan — may reinforce, at least in the public eye, the family's claim to being the best guarantors of the children's well-being.


Rwaramba worked for Jackson for 17 years, first as his secretary and then, after the children arrived, as their nanny. According to sources, Rwaramba is resuming the work she did throughout the children's lives. Her job ended abruptly in 2008 when she was allegedly fired by Jackson for yet-established reasons. Since his death, however, sources say Rwaramba has resumed child-caring duties at the Jackson clan's Encino, Calif., compound and was seen taking the children to Jehovah's Witness classes. (See photos: "A Post-Michael Guide to the Jackson Family.")

Introduced to Jackson by his friend Deepak Chopra, Rwaramba was such a constant in the singer's life that there were even rumors that they were secretly married. But according to documents filed in Nevada's Clark County, she was married to her first husband during the majority of her employment with Jackson and married her second husband, Joseph Kisembo, in December 2008. There were other, almost Svengali-like rumors. "I hear some odd things about her — this woman in the background with all of this power, flexing her muscles," says former Jackson spiritual adviser Firpo Carr. "That's not the Grace I know. Unless she has this other secret life I don't know about," says Carr. "She is one of the humblest people I have been around."

Others are sensitive to the pivotal position Rwaramba occupied in Jackson's life. "You have to be aware of the most powerful nanny in the universe," says a former Jackson confidant. "She was the gatekeeper for Michael, and she wielded that power. She absolutely did."(Read "Paris Jackson's Heartfelt Goodbye.")

Her influence on the children was undeniable. "Grace was like the mother, and Michael was the father," says Jackson friend and filmmaker Bryan Michael Stoller, who often visited Neverland. "The only person I saw get close to the kids besides Michael was Grace." Rwaramba returned at their time of crisis. The actor Mark Lester, star of the movie musical Oliver! and godfather to Jackson's children, spoke to her soon after the singer's sudden death and describes her as "shocked and grief stricken." Still, Lester tells TIME, "she's a very strong person, and she's a tower of strength for the children. She is the closest thing to a mother that they have ever experienced." While not sure if her return is permanent, he adds, "Right now, it's important they have some continuity."

Carr says some of the talk about Grace came about as a result of her loyal silence about Jackson. In a world where former friends and employees often sold their version of life with Jackson to the highest tabloid bidder, Rwaramba maintained her secrets. (Read "Rowe Undecided on Jackson Kids Custody Battle.")

There was therefore disbelief at a story that appeared shortly after Jackson's June 25 death. Britain's Sunday Times wrote a piece quoting Rwaramba allegedly giving explosive details about Jackson's drug use. The story cited her attempts to curb his addiction as the reason she was let go. "I had to pump his stomach many times. He always mixed so much of it," the paper quoted Rwaramba as saying. "There was one period that it was so bad that I didn't let the children see him ... He always ate too little and mixed too much." Rwaramba quickly put out a statement disavowing the piece: "I don't even know how to pump a stomach." She said she had never spoken to the Sunday Times: "The statements attributed to me confirm the worst in human tendencies to sensationalize tragedy and smear reputations for profit."

The incident did little to damage her relationship with the family. The next day, Joe Jackson, the star's father, publicly called Rwaramba "a good friend of the family and to the kids," going so far as to say a more permanent role in their lives was under consideration. Rwaramba was also given prime position in the official Michael Jackson souvenir book at the lavish public memorial. "Thank you for entrusting me with your precious children, my love for them will never waver," she wrote in its final solo entry.

"She is totally dedicated to the children and will do whatever it takes to make the children happy," Chopra tells TIME. "She will play a large part in those children's lives," says Carr. Her work may be key as details of Jackson's alleged drug use emerge. Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinksy tells TIME that children of addicted parents frequently suffer from a sense of abandonment, but the caring, "emotionally available" support that Jackson set up could provide a "life-saving link that might help these children stay healthy. I'm praying for the status quo for these kids." In the eyes of many Jackson watchers, Rwaramba is that status quo.

http://www.time.com/time/...d=tsmodule

suga10 said:

Will be coppin' that though.

http://www.telegraph.co.u...rvice.html




If he was Michael's child, his name would have been in the will like the other three.

Looks like another family coming out of the woodwork to get a piece of MJ's fortune.
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jamgirl said:

that is a lovely picture of Mike. Very Vogueish

dang i can just every mofo coming out of the woodwork claiming to be either MJ's long lost child or a baby momma.

suga10 said:

Damn! It's On! If that mofo has any sense he better take somebody else down with him.

DesireeNevermind said:

Yep and the one that claims to be Billie Jean is the craziest of all.

DesireeNevermind said:

Woo Hoo! Conrad has been finally owned

DesireeNevermind said:

I wonder why Rolling Bored opted to use a photo from 2005 to delve into MJ's final days.