babybugz said:

Why is a lot of things MJ-esque imports all of a sudden?

Timmy84 said:

Have no clue just know if it's mj related I want it but since nothing has been release Officially import is close

Timmy84 said:

It's not a bootleg. It is listed on Amazon. I am hoping that they release a dvd of this as well,the one that I got wasn't the best quality.

Moonwalker was officially released here in Australia on DVD a few years back. A few of the major chains here are selling it fro $12.95

Swa

man this statue looks like MJ right?

http://www.nbcchicago.com...html?yhp=1

japanrocks said:

It really does.

japanrocks said:

Yep.

Looks more like LaToya to me

And stop calling him Jacko!

http://new.music.yahoo.co...e-fantasy/

Week Ending Aug. 2, 2009: Not Since "Double Fantasy"

Posted 12 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

Michael Jackson's Number Ones is the best-selling album in the U.S. for the fifth time in the past six weeks. This is the longest that an artist who had died has had the nation's top-seller since Double Fantasy, by John Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, topped The Billboard 200 for eight weeks from December 1980 to February 1981. In both cases, shock at the untimely passing of a pop legend spurred sales. Lennon was just 40 when he was shot to death outside his apartment building in Manhattan. Jackson was 50 when he died of cardiac arrest at a rented mansion in Los Angeles.

This is the longest that a greatest hits set has been the best-selling album in the U.S. since the Beatles' 1 held the top spot for eight weeks from November 2000 to January 2001. It's the longest that Jackson has had the top-seller since Bad held the top spot for six weeks in September and October 1987.
This is the sixth consecutive week that Jackson has had three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S. Number Ones sold 114,000 copies and would have held at #1 if catalog albums were eligible to compete on The Billboard 200. The Essential Michael Jackson sold 69,000 and would have inched up from #4 to #3. Thriller sold 59,000 and would have held at #5.

Number Ones, which made its final appearance on The Billboard 200 in July 2005, seems increasingly likely to wind up as the #1 album of 2009. The hits compilation has sold 1,373,000 copies so far this year. Only Taylor Swift's Fearless has outsold it. The country crossover hit has sold 1,500,000 copies since Jan. 1. And Number Ones is gaining on Fearless. This is the sixth week in a row that the hit-studded compilation has surpassed 100,000 in sales. Fearless hasn't topped 100,000 in weekly sales since the last week of December.

Jackson has sold 3,788,000 albums in the U.S. since his death, which has enabled him to zoom from #47 to #35 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the best-selling artists in its 18-year history. Number Ones has been his biggest-seller since his death, with sales of 1,256,000 copies in this period. Six weeks ago, on the last charts released before Jackson's death, the compilation ranked #134 for the year-to-date, with 2009 sales of 117,000.
By being the sales leader for five weeks, Number Ones equals a feat set by Roberta Flack's First Take, which topped the chart for five weeks in April and May 1972, even though it was what we would now call a catalog album. (It charted from January to June 1970 and returned to the chart in April 1972 after director Clint Eastwood featured its key track, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in his movie Play Misty For Me.)

This is the sixth week that Thriller has been one of the 10 best-selling albums in the country. Thriller 25 was one the 10 best-sellers for five weeks last year. The original album logged 78 weeks in the top 10 in 1983-1984. If you were to add these tallies together, you would have a grand (if unofficial) total of 89 weeks in the top 10 (or what would be the top 10 if Billboard allowed catalog albums in the top 10). This would push Thriller ahead of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A., which had 84 weeks in the top 10 in 1984-1985. Only one other album has had more than 80 weeks in the top 10 since 1963, when separate mono and stereo albums were combined into one comprehensive chart. That's The Sound Of Music soundtrack, which had 109 weeks in the top 10 from 1965 through 1968.

The Essential Michael Jackson is #1 in the U.K. for the fifth straight week. That's the longest run at #1 in the U.K. in 2009. Back in the U.S., Jackson has 16 songs on Top Digital Songs. His top entry is "Billie Jean," which sold 28,000 downloads this week, bringing its total to 1,454,000. This is the first time since Jackson's death that "Billie Jean" has been his top song. "Man In The Mirror" and "Thriller" were his most active songs the other five weeks.

Busted: Statue's a Dead Ringer for Jackson



The Pharaoh of Pop doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as King of Pop, but visitors to Chicago’s Field Museum could swear that’s Jackson's face on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian bust.


The spitting image limestone sculpture has been on display at the museum since 1988, but recently started drawing attention because of its likeness to Jackson --- complete with disfigured nose.

Unfortunately the bust, which was carved sometime between 1550 B.C. and 1050 B.C., is of a woman and MJ likely never had the chance to see the statuette.

“I have no idea whether Jackson ever visited the museum,” a Field spokesperson said to the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed. “But the similarity between the limestone statue of a woman – which is about 3,000 years old --- and Jackson is astounding.”

Interestingly, Jackson cast himself as an interloper in ancient Egypt in his video for “Remember the Time,” so maybe he sensed some Egyptian roots.

http://www.nbcchicago.com...html?yhp=1

mookie said:

KING

i saw that egyptian statue like a year or two ago,it does kinda look like michael

michael rulng he charts like it's nobody business should be embarrassing to today's artist, good for michael he is THE KING!

EmeraldSkies said:

Wut?

Copycat said:

Oh, Christ.

That is so awful.

Memories of Michael Jackson

By Stephen King
July 2009


''STEPHEN?...Stephen King?...This is...ummm...Michael? Michael Jackson?'' The voice is high, anxious, hopeful, excited, elfin. ''I'm, oh my God, I am such a fan!''

I assure him that the feeling's mutual, but what I'm mostly feeling is flummoxed. It's 1993, I'm on the set of the Stand miniseries, and out of the blue someone's handed me a phone with the self-anointed King of Pop on the other end of the line. What he wants, it develops, is for me to write the scariest, the absolute SCARIEST, music video ever, called Ghosts. It will be like the old Frankenstein movies, he explains, only scarier! TERRIFYING! ''Stephen,'' he says, ''we must do this. We're going to shock the world.''

I gave it my best try, not because it was Michael Jackson and not because I thought we were going to shock the world, but because I'm always interested in trying something new, and for me, writing a minimusical would be new. The core story he described to me that day was about a mob of angry townspeople — buttoned-down suburbanites, not torch-carrying peasants — who want the ''weirdo'' who lives in the nearby castle to leave town. Because, they say, he's a bad influence on their children.

I associated that with the view parents held toward rock & roll when I was growing up, and still held toward the odder artists of the breed, like Ozzy Osbourne and Marilyn Manson (who in 1995 would release an album called Smells Like Children). I didn't know that rumors about Jackson and child abuse had begun to circulate, but probably would have pressed ahead even if I had. When you're famous, everybody accuses you of everything, from petty theft to the murder of John Lennon.

The film shot for three weeks, then shut down for three years. I may once have known why, but if so, I no longer remember. My old pal (and Stand director) Mick Garris did the initial filming.

One day during preproduction, I was in on a conference call about the choreography, and Michael fell asleep. On another occasion, he called my wife, wanting the phone number for wherever I was that day. She gave it to him. Michael called back five minutes later, on the verge of tears. He hadn't had a pencil, he said, so he'd tried to write the number on the carpet with his finger, and he couldn't read it. My wife gave him the number again. Michael thanked her profusely...but never called me.

Filming on the Michael Jackson Ghosts video recommenced as abruptly as it had stopped. Mick remembers getting a call from Michael in 1996: ''Mick, it's gonna happen! We gotta believe it's gonna happen!'' It did, but without Mick behind the camera.

He was working on the miniseries version of The Shining by then, and Stan Winston took over the directing chores. The story had wandered a far distance from my original script, but that hardly matters. What does matter is that the video contains some of the best, most inspired dancing of Jackson's career.

If you look at it, I think you'll see why Fred Astaire called Jackson ''a helluva mover.'' You'll also see Jackson's sadness and almost painful desire to please. Yes, I am strange, his eyes say, but I am doing the best I can, and I want to make you happy. Is that so bad?

This is a sadness that's all too common in people who possess talent in amounts so great it has become a burden instead of a blessing.

Despite being extraordinarily beautiful (although he had probably already begun the elective surgeries that would ruin those amazing looks), Jackson was painfully shy, and difficult (sometimes impossible) to talk to, but watching that old video still makes me happy...and no, that's not bad.

It's worth noting that he was never convicted of anything in criminal court, and when I asked Mick — who hung out with Michael occasionally — he was emphatic in his belief that Michael Jackson was indeed innocent of the abuse allegations. In the court of public opinion, however, he was found guilty of Weirdness in the First Degree, and ended up secluded in one haunted castle after another. Finally, he died in one.

Strange man. Lost man. And not unique in his passing. Like James Dean, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, and a dozen others we could name, he just left the building far too soon.

Because, man oh man, that guy could dance.


http://www.ew.com/ew/arti...66,00.html

Copycat said:

He cannot be serious

purplesweat said:

now you gotta admit that at a point in his surgeries- he was extrodinarily beautiful.

EmeraldSkies said:

bootleg

Klein's going to try getting custody of the kids in Septmember again according to his lawyer.

Klein is such a despicable man.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/0.../#comments
[Edited 8/6/09 9:34am]

suga10 said:

I don't understand why a sperm donor would want custody.

New Michael Jackson Songs on Missing Hard Drives
August 6, 2009



Another thriller is developing in the complex afterlife of Michael Jackson.

His sister LaToya has taken possession of computer hard drives that contain a trove of unreleased songs he recorded with A-list singers such as Ne-Yo, Akon, and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, according to Rolling Stone magazine.

The drives were in the "Thriller" singer's rented Holmby Hills, Calif., mansion when he died suddenly in June. Hours afterward, the family descended on the house to claim all its contents, and LaToya grabbed the drives, Rolling Stone said, quoting the late singer's manager, Frank DiLeo.

"They backed up trucks, removing everything," DiLeo was quoted as telling the magazine in its issue that hits newsstands on Friday. "They thought Michael owned it all, so they took even the rented furniture. That's who's going to run his estate?"

Jackson's will gave 40 percent of his estate to his 79-year-old mother, Katherine, who wants more control and has raised doubts about the pair of high-powered executors currently overseeing his business affairs.

In a follow-up interview with Reuters, DiLeo said he was "pretty sure" the hard drives were at the family's Hayvenhurst compound in Encino, Calif.

"The estate lawyers will send out letters" to recover the drives so that the contents can be logged, DiLeo added.

An email sent to a representative for LaToya Jackson was not answered, and a family spokesman was not immediately available.

A spokeswoman for will.i.am said the singer did not have duplicates of his work with Jackson. Representatives for Akon and Ne-Yo either could not be reached or had no information.

DiLeo told Rolling Stone that there were at least 100 songs -- including many recorded at Jackson's 1980s peak -- that were never released, including a few "sensational" tracks that were left off "Bad," the 1987 follow-up to his blockbuster "Thriller."

http://www.abcnews.go.com...550&page=1

Why did 'Toya take them!?

I sure want to hear those songs.

Timmy84 said:

Good question. Perhaps like Papa Joe, she believes in profiting off the dead.

Copycat said:

Yeah but Toya was also in the home with Janet clearing out stuff the day after he died.

They were protecting all his belongings.

And why does Dileo care so much??
[Edited 8/6/09 10:19am]

suga10 said:

well, maybe because they don't belong to la toya or the family. they belonged to mj, and now his estate. this family wants to make out that mj didn't leave clear instructions about the disposition of his estate, but he did. if she has them, she needs to return them to the estate administrators, whoever they may turn out to be, so that they can be accounted for, especially if they are a potential asset which can be used to generate income to pay off the massive debt the estate currently has.

kibbles said:

And MJ has clearly said in the past that he was worried about Sony trying to take his music catalogs.

kibbles said:

Yeah the songs are part of HIS estate, not the Jackson family as far as I know.

Timmy84 said:

They're probably intending to give it back.

But they were also moving all of Michael's stuff out that day, so its understandable how they might have taken the hard drives anyway.