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Michael Jackson Doc Gets SAG Warning, Wrongly By: Roger Friedman // Friday August 28, 2009 The Michael Jackson documentary, “This is It,” got a warning notice from the Screen Actors Guild. Someone at SAG must have panicked that the movie has never been registered with them, and that the people in it aren’t getting paid through the union. A Member Alert went up on the union’s website that reads in part: “The producer of the theatrical motion picture ‘This Is It’ (also known as ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’) is not yet signed to an agreement with Screen Actors Guild covering the terms and conditions for performers and background actors employed on the picture.” Apparently, no one has told then that “This Is It” is a documentary made from footage taken of rehearsals of Jackson’s stage show. It was never intended to be a film. No one is acting in it. Meantime, I am told that the film is coming along nicely in the editing room. Every day director Kenny Ortega shows assembly of footage to a variety of producers involved in the project. The word is that everyone is very happy with what they’re seeing. Most importantly, they do say that we’ll see Michael giving cogent instructions to dancers and singers, and interacting with his crew and cast. This should end once and for all the accusations that Jackson was out of it to perform, or to do the shows in London. Meanwhile, no one knows why the police investigation into Jackson’s death is taking so long. Many people close to Jackson right before his death still have not been interviewed by the police. Nevertheless, one Jackson intimate has been very much in touch with the police, and is warning friends that something “big” and “dangerous” is about to happen. Let’s hope so. | |
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Michael Jackson Doc Gets SAG Warning, Wrongly By: Roger Friedman // Friday August 28, 2009 The Michael Jackson documentary, “This is It,” got a warning notice from the Screen Actors Guild. Someone at SAG must have panicked that the movie has never been registered with them, and that the people in it aren’t getting paid through the union. A Member Alert went up on the union’s website that reads in part: “The producer of the theatrical motion picture ‘This Is It’ (also known as ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’) is not yet signed to an agreement with Screen Actors Guild covering the terms and conditions for performers and background actors employed on the picture.” Apparently, no one has told then that “This Is It” is a documentary made from footage taken of rehearsals of Jackson’s stage show. It was never intended to be a film. No one is acting in it. Meantime, I am told that the film is coming along nicely in the editing room. Every day director Kenny Ortega shows assembly of footage to a variety of producers involved in the project. The word is that everyone is very happy with what they’re seeing. Most importantly, they do say that we’ll see Michael giving cogent instructions to dancers and singers, and interacting with his crew and cast. This should end once and for all the accusations that Jackson was out of it to perform, or to do the shows in London. Meanwhile, no one knows why the police investigation into Jackson’s death is taking so long. Many people close to Jackson right before his death still have not been interviewed by the police. Nevertheless, one Jackson intimate has been very much in touch with the police, and is warning friends that something “big” and “dangerous” is about to happen. Let’s hope so. 
What the hell does that mean? All of a sudden I feel worried.  [Edited 8/28/09 12:51pm] Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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dang all of those drugs in his system and he STILL couldn't sleep without diprivan, yikes | |
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Death of a Killer Bee
John Belushi's death -- The manic comedian died ten years ago from a drug overdose More By Bruce Fretts In a short film called Don't Look Back in Anger, which aired on NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1978, John Belushi plays an elderly version of himself, visiting the graves of his fellow cast members. ''They all thought I'd be the first to go,'' he gloats. ''I was one of those live-fast, die-young, leave-a-good- looking-corpse types, you know. But I guess they were wrong.'' They weren't, of course. The image of Belushi as a self-destructive hedonist, promoted on SNL and in films like National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), became shockingly real on March 5, 1982, when the 33-year-old comedian died of a drug overdose at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel. Belushi's death was ruled an accident. But after an interview with Cathy Evelyn Smith appeared in the National Enquirer under the headline ''I Killed John Belushi'' (for which the 34-year-old former backup singer received $15,000), prosecutors reopened the case and filed murder charges against her. Claiming the interview had been distorted, Smith pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter in 1986. She had earlier admitted to injecting Belushi 20 times during his last 24 hours with a mixture of heroin and cocaine. Sentenced to three years in prison, she was paroled in 1988 after serving 18 months; last month she was convicted of heroin possession in Vancouver, given a year's probation, and fined $2,000. The humor of the early SNL years revolved around (and was often fueled by) controlled substances. With Be-lushi's death, a whole generation of comedians lost its chemical inspiration. Suddenly, getting wasted didn't seem as much fun anymore, or as funny. Robin Williams, who snorted coke with Belushi during that final blowout, recalled in 1988, ''His death scared a whole group of show-business people. It caused a big exodus from drugs.'' ''John just got in over his head,'' says SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. ''Hollywood was toxic to him. People wanted him to be the Belushi they'd seen on screen.'' At the end of Don't Look Back in Anger, Belushi explains the reason for his longevity. '''Cause I'm a dancer,'' he says, spinning a joyful pirouette atop a gravestone. His grace was unpredictable, and it failed him in the end: The man who lived on the edge took one step too far. ---- It does remind me of the MJ thing... 
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Smittyrock70 said: EmeraldSkies said: 
I totally agree with this statement... "Also, "record buyers" of a certain age are among the CD's most loyal customers. They grew up with LPs and enjoy the tactile experience a CD provides (holding it, looking at the artwork, and reading the liner notes)" I love reading the liner notes,and all that. 
[Edited 8/27/09 22:55pm] Yeah me too, especially boxed sets! Box set are especially fun. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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EmeraldSkies said: suga10 said: http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/
What the hell does that mean? All of a suddden I feel worried. It comes from Roger Friedman, I don't trust his "sources" yet as much as I didn't trust TMZ's or Mirror's or the Daily Mirror's or any of that garbage. | |
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dearmother said: dang all of those drugs in his system and he STILL couldn't sleep without diprivan, yikes
People around MJ had said he always had a problem sleeping, whatsgoingon indicated MJ was suffering from insomnia going back to the Jackson 5 days and this was when he and his brothers were doing one-nighters during the chitlin' circuit. | |
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Timmy84 said: suga10 said: MJ is reponsible as well, but when someone's in pain, maybe they can't think straight sometimes.
That's why John Belushi, Chris Farley, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and 'em die. They get so high from what they're taking they think it won't be enough to take 'em out but it takes a few jackasses, AKA their dealers, to achieve it. This is definitely reminding me of how John Belushi died. Epherdine is a speed-like sedative I heard. [Edited 8/28/09 12:39pm] It's true , just never thought I see MJ part of that list but wow crazy | |
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Amazon has begun to accept pre-orders for "Moon Walk", MJ's formerly out-of-print 1988 autobiography. It comes out Oct 13th for $14.70, y'all. It's already out in France "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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Timmy84 said: EmeraldSkies said:
What the hell does that mean? All of a suddden I feel worried. It comes from Roger Friedman, I don't trust his "sources" yet as much as I didn't trust TMZ's or Mirror's or the Daily Mirror's or any of that garbage. Oh,I hadn't heard of him before so I was certain if the information was legit or not. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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Copycat said:
Amazon has begun to accept pre-orders for "Moon Walk", MJ's formerly out-of-print 1988 autobiography. It comes out Oct 13th for $14.70, y'all. So they are using the original cover? Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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EmeraldSkies said: suga10 said: http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/
What the hell does that mean? All of a sudden I feel worried.
[Edited 8/28/09 12:51pm] It sure looked like E Casanova in the This is It video footage. 
Will the real Michael Jackson please stand up
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suga10 said: EmeraldSkies said:
What the hell does that mean? All of a sudden I feel worried.
[Edited 8/28/09 12:51pm] It sure looked like E Casanova in the This is It video footage.
[Edited 8/28/09 13:02pm]  Who is E Casanova?Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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Just an impersonator and no I'm not a big fan of em.  | |
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^AN MJ impersonator.
Some say that that MJ was not really at the O2 press conference. E-Casanova is wearing MJ's O2 announcement shirt. Wonder what good old AEG has been up to all along in this sham concert series. Maybe poor MJ was sitting at home with Murray pumping his system full of drugs 
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Okay an MJ Impersonator. That was Mike at the conference. I don't buy into the conspiracy theory. Or any of that. No Mike didn't fake his death and would never fake his death, especially wouldn't do that to his children. Why go more into hiding than he already had to do? No there wasn't a MJ impersonator at the conference. Not Navi or E'Cas I know all of them. I never been a fan of them. | |
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Not this again!
THAT was Michael at the press conference and those pictures are of Michael at the rehearsal. Come on Suga! | |
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| Damn he is the best one I have seen. He must have taken his impersonating really seriously. That make-up is flawless.
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Timmy84 said: Not this again!
THAT was Michael at the press conference and those pictures are of Michael at the rehearsal. Come on Suga! Its just so hard to imagine MJ performing when all these drugs were pumped into his system.
What a crazy circus this has become. [Edited 8/28/09 13:17pm] | |
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The recent voice messages that leaked (no not the phone convos from 92) wasn't Mike either but must likely a dude named Peter that used to roam around Paltalk and talk like Mike. I been around the boards for years. [Edited 8/28/09 13:17pm] | |
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suga10 said: Timmy84 said: Not this again!
THAT was Michael at the press conference and those pictures are of Michael at the rehearsal. Come on Suga! Its just so hard to imagine MJ performing when all these drugs were pumped into his system. MJ reportedly had a tolerance to the drugs/sedatives. It wasn't as if he was knocked out cold by the propofol. He apparently was well enough to rehearse on his final night. | |
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NMuzakNSoul said: The recent voice messages that leaked (no not the phone convos from 92) wasn't Mike either but must likely a dude named Peter that used to roam around Paltalk and talk like Mike. I been around the boards for years.
[Edited 8/28/09 13:17pm] The ones where it "debunked" MJ being dead, right? | |
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Timmy84 said: NMuzakNSoul said: The recent voice messages that leaked (no not the phone convos from 92) wasn't Mike either but must likely a dude named Peter that used to roam around Paltalk and talk like Mike. I been around the boards for years.
[Edited 8/28/09 13:17pm] The ones where it "debunked" MJ being dead, right? Yeah all of that and the sightings and all of that bull can be included with that. I love Mike, but he has passed on. His spirit will be there when you play his music and listen to him sing, but please, fans of Mike, let some of the aspects surrounding this go. Don't get into the crazy and become it. But honor his passing and stay grounded, because we still ahve a life to live here and a mission to do as we all have to do. | |
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NMuzakNSoul said: Timmy84 said: The ones where it "debunked" MJ being dead, right? Yeah all of that and the sightings and all of that bull can be included with that. I love Mike, but he has passed on. His spirit will be there when you play his music and listen to him sing, but please, fans of Mike, let some of the aspects surrounding this go. Don't get into the crazy and become it. But honor his passing and stay grounded, because we still ahve a life to live here and a mission to do as we all have to do. Word. The MJ boards have gotten too depressing, lol | |
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I want these
 [Edited 8/28/09 13:29pm] "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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Here's some Pics that were released recently you can see the rest here
http://imagery.gettyimage...ay_gallery 
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The music lives on | |
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Timmy84 said: NMuzakNSoul said: Yeah all of that and the sightings and all of that bull can be included with that. I love Mike, but he has passed on. His spirit will be there when you play his music and listen to him sing, but please, fans of Mike, let some of the aspects surrounding this go. Don't get into the crazy and become it. But honor his passing and stay grounded, because we still ahve a life to live here and a mission to do as we all have to do. Word. The MJ boards have gotten too depressing, lol That's not even the word to describe it smh | |
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