LaSeles said:

I feel the same way I think that her and Michael relationship was not the same since not only she got married but also when she foolish calling him a child molester. He did forgave her but I bet he was still hurted of how his own sister publicly betrayed him. I like Latoya and all but I still think it is hard to believe that Jack Gordon would force her to call Michael a child molestor.

Just saw another commercial for This Is It and Michael was killin it during the Billie Jean rehearsal! His voice was amazing!

ViintageJunkiie said:

Like i said, I'll believe it when i see it. Michael did great work in his lifetime, that's more than enough for me. I no more expect him to be spectacular than I would Elvis in his later years, (even though he put on some supernatural performances to his dying days).

mozfonky said:

All you had to do is watch the trailer. He's clearly singing live in several parts during the trailer. Either that or he re-recorded material for the tour. I'm fine either way, as long as the songs are updated.

mozfonky said:

I'm talking about vocally, he was killin the performance. This Is It is nothing but rehearsal footage, so no one should expect him to go all out.

This is an excerpt from Katherine Jackson's autobiography:

Michael usually drove himself to Kingdom Hall and his field-service routes. He’d finally gotten his driver’s license in 1981, at the age of twenty-three. Initially he didn’t want to learn to drive.

“I’ll just get a chauffeur when I want to go out,” he said when I began nagging him about getting his license.

“But suppose you’re someplace and your chauffeur gets sick?” I reasoned.

Finally, he relented and took some lessons.

After he began driving, Michael decided that he enjoyed being behind the wheel, after all. The first time he took me for a ride, he ventured up to Mulholland Drive, a winding road in the Hollywood Hills. It was a hair-raising experience.

“I’ve got a crook in my neck and my feet hurt,” LaToya, who was also in the car, complained afterward. “I was putting on the brakes’ with my feet and ‘steering’ the car with my neck trying to keep it on the road. I was so scared!”

It was white-knuckle time for me, too. Michael drove fast. He also had the same habit that I have: driving right up to the car in front and stopping on a dime.

After that, Michael started going out by himself.

“You shouldn’t go out alone,” I told him. “Get Bill Bray to go with you.”

But Michael wouldn’t hear of it. “I’m tired of having security with me every time I go someplace.”

When he began driving, Michael told me that he would never go on freeways; he thought they were too dangerous. So I was shocked one day when Michael suddenly drove us onto a freeway ramp.

“Wait a minute, Michael, what are you doing?”

“I can drive the freeways now!” he said, laughing. He had changed his mind about freeways when he saw just how long it took him to get around Los Angeles without using them.

Michael’s first car was a Mercedes. Then he bought a black Rolls-Royce, which he later painted blue.

It was in the Rolls that he was stopped one day -- not for fans outside the gate, but by a Van Nuys policeman.

“This looks like a stolen car,” the officer said. He didn’t recognise Michael, who wasn’t wearing a disguise that day.

Michael explained politely that he did, indeed, own the car. But the officer went ahead and ran a check on the car, and found that Michael had a ticket outstanding.

The next thing Michael knew, he was sitting in the Van Nuys jail.

Bill Bray bailed him out. I didn’t even know what had happened until he came home.

“You should have asked the officer what a stolen car looks like,” I said after he related his adventure. Perhaps the cop had felt that a young black man didn’t belong behind the wheel of a Rolls.

But Michael was not only put out by the experience, he professed to be happy.

“I got to see how it felt to be in jail!" he exclaimed.

ViintageJunkiie said:

Well, I'll love and respect Mike whatever the footage is like. I am not falling for any hype though, remember, these same hucksters put Michael in an early grave. I love Mike, not the money machines that stop no matter what.

mozfonky said:

That's true! But lets not forget Michael put himself in that grave also.

ViintageJunkiie said:

You can have that take if you want, and it's always easy for us to sit out here and take shots. That's inhuman pressure, I don't think anyone could have dealt much better, I'll never forgive the assholes. Mike should have been more in touch. But why Mike? for such horrible treatment, lots of bastards in the world who live to ripe old ages with little problem, the world is run by them.

mozfonky said:

Only reason I included Mike is because everyone blames AEG for the death of Michael, but Michael was also shootin up on drugs BEFORE AEG came into play. I have no reason to be upset with AEG. I forgive them because who am I to NOT forgive?

EmeraldSkies said:

I was the exact same way when I first started driving. It took a very long time for me to feel comfortable merging onto, and driving on highways. But just like Mike, I forced myself to use them to shorten my trips, lol.

IDK. He's too skinny to me. His death could have been avoided if they forced him to rehab & did a background check on his personnel including Murray. The health exam was kind of counterproductive if he was clearly underweight and nothing was done about it.
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StillDirrty said:

Yeah he looked really thin in what I saw...

ViintageJunkiie said:

Well, I am a man, we hold grudges unfortunately. I hate those that hurt my heroes, friends, family or even decent people I come across. Lots of unecessary shit goes on just because people are sick and have to try to dehumanize someone else. I'm convinced it will destroy humanity.

Timmy84 said:

Not his weight as much as his eyes and face bothered me in his last pics. He looks skeletal, pale, ghoulish. Of course his weight was slight, but I remember in his prime he only weighed a buck o' five so that in itself doesn't mean much. The worry, the stress, the need for all the drugs did him in. It's been pretty much documented that he began drug addiction after the first episode of legal trouble.

mozfonky said:

Yeah I know what you mean.

mozfonky said:

and I am a MAN also. I respect your opinion tho.

ViintageJunkiie said:

Could you please post a link?

EmeraldSkies said:

Really? If so, can´t wait to read it.

'This Is It' Trailer Excites Fans
September 2009

One of the most talked-about participants of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was tragically there in absentia.

Though many people ended up talking about Kanye West, the anticipation was focused squarely on Michael Jackson, who received a tribute from Madonna, his sister Janet and an army of dancers re-enacting some of his most famous dance moves. According to reactions from fans, it was a fitting tribute.


"Madonna almost had me in tears with her speech," charchar1982 commented. "And I loved the part when [Janet] danced to 'Scream' and it looked like she was dancing with [Michael] again. My fav part of the show." She wasn't the only one who got a little choked up during the start of the show. "I am still in tears over the performance," Frances wrote. "I can only imagine that Janet needed all the strength she could get. They were so close. I'm thankful to MTV for allowing that to happen. It was a fitting tribute to MJ, since his videos did launch a whole new audience to MTV and the world." Bluestrawberry51 also appreciated Janet's effort, noting, "It was beautiful and Janet was just perfect. It was (nearly) flawless."

But the outpouring of support for Michael Jackson didn't end with the show-opening tribute. At the close of the show, MTV premiered the full trailer for the upcoming film "Michael Jackson's This Is It," which brings together performance and behind-the-scenes footage from the rehearsals for what would have been the shows that made up Michael's planned residency at the O2 arena in London. The trailer inspired similar waterworks from readers. "It's bittersweet, it's a dream," Karma commented. "It makes tears flow in my eyes, but also makes me feel proud of this man, who gave his best for his fans. He was a visionary, a loving soul and the best entertainer on earth." Sam concurred. "The trailer honestly almost made me tear up. The man was dancing like he was in his 20s ... energetic. I miss Michael very, very much."

Clearly the anticipation over "Michael Jackson's This Is It" — which opens on October 28 and will run for only two weeks — is extremely high, and based on the outpouring of emotion and support for the tribute at this year's VMAs, his legions of adoring fans still aren't quite ready to let Michael Jackson go.



http://www.mtv.com/news/a...hael.jhtml

StillDirrty said:

He´s talking about this fall. You can see it at 5:55:

It really looked scary. I saw the footage from a different angle and it just fell down with him. Just look how high he is when you look at Slash. I have never hurt my back, but I know my grandma did years ago and she´s still complaining of it hurting bad. Poor Mike.

He looks so beautiful in this video. I miss him.
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StillDirrty said:

Damn that's the saddest thing i've ever seen .....damn those doctors should go to jail ....pure greed....that's why we are all in trouble in this world...so sad...

bboy87 said:

Beautiful. Thanks.

OMG, that had me laughing so hard.

StillDirrty said:

damn those people who take advantage of him, it's so sad
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dag said:

i hope this is true

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TheBoyfromtheBand said:

Thanks a lot.