so is any one gonna go see that new MJ movie coming out?

JackieBlue said:

Jackie, you tellin' your age again.....

bboy87 said:

sonnn, he was soooo ready. it would have been too much for the world to handle.

bboy87 said:

bboy87 said:

He was gonna Put It ON'em !!

Your magic and grace lingers in me,always. I love you & thank You,Michael.

PurpleDiamond2009 said:

Yea, I bought my tickets this week. i can't wait to see it.

Layzie said:

i've had my tickets for like 2 weeks

Does anyone know when the MJ Opus is coming out? I wish the P Opus was only $165.

I heard it advertised on the radio.

Going to see if I can get tix

mrsnet said:

He was beautiful till the day he died.

voyevoda said:

First his secret wife, then secret girlfriend, now Oprah? . Boy what's next?

luv4u said:

really?

BoOTyLiCioUs said:

i rarely listen to the rasio anymore but when i did the other week i heard it advertised also

Did anyone see that footage of They Don't Care About Us/Bad from the Kenny Ortega interview? The more I see of the shows the more I think he was perfectly fine and ready for these shows.

Superstition said:

You have a link to the interview?

Superstition said:

yes i saw it!

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Prince related part of the interview.

Kenny Ortega tried to get Michael to stop working so hard, to stop recording and just focus on getting ready for the show. Michael said he had to channel his higher power. Ortega said, can you talk to your higher power and have them hold onto things until we get to England and we'll set up a studio at the arena and another at the hotel so you can work on new music then. Michael said I can't, if I do that, God will give the music to Prince.

He went on to talk about Michael's admiration for Prince and how much he liked Purple Rain.

WetDream said:

Totally Disagree. however, I agree with the bold part.

I think Michael looked Happy and excited and non confused.
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latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-etw-jackson17-2009oct17,0,508329.story

latimes.com
'This Is It' footage shows Michael Jackson's take-charge style
In an exclusive viewing of the some of the upcoming movie of the singer's last rehearsals,
Jackson appeared in good health and full of energy.
By Chris Lee

October 17, 2009

In the footage, Michael Jackson comes across as many things: an arresting performer who still possesses a vast arsenal
of streetwise dance moves at age 50. A snappy dresser fond of Froot Loop-hued clothing. A take-charge field general
who authoritatively issues orders to his collaborators from the stage. A creative force who was personally invested
in the smallest details of his concerts.

But not a dying man.

On Oct. 28, for a limited two-week engagement, Sony Films will release "Michael Jackson's This Is It" -- a feature-length
documentary comprised of video footage from rehearsals for what would have been Jackson's return to performing.
After a 12-year touring absence, Jackson was set to embark on "This Is It," a series of 50 sold-out concerts at London's O2 Arena.
Exclusive footage that Sony Films screened for The Times provides a revealing glimpse of Jackson's take-charge side
that few outside the singer's inner circle have seen until now.

"He was the conductor. He was the man," said the movie's director Kenny Ortega, who worked closely with Jackson as director of "This Is It."
"He didn't just work through a show, he worked each audience differently. And the band, the dancers, the tech people, the lighting people
had to be paying attention to that. He made sure everyone was in touch with that."

Although the singer died on June 25 of acute intoxication by the powerful anesthetic propofol, the footage gives no indication that Jackson
was in anything less than good health. And according to his director, choreographer and backup dancers, he was focused,
emotionally prepared and fit.

"He was a true dancer," said Daniel Celebre, a "This Is It" backup dancer. "Always moving. He could not stay still."

Fellow dancer Timor Steffens added: "You'd get nervous standing next to Michael. That energy coming from him was so powerful."

In one clip, edited together from four separate performances of his 1983 hit single "Human Nature," Jackson appears sinewy -- thin, to be sure,
but not painfully so -- as he effortlessly executes a number of pop-locking-inspired dance moves. Unaccompanied by "This Is It's"
retinue of 11 dancers, his singing and dancing (as opposed to the elaborate staging, illusions and aerial dancing being developed for "This Is It")
are in the spotlight. And those loyal to the King of Pop will not likely be disappointed: Jackson's ethereal falsetto sounds strong and clear, his movements vigorous and precise.

A second sequence is plotted around a high-tech tableau that was to have been the concerts' visual cornerstone: a 90-foot electronic
scrim that Ortega refers to as "the world's largest high-definition 3-D video screen." A metal scaffolding designed to resemble the
steel girders of a skyscraper in the process of being built looms in front of the digital projection of a New York cityscape; dancers,
dressed as construction workers, lounge on its beams snapping their fingers. The sequence, conjured up by Jackson, is an homage t
o Lewis Hine, a turn-of-the-century photographer whom the pop icon admired.

Jackson arrives onstage to sing his 1987 single "The Way You Make Me Feel" wearing one of his trademark fedoras and a seersucker blazer.
But he interrupts the segment's Broadway musical-like staging to give instructions to the dancers.

"I gotta cue that so you gotta watch me for that growl," Jackson says, with uncharacteristic forcefulness.

The choreography later in the scene is straight out of the song's original music video, which features the singer walking along a city
street at night singing to and trying to cajole a young woman to take his romantic overtures seriously.

At the end of the sequence, Jackson can hardly contain his enthusiasm.
"I feel totally, totally nourished!" he exclaims

alandail said:

It's been talked about ALOT on the org

ViintageJunkiie said:

Also go to michaeljackson.com and check out the near 2-minute live clip of Human Nature.

ViintageJunkiie said:

the interview starts around 7 minutes

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=E8E6MF5Q


another clip

http://vids.myspace.com/i...d=64256364
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Superstition said:

yep.
[Edited 10/16/09 20:27pm]

Superstition said:

thanks!

mimi07 said:

thanks!

i just find it strange that the people who were just outsiders, not that close to michael, hadn't seen them in years....fans....claimed that MJ was not well for these concerts when the people closest to him....his manager, dancers etc. said he was doing great. They would know....not these people who hadn't talked to him in years or never had close contact with him. I am beginning to think that something really shady happened....something bigger than manslaughter. Things do not add up.

I don't want to be the conspiracy theorist, but I agree that some things just don't add up. At the very least there's something that we're not being told.