GoldDolphin said:

Michael Jackson wrote a tell-all memoir? PTI | 12 hours 28 sec ago inShare Printer-friendly version Send by email Michael Jackson -

AFP King of Pop Michael Jackson secretly began writing an autobiography about his lowest moments in the last years of his life. Jackson, who died in 2009, reportedly wrote 600 pages of notes about his struggles during the late eighties through 2007, Daily Express reported. He also accumulated sketches and documents in an attempt to correct how history was written about him. During those two decades, Jackson was rarely out of the headlines, not least for paying off Jordie Chandler 12 million pounds amid child-sex allegations. His admission that he shared his bed with children led Jackson to be accused but acquitted in 2005 of molesting Gavin Arvizo. Anguished, then Jackson flew to the Middle East where he began writing the manuscripts, where a former business contact has locked them away. The wealthy associate is in two minds over releasing the book, which is not complete and would need to be fleshed out to make a full autobiography. Jackson wrote one biography, 'Moonwalk', which had to be heavily edited because of attacks on family members. "The manuscript covers a raft of Michael's adventures and business dealings. He makes it clear that he is the father of Prince and Paris. Michael wrote the book because he never got a chance to tell his story and at some stage needed to express his feelings on everything. "The book addresses the child molestation at Neverland, insisting how he felt sickened that he was accused of doing that. Michael also talks about Jordie even though both parties agreed a gagging order when they settled in 1993," a source said. Jackson died after his doctor, Conrad Murray, pumped him with anesthetic Propofol days before his comeback tour in June 2009.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130127/entertainment-tvmusic/article/michael-jackson-wrote-tell-all-memoir

That would be interesting if true.

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NaughtyKitty said:

And the battle between the fans and Randall Sullivan's book continues...

For Michael Jackson Bio, Trying to Even the Score

By DAVID STREITFELD

Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times

When Randall Sullivan published his biography of Michael Jackson in November, he said he thought the singer was innocent of child molesting but he could not be absolutely positive. He said that after surgeries and more surgeries, little was left of Mr. Jackson’s nose besides his nostrils. He argued that despite two marriages, Mr. Jackson was probably a virgin when he died.

None of this went over well with Mr. Jackson’s fans, who voiced their displeasure with attacks on “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson” and its author, a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone. Their primary weapon: one-star reviews on Amazon.

Since my article about their campaign appeared in The New York Times on Monday, dozens of people who were apparently outraged by what they saw the fans doing went to Amazon and wrote five-star reviews as a sort of riposte. There are now 142 five-star reviews, up from two dozen a few weeks ago, and 132 one-star reviews, up from about 100.

But the battle is merely joined. After the article appeared, Michael Jackson’s Rapid Response Team to Media Attacks asked via Twitter that people continue to post comments on Amazon. Many of the newly posted positive reviews have critical comments.

The positive reviews are no more believable in their praise than the negative reviews were in their criticism. By this point, the truth about the value of “Untouchable” — not to mention the truth about Mr. Jackson’s virginity and nose — is buried underneath all these competing claims, which must count as a victory for the book’s opponents. As a result, don’t be surprised if “star bombing,” as it’s been called, keeps on happening.

Amazon has tried to make reviewers more accountable by adding several tools where people can evaluate reviews. But this incident proved that those tools are open to their own manipulation. Take, for instance, an excerpt from this review: “Randall Sullivan is fake, my uncle best friend use to work for the Rolling Stones company and known Randy and the jacksons for years, He use people and lie to them to get ahead and he is not born again.”

That is not a review, that is semi-coherent slander. But Amazon, which said it reviewed all the reviews of “Untouchable,” did not see anything wrong with it, and 53 Jackson fans voted it a “helpful” review, which in theory pushed it to a more prominent position on the page. Apply those votes to dozens of critical reviews and it’s relatively simple for a handful of people to create an apparently massive surge of disapproval.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/for-michael-jackson-bio-evening-the-score/

Right now the book has 149 5-star reviews and 140 1-star reviews, giving it's overall score 3 stars out of five. One thing is sure, Amazon.com really needs to overhaul its rating system across the board!

I remember reading this on Yahoo not to long ago. Alot of the comments were negative towards the fans and pro the book

All I have to say is people are really dumb. Most of the comments on yahoo were arguing that MJ was eccentric and that the biographer was accurate.

First off, being eccentric has nothing to do with the fact that everything said about someone is not fact and can possibly be fabricated.

Second, this is a blow joe and he is giving his own biased and personal interpretations on MJs life. If MJ was not involved than this is basically tabloid junkie mess.

Its scary to know that people just believe anything they want even without having facts.

mjscarousal said:

Second, this is a blow joe and he is giving his own biased and personal interpretations on MJs life. If MJ was not involved than this is basically tabloid junkie mess.

Oh, yeah... kinda like Scorp.

How anyone can still believe he didn't have vitiligo despite all the medical evidence is just beyond me. Sure, he may have depigmented his skin but that's one of the better treatment options for severe vitiligo with poor cosmesis. Easier to turn white when you're losing pigments than try and retain the original colour.

I have a doctor friend who knows ALL about the disease and has seen many patients with it. However, he still PREFERS to believe MJ magically turned white.

Education can't cure certain types of ignorance

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GoldDolphin said:

Free2BMe said:

I agree that we can agree to disagree. However, this person called scorp, insults, degrades,twists, manipulates etc. everything about Michael, while uplifting every OTHER Jackson family member. He not only insults Michael and his memory, he insults Michael's CHILDREN. Imo, there is NOTHING classy about this basher. He USES his so-called "objectivity", something he tried on MJ fan boards, to continually spew his innuendo and tabloid gossip. Scorp, is the same kind of person that he rants and calls the 'establishment'. Scorp's hypocrisy is deafening. Imo, he is not entitled to degrade and lie on Michael under the guise of so-called "objectivity" without fans calling him out on his manipulative babble. Scorp gets what he dishes out. In fact, this is MILD compared to what OTHER artists' fans would say to this person. My question is why should MJ fans have to remain calm, cool and collected and play "nice" when other artists' fans would never do that if their favorite artist was attacked, maligned, degraded the way that Scorp does Michael. Sorry, Scorp is a FRAUD and he needs to be called out for his AGENDA and lies.

I totally agree with you Free2BMe, it's funny how MJ fans should just sit quietly and agree to disagree, when if this was on the prince section and someone started bashing Prince, they would be fired up by most prince fans. It has happened before and that person who attacks Prince will be either banned or called a troll, but because it's MJ we are supposed to just agree to disagree when Scorp always starts an argument about MJ and his children.

Btw, don't know if you've read the article that said MJ was writing his biography in 2006 about the years after BAD and he apparently writes how he did INDEED father his own children.

He goes after MJ's kids. Him doing that says it all. Someone classy wouldn't touch anything like that. And does anyone on here think he's telling these other old school fans and familly lovers to not viciously attack and ridicule MJ's kids?

GoldDolphin said:

Michael Jackson wrote a tell-all memoir? PTI | 12 hours 28 sec ago inShare Printer-friendly version Send by email Michael Jackson -

AFP King of Pop Michael Jackson secretly began writing an autobiography about his lowest moments in the last years of his life. Jackson, who died in 2009, reportedly wrote 600 pages of notes about his struggles during the late eighties through 2007, Daily Express reported. He also accumulated sketches and documents in an attempt to correct how history was written about him. During those two decades, Jackson was rarely out of the headlines, not least for paying off Jordie Chandler 12 million pounds amid child-sex allegations. His admission that he shared his bed with children led Jackson to be accused but acquitted in 2005 of molesting Gavin Arvizo. Anguished, then Jackson flew to the Middle East where he began writing the manuscripts, where a former business contact has locked them away. The wealthy associate is in two minds over releasing the book, which is not complete and would need to be fleshed out to make a full autobiography. Jackson wrote one biography, 'Moonwalk', which had to be heavily edited because of attacks on family members. "The manuscript covers a raft of Michael's adventures and business dealings. He makes it clear that he is the father of Prince and Paris. Michael wrote the book because he never got a chance to tell his story and at some stage needed to express his feelings on everything. "The book addresses the child molestation at Neverland, insisting how he felt sickened that he was accused of doing that. Michael also talks about Jordie even though both parties agreed a gagging order when they settled in 1993," a source said. Jackson died after his doctor, Conrad Murray, pumped him with anesthetic Propofol days before his comeback tour in June 2009.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130127/entertainment-tvmusic/article/michael-jackson-wrote-tell-all-memoir

Bullshit.

I'm just afraid they'll try to do a scam similar to the Michael album.

To all those people who believe MJ made himself white, how do you explain he tried to gain back his pigmentation in the 80s? He started using creams to even out his problem areas in the year 1990 (as stated by his doctors in the deposition case in 1994). MJ had the disease since he was a child as stated by Joe Jackson who said an auntie of Michael had the same problem. Also Michael Jackson wasnt the first black entertainer to have vitiligo in the mainstream media, it was actually a dancer called Arthur Wright who suffered with the same dilemma as Michael. He also had a profound love for children and they share some similiarities, I wonder if MJ knew about Arthurs story.

(If anyone is interested in reading more about Arthur & MJ, check out this blog, it's really great! http://vindicatemj.wordpr...rt-1-of-2/ )

"Vitiligo strikes one to two percent of the American population, starting usually as a white spot on the hands or face and gradually progressing over the entire body. Dermatologists say they do not know the cause, or the cure. Vitiligo has been under studyy by researchers for some 40 years. Doctors have even linked prematurely gray hair to the disease. The disease is painless, does not affect other parts of the body and is not contagious. Physiologically its damage is minimal, there are no cripping effects, nor is it life threatening. Psychologically, however, it is devastating - espcially for Black patients. An otherwise healthy individual finds that overnight he or she has been transformed into a social abnormalty, a spotted "freak" in a highly color-concious society where physical apperance can mean the difference between a good job or the unemployment line, social acceptance or alienation, companionship or loneliness. For Wright, a dancer,singer and entertainer in the prime of a promising theatrical career, the experience was traumatic. In the theater, physical apperance is as important, if not often more so, than talent. Many once-famous talents have slipped into the realm of forgotten as their precious good looks began to fade. "/ Ebony Nov 1978 - Man who turned white.

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mookie said:

GoldDolphin said:

He goes after MJ's kids. Him doing that says it all. Someone classy wouldn't touch anything like that. And does anyone on here think he's telling these other old school fans and familly lovers to not viciously attack and ridicule MJ's kids?

GoldDolphin said:

Michael Jackson wrote a tell-all memoir? PTI | 12 hours 28 sec ago inShare Printer-friendly version Send by email Michael Jackson -

AFP King of Pop Michael Jackson secretly began writing an autobiography about his lowest moments in the last years of his life. Jackson, who died in 2009, reportedly wrote 600 pages of notes about his struggles during the late eighties through 2007, Daily Express reported. He also accumulated sketches and documents in an attempt to correct how history was written about him. During those two decades, Jackson was rarely out of the headlines, not least for paying off Jordie Chandler 12 million pounds amid child-sex allegations. His admission that he shared his bed with children led Jackson to be accused but acquitted in 2005 of molesting Gavin Arvizo. Anguished, then Jackson flew to the Middle East where he began writing the manuscripts, where a former business contact has locked them away. The wealthy associate is in two minds over releasing the book, which is not complete and would need to be fleshed out to make a full autobiography. Jackson wrote one biography, 'Moonwalk', which had to be heavily edited because of attacks on family members. "The manuscript covers a raft of Michael's adventures and business dealings. He makes it clear that he is the father of Prince and Paris. Michael wrote the book because he never got a chance to tell his story and at some stage needed to express his feelings on everything. "The book addresses the child molestation at Neverland, insisting how he felt sickened that he was accused of doing that. Michael also talks about Jordie even though both parties agreed a gagging order when they settled in 1993," a source said. Jackson died after his doctor, Conrad Murray, pumped him with anesthetic Propofol days before his comeback tour in June 2009.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130127/entertainment-tvmusic/article/michael-jackson-wrote-tell-all-memoir

Bullshit.

I'm just afraid they'll try to do a scam similar to the Michael album.

Yes, sometimes it surprises me that grown ass people attack innocent children (did they even pay attention to Michaels message about children?!!?) but whatever he only rants about crazy stuff.

I feel you, and I don't think it's real either, perhaps parts of it might be written by Mike, but as with everything after 2009, the fans have to be more careful because a lot of it is fake!

I feel that even though the truth about Vitiligo stares these nay sayers in their faces they just can't let go of their preconcieved notions for once and accept the reality. I guess they WANT to think of MJ as someone who hated his race and wanted to be white.They assume he always wanted to be white and vitiligo just gave him an excuse to be just that. That is baseless assumption to the nth degree.

Why would ANYONE want to change his/her racial appearance? Perhaps people who think and WANT to believe that someone could do such a thing have their own inner conflicts about the issue.

Xscaper said:

I feel that even though the truth about Vitiligo stares these nay sayers in their faces they just can't let go of their preconcieved notions for once and accept the reality. I guess they WANT to think of MJ as someone who hated his race and wanted to be white.They assume he always wanted to be white and vitiligo just gave him an excuse to be just that. That is baseless assumption to the nth degree.

Why would ANYONE want to change his/her racial appearance? Perhaps people who think and WANT to believe that someone could do such a thing have their own inner conflicts about the issue.

I think a lot of the people who keep entertaining the idea that MJ didn't have vitiligo and that he wanted to be white are projecting their own issues with race and colour onto MJ.

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smoothoperator said:

I have never seen this.

Love the Moving Violation album. Great funky stuff.

dag said:

I have never seen this.

Love the Moving Violation album. Great funky stuff.

Thanks for posting this. Haven't seen this in years.

Love funky MJ.

dag said:

I have never seen this.

Love the Moving Violation album. Great funky stuff.

I love this

dag said:

I have never seen this.

Love the Moving Violation album. Great funky stuff.

Lol I was just watching this the other day! Yeah its great stuff, one of my favorite performances by them on the Carol Burnett show.

dag said:

I have never seen this.

Love the Moving Violation album. Great funky stuff.

PatrickS77 said:

mjscarousal said:

Second, this is a blow joe and he is giving his own biased and personal interpretations on MJs life. If MJ was not involved than this is basically tabloid junkie mess.

Oh, yeah... kinda like Scorp.

exactly. i remember dreading the release of this book, b/c i could just imagine this guy all over the media with his tabloid rehash of mj. fortunately, for whatever reason, that hasn't happened, and i'm glad. it's funny that this sullivan supporter blames the fans, but why would they buy a book filled with tabloid lies and innuendo about mj, if in fact he hoped that they would be his target audience? did elvis fans support albert goldman's trash book? how is this any different? even that mj-hater friedman trashed this book so that should tell this person something.

i hope the same thing happens with mattola's book. nobody cares about his stewardship of sony; that s.o.b. was fired, after all. they only want to hear him dish the dirt on mariah and mj. without them, no one would give two sticks about his book. so far the reaction has been rather lowkey, and i hope it stays that way.

kibbles said:

PatrickS77 said:

Oh, yeah... kinda like Scorp.

exactly. i remember dreading the release of this book, b/c i could just imagine this guy all over the media with his tabloid rehash of mj. fortunately, for whatever reason, that hasn't happened, and i'm glad. it's funny that this sullivan supporter blames the fans, but why would they buy a book filled with tabloid lies and innuendo about mj, if in fact he hoped that they would be his target audience? did elvis fans support albert goldman's trash book? how is this any different? even that mj-hater friedman trashed this book so that should tell this person something.

i hope the same thing happens with mattola's book. nobody cares about his stewardship of sony; that s.o.b. was fired, after all. they only want to hear him dish the dirt on mariah and mj. without them, no one would give two sticks about his book. so far the reaction has been rather lowkey, and i hope it stays that way.

Great Post.

I found out about the book because Bette Midler made a tweet about it and said she was half way done reading it and how it was sad

Also, the yahoo posts really disturbed me. People ignored the fact that MJ was not involved in the making of the book and just jumped to bash the fans with insisting that they were indenial

How is someone going to be indenial about a biography that the person was not invovled with

People are really stupid and fail to THINK for themselves

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mjscarousal said:

Also, the yahoo posts really disturbed me. People ignored the fact that MJ was not involved in the making of the book and just jumped to bash the fans with insisting that they were indenial

How is someone going to be indenial about a biography that the person was not invovled with

People are really stupid and fail to THINK for themselves

They only say this because it's MJ fans. If this was any other artist and especially their artist they would see this for what it is.

I usually just laugh when I come across those that try to act all self righteousy about MJ fans. Just so hypocritical.

The trailer from Joe Jackson's documentary. It looks interesting.

http://jacksondocumentary.com/Jackson_Documentary/Trailer.html

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NaughtyKitty said:

The trailer from Joe Jackson's documentary. It looks interesting.

http://jacksondocumentary.com/Jackson_Documentary/Trailer.html

[Edited 2/1/13 11:44am]

It looks really interesting, I would watch!

mjscarousal said:

NaughtyKitty said:

The trailer from Joe Jackson's documentary. It looks interesting.

http://jacksondocumentary.com/Jackson_Documentary/Trailer.html

[Edited 2/1/13 11:44am]

It looks really interesting, I would watch!

Yeah it does and I will watch it too whenever it comes out. Which, according to the website is in 83 more days from now.

Emancipation89 said:

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Joe really needs to stop doing interviews. I just cringe at his interviews.

He is just not articulate or clear. Its understandable though because of his age. He also repeats himself. I do not get the point of doing a million interviews answering the same questions.

His new documentary previews look pretty good and his responces are the best his ever publicly done in my opinion.

mjscarousal said:

Emancipation89 said:

[Edited 1/31/13 21:51pm]

Joe really needs to stop doing interviews. I just cringe at his interviews.

He is just not articulate or clear. Its understandable though because of his age. He also repeats himself. I do not get the point of doing a million interviews answering the same questions.

His new documentary previews look pretty good and his responces are the best his ever publicly done in my opinion.

I hope I talk this well at 80 years old plus, and he's blessed enough to where he doesn't have to walk around w/a cane...

EVERYBODY who's fortunate enough, will grow old, nobody is exempt from it, if they are lucky enough to reach it.....

his mind is as clear as a whistle

I know people in their 60s who can't tie their shoestrings

and the reason he keeps talking about the same stuff is because he's ASKED the same questions verbatim, he can't sit there and talk about the good stuff, the years when this stuff meant something, he can't talk about things like the book that came out in 1980 called PAPA JOE'S BOYS, a book that did not depict him the way he's been depicted the last 25 years....

he can't sit there and talk about amazing moments such as the TRIUMPH TOUR because the media won't let him....think Pierce Morgan knows anything about that tour? he's totally oblivious to it

see, he can't talk about this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzqRbhGaz9g&list=FLRgBisRHxgNdMkIVQZYf13w&index=40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUXbAGNfVg

most of the world couldn't relate to that...but it would absolutely love it

towards the end of that 2nd clip, one can see cleary where MIKE came up w/the idea of THE LEAN and the kick shuffle moves that he debuted in the Smooth Criminal video...he had already been doing those moves 9 years before the fact

Joe can't talk about it, and neither can anyone in the family.......those years are gone.....as if they never happened....

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My grandmother is 80ys and she is very articulate and expresses herself clearly. I am not knocking Joe but he is not articule and talks all over the place in interviews.

Maybe if he would stop promoting and exploiting off his last name, he might not get asked the same questions.

That is all.

I will definitely watch that Joe Jackson documentary but do I expect to learn anything new from this? not really...

Chris Tucker was on Ellen today! I know he talked about him&MJ in a movie theatre story on Conan before but still lol

Scorp said:

mjscarousal said:

Joe really needs to stop doing interviews. I just cringe at his interviews.

He is just not articulate or clear. Its understandable though because of his age. He also repeats himself. I do not get the point of doing a million interviews answering the same questions.

His new documentary previews look pretty good and his responces are the best his ever publicly done in my opinion.

I hope I talk this well at 80 years old plus, and he's blessed enough to where he doesn't have to walk around w/a cane...

EVERYBODY who's fortunate enough, will grow old, nobody is exempt from it, if they are lucky enough to reach it.....

his mind is as clear as a whistle

I know people in their 60s who can't tie their shoestrings

and the reason he keeps talking about the same stuff is because he's ASKED the same questions verbatim, he can't sit there and talk about the good stuff, the years when this stuff meant something, he can't talk about things like the book that came out in 1980 called PAPA JOE'S BOYS, a book that did not depict him the way he's been depicted the last 25 years....

he can't sit there and talk about amazing moments such as the TRIUMPH TOUR because the media won't let him....think Pierce Morgan knows anything about that tour? he's totally oblivious to it

see, he can't talk about this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzqRbhGaz9g&list=FLRgBisRHxgNdMkIVQZYf13w&index=40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUXbAGNfVg

most of the world couldn't relate to that...but it would absolutely love it

towards the end of that 2nd clip, one can see cleary where MIKE came up w/the idea of THE LEAN and the kick shuffle moves that he debuted in the Smooth Criminal video...he had already been doing those moves 9 years before the fact

Joe can't talk about it, and neither can anyone in the family.......those years are gone.....as if they never happened....

[Edited 2/1/13 17:43pm]

I was thinking the same, he did similar things in the 70's with movement that people familiar with solo epic mj have no clue about, though I love mj from all decades, solo and group.

NaughtyKitty said:

mjscarousal said:

It looks really interesting, I would watch!

Yeah it does and I will watch it too whenever it comes out. Which, according to the website is in 83 more days from now.

Awesome, I'll have to download this. For some reason Joe always makes me laugh, I dont know why...

GoldDolphin said:

NaughtyKitty said:

Yeah it does and I will watch it too whenever it comes out. Which, according to the website is in 83 more days from now.

Awesome, I'll have to download this. For some reason Joe always makes me laugh, I dont know why...

Your not the only one

Emancipation89 said:

I will definitely watch that Joe Jackson documentary but do I expect to learn anything new from this? not really...

Chris Tucker was on Ellen today! I know he talked about him&MJ in a movie theatre story on Conan before but still lol

Chris is great. One of the few bright spots in MJ's life in his last years.

Never get tired of hearing him talk about MJ. Just an awesome and talented guy.