“I was actually so happy ( her marriage to Michael Jackson) I’ve never been that happy again.”
- from here to the great unknown
@zinniabooklover: Could not agree more
@zinniabooklover: Could not agree more
I'm only half way through the Michael chapter but I'm taking a break. So far, it's all lovely but it's still somehow so intense that I need to step back a bit. That long quote you just posted, that is SO intense. Can't decide if I'm feeling or“I was actually so happy ( her marriage to Michael Jackson) I’ve never been that happy again.”- from here to the great unknown
@zinniabooklover: Could not agree more
Lisa Marie was in London when Michael died on June 29, 2005, of cardiac arrest caused by propofol intoxication, but sat with his coffin for hours after his funeral.
“My mother told me that she communicated with Michael through her dreams for months after he died,” Riley said.
This explains why she became friends with Karen Faye years later, two obsessed crazy womenMichael Jackson told Lisa Marie Presley he was ‘still a virgin’ at 35 when they started dating
“I had thought that maybe we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!'” Presley wrote in “From Here to the Great Unknown.”pagesix.com
Lisa Marie was in London when Michael died on June 29, 2005, of cardiac arrest caused by propofol intoxication, but sat with his coffin for hours after his funeral.
“My mother told me that she communicated with Michael through her dreams for months after he died,” Riley said.
Lisa Marie? Crazy? Seems a bit harsh. She had an intense life, that's for sure.This explains why she became friends with Karen Faye years later, two obsessed crazy women
Too soon to say.[...] What did everyone else think?!
Why is it crazy, that she talked to him in dreams.... to me that is not crazy at all.....This explains why she became friends with Karen Faye years later, two obsessed crazy women
Mimi is Michael. It's what Lisa Marie's kids called him. Lisa's son, Ben, couldn't pronounce 'Michael'.Who is Mimi?
I think it sounds rather lovely.Why is it crazy, that she talked to him in dreams....
Agreed.to me that is not crazy at all.....
Mimi is Michael. It's what Lisa Marie's kids called him. Lisa's son, Ben, couldn't pronounce 'Michael'.
Spoiler incoming!OMG, this all makes me so sad ... the excerpts, this dear nickname ...
I need to go to bed, it is too late here, and I cannot start to cry now ...
It is lovely, but it also makes me quite sad atm.Spoiler incoming!
Here's a lovely little detail. Michael would sing YANA to Riley. And he would sing 'Ben' to little Ben.
I hear you.It is lovely, but it also makes me quite sad atm.
Darn, I love autumn, but this year it has been quite melancholy so far ...
Oh man.......... that must've been the inspiration for het songs " just a dream " & " I was wrong" and I have a feeling "heartless " may have been bout Mike but I'm not sureMichael Jackson told Lisa Marie Presley he was ‘still a virgin’ at 35 when they started dating
“I had thought that maybe we wouldn’t do anything until we got married, but he said, ‘I’m not waiting!'” Presley wrote in “From Here to the Great Unknown.”pagesix.com
Lisa Marie was in London when Michael died on June 29, 2005, of cardiac arrest caused by propofol intoxication, but sat with his coffin for hours after his funeral.
“My mother told me that she communicated with Michael through her dreams for months after he died,” Riley said.
Wait she called Mike a snake....but yet said he was normal I'm confusecSo I read the chapters Mimi onwards right to the very end on the kindle this morning. Whilst her last years were extraordinarily melancholy completely embroiled in addiction to an extent that I thought was far worse than Michael ever was - the irony of it all (but that was my understanding of it…) , aside from the birth of her twin daughters it was pretty rubbish for LMP. The chapters on Ben Ben had me balling my eyes out.
There was nothing we in fandom didn’t know already in Mimi …. The narrative of he was manipulative and calculative carried on - it was disappointing she would constantly second guess , call him a ‘snake’ despite Mimi bearing his soul to her in every imaginable way you could conceive, I believe the Presley camp said Michael was going to file for divorce and that it would be better she filed first - this was complete heresay turns out and Michael was devastated.
Two things that really got under my skin - Karen Faye said Michael feigned a fall as he didn’t want to do the one night only HBO special ….. hooookay then these two women became besties swapping notes did they?!! No wonder Michael wanted to distance himself from ms Faye!!!
If I wasn’t mildly annoyed about the mofo Danny Keough in all of this then I was absolutely annoyed by the end of the chapter - he didn’t want his children near Michael- said Ben shouldn’t be sitting on Michael’s lap - Danny Keough also got his news from the tabloids nice nice good for him. I have no doubt he was in her ear too … they were doomed from the get go - it felt they were such a wonderful couple that were never given half a chance which is what’s sad about the whole thing.
Lisa Marie saying she read Michael like a book but she appeared to create her own narrative half the time - not a criticism but it seems like the pot calling kettle black.
I will read the chapter preceding Mimi tomorrow .
All in all I’m glad I can draw a line under it now completely and fully understand why Michael too drew a line under that relationship- it sounded exhausting. He must have not wanted to be painted as a conniving loose cannon by the Presley camp.
What did everyone else think?!
I don't think they will it's too complexI'm assuming they will turn Lisa & Riley's book into a biopic at some point. I wonder who will play LMP? And Michael?
I can definitely see a film company or Netflix being interested in this. She did have a complicated life but most biopics leave out loads of stuff. Otoh, her son died and she never really recovered from that heartbreak and then she died (too young) and all of that would be too much of a downer for the film to end on so perhaps it won't happen. It's not something I want to see, I was just thinking out loud.I don't think they will it's too complex