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March 20 - 22 Weekend News Byte

There is no new news to report but a few mentionings.


Michael Jackson Mentionings for March 21, 2009:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel...e-in-travel-annie-nightingale-dj-1650192.html

Best hotel?
The Mandarin Oriental on Biscayne Bay in Miami. It's just awesome. The building is very modern and it changes colour at night; you look out over all the bridges which are lit up. I heard Michael Jackson stayed there for a month and didn't leave – I can understand why.


http://japanfocus.org/-Margaret-Talbot/1900

Miyazaki cradled the back of his head with his hand. “I’ve done things in this movie I wouldn’t have done ten years ago,” he said. “It has a big climax in the middle, and it ends with a resolution. It’s old-fashioned storytelling. Romantic.” Indeed, “Howl’s Moving Castle” has the first kiss ever in a Miyazaki film, and contains more of an overt love story. “Howl’s doesn’t have the elegiac beauty of certain sequences in “Spirited Away,” nor does it have the emotional delicacy of “Totoro.” (The Howl character, a vain, reclusive boy wizard who dresses in capes and epauletted jackets, reminded me somehow of Michael Jackson.)

http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_53037.shtml

Vinyl,” a Super 16 millimeter film created for UNT’s Advanced Film Production class last year, will also be shown during the College Showcase. In the 16-minute film, two country boys travel into a city to pick up the newest Michael Jackson record. Their encounters along the way lead to one of the most eventful days in their young lives.



Michael Jackson HIStory for March 21,2009:


1988 - Michael Jackson's album "Bad" was certified 5 times Platinum by the RIAA.

1995 - "The Best of Michael Jackson: Anthology" was released.

2004 - It was reported that the prosecutor in Michael Jackson's child molestation case was considering asking a boy from a previous case to testify before a grand jury. The boy had accepted a multimillion-dollar settlement with Jackson 1993.



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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article5950641.ece

Stake in live music
EDGE, the investment fund that specialises in live entertainment, is signing a deal with AEG Live, the concert promoter behind the forthcoming sell-out run of Michael Jackson, left, at the O2 Arena in London.
The money manager, which is trying to attract up to £10m in its latest fundraising, has lined up an agreement with AEG that will lead to the American company going into co-promotions with the live-music businesses in which Edge invests.
Edge has a number of music-industry executives on its board, including impresario Harvey Goldsmith.
AEG Live is part of the Anschutz Entertainment Group, operator of the O2.



http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090322/LIFE/247195195/-1/NEWS

Dressing for the now

Julia Robson
  • Last Updated: March 22. 2009 8:30AM UAE / March 22. 2009 4:30AM GMT
Working in fashion often makes me feel like a space traveller whizzing through a parallel universe at warp speed.

Don’t ask me to explain how or why “fashion time” seems to work on a different time scale than regular time. It just does.

I’ve spent the past month with my mind mentally hitting fast-forward, watching clothes that will not become truly relevant until September or later.
With the ready-to-wear shows finally over, I now have to frantically rewind to a point last September when I first became acquainted with the current spring/summer 2009 fashions.

These were, remember, conceived and created long before the global financial meltdown and are brimming with an optimism that suddenly feels surreal.

It’s weird playing this backwards and forwards game; pulling up catwalk images on my PC for next winter and intermittently writing about something for “now” that has not even filtered into the shops and yet to me already looks old.

Fashion trends are losing their footing; the logic is why should a collection have to have a point, or at least a reference point?
Although this might not be ideal for fashion editors who have grown used to labelling trends in neat little boxes each season only to send them packing after six months, it does give designers – and fashion followers – a bit of a breather and time for reflection. Not to mention reassuring the customer there will be longevity in her purchase.

I was intrigued to read that Tom Ford had recently bought Nicholas Hoult, the star of his directorial debut, A Single Man, the best-selling self-help book The Power of Now.
Does he know something we don’t? Can designers start to enjoy the now instead of stepping on the present to get to the future?

Rambling backwards at a leisurely pace to get to the now was a recurrent theme at the recent shows of Alexander McQueen, Albert Elbaz for Lanvin and Giles Deacon, who all featured best-of signature pieces.

Many designers rebelled against the Eighties trend and did their own thing. Marc Jacobs took his time to cherry-pick icons from Talitha Getty, the original boho hippie who died in 1971, to Studio 54, which opened its doors in 1977, before settling on an Eighties-ish parody.
The sight of so many Eighties-revival shows did nothing besides send me hurtling back in time with no comforting pangs of nostalgia.

Anything too literal is always a turn-off, especially when it’s in leather with shoulder pads or stone-wash denim.

Although I see that someone is already doing well from the revival. Step forward the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. When he announced his forthcoming tour in London wearing his signature leather jacket with its superwide shoulders (so Balmain), and bang-on-trend skinny leather trousers (YSL fall/winter 2009/10 or what?), he was rocking next season’s look.

 
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/mos...g-climb-Mount-Kilimanjaro-I-choked-latte.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

Found myself in the same London hotel as Michael Jackson this morning (a fact that only came to light when my security detail talked to his security detail).

Whatever you think of Jackson personally, he's the best live music act I've ever seen. So buy, beg, borrow or steal a ticket to his farewell British shows, because there will never be anyone as sensational as him on stage again.
 
Michael Jackson Mentionings fro March 22, 2009:


http://ukfamily.co.uk/lifestyle/news/2009-3/general/goody-dies.html#


Jade Goody dies

Jade was one of the first contestants catapulted into our living rooms when the reality TV bubble burst onto our screens.
She was a 21-year-old dental nurse from Bermondsey, in south London, when she gained the nation's affection and criticism in equal measures. Who can ever forget when she asked if 'East Angular' was abroad?
Most of the BB stars enjoyed fleeting fame after their stint in the house, but Jade was the one who was different. Her fame endured. People were genuinely interested in the girl with the big smile.
In the final stages of her illness, her fame spread right to America where its press became fascinated by the story of the British reality TV star who was dying at a tragically young age. Even Michael Jackson left a message of support on her phone.


http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/entertainment/Benedetti-makes-her-critics-face.5096587.jp


Despite immersing herself in classical music, Benedetti revealed she is a huge fan of Michael Jackson and is desperate to see his farewell performance in London.

She said: "I am determined to get a ticket, but now you can't get one for under £500. I really don't know what to do.

"I am a huge fan of everything he did when he was younger, but this farewell tour just seems to be a see-through attempt to make as much money as possible. That does annoy me."

The violin virtuoso also gave her verdict on modern music.

"There are some artists that are really, really special, but I don't like most commercial rap and R&B… I'd rather not listen to that."



http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/news/story?id=3706880
More recently, on Nov. 8, Jones dropped that unanimous decision to the popular and undefeated Welshman Joe Calzaghe, putting a damper on an otherwise emotional high of a night.

The group had played on its biggest stage -- Madison Square Garden -- delivering a flawless tribute to Michael Jackson and throwback groups like New Edition while intertwining 3D originals, but the nightcap was a major disappointment.


http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=321811

The brothers from Omega Psi Phi hit the stage first dressed in gold jumpsuits. They kicked off their set walking like the zombies from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video and quickly picked up the energy hopping and stomping across the stage. In the midst of their routine, they stopped and did the act again — this time in reverse.





Michael Jackson HIStory for March 22, 2009:


2004 - In U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson filed a lawsuit against Henry V. Vaccaro Sr. to return Michael Jackson memorabilia and to close the website showing off the items. Vaccaro had won a warehouse and its contents in a lawsuit several years before. Vaccaro said that the items had already been sold to a European buyer.

2004 - Four defendants were added to Michael Jackson's lawsuit against the charter jet company that he accused of illegally videotaping him in November of 2003 as he flew to Santa Barbara, CA, to be booked on child molestation charges.






 
Thanks for posting the news Dorothy.

Although its cool Benedetti is a fan of MJ it seems like she isn't aware that the high ticket prices aren't MJ's fault and that the proper prices for the tickets were extremely reasonable but because of the bidding that is going on for them on auction sites.
 


http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...A8734-2756-4C9C-A690-AEF20B5A7F39}&dist=msr_1

Site with Jackson animals facing eviction






Last update: 12:19 p.m. EDT March 22, 2009







PAGE, Ariz., Mar 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The operators of a wildlife preserve in Page, Ariz., that is home to some of singer Michael Jackson's animals must vacate the site, an official says.
Page Assistant City Attorney Robert Wingo said thanks to judge's order, the Voices of the Wild Foundation has less than 60 days to leave its Banjoko preserve that occupies 185 acres of city land, The (Flagstaff) Arizona Daily Sun reported Saturday.
The wildlife foundation failed to meet the terms of its land lease with the city, leading to a stipulated court judgment and an eviction timetable, Wingo said.
Page Justice Court Judge Donald G. Roberts officially signed the writ of restitution approving the eviction order Wednesday.
The Banjoko preserve is home to four giraffes and a camel that were taken from Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California. The Daily Sun said the former Jackson animals are being kept on a 5-acre portion of the preserve.
 
Victory2004 said:
Little does Ms. Benedetti realize that anybody who does a tour gets paid.
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from the blurb on the article.. "ShE" frustrates me... I doubt she even tried to get a ticket.. otherwise she would have known better than to say what she said..

NEXT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
I read a piece of news that Michael was planning on adopting a child in London...

is this like true or tabloid? :unsure:
 
Rasta Pasta said:
What's hot...
Michael Jackson
Having sold out all 50 dates at the O2 Arena – that's 750,000 tickets – the king of pop has given London's ailing economy a much-needed boost.
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What Biggie say: "AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW!"

Baby, Baby. LOL!
 
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