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Michael Jackson Issues Statement Regarding Participation in a Jackson 5 Reunion

Irish Flower said:
It's probably an alias for Michael. LOL! He just wanted to set record straight. Michael probably got calls from people he was working on projects with or in negotiations with because of Jermaine shouting his mouth off.
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Anything to SHUT Jermaine's big mouth.:lol:
If I could have a dollar for Jermaine's sound bite of J5 tour but never panned out
I'd be rich by now.
 
it hard:i understand Jermaine and Michael reasons...they just want different thing at this time in their lives...
 
is this legit?? who is this scoop company? are they well known seeing as the poster is called scoop aswell just made me wonder. statement sounds way to straight forward to have come from MJ lol and we are seeing all these funny names as spokesperson like the other one that was B michael humm i dunno maybe me thinking its to good to be true
 
some info on solters

a pic hes on the left
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from a quick google it seems he was a long terms advisor to irving azoff (sp) the big record label man. working or guns and roses now

it seems that larry solters is lee solters son looks like mj has a new team. its looking good.

Born to build a buzz

By Patrick Goldstein
June 15, 2004 in print edition E-1
As long as he can remember, Larry Solters was a publicist’s son. “Other kids mowed the lawn or had paper routes,” he recalls of his childhood in Long Island. “Every Sunday morning my job was to go out and get the seven New York papers so my father could see what items had made the columns.”
It was the 1960s, New York was still full of glamour and greasepaint and Lee Solters was the king of Broadway publicists, representing clients as varied as David Merrick, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra. Other fathers took their sons to baseball games or fired up the barbecue in the backyard. Lee Solters took his son through stage doors. “The theaters were all within a couple of blocks of each other and my father had the timing of when the big numbers would play down to a science,” Larry recalls. “We’d walk in just in time to stand in the wings and hear Streisand sing ‘Funny Girl.’ Then we’d go through Shubert Alley and catch Carol Channing doing ‘Hello Dolly’ and then slip in the stage door just up the street in time to see Jackie Gleason do a big number in ‘Take Me Along.’ ”
Is it any wonder Larry Solters became a publicist too?
With Father’s Day arriving Sunday, it’s time for our annual look at a pair of father-son showbiz insiders. This year I wanted to hear how two generations of publicists approach the elusive art of image-making and manipulation. Lee is as old school as a big-finned Cadillac. At 85, he’s still going strong. His firm, Solters & Digney, represents an eclectic mix of clients that includes Della Reese, Diane Schuur, ESPN and Universal Studios Hollywood. Just back from New York, Lee met Larry and me for dinner at Nate ‘n Al’s, a favorite hangout even though Lee once repped the rival Carnegie Deli, whose opening made a big news splash when Lee had Channing – also a client – drop a beach-ball-size matzo ball into a vat of chicken soup.
One of the last surviving links to the Damon Runyon-esque era when publicists would hand items to columnists at 1 a.m. over drinks at Toots Shor’s, Lee started his own publicity firm in 1948. He represented a variety of ventures – restaurants to movies – including “Sweet Smell of Success,” the fabled portrait of the gossip column racket, with Burt Lancaster as columnist J.J. Hunsecker and Tony Curtis as the conniving press agent Sidney Falco.
I always know Lee is calling when I pick up the phone and hear his raspy purr, “J.J., this is Sidney.” Lee claims to have given Curtis the idea behind slam-dunking a crumpled newspaper into a trash barrel after discovering his item hasn’t made the column. “I told Tony, ‘Be more vehement.’ ”
Lee’s big break came when he was handling the actor Walter Slezak, who was appearing in the musical “Fanny” and getting more coverage than the show’s star. The star’s wife complained to “Fanny” producer David Merrick, hoping the Broadway impresario would fire Solters. Instead, Merrick hired him to do all of his publicity.
In 1961, when a musical called “Subways Are for Sleeping” was in danger of failing, Solters and Merrick cooked up the legendary stunt of running ads with raves from men they’d recruited from the phone book who had the same names as the top critics of the day. “We wined and dined them and then gave them the quotes we wanted, like ‘Best Show in Years!’ ” Solters recalls. “David had wanted to do it for years, but he had to wait till Stanley Kaufmann took over at the Times from Brooks Atkinson, because there wasn’t another Brooks Atkinson in the phone book.”
Over the years, Lee has been a mentor to generations of eager young publicists. “Lee was like a father to me,” says Sid Ganis, producer of films including “Mr. Deeds,” whose first job at age 19 was working for Solters as an office boy. “He had the entire town wired. Lee would scold, teach, encourage and then scold me again, just like a dad would. I promise you, what I learned from Lee in 1959 I still use today.”
The Solters clan lived in the shadow of Lee’s 24/7 work habits. At Christmas and Easter, the family would vacation at Caesars Palace. Everything was fodder for the publicity mill. When Larry, now 53, was at camp one summer in Vermont, his father was repping Robert Ryan, who was then in an Irving Berlin musical, “Mr. President.” According to an item Lee planted, Larry was asked by his counselor what his father did for a living. “Oh,” he nonchalantly replied, “he does publicity for the president.”
In Lee’s heyday, columnists exercised a less vigilant attitude toward veracity than in today’s mainstream media. Ganis still has a photo of his father, a New York City cab driver, handing Claudette Colbert her poodle that she’d left in his taxi. The incident never happened. The photo was simply a good plug for Colbert, a Solters client. As Ganis recalls, “Lee said one day, ‘Oh, your father drives a cab. I’ve got an idea
In the early 1970s, Lee represented Led Zeppelin, leaving most of the work to his young assistant, Danny Goldberg, who went on to run Warner Bros. Records as well as Zeppelin’s own label. Solters believed Goldberg wasn’t getting the band enough ink, so one day he handed him a release with the headline: “Led Zeppelin Denied the Right to Play Shea Stadium.”
“I said, ‘Lee, when did this happen?’ ” Goldberg recalls. “Of course, it wasn’t true and I was worried about my credibility. So Lee put the release out himself. The next morning it was on Page 3 of the Daily News. He came into the office, waving the paper, saying, ‘See.’ ”
In the 1970s, Lee moved to Los Angeles, where he could be closer to Sinatra, who after hiring Solters informed him, “I like you. You’re not trying to hang out. I don’t need any more friends.” Lee also began representing the Eagles, which attracted the attention of his son. Just out of college, Larry didn’t want to be a publicist, but he did want to go on the road with a rock band. Larry took the Eagles as a client and soon was working for manager Irving Azoff, who went to run MCA Records in the 1980s. When Azoff left, so did Larry, starting his own firm, Scoop Marketing, whose clients included the Eagles, Van Halen, Ticketmaster and SoundScan.
Larry jokes that his father’s goal is to get his clients into the paper while his goal is to keep his clients out of it. “In my father’s days, the idea was to saturate and exploit. With me, it’s about strategizing and image control.” When a rock critic, in a review of an Eagles concert several years ago, accused Don Henley of taping some of his vocals, the band was furious. Larry insisted that the critic stand next to Henley’s drum kit during the next show so he could hear the live vocals for himself. The critic wrote a story about the incident, which got far better play than a simple correction.
Larry has often served as a crisis-management consultant for Capitol and Interscope Records, where he’s helped finesse controversies for hip-hop stars Eminem and Snoop Dogg. When Snoop Dogg was fighting a murder charge after being involved in a shooting, Larry noticed that the rapper had the habit of holding his hands behind his back. “I told him to always put his hands in front of him, so when the cameras are on you, they’ll see you’re not in handcuffs. It’s a subliminal thing, but you look a lot more guilty when you’re in handcuffs.”
Solters also shrewdly builds credibility by feeding scoops to reporters, even when they have nothing to do with one of his clients. He tipped off the Associated Press in 1991 that Magic Johnson had contracted the AIDS virus, giving the wire service the national break on one of the year’s top stories. “Publicists make the mistake of only calling journalists to pitch their client. If I can help journalists get a good story, even if it has nothing to do with my client, it helps my credibility.”
Both publicists have had their ups and downs. Lee represented Michael Jackson for years but could never make him seem like a normal human being. After 26 years, Sinatra left Lee and went with Lee’s daughter, Susan Reynolds, also a publicist and now head of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. When Larry was let go by MCA Records, he reacted in true Eagles tour style, setting his desk on fire and blasting Sinatra’s “My Way” over the office intercom. Still, neither father nor son sounds as if he has any regrets, though Larry, a single parent with a 17-year-old daughter, has a different perspective about working around the clock.
“I try to be a different kind of dad,” he says. “I’m the one who goes to Target and to Costco and listens to what my daughter and her friends say in the back of the car coming home from school.”
For Lee, it was often hard to tell where publicity stopped and fatherhood began. Larry remembers as a boy that his father would leave him tickets for a big Broadway show. “I’d be worried about not knowing where to pick them up. And Lee would say, ‘Just tell them who you are.’ And I’d say, ‘Who am I?’ And he’d say, ‘You’re Lee Solters’ son.’ ”
Patrick Goldstein’s column, The Big Picture, runs Tuesdays in Calendar. For comments or questions, e-mail Patrick .Goldstein@latimes.com.

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well it looks like it. i cant see larry solters being duped and putting out false statements by someone claiming to work for mj. all these funny names are imo mj just taking the pee
 
can,t wait,i,ll believe it when i have the ticket in my hand,i just wonder how much the tickets will cost,my daughters teacher went to see madonna and the tickets cost 100 pounds.anyway i will sell everything i own if i have too,michaels the man yeah!
 
In CONCERT!!!!

We have finally got it confirmed that Michael Jackson DOES want to perform again.

It's getting closer people....
 
Michael Jackson isn't going on tour. He plans to DIVIDE and CONQUER Las Vegas and the REST OF THE UNITED STATES FIRST!! And HE'll DO IT TOO...mark my words!!

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LOL!! DONCHA JUST LOVE THOSE LASER BEAMS???
 
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Linda you know nothing Michael has clearly just stated his plans.
 
woohooooo thats so exciting. i guess all the fans that didnt believe jermaine were right after all.
 
**Tink** said:
Linda you know nothing Michael has clearly just stated his plans.
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I DO know a thing or two...and MJ isn't over yet!! That's all I am saying. We certainly haven't seen the last of MJ. He has more music to create... We are going to see new stuff fantastic stuff from him....
 
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Um, hey Mike.... I got a keyword for ya... MiamiAtlanta. Oh well, that's two. :trish: B-but still, you understand :lol:
 
Hmm...sounds very interesting! Thanx for the info.

Oh, and new spokesperson, huh?! I read somewhere that Raymone is still working for Michael.

Anyway, I realise those projects take a lot of time and hard work, but I really hope it will be SOON!
 
Larry Solters is on board ?! If he's anything like his father, that's very good news! I remember Lee Solters so well from the Dangerous tour, he was excellent. One thing I really liked about him, in comparison to the people we've seen around Michael late 90s-early 00s, is that he really listened to Michaels ideas, rather than trying to push his own agenda. He was very professional, in addition to being a nice person. :yes:

*enjoying the reactions to this and glad I started saving up two years ago* ;)
 
Straight out of the horses mouth...he said the word "in concert" :)
I guess the UK Tabloids got it right :)
 
wannabestartinsomthin21 said:
lol, you said it. Jermaine doesn't know right side up from upside down when it comes to Michael. They need to stop trying to pressure him in to this stuff by making those kinds of claims, cause that's how I see it. Michael is a solo artist, the most successful solo artist EVER, and he needs to be left alone to do his own thing.
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My thoughts exactly. I hope that Jermaine doesn't mean any harm but it is very strange that he keeps saying these things. Michael left the Jacksons 24 years ago and even then, he had staid on for the sake of his brothers and his mother. I have not once since then heard him express any inclination what so ever to rejoin the group.

If Michael ever decides to perform with his brothers, it will be he choice and we will hear it from him.
 
The Lost Children said:
Where did you read this?
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I think it was somewhere on the forum, not too long ago, but I have no idea where/when exactly.
I just read some parts of the text quickly, Raymone was asked if she's still working for M.J., she said that she's still part of the team, same position as it was from the start, something like that. Btw, I have no idea if the text was old or new.

It's better not to speculate. We'll find out anyway.

It's important that our Mikey is working on exciting projects and let's continue to be happy about that part of the news!
 
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Can someone post information about Lee Solters: From when to when did he work for Michael Jackson. How Long, why the connection was ended, and so on? Thank you very much...
 
mj_sanya_7 said:
I think it was somewhere on the forum, not too long ago, but I have no idea where/when exactly.
I just read some parts of the text quickly, Raymone was asked if she's still working for M.J., she said that she's still part of the team, same position as it was from the start, something like that. Btw, I didn't pay attention to the date, so I don't know if the text was old or new.

I can't provide the link, non of us know what's going on, it's better not to speculate. We'll find out anyway.

It's important that our Mikey is working on something exciting and let's continue to be happy about that part of the news.
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I acutally heard that myself. In fact I remember asking Jamie Foster Brown's sister about that and she told me Bain was still there
 
It's funny that some fans actually believe Jermaine's statements that the Jackson 5 are touring and have been in the studio recording with them. I think Michael's family try to put pressure on him to tour with a reformed Jackson 5 hence part of Michael's statement "My brothers and sisters have my full love and support, and we've certainly shared many great experiences, but at this time I have no plans to record or tour with them,". I always believe Jermaine's 19yr old Jackson 5 reforming statements are just to make Michael feel gulity and indebted to his family to reform for a tour.

Maybe one day Michael will reform with his brothers, but Michael Jackson has a much bigger career of his own to attended to, it's pretty obvious and I don't know why some fans can't see that !!!
 
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mj_sanya_7 said:
Hmm...sounds very interesting! Thanx for the info.

Oh, and new spokesperson, huh?! I read somewhere that Raymone is still working for Michael.

Anyway, I realise those projects take a lot of time and hard work, but I really hope it will be SOON!
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Raymone hasn't been working for MJ for a long time now.
And the new statement is a proof of that.
 
If she would have had the same position she always had, she would have been the one to bring this statement out in the open. She didn't, so she at least doesn't have the same position. She also doesn't respond to people anymore, and so I agree with LovingMJ... she's out for a while already.

And since Michael has denied working in the studio with his brothers, I really wonder why Jermaine told reporters otherwise.
 
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