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The Jacksons were crowned icons at the BMI Urban Awards. The King Of Pop didn't show up.
BMI — Broadcast Music Inc. — is a performing rights organization that collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
Discussion follows in own thread including pictures of the Jackson's. http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55253
Michael Jackson - King Of Pop album review
WHATEVER problems Michael Jackson has faced in his personal life over the past few years, it’s impossible to ignore his sensational music.
While he may have released other greatest hits collections in the past – I’ve got them all – this is still a quality record.
This is a great collection including all the classics from his solo career including Beat It, Bad, Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man In The Mirror.
Admitt-edly Earth Song has somehow sneaked in there, but with the rest of the tracks so good, it’s a reminder of the talent that is Michael Jackson.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/view.../michael-jackson-king-of-pop-100252-21679116/
Mentionings
Disco legend Patti turns her glitter to God
Disco star Patti Boulaye is helping raise money for her church at the first of many special concerts later this year.The entertainer moved to Gerrards Cross from central London four years ago and is a regular worshipper at St Joseph's, in Austenwood Lane.
Wanting to do something for her community, she will bring her musical glamour to the church hall for a dance night and concert on October 11 to help fundraising for the church.
She said: "I think fate brought us to Gerrards Cross.
"We wanted a quiet place that was close to London and we were looking for two years before our agent showed us our home.
"We fell in love with it straight away and it is such a beautiful area. I am really passionate about doing something for the community.
"I go to the church regularly and I am hoping to help it by putting on monthly concerts, with different artists coming to perform."
Patti moved to the UK at 16 to escape the Biafran war that was sweeping her homeland of Nigeria.
She got her big break in West End productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she released her eighth album, In His Kingdom, in 2004, and counts Michael Jackson and Sir Cliff Richard among her friends.
For the past six years she has been working with her charity, Support for Africa, through which she has raised money to build four basic health clinics and schools in Cameroon and Nigeria.
The October concert will see a return to the stage for the mother-of-two, who will perform R'n'B, Motown and soul music with The Boulettes.
Full story http://www.buckinghamshireadvertise...atti-turns-her-glitter-to-god-82398-21675100/
Rice Krispies and the Dizzy feeling of emulating your first hamster
It’s always a memorable rite of passage for any boy or girl. Your first hamster. As of last night, we now have two of the little fluffsters in the flat. Bart and Mario are dwarf Mongolian brothers with little black eyes and no tails. They came as a job lot from a large pet supermarket on the fringes of Walsall, complete with groovy pad and all the necessary paraphernalia.
We only popped in for a guppy but were enticed by the young hippy shop assistant called Alex who was juggling three of them on a unicycle. You know how kids are.
I must admit, they are very cute in that way that small balls of fluff can be. If I’d stuck a toenail on a ball of cotton wool it would have had a similar effect but the kids would have seen through it.
I really wanted a pair of rats which were the same price as the hamsters but the rat cages were close on £100. Being bigger, they need more real estate and, even in this credit crunch, house prices aren’t cheap, even for rats. If they’d lowered the stamp duty on cages it would still have been out of my reach.
It was Michael Jackson who first turned me on to the joys of rattage. His classic 1971 single, Ben, was all about a rat. The young Michael obviously cared deeply for the eponymous song-rat, promising it eternal friendship and a shoulder to cry on should it “ever look behind and don’t like what you find.”
The very idea of a rat crying on Michael Jackson’s shoulder is deeply poignant isn’t it? It’s little snout, moist with tears, snuffling into the base of the 14-year-old soul supernova’s afro. Aah!
I think the rat might have died at the end, but I’m not sure. The song itself was borne aloft on such a winsome minor key that it sounded like the saddest lament of all time.
So we’ll see how we get along with Bart and Mario until the property market picks up.
One of the main points of buying kids pets is to introduce them to the reality of mortality.
Rest of the story http://www.birminghampost.net/comme...-emulating-your-first-hamster-65233-21683534/
Fire Sale For Hendrix Guitar
When Jimi Hendrix set fire to his famous Fender Stratocaster during a concert in London in 1967, it turned his usual set into an electrifying live performance. And yet it appears that very guitar has gone for less than hoped for at an auction in the British capital on Thursday, fetching just over 280,000 pounds ($493,638). Auctioner Ted Owen told Forbes.com he had expected the guitar to reach the 500,000 pounds ($881,497) in an auction that gathered around 300 bidders, including agents representing Hollywood celebrities.
Jimi Hendrix had played the Finsbury Astoria on the opening night of the Walker Brothers tour on March 31, 1967. While playing "Fire", the musician, who was only allowed into the United Kingdom on a temporary visa, covered the guitar with lighter fluid before setting it alight. He then attempted to continue paying the instrument, and was subsequently taken to the hospital with minor hand injuries.
The story behind the guitar has made it one of rock 'n' roll's most memorable items, although its buyer was surprised at the the relatively low price tag. "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it, actually," American collector Daniel Boucher was quoted as saying, adding that he intended to play the instrument. "I hope some of it rubs off on me."
Thursday's auction also included the last surviving drum kit of Led Zeppelin’s late John Bonham, Jim Morrison’s final notebook of poetry and musings before his death in Paris in 1971, and a songsheet for Band Aid’s "We are the World," signed by Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Also included in the sale was the Beatles' first management contract, signed in 1962 by all four members of the group and their manager Brian Epstein. The document fetched 240,000 pounds ($423,119).
The items were being sold at The Fame Bureau's "It's More Than Rock 'N' Roll" memorabilia auction.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/...ar-face-markets-cx_je_0904autofacescan01.html
Music stirs emotion, brings back memories
I just had a birthday and turned 30. Wow, that used to seem old.
I don't feel old at all.
I don't feel any different then I did before. I still love music and all of the different sounds and formats.
The range of influence when I was young was pretty broad. My dad had tapes of The Eagles and Ricky Skaggs. My mom had records of Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers and Michael Jackson. My grandma took me to the symphony and every school musical her school performed. She was a math teacher at Hillcrest High.
I must say that I loved Michael Jackson and Weird Al. "Just Eat It" was my personal favorite. I had a video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and the "Making of Thriller." My brother Anthony and I watched that video until it was ruined. We got another video and did the same thing. We knew every move.
I love the memories that are tied to certain music. I love the expression of every emotion through music and I think most of all I love to dance to music.
Every once in awhile you need to Vogue. You don't have to be good. Just turn up some Simon and Garfunkel and dance.
http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/ENTERTAINMENT04/809050307
Dave Edmunds: Never Too Old To Rock And Roll
There has been much sport had with Michael Jackson and Madonna this past month, as both pop icons celebrated (or possibly did their best to avoid acknowledging) a half century. Well (as the saying goes) there are none of us getting any younger. But sometimes you see someone or something that makes you feel younger.
Music keeps you young: Dave Edmunds
I attended a showcase at Gibson guitars HQ for Dave Edmunds, who had a string of rock and roll hits from the sixties to the early eighties, solo and with Love Sculpture and Rockpile, before disappearing to LA to work as a session musician, musical arranger and indulge in the local sport of serial divorce. Anyway, he's back, living modestly in Monmouth, apparently. One hopes that his return to the live circuit has nothing to do with multiple alimony settlements, but his fans should make the most of it nonetheless.
Edmunds is 64, and looks every minute of it (and then some). His face is like a road map of his native Wales, after its been crumpled up and used to wipe the windscreen. He dresses like a tatty roadie, in jeans, shapeless t-shirt and waistcoat, with one of those hedgehog haircuts last fashionable about 1975. But compared to other members of his band, Edmunds looked like a spring chicken.
It was like a scene from Night Of The Living Dead, the musical version. I couldn't see too much of the drummer, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt, but I could have sworn that was Frankenstein's monster lookalike Murdoch of the cartoon Gorillaz on bass (actually it was perennial session man Paul Martinez). The legendary Geraint Watkins sat rigid at the piano, everything but the movement of his fingers and the smile on his face suggesting rigor mortis had already set in. The rhythm guitarist (apparently one of Joe Brown's sons) still had the bloom of youth in his cheeks but gazed throughout at the small, wrinkled figure of Edmunds with the look of a reverent acolyte, like one of Dracula's minions convinced that if he serves the Master well enough one day he too will be rewarded with induction into the realm of the undead.
It was only when Edmund's remarked that half his backing band had met the other half for the first time that afternoon that the penny dropped. The rapt attention was not infatuation, he was just trying to follow the chord changes.
Anyway, it wasn't the zombie appearance of the band that made me feel young. It was the sheer joy and flair they brought to the music. I mean, they really rocked, the guitars spun and weaved, the rhythm section locked into a groove, the keys flew, and it was all I could do to resist embarrassing myself by jiving in front of my fellow critics.
I think its well established by now that you are never too old to rock and roll. What we maybe miss in that notion is that sometimes age and experience, warrior skills honed over the years, sheer instrumental excellence and a feel for the material deep in your bones are more than a match for the fire and enthusiasm of youth.
Music actually keeps you young. If you shut your eyes, anyway.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_m...5/dave_edmunds_never_too_old_to_rock_and_roll
Viral video what we're watching
YouTube in 1985
Before YouTube and the Internet, humans lived such a primitive, boring existence. No on-demand replays of last night's TV. No video blogs by regular Joes. No clever videos by aspiring filmmakers. (Workplace productivity must have been pretty high.) This "collab video" by Matt Koval aims to explain the slow, tedious process of exchanging videos before the Internet's popularity. If you like this one, check out some of Koval's other offerings, including "I Love Klondikes" and "To Invite in L.A."
— Paris responds to McCain: Paris Hilton isn't just a pretty face. She's also got some good ideas for running the country. But alas, the veep candidates have been chosen already. There's always 2012, Paris.
— Michael Jackson and Pepsi: The King of Pop turned 50 last week, so we marked the occasion by watching this Pepsi commercial from 1988 — the one where a child MJ wannabe runs into his idol on the street.
— Jim Gaffigan on bacon: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is coming to the Fox, so we were inspired to watch some of his routines — including this one, where he attempts to make sense of America's love affair with bacon.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/movies/story/3D5762DF12A1C7DB862574B90063047D?OpenDocument
Step lively
Evening Star Festival troupes will shake up the crowds in N.Y.
NEW YORK -- Someday, dance presenter Linda Shelton hopes to have a bigger venue than the 472-seat Joyce Theater in Chelsea. In the meantime, however, the ambitious executive director of the Joyce also commands Evening Stars, a festival of free outdoor performances for park-sized crowds.
Evening Stars, which returns this month with three shows near the waterfront in Battery Park, has a populist mandate. While the run begins on Friday with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, a modern dance ensemble that performs to classical music, the other two events promise to be raucous crowd-pleasers.
Rasta Thomas and the Bad Boys of Dance, on Saturday, is a pickup ensemble whose director is notorious. Thomas was a competition gold medalist too rebellious to settle for life in a major ballet company. Now he and choreographer Adrienne Canterna, Thomas' childhood sweetheart and competition partner, are creating a new repertory for themselves and their dancer friends.
At Evening Stars, this collection will feature dances set to big-band music by Benny Goodman and rock'n' roll favorites from the song lists of Queen, Prince and Michael Jackson.
"In an outdoor venue like Evening Stars, there are a lot of competing noises," Shelton explains. "So we found that it's better to have music that's lively."
Full story http://www.nj.com/theatredance/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-2/122058935612870.xml&coll=1
News
The Jacksons were crowned icons at the BMI Urban Awards. The King Of Pop didn't show up.
BMI — Broadcast Music Inc. — is a performing rights organization that collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
Discussion follows in own thread including pictures of the Jackson's. http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55253
Michael Jackson - King Of Pop album review
WHATEVER problems Michael Jackson has faced in his personal life over the past few years, it’s impossible to ignore his sensational music.
While he may have released other greatest hits collections in the past – I’ve got them all – this is still a quality record.
This is a great collection including all the classics from his solo career including Beat It, Bad, Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man In The Mirror.
Admitt-edly Earth Song has somehow sneaked in there, but with the rest of the tracks so good, it’s a reminder of the talent that is Michael Jackson.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/view.../michael-jackson-king-of-pop-100252-21679116/
Mentionings
Disco legend Patti turns her glitter to God
Disco star Patti Boulaye is helping raise money for her church at the first of many special concerts later this year.The entertainer moved to Gerrards Cross from central London four years ago and is a regular worshipper at St Joseph's, in Austenwood Lane.
Wanting to do something for her community, she will bring her musical glamour to the church hall for a dance night and concert on October 11 to help fundraising for the church.
She said: "I think fate brought us to Gerrards Cross.
"We wanted a quiet place that was close to London and we were looking for two years before our agent showed us our home.
"We fell in love with it straight away and it is such a beautiful area. I am really passionate about doing something for the community.
"I go to the church regularly and I am hoping to help it by putting on monthly concerts, with different artists coming to perform."
Patti moved to the UK at 16 to escape the Biafran war that was sweeping her homeland of Nigeria.
She got her big break in West End productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she released her eighth album, In His Kingdom, in 2004, and counts Michael Jackson and Sir Cliff Richard among her friends.
For the past six years she has been working with her charity, Support for Africa, through which she has raised money to build four basic health clinics and schools in Cameroon and Nigeria.
The October concert will see a return to the stage for the mother-of-two, who will perform R'n'B, Motown and soul music with The Boulettes.
Full story http://www.buckinghamshireadvertise...atti-turns-her-glitter-to-god-82398-21675100/
Rice Krispies and the Dizzy feeling of emulating your first hamster
It’s always a memorable rite of passage for any boy or girl. Your first hamster. As of last night, we now have two of the little fluffsters in the flat. Bart and Mario are dwarf Mongolian brothers with little black eyes and no tails. They came as a job lot from a large pet supermarket on the fringes of Walsall, complete with groovy pad and all the necessary paraphernalia.
We only popped in for a guppy but were enticed by the young hippy shop assistant called Alex who was juggling three of them on a unicycle. You know how kids are.
I must admit, they are very cute in that way that small balls of fluff can be. If I’d stuck a toenail on a ball of cotton wool it would have had a similar effect but the kids would have seen through it.
I really wanted a pair of rats which were the same price as the hamsters but the rat cages were close on £100. Being bigger, they need more real estate and, even in this credit crunch, house prices aren’t cheap, even for rats. If they’d lowered the stamp duty on cages it would still have been out of my reach.
It was Michael Jackson who first turned me on to the joys of rattage. His classic 1971 single, Ben, was all about a rat. The young Michael obviously cared deeply for the eponymous song-rat, promising it eternal friendship and a shoulder to cry on should it “ever look behind and don’t like what you find.”
The very idea of a rat crying on Michael Jackson’s shoulder is deeply poignant isn’t it? It’s little snout, moist with tears, snuffling into the base of the 14-year-old soul supernova’s afro. Aah!
I think the rat might have died at the end, but I’m not sure. The song itself was borne aloft on such a winsome minor key that it sounded like the saddest lament of all time.
So we’ll see how we get along with Bart and Mario until the property market picks up.
One of the main points of buying kids pets is to introduce them to the reality of mortality.
Rest of the story http://www.birminghampost.net/comme...-emulating-your-first-hamster-65233-21683534/
Fire Sale For Hendrix Guitar
When Jimi Hendrix set fire to his famous Fender Stratocaster during a concert in London in 1967, it turned his usual set into an electrifying live performance. And yet it appears that very guitar has gone for less than hoped for at an auction in the British capital on Thursday, fetching just over 280,000 pounds ($493,638). Auctioner Ted Owen told Forbes.com he had expected the guitar to reach the 500,000 pounds ($881,497) in an auction that gathered around 300 bidders, including agents representing Hollywood celebrities.
Jimi Hendrix had played the Finsbury Astoria on the opening night of the Walker Brothers tour on March 31, 1967. While playing "Fire", the musician, who was only allowed into the United Kingdom on a temporary visa, covered the guitar with lighter fluid before setting it alight. He then attempted to continue paying the instrument, and was subsequently taken to the hospital with minor hand injuries.
The story behind the guitar has made it one of rock 'n' roll's most memorable items, although its buyer was surprised at the the relatively low price tag. "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it, actually," American collector Daniel Boucher was quoted as saying, adding that he intended to play the instrument. "I hope some of it rubs off on me."
Thursday's auction also included the last surviving drum kit of Led Zeppelin’s late John Bonham, Jim Morrison’s final notebook of poetry and musings before his death in Paris in 1971, and a songsheet for Band Aid’s "We are the World," signed by Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Also included in the sale was the Beatles' first management contract, signed in 1962 by all four members of the group and their manager Brian Epstein. The document fetched 240,000 pounds ($423,119).
The items were being sold at The Fame Bureau's "It's More Than Rock 'N' Roll" memorabilia auction.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/...ar-face-markets-cx_je_0904autofacescan01.html
Music stirs emotion, brings back memories
I just had a birthday and turned 30. Wow, that used to seem old.
I don't feel old at all.
I don't feel any different then I did before. I still love music and all of the different sounds and formats.
The range of influence when I was young was pretty broad. My dad had tapes of The Eagles and Ricky Skaggs. My mom had records of Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers and Michael Jackson. My grandma took me to the symphony and every school musical her school performed. She was a math teacher at Hillcrest High.
I must say that I loved Michael Jackson and Weird Al. "Just Eat It" was my personal favorite. I had a video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and the "Making of Thriller." My brother Anthony and I watched that video until it was ruined. We got another video and did the same thing. We knew every move.
I love the memories that are tied to certain music. I love the expression of every emotion through music and I think most of all I love to dance to music.
Every once in awhile you need to Vogue. You don't have to be good. Just turn up some Simon and Garfunkel and dance.
http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/ENTERTAINMENT04/809050307
Dave Edmunds: Never Too Old To Rock And Roll
There has been much sport had with Michael Jackson and Madonna this past month, as both pop icons celebrated (or possibly did their best to avoid acknowledging) a half century. Well (as the saying goes) there are none of us getting any younger. But sometimes you see someone or something that makes you feel younger.
Music keeps you young: Dave Edmunds
I attended a showcase at Gibson guitars HQ for Dave Edmunds, who had a string of rock and roll hits from the sixties to the early eighties, solo and with Love Sculpture and Rockpile, before disappearing to LA to work as a session musician, musical arranger and indulge in the local sport of serial divorce. Anyway, he's back, living modestly in Monmouth, apparently. One hopes that his return to the live circuit has nothing to do with multiple alimony settlements, but his fans should make the most of it nonetheless.
Edmunds is 64, and looks every minute of it (and then some). His face is like a road map of his native Wales, after its been crumpled up and used to wipe the windscreen. He dresses like a tatty roadie, in jeans, shapeless t-shirt and waistcoat, with one of those hedgehog haircuts last fashionable about 1975. But compared to other members of his band, Edmunds looked like a spring chicken.
It was like a scene from Night Of The Living Dead, the musical version. I couldn't see too much of the drummer, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt, but I could have sworn that was Frankenstein's monster lookalike Murdoch of the cartoon Gorillaz on bass (actually it was perennial session man Paul Martinez). The legendary Geraint Watkins sat rigid at the piano, everything but the movement of his fingers and the smile on his face suggesting rigor mortis had already set in. The rhythm guitarist (apparently one of Joe Brown's sons) still had the bloom of youth in his cheeks but gazed throughout at the small, wrinkled figure of Edmunds with the look of a reverent acolyte, like one of Dracula's minions convinced that if he serves the Master well enough one day he too will be rewarded with induction into the realm of the undead.
It was only when Edmund's remarked that half his backing band had met the other half for the first time that afternoon that the penny dropped. The rapt attention was not infatuation, he was just trying to follow the chord changes.
Anyway, it wasn't the zombie appearance of the band that made me feel young. It was the sheer joy and flair they brought to the music. I mean, they really rocked, the guitars spun and weaved, the rhythm section locked into a groove, the keys flew, and it was all I could do to resist embarrassing myself by jiving in front of my fellow critics.
I think its well established by now that you are never too old to rock and roll. What we maybe miss in that notion is that sometimes age and experience, warrior skills honed over the years, sheer instrumental excellence and a feel for the material deep in your bones are more than a match for the fire and enthusiasm of youth.
Music actually keeps you young. If you shut your eyes, anyway.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_m...5/dave_edmunds_never_too_old_to_rock_and_roll
Viral video what we're watching
YouTube in 1985
Before YouTube and the Internet, humans lived such a primitive, boring existence. No on-demand replays of last night's TV. No video blogs by regular Joes. No clever videos by aspiring filmmakers. (Workplace productivity must have been pretty high.) This "collab video" by Matt Koval aims to explain the slow, tedious process of exchanging videos before the Internet's popularity. If you like this one, check out some of Koval's other offerings, including "I Love Klondikes" and "To Invite in L.A."
— Paris responds to McCain: Paris Hilton isn't just a pretty face. She's also got some good ideas for running the country. But alas, the veep candidates have been chosen already. There's always 2012, Paris.
— Michael Jackson and Pepsi: The King of Pop turned 50 last week, so we marked the occasion by watching this Pepsi commercial from 1988 — the one where a child MJ wannabe runs into his idol on the street.
— Jim Gaffigan on bacon: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is coming to the Fox, so we were inspired to watch some of his routines — including this one, where he attempts to make sense of America's love affair with bacon.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/movies/story/3D5762DF12A1C7DB862574B90063047D?OpenDocument
Step lively
Evening Star Festival troupes will shake up the crowds in N.Y.
NEW YORK -- Someday, dance presenter Linda Shelton hopes to have a bigger venue than the 472-seat Joyce Theater in Chelsea. In the meantime, however, the ambitious executive director of the Joyce also commands Evening Stars, a festival of free outdoor performances for park-sized crowds.
Evening Stars, which returns this month with three shows near the waterfront in Battery Park, has a populist mandate. While the run begins on Friday with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, a modern dance ensemble that performs to classical music, the other two events promise to be raucous crowd-pleasers.
Rasta Thomas and the Bad Boys of Dance, on Saturday, is a pickup ensemble whose director is notorious. Thomas was a competition gold medalist too rebellious to settle for life in a major ballet company. Now he and choreographer Adrienne Canterna, Thomas' childhood sweetheart and competition partner, are creating a new repertory for themselves and their dancer friends.
At Evening Stars, this collection will feature dances set to big-band music by Benny Goodman and rock'n' roll favorites from the song lists of Queen, Prince and Michael Jackson.
"In an outdoor venue like Evening Stars, there are a lot of competing noises," Shelton explains. "So we found that it's better to have music that's lively."
Full story http://www.nj.com/theatredance/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-2/122058935612870.xml&coll=1
Today in
Michael Jackson History
1984 - Michael Jackson's manager Frank Dileo read a statement to the media. It said, "For some time now, I have been searching my conscience as to whether or not I should publicly react to the many falsehoods that have been spread about me. I have decided to make this statement based on the injustice of these allegations and the far-reaching trauma those who feel close are suffering. I feel very fortunate to have been blessed with recognition for my effrots. This recognition also brings with it a responsibility to one's admirers through-out the world. Performers should always serve as role models who set an example for young people. It saddens me that many may actually believe the present flurry of false accustaions. To this end, and I do mean END: No, I've never taken hormones to maintain my high voice! No, I've never had my cheekbones altered in any way! No, I've never had cosmetic surgery on my eyes! Yes, one day in the future I plan to get married and have a family. Any statements to the contrary are simply untrue. I have advised my attorneys of my willingness to institute legal action and subsequently prosecute all guilty to the fullest extent of the law. As noted earlier, I love children. We all know that kids are very impressionable and therefore succeptable to such stories. I'm certain that some have already been hurt by this terrible slander. In addition to their admiration, I would like to keep their respect."
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