Michael Jackson News for August 29, 2009:
http://www.examiner.com/x-9209-Anah...n--Caption-EO-RETURNING-to-Disneyland-in-2010
It's Official! Michael Jackson & Caption EO RETURNING to Disneyland in 2010
The fans are cheering this Michael Jackson news: Captain EO has been officially welcomed back to Disneyland! The official announcement is supposed to be revealed by Jay Rasulo at the D23 Expo in just a few weeks.
This just confirmed news is a great birthday gift to Michael Jackson who would have turned 51 this weekend!
While not all the details have been released, and at this time the only confirmed Disney Resort that will host Captain EO is Disneyland. Placed back in Tomorrowland, this should be an exciting opportunity for Michael Jackson Fans and Disney fans to enjoy one of the most loved pieces of Disneyland!
More to come....Will keep all Disneyland Fans posted.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/michael-jackson-birthday-celebrated-by-google/12883/
Google has put out a special logo today to commemorate the late Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday.
It’s a bit intriguing that
Google has chosen to commemorate Michael on a day also marked across the nation as a tribute to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, I’m sure deciding one over the other may have been a difficult chore for Googlers, as the United States has lost a true democratic leader and the last of his generation.
Michael Jackson however, is an International superstar (and Google is an International phenom) who like Kennedy, is still shining bright, so there are no complaints here.
Looking at other engines, neither Yahoo, Bing, Dogpile or Ask.com are paying tribute to Michael or Kennedy today, so good for you Google
and thanks for reminding the world that today is Michael’s b-day.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Ent...wood_stars_pay_tribute_to_Jackson_367567.html
Bollywood stars pay tribute to Jackson
Some of Bollywood's biggest stars have released a free musical tribute to Michael Jackson to mark what would have been the late US star's 51st birthday.
The video, called Make It Large - A Tribute to Michael Jackson, features introductions from actors including Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra as well as Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh.
None of the stars charged for starring in the video, which fans can download from the website of Khan's production company, Red Chillies Entertainment.
In it, Khan says of Jackson, who died suddenly in June, 'We've lost a part of our history; some of us have lost a part of our growing up.
'Some people teach by their words, others by their lives. Thanks for being with us forever.'
Roshan adds: 'We love you MJ. Your legend will never die.'
The Hindi-language song, written by leading film composer Vishal Dadlani, is sung by top Indian stars like Shankar, Shaan, KK and Shreya Ghoshal as dancers perform Jackson's trademark steps in the background.
One English lyric says of the Thriller star: 'He was the sound of our music and our lives.'
Jackson, dubbed 'The King of Pop', played a sell-out gig in India's entertainment capital Mumbai in 1996. Bollywood stars, film directors, choreographers and musicians have cited him as a major influence on their work.
He had been due to be buried on Saturday but is now to be interred on September 3, his family said last week.
Los Angeles coroners on Friday ruled that Jackson's death was unlawful, revealing that he had lethal cocktail of six different drugs in his body when he died.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around-to...hrows-MJ-B-Day-Bash-in-Brooklyn-56092707.html
Spike Lee Throws MJ B-Day Bash in Brooklyn
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Don't stop 'til you get enough. Thousands of
Michael Jackson fans are dancing the rain away in a
Brooklyn park at a celebration hosted by filmmaker
Spike Lee.
The party marks what would have been the 51st birthday of the late pop star.
After a slow start amid heavy rain, a sizable crowd turned out at Brooklyn's Prospect Park to listen to a DJ spin Jackson's hits.
Many showed up wearing fedoras and T-shirts with Jackson's image. A few wore white gloves.
Lee directed two music videos for Jackson in 1996.
He told reporters, "I was just like everyone else. I loved his talent.''
As many as 10,000 people were expected to swarm the park in celebration of MJ's 51st birthday.
The
Rev. Al Sharpton said a prayer at the party;
Borough President Marty Markowitz presented a proclamation declaring Aug. 29 Michael Jackson Day in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn's own DJ Spinna, famous for his Wonderful and Michael Jackson versus Prince parties, played all things Michael.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around-town/events/Brooklyn-Celebrates-MJs-B-Day--56105757.html
Loved Ones & Fans Mourn King of Pop
“At the end, we’ll all sing Happy Birthday to Michael,” Lee told the Root yesterday. “We’re going to make sure he hears us, too. All over the world, people are going to be celebrating his birthday. But he’s going to hear Brooklyn; Brooklyn is going to be in the house. Deep.”
The Prospect Park party is planned from noon to five but fans who want to keep the party going should consider Q-Tip's “Long Live The King! A Birthday Celebration for Michael Jackson” at the Nokia Theatre tonight.
Copyright Associated Press / NBC New York
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Fans mark would-have-been birthday of 'King of Pop'
By Luis Torres de la Llosa (AFP) – 5 hours ago
NEW YORK — Hundreds of fans of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson braved the rain to celebrate what would have been his 51st birthday with a party Saturday in a New York park, organizers said.
Film director Spike Lee organized the celebration in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, with DJ Spinna setting the beat. As the party got underway about 1,000 fans young and old had gathered to mark the date; organizers said the crowd could reach 10,000 people.
Some of Jackson's greatest hits were showing on a big-screen television. Some fans hit the dance floor and got down, Jackson-style.
Others waited and took turns writing down their memories of the star on a special memorial wall. Despite heavy rain, organizers said the day would go ahead as planned with festivities lasting until around 5:00 pm (2100 GMT).
Lee filmed a Jackson video "They Don't Care About Us," in Brazil, which was on Jackson's HIStory album.
The celebration came as weeks of feverish speculation about the cause of Jackson's sudden death in Los Angeles on June 25 were brought to a close friday when the county coroner's office ruled his demise was a homicide.
In a statement, the officer said that while "acute intoxication" from the powerful anesthetic propofol was the primary cause of death, Jackson had also suffered from the effects of other drugs in his system.
As well as propofol, powerful drugs including lorazepam, midazolam, diazepam, lidocaine and ephedrine were found in Jackson's body.
The coroner's announcement will fuel speculation that authorities are likely to charge Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray in connection with the death. Cardiologist Murray was the last person to see Jackson alive.
Jackson's family had originally planned to bury the late popstar on his birthday, but the interment will now take place on Thursday at the prestigious Forest Lawn cemetery, in the leafy Glendale suburb of Los Angeles.
Other tributes were taking place around the world to mark the Jackson's birthday. Some of Bollywood's biggest stars Saturday released a free musical tribute to Jackson.
The video, called "Make It Large -- A Tribute to Michael Jackson", features introductions from actors including Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra as well as Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh.
In it, Khan says of Jackson: "We've lost a part of our history; some of us have lost a part of our growing up.
"Some people teach by their words, others by their lives. Thanks for being with us for ever."
And up to 15,000 people in Mexico were expected to take part Saturday in a potentially record breaking mass performance of Jackson's famed "Thriller" dance.
"We're expecting between 12,000 and 15,000 participants," said Javier Hidalgo, director of youth services in Mexico City, during a press conference.
That would be more than enough to beat a similar effort by fans in Barcelona to set a new world record for the number of people performing the famed dance that accompanied Jackson's hit song.
Just 300 people have signed up for the attempt in the Spanish city, according to Mexico City's Tourism Secretary Alejandro Rojas.
The world record, as certified by the Guinness Book of Records, was set on April 19 in the United States by 242 dancers.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-5590-Acti...irthday--a-unique-way-to-pay-tribute--in-clay
Michael Jackson's birthday ~ a tribute in clay by Jean-Baptiste Seckler
Jean-Baptiste Seckler with his art (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Another and unique way to pay tribute to Michael Jackson, especially on his birthday, is to sculpt a more than life-sized clay bust of him.
Jean-Baptiste Seckler is the French artist who has done just that. He is the professional sculptor of and for many, and who has been commissioned to create this remarkable Michael Jackson piece of art.
Seckler, as far as anyone knows, was discovered as a street artist in Paris, France most recently following Michael Jackson's death.
(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Among others who have created artful renditions is Seckler, who, sitting out in the open with his "tools of the trade" including a collage of photos of whomever he was scupting, Jackson at the time, was French artist Seckler.
Jean-Baptiste Seckler, on his own, was one of many in the worldwide effort to pay tribute to the King of Pop. And in Seckler's case, paying tribute the best way he knew - through clay - in, thank goodness, such a public way so that he could be discovered (in a whole 'nother way)!
Not that being discovered was Seckler's goal, but now that he has been, where will he go from here?
Seckler is not only a celebrity sculptor, but a portrait painter as well. This, now famous artist even has his own web site to help represent some of his many other clay creations of famous or maybe infamous celebrities. Like anything else one wants to locate, he can be googled!
Some of such sculpted celebs, by Seckler, are Elvis Presley, Mike Tyson, David Beckham, Stevie Wonder, P. Diddy, Che Guevara, President Obama, Davinci, and of course
Micheal Jackson.
Clay and "metal" are two of the mediums, known, that Seckler uses to create such phenomenal art. Mike Tyson is an example of the use of "one of the metals" - and thus his bust is titled "Iron Mike."
Jean-Baptiste's art, a clay bust of Michael Jackson, is on display at Dorothy's Gallery in Paris, France. While back in the states, the King of Pop's August 29th birthday tribute party, hosted by
Spike Lee, is at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. A
worldwide celebration will be happening as well.
Michael Jackson HIStory for August 29, 2009:
2002 - Michael Jackson was presented a birthday cake and statuette in the shape of a treble clef at the MTV Video Music Awards. He mistakenly thought he was receiving an award for "Artist of the Millennium." Britney Spears presented the gifts to Jackson.
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