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Michael Jackson: The truth about his 'final' photo shoot

http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-photo-shoot.html

The image of Michael Jackson that graces the cover of Q magazine's August 2009 issue, which coincidentally went to press shortly before Jackson's tragic death, has been widely circulated as the last authorized photograph of the singer. While that remains likely to be true, photographer John Wright tells the Music Mix that the photo shoot in question actually took place several years ago, in approximately 2007. Guinness World Records hired Wright at the time to photograph Jackson at the company's central London office, where the star was accepting an award for his history-making album sales. "I got a call, 'Do you want to shoot Michael Jackson next week?'" Wright recalls. "I said, 'Yeah, sure.' I was extremely relaxed about it, because I was absolutely certain he would never show up. But about 2 p.m. in the afternoon, he walked in."

Jackson was joined by "a fairly large entourage" including bodyguards, management, and a few lucky fans -- but no makeup artist or stylist. "It was extremely underplayed," says Wright. "The thing that excited me was it was an opportunity to do a really, really honest portrait of that face." Jackson spent about an hour meeting and greeting Guinness officials before Wright got a three-minute window to shoot him. "What struck me was his shyness. He carried himself really quite humbly, I thought. I've shot a lot of celebrities, and was pleasantly taken with the fact that Michael Jackson went out of his way to introduce himself and shake hands with everybody on my crew, which was about four people on the day -- even crossing the room to shake hands with one of my assistants, which was unnecessary, but he obviously felt compelled to out of a sense of grace and politeness." Adds Wright, "I want to make it clear: He was attentive, he was focused, he was having fun. That wasn't an ill man who was in the room with me."

After photographing Jackson for about 90 seconds in total, Wright had three usable head shots, one of which he eventually sold to Q earlier this year when the magazine put together its August 2009 cover story on the King of Pop's planned London comeback concerts. Now, as it becomes clear that the Guinness shoot may have been Jackson's last, Wright says he's been approached by a number of outlets looking to print the other two photos. While he provided one to a German tribute publication, he's proceeding with caution. "It really depends on the context of what they're doing. It will always be the picture that it is, and it's looking like it could be the last official portrait that was shot of him. I've got no need to exploit the situation." (When contacted by EW, Jackson's reps were unable to confirm at this time whether this was his final photo shoot.)
 
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Its from late 2006 lol
 
Psychics see magic in Michael Jackson's life

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/07/10/michael.jackson.psychics/

Jackson's talent was discovered when he was 5 years old, he came to fame as a member of the Jackson 5 and he planned a series of 50 concert dates in London, England, as part of a comeback tour before he died on June 25 at the age of 50.

For McCants, a noted numerologist and author, those facts are very telling: "Five is the number for drama, and it was in his life his whole life."

For many fans, the lure of Michael Jackson as a performer and pop icon was magical. Those who deal in the paranormal are tuned in to that magic.

Numerology deals with the influence of numbers on personal characteristics and human affairs.

McCants -- who has appeared on nationally syndicated television and radio shows and is known as the "Numbers Lady" -- said that by taking Jackson's birth date (August 29, 1958, or 8/29/1958) she could chart his personality.

His was "six life path," she said, meaning he was magnetic and drew people to him. That, coupled with the fact that he was born on a two day made him irresistible, she said.

"If you are born on a two day and are a six life path then America and the world seem to fall in love with you," McCants said.
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"It's almost as if you always get a shot with that energy if you shoot for stardom, and then you can sabotage it," McCants said. "Britney Spears was born on a two day, and she's a six life path; Lindsay Lohan was born on a two day, and she's a six life path; and Sarah Palin was born on a two day, and is a six life path."

Such people, McCants said, thrive on the attention. Psychic Eddie Conner said Jackson couldn't help but attract such attention, even if it resulted in a life of isolation.

"He's an old soul with an enormous amount of creative artistic energy that pours to him and from him," said Conner, who works as a "soul intuitive" in Los Angeles, California, and whose clients include celebrities he declines to name. "Whenever he's doing his magic he's untouchable, and I think that's the reason everybody gravitates toward him."

And despite all of Jackson's troubles, Conner said he believes the star will have an opportunity at success and fame again.

Unlike other souls that stay in the nonphysical realm anywhere from 70 to 150 years, he said, he believes the singer's soul will return quickly -- within the next 20 years -- because Jackson was such a perfectionist that he will want to "pick up where he left off."

"If not as a performer, then a Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson/whoever, the top producers that get mass [music] out to the world to uplift them," Conner said.

Fans continue to gravitate toward Jackson even as they try to make sense of his passing because mourning him reinvigorates the energy and attention surrounding him, Conner said.

"He was untouchable when he was connected to his soul and what he came to this planet to do," Conner said. "The average person looks at that and they believe that if they can touch it -- or have him touch them -- then maybe some of it would rub off."

The desire for such a connection can cause devastation now that Jackson is gone, said psychic consultant Jack Rourke, who has worked extensively in paranormal research and consulted for major Hollywood studios.

"Even though we've never met Michael, people create a symbiotic relationship with this image or this person," Rourke said. "We project all of the positive aspects of ourselves, all of the wonderful things onto this image of perfection or near perfection that we see, and we imagine subconsciously that this person is in agreement with the deepest part of ourselves.

"When this is no longer possible because this person is gone, it creates a vacuum within us, so people need to maintain a psychological or even a spiritual stability by creating a fixed image of Jackson," he said.

Rourke said he fully expects people to come forward claiming to have communicated with Jackson, but that any credible professional psychic or medium will not attempt to connect with Jackson for at least six months to a year and will only do so at the behest of a family member or an intimate friend of the singer.

In the meantime, Conner said fans can still reach out to the singer's energy in a simple way: "The greatest way to connect with Michael is through listening to his music."
 
Paris Jackson: Pop’s little princess

Saturday, 11 July 2009

The 11-year-old’s heart-rending eulogy at her father’s memorial service has earned comparisons with Diana, Princess of Wales’ young sons, writes Jane Hardy
After the untimely death of 50-year-old superstar Michael Jackson on June 25 in California, shocked and grieving fans around the world filled the front pages and headlines.
Yet three young children — Prince Michael (12), Paris (11) and Prince Michael II (7) — were the ones who really deserved our sympathy as they mourned the man they called Daddy.
Of the three good-looking Jackson children, Paris touched everyone in the Staples Center, Los Angeles, and further afield via the power of television when she made her own spontaneous tribute to her father.
Standing with the tightly-knit Jackson clan of aunts and uncles, Paris broke down in tears on hearing her uncle Jermaine sing the Charlie Chaplin tearjerker Smile.
It was Michael Jackson’s favourite song and at that point, she decided she had to speak.
According to family friends, Paris is a strong-willed, tough girl. She had said she wanted to recite a poem during the memorial, but was dissuaded.
Yet when she heard Smile, she said to her aunt, La Toya, “I need to say something. I want to tell them about Daddy.”
Paris waited her turn, after other members of the Jackson clan had spoken. Then she began.
After an emotional false start, her eulogy was simple and poignant.
Fighting back tears, Paris said “Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much.”
It was an iconic moment, bringing back memories of Diana’s young sons walking behind her coffin on a sunny day and further back, Caroline and John Kennedy Jr mourning their father.
The moment had a deeper significance too.
Ironically, after all the allegations about Michael Jackson’s private life, all it took was one small girl bearing witness to a good, normal upbringing to rehabilitate the King of Pop.
Paris, earmarked as a future action star by her doting father, has clearly come a long way since she became the second child conceived by artificial insemination in an arrangement between Jackson and Debbie Rowe.
Her mother met Michael Jackson while working as a nurse in his dermatologist’s practice in Beverly Hills.
Immediately after birth, on April 3, 1998, Paris, like her elder brother Prince Michael, was whisked away from her mother and introduced to the world of the Jacksons. Michael later said he just waited for the cord to be cut then impatiently rushed her off in a towel, he was so anxious to get her home.
After her divorce from Jackson in 1999, Debbie waived visiting rights and has rarely seen her children since.
The children were isolated from their peers and have inevitably lived a life of privilege, with Michael Jackson contacting the Vatican to ask the Pope to christen his daughter.
He declined.
But although the young Jacksons were set apart from society as they hid from the world’s media, often wearing masks or veils, they had what approximated to a good upbringing.
Even the infamous baby on the balcony incident, in which Paris’s younger brother was shown to fans in what might have been a dangerous manner, was probably simply rendered sinister by the fact the baby’s face was covered to avoid identification.
Ever protective, in 2006, Michael Jackson brought his brood to Ireland after a trip to Disneyland Paris ended in a media circus. The family came to Blackwater Castle, Co Cork, where castle owner Patrick Nordstrum put them up.
The Jackson three — Paris and her brothers — were escorted from the main part of the castle each day to a schoolroom.
Routine was important, and perhaps the whole point of this old-fashioned approach to parenting was that Michael Jackson was determined to provide his children with the rules and a normality he had never known.
Although journalist Martin Bashir, who conducted the controversial interview with Jackson in 2003, felt the children led “restricted” lives, others report that there was fun too.
In fact, the Irish magician Liam Sheehan, who entertained them during the Cork holiday, said: “They were outgoing children, full of fun. Paris was the more talkative, chirping around the house.”
It is hard to know what the future holds for the Jackson offspring, whether a devout Jehovah’s Witness upbringing with their formidable grandmother Katherine or a home with Ugandan-born nanny Grace Rwaramba who has entered the custody battle or even a return to the biological mother of two of them, Debbie Rowe, now owner of a ranch in southern California.
Whatever life holds, Paris Jackson has shown that her pedigree and upbringing have equipped her to lead a life more normal than her troubled father.
The Jacksons’ host in Ireland described Paris’s father as a man who put his children’s interests first.
“Michael’s children adored him and he was a very good, loving father. He raised them to be well-mannered and polite and all his decisions centred on the children's best interests.”
If one 11-year-old girl were to be asked, she would undoubtedly agree.
Paris Jackson factfile
BORN — April 3, 1998
FAMILY — Member of the famous Jackson clan, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson has two siblings, one her biological brother, Prince Michael, the other Prince Michael II or Blanket
CAREER — A privately educated schoolgirl who has travelled extensively after Michael Jackson had to leave Neverland because of debts
SHE SAYS — “I love him (Daddy) so much.”
THEY SAY — “(Her speech) touched everyone and I think you couldn’t script that. This is a young lady, she isn’t reading a prompter.” — Rev Al Sharpton


http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/e...ng&mode=thanks&postingId=14399230#postcomment
 
Re: Psychics see magic in Michael Jackson's life

Thanks! I also think MJ is an old soul indeed. :)
 
Re: Psychics see magic in Michael Jackson's life

This article doesn't say anything about the number seven. I'm confused.
 
Re: Psychics see magic in Michael Jackson's life

Yeah, it just focuses on the life path numbers.
 
Re: Psychics see magic in Michael Jackson's life

well I don't know what to say about that article - but it's not negative so that's good. I definitely agree with "The greatest way to connect with Michael is through listening to his music". That is so true.
 
Thanks to all for the news and mentionings. :flowers:

MoeJack said:
More details on instrumental album Michael Jackson started before his death, and his love of classical music


TV and film composer and conductor David Michael Frank may have been one of the last persons to collaborate with Michael Jackson on an artistic project. The pop singer’s untimely death left that project in an uncertain state. Initial reports suggested that Jackson planned to do an album of “classical music” he had written; the pieces were to be orchestrated by Frank. Actually, Frank says, the pieces were closer to film music and would have gone into an all-instrumental album had Jackson lived. The Baltimore-born Frank, interviewed by phone in California, gives an account here of his experience with the King of Pop:

Four or five months ago, I received a call from Michael Jackson’s longtime personal recording engineer, Michael Prince, who told me Michael was looking for someone to arrange some music for orchestra. I thought it was going to be for the tour he was going to do. For the next month or two, he would call, saying, ‘Michael Jackson says he’s going to call you.’

At the end of April, another Michael, Michael Jackson’s personal assistant, called me and asked me to come the next day at 10 a.m. and asked me the make and model of my car. I drove to the Holmby Hills home. I drove up to the front door, and was met by an assistant who told me to go inside. I was met there by a woman dressed like a housekeeper, but with a white turban on her head. She said, ‘Michael Jackson will be with you shortly.’ About two minutes later, he came down the stairs.

I was reluctant to shake his hand because I had heard that he was concerned about germs, but he immediately stuck his hand out and gave me a very firm handshake. He was very skinny, but not the least bit frail. He was wearing a suit and a hat. He was going to rehearsal later for the tour. He said, ‘You look familiar.’ I told him a long time ago I worked on a TV tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr. at Shrine Auditorium [that he had participated in]. I told him I had met him briefly there.’ He said, ‘I never forget a face.’

He told me, ‘I have three projects going on simultaneously.’ One was the tour that the whole world knew about. The other two I believe no one knew about. One was to be an album of pop songs. Then he said, ‘The other one is that I want to record an album of classical music’ — what he called classical music.

He said he listened to ...

classical music all the time; it was his absolute favorite. I was impressed with the pieces he mentioned: Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait; Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. I mentioned Bernstein's On the Waterfront. Then Michael mentioned that he loved Elmer Bernstein's film music, too, and he specifically mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird.

I realized that almost all the classical pieces he mentioned are childlike, very simple and pretty, like Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. He also mentioned Debussy several times, specifically Arabesque [No. 1] and Clair de lune. He was very soft-spoken when were talking about music, but when he got animated about something, he was very changed. When he mentioned how he loved Elmer Bernstein, and I said I liked the Magnificent Seven score, Michael started singing the theme very loudly, almost screaming it.

He said, ‘I’m making a CD.’ Then his son, Prince Michael, came in, and Michael asked him to find a CD player. Paris found one and brought it in with Prince. Michael played the CD. It was very pretty music. He said, ‘But a section is missing.’ He played a second piece. And he said, ‘But a section is missing, too. But I can hum it to you.’ I asked if there was a piano in the house, and he said there was one in the pool house. We headed out there, but Michael stopped when he saw the dog was outside, soaking wet from being in the pool. He didn't want us to get splattered. It was kind of funny. Michael got another assistant to hold the dog while we went to his pool house.

I sat at the piano and Michael hummed the missing part of one of the pieces. I had taken a little digital recorder with me and asked if I could record him. He was in perfect pitch. I tried to figure out chords to go with it as he hummed. He said, ‘Your instincts are totally right about the chords.’

We talked about classical music some more. I played some Debussy pieces. Michael seemed very happy and I think he felt very comfortable with me. He mentioned Leonard Bernstein again, and I played some of West Side Story. He told me he had met Bernstein once and that Bernstein had said he was a big fan of Michael’s.

Back in the house, whenever he’d go from room to room, you’d hear, ‘I love you, Daddy.’ ‘I love you, Paris.’ They all seemed pretty normal and happy.

Michael was very anxious to get the pieces orchestrated and record the music with a big orchestra. I suggested we record it at the Fox, Sony or Warner Brothers lot. I asked if he could have someone call me to discuss the budget and he said he would take care of it. When I left there were several fans outside the gate.

[Later] I talked to Michael on the phone. He asked me how the project was going and I said I was waiting to hear from someone so we could set the deal. I suggested we could record the music in London while he was doing the show there. He liked the idea. He again brought up Arabesque.

I laid the music all out on my computer and started on the orchestrations. Finally, a week before Michael died, his manager, Frank Dileo, called and asked me for an email with the budget and an electronic mock-up of the music, the costs of orchestration.

Now I have no idea what’s going to happen with this. I’m hoping the family will do something to get this done. I will not bring it up [with them] until after what I think is an appropriate time.

My guess is that each piece would be seven to ten minutes long. [Each one] is more substantial than a song. It’s very pretty music. One piece had an Irish quality about it. I suggested that we could use a Celtic harp. The pieces sound like pretty film score music, with very traditional harmony, and definitely very strong melodies. One of them was a little John Barry-ish, like in Out of Africa -- that kind of John Barry score. I could hear [in my head] sweeping strings and French horns in unison.

I told Michael I was going to use one of Leonard Bernstein’s batons I had bought at auction when we did the recording. I knew he would have gotten a big kick out of that. I guess I still will use that baton if I ever get to conduct the music.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/ent...c/2009/07/more_details_on_instrumental_a.html
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LOOOVED reading this. Thanks for posting it. Can't believe he had a dog. :wub: And love his tastes in film music. Bernstein is great but John Barry is pretty effing awesome, too. I've actually had the theme from Out of Africa on my youtube page for weeks now. The Irish sounding thingy is intriguing. I wanna hear it all. :weeping: How long is news like this going to feel bittersweet? I miss enjoying news with a feeling of hope of things to come. :(
 
The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

Some Speculate Pop Legend May Have Had Eating Disorder; Acquaintances Deny Such Issues

Newly released videos showing pop icon Michael Jackson's concert rehearsals two days before his death show the singer's gaunt figure -- a physique that has sparked speculation about his eating habits.

With reports from Jackson's autopsy documenting his weight at the time of his death yet to be released, there has thus far been no solid evidence that Jackson was suffering from an eating disorder. But that has not stopped the media from raising such a possibility following his death on June 25.

Some of those who were close to the star said that his eating habits did not point to the presence of an eating disorder -- at least not in the traditional sense.

"He was just careful about what he ate; he just tried to be healthy," said Kevin McLin, a friend of the family and Jackson's former publicist. "He ate turkey burgers, Chinese food, a lot of vegetables. He always tried to eat healthy stuff. ... He tried to stay away from red meat."

Mike LaPerruque, a security specialist who worked for Jackson from 2001 to 2004, and again from 2007 to 2008, said that he "never saw any signs of any kind of eating disorder, and I never saw anything that would raise any suspicion in my mind that this was the case."

LaPerruque further noted that when he was working with Jackson, he was often responsible for taking the food from hotel room service and placing it on the table for the pop star and his children.

"I always saw what they were eating, and it was always healthy -- chicken, brown rice, vegetables," he said. "He was always eating healthy."

But others who interacted with Jackson in the time before his death described a far different routine. In a recent interview, Randy Phillips, CEO of concert promoter AEG, said that a concert director would "cut [Jackson's] chicken breast" for him. "In the last week, I brought in someone whose sole purpose was to remind him to eat," Phillips added.

And comments from Lou Ferrigno, who personally helped Jackson train for his upcoming tour, suggest that his eating regimen was far from ideal.

"[H]e only ate once a day," Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in "The Incredible Hulk" TV series, said in an interview that aired June 30 on "Good Morning America". "But I just told him the proper supplements to take."
Once-a-Day Meals Could Lead to Weight Problems

Keith-Thomas Ayoob, a nutritionist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., said he would not be surprised if reports that Jackson had only been eating one meal a day turned out to be true -- especially if the singer had been taking a number of different medications, as some of those close to him have suggested.

"One meal a day is not enough, but it is not unusual for someone who was on a lot of medications," he said. "If he was on Demerol, for instance, this slows the gut down, and he may have felt full a lot."

Regardless of the reason, however, Ayoob said he believes Jackson's skinny appearance suggests a problem.

"He may not have had an eating disorder in the sense of anorexia or binging and purging," Ayoob said. "It may be that the medications he was on made food taste funny or suppressed his appetite. So it may not have been an eating disorder in the traditional sense. As far as keeping his weight down, I'm not sure that was Michael's intention."

Michael Jackson's Weight: How Skinny Is Too Skinny?

Still, some have attributed Jackson's apparent low weight to the strenuous schedule he adopted for his upcoming concert tour.

"He was always thin, but he was also in the middle of a very stressful time, getting ready for the tour," said LaPerruque, who noted that he last saw Jackson about four weeks ago at a Beverly Hills restaurant. "I even said to him, 'Michael, this is the skinniest I've ever seen you.' He said, 'Well, I've been rehearsing.'
"It was always a running joke with us, that I needed to put meat on his bones."

During his appearance on "Good Morning America," Ferrigno's statements appeared to support that explanation.
"He might have been a little thin because he was under a lot of stress training for the tour," Ferrigno said. "But when I put him through the routine and everything, I mean, it was just fine -- I mean, very energetic."
Meanwhile, the singer's representatives have said Jackson passed a four-hour physical in preparation for his London concerts.

But Ayoob said he harbors doubt about the veracity of the physical. "I'm very concerned about all these pseudo-reports that Michael received a 'clean bill of health' to do these concerts," he said. "I don't know who examined him but, at reports of 5'10" and a reported 125 pounds, his body mass index was 17.9. That spells wasting.

"He may have been allowed to do a concert in Spain, but he could not have walked a fashion runway there," Ayoob added. "They have laws about models being too thin to work."

Ayoob said that if the reports that Jackson was only 112 pounds are true, his health situation could have been even more dire than many of his acquaintances knew.

"In terms of his weight, if was still at 125, he was emaciated," he said. "If he was at 112 -- if those reports are true -- he's cachexic."

Men Can Have Eating Disorders, Too

Whether or not Jackson himself had an eating disorder, research has shown that men, too, can suffer from them -- albeit at a rate about 10 percent of that seen in women.

However, certain eating disorders are more common than others among men, research suggests. In a 2007 study, Harvard University researchers found that men account for 25 percent of Americans with anorexia or bulimia and 40 percent of those with binge-eating disorder.

Still, Jackson's acquaintances say that even despite the star's apparent preference for healthy food, he was not always so particular. On rare occasions, LaPerruque said, Jackson would send his assistants out for an order from Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles, or an order of hot wings -- another of his junk food favorites.

He believes the rumor that Jackson suffered from an eating disorder is based on "something that someone made up.

"Now, was his appetite the same as mine?" he asked. "Absolutely not."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MichaelJackson/story?id=7990609&page=1
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Re: The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

My head is spinning. I don't know what to believe!!
 
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*~MJ Loves MJ~* said:
My God, it just seems so dire. My tears are still flowing, esp when I wake of from sleep. The reality sinks in again.
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It's the same with me. :(
This site is probably the only place keeping me sane.
To think less than two and a half weeks ago he was still here with us, rehearsing.
 
Re: The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

Michael always was thin, I don't think his weight/diet was a problem.
 
TIME: Jackson May Play London After All, Via Footage on august 29th

Michael Jackson would have turned 51 on Aug. 29, and the promoters of his planned This Is It tour are hoping to celebrate with a concert. It would take place in London and feature Jackson's rehearsal footage and appearances by members of his family. In other words, it would be a Michael Jackson concert — with all the ingredients except the King of Pop himself.

This is more than a tribute, this is Michael's last masterpiece," Randy Phillips, CEO of AIG Live, told TIME. "The obvious date is August 29 — it's his birthday, and that's what we're shooting for." Phillips says the show would include "the brothers, possibly Janet" and the existing band against a backdrop of hours of Jackson video. The location: London's 02 Arena, where the tour was originally supposed to start on July 13.

While talks with the family are still very preliminary, their initial response to involvement with the show has been "excellent," says Phillips. "They like the idea of taking their brother's last work and showing it to the world," he says. (The Jackson family spokesperson declined to comment on this story.) Phillips says that the Rev. Al Sharpton even mentioned Aug. 29 to him as a good date over drinks at the Four Seasons.

Phillips, who plans to sit down this weekend with Jackson's choreographer Kenny Ortega to "figure it out conceptually," envisions it as a singular "pay-per-broadcast vehicle."
"This show would be This Is It, " he says. "The only thing missing would be Michael Jackson in person."
The producers had spent $15 million filming 130 hours of footage of Jackson's rehearsals, including three songs in 3D, which would be incorporated into the concert.
As for Michael Jackson's reigning final show — Tuesday's world-televised memorial — cost estimates came in significantly less than expected. But the question remains: who's going to pick up the tab? The city of Los Angeles spent about $1.4 million on all aspects of the memorial, city officials announced yesterday. This includes cleanup, traffic-diversion costs and overtime pay for the more than 4,000 police officers asked to secure various venues. That's good news in view of the $2.5 million — $4 million estimates, and it's less than June's Los Angeles Lakers' pride parade, which cost $2 million.
A big reason for the relatively low price tag: the lack of unticketed fans showing up at the Staples Center. City officials and memorial organizers had feared thousands would descend on Los Angeles to pay tribute to Jackson. "People listened to the warning and just stayed home," Michael Roth, vice president of communications for AEG Live told TIME. "There were less than 1,000 fans down here." Due to the unexpectedly low turnout, extra police officers were dismissed and there was simply less of a mess to clean up.
Still, the balance remains to be settled. The L.A. attorney's office is investigating how the cash-strapped city got stuck with the bill — and how it can press other parties to chip in. Officials have reached out to members of the Jackson family, though their response is as yet unknown.

A municipal website seeking donations from the public received $17,000 before experiencing "frequent and prolonged server crashes," according to a press release issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office. The mayor's office has asked fans to revisit the website now that it is up and running again. Roth says the city reached out to AEG to chip in as well. "I know they contacted us initially," he said. "I couldn't tell you how much further it has progressed."
AEG's Phillips pointed out the company spent as much as the city (about $1.2 million — $1.5 million) putting on the free event for the public, covering ticketing expenses and the like. The company could defray some of its own costs with memorial DVD or CD sales, but Phillips declined to discuss specifics. "We have had a lot of calls about that," he says of memorial DVDs.
Meanwhile, the location of Michael Jackson's remains and where they will ultimately end up are also unanswered questions. Jackson's gold-plated coffin was on view July 7 on the floor of the Staples Center. Now contradictory media reports have the body headed for its final resting place at either Forest Lawn Cemetery or Michael's Neverland ranch.
Mark Miller, a former manager of the Jacksons, says the mischievous Michael would have enjoyed the guessing game this new riddle has inspired in the press.
"Second only to a funeral procession down Main Street of Disneyland, Michael would probably be delighted with his family playing a media game of Where's Waldo? with his casket," Miller told TIME. "Michael would absolutely have loved it."

Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1909819,00.html
 
Re: The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

i would loved to have seen him eat fish and chips :)
 
bump

this is the thread used to gather all news articles for the dates in the thread title. then there will be another thread for monday. The news articles that are not junkfood, will be placed in there. Tuesday, a new thread with Tuesday's date will be available, then wednesday etc.

Get the point... good, let's dance :)
 
Re: The Michael Jackson Diet: What Did MJ Eat?

One thing is for sure: he definitely liked eating KFC, God bless him!
 
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he was always always really thin but it doesnt sound healthy to eat one meal a day. a lotta dancers have eating disorders i bet.

having said that, his role model was fred astaire and people didnt go around calling him anorexic back in the day.
 
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michaeljacksonmyhero said:
I thought he was a vegetarian.. :p
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I heard that too. I think he was on a vegetarian diet but then doctors told him he should eat some meat.

I keep hearing conflicting reports about his diet. Some people are saying he is anorexic and didn't like to eat and then you have friends saying he loved chicken and would tear up a bucket of KFC. As usual with Michael stories, I don't know what to believe.
 
I read an article today that confirmed that a Michael Jackson game was in development. Dave Perry who worked on videogames such as Earthworm Jim said that he had met up with Michael and had discussed ideas. He said that Michael wanted to bring a whole new audience to videogames and he wanted to create a videogame that was an interactive album.
 
Michael was vegetarian throughout his earlier years I think, but in his later years as far as I know he's been eating white meat.
 
The latest lie from the media....

Headline News is now saying that some "source" is telling them that Michael injected HIMSELF with the dangerous drugs. The speculation will never end.

Every single doctor on tv has stated that a person can not self administer Diprivan. But when it comes to Michael, I guess he can do anything.

I am so tired of the media and their attempt to trash Michael even in his death. It is just disgusting.

I hope and pray that the toxicology reports comes back totally different from anything they have been telling us.
 
Umm... the News of the World supposedly have an exclusive new 4-hour interview with Latoya saying she will "nail Michael's killers"...???? I won't post the link as it has that last photo of Michael. I was wondering if it fake or not...
 
Drugs,drugs, drugs...blah blah blah. Im over this b.s for now, until the tox reports come back I aint interested.
 
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