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STEVE HARVEY TO HONOR MJ ON RADIO SPECIAL: Four-hour tribute on Friday to feature Foxx, Bryant, Magic, Thicke, Legend, Musiq and more.

*On Friday, July 24, The Steve Harvey Morning Show will broadcast a special four-hour tribute to Michael Jackson featuring such celebrity guests as Jamie Foxx, Robin Thicke and Magic Johnson sharing memories of the late superstar.


Harvey, a long-time friend of Jackson, will also welcome Rev. Al Sharpton, Kobe Bryant, John Legend, Wayne Brady, Anthony Hamilton, Anthony Anderson, Bill Bellamy, Stephen A. Smith, Musiq Soulchild, Eddie Levert, Chrisette Michele, Tank and many more.

Airing live from 6 - 10 a.m. ET, the special will also feature Jackson’s hit songs from his career.

Meanwhile, the word on the street in LA is that, after being dropped by 93.5KDAY, the Steve Harvey Morning show is coming real soon to Stevie Wonder's KJLH-FM to replace current morning man Guy Black.
Supposedly, if it all works out, Black will move to afternoons. We're not sure what that means for Lon McQue, the current afternoon driver.
When we get more info, we'll pass it along.

http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur54869.cfm




London dancers audition for Michael Jackson's Thriller Live musical

Hundreds of dancers queued for hours for a chance to win a part in the Michael Jackson tribute show, Thriller Live

JACKSONMANIA broke out in London again today as hundreds of dancers queued for hours for a chance to star in a musical about the King of Pop.

The hopefuls, many wearing trademark Jackson hats and outfits, were bidding for a part in Thriller Live, the Michael Jackson tribute show which is wowing audiences in the West End.

Among the nervous dancers waiting to perform in front of a panel was Siobhan Begley.

The 25-year-old, who travelled from Coventry to be first in the queue, said: "I am big Jackson fan. I used to dance a lot but I packed it in for a while - his death made me come out of retirement."

She was joined by Tom Roche, 18, and Jamie King, also 18, who dressed as their hero.
Roche said: "This is a great opportunity - it is what I want most in the world."

Many of the hopefuls rehearsed their dance moves on the street as they waited to audition at the Old Finsbury Town Hall, east London.
Up for grabs was a chance to perform in the box-office smash at the Lyric Theatre, which became a shrine for Jackson fans when he died last month.

The dancers lined up in batches inside the hall and each performed a short routine to Jackson’s Billie Jean in front of show choreographer Gary Lloyd, who has also worked with Westlife and Robbie Williams.

He said: "Competition is tough. I want people who can bodypop, breakdance and capture the essence of Michael Jackson."
The dancers who passed today’s audition will be called back for another trial before a final decision is made.

The show is scheduled to remain in London but a touring version will go around the UK and ultimately around the world.

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelo...rsonal-doctor-officially-involved-in-homicide





Today in
Michael Jackson History​

2001 - Liza Minnelli said that she would be performing Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" with a 300 member gospel choir at the King of Pop's all-star 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden. ​

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INSIDE STORY: Michael Jackson's Young Protegé

Michael Jackson had a close relationship with his own three children, but he also mentored many other youngsters over the years – including Omer Bhatti, a young musical talent who was particularly close to the singer.

Bhatti, now 25, sat front and center at the King of Pop's memorial earlier this month, and is currently staying at the Jackson family home in Encino, Calif.

A Norwegian performer, Bhatti was a fixture at Jackson's Neverland ranch after the two met in Europe in the mid-1990s, when Bhatti was around 11, according to several sources.

'Little Monkey'

"Everyone knew him as 'Little Michael,' and Michael referred to him as 'Little Monkey,' " remembers Ricky Harlow, a rocker in the band Harlow, who was signed to Jackson's MJJ Records in 1996 – and enjoyed an open invitation to Neverland.

Harlow, then about 15, spent many weeks at Jackson's ranch and remembers Bhatti and Jackson as being very close, but says media reports hinting that Bhatti is the pop star's son make little sense.

"They had a father-and-son type of connection," Harlow says, "but I never thought he was his biological father. They met when Little Michael did a contest impersonating Michael Jackson in Europe in the mid-1990s, and Michael saw it and was blown away and got in contact with the family."

Life at Neverland

The Jackson family recognizes the close bond and has taken in Bhatti, a source tells PEOPLE. "They definitely embrace him," says the source. "He lived with Michael like a son. After Michael died, he came to the Jackson family home in Encino. He came along with Michael's kids."

Soon after meeting Jackson, Bhatti and his mother Pia and father Riz were invited to live at Neverland, with all its perks.

"Michael cherished him," says Harlow. "He was always like, 'Please be careful with Little Monkey. When you ride on the four wheelers, PLEASE be careful because Little Michael lives with me.' I'm a crazy driver. I actually wrecked a bunch of the four wheelers with Little Michael with me. He was having so much fun."

Michael's Idol

As for Bhatti, he more than lived up to his nickname – dressing and moving just like Michael.

"I could tell little Michael idolized him," says Harlow. "[Omer] would say things like, 'I'm going to be a millionaire by the time I'm 20.' He was super ambitious; I remember he was very talented, and Michael would always say that."

Though many viewed Jackson's close relationship with children as inappropriate – he was tried on molestation charges, and acquitted, in 2005 – Harlow says Neverland holds only good memories for him.

"I would hang out at his place all the time, and we'd be dancing in front of the mirror together," Harlow, now 26, remembers. "One day and he turned to me and said, 'You've got a lot of nerve.' To him that meant I'm a bold person. I'm going to keep that in my heart."

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20287787_20293462,00.html
 
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Dreams of Michael Jackson

Friday July 24, 2009

Categories: Celebrities, Entertainment, Music
By Ariadne Green, dream expert
On the afternoon of June 26th, Michael Jackson danced through the gates of heaven. I had a dream announcing his death the night before it happened.
I was "dreamwalking" through Neverland mansion taking in the pop star's legacy. On the walls were remnants of an ancient Native American culture, petroglyphs and pictographs, that I know now were connected to the Chumash Indians who centuries ago made their home in the valley at Neverland Ranch. Beyond the walls, in another part of the house was the deceased artist's studio. Positioned at the center of the room and left unfinished was a sculpture, symbolic for the London tour.
I had touched Michael Jackson's ancient soul through a portal beyond any earthly conception of time. It was precognition.
Hundreds of fans have reported dreams of Michael Jackson since his death. Forum after forum, and a multitude of "tweets" on Twitter reveal the legendary pop star lives on in the dreams of his fans. From Michael moonwalking in heaven, to a dreamer performing on stage right next to Michael, the dreams shed a great deal of light on the superstar's influence on the psyche of his fans and on the collective consciousness of humanity as a whole.
Not many of the dreams reported would be classified precognitive, as mine was. In fact, the majority merely revisited memories or represented the unconscious yearnings of "crush-prone" fans whose deepest wish was to spend a personal moment with their pop idol--like one I read from a teenager who dreamt Michael came into her kitchen, sat down, and embraced her with a long kiss. Some dreams mentioned Michael's influence on the dreamer's personality, while others quelled some of the grief at his passing. And still other dreams brought into full view Michael's emotional state just before his death.
At least two dreams I read were from clairvoyant dreamers who had tried to spiritually intervene to save Michael's life in months and days before his death. One dreamer visited Michael in a ransacked room with no windows. Empty prescription bottles and the cap of a syringe on the nightstand spelled out that Michael was in big trouble. The only remnants of his true spirit were a few pieces of jewelry, turquoise bracelets and rings, meaningful elements baring similarity to the pictographs in my own dream and again remarking on a Native American connection. The dream ended with the dreamer crying out, "Michael! This place is a wreck. What is going on?" In response, all the dreamer could see were Michael's teeth chattering out of fear.
The dreams of fans bring up the question--"When is a dream more about the personality, thoughts, and concerns of the dreamer than about the celebrity himself?" It takes some experience with dreams to recognize the difference between a dream created out of the dreamer's own creative imagination (a personal dream) and one representing unconscious contact with the soul of another. Intuition guides the process.
A testimony to Michael's mystical and philosophical nature is this quote taken from the his official website: "The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
Through his words we are summoned to seek the meaning of life in the "infinity of forms and phenomena of creation". Our night dreams, phenomena of a creative process, offer us the kind of meaning Michael was referring to. Michael undoubtedly valued his dreams as evidenced by an early home video in which he asks his son, Prince Michael, "Did you have a dream last night?"
Ariadne Green MS., is the author of Ariadne's Book of Dreams, Warner Books, 2001 and Divine Complement: The Spiritual Terrain of Soulmate Relationships. To read more on the topic of Michael Jackson dreams visit her website.


http://blog.beliefnet.com/idolchatter/2009/07/dreams-of-michael-jackson.html
 
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Beautiful article.
 
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Debbie Allen: Let Michael Jackson Rest at Neverland

Add Michael Jackson's longtime friend Debbie Allen to the list of folks who think the late King of Pop should be buried at Neverland.

"I really wish he could be there," the Fame choreographer told us last night at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences TV Moves! 2 Live dance event, adding, "Michael just loved being there. It was his fantasy come true."

Allen remembered spending time at the legendary estate with her kids...

"We had so many great days there," she said. "The movie theater, the train, the animals, the lions, the game room, the candy, the popcorn—all these things I can never forget."

Jackson was the perfect host, Allen said.

"I remember going up there with my son, my daughter and a lot of their friends," she said. "One time, he took my son on all the rides. They had such a good time on the bumper cars."
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Allen choreographed a tribute to Jackson at last night's event, which featured dances to "Jam," "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Remember the Time."

"I really wish he could be [at Neverland]," she said,"but I have no idea what's going to happen."

http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b135323_debbie_allen_let_michael_jackson_rest.html
 
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INSIDE STORY: Michael Jackson's Young Protegé

Michael Jackson had a close relationship with his own three children, but he also mentored many other youngsters over the years – including Omer Bhatti, a young musical talent who was particularly close to the singer.
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I thought there were some interesting pictures, video and info on the site below - click pic if interested.

 
I thought this article below was sooo true and beautiful!!


Guest view: Lyrics affect the way our children think, act

By GWENN SCHURGIN O'KEEFFE
Special to the Observer-Dispatch
Posted Jul 24, 2009 @ 03:44 PM
After Michael Jackson died, I couldn’t help but gravitate to the radio station in our area that was playing 24/7 Michael Jackson tunes.

I had forgotten how fun his music was and how clean. There wasn’t a song played that I didn’t feel was inappropriate for my middle school daughters, which was a good thing because they were in the car listening with me. That is a rarity in today’s music, even on the radio during the day.

During “Pretty Young Thing,” my 14-year-old asked, “Are any singers today like Michael Jackson, Mom?” That was an easy question to answer: “No.”

The music industry today has some good but a great deal of bad. Much of the music contains lyrics inappropriate for our kids, including teens, with videos and performances that are called entertainment but border on soft pornography and are often offensive and difficult to sit through. If you look at iTunes, the number of artists without “clean” versions of their songs is a minority. That alone is a huge red flag.

Studies are clear that explicit lyrics do affect the way our kids think and act. They shape our kids’ views of themselves and the world. Today, catchy tunes often have lyrics that are inaudible but on paper are far from what you’d want your tweens and teens belting out at a concert.

The onus is on us to get more involved and make sure the music our kids are listening to really is a positive influence on them, the way Jackson’s music was on us as kids. Anything less isn’t worth the price of the download.

Putting aside the tragic aspects of Jackson’s life and his eccentricities, what he represents in entertainment and music has yet to be reproduced in any way, shape or form. Our kids have yet to experience what we were able to experience as kids from his music. Today, we don’t have the peace of mind our parents had while we were listening to his music or seeing his MTV videos or live performances.

Unless the music industry cleans up its act, I seriously doubt many of today’s musicians will have that sort of legacy.

Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe is a pediatrician and mother of two from Wayland, Mass. She is founder and CEO of Pediatrics Now, www.pediatricsnow.com, and can be reached at ideas@pediatricsnow.com.


http://www.uticaod.com/viewpoints/x...-Lyrics-affect-the-way-our-children-think-act
 
Michael Jackson’s death feeds the mob

We all ‘want a piece’ of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, and when they die we get our chance — just like the Ancient Greeks and their sacrificial animals


Tom Payne

When I heard that 18,000 people were cramming into the Staples Centre in Los Angeles to bid farewell to Michael Jackson, I thought, “mneh”. In 1827 Beethoven had 20,000 people following his hearse through Vienna. Admittedly Jackson beat Beethoven on the number of people waiting outside, and there are no accounts of elephants padding around the church during Beethoven’s funeral service, as there have been with Jackson, but then there was no Google News in 1827. Still, there are stories of people snipping off bits of Beethoven’s hair, even before his death; and, in later years, following the custom for geniuses (Haydn, Einstein), Beethoven’s body was exhumed for further examination. In line with this, the whereabouts of Jackson’s brain remains a mystery.
To paraphrase Britney Spears: we “all want a piece of” celebrities; and when they are dead we have a better chance of getting it. President Obama was quick to point out that Jackson was even larger in death than in life. (In fact, the President wasn’t as quick as some would have liked: he faced complaints that he should have meditated on the death sooner and longer.) When the famous are alive they offer themselves to us, and we can cherish them for what they deliver; but when they are dead they are ours. Even when they are dying, in cases such as Jade Goody and Pope John Paul II, we can follow the decline hour by hour. Even so, the death itself remains a special moment. Then we can find out what prescription drugs Jackson or Heath Ledger was on; who benefited from Michael Hutchence’s will; how small Napoleon’s penis really was.
Often, in our society, people seem to be squeamish about this fascination with famous death, as though there is something undignified about it: speakers queue up on the Radio 4 Thought for the Day slot to lament the noxious influence of celebrity culture on our children; licence payers complain that the BBC is spending too much time on the Jackson funeral; journalists manage to write whole columns about how the death is being covered. (Surely it’s time for a column about how many columns there are about Jackson’s death.) But behind all this awkwardness, and the rhetorical trickery by which commentators find ways of talking about Jackson’s death while maintaining the appearance of not wanting to, there lies a more ancient impulse that is impossible to shift.
To find it, we can look to Ancient Greek civilisation and its sacrificial rituals. In those days, when an animal was to be sacrificed, water was sprinkled on its head. This made the head move — which was taken as the animal’s assent to what was to happen. Next came a high-pitched scream from the women who were present; and after the slaying came a divvying up of the flesh. This wasn’t like a barbecue, where everybody got a rib; the carcass was cut up into equal portions, regardless of whether it was fat or lean, shoulder or rump. Who got which bit was decided by taking lots (as were the tickets to the Jackson memorial).
All this sounds like a metaphor. Surely we don’t really cut up celebrities as though they are animals? Maybe not, but aspects of the ritual crop up in our own dealings with people. The detail of Beethoven’s hair is a significant one. A priest would snip off some tuft of the beast. Walter Burkert, the great authority on ancient sacrifice, writes of this moment: “Blood has not yet been spilt and no pain whatsoever has been inflicted, but the inviolability of the sacrificial animal has been abolished irreversibly.” As with Beethoven’s hair, or, for that matter, Spears’s (which, after it was sheared off, briefly appeared on eBay), or victims at the scaffold or the guillotine, this is the moment when we can say, “They’re ours”.
And if the connection seems forced, then it is a connection that the Greeks made themselves, especially in their tragedies. In Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon, the chorus compares the doomed Cassandra to an ox going to sacrifice. Euripides explores the idea even more clearly. His play Iphigenia at Aulis is a version of what happened when Agamemnon was deciding to sacrifice his daughter so that the gods would send the winds that would take the invading Greek fleet to Troy. At first Iphigenia is incensed, but when she has lived with the idea she starts to accept it. She doesn’t want her individual life to obstruct the collective glory of the Greek army, and the chorus assures her that she will be glorious too: “And for this, immortal fame, / Virgin, shall attend your name.”
This is a moment that explains how fame works. Somebody remarkable, or royal, or beautiful, or gifted, is celebrated by those around him or her. Then those devotees dispatch the famous person somehow. We have a range of ways to get rid of celebrities. Killing them is perhaps the most extreme, but it happens: think of Socrates, or Caesar. The Ancient Greeks would ostracise their great men — a process by which they would exile a dignitary for ten years. When the Athenians banished the Olympic victor Megacles, the poet Pindar wrote: “I grieve that fine deeds are repaid with envy.”
Allowing the famous to live in selfdestructive luxury is another method. In his enormous study of ritual and sacrifice, The Golden Bough, which he published in 1890, Sir James Frazer managed to compile many examples of human beings going to the altar having enjoyed a set period of feasting and pleasure, from Aztec Mexico to Ancient Rome. Ever since, we have been able to follow ruinous hedonism in stars such as Amy Winehouse or Lord Byron. Another way to get rid of them is to forget all about them: the beauty, or the talent, or the athletic fitness that made someone glorious will inevitably fade as death approaches, and in our affections we will replace one luminary with another.
The observation that “we build them up to knock them down” has become a truism, and something we say in self-reproach, but it’s hard to see how else fame could operate. Many of the sacrifices and slaughters that Frazer collects take the form of “killing the king” — of removing or destroying someone a tribe has previously held in awe. Communities would consider these necessary acts in order to rejuvenate the leadership that drew them together. Frazer provides an account of the rain-maker who is central to the Dinka tribe that lived in the south of Sudan, and tells us that this figure is never allowed to die “a natural death of sickness or old age”; if so, “the tribe would suffer disease and famine”. So, when he feels his power fading, he allows his people to bury him alive. At its purest, the fame ritual works when the famous know that their time has come and they yield their place to the next magical personality.
Does Jackson fit into this pattern? Did we kill the King of Pop? Well, it’s difficult to fit him into any pattern, and if people felt that they had taken any part in the collective, ritualised offering-up of Michael Jackson, they’d probably want to wash their hands of it. Nor can we see him giving up like the Dinka rain-maker; he was all set to make an audacious comeback, after all. And yet there was something desperate about the way in which he clung to youth — both his own and other people’s — and sought to preserve it in himself; and about his retreat into Neverland, the ranch with the otherworldly name that invokes the boy who would never grow up. It was as if he was staving off that moment when his own youth would pass and he would no longer be any use to the tribe. And that’s the part that fits a pattern. One of the most enduring images of Jackson will remain that of the pale figure with the misshapen eyes and the skin that barely covered his nose. It creepily conjures up Frazer’s discussion of Aztec sacrifice: “In ancient Mexico the human victims who personated gods were often flayed and their bloody skins worn by men who appear to have represented the dead deities come to life again.”
Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney by Tom Payne is published by Vintage at £10 on August 6. To order it for £9 inc p&p call 0845 2712134 or visit timesonline.co.uk/booksfirst. Payne will be discussing his book at the Port Eliot Litfest today (Round Room, 4pm)


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6725304.ece
 
I might have to order Tom Payne's book now, that was an incredible analysis of fame and the price the famous have to pay.
 
Sorry if this has already been posted:

Court filings: Jackson estate will be 'solvent'


  • By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer Anthony Mccartney, Ap Entertainment Writer – 2 hrs 14 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – The temporary administrators of Michael Jackson's estate have recovered $5.5 million and substantial amounts of personal property from an unnamed former financial adviser, and predict that the pop icon's estate will be solvent despite an estimated $400 million or more in debt, according to court documents released Friday.

Attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain are serving as temporary administrators as spelled out in the King of Pop's will. The men are finishing several deals that they expect will generate "tens of millions of dollars of revenues."

They expect to submit those deals for court approval within the next week, the filings state.

The revelations were included in two motions requesting allowances for Jackson's three children and his mother, Katherine. The petitions state that Jackson was the primary source of income for his children and his mother, who receives some money from Social Security.

Katherine Jackson currently has custody of the three children, 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jr., known as Prince Michael; 11-year-old Paris Michael Katherine Jackson; and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket. The children and Jackson's mother are the only members of Jackson's family eligible to receive support from the estate, according to the court filings.

The monthly stipends that Branca and McClain hope to provide the Jacksons are redacted from the court records released Friday.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff refused to grant the allowances on Thursday, opting instead to consider them at a hearing on Aug. 3. The judge did allow the administrators to enter into deals that will bring reprints of Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography, "Moonwalk" back to booksellers.

Branca and McClain "believe that the projected cash flow and the assets of the estate are more than sufficient to cover the payment of this of this amount as a family allowance for the benefit of the minor children."
Jackson paid for the expenses at the Jackson family home in the San Fernando Valley, the court filings state. The administrators plan to keep that arrangement, even though some of the expenses may go to other Jackson family members who also live at the home.

Jackson's children will receive Social Security benefits, which have been applied for but payments have not yet started. Their monthly stipends from the estate may be reduced, depending on much money they receive from Social Security, the filings state.

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson_estate
 
Michael Jackson honored in Austria

ZWENTENDORF, Austria — Michael Jackson was honored in Austria on Friday, a month after his death devastated fans across the world.
His brother Jermaine Jackson accepted the "2009 Save the World Award" for the King of Pop's efforts to reach out to the less fortunate and give a voice to the vulnerable.

"I'm very proud that Michael enriched the lives of so many people, not only with his music but with his immense generosity," Jackson said as he accepted the posthumous prize at a gala west of Vienna.

"Michael's message has always been 'heal the world' but he alone could never have accomplished that so it is left up to every one of us to ensure that we do."

With his two sons on stage behind him, Jackson sang "Smile" in honor of his late sibling, ending with a soft: "I love you, Michael."
The outdoor event was held at a nuclear power plant that was mothballed decades ago due to public resistance before it was ever put into operation.

Others honored during the roughly two-hour show included sprinter Carl Lewis, whose foundation supports underprivileged children, and Thomas Henningsen, climate policy coordinator at Greenpeace.

"Michael Jackson inspired all of us through his music and through his message — and that's what's going to last for years and years to come," Lewis said when he accepted his award. "We all know the wonderful things he did for so many people and it's just great that we can continue to honor that."

The gala, which took place despite driving rain, featured live performances of a slew of Jackson songs, such as "Man in the Mirror," and "Heal the World." It ended with an emotional rendition of "We Are The World."
At a news conference in the Austrian capital earlier Friday, Jermaine Jackson called his brother a "wonderful humanitarian" who considered it important to help others.

Jackson said his brother's "whole existence" was to find the good in everyone and described his passing on June 25 at age 50 as a "tragic loss."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEGynvPvJm6TqXTQ2_Owb0cjA9YgD99L3L4O0
 
Bringing Moonwalk,DTD,etc back in print!

Is there a way we can bring Moonwalk, Dancing The Dream and other positive books on Michael back in print? With so many crappy books around I so feel these real, positive books should be available in the market now more than at any other time. Is Redemption by Geraldine Hughes still available? If we write to Amazon etc., demanding these books will that make them reprint them? I hope so.
 
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(24-7-2009) A mystery celebrity will provide an introduction to the reissue of Michael Jackson's memoir.

Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., will publish the new edition of "Moonwalk" in October with an announced first printing of 100,000. The original text, released in 1988 by Doubleday, sold about 500,000 copies.

The celebrity was described by Harmony as "a well-known figure in the entertainment industry who was close to Michael."

The memoir was acquired in the mid-1980s by then Doubleday executive Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and has been out of print for more than a decade. Proceeds will go to the Michael Jackson Family Trust, and to various charities supported by the singer, who died last month.

Source: MJFC / AP
 
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That's great - now I can finally get a copy.
 
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I was wondering...I'm going to London soon and I wanted to ask if anyone knows where I could buy Dancing the dream?
 
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Dr.Feelgood said:
(24-7-2009) A mystery celebrity will provide an introduction to the reissue of Michael Jackson's memoir.

Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., will publish the new edition of "Moonwalk" in October with an announced first printing of 100,000. The original text, released in 1988 by Doubleday, sold about 500,000 copies.

The celebrity was described by Harmony as "a well-known figure in the entertainment industry who was close to Michael."

The memoir was acquired in the mid-1980s by then Doubleday executive Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and has been out of print for more than a decade. Proceeds will go to the Michael Jackson Family Trust, and to various charities supported by the singer, who died last month.

Source: MJFC / AP
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That's GREAT!
I already have Moonwalk but I'll love to have another copy!
I'm hoping we can get Dancing the Dream in stores again! That is the REAL Michael Jackson the world needs to know!
 
Nicole Richie wants to name her child either Michael (if a son) or Michelle. I wish Michael could see the child, he would be so happy to hear the child is named after him
 
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How nice would it be if this book came out with the Moonwalker dvd.:)
 
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dream!
Love both. I have to get an actual copy of moonwalk even though i have the pdf in my computer.
 
I think it's a good sum of the stance by the press during this month
 
Please, keep the msnbc article in a different thread of its own, as originally posted. I feel it requires discussion of its own, and it doesn't even belong to the period July 24-26 that this thread discusses (it's dated July 23 as you can see).

thanx
 
Jackson advisor says he turned over $5.5 million

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former financial advisor to Michael Jackson said Friday that he was the person who recently turned over to executors $5.5 million, which had been "a secret between Michael and me."

Dr. Tohme Tohme responded to an inquiry from The Associated Press about documents in which administrators of the estate said they had recovered $5.5 million and substantial amounts of personal property from an unnamed former financial adviser.

"It was not recovered," he said. "I had the money and I gave it to them. It was a secret between Michael and me."

He said the money, which came from recording residuals, was earmarked by Jackson for the purchase of what was to be his "dream home" in Las Vegas. He said he was in negotiations for the home when Jackson died.

"He said, 'Don't tell anyone about this money,'" Tohme recalled. "But when he passed away I told them I had this money, and I gave it to them."

He said he also turned over a large number of items from Jackson's Neverland estate that were once scheduled to be auctioned. When Jackson decided to call off the auction, Tohme said he had everything put into storage. He said he turned over that personal property to the executors as well.

Tohme is the financier who advised Jackson during the last year and half of his life and was instrumental in saving Neverland from foreclosure. He also was a key figure in negotiating the contracts for Jackson to do a series of comeback concerts in London.

The estate's receipt of the money was revealed in court documents released Friday.

Attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain are serving as temporary administrators as spelled out in the King of Pop's will. The men are finishing several deals that they expect will generate "tens of millions of dollars of revenues."

They expect to submit those deals for court approval within the next week, the filings state.

The revelations were included in two motions requesting allowances for Jackson's three children and his mother, Katherine. The petitions state that Jackson was the primary source of income for his children and his mother, who receives some money from Social Security.

Katherine Jackson currently has custody of the three children, 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jr., known as Prince Michael; 11-year-old Paris Michael Katherine Jackson; and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket. The children and Jackson's mother are the only members of Jackson's family eligible to receive support from the estate, according to the court filings.

The monthly stipends that Branca and McClain hope to provide the Jacksons were redacted from the court records released Friday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff refused to grant the allowances on Thursday, opting instead to consider them at a hearing on Aug. 3. The judge did allow the administrators to enter into deals that will bring reprints of Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography, "Moonwalk" back to booksellers.

Branca and McClain "believe that the projected cash flow and the assets of the estate are more than sufficient to cover the payment of this amount as a family allowance for the benefit of the minor children."

Jackson paid for the expenses at the Jackson family home in the San Fernando Valley, the court filings state. The administrators plan to keep that arrangement, even though some of the expenses may go to other Jackson family members who also live at the home.

Jackson's children will receive Social Security benefits, which have been applied for but payments have not yet started. Their monthly stipends from the estate may be reduced, depending on much money they receive from Social Security, the filings state.

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I believe that Branca and Mcclain are determined to work hard for Michael's children and mother and they are gonna make sure they carry out Michael's wishes. I really believe this. I don't believe that Michael was under any duress to re-hire Branca as the executor of his will. I believe that he was misinformed when he fired him in the first place. Probably because others wanted to be in Branca's postion who didn't have Michael's best interest in mind...they wanted Branca out of the way so that they could finagle that catalogue from Michael without Branca's watchful eye.

I believe Branca really loved and care about Michael as a friend. That is why Michael re-hired him.


I also think it was no accident that Mike put Branca and McLain as executors...

as Kobe said... the such of Thriller was no accident... Michael gavel all he had in the success and know he wanted it to be the biggest selling album of all times... MJ has always said he is goal oriented..........................so I can see why he would put 2 experts in the field to head his estate....

it seems Michael wanted his estate to work as a business and be successful.........

you know I would encourage all fans to listen to all of Mike's interviews... and I mean really listen............................there is soooo much that revealed about himself that
has been ignored..
 
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Re: Winners, losers in month since Jackson's death

hesiod said:
Hi, I found this from the scoop articles at msnbc. I've read before articles of this author for MJ and my impression is that she is leaning positive. I would though want to know what people think of this, especially people who have been in the US for the past month. Has the negative bs in the press resurged and equalled the positiveness and the emotion of the first days after he died? (she talks about that in the second part where she says that talk of the critics has resurged and is felt on coverage about him).. How do people in your larger environments feel today about him in general now that he's passed, and how do they feel for the continuing talk about him after his death? Is recognition of him -at least as an artist- nearly universal..?
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I think indeed the media has returned to the negativity, but this time the public doesn't give a crap.
 
Happy Birthday Joe Jackson!

Although there is nothing to celebrate these days I do wish you a day as nice as it can be in such sad times.
 
Did you see the "Save the world awards" ? It was more boring than I could even fathom.

Both thumbs up for "Signature". I have seen them in London (July 13th ) and I like the way they represent Michael.
 
The ghost of Michael Jackson saved my life
Jadyn Cassidy


Readers continue to send us in Michael Jackson ghost stories. This week's best story has to come from Ivana, aged 22, from London (UK):
'I have always been a big fan of Michael Jackson and of course was devastated when he died. I felt the world lost someone very special too soon.'
'Yesterday I was running to get home in time for an engagement. I foolishly ran to cross a street in order to get on a bus. As I ran onto the road I clearly saw Michael on the other side he was wearing a typical outfit, his smile, hair, it was him.'
'I stopped immediately in shock a few meters onto the road and a speeding car skidded just in front of me and then moved on. I looked across the road and Michael was gone. If he hadn't been there I know that car would have hit me.'
'I really believe Michael Jackson saved my life.'

Paranormal personality Michael Cohen notes that: 'The more people feel a personal connection with someone who recently passed on the more ghost sightings seem to happen'.
Do you have a Michael Jackson ghost story please tell us: info@allnewsweb.com

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