I was thinkin’… If however you still want to have a beef about MJ you could take issue with the B.S. that the Jackson 5 did all their early stuff when MJ was five.
I remember back in the sixth grade, much was made of the song “Ben” - because “it was done when MJ was five!”
That was a load of horse-pucky! It was built out of publicity hype that said MJ “started his career at the age of five.” At the age of five, Michael Jackson sang a song from The Sound of Music as part of a run-of-the-mill school assembly thing. Yes, the audience was tremendously impressed at his vocal abilities, however, it was a school assembly!.
Jermaine Jackson was the main lead volcalist for the Jackson 5 until well into 1967. Michael Jackson was 9 years old when they recorded their first single.
Still, if you want to embellish a lot his first “public performance” was at the age of 5 (in a school assembly, just like every other kid in North America.)
I’d forgotten about him. He also told people that his father was a Russian Orthodox Priest and his mother was a Catholic nun when they met and this is actually in some of his biographies. (If I’m not mistaken, he was really Jewish and of German ancestry.)
Eva Peron’s lies may actually have cost her political office. She lied frequently about her date of birth and eventually had her birth certificate changed to not only show that she was born about 4 years later than she actually was but that her parents were married (which they weren’t- one reason she chose the d.o.b. that she chose was because it was about a year after the death of her father’s wife and was the first time he actually could have legally married her mother). Later when she was trying her “dead level damnedest” to become Juan’s Vice President (a notion that not even Juan was that wild about), it was pointed out by a political enemy that she couldn’t- you had to be 30 years old to be VP of Argentina and according to her birth certificate she was only 28. (She was in fact about 31/32 at the time.)
Other lies Jackson told in the series: the children have a warm and loving relationship with their mother, whom they visit frequently (Prince Michael I when asked replied “I don’t have a mommy”) and that he ran home with his daughter as soon as she was born without even letting her be cleaned off (I don’t care how rich you are- there’s no hospital in America that would let you do that- the liability in case of infection or any of a thousand other possible complications would be wayyy too intense).
Why would he have to wear a movie costume when he had the real thing? He was a Captain in the Army Air Corps’ 1st Motion Picture Unit, on active duty from April 1942 to December 1945. Before and after that he was in the Army Reserve, discharged as a Major in 1953.
Those kids can’t be Jacko’s biological children. Remember, that old Jackson Five picture that Sampiro linked to is what Jackson naturally looks like. Those are the features that he would pass on to his offspring. Those kids have got to be adopted or something.
Extremely off-topic, but how much do you charge for your services? I’m interested in trying to get my family history charted, but I have no idea as to how to proceed.
In his book “Nobody Sees You Eat Tuna Fish,” David Brenner states “my son’s mother was never my girlfriend, but just someone I dated.” No, David, Charisse Brody was the person you lived with from 1980-1983 and had a vicious custody battle with over yours & her son Cole Jay.
Delaware Senator Joe Biden got in hot water some time ago for campaigning with hard luck stories about his ancestors he deliberately made up, and knew were false.
sighThis is the mom of the two older kids. Those are the features that she passed on to her offspring.
While she is now claiming that she was inseminated with non-MJ sperm (they are in mediation with respect to their custody arrangment in light of all the accusations against MJ), nevertheless, even if MJ really truly is the bio-dad the kids could still come out pasty white. Look at the mom!
Geez. A friend of mine has one blakc parent and one white parent and he complexion makes her look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
There has always been major speculation about Bundy’s paternity, including the idea that his mother was impregnated by her father. Nobody really knows, and apparently even his mother has put the circumstances of Bundy’s conception out of her mind.
Another Brenner lie: He claims that the TV show he did with Leslie Anne Downs was never shown in the US is because the TV executives didn’t like the premis that a guy would be living on his ex-wife’s couch. No, they didn’t like the idea of a TV show where you played a GAY guy living on his ex-wife’s couch or anywhere else (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
The late (she died in the past year) Lauren Stratford’s story had gotten even better. Apparently, she discovered that her “abusive” mother had been her adopted mother & that she was actually a child survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.
Alec Guinness did an interview with Michael PArkinson (looked like it had been done in the seventies) during which he started talking about once having met James Dean. Sounded fair enough. Then about how they’d been in the carpark of some restaurant and Dean had wanted to show off his new car… at this stage the bullshit alarm starts ringing faintly in the background. Then Guinness apparently looked straight at Dean and said “Please don’t get into that car. If you do, you will be dead by next Thursday”. Which was the day he’d died, or something.
It was very clearly bollocks before he even got to the punchline, and when the camera cut to Parkinson he looked a bit pissed off. Eventually he said “spooky”. I think Guinness knew he’d been busted 'cos he quickly changed the subject. I just remember being really fascinated by how I, twenty years later, could clearly identify the story as bollocks just as quickly as Parkinson, when (iirc) Guinness was a good actor and should have been able to carry it off.
My mother suggested it was something his agent had convinced him to say, or something, but then she tends to look for the best in people.
Regarding Charlie Chaplin’s Jewishness… I was told he simply “didn’t deny it” during the war. Did he actually go out and parade a falsehood? Naughty Charlie. Next thing you’ll be telling me Fox Mulder didn’t mysteriously show up in the cutting room of his first studio. Tchoh.
