Jermaine had a hard time with that.
I’m indifferent about him personally and little skeptical about the child molestation stuff. What an artist though.
Just out of curiosity, what did the other do in the entertainment industry (I’d Google, but I have a hard time believing I’d find the right one right now)? I assume the only difference is with their industry icons?
I go only by what he said himself about the Jesus juice and sharing a bed with a child. It doesn’t look good to this father of two.
As Howard Stern once said, “If Michael Jackson likes kids so much, where are all the little girls?”
The other Michael Jackson.
i believe the other michael jackson is in radio, british, and alive.
There was another one. It’s what made him give up Neverland.
And besides, you think if someone is only accused once, that automatically makes them not guilty? Lots of guilty people are never even accused once. Their victims keep the silence. Does that make them not guilty? (and yes, I realize that being accused doesn’t make a person guilty, but in these cases, I believe Jackson was guilty)
$22 million, according to Wikipedia (which of course, could be wrong, but in any case, that’s a hell of a lot of money to make a false accusation go away).
I will say this about him: he told the “Church” of Scientology to fuck off. They married Lisa Marie Presley to him in a bid to get his money and his fans, and when he just flat out refused to buy into the bullshit, she divorced him.
Well put!
My favorite Jacko joke, courtesy, I believe, of Norm Macdonald:
What’s the difference between a supermarket shopping bag and Michael Jackson?
One’s white and made of plastic and the other one is a child molester.
Had to get that out of the way. I have to say though, Jackson was pretty much my first musical hero. Now bear with me here … when I was like 6, my father traveled a lot and whenever he’d come back he’d bring presents; mine were always Jackson 5 records. I was a little Motown loving 1st grader. That early ABC, I’ll Be There, I Want You Back, Never Can Say Goodbye, period was top-notch.
Then I turned ten and discovered KISS.
I remember Thriller as the last album from him. My neice and I just watched the video from the title track. A smidge too much John Landis and not as good choreography as Beat It or his live gig of Billy Jean at the Motown gig but still pretty great.
Also very good were **Scream **and **Smooth Criminal **for dancing and production. Great videos, they.
He probably had a tough row to hoe and with that I empathise. Good on ya.
It is sad. I do think the accusations against him were true, but partly because he did seem to think of himself as a child - he could have been doing things that would have been completely appropriate for, say, two twelve year old boys to do together (there was never any accusation that he actually buggered those boys - it was all inappropriate fondling) - it’s just that they weren’t appropriate, because he was an adult.
Course, I never knew the man, so that’s just speculation.
He did make some fantastic music. That’s not speculation.
He doesn’t seem to have had a happy life at all, poor bastard.
The people I feel most sorry for - apart from his family - are the people trying to get into that hospital for medical reasons. It must be bloody difficicult for ambulances to get through, let alone visitors trying to their less famous dying relatives.
What’s the difference between a supermarket shopping bag and Michael Jackson?
One is dangerous to leave around children, and the other is for carrying your groceries home from the store.
(I know, I’m goin’ to Hell)
Get in line…
I just have to say this sums it up perfectly…
His behavior (to me at least) can lead to no other conclusion—a truly innocent man would never agree to pay off someone to drop such a vile accusation if there was no truth behind it.
The coolest thing he ever did artistically was when he smashed up that car in the “Black or White” video – then he apologized and removed that scene from the video. That was too bad because it really was an extremely original, expressive and inventive piece of choreography.
(Shrug) An innocent man with millions of dollars honestly afraid he might get railroaded by the system might. How can you know?
Right, b/c rational behavior was his strong point. :rolleyes:
Does Michael Jackson even understand the concept of limited resources? I seriously doubt it. I would guess that he valued his reputation and his privacy more than he did money. He’d had unlimited amounts of that for the vast majority of his life.
An odd point is nagging me. For all the time I was aware of him, I’d heard that Michael Jackson was a mere 5 years old when he had his first top 40 hit (along with his brothers) in…1970? But the reports that I’m reading state that Michael was 50, which would have made him *11 * years old in '70. So which is it?
Course, even being 11 years old and having a major hit record is impressive, but still this seems incongruous to me.
Maybe the name Jackson 5 subconsciously confused you.