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Michael Jackson
« on: Feb 4^th, 2003, 8:45am »

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What on earth? We've all watched him deteriorate over the last several years. But we'll get the real deal this Thursday - 20/20 on ABC is airing a two hour interview (of sorts). For all intents and purposes, all the previews are showing him as a freak. Everytime this poster sees MJ in the news, he appears freakier than the last.

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« Reply #1 on: Feb 4^th, 2003, 10:24am »

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Yeah, it's almost embarrassing to admit how much I liked him when I was a teenager. :shame2:

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« Reply #2 on: Feb 4^th, 2003, 10:36am »

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In a British-produced documentary set to air this week on ABC, the elusive Jackson takes off his surgical mask, literally, but says he has little to hide.

His friendships with children are innocent (he tucks them in, he says); his plastic surgeries minor (just two procedures, he claims); the infamous baby-dangling incident a non-issue (the kid was having fun, he says).

And you thought Michael Jackson (news) was weird...

"Disturbing," actually, is a word journalist Martin Bashir uses to describe Jacko. Bashir, who once got Princess Diana to cop to cheating on Prince Charles, trailed the moonwalker for eight months to make the documentary Living with Michael Jackson.

The special debuted Monday night on the U.K.'s ITV network. Last week, ABC reportedly paid as much as $5 million for the U.S. broadcast rights. Much to the annoyance of NBC (which has its own February sweeps-timed Jacko special in the can), Living with Michael Jackson will have its Stateside premiere Thursday as part of a two-hour 20/20.

Based on early reports out of Britain, it appears ABC got its money's worth. In the program, we learn that Jackson feeds his youngest child (nicknamed "Blanket") through a veil, dotes on Peter Pan statues, drops $6 million in a single shopping spree, and remains baffled by the hubbub over the aforementioned baby-dangling incident.

Jackson tells Bashir that his child, Prince Michael II, now 11 months old, was never at risk of falling from the entertainer's hotel window in Germany last October.

"I love my children. I was holding my son tight and strong," Jackson says in the documentary. "Why would I throw a baby off a balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I've ever heard."

There have been many stories, some possibly dumb and stupid, concerning the parentage of Prince Michael II (so designated because his older brother, now 5, is Prince Michael I). To Bashir, Jacko sets the record straight--sort of.

According to the singer, Prince Michael II is a test-tube baby, and Jackson is the biological father.

"I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells," Jackson tells Bashir. "[The mother] doesn't know me and I don't know her."

But later in the interview, Jackson says he had been in a relationship with the baby's mother.

Other revelations in the documentary:

Jackson has "slept in a bed with many children." But he insists there's nothing sexual about the slumber parties. "I tuck them in...It's very charming, it's very sweet," he says.
The man whose unmasked appearance in a California courtroom last November made headlines claims he has had but two plastic surgery procedures on his face. He says both involved the nose, which required tweaking so "I can hit higher notes." (Dateline NBC will offer its own findings on Jacko's face in a special called "Michael Jackson Unmasked" to air February 17.)
Prince Michael II wears a yellow gauze veil--even during feeding time. His elder siblings, Prince Michael I and Paris, 4, also wear masks and scarves. (Dad wants them to be all inconspicuous-like.)
Jacko's Neverland Ranch is populated mainly by statues of Peter Pan, the fictional elfin boy who loved green tights, but hated growing up.
On a trip to Las Vegas, Jackson walks down a store aisle, pointing and saying, "I like this...I like that...I like that, I'll have that..." By the time he's done, he's blown $6 million without blinking, blushing or looking at a price tag.

Bashir's conclusion on Jackson, according to ITV: "In many ways, he is charming. In others, he is a disturbing individual whose financial power enables him to do what he wants, when he wants."

So great is the power that Jacko wields, especially in his own camp, that no one in his entourage dared suggest that the baby-over-the-balcony episode was "ludicrous and dangerous," says Bashir, who visited Jacko in his hotel room just 30 minutes after the incident.

Certainly, Jackson saw nothing irresponsible in his actions.

The fans outside his hotel room "were chanting they want to see the baby," Jackson tells Bashir. "So, I wanted to show them the baby."

When Bashir points out that the public didn't actually get to see the baby because the tot's face was covered, Jackson counters that he was showing off Prince Michael II's "spirit."

And, besides, Dad says, lil' Blanket loved the attention.

"He was responding," Jackson says in the documentary. "He was singing."

The 44-year-old "Smooth Criminal," however, was not singing when it came to questions about a 1993 child-abuse investigation that resulted in no criminal charges, but damaged his kid-friendly image. In London's Sunday Times, Bashir writes that his reporter-subject relationship with Jackson "almost collapsed" when he broached the touchy subject.

Jackson does allow that he made a financial deal with the family of the California boy in the alleged child-abuse case. He did so, he says, to avoid "a long drawn-out thing on TV like O.J."

Elsewhere, in the ITV documentary, Jackson ruminates about life and death--actually, mostly about life. Jackson's not big on dying.

"I would like to live forever," he tells Bashir.

Jackson also would like to revive his pooped out pop career. In the doc, he says he's thinking of rereleasing Thriller, his landmark 1982 album (with 26 million copies-plus sold), and redoing the title song's epic music video.

Of course, maybe he'll do neither. According to a new lawsuit, Jackson likes to change his mind.

The renowned auction house Sotheby's has filed a $1.3 million-plus lawsuit against the entertainer for successfully bidding on, and then declining to pay for, two 19th century paintings by the French master William Adolphe Bouguereau.

The suit was filed Friday in a federal court in New York City.

Sotheby's is not accusing Jackson of stealing the canvas works. It, in fact, still has the paintings. It wants Jackson to claim them, and pay for them. But, according to the suit, the singer won't do anything of the sort because, upon further review, he's decided they don't fit into his collection.

An attorney for Jackson says the singer has tried to transfer the titles on the paintings back to Sotheby's, but the action house has refused.

Maybe if he threw in a couple of Peter Pan statues to sweeten the deal...

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Re: Michael Jackson
« Reply #3 on: Feb 4^th, 2003, 12:35pm »

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weirdness...i so liked him when he did the 'off the wall' album and my sister and i even went to the victory tour because she loved him then so much. now, i just think no one's face can change that much without a little help from some friends....sigh... :huh2:

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