Posted on 07/11/2009 2:45:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Joe Jackson wants to teach his grandkids the ABCs of showbiz.
The notoriously hard-driving stage dad said he sees star power in Michael Jackson's two youngest children.
"I keep watching Paris. She maybe wants to do something," Joe Jackson, 80, said on Friday in an interview with "Good Morning America."
"And Blanket, he can really dance."
The comments by Jackson's father - who said Thursday he suspects foul play in his son's untimely death - came as British tabloid The Sun reported today that Jackson had lethal levels of painkiller Demerol and heroin substitute methadone in his body when he died, as well as high levels of anti-anxiety drug Xanax.
The paper said preliminary toxicology findings submitted to the Los Angeles county coroner's office reveal the drug cocktail.
Jackson's father had a famously rocky relationship with the King of Pop - who took great pains to shelter his own kids, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7. Michael Jackson's doctor Arnold Klein - whose former medical assistant, Debbie Rowe, is the mother of the two older kids - is concerned about Joe Jackson's influence. "I worry about the Jackson family [getting custody] only because I worry slightly about the father, from what Michael told me about that father," Klein told CNN's "Larry King Live.
A Monday hearing on Katherine Jackson's temporary custody of Michael's kids was postponed to July 20, sparking speculation a settlement with Rowe was in the works.
"[The delay will] allow us to privately and amicably resolve this most important matter in a dignified manner for the benefit of the children first and all involved," Jackson family lawyer Londell McMillan said.
I was just going by the report I read years ago. I know his dad was a minister of good rateing some years ago. The senior Gaye had been in Alabama doing some work with the Sacred Name Movement in the forties and fifties. I could be wrong, I was just going by what I read in the papers and read in magazines.
Everyone that knows and has talked about the kids say they are bright, mature and well adjusted.
Frank Zappa’s kid’s names were WORSE!
Moon Unit
Ahmet Rodan
Diva Muffin
Ian Donald Calvin Euclid “Dweezil”
or how about Gwen Steffani’s, Zuma Nesta Rock
Demi Moore’s, Tallulah Belle and Scout LaRue
Julia Robert’s, Phinneaus
Jamie Oliver’s, Petal Rainbow Blossom, Poppy Honey,
Daisy Boo
I wouldn’t name my dog some of these names!
Blanket is a real name? I’d assumed “Blanket” was a tabloid nickname for the unfortunate kid Jackson dangled out the window with a blanket over his head.
Take these kids away from the Jackson family and give them to someone who will do a better job raising them. The FLDS come to mind.
How about "Sasha"? That's a name you could give a dog.
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