[EggsAckley]

I noticed this morning that there is a striking resemblance these days between Mr. Jackson and Mr. Mouse.

[camle]

well? ya gotta admit that he does look a lot like a picasso...

all kidding aside, has anybody ever seen him AND Yoko Ono in the same place at the same time? I think they're the same person. there can't be two of 'em, can there?

[martin_fierro]

[1Old Pro]

Michael Jackson. If it were a play, it would most certainly be a tragedy, or for some, a comic tragedy.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Mr. Early really does flaunt his love for Michael.

[aristeides]

Ping.

[hang 'em]

Jacko in the year 2010:

[ravingnutter]

I really resent the use of the Peter Pan analogy. Not wanting to get old is one thing, but I certainly don't remember the part in the Peter Pan story where he molests the children.

I nicknamed my hubby Peter Pan years ago after he had a few too many beers and "flew" off of the front deck onto a moonwalk balloon to impress the kids...too bad they had blown it up with a fan instead of hot air...he was down for three days. He unwinds at the end of a hard day's work by playing Nintendo and plays basketball and coaches baseball in the back yard with the neighborhood kids on the weekends. Now THAT is a Peter Pan story. And to top it all off...his ex-wife's name is actually Wendy, LOL!

Seriously though, I was going to get him a Peter Pan snowglobe this Christmas, but now every time I think about the analogy they are using, it nauseates me. Michael Jackson is just plain sick.

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh my - what a fabulous word from this article! palimpsest

[aristeides]

But Peter Pan is a basic myth of Western life, not the neurotic fantasy of a middle-aged pop singer who didn't want to die before he got old and who didn't want to get old either.

One can view Peter Pan as the neurotic fantasy of the middle-aged dramatist J.M. Barrie.

[Revolting cat!]

What a brilliant analysis! (Is it over the head of some?) Maybe I don't read the right newspapers/magazines, but this is the kind of analysis you'll see often in European press, rarely here. Compare, please: same day, same topic, typical American journalism's laundry list of clichés.

After reading Early's piece in its hardcopy version this morning, I googled on "Gerald Early" to find he's a quite an interesting writer. See this first Google hit, for example.

[Revolting cat!]

The author.