Michael Jackson is dead [Updated]

LA Times ^ | 6.25.09

[libh8er]

[Updated at 3:15 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.]

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[Le Chien Rouge]

......no black artists on MTV before Michael Jackson.....

When MTV first came out there were not that many videos out there to play.....the whole MTV avoiding black artists is BS..

[usmcobra]

I got a better Idea, you post a link to them.

It’s your point, now prove it.

The next thing you know you’ll be telling me there were no Black VJs on MTV until Michael Jackson’s Thriller came our either...

[rwfromkansas]

I know a former photographer for them (he was a real journalist and couldn’t take it any more so he took a major salary cut). He was only on the show once and still took down 50k starting just for doing the film he shot without him even talking on the show....

Ridiculous. Most cameramen covering actually newsworthy things barely crack 20 starting.....

[Barb4Bush]

I agree. I certainly hope he has found peace in death since he couldn’t find it in life. It is very sad that all that talent, success and money couldn’t give him any happiness. I’ll Pray for him.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I was lucky enough to see Pavarotti perform in person. Also saw Domingo and Cararras. At that level of talent, it is hard to say who is the best, etc. However, Pavarotti’s body of work, in terms of vocal quality, is beyond all others that I have heard. He makes Caruso look like a beginner.

Nonetheless, Domingo to me is the greatest of our lifetime because of the fuller dimension of his performances and level of effort.

[Hatteras]

"Look up playlists on MTV in 81 and 82. "

1982 MTV Video Yearbook...

Prince
The Pointer Sisters
Grand Master Flash
oh, and...

Afrika Bambaataa with Planet Rock

Michael Jackson doesn't show up in the Yearbook Videos until Thriller in 1983.

[MissNomer]

Who is the man on the far left?

[RVN Airplane Driver]

It’s rumored that Mikey wanted to be taken to Childrens Medical Center when the ambulances arrived!

[ElayneJ]

The person behind the Three Tenors idea is a genius! Watching them perform was always thrilling. Nessum Dorma - well, that might be the most perfect piece of music ever written, IMO. It must have been beyond amazing to see Pavarotti in person.

[mplsconservative]

Good morning to you, PaMom. I agree with your comments. I think it is the deliberate intent of some to damage the reputation of FR as a place for civil discourse. Oh well, on to bigger matters. I’m nervous as heck about the cap and trade bill today. I’ve called my Congressman and he’s against it as I thought he would be. It’s time to make a few calls to some fence straddling Dems in MN. I hope this bill goes down in flames!

[dools007]

Why exactly is it important to note the passing of a dysfunctional 50-year-old who never grew up. He used his extraordinary entertainment talent to push his pedophilia and drug agenda on our children and society in general.

My local paper’s whole top half first page was about Jackson. There followed several more pages of quotes from local idiots extolling the man’s sordid and self destructive life. Farrah Fawcett, even had to share a page with this poor excuse for a human being.

Speaking of which, this woman grew from her Playboy Mag. days into a good actress and caring person. In short, she became a positive female role model. I mourn her passing. She will be remembered as a good person.

At best Jackson will become some perverse footnote to entertainment history.

[Fawn]

This is how I will always remember him

[Jewbacca]

ROLMAO.

[Broker]

This is all about favorably redefining MJs image to “KING of POP”. His estate is apx $500,000,000.00 in debt. It makes good business sense to exploit his royalties.

[Fawn]

I’m only interested in how he impacted my life.....

[SkyDancer]

I wonder though if it was all those treatments to whiten his skin plus all those chemicals in those creme’s he used ....

A girlfriend's husband is an Elvis impersonater, quite good, local boy ...told her about Bubba Hotep, called me and she was laughing so hard I thought she'd puke ....

[tuffydoodle]

Farrah Fawcett didn’t pose for playboy until after she was an established actress and her career was on the wane. I think her last playboy gig was at the age of 50. I love Farrah but wouldn’t consider that to be a positive role model.

[Vaquero]

he was a low rent no talent hack who liked to rape young boys...why ‘fawn’ over this POS???

[vladimir998]

I was just shocked that both of them died on the same day.

I do not have any particular reason to believe either one of them was anywhere close to perfection - then again no one here is either.

[Borges]

Not at all. MTV in the early 1980s saw their audience as white suburbanites who were about 95% of the Cable audience back then.