Michael Jackson’s Vanity Fair Cover-Special Tribute Issue
Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, he is an icon and will be forever known as one of, if not the best entertainer in the world. In September, Vanity Fair will release two special tribute covers, one with Michael Jackson and the other with actress Farrah Fawcett. Fawcett also died in June from a long battle with anal cancer.
Click to read excerpts from the article on MJ:
Love. “No I don’t date, no. I like girls and everything, but [laughs] … Oh, you think I’m one of those? No! I’m just not that interested right now.” — Jackson in February 1977
Fame. “And a lot of entertainers don’t know this, but interviewers help entertainers 100%. I don’t mean promotion-wise; I mean like when they ask you questions, it helps you to look at your future yourself.” — Jackson in February 1977
Career. On the first mix of the Thriller album: “It was terrible. And I cried at the listening party. I said, ‘I’m sorry — we can’t release this.’ … Everybody at the record company was screaming that we had to have it out and there was a deadline. … So we re-did a mix a day. … We were overworked, but it all came out OK.” — Jackson in 1984
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Posted by Mocha @ 4:54 pm
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John Klunker
On August 20, 2009 at 5:31 pmI still cry myself to sleep at night over this…
Deborah Ffrench
On September 20, 2009 at 3:34 amIt was with a growing sense of astonishment that I watched the Oprah Winfrey show on Michael Jackson – her sole public comment on his death so far. Whilst replaying her seminal 1993 interview, Oprah proceeded to tell her viewers how she had felt at various points during it. Topics included her hair, her feelings of nervousness, what she was wearing and other similar reflections. Strangely, no airtime was given over to discussing the ambivalence of the legacy Michael’s children have been left with, and it had apparently been deemed unnecessary by Oprah to probe into the allegations Michael faced during his life. Throughout the interview Oprah displayed such a palpable air of disinterest in her subject, it was unclear as to precisely what her reasons for airing the show in the first place actually were. It’s difficult to believe that a woman whose personal wealth was built on a reputation for journalistic truth and justice can really be unaware of the profoundly substantial questions hanging over the authenticity of the molestation allegations made by Evan Chandler on behalf of his son Jordan. Unbelieveable, because Oprah has the same access to information that everyone else has. There is an enormous amount of evidence out there to support the view that Michael Jackson was completely innocent of the charges alleged against him in 1993, and again in 2005; and that he was in fact the victim of an elaborate and bold extortion attempt that proved – in the end, to be very successful. The award winning 1994 article written by Mary A. Fischer -’Was Michael Jackson Framed’ – details not only the lack of evidence behind the Chandler’s claims, but also the full extent of the non-credibilty of Evan Chandler. Jordan only accused Michael after a hypnotic drug was administered – Evan authorized its use after Jordan was allegedly reluctant to go on record to state he had been abused. What is perhaps less well known, but again is well documented by authors such as Aphrodite Jones in her book ‘The Michael Jackson Conspiracy’ and numerous other authors and witnesses to the events of 1993 and 2005, including Thomas Mesereau and Brian Oxman – is the level of complicit involvement between Chandler’s lawyer, Tom Sneddon’s department and key players in the media like Maureen Orth, Diane Dimond and the the online tabloid site ‘ The Smoking Gun.’ This complicitness would keep a ratings-driven media motivated to supply more and more grossly inflated horror stories about Michael to a baying and eager public, and would convince Michael’s legal team that going to trial to refute the claims would be too risky. In a gesture of compliance with the police investigation, Michael agreed to a humiliating, physical examination of his body to clear his name. Jordan had asserted Michael had been circumcised – he had not, he also claimed Michael had discolourations on his genitalia – there were none. It is perhaps the level of media viciousness however, that remains in most people’s minds. The sheer amount of stories, comedy shows, talks shows, television programmes, newspaper articles and panels of ’so-called’ experts that would become devoted to negatively reporting on the allegations would reach unprecedented levels of coverage and hostility. Michael Jackson was to all intents and purposes presumed guilty. It is interesting to note just how many people – now that Michael is dead, have said it was the homogenity of the media’s stance that made them think Michael was guilty. I believe Tom Sneddon, Diane Dimond, Maureen Orth, Evan Chandler (I do not include Jordan as he was a child) and his lawyers, Rothman and Feldman, to be the key protagonists of the sustained media and legal attacks Michael faced from 1993 onwards. These attacks would erode and degrade Michael’s spirit and profoundly damage his once stratospheric career. It is against this background of a lack of answers and the grief of millions of people, that Oprah’s choice not to explore the possibilty that the truth about Michael has for 15 years been distorted and manipulated into something vastly different from what we have been led to believe – can be seen as truly extraordinary. There is no room here to cover the scandalous claims of the mother of the alleged victim in 2005, who admitted on oath that she had made her son lie to support her claim that she had been sexually abused by staff in a J.C Penny’s store. What I will say is this: So many are grieving not only for a life tragically ended, but also for the damage done to Michael’s name and legacy, yet Oprah decided we would rather hear about how excited she felt when she first saw the fun rides at Neverland. No-one said her show had to be a Disney tribute, but it didn’t have to amount to little more than a glorified slideshow either. For a woman famed for asking the difficult questions, the uncomfortable questions, Oprah’s show came across as an afterthought. Michael Jackson, perhaps the greatest entertainer of all time, who gave a black woman in the early 1990’s the career break of a lifetime – deserved better.
Mocha
On September 21, 2009 at 12:57 pmYou brought up some very good points and I agree with you.