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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 10:09 pm
Tish, that's why I was watching MTV earlier ... they just played his videos ... that's all I wanted ...
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 10:19 pm
It's outrageous. They focused on the negative his whole life and they can't let him go even now. I found the CD finally. It isn't a Greatest Hits thing; it's the Thriller 25th anniversary dual disc. Videos of Billie Jean, Beat It, Thriller, and the Motown 25 performance of Beat It, when he introduced the moonwalk. I have to say, I loved seeing people outside the Apollo theater singing and dancing and remembering MJ.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 10:26 pm
Sigh, first chance I got to watch tv was turning it on a while ago to some cbs show and within the first few minutes they had a pic of him being treated by paramedics then a pic of them taking him out to the helicopter and I couldn't changed the channel fast enough. My step dad died the same way at 51 (unfortunately he held on six long days) and I don't wanna see anybody in pics like that, it's horrible. Very sad for his family and friends, especially his children, they're so young.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 10:30 pm
One of my fav MJ performances: Man in the Mirror and The Way You Make Me Feel, 1988 Grammy awards.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 10:30 pm
If you are talking about ABC on MJ.. that sucked.. totally wrong emphasis. At least so far.. I'm halfway through but FF through some interviews Nightline is going to be about Michael, sounds like some good interviews, hopefully. (If they can stay away from more of Martin Bashir's interview). (uh well some parts of that interview are good.. like Michael climbing that tree or dancing) I also thought The Apollo would be the place to be tonight., better than a hospital or the house where he's no longer there, or the wrong star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 11:03 pm
Even though I knew Farrah's death was imminent, I still felt such sadness when they announced she had died. I was in total shock when they said Michael died. Wow. Such a sad day.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 11:47 pm
Really. The BW piece on Farrah was lovely. Had me in tears more than several times.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 11:50 pm
MTV really is doing it right tonight for MJ.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 12:19 am
I agree, Seamonkey, the Barbara Walters piece on Farrah WAS lovely, and moved me to tears myself. And if there were any stupid/dumb questions, I certainly missed them. I thought Jacqueline was especially touching in talking about her friend, and a neat seague where both Jacqueline and Ryan said that Farrah's "legacy is love".
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 5:37 am
Tish, if you get a chance, head over to blackamericaweb.com and listen to the archive of the TJMS from this morning. They've been playing MJ songs and remembrances since 5am my time ...
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 6:09 am
I watched the Barbara Walters Farrah special and really liked it. BW is still the best interviewer out there. Moving and nicely done. I watched a bit of MJ coverage at the Apollo Theater. Still processing that one. What a tragedy.
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 7:53 am
"In the eight year history of American Idol, Fox has never rebroadcast an episode. But on at Monday 8PM ET/PT, you'll get another opportunity to see this year's Top 13 Michael Jackson special." The Idol eighth-season Top 13 broadcast, which originally aired on Fox in March, featured the finalists singing songs from Jackson's extensive catalog. The performances featured on the broadcast were Lil Rounds singing "The Way You Make Me Feel;" Scott MacIntyre singing "Keep the Faith" Danny Gokey singing "PYT;" Michael Sarver singing "You Are Not Alone;" Jasmine Murray singing "I'll Be There;" Kris Allen singing "Remember the Time;" Allison Iraheta singing "Give In to Me;" Anoop Desai singing "Beat It;" Jorge Nunez singing "Never Gonna Say Goodbye;" Megan Joy Corkrey singing "Rockin' Robin;" Adam Lambert singing "Black or White;" Matt Giraud singing "Human Nature;" and Alexis Grace singing "Dirty Diana."
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 7:55 am
Most of BW's questions are inane.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:01 am
Oh I loved Man In The Mirror. I am going to listen to him all day today. I want to share my take on MJ: He was messed up bad for a really long time. I think a lot of things happened to him in his childhood that effected him deeply and he didn't have the emotional support system around him that he needed. I think as a young child that maybe things happened to him or were done to him that really messed him up. I think he had emotional issues stemming from years of mental and physical abuse beit by his father or his brothers. There is a reason he distanced himself from them. We will never know those reasons. He went without the regular childhood. Therefor, once he was out from underneath Joseph's thumb, he reverted back to a boy, and wanted to experience things through the eyes of a child. He probably never really had any boyhood friends other than his brothers, who from what I understand, teased him relentlessly, were jealous of his fame, and probably hurt him a lot more than we know. Unfortunately, when you have the emotional IQ of an 8 year old, but the mental and physical maturity of a grown man, wires get crossed, things go awry and that's bad ju ju all over the place. RIP Michael Jackson....be an 8 year old, have lots of friends, play all day, and be happy. Plus, I really do hope those allegations against him were false and we can go on remembering him for the Pop Genious that he deserves to be remembered for. And I am glad MTV is playing his videos.....he more or less MADE MTV.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:08 am
Thought I'd posted, but then we had a power blip...oh well, I'll try again. I thought that Ryan O'Neal looked incredibly sad and weary, but that he tried hard to put on a brave front (I guess this interview was done a week or so ago, not sure?). I enjoyed the majority of it and it was surely heart-wrenching. But BW did not need to ask Ryan or her doctor what Farrah's last words were. That made me want to punch her in her face. Sometimes we just don't need to know things like that. I think her journalistic self gets in the way of compassion.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:34 am
okay, get ready for this ... I agree with you on MJ, Escapee, lol
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:36 am
Last words of the famous are often shared. I don't see anything wrong with that question except perhaps the way it was asked. What were her last words? Versus, did she have any last words? Or did she have any last words you think she would have liked us to know?
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:49 am
Wow Escapee, that's a great post (8:01 am)! I also agree.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:55 am
Watching the news this morning, I heard something I guess I never really knew: that as much as MJs huge success as a solo artist happened because of MTV, before Thriller came along MTV played almost no black music. In fact, MTV programmers initially passed on the Billie Jean video, and they only put it on after being pressured. And that was in 1983!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 8:57 am
Exactly, Tish, that's one of the reasons that BET exists. There was no outlet for 'black' music videos. ps, did you see my post about the tjms archive?
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 9:00 am
Yes Ms LT, I did. Thank you.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 9:02 am
I'm listening to Billie Jean. It came out when I was 2. I can remember watching the Thiller Mini-sode and my older sister who was 5 crying turn it off turn it off and I loved it. Last night, my nephew and my daughter who are 4 and 5 were watching it and my daughter was crying turn it off and my nephew loved it. Sis and I did the dance.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 9:06 am
Barbara asked the doctor what Farrah's last words were to him, not her last words.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 9:14 am
Huk, I agree completely about BW asking those very intimate questions of Ryan and, especially, the doctor, i.e. "What was Ryan saying to her as she was dying?" WTH??? I was shocked that she would ask it once, never mind pushing the doctor for an answer and asking a second time. Very, very inappropriate and totally over the line, IMO. She seemed ghoulish to me. ETA: Now I'm wondering if perhaps they cut that part out and only the East coast saw it, coz it was definitely "off" and certainly didn't seem like an appropriate thing to ask, nor was the way she pushed him for an answer.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Friday, June 26, 2009 - 9:34 am
Escapee I totally agree with your earlier post about Michael not having a childhood. we wer talking about that this morning at work.
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