Michael Jackson R.I.P. - Page 2

RickyMaveety · 06-25-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Laz116

Ok, didn't know that.

Well, hey, your English is still a whole lot better than my Danish!!

Laz116 · 06-25-2009, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Well, hey, your English is still a whole lot better than my Danish!!

You mean: I can actually write a few words in english (coherent or not)

RickyMaveety · 06-25-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by daffy4u

I'm freaked by this. I've worked on 2 music video with Michael Jackson and was listening to some old Jackson 5 tunes on the way home yesterday. I liked working with him as a person, he was nice to me. I did see some things that I didn't think were quite kosher but that was for the courts to decide.

This makes 3. Ed McMahon (who I just worked with last September), Farrah and Michael. Not a good week.

It sounds as though they took him to UCLA Med Center (my old stomping grounds), and that there will be lives news from there in the next few hours. Myself, I only really liked two of his songs (Thriller and Black and White), and the man himself had a massive image problem. However, I wouldn't wish death on him.

Peverel · 06-25-2009, 06:55 PM

Wow Reuters say:

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Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and set the world dancing to exuberant rhythms for decades, died on Thursday after being taken ill at his home, the Los Angeles Times said. He was 50.

Rest In Peace

RickyMaveety · 06-25-2009, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Well, hey, your English is still a whole lot better than my Danish!!

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Originally Posted by Laz116

You mean: I can actually write a few words in english (coherent or not)

You are more than coherent, and not being aware of some of the subtleties of a language certainly doesn't make you incapable of communicating quite well in it. My smattering of Danish sort of leaked out of my ears in the 70s. I'm not sure I could even remember how to order a decent meal anymore.

Ham88 · 06-25-2009, 06:58 PM

NBC is going to have a two hour special on him, and Farrah Fawcett tonight at 9 PM eastern time.

RickyMaveety · 06-25-2009, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Ham88

NBC is going to have a two hour special on him, and Farrah Fawcett tonight at 9 PM eastern time.

Those things always either depress or bore me. I think I'll dive back into my Discworld books and allow Death himself to explain it all to me.

Peverel · 06-25-2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I'm not sure I could even remember how to order a decent meal anymore.

When in doubt revert to Latin - the classic language - Bigius Macious, with Largius frys and a Vanilla Shakious please.

@Laz116: I have read your posts and didn't realise English was not your first language - now that means either you are really good - or I (as a born and breed Englishman) am really cr*p at my own language.

I prefer the former

Steven Lyle Jordan · 06-25-2009, 07:07 PM

Michael will end up up there with Elvis: The two reigning Kings of Pop, who both died as they lived.

Laz116 · 06-25-2009, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Peverel

When in doubt revert to Latin - the classic language - Bigius Macious, with Largius frys and a Vanilla Shakious please.

@Laz116: I have read your posts and didn't realise English was not your first language - now that means either you are really good - or I (as a born and breed Englishman) am really cr*p at my own language.

I prefer the former

Ty very much. I have to go to England (Leeds) as a part of my studies this fall. I hope it will improve my written English, but moreso my oral English (which is really really bad, since I normally speak before my train of thought has arrived at its destination... not a good idea, when you think Danish and have to speak English).

daffy4u · 06-25-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

It sounds as though they took him to UCLA Med Center (my old stomping grounds), and that there will be lives news from there in the next few hours. Myself, I only really liked two of his songs (Thriller and Black and White), and the man himself had a massive image problem. However, I wouldn't wish death on him.

As it happens, I'm working this week with a bunch of young pre=teen and teen dancers and many of them are doing moves I first saw Michael perform. Just yesterday one was goofing around doing that Billy Jean toe thing and I captured pictures of it and gave it to her.

iPhones were buzzing around me as the news rolled out. There are already huge crowds at UCLA. Luckily, I don't have to travel the 405 to get home today.

phenomshel · 06-25-2009, 07:17 PM

Been a bad week for Hollywood all around.

stoogeswoman · 06-25-2009, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Michael will end up up there with Elvis: The two reigning Kings of Pop, who both died as they lived.

And another similarity to Elvis, which I am already hearing via local talk radio: rumors are already flying that he faked his own death.

Keep an eye out at your local 7-11 - the King of Pop may be buying a Slurpee!

stoogeswoman · 06-25-2009, 07:33 PM

(P.S. - do NOT believe anyone on radio or TV who says how sad they feel. I used to work for a local radio station and trust me, two dead celebrities in one day is GREAT news for them - it's what they LIVE for!)

Timoleon · 06-25-2009, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by stoogeswoman

(P.S. - do NOT believe anyone on radio or TV who says how sad they feel. I used to work for a local radio station and trust me, two dead celebrities in one day is GREAT news for them - it's what they LIVE for!)

That is so true! I was flipping around the cable news channels this evening between 6:30 and 7pm (East Coast, US), and the guy on CNN (or was it Headline News?) kept saying: "Michael Jackson, DEAD at fifty." It was like he was enunciating the word "dead" for a try-out at the local community Shakespearean theater --- just loving the feel of the word as it rolled off his tongue over and over again with different inflections. Shep Smith over at Fox News had a terrific adrenaline buzz going at the same time.

Media types live for this stuff: it defines and gives a certain meaning to their ephemeral lives. Lawrence Taylor, the great football linebacker for the New York Giants, had a telling comment about this. He was being interviewed many years ago on the Today Show by Bryant Gumbel, and he said that television newspeople "celebrate" the tragedy of others. Gumbel tried to correct him by saying that "we report the news, not celebrate it!" But I'm with Taylor on this one.

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stoogeswoman Zealot Posts: 149 Karma: 492 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Reseda, CA Device: eBookwise 1150 and Kindle 1	(P.S. - do NOT believe anyone on radio or TV who says how sad they feel. I used to work for a local radio station and trust me, two dead celebrities in one day is GREAT news for them - it's what they LIVE for!)