tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81630134323212337442024-03-13T13:03:27.546+11:00about MJ et al...Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-2039526918750810932011-08-04T20:26:00.006+10:002011-08-04T21:33:33.497+10:00HIStory: Magazine Covers<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I have a little yellow kitten named Charlie. He's only about four months old and he's full of fun and mischief every minute. Well, he and Michael took a liking to each other right away. All the while Michael was waiting for the make-up man to get make-up on his brothers, Michael was out in the back yard playing with Charlie. And when Michael would have to go before Dad's camera for pictures, Charlie just didn't want to leave Michael alone! They became such good friends that Michael was hoping he could take Charlie home with him. But Tony reminded Michael that there were already two dogs at home, and they might not like Charlie except as dessert. Michael agreed, and I was relieved, too, 'cause I didn't want to give Charlie up, though I would have for Michael Jackson! "</span><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A me and a buddy of mine met Michael Jackson back in 2001 or 2002. Talked to him for about 10 mins. Was prob the nicest person I've ever met. Yes pics are 100% real. And yes that is a showercap and rubber gloves.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was in Vegas. They opened a jewelry store in the Vanitian for MJ at 1:30am… my buddy and I just happened to be walking by and saw him in there. The store had glass walls. We knocked on the glass and he saw my buddy wearing the showercap and rubber gloves and started laughing. He walked us along the wall to the front door and came out to talk to us. We got to talk to him for a bit before anyone else noticed. I tried to get him to go have a beer with us but he said his kids were upstairs so he couldn't. I got him to autograph a piece of paper I had in my pocket. Still have the original pics too. I need to frame em.</span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-73475722009711828842011-08-01T20:35:00.009+10:002011-08-02T10:27:37.109+10:00HIStory: Magazine Covers<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just came across again with this cute photos of Michael wearing a t-shirt with his picture in it ... and thought I'd post some pictures of other celebrities wearing MJ; </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just my luck! look here --- Michael wearing another MJ shirt :)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know yet though the story behind this picture, but as soon as I find out, will update this post ...</span></div></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-60698064463545910882011-08-01T19:17:00.002+10:002011-08-02T10:07:20.303+10:00Wearing MJ : Usher<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"He influenced me in so many ways, more than just music ... as a humanitarian, as a philanthropist, as an artist, as an individual who transcended culture. I wouldn't be who I am today without Michael Jackson."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>--- Usher</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"You can't say that you are an artist in this century and [not be] influenced by Michael Jackson. I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to share the stage with him, to know him personally, and I am always going to remember him.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I'll be a fan for life ...</span><b> "</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>--- Usher</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“I really want to meet Michael Jackson so badly. I’m Michael Jackson obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker’ – it’s my favorite movie of all time.”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">--- Pete Wentz , </i>interview with <i>The Advocate, </i>2007</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: 13px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the 2000 Golden Globe awards, Björk wore a dress with Michael Jackson's face - all in sequins! Why did she wear such a thing? <i><b>"Because he's the king!"</b></i> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She also has been seen wearing another skirt like this, but in different colours.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2003, Björk did an In Camera interview at showstudio. One of the questions came from the King of pop himself!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Michael Jackson</b>, Santa Barbara, California : </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I have always loved and admired your creativity. Nature's struggle to survive alongside mankind has been an inspiration for me: given the natural</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> beauty of your Icelandic homeland, how does nature inspire your work? "</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Björk : </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I hope this doesn't sound too naff, but being alone in nature, especially after walking for hours, just puts you in your place and you realise how small you are and how plenty of everything is all around you. Then you just let go and surrender, become part of it. I'm so chuffed you asked me a question! I have to say you're the best, keep fighting and it angers me how cruel everybody is to you. It's like in the US right now, it's illegal to be an eccentric. Maybe people would have been more understanding if you were a contemporary of Ludwig II of Bavaria, who comissioned Wagner and lived with the swans. I listen to Butterflies off your last album all the time. <b>You are a true artist! Thanks for fighting and believing in magic even though the rest of the world have forgotten about it.</b>"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pictures below were taken on the set of <i>Mr. And Mrs. Smith</i> back in 2005. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“I think I loved Michael Jackson or something. I used to wear the leather jackets with the zippers, or collars with studs on them, and I used to ask if I could go to school wearing studs.”</b></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, could it be that the shirt generated (more) attraction to Angelina ... or was it Brad's moonwalk :) </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Way to go Brad!</span></span></div></div></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-7641932827464008592011-08-01T19:13:00.000+10:002011-08-01T19:13:21.666+10:00Wearing MJ<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Celebrities Wearing MJ</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">and THE Man Himself! :)</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"></span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-50560700350284702132011-07-31T21:51:00.002+10:002011-08-01T14:21:37.114+10:00HIStory: Magazine Covers<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Jet - July 31, 1980" height="640" src="http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/jet/1228-8.jpg" width="439" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Michael Jackson, with his sister La Toya, at <i>JET Magazine</i> (USA), July 31, 1980</span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-26047981653484410682011-07-31T15:56:00.002+10:002011-07-31T17:27:49.041+10:00Folk dancing with MJ's...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now here's something different - a fusion of folk and modern dancing, made even more enthralling with MJ flavouring; but before watching the video footage(s) below, I'd want to give a little background on the folk aspect;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In my birth country, the Philippines, we have this folkdance called<i> Tinikling</i> which includes two people hitting bamboo poles or piece of wood, using them to beat, tap, and slide on the ground and against each other in harmonization with one or more dancers who will step over and dance in between the poles. When the bamboo closes, the dancers must be fast enough to not get their foot or feet caught. As the tinikling dance continues the banging of the bamboo becomes faster and harder, the sound of clashing bamboo adds more to the thrill of this awesome dance, one could not just help but be amazed by the grace and speed demonstrated by the dancers. The tinikling name came from birds locally known as <i>Tikling.</i> The term tinikling literally means "tikling-like", as the dance is in fact a mimic movement of tikling birds hopping over trees, grass stems or over bamboo traps set by farmers.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-90261030404988640192011-07-30T23:49:00.040+10:002011-07-31T16:03:05.339+10:00Mr. Fantabularious at Number One!<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Please just ignore the Jacko name-calling)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><img src="http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/167/1c0/0b8/1222517768727365.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael Jackson, featured at<i> </i></span><br />
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</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/02/05/1226000/662763-jacko.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="caption-text" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Expo Oz welcomes entertainer Michael Jackson to Brisbane with a handshake and an Expo kit in 1987.</span></span></div></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-63807765972035003782011-07-30T09:00:00.000+10:002011-07-31T09:14:15.162+10:00HIStory: Newspaper Clippings<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>News clipping below : </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Michael Jackson attending the funeral of film director Vincente Minnelli, father of singer Liza Minelli on J</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">uly 30, 1986.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For a video clip, please go to <a href="http://vimeo.com/6434803"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">http://vimeo.com/6434803</span></a></span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-87397960590186571002011-07-28T23:21:00.000+10:002011-07-30T16:27:17.433+10:00A funny recollection...<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MJ's drawing of his sister LaToya as a prank, in late 70's </td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A story from Katherine Jackson's book, <i>My Family</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 17px;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Michael and LaToya: Partners in Prank</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">Because they still lived at home, Michael, Janet, and LaToya were e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">specially close. Somehow, Janet and LaToya had the ability to turn my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">increasingly private, driven son into the lighthearted Michael of old - if only </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for a little while.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They loved to play practical jokes on one another. Michael especially </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">enjoyed tormenting LaToya with fake spiders and tarantulas. He’d place one </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of his plastic creatures atop the phone in her room, call her, and listen for her </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">shrieks. Knowing how particular she was about her room, he’d also delight in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">charging through the door and bouncing off her bed, with its white-satin </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sheets.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“I’ll teach you to be so picky!”</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> he’d exclaim amid her furious screams.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Having been informed by Michael that he was so proud to be working with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sidney Lumet, LaToya conceived the revenge prank of all time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One day shortly before Michael left for New York to begin filming, he </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">received a call on his private line from “Mr. Lumet’s secretary." Mr. Lumet </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was in the neighborhood, the voice announced, and would be stopping by in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">five minutes to take him out to dinner. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michael didn’t know what to do first; he wasn’t dressed, and his room was </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a mess. Somehow in five minutes he made himself presentable, tidied up, and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ran from door to door informing everyone excitedly, <i>“Sidney Lumet is coming </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>to take me to dinner!”</i> He then sat down and waited for our security to inform </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">him that Mr. Lumet had arrived. And waited. I sat with him; I, too, believed </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that the director was coming.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finally, LaToya confessed, <i>“Michael, Sidney Lumet isn’t taking you to</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>dinner. That was me on the phone!” </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve never seen Michael so angry. He dragged LaToya outside and wet her </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from head to toe with the hose.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">The height of Michael mania around the <i>Bad</i> album and Bad World tour coincided with an advertising campaign of singing raisins, singing their version of the Marvin Gaye classic "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". One of the most well known special guest characters was of course the most adorable King of Pop Michael Jackson! The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> singing voice is not Michael's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">due to some contract issues </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">but the talking voice at the end is his.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The characters were modeled in clay and were an excellent quality advert for the time. And accordingly, sales of raisins soared.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This particular advertisemnt featuring Michael was launched in July 1989. In the advert, we see Michael's trademarks of fedora and white glove, and of course, his dance moves.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also read that Michael received $25,000 for his contribution to the ads, which he all donated to charity.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-48982901180823640742011-07-27T23:43:00.004+10:002011-07-30T08:47:05.582+10:00A bit of (family) HIStory for today<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In July 27, 1991, Michael hosted for his father’s birthday a dinner party (a family only event) at the Neverland Valley Ranch. Michael named the birthday party “Joseph Jackson Day”.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above picture is an autographed greeting card /dinner menu, s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">igned in full by Jackie Jackson, Randy Jackson and Michael Jackson; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a very rare and unique item from the Jackson's family event which was acquired from the caterer. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I catered the event with my father and grandmother, through our family business located in Santa Ana, CA…BURRELL’S BAR-B-Q, or BURRELL’S RIB CAGE. It was just the Jackson family and my family for most of that day, until the band showed up later that evening. I also have a published letter to the editor newspaper article about the day I spent with them.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--- caterer (name not given) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-56415991406208677202011-07-25T08:08:00.001+10:002011-07-26T09:17:42.225+10:00A Bit of HIStory for today<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">July 25, 1998: </span> Michael attends the Kick Boxing Champion All-Star Match in Tokyo, Japan.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Michael Jackson - LOOKIN Magazine [United Kingdom] (24 July 1993)" height="640" src="http://s11.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/f/3/f3yunahwinoppow.jpg" width="464" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Michael Jackson, featured on the cover of<i> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>LOOKIN Magazine </i>(United Kingdom), July 24, 1993</b></span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-59785924095729998812011-07-24T10:55:00.000+10:002011-07-24T10:55:58.267+10:00Quote of the day<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="361" src="http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/45267_487559929045_326322074045_6901032_5148772_n.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I believe performers should try to be strong as an example to their audiences. It’s staggering what a person can do if they only try. If you’re under pressure, play off that pressure and use it to advantage to make whatever you’re doing better. Performers owe it to people to be strong and fair."</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>--- Michael Jackson, "Moonwalk"</i></span></span></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-47985294766645671662011-07-23T08:37:00.001+10:002011-07-24T08:40:33.038+10:00HIStory: Magazine Covers<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217406_225425870828706_110570722314222_568779_3841623_n.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Jackson, featured on the cover of <i>Hello Magazine</i> (UK), July 23, 1988</span></b></div>Ruby Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12819297850308536336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163013432321233744.post-34080559745926299872011-07-22T20:04:00.018+10:002011-07-24T08:27:27.702+10:00HIStory: Magazine Covers and Articles<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Michael has attained his unchallenged status as the number one entertainer in the world today because he walks with kings - but never loses the common touch - and sense of caring for his fellow man - born of his own roots."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">--- from <i>Black Radio Exclusive</i>, 1988 </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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