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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 22:27:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2009 22:30:48 GMT
Oh -- -- I confess I wouldn't have wanted to see him at age 75.
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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 22:32:11 GMT
Wasn't a fan... just reporting.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2009 22:40:42 GMT
I have only seen websites that say 'coma' and 'cardiac arrest' so far.
And no need to 'apologize' for the report -- you don't have to be a fan to find that sort of thing important.
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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 22:42:44 GMT
Well, unless they've got it wrong, The AP and The LA Times have scooped CNN...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2009 22:44:38 GMT
Ah, now the media are confirming it. No more lawsuits then?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2009 22:57:23 GMT
Geez ~~ that's kind of a shock, especially for everyone who remembers him since the Jackson 5 days. He was a major part of popular culture. And then, in a creepy echo of Kerouac's recent post about famous people dying on the same day, the news of Farrah Fawcett's death is right below that of Michael Jackson's.
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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 23:01:21 GMT
especially for everyone who remembers him since the Jackson 5 days. Before he became a creep you mean...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2009 23:06:22 GMT
Somehow I think the papers won't be paying much attention to Farah Fawcett tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 3:11:23 GMT
The evening NBC news was drenched in it,crowds forming outside UCLA Hospital, Liz Taylor's arrival, Maria Presley's comments....The worst was Al Sharpton stating that( Michael Jackson) "he made culture accept the black person". I'm sorry but, what about Sammy Davis Jr.,Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby? Please. I had to walk away at that point. I accept the man's talent but I can't accept that statement. He said some other stuff but I tuned it out. This will go on for days and days.
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Post by imec on Jun 26, 2009 3:22:23 GMT
I heard that nutcase Sharpton too. How can he say that when Jackson effectively rejected his black identity?
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 26, 2009 3:42:33 GMT
Somehow I think the papers won't be paying much attention to Farah Fawcett tomorrow. And that's a pity. I liked her better.
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Post by happytraveller on Jun 26, 2009 7:15:44 GMT
RIP Michael. I used to be a big fan of him, in the eighties.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 26, 2009 10:28:08 GMT
Shouldn't this be on the music board?
He was very talented and a global star, though from the days he started whitening himself I confess it creeped me out. He was so very handsome as a Black teenager.
kerouac, I confess even thinking of Jackson at 50 seems strange, but that was because he created a Neverland eternal child personality for himself.
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Post by gyro on Jun 26, 2009 10:35:38 GMT
He's not going to be buried or cremated, but recycled into shopping bags. That way he can stay white, plastic, and still be dangerous for kids to play with.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 11:04:13 GMT
I've been thinking was a real TRAGEDY this is -- not for the world, of course, but think of all of the people who are going to be unemployed now -- bodyguards, makeup suppliers, tailors, decorators, florists, doctors, pharmacists, personal assistants and imitators, to name just a few!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 11:10:53 GMT
Not to mention all those that were to be involved in his "comeback" tour scheduled for sometime this year according to the news this a.m. There were to be 50 shows,50 this,50 that to commemorate his 50 years.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 11:12:28 GMT
Forgot to mention the dermatologists and plastic surgeons! Bleach companies...?
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Post by imec on Jun 26, 2009 12:12:58 GMT
Shouldn't this be on the music board? Yes. Thanks for moving. I only put it at the top because it was breaking news at the time.
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Post by palesa on Jun 26, 2009 12:26:10 GMT
Good grief, I know that I am a tad oversensitive at the moment, but FFS someone has died, that IS a tragedy for his family for those that loved him and those that were close to him. No matter what your personal opinion of him is. Whatever happened to respect for the dead.
And he was a very talented musician in his day.
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Post by happytraveller on Jun 26, 2009 12:30:54 GMT
I don't think you are being over sensitive Palesa. You are abolutely correct in what you say. I was just about to post that I find some of the comments here quite disrespectful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 12:37:23 GMT
We will agree to disagree.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 12:46:32 GMT
On another note, I was thinking about the 750,000 concert tickets that were sold, many of which were immediately re-scalped at tremendous markups.
Some of those refunds are going to be quite disappointing to the people now holding the tickets.
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Post by imec on Jun 26, 2009 12:49:25 GMT
No kidding! Maybe this will be a wake-up call to those that buy tickets from these ticket scalping scumbags.
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Post by imec on Jun 26, 2009 14:07:22 GMT
Yes, this is a food story and maybe somewhere else, but it's related to the topic of this thread.
Shortly after we moved to Riyadh in the mid-eighties, I asked our Pakistani warehouseman where to go for good Pakistani or Indian food. Of course, he directed me to a somewhat fancy establishment that served upscale food in the stereotypical surroundings that westerners would expect to find in such a place. I had already been there and the food was indeed tasty - it's not what I was after however. I thanked him but insisted I wanted to eat at a place HE would go to. "You want to go where I go sir?!" he asked incredulously. When I finally convinced him that was indeed where we wanted to go he began to give us directions to the Islamabad Restaurant (how DID they come up with that name?).
Well, you'd have to know a bit about Saudi to understand that directions weren't easy as the street signs were in Arabic only (and were often refered to by names other than their real ones - e.g. Pepsi road, airport road, chicken street etc.), the streets were not laid out according to any recognizable plan and the landmarks used were not reliable (e.g. the burned out car may have been towed away even though it had been there several years). So he suggested that we follow him in our car on his way home and he would point the place out for us - which we did.
Later that evening 3 of us from the office made our way to the Islamabad "restaurant" along with our abaya covered wives. Upon arrival, we weren't exactly considered husbands of the year. It was never quite clear to us whether the place was part way through construction or demolition but it was clear that the place was not quite "finished". Nonetheless, we entered to the bemusement of a handful of obviously low paid expat workers enjoying their Thursday evening meal.
Once we had convinced the befuddled waiter that we were indeed in the right place, we were, by custom and by law, ushered to the "family section" - a curtained (using the term loosely) off area set aside for men accompanied by their wives, mothers or sisters (dating is not allowed), seated and given menus (I'm not sure where they dug these up because no-one else seemed to have them). It was then that we were given the "special treatment".
As with most of these places, there was a cheap "sound system" in place which constantly blared the type of music you might hear in any Bollywood musical. Within a few minutes of being seated, there was a bit of shouting amongst the wait staff and the cassette was ejected - only to be replaced by (you guessed it), "Geraldine, that's my lover...". All but one of us despised Michael Jackson's music, but not one of us had the heart to tell them so. This was their way of treating us like very special guests - which they did on our almost weekly visits for the next 3 years.
I dream of the food we were served at this place - amazing chicken tikka, chicken massala, karhai Ghosht, incredible tandoori roti and so on, but I can't ever think of the food without hearing Jacko singing in the back of my mind.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2009 15:20:51 GMT
How thrilled do you think the governor of South Carolina was by poor Michael's death?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 16:39:33 GMT
That's one of the first things that came to my mind, too. He is sure to send a giant wreath.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 26, 2009 17:32:01 GMT
I believe celebrities deaths come in threes. I posted that on fodors.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2009 17:34:28 GMT
Hmmmm.... is there still time to start a betting pool?
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 26, 2009 17:36:09 GMT
but in three days, McMann was first.
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