two of my heroes gone in one year.
yes I am having a fantabulous year !!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
....FUDGE IT....
Yes I am upset and enrage.
two of my heroes gone in one year.
yes I am having a fantabulous year !!
two of my heroes gone in one year.
yes I am having a fantabulous year !!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
This Is It DVD/Blu-Ray Disc details
Versions of the This Is It DVD
DVD:
Special Features:
* Meet the Dancers featurette (10-12 min)
* Meet the Singers featurette (10 -12 min)
* Creating A Comeback Featurette (30 min)
* “This Is It” Music Video - TBC
DVD (Collector’s Edition):
Special Features:
Disc 1
* Meet the Dancers featurette (10-12 min)
* Meet the Singers featurette (10 -12 min)
* Creating A Comeback Featurette (30 min)
* “This Is It” Music Video - TBC
Disc 2
* The Gloved One - Costumes featurette (20 min)
* Memories of Michael featurette (20 min)
Blu-ray:
Special Features:
* Meet the Dancers featurette (10-12 min)
* Meet the Singers featurette (10 -12 min)
* Creating A Comeback Featurette (30 min)
* “This Is It” Music Video - TBC
* The Gloved One - Costumes featurette (20 min)
* Memories of Michael featurette (20 min)
* Dancing Machine (20 min)
* Smooth Criminal Short Film 2D (5 min)
* “Making a Smoother Criminal” (20 min)
* New Thriller Short Film 2D (5 min)
* DVD Photo Gallery
* Exclusive 24 page booklet
READ: one post from Charles Thomson regarding 1993 case
Books: REDEMPTION & CONSPIRACY are helpful books too. if you want to know the whole scenario of the 1993 case. How the media omits & twists every single detail out there!
Personal Note: I noticed during the Martin Bashir Interview Living with Michael Jackson--Michael didn't say he slept with boys alone and in the same bed. he did say HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR!!! AND NOT JUST 'BOYS'.I never seen that published on a newspaper or reporters reporting that!! However Michael did voice out his opinion regarding that matter in which he said there's nothing wrong with sleeping in the bed with kids--it's nothing sexual.then the MEDIA reported MICHAEL SLEEPS IN BED WITH BOYS ----- WHAT THE FUCK?????? what happened to the detail of him sleeping on the floor????
seriously the only people who's suspicious here are the media bullsh!t up to this date their unrelentless THE MAN IS DEAD Bullsh!t I DON'T SEE THE POINT??? IT AIN'T RIGHT ANYMORE.
as we all know Evan Chandler committed suicide on November 5 and was 1st published by a gossip site radaronline.com and few days after other media reported it and as usual did some bullsh!t reporting--yes I did read it all-- I still have it on my timeline -_- well bullsh!t be gone read post below to EDUCATE you regarding the whole thing!!
original post here.
Most media outlets are touting Chandler as 'the father of the boy who accused Jackson of child molestation'. Wrong. Chandler was the father who accused Jackson of molesting his son.
The initial allegations against Jackson were made not by Jordy Chandler but by his father Evan, in spite of Jordy's insistence that Jackson never touched him inappropriately, a stance that the boy maintained for several months.
Relations between the boy's father and Jackson had soured in early 1993 when Evan asked the popstar to build him a house and Jackson politely declined. A failed screenwriter, Chandler contacted Jackson shortly afterwards and asked him to negotiate three scriptwriting deals on his behalf. If Jackson did not comply, he said, he would accuse him of molesting his son. Jackson didn't comply - and the rest is history.
As revealed by Mary Fischer in her 1994 GQ article 'Was Michael Jackson Framed?' - Jordan Chandler only claimed to have been molested by Jackson after Evan - a dentist by trade - plied him with a mind-bending drug called sodium amytal, which is known to induce false memory syndrome.
Even once Jordan Chandler began to toe his father's line, his testimony was so unconvincing that DA Tom Sneddon took his case to three separate grand juries and none of them allowed him to bring charges against Michael Jackson. Contrary to widely reported myth, Jordan Chandler did not accurately describe Jackson's genitals. Among other inaccuracies, he claimed that Jackson was circumcised while police photographs proved that he was not.
Unsurprisingly, none of this information has made its way into the mainstream media's reportage of Evan Chandler's death. Instead, Chandler's suicide is seen as another opportunity to sling mud at Michael Jackson and perpetuate the same, tired old myths about the 1993 allegations - particularly with regard to the settlement.
News outlets the world over are once more reporting that in 1994 Jackson paid the Chandlers a settlement. This is total fiction.
Court documents which came to light in 2005 state clearly that Jackson's insurance carrier "negotiated and paid the settlement over the protests of Mr Jackson and his personal legal counsel."
Jackson didn't even agree with the settlement, let alone pay it.
Amongst the publications that rehashed this age old nonsense was The Sun, to which I often contribute as a Michael Jackson expert. I was contacted yesterday and asked to provide information about Evan Chandler and the 1993 allegations, which I did. However, none of my information was used - most likely because it reflected too well on Jackson. Myths that imply Jackson's guilt are evidently more important than truths which exonerate him.
Noticing that The Sun's article on Chandler's suicide contained several factual inaccuracies (most promintently that Jordy initiated the claims of molestation and that Jackson paid the family a settlement) I contacted two members of staff at the newspaper - my usual contact and the journalist who wrote the article. Neither email was replied and the article was not changed.
Elsewhere, The Mirror ranked several places higher on the adbsurdity scale as it attempted to portray Chandler as a martyr of some kind. 'Michael Jackson sex case dad Evan Chandler wanted justice but ended up destroyed', read the headline.
Justice?
If Evan Chandler had wanted justice, why did he contact Jackson and ask for a three-movie script deal before he went to the police? If he wanted justice, why did he accept a settlement from Jackson's insurance carrier?
Indeed, the settlement included a clause which stated that accepting the payment in lieu of a civil trial would not affect the family's ability to testify in a criminal case. So if Evan Chandler wanted justice, why didn't he allow the police to press ahead with their investigation?
The headline, along with much of the article, is nonsense.
Having taken Jackson's insurance carrier for just under $15million (not the $20million usually alluded to by the press), in 1996 Evan Chandler tried to sue Jackson for a further $60million after claiming that the star's album HIStory was a breach of the settlement's confidentiality clause. In addition to trying to sue Jackson, Chandler requested that the court allow him to produce a rebuttal album called EVANstory.
Yes, really.
So the man who The Mirror claims only 'wanted justice' thought that the best course of action after the initial media storm died down would be to release an album of music about the supposed abuse of his pre-pubescent son.
The Mirror alluded to the fact that relations between Jordan and his parents were strained after 1993, but laid the blame at Jackson's door, claiming that the trauma of the case had driven them apart.
In actuality, Jordan Chandler went to court when he was 16 and gained legal emancipation from both of his parents. When called to appear at Jackson's 2005 trial, he refused to testify against his former friend. Had he taken the stand, Jackson's legal team had a number of witnesses who were prepared to testify that Jordan - who now lives in Long Island under an assumed name - had told them in recent years that he hated his parents for what they made him say in 1993, and that Michael Jackson had never touched him.
The evidence surrounding the 1993 allegations overwhelmingly supports Michael Jackson's innocence. It is for this reason that during the lengthy investigation, which continued for many months before Jackson's insurance carrier negotiated a settlement, Michael Jackson was never arrested and he was never charged with any crime.
The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that Evan Chandler masterminded the allegations as a money making scheme, believing it would help him to achieve his dream of working in Hollywood. Tape recorded telephone conversations heard him dismiss the boy's wellbeing as 'irrelevant' and claim that he was out to take Jackson for all he was worth. (Click here for Mary Fischer's GQ article, which contains transcripts of the telephone calls.)
Mary Fischer's evidence shows that as well as falsifying the sexual abuse of his own son in an elaborate extortion plot, when Jordan refused to play along Evan plied him with mind-altering drugs in a bid to trick him into believing that he was molested.
But even drugging a child as part of an extortion plot wasn't Evan Chandler's lowest point. That came when he petitioned the court to allow him to release an album of music about the supposed sexual abuse of his own son.
If Evan Chandler wanted justice, he got it two weeks ago.
As for the media, this latest incident cements once more the industry's almost total unwillingness to report fairly or accurately on Michael Jackson, particularly on the bogus allegations of sexual abuse that were levelled against him. None of the aforementioned information and evidence was included in any article about Chandler's suicide that I have read so far, despite the fact that I personally delivered it to at least one newspaper which has repeatedly paid me as a Jackson expert on other stories.
Exculpatory facts are overlooked in favour of salacious myths. A black humanitarian is tarred as a paedophile and his white extortionist is painted as a martyr.
As for Jordy Chandler, maybe with his father gone he will find the courage to do the honourable thing. Perhaps he will surface somewhere and tell the world what he's been telling his friends for over a decade now - that Michael Jackson never laid a finger on him. Until then, I suspect he will live with the same torment that it seems eventually claimed his father, suspiciously soon after the demise of the biggest victim in all of this; Michael Jackson.
Personal Note: I noticed during the Martin Bashir Interview Living with Michael Jackson--Michael didn't say he slept with boys alone and in the same bed. he did say HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR!!! AND NOT JUST 'BOYS'.I never seen that published on a newspaper or reporters reporting that!! However Michael did voice out his opinion regarding that matter in which he said there's nothing wrong with sleeping in the bed with kids--it's nothing sexual.then the MEDIA reported MICHAEL SLEEPS IN BED WITH BOYS ----- WHAT THE FUCK?????? what happened to the detail of him sleeping on the floor????
seriously the only people who's suspicious here are the media bullsh!t up to this date their unrelentless THE MAN IS DEAD Bullsh!t I DON'T SEE THE POINT??? IT AIN'T RIGHT ANYMORE.
as we all know Evan Chandler committed suicide on November 5 and was 1st published by a gossip site radaronline.com and few days after other media reported it and as usual did some bullsh!t reporting--yes I did read it all-- I still have it on my timeline -_- well bullsh!t be gone read post below to EDUCATE you regarding the whole thing!!
original post here.
Chandler Suicide Highlights Media Bias Against Jackson
When it emerged yesterday that two weeks go Evan Chandler, father of Jordan Chandler, shot himself in the head, few tears were shed despite the media's best efforts to eulogise him.Most media outlets are touting Chandler as 'the father of the boy who accused Jackson of child molestation'. Wrong. Chandler was the father who accused Jackson of molesting his son.
The initial allegations against Jackson were made not by Jordy Chandler but by his father Evan, in spite of Jordy's insistence that Jackson never touched him inappropriately, a stance that the boy maintained for several months.
Relations between the boy's father and Jackson had soured in early 1993 when Evan asked the popstar to build him a house and Jackson politely declined. A failed screenwriter, Chandler contacted Jackson shortly afterwards and asked him to negotiate three scriptwriting deals on his behalf. If Jackson did not comply, he said, he would accuse him of molesting his son. Jackson didn't comply - and the rest is history.
As revealed by Mary Fischer in her 1994 GQ article 'Was Michael Jackson Framed?' - Jordan Chandler only claimed to have been molested by Jackson after Evan - a dentist by trade - plied him with a mind-bending drug called sodium amytal, which is known to induce false memory syndrome.
Even once Jordan Chandler began to toe his father's line, his testimony was so unconvincing that DA Tom Sneddon took his case to three separate grand juries and none of them allowed him to bring charges against Michael Jackson. Contrary to widely reported myth, Jordan Chandler did not accurately describe Jackson's genitals. Among other inaccuracies, he claimed that Jackson was circumcised while police photographs proved that he was not.
Unsurprisingly, none of this information has made its way into the mainstream media's reportage of Evan Chandler's death. Instead, Chandler's suicide is seen as another opportunity to sling mud at Michael Jackson and perpetuate the same, tired old myths about the 1993 allegations - particularly with regard to the settlement.
News outlets the world over are once more reporting that in 1994 Jackson paid the Chandlers a settlement. This is total fiction.
Court documents which came to light in 2005 state clearly that Jackson's insurance carrier "negotiated and paid the settlement over the protests of Mr Jackson and his personal legal counsel."
Jackson didn't even agree with the settlement, let alone pay it.
Amongst the publications that rehashed this age old nonsense was The Sun, to which I often contribute as a Michael Jackson expert. I was contacted yesterday and asked to provide information about Evan Chandler and the 1993 allegations, which I did. However, none of my information was used - most likely because it reflected too well on Jackson. Myths that imply Jackson's guilt are evidently more important than truths which exonerate him.
Noticing that The Sun's article on Chandler's suicide contained several factual inaccuracies (most promintently that Jordy initiated the claims of molestation and that Jackson paid the family a settlement) I contacted two members of staff at the newspaper - my usual contact and the journalist who wrote the article. Neither email was replied and the article was not changed.
Elsewhere, The Mirror ranked several places higher on the adbsurdity scale as it attempted to portray Chandler as a martyr of some kind. 'Michael Jackson sex case dad Evan Chandler wanted justice but ended up destroyed', read the headline.
Justice?
If Evan Chandler had wanted justice, why did he contact Jackson and ask for a three-movie script deal before he went to the police? If he wanted justice, why did he accept a settlement from Jackson's insurance carrier?
Indeed, the settlement included a clause which stated that accepting the payment in lieu of a civil trial would not affect the family's ability to testify in a criminal case. So if Evan Chandler wanted justice, why didn't he allow the police to press ahead with their investigation?
The headline, along with much of the article, is nonsense.
Having taken Jackson's insurance carrier for just under $15million (not the $20million usually alluded to by the press), in 1996 Evan Chandler tried to sue Jackson for a further $60million after claiming that the star's album HIStory was a breach of the settlement's confidentiality clause. In addition to trying to sue Jackson, Chandler requested that the court allow him to produce a rebuttal album called EVANstory.
Yes, really.
So the man who The Mirror claims only 'wanted justice' thought that the best course of action after the initial media storm died down would be to release an album of music about the supposed abuse of his pre-pubescent son.
The Mirror alluded to the fact that relations between Jordan and his parents were strained after 1993, but laid the blame at Jackson's door, claiming that the trauma of the case had driven them apart.
In actuality, Jordan Chandler went to court when he was 16 and gained legal emancipation from both of his parents. When called to appear at Jackson's 2005 trial, he refused to testify against his former friend. Had he taken the stand, Jackson's legal team had a number of witnesses who were prepared to testify that Jordan - who now lives in Long Island under an assumed name - had told them in recent years that he hated his parents for what they made him say in 1993, and that Michael Jackson had never touched him.
The evidence surrounding the 1993 allegations overwhelmingly supports Michael Jackson's innocence. It is for this reason that during the lengthy investigation, which continued for many months before Jackson's insurance carrier negotiated a settlement, Michael Jackson was never arrested and he was never charged with any crime.
The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that Evan Chandler masterminded the allegations as a money making scheme, believing it would help him to achieve his dream of working in Hollywood. Tape recorded telephone conversations heard him dismiss the boy's wellbeing as 'irrelevant' and claim that he was out to take Jackson for all he was worth. (Click here for Mary Fischer's GQ article, which contains transcripts of the telephone calls.)
Mary Fischer's evidence shows that as well as falsifying the sexual abuse of his own son in an elaborate extortion plot, when Jordan refused to play along Evan plied him with mind-altering drugs in a bid to trick him into believing that he was molested.
But even drugging a child as part of an extortion plot wasn't Evan Chandler's lowest point. That came when he petitioned the court to allow him to release an album of music about the supposed sexual abuse of his own son.
If Evan Chandler wanted justice, he got it two weeks ago.
As for the media, this latest incident cements once more the industry's almost total unwillingness to report fairly or accurately on Michael Jackson, particularly on the bogus allegations of sexual abuse that were levelled against him. None of the aforementioned information and evidence was included in any article about Chandler's suicide that I have read so far, despite the fact that I personally delivered it to at least one newspaper which has repeatedly paid me as a Jackson expert on other stories.
Exculpatory facts are overlooked in favour of salacious myths. A black humanitarian is tarred as a paedophile and his white extortionist is painted as a martyr.
As for Jordy Chandler, maybe with his father gone he will find the courage to do the honourable thing. Perhaps he will surface somewhere and tell the world what he's been telling his friends for over a decade now - that Michael Jackson never laid a finger on him. Until then, I suspect he will live with the same torment that it seems eventually claimed his father, suspiciously soon after the demise of the biggest victim in all of this; Michael Jackson.
uplifting my haitus & venting out
I did say I'm going haitus but truth is I'm not really on complete haitus I'm pretty active on my TUMBLRBLOG and most certainly on my twitter account lol. the reason why I blog because I want to vent--just let it all out. Twitter is handling that tumblr has really been for my randomness coz' its easier to post there. so here in my blogger account I'll use this for updates and such articles news whatever will be posted here. in that case I won't be posting as much compared to previous months.
btw, I did say I'll come back with my TII review seriously up to this date I'm still blank since that tragic day and I'm still high from TII so I don't think I can have a pretty good unbiased objective review regarding TII so I think I'll leave it just that--since don't wanna delve so much today, coz' I'm trying to block zombie mode...don't even want to watch the date right now.
UPDATES:
Check out the 'THE TRUTH' please do read Charles Thomson's post it corroborates what Aphrodite Jones is saying about 'media biases' -- 'conspiracy' against Michael.
I'm sick of bullshit, I've gone through all the crap the media is dishing out the TRUTH needs to get OUT THERE !!
**VENT**
It's getting really PATHETIC FRUSTRATING and UPSETTING one more mother fucker out there I swear IF YOU DON'T/WON'T GET AN EDUCATION...FOOL keep your opinions to yourself !! I'll teach you FACTS and I'mma let you eat it!! shove it down your throat !!
I'mma make this clear I'm not pissed coz' you hate on Michael I'm pissed coz' FOOL YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT & OPINION and its sad !! most of you are even PROFESSIONALS !! where's your education?? ETHICS?????? it's sickening and SAD!!
HUMANITY WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?? ONE MINOR CRYING FOR DECENCY !!
*VENT END*
btw, I did say I'll come back with my TII review seriously up to this date I'm still blank since that tragic day and I'm still high from TII so I don't think I can have a pretty good unbiased objective review regarding TII so I think I'll leave it just that--since don't wanna delve so much today, coz' I'm trying to block zombie mode...don't even want to watch the date right now.
UPDATES:
Check out the 'THE TRUTH' please do read Charles Thomson's post it corroborates what Aphrodite Jones is saying about 'media biases' -- 'conspiracy' against Michael.
I'm sick of bullshit, I've gone through all the crap the media is dishing out the TRUTH needs to get OUT THERE !!
**VENT**
It's getting really PATHETIC FRUSTRATING and UPSETTING one more mother fucker out there I swear IF YOU DON'T/WON'T GET AN EDUCATION...FOOL keep your opinions to yourself !! I'll teach you FACTS and I'mma let you eat it!! shove it down your throat !!
I'mma make this clear I'm not pissed coz' you hate on Michael I'm pissed coz' FOOL YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT & OPINION and its sad !! most of you are even PROFESSIONALS !! where's your education?? ETHICS?????? it's sickening and SAD!!
HUMANITY WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?? ONE MINOR CRYING FOR DECENCY !!
*VENT END*
Thursday, November 5, 2009
HAITUS!
I've thought about & yes I'm taking a LONG HAITUS from the blogging world.
my last post would be my review for 'This Is It' I know its a bit late but I'm trying to sort things out and be more objective of what I truly feel about the film & probably the whole thing.
as of now I'm still high from This Is It adrenaline so I can't really formulate sentences LOL and projects are piling up... so yeah I'm taking a break.
but will be back :)
comeback Sunday for my objective review of This Is It.
for now I'll just give you this...I'm a Michael Jackson fan & I'm blown away by the film how much more if you aren't? now go and experience a genius in your lifetime :)
my last post would be my review for 'This Is It' I know its a bit late but I'm trying to sort things out and be more objective of what I truly feel about the film & probably the whole thing.
as of now I'm still high from This Is It adrenaline so I can't really formulate sentences LOL and projects are piling up... so yeah I'm taking a break.
but will be back :)
comeback Sunday for my objective review of This Is It.
for now I'll just give you this...I'm a Michael Jackson fan & I'm blown away by the film how much more if you aren't? now go and experience a genius in your lifetime :)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Language & Communication such stress.
toning down the mode a lil' bit.
After last night plus an 9hour of sleep, waking up feeling like shit just gave me another realization, damn this place is killing me. Now don't get me wrong, I don't blame it on the people & the place, it's a working progress for me. Since I was in High School been dreading Filipino language, I know it's a shame, My own National Language can't even master it, worst dreading it. But I'm not going into that subject, like I said working progress. What I'm going to 'let out' is how I miss my hometown & my dialect.
I admit I find it hard to speak Filipino that I had to speak 'Taglish' most of the time just to express, explain things. To tell you the truth can't even kid around, how can I even throw punch lines If I don't know the translation for that word, How can I deliver a good joke, If I stutter & blab while saying so coz' my mind is still in the process of translating it.
I think I'm mentally overworked, everyday I would speak this language in order to communicate, My mind is constantly translating words at the end of the day I would just curse coz' I miss saying those words in my dialect. thank God, I have other people here from where I came from, It's really comforting to speak in my own dialect. I live to express, not able to do so is weighing me down. I miss throwing punch lines jokes with my friends or my 'kababayan', I miss the puns we throw in & just laugh whole entire conversation.
humor. gadd I miss the humor I like, the humor I've been doing since I was a kid, seriously jokes here are just FLAT. there are some that are funny, but most of the time--sh!t that was joke? Comedy here is so different. I miss those jokes that makes me 'kutang!', damn living in a city like this I need that kind of laughte--I believe that laughter is the best medicine--laughing like 'hehehe' ain't gonna help man.
Although malls are great here, coz' everything I want to buy is being released here but the expenses is off the roof. I miss those days where I could hit the mall with just P200 in my pocket, hell even P50 you'd be fine roaming around the whole city. I miss this. One more thing even if you got zero money, the hell I care frak it can walk home. I MISS WALKING DOWN THE STREET without the notion of me getting stab at the back.
Walking has been therapeutic for me. That's why I love it so much, that's why I feel like I'm dying here coz' I can't walk the streets....
...Finally I've let it out here. don't get me wrong, there have been a lot of good things here too but you know sometimes this kind of sh!t hits you, so you sulk for a lil' while but you have to get back to reality--life must go on--sh!t happens and drama ain't gonna solve it.
After last night plus an 9hour of sleep, waking up feeling like shit just gave me another realization, damn this place is killing me. Now don't get me wrong, I don't blame it on the people & the place, it's a working progress for me. Since I was in High School been dreading Filipino language, I know it's a shame, My own National Language can't even master it, worst dreading it. But I'm not going into that subject, like I said working progress. What I'm going to 'let out' is how I miss my hometown & my dialect.
I admit I find it hard to speak Filipino that I had to speak 'Taglish' most of the time just to express, explain things. To tell you the truth can't even kid around, how can I even throw punch lines If I don't know the translation for that word, How can I deliver a good joke, If I stutter & blab while saying so coz' my mind is still in the process of translating it.
I think I'm mentally overworked, everyday I would speak this language in order to communicate, My mind is constantly translating words at the end of the day I would just curse coz' I miss saying those words in my dialect. thank God, I have other people here from where I came from, It's really comforting to speak in my own dialect. I live to express, not able to do so is weighing me down. I miss throwing punch lines jokes with my friends or my 'kababayan', I miss the puns we throw in & just laugh whole entire conversation.
humor. gadd I miss the humor I like, the humor I've been doing since I was a kid, seriously jokes here are just FLAT. there are some that are funny, but most of the time--sh!t that was joke? Comedy here is so different. I miss those jokes that makes me 'kutang!', damn living in a city like this I need that kind of laughte--I believe that laughter is the best medicine--laughing like 'hehehe' ain't gonna help man.
Although malls are great here, coz' everything I want to buy is being released here but the expenses is off the roof. I miss those days where I could hit the mall with just P200 in my pocket, hell even P50 you'd be fine roaming around the whole city. I miss this. One more thing even if you got zero money, the hell I care frak it can walk home. I MISS WALKING DOWN THE STREET without the notion of me getting stab at the back.
Walking has been therapeutic for me. That's why I love it so much, that's why I feel like I'm dying here coz' I can't walk the streets....
...Finally I've let it out here. don't get me wrong, there have been a lot of good things here too but you know sometimes this kind of sh!t hits you, so you sulk for a lil' while but you have to get back to reality--life must go on--sh!t happens and drama ain't gonna solve it.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
THIS IS IT: THE TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON
Original Article here.
finally FACTS--it's long overdue but the media should really start doing this.
like I said we don't need sh!t anymore.
THIS IS IT: THE TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON
By Mike Parker||Oct.18, 2009
FROM Los Angeles to London and all points beyond, stories about Michael Jackson have grown wilder almost by the hour in the 114 days since he died from a massive intravenous drug overdose on June 25.
However, for the handful of people who have actually seen his autopsy report, leaked in full to America’s Associated Press, the word the world didn’t want to hear stands out like a sore thumb: normal.
“His overall health was fine,” says Dr Zeev Kain, chairman of the anaesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine, who was shown the Los Angeles County Coroner’s full report and he adds (brace yourself for the biggest non-scandal of the year): “The results are well within normal limits for a 50-year-old man.”
Here, using key findings from the autopsy, is how screaming headlines around the planet have been largely at odds with a reality that is only now beginning to emerge about Jackson.
FICTION: His body was in “grotesque”, malnourished shape.
FACT: He was suffering from arthritis in his back and a mild build-up of plaque on the arteries of his legs. These are ailments associated with normal ageing, says Pittsburgh-based forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. Jackson’s body weight of 9st 10lb was, Wecht says, “On the low side of normal, suggesting he wasn’t eating properly.” This is confirmed by former TV Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno, who was training Jackson for his This Is It concerts at London’s O2 Arena.
He says: “Michael only ate one meal a day and could maybe have carried a little more meat on his bones but he didn’t look frail to me.”
FICTION: He was suffering from skin cancer.
FACT: He wasn’t. He almost certainly suffered from vitiligo, a skin-discolouring disease he announced he had but most people refused to accept, preferring to believe he was trying to artificially make himself white.
The L.A. Coroner’s report specifically identifies “depigmentation of his skin around his chest, abdomen, face and arms,” consistent with “the effects of vitiligo”.
Jackson did use powerful bleaching agents, including Benoquin and Eldopaque creams, but “only as a means of trying to counter the vitiligo and create a uniform colour”, according to a Jackson family source.
It appears clear that the erroneous “I want to be white” stories stemmed from an affidavit sworn by Blanca Francia, a former maid at Neverland Ranch, during the first child molestation investigation into Jackson in 1993, centring on his relationship with the then 13-year-old Jordan “Jordy” Chandler.
This case was settled out of-court for a sum believed to be in excess of $20million but much of the opinion surrounding it stuck as “fact,” including Francia’s assertion under oath that Jackson bleached his skin because: “He felt blacks are not liked as much as people of other races.”
Her affidavit was leaked by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department but even Jackson’s later, completely accurate, assertion that he suffered from vitiligo was dismissed with disbelief in most quarters.
FICTION: Jackson “disfigured” his body because he hated it.
FACT: This is only partially true and probably by accident. The L.A. Coroner revealed that Jackson’s eyebrows, eyelids, lips and head were tattooed.
Jackson was balding and wore wigs as a result of the 1994 fire that severely burned his scalp during the shooting of a Pepsi Cola commercial.
Having studied the coroner’s findings, Wecht believes the singer’s head tattoo “would have masked entirely the scars on his scalp”. In a strikingly simple and sad further explanation last week, a Jackson family source told me: “Michael couldn’t bear his scars, so he covered them with a dark tattoo, the edge of which he used as a kind of guideline to place his wig.”
As for the eyebrows, eyelids and lips, aside from possibly having them tattooed in the mid-Nineties because it was then considered trendy, Jackson may have had those painful areas inked, speculates Cyril Wecht, because he suffered from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
This is a condition in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by a perceived defect in his or her physical features. Wecht believes BDD might explain not only the facial tattoos but also Jackson’s obsession with plastic surgery. As far as it was possible to estimate, the L.A. Coroner made reference to “as many as 20 or more procedures” on the singer.
FICTION: He was laid to rest wearing a prosthetic nose.
FACT: Not true, though small scars around his nose indicated to the coroner that Jackson may have undergone as many as four rhinoplasties, not the two “nose jobs” he admitted to while alive.
The coroner’s report also noted that Jackson bore a ¾ inch scar behind his left ear and two three-inch scars at the base of his neck. “These are incisions associated with plastic surgery,” says Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner for New York City.
Some experts have postulated that Jackson may have undergone as many as 30 expensive plastic surgeries but in his new book Unmasked, investigative journalist Ian Halperin quotes a fellow veteran Hollywood reporter, interviewed a month before Jackson’s death, thus: “What’s the harm? Do you really think that makes Michael Jackson different from many other celebrities? Everybody in this town lies about plastic surgery, except maybe Joan Rivers.
“The guy’s an eccentric. He’s obviously got serious psychological issues but, again, who doesn’t around here? I’ve been covering him since he was 13 and he’s also done a lot of good, a lot.”
Asked at the time by Halperin to repeat this to camera for a TV programme he was producing, the reporter shook her head and replied: “I don’t think so. It’s not a great career move to be seen defending Michael Jackson these days, though God knows, he could use somebody to stick up for him.”
Whether or not he suffered from BDD, a condition that could have stemmed from childhood when he was painfully embarrassed by acute acne, it can hardly be denied that a sizeable percentage of household names also reach a certain age before they too, like Peter Pan, want to remain forever young, in looks at least, and turn repeatedly to the plastic surgeon’s scalpel.
FICTION: Jackson’s arms and legs were peppered with needle punctures. He may have been a heroin addict.
FACT: The coroner did find injection marks on both of the singer’s arms and on one knee and one ankle, revealing, says Wecht, “how the drugs in his system got there”.
Those drugs, according to the coroner, were Propofol, acute intoxication of which was determined to be the actual cause of death, and the prescription sedatives Lorazepam, Midazolam, the sedative Lidocaine and the stimulant Ephedrine, commonly used as an appetite suppressant.
All these other drugs were listed as possible contributing factors to the coronary that killed Jackson but there is no evidence that he ever injected or used a “street drug” like heroin.
“He was a chronic insomniac,” a Jackson family source confirmed to me. “He just couldn’t fall asleep normally and this was a constant and obsessive problem he tried to overcome in countless ways.”
One way, if you have the money Jackson did, was to hire a personal physician to use the most extreme method imaginable of being “put under”. That physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was paid $130,000 a month by Jackson and has admitted administering the fatal dose of Propofol. Police did not, however, find the resuscitation equipment at Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion that any hospital anaesthetist would normally use.
Dr Murray’s attorney, Edward Chernoff, has pointedly insisted that his client “was not the only physician who prescribed or administered this drug to Mr Jackson”.
Indeed, the Sunday Express has confirmed that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is examining evidence against a number of other doctors in what spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons describes as a “far-reaching” investigation that “covers Mr Jackson’s entire drug history, as far as that is possible”.
Jackson’s older sister La Toya, 53, remains convinced, as do his parents and other siblings, that the singer surrounded himself with sycophants who would pander to his every medical demand. These “enablers,” she claims, simply did what they were told to either feed her brother stimulants, especially as he was rehearsing up to 15 hours a day for the O2 gigs, or put him to sleep in the most extreme manner imaginable.
It appears there is much truth in this, as every family member reports virtually no contact with him in the months leading to his death. An impeccable source, who has known the Jackson clan for more than two decades, says: “Getting anywhere near him, towards the end, was a virtual impossibility and I think it was because he felt ashamed in front of his family for two reasons.
“The first was the extent of his prescription drug taking, fuelled largely by his insomnia and nervousness. The second was that he’d surrounded himself with people who slavishly gave him what he wanted, when he wanted, in return for enormous salaries.
“There were, in the end, two Michaels; the one who amazed his fellow professionals at rehearsals with his seemingly boundless energy and the one who slunk away afterwards needing the strongest drugs imaginable to put him to sleep.
“Michael was always the showman and never cared too much what anyone wrote as long as he was up there in the glare of publicity. He even made up the story about sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber himself to create a stir.
“Then, there was the human side; the one that didn’t want his family to know he was being in turn propped up and put to sleep by incredibly powerful drugs he knew they’d disapprove of.
“The Michael we all thought we knew isn’t who Michael Jackson was when he went home at night, trying to beat whatever demons wouldn’t let him sleep with potent, dangerous drugs so he’d be able to find the energy to perform the following day.
“He wasn’t a freak, not that he cared too much about the ‘Wacko Jacko’ headlines. He was a sad man who was ashamed of the way he ended up living but couldn’t figure a way out.
“It is an enduring tragedy that the enablers who surrounded him at the end didn’t steer him towards therapy or real professional help to overcome the issues of sleeplessness and whatever else bedevilled his mind. They were too busy lining their own pockets.”
finally FACTS--it's long overdue but the media should really start doing this.
like I said we don't need sh!t anymore.
THIS IS IT: THE TRUTH ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON
By Mike Parker||Oct.18, 2009
FROM Los Angeles to London and all points beyond, stories about Michael Jackson have grown wilder almost by the hour in the 114 days since he died from a massive intravenous drug overdose on June 25.
However, for the handful of people who have actually seen his autopsy report, leaked in full to America’s Associated Press, the word the world didn’t want to hear stands out like a sore thumb: normal.
“His overall health was fine,” says Dr Zeev Kain, chairman of the anaesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine, who was shown the Los Angeles County Coroner’s full report and he adds (brace yourself for the biggest non-scandal of the year): “The results are well within normal limits for a 50-year-old man.”
Here, using key findings from the autopsy, is how screaming headlines around the planet have been largely at odds with a reality that is only now beginning to emerge about Jackson.
FICTION: His body was in “grotesque”, malnourished shape.
FACT: He was suffering from arthritis in his back and a mild build-up of plaque on the arteries of his legs. These are ailments associated with normal ageing, says Pittsburgh-based forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. Jackson’s body weight of 9st 10lb was, Wecht says, “On the low side of normal, suggesting he wasn’t eating properly.” This is confirmed by former TV Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno, who was training Jackson for his This Is It concerts at London’s O2 Arena.
He says: “Michael only ate one meal a day and could maybe have carried a little more meat on his bones but he didn’t look frail to me.”
FICTION: He was suffering from skin cancer.
FACT: He wasn’t. He almost certainly suffered from vitiligo, a skin-discolouring disease he announced he had but most people refused to accept, preferring to believe he was trying to artificially make himself white.
The L.A. Coroner’s report specifically identifies “depigmentation of his skin around his chest, abdomen, face and arms,” consistent with “the effects of vitiligo”.
Jackson did use powerful bleaching agents, including Benoquin and Eldopaque creams, but “only as a means of trying to counter the vitiligo and create a uniform colour”, according to a Jackson family source.
It appears clear that the erroneous “I want to be white” stories stemmed from an affidavit sworn by Blanca Francia, a former maid at Neverland Ranch, during the first child molestation investigation into Jackson in 1993, centring on his relationship with the then 13-year-old Jordan “Jordy” Chandler.
This case was settled out of-court for a sum believed to be in excess of $20million but much of the opinion surrounding it stuck as “fact,” including Francia’s assertion under oath that Jackson bleached his skin because: “He felt blacks are not liked as much as people of other races.”
Her affidavit was leaked by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department but even Jackson’s later, completely accurate, assertion that he suffered from vitiligo was dismissed with disbelief in most quarters.
FICTION: Jackson “disfigured” his body because he hated it.
FACT: This is only partially true and probably by accident. The L.A. Coroner revealed that Jackson’s eyebrows, eyelids, lips and head were tattooed.
Jackson was balding and wore wigs as a result of the 1994 fire that severely burned his scalp during the shooting of a Pepsi Cola commercial.
Having studied the coroner’s findings, Wecht believes the singer’s head tattoo “would have masked entirely the scars on his scalp”. In a strikingly simple and sad further explanation last week, a Jackson family source told me: “Michael couldn’t bear his scars, so he covered them with a dark tattoo, the edge of which he used as a kind of guideline to place his wig.”
As for the eyebrows, eyelids and lips, aside from possibly having them tattooed in the mid-Nineties because it was then considered trendy, Jackson may have had those painful areas inked, speculates Cyril Wecht, because he suffered from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
This is a condition in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by a perceived defect in his or her physical features. Wecht believes BDD might explain not only the facial tattoos but also Jackson’s obsession with plastic surgery. As far as it was possible to estimate, the L.A. Coroner made reference to “as many as 20 or more procedures” on the singer.
FICTION: He was laid to rest wearing a prosthetic nose.
FACT: Not true, though small scars around his nose indicated to the coroner that Jackson may have undergone as many as four rhinoplasties, not the two “nose jobs” he admitted to while alive.
The coroner’s report also noted that Jackson bore a ¾ inch scar behind his left ear and two three-inch scars at the base of his neck. “These are incisions associated with plastic surgery,” says Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner for New York City.
Some experts have postulated that Jackson may have undergone as many as 30 expensive plastic surgeries but in his new book Unmasked, investigative journalist Ian Halperin quotes a fellow veteran Hollywood reporter, interviewed a month before Jackson’s death, thus: “What’s the harm? Do you really think that makes Michael Jackson different from many other celebrities? Everybody in this town lies about plastic surgery, except maybe Joan Rivers.
“The guy’s an eccentric. He’s obviously got serious psychological issues but, again, who doesn’t around here? I’ve been covering him since he was 13 and he’s also done a lot of good, a lot.”
Asked at the time by Halperin to repeat this to camera for a TV programme he was producing, the reporter shook her head and replied: “I don’t think so. It’s not a great career move to be seen defending Michael Jackson these days, though God knows, he could use somebody to stick up for him.”
Whether or not he suffered from BDD, a condition that could have stemmed from childhood when he was painfully embarrassed by acute acne, it can hardly be denied that a sizeable percentage of household names also reach a certain age before they too, like Peter Pan, want to remain forever young, in looks at least, and turn repeatedly to the plastic surgeon’s scalpel.
FICTION: Jackson’s arms and legs were peppered with needle punctures. He may have been a heroin addict.
FACT: The coroner did find injection marks on both of the singer’s arms and on one knee and one ankle, revealing, says Wecht, “how the drugs in his system got there”.
Those drugs, according to the coroner, were Propofol, acute intoxication of which was determined to be the actual cause of death, and the prescription sedatives Lorazepam, Midazolam, the sedative Lidocaine and the stimulant Ephedrine, commonly used as an appetite suppressant.
All these other drugs were listed as possible contributing factors to the coronary that killed Jackson but there is no evidence that he ever injected or used a “street drug” like heroin.
“He was a chronic insomniac,” a Jackson family source confirmed to me. “He just couldn’t fall asleep normally and this was a constant and obsessive problem he tried to overcome in countless ways.”
One way, if you have the money Jackson did, was to hire a personal physician to use the most extreme method imaginable of being “put under”. That physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was paid $130,000 a month by Jackson and has admitted administering the fatal dose of Propofol. Police did not, however, find the resuscitation equipment at Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion that any hospital anaesthetist would normally use.
Dr Murray’s attorney, Edward Chernoff, has pointedly insisted that his client “was not the only physician who prescribed or administered this drug to Mr Jackson”.
Indeed, the Sunday Express has confirmed that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is examining evidence against a number of other doctors in what spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons describes as a “far-reaching” investigation that “covers Mr Jackson’s entire drug history, as far as that is possible”.
Jackson’s older sister La Toya, 53, remains convinced, as do his parents and other siblings, that the singer surrounded himself with sycophants who would pander to his every medical demand. These “enablers,” she claims, simply did what they were told to either feed her brother stimulants, especially as he was rehearsing up to 15 hours a day for the O2 gigs, or put him to sleep in the most extreme manner imaginable.
It appears there is much truth in this, as every family member reports virtually no contact with him in the months leading to his death. An impeccable source, who has known the Jackson clan for more than two decades, says: “Getting anywhere near him, towards the end, was a virtual impossibility and I think it was because he felt ashamed in front of his family for two reasons.
“The first was the extent of his prescription drug taking, fuelled largely by his insomnia and nervousness. The second was that he’d surrounded himself with people who slavishly gave him what he wanted, when he wanted, in return for enormous salaries.
“There were, in the end, two Michaels; the one who amazed his fellow professionals at rehearsals with his seemingly boundless energy and the one who slunk away afterwards needing the strongest drugs imaginable to put him to sleep.
“Michael was always the showman and never cared too much what anyone wrote as long as he was up there in the glare of publicity. He even made up the story about sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber himself to create a stir.
“Then, there was the human side; the one that didn’t want his family to know he was being in turn propped up and put to sleep by incredibly powerful drugs he knew they’d disapprove of.
“The Michael we all thought we knew isn’t who Michael Jackson was when he went home at night, trying to beat whatever demons wouldn’t let him sleep with potent, dangerous drugs so he’d be able to find the energy to perform the following day.
“He wasn’t a freak, not that he cared too much about the ‘Wacko Jacko’ headlines. He was a sad man who was ashamed of the way he ended up living but couldn’t figure a way out.
“It is an enduring tragedy that the enablers who surrounded him at the end didn’t steer him towards therapy or real professional help to overcome the issues of sleeplessness and whatever else bedevilled his mind. They were too busy lining their own pockets.”
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