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   oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

   That is smoke, not clouds, he’s gettin the hotfoot he deserves
   Pervert in Chief gone at last

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   PlainBill said, 4 months ago

   Perhaps the Thumper rule should apply here (“If you can’t say something nice… don’t say nothing at all. “)

   PlainBill

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   parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

   jackson’s music is simply phenomenal. his life was tragic and misguided - even tortured, but the universal consensus seems to be that he was a rare musician - an anomaly in a lulled music mainstream.

   don’t mind oldlego, plainbill, he thinks johnny depp is michael jackson, and he doesn’t like newbies.

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   big G 3469 said, 4 months ago

   Be nice people! He’s gone & he will never be forgotten. Remember him for what he’s done for the music industry & not what the tabloids has painted him as.

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   Norman said, 4 months ago

   PlainBill said,

   Perhaps the Thumper rule should apply here (“If you can’t say something nice… don’t say nothing at all. “)

   I won’t say a word.

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   oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

   That’s no fun… anonymity has its pleasures….

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   senorbullwinkle said, 4 months ago

   HEY OLDGONAD, You’re an old reptile, I mean repubican.
   You should know that the Bible say’s ” By thy mite you dish it out, It shall be Dished back at ya, with said same amount of mite. Meaning, You might end up doing the Moon walk with him,
   …………….Down there.
   .
   ( By the way you judge others, You shall be judged )

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   PlainBill said, 4 months ago

   It’s probably age, but I always found his performances (and of those who have followed him) incomprehensible. A singer sings, and should be judged by the quality of his singing. Wearing bizarre costumes and gyrating wildly about the stage never seemed to enhance the experience for me.

   In other professions, would someone want a mediocre surgeon who also plays the violin while operating? Or a so-so dentist who tap dances while filling cavities?

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   lalas said, 4 months ago

   Bill – Think Elvis, Marilyn, James Dean. People that weren’t really all that great in their own right, but were cutting edge and made an indelible impact on the world. If you were coming up in the eighties, your view would most likely be different.

   I’m not much of a pop fan, but Jacko made a huge impact on the world of music and a much younger me :)

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    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    Excellent point Senor. But that only matters if Jesus is the Son of God. And if you believed Jesus is the Son of God you would believe the other things written about and through Him. And if that is the case you would be skeptical and fearful of MJ’s final destination. Or, alternatively, you are a mean -spirited and dishonest person.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 4 months ago

    ^ WHO,… ME ?

12. 

    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    Of course not, that was hypothetical… :^D

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    Corosive Frog said, 4 months ago

    That guy was weird, and yet one of the best entertainers in history.

    IMHO (this is not a PhD’s point if view, I’m not a PhD…yet), Jackson’s personnality had something of a pedophile. He grew under the spotlight, surrounded by people that made him an amazing entertainer, but failed to make him a human being, well, if they ever tried, it is.

    The guy never had a childhood, no teen age. How could he be a normal person, facing troubles and good times, loves and heartbreaks that build human beings? He took pride in “never groing up” so maybe in his mind, him sleeping with kids is not an adult sleeping with a kid, but a kid sleeping with another kid.

    The law is the law, though.

    He kinda reminded me of the character Tingle from the Legend of Zelda game series. Tingle is a man of 35 who walks around in green, wishing to become a fairy.

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    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    Yes, but he had money…

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    lalas from lalaland,

    how in the name of all that’s sacred in the entertainment industry (yes there is) can you make an out of touch statment like:

    Think Elvis, Marilyn, James Dean. People that weren’t really all that great in their own right but were cutting edge …

    How in the do you think they became cutting edge????!!

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    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    Those three names are distinctive not in their contribution to their crafts, but because of their ability to monopolize public interest. Marilyn and James Dean were lame actors with substandard movies to their credit. Elvis distilled Black R&B culture and music into a saleable product to white folks; all his contributions except mass appeal can be attributed to others. (I’m not saying he wasn’t talented, though).

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    So long, good bye–now get out of the news–I think that was pretty nice Plain Bill

18. 

    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    It is Thursday. He is still dead. go back to work.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    What a bizarre statement NoFearPup:

    “Those three names are distinctive not in their contribution to their crafts, but because of their ability to monopolize public interest.”

    In cinema, as well as music, dance, theatre and the visual arts, common or standard credentials may be waved at the advent of fresh power if you will (innovation, compelling persona, defiance of the establishment and so on).

    Elvis was fresh and he brought fusion of rock, blues and country (hence rockabilly) to popular music. He had a creamy baritone voice, the tonal acrobatics of a Wilson Pickett, and a passion for his music - not to mention he was handsome by all standards at the time, and he could command the stage and the house AND the American female as well as male populations.

    Norma Jean was raised in an orphanage. There are great socio/psychological studies on why, from the same pain or squalor, some are undaunted achievers and escape, and some are “drowned” before they even get out. Marilyn was the climber (with a desperate flavor no doubt, and she eventually “drowned” in the system). Say what you will about her marriages and her movies, some have said she was the most popular female actress of all time. She knew how to play a platimum haired innocent, she was beautiful, smart, playful and humorous - indistinctive? I don’t think so.

    And Dean - oh man - another tragedy. Mom died early, went to live with relatives, found his way to NY* then Hollywood, but it wasn’t on his “indistinctive” abilities. *He studied “method acting” or the Stanislavski method, with Lee Strasberg in New York - with people like Brando, Deniro, Bancroft, Neal, Newman, Pacino - and Ms. Monroe too, by the way. He would have enjoyed the same noteriety had he lived. Young, smart, startlingly talented but he was a no-fear (oø) risk-taker and it killed him.

    Sometimes I wonder if we post these aserbic criticisms out of jealousy or maybe just not knowing. By the way, dear Pup, they -were- distinctive in their contributions to their crafts AND they -were- able to monopolize (or command is a better word) public interest.

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    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    Real Art hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years…Watch a John Ford western and compare it to the “politically and socially sensitive” bleeep they call “movies” nowadays. Look at turn of the century (20th) Jazz and compare it to the contemporary Pop of the time and current Pop. Really good Rock and Pop from the last century built on well established forms and merely added electric instruments. Don’t believe the hype, that’s how they sell records.

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    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    I’ve found generalizations about art usually come from the artists themselves; since by definition nowadays, they usually lack strong verbal and writing skills as a rule.

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    Corosive Frog said, 4 months ago

    He was a musical phenomenon, that doesn’t change the fact that he liked kids the way he shouldn’t.
    He liked kids in a way he shouldn’t have, that doesn’T change the fact that he was a musical phenomenon.

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    Corosive Frog said, 4 months ago

    And maybe in 70 yeard people will still listen to Michael Jackson, we’re just not 70 years from now yet, so we can’t tell.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    NFP, weren’t you the one who recognized the Hopperesque toon? (I had my hopes up) And artists who I know (and have studied) are focussed as are their historians - experts, scholars are that way. Are you pulling my chain “art hasn’t changed in 100 years” (it’s changed even as we banter) or am I just casting pearls before one-trick ponies?

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    senorbullwinkle said, 4 months ago

    ^ Not ponies, one trick jackass.
    .
    Ask fearful what he thinks of Pat Boon, And Lawrence Welk, then you’ll understand.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    eeeeeeeuuuuuww

27. 

    PUPPYSAURUS said, 4 months ago

    I refuse to join in in your immature banter.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 4 months ago

    HEY, DONT WORRY, you weren’t invited ! LOL !

29. 

    Anthawn Nichols said, 4 months ago

    The long live king has finally passed on
    but the ledend of Micheal Jackson Live on

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    it’s not so amazing is it anthawn - he was above the natural sky - and in many ways (oh shise they gonna kill me) he was an innocent. some of us know what that means.

31. 

    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    He was an innocent who was not innocent.

    He was amoral while his acts were immoral.

32. 

    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    Its Tuesday…like my softer gentler image??

33. 

    Gladius said, 4 months ago

    Is that compassionate conservatism?

34. 

    jag72 said, 4 months ago

    Let’s move on to something else. This topic is worn out.