Michael jackson Memorial

The sad thing is they won't actually ever tell those children they were adopted.

Oh and Uri Geller was doing the catering.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Without getting into the ins and outs of his paternity it was incredibly thoughtless and ill-judged to stick the poor girl in front of the cameras like that.

"Speak up, speak up..."

For feck's sake.
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I agree with this.

I'm a big Michael Jackson fan and was really sad to hear he passed away, but I opted out of watching the memorial just because I think it was all in bad taste. Mourning isn't for the public, it is a private thing and I would feel like an intruder watching it, no matter how much the Jackson family wanted to "share" their loss with the world.

And it can't be healthy for an 11 year old to have to speak in front of so many people on her dads funeral. Think of how much Michael Jackson fought to keep his kids away from the spotlights, he clearly wanted them to have a normal childhood (something he never had). He even dressed them up in silly customes just so they wouldn't be recognized. His body isn't even cold yet and the rest of the family are pushing the kids to the spotlights... almost like their poppa Joe Jackson did with them.



Bad taste.
 
CantonasWife said:
I agree with this.

I'm a big Michael Jackson fan and was really sad to hear he passed away, but I opted out of watching the memorial just because I think it was all in bad taste. Mourning isn't for the public, it is a private thing and I would feel like an intruder watching it, no matter how much the Jackson family wanted to "share" their loss with the world.

And it can't be healthy for an 11 year old to have to speak in front of so many people on her dads funeral. Think of how much Michael Jackson fought to keep his kids away from the spotlights, he clearly wanted them to have a normal childhood (something he never had). He even dressed them up in silly customes just so they wouldn't be recognized. His body isn't even cold yet and the rest of the family are pushing the kids to the spotlights... almost like their poppa Joe Jackson did with them.



Bad taste.
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Tbh his daughter probably did want to say something. They were probably very close, and she would of wanted to pay her respects.

It was a memorial service, it wasn't particularly mourning his death, more celebrating his life and achievements. The Jacksons had already had the private funeral.
 
Tevez's Mum said:
Tbh his daughter probably did want to say something. They were probably very close, and she would of wanted to pay her respects.

It was a memorial service, it wasn't particularly mourning his death, more celebrating his life and achievements. The Jacksons had already had the private funeral.
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That casked and all those people wearing black and crying gave me a different impression.

And I doubt an 11 year old knows what's best for her, and she probably already showed her respect in the private funeral.. No need to show all that in the public, can't be good for her in the long run..
 
CantonasWife said:
That casked and all those people wearing black and crying gave me a different impression.

And I doubt an 11 year old knows what's best for her, and she probably already showed her respect in the private funeral.. No need to show all that in the public, can't be good for her in the long run..
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But its her choice. I mean she is grieving. You don't know whats best for her either. IF she wanted to, and felt it would help her to get over his death, then I think you would be foolish to stop her.
 
Raoul said:
Thought Sharpton's speech was incredible.
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EricaNo7 said:
i thought that was inspired
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Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber said:
Al Shaprton said it all really.
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The_Red_Hope said:
That was some speech from Al Sharpton ... His delivery was spectacular. Liked Berry Gordy's as well, but seriously, Sharpton was something else.
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What!!...are you mad! He was just preaching!

Yeah it was nice from their point of view I suppose, which is really all that matters, but he was preaching utter waffle. He claimed Michael started the AID for Africa movement and no-one cared before him - despite LIVE AID being about 2 years before it. He claimed Michael got Obama elected, he claimed a whole lot of ridiculous things wrapped up in gospel preaching rhetoric...I actually thought it was extremely distastefull and ludicrous. Thats what he does for a living, shouts at parishoners..some of you would be indoctrinated in a second if you lapped that up

Testify!

but again...if the family liked it, thats all that really matters.
 
I didn't see anybody dragging his daughter up there to make her say something...it was her choice and rightly so. It was billed by the Jacksons as a celebration of his life and IMO it succeded in doing that although Mariah Carey desperately needs some singing lessons.

It doesn't matter in the slightest whether anyone outside the Jackson family thinks it was OTT or distasteful or a circus because it was a day for the Jacksons and obviously what they wanted.

Personally I found it touching and emotional at times when those that knew MJ the best spoke of their memories...particularly Berry Gordy, Al Sharpton, Magic Johnson, Brooke Shields.

Sadly it's starting to sink in that he's dead. :(
 
Marching said:
I didn't see anybody dragging his daughter up there to make her say something...it was her choice and rightly so. It was billed by the Jacksons as a celebration of his life and IMO it succeded in doing that although Mariah Carey desperately needs some singing lessons.
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True, they said she wanted to say something, the other, older kid, didn't, so you'd imagine it was fairly spontaneous....Though I thought Mariah as OK, it was the bloke with her who was shocking...needlessly adding woooah woooah's in there just so he could get a word (or a noise) out
 
Mariah did ok she was obviously v upset..her and MJ were kind of close.

"Everytime, your lady speaks, she speaks to me, threatened"

About Maraih talking to MJ whilst she was married to Mottola
 
This pretty much sums up how little people actually cared and what a fecking joke the memorial was.
I got to Staples Center some time after the parade of Ringling Bros. elephants and just before a bikini-clad woman who held aloft a sign that said, "Go Vegetarian for the Man in the Mirror." I suppose it goes without saying that not all memorial services draw the same crowd.

Speaking of crowds, this one was way smaller than the city had planned for. There were hundreds of people on the street rather than hundreds of thousands, which means that a few million tax dollars were spent to have police officers stand around with their arms folded. At 11:30 a.m., at Ralphs on 9th Street, I saw two of the 3,200 deployed cops taking a coffee break. They said they'd been on duty since 2 a.m., all of it overtime. By my count, the vendors, the media and the men in blue far outnumbered fans.

So what was I doing there?

I was hoping to bump into the Rev. Al Sharpton to see if he's made any progress in getting Michael Jackson on a stamp. Sharpton, who was on the scene roughly 10 minutes after Jackson was rushed to the hospital June 25, has also criticized the "disgraceful" media for trying to "destroy the legacy" of Jackson, so I was hoping for a chance to ask him what in God's name he was talking about.

I can't remember the last time I saw so much media fluff, hype and hoopla. News organizations that have pulled out of Iraq arrived by the convoy to pay homage to the King of Pop.

Jackson had some great years as a groundbreaking and barrier-crashing, once-in-a-lifetime talent with a message of peace and harmony. But that was followed by a decade or two of extremely disturbing weirdness -- not that you'd know that from the recent news coverage.

You had to wade through acres of shallow water to find media references to Jackson's reported $20-million settlement of a case involving a boy he was accused of molesting. And then there were his comments about seeing nothing wrong with sharing his bed with children, which tells me that if the scheduled comeback hadn't panned out, Jackson could have had a second career as an Irish priest.

As an example of what I mean about the TV coverage, I'd like to share a "bulletin" sent out Tuesday by CNN:

"Michael Jackson's daughter Paris says he was the best father you could ever imagine."

Thanks for digging that up, CNN. But you should have also told me when I could tune in to watch a "news" anchor read e-mailed reactions from across the nation.

I must confess that despite my best efforts, I couldn't get anywhere near Sharpton on Tuesday morning to share my observations. All I had was a blue wristband, and that kept me across the street from Brooke Shields, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, the Kardashians, the Incredible Hulk and all the others who paid tribute to the man in the gilded casket, who presumably had no say in the family decision to turn his passing into a public spectacle in a sports arena.

I was out there with Heidi Golledge and her daughter Lauren, 12, who drove up from Orange County to watch the memorial. They were wearing "King of Pop" cowboy hats, and Heidi told me Jackson, born in Indiana, was practically a homegrown Californian.

"He's our prince, or king, and this is a major event," she said, adding that a 10-year-old daughter was left home in tears because there wasn't a ticket for her.

And what about Jackson's history with kids?

"We know a lot of people in the industry and felt he was set up," Golledge said. "He did some unconventional things with children, but not what he was accused of."

Jiaoyu Duan came all the way from China to stand a block from Staples Center with a sign that said: "We have a dream to heal the world before it's too late. All Chinese fans thank you for always."

Nearby, Mark and Tonya Sandis were selling their new brand of soda: King of Pop.

"We were drinking some champagne after he died and said we need to do something," said Mark Sandis, and they decided on marketing a new line of soft drinks, at $5 a pop, to pay tribute.

Jackson may be gone, but he continues to inspire.

Are there a few opportunists out there, you ask?

More than a few.

A lot of scrappy vendors trying to sell a piece of the man, the media hordes cashing in on the celebrity culture it helps manufacture, the cops collecting overtime, the international telecast selling merchandise to benefit the estate, the owner of Staples Center working a marketing angle or two.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tried his best to get in on the action as well, asking Jackson fans worldwide to help defray the high price of the city's massive preparation for crowds that never showed.

"Donations will help the city of Angels provide the extraordinary public safety resources required to give Michael the safe, orderly and respectful memorial he deserves," said the mayor in an appropriately strange announcement on a strange day even by L.A. standards, and he added that donations would be tax deductible.

Maybe the rest of the world would be more inclined to pony up if it could feel the love firsthand, with an international memorial tour. Better yet, as my pal Jim Rainey suggested, maybe the only proper tribute is to launch that casket into space. Then, no matter where you are in the world, he'll be in the heavens above, moonwalking into eternity.
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MockneyRevil said:
True, they said she wanted to say something, the other, older kid, didn't, so you'd imagine it was fairly spontaneous....Though I thought Mariah as OK, it was the bloke with her who was shocking...needlessly adding woooah woooah's in there just so he could get a word (or a noise) out
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Mariah's always had a grating voice. I never could understand the fuss - Much like Ms Houston.
 
Why can't Mariah Carey sing without all that what's it called..vibrato? It's really irritating and doesn't sound good either.
 
Spoony! said:
Mariah's always had a grating voice. I never could understand the fuss - Much like Ms Houston.
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Do you remember when they did a duet - from Aladdin or some Disney movie. It was like Japanese water torture.
 
Livvie said:
Why can't Mariah Carey sing without all that what's it called..vibrato? It's really irritating and doesn't sound good either.
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She's not as bad as Beyonce who can make an entire song out of woooah woooahs, regardless of djemba djemba
 
GiggsysGirl said:
I think it's called melisma or melismo or something.

But don't quote me on that.
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GG says it's melisma or melismo.

Livvie says it's crap whatever it is.
 
Thought this would belong in the CE forum rather than entertainment, but that is just me :p
 
That Stockholm one pisses all over the shit London one...which was essentially people milling around....However it's nicked straight from the T Mobile add from Liverpool Street, so what goes around comes around, regardless of djemba djemba
 
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