December 26, 2007: Michael Jackson News & Mentionings

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Starting this one a little early. Looks as though everyone was enjoying Christmas so much the news thread was overlooked :p


So far this is what I have for ya'll today...

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The Dutchess Meets The King Of Pop

Pop culture superstar Fergie has joined an already stellar line-up of guest artists for the 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the world's biggest selling album of all time. Alongside new remixes of classic Jackson tracks by musical contemporaries Kanye West, will.i.am and Akon, Fergie has added her signature vocals to a new version of "Beat It" entitled "Beat It 2008," produced and mixed by her fellow Black Eyed Pea will.i.am.
Epic/Legacy Recordings proudly celebrates the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller with a newly expanded deluxe edition of the phenomenal record-breaking pop culture touchstone, available on Tuesday, February 12, 2008. The album will be available worldwide the week of February 11, 2008.
The Michael Jackson Thriller 25th anniversary celebration kicks off in December 2007 with the release of a new single and continues throughout 2008 with a multi-faceted global marketing campaign featuring high-profile television, radio and online events around the world.
The Thriller - 25th Anniversary Edition will include the original album in its entirety as well as seven bonus tracks and a DVD featuring Michael Jackson's groundbreaking short films from Thriller ("Thriller," "Beat It," and "Billie Jean") and the artist's Emmy-nominated breakout performance of "Billie Jean" from the legendary "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" television special (first broadcast on NBC on May 16, 1983).
The newly expanded version of Thriller premieres six tracks previously unreleased in any form: "Beat It 2008" with Fergie; a new Kanye West remix of "Billie Jean"; a new 2008 version of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" with Akon; will.i.am remixes of "The Girl Is Mine" and "P.Y.T."; and "For All Time," a rare unreleased cut from the original Thriller recording sessions, newly mixed and mastered by Michael Jackson.
The deluxe Thriller - 25th Anniversary Edition packaging contains a personal greeting from Michael Jackson to his fans penned exclusively for this special release.


Originally released in the US 25 years ago on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records, Thriller, Michael Jackson's sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones, rocketed the former child-star lead singer for the Jackson 5 into the stratosphere of international superstardom. Introducing the "robot" and the "moonwalk" into the international lexicon of clubland dance moves via the pulsing sounds of Thriller, Michael Jackson revolutionized all aspects of mainstream pop culture -- from radio airwaves to the newly emerging art form of music videos -- becoming the world's most popular entertainer in the process.
The original Thriller spent an astounding 80 consecutive weeks in the American Top 10, 37 of those at #1. Seven of the album's original nine tracks became Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 while Individual singles from Thriller reached #1 chart positions in the US, the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada.
Thriller made history as the first and only record to be America's top-selling album two years running (1983 and 1984).
Thriller has been certified 27x platinum by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond Award status in the US. In addition, the album has achieved Diamond or Multi-Platinum status in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. In 1985, the Guinness Book of Records named Thriller the Best Selling Album of All Time, an achievement which remains unsurpassed to this day.
In February 1984, Michael Jackson held a record-breaking 12 Grammy nominations, going on to win eight, which stands as the record for most Grammy Awards to be won by anyone in a single year. Seven of Michael's Grammys that year were for Thriller: Album of the Year; Record of the Year ("Beat It"); Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Thriller"); Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical (Thriller); Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Beat It"); Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Billie Jean"); Best R&B Song ("Billie Jean"). (Michael's eighth Grammy that year was in the Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken category for "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"). That same year, Michael Jackson took home eight American Music Awards and three MTV Video Music Awards. The following year, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" took home the Best Video Album trophy at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards.
Named the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by the Guinness World Records, Michael Jackson is among the most highly acclaimed and influential artists in pop culture. He was named the World Music Award's Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium and received the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: in 1997 as a member of the Jackson 5 and as a solo artist in 2001.





Mentionings...

:)20 Questions with ISU's Shala Jackson

By Pantagraph staff

20 Questions is a question-and-answer segment featuring Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan student-athletes.

1. Hometown: Fort Wayne, Ind.

2. Sport, position: Basketball, guard

3. Best restaurant in B-N: Logan’s

4. Favorite pro sports team: Indiana Fever

5. Sport I’m worst at: Volleyball

6. In my spare time, I: Hang out with my friends

7. What do you want to be when you grow up: A pro women’s basketball coach

8. Who would you put on the $100 bill: Will Smith

9. You played two years of tennis in high school. Were you any good: I actually played varsity but didn’t win a match.

10. If you could, what food would you put in an IV drip: Corn and meatloaf

11. What’s the wildest shot you’ve ever made in H-O-R-S-E: A half-court shot

12. What is your hidden talent: I can dance like Michael Jackson

13. What is your favorite pair of shoes: Nike Air Force Ones

14. What is your pregame ritual: I dance in the locker room to the same song after our shoot-around

15. What do you miss most about your hometown: My family

16. What is the one thing you cannot live without: My cell phone

17. Best song on your iPod: The Spongebob Squarepants theme song

18. Favorite food after a game: Honey buns

19. You’re road tripping and you stop at a gas station. What’s your snack of choice: Snickers and Doritos

20. Favorite off-campus place in B-N: My teammate’s apartment




:huh:Telegraph.co.uk has to offer...

Liesl at 64 going on 70



Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 26/12/2007





There was a time when Charmian Carr felt smothered by her famous role in 'The Sound of Music', but now she takes inspiration from the story, she tells Cassandra Jardine. Plus Becky Pugh picks five favourite family films
Charmian Carr has had two major roles in her life - one as Liesl, the eldest von Trapp girl who is "16, going on 17" in The Sound of Music, the other as Michael Jackson's decorator. The second of these is intriguing, but it's the first we meet to discuss. No film feels more Christmassy than the largely true story of the von Trapp family singers, known as "The Sound of Money" to its producers.
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Charmian Carr: "Liesl began to feel like my evil twin, the perfect one that everyone loved"Now 64 going on 70, Charmian is still Liesl-like. "It's awfully nice to be remembered for a film that brought happiness to so many," she says. "One man told me his mother was dying in terrible pain until they put on the video. She watched it, laughed and quietly passed away that evening."
But Charmian is not pure schmaltz, by any means: she has total recall of everything that went wrong during the shooting. These are a few of my favourite revelations:
Filming in Salzburg nearly sank 20th Century Fox. It rained non?stop and the film went weeks over schedule.
Julie Andrews kept being blown over by the helicopter carrying the camera during filming of the opening scene where she sings in the hills.
Five-year-old Kym Karath, who played Gretl, the smallest von Trapp, ate so much chocolate in Salzburg that Charmian could barely carry her up the stairs.
Wardrobe forgot to put non-slip pads on Liesl's shoes for her dance with Rolf in the gazebo, so she slid straight through a window and had to complete the scene in agony. But let's start at the very beginning, because it explains why Charmian Carr has spent so much of her life being Liesl on a perpetual promotional tour. The daughter of a vaudevillian and a musician, she was having a miserable time when she turned up for the audition in January 1964.
Her father had deserted the family when she was 13, her mother had taken to drink, and Charmian was testing urine samples in a doctor's surgery when the producers, who had rejected well-known actresses including Geraldine Chaplin and Mia Farrow, started seeing all comers. Aged 21, Charmian could pass for 16, so she found herself whirled off to Austria.

Afterwards, Fox kept her on contract for seven years, but only used her for publicity. "It was hard to have your first role as the high spot of your career," she says. "I felt smothered by Liesl. She began to feel like my evil twin, the perfect one that everyone loved."
After she married in 1967 and had two daughters, she gave up acting - her husband felt upstaged by Liesl - to become an interior decorator. In the 1980s, she acquired her most celebrated client, Michael Jackson. "I decorated his Encino home with animals and mocked-up candy stores, but I quit because he was so weird," she says.
Jackson loves the moment when chilly Captain von Trapp starts to sing with his children. It moves everyone - including Charmian, who likes to think her own father cared more than he showed.
"I've had plenty of mountains to climb," she says. "I've found that it's not trivial to concentrate on your favourite things." For her, these include steak, red wine, dark chocolate and gardening - and the cheque that arrives every time The Sound of Music is shown on television.


Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 26/12/2007








[SIZE=+2]Today in
Michael Jackson History[/SIZE]
1983 - The UK-only release "Michael Jackson 9 Single Pack" hit #66 in the U.K.

1991 - Michael Jackson was featured on ABC-TV's "Entertainers '91." The show featured the top 20 entertainers of 1991.



[SIZE=+2]Michael Jackson Quote[/SIZE]

Get me out
Into the night-time
Four walls won't hold me tonight
If this town
Is just an apple
Then let me take a bite
- Michael Jackson, Human Nature
 
I hope you had a nice, quite, light and warm Christmas. And now let's head to New Year's celebration!!!
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People hoofing all over the place
RON BULL/TORONTO STAR

The popularity of dancing on television and in the movies reflected in studios

Anyone could learn to do Michael Jackson's Thriller dance.

That was the premise behind Thrill the World, a project launched by Ines Markeljevic to make an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. On Oct. 27, 1,722 people in 52 cities on five continents got their zombie on for the largest-ever simultaneous Thriller dance.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/287587

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Liesl at 64 going on 70

There was a time when Charmian Carr felt smothered by her famous role in 'The Sound of Music', but now she takes inspiration from the story, she tells Cassandra Jardine. Plus Becky Pugh picks five favourite family films.

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Charmian Carr has had two major roles in her life - one as Liesl, the eldest von Trapp girl who is "16, going on 17" in The Sound of Music, the other as Michael Jackson's decorator.

After she married in 1967 and had two daughters, she gave up acting - her husband felt upstaged by Liesl - to become an interior decorator. In the 1980s, she acquired her most celebrated client, Michael Jackson. "I decorated his Encino home with animals and mocked-up candy stores, but I quit because he was so weird," she says.

Jackson loves the moment when chilly Captain von Trapp starts to sing with his children. It moves everyone - including Charmian, who likes to think her own father cared more than he showed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/26/bfliesl126.xml

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Today in
Michael Jackson History
1983 - The UK-only release "Michael Jackson 9 Single Pack" hit #66 in the U.K.

1991 - Michael Jackson was featured on ABC-TV's "Entertainers '91." The show featured the top 20 entertainers of 1991.
 
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