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There's a lot of talk about the thrillicious ad :wild:
Which you can go vote for by checking out this thread: http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45608
SoBe Life Water Super Bowl Commercial Featuring Naomi Campbell Now Available to Media
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- SoBe Life Water launches its full portfolio of beverages in a highly innovative and unprecedented Super Bowl commercial. Featuring the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, on the eve of the album's 25th anniversary, the spot stars Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who along with a cast of SoBe lizards, introduce the world to the concept of Thrillicious.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/food-beverages/20080203/NYSU00703022008-1.html
also:
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]JACKSON EYES COLLABORATION WITH ACCLAIMED PAINTER [/FONT]
Pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON is hoping to add art mogul to his resume - after pursuing an up-and-coming American painter for his wares.
The Thriller singer is currently in talks with acclaimed New York artist Kehinde Wiley, whose buyers include Denzel Washington and Sir Elton John.
But Wiley - who is famed for his portraits of urban black men in classic Renaissance scenes - thought the planned hook-up was initially a hoax.
He says, "Michael Jackson is calling me. We're discussing exactly what it will involve. He saw my work at the Brooklyn Museum and was taken with it, so he had his people contact me.
"I thought it was a joke at first, so I ignored it for the longest time. Then he contacted a friend of mine who's an actor, so I knew it was for real."
http://www.pr-inside.com/jackson-eyes-collaboration-with-acclaimed-r419494.htm
And Ola Ray has something to say:
I was star of Michael jackson's £700m Thriller video... and got paid £600
Exclusive: 25 years on for best-selling album ever
By Deborah Sherwood And Annette Witheridge 03/02/2008
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/...riller-video-and-got-paid-600-98487-20307165/
Michael Jackson Mentionings:
This was the eighth Super Bowl of the 21st century, but if you were only paying attention to the commercials, you might have thought it was the 1970s, '80s or '90s.
It wasn't just older themes that played during the between-plays breaks in Super Bowl XLII, such as Budweiser's Dalmatians and Clydesdales, which have been commercial stars during the big game for decades. Sunday's Super Bowl ads also referred to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the Andrea True disco song "More, More, More" and the "Saturday Night Live" skit that led to the 1998 movie "A Night at the Roxbury." And that was just in the first half.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/MNPLUR873.DTL
Creatures Rule in Super Bowl Ad Bonanza
By SETH SUTEL – 5 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — It was an epic battle of the creatures Sunday night in the Super Bowl ads, ranging from the cute to the menacing to the inexplicably rhythmic. A band of lizard-like reptiles cutting the rug to Michael Jackson's "Thriller"? Hey, it's the Super Bowl.
PepsiCo Inc.'s Sobe Life Water brand brought out some dancing lizards to bop along with Naomi Campbell to Michael Jackson's '80s classic "Thriller," whose 25th anniversary edition is coming out later this month.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8cpWAqKFk116UzfnJ1nZqgEjyGAD8UJAIB82
Michael Jackson HIStory:
1997 - "Daily Variety" reported that Michael Jackson had fired his long time personal managers and had signed a contract with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talai.
1997 - Michael Jackson testified in Rome that he did not steal his 1991 song "Will You Be There." Italian singer Al Bano claimed that the Jackson song was stolen from his 1987 song "Swans of Balaka." \
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unk:In today's News:
There's a lot of talk about the thrillicious ad :wild:
Which you can go vote for by checking out this thread: http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45608
SoBe Life Water Super Bowl Commercial Featuring Naomi Campbell Now Available to Media
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- SoBe Life Water launches its full portfolio of beverages in a highly innovative and unprecedented Super Bowl commercial. Featuring the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, on the eve of the album's 25th anniversary, the spot stars Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who along with a cast of SoBe lizards, introduce the world to the concept of Thrillicious.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/food-beverages/20080203/NYSU00703022008-1.html
also:
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]JACKSON EYES COLLABORATION WITH ACCLAIMED PAINTER [/FONT]
Pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON is hoping to add art mogul to his resume - after pursuing an up-and-coming American painter for his wares.
The Thriller singer is currently in talks with acclaimed New York artist Kehinde Wiley, whose buyers include Denzel Washington and Sir Elton John.
But Wiley - who is famed for his portraits of urban black men in classic Renaissance scenes - thought the planned hook-up was initially a hoax.
He says, "Michael Jackson is calling me. We're discussing exactly what it will involve. He saw my work at the Brooklyn Museum and was taken with it, so he had his people contact me.
"I thought it was a joke at first, so I ignored it for the longest time. Then he contacted a friend of mine who's an actor, so I knew it was for real."
http://www.pr-inside.com/jackson-eyes-collaboration-with-acclaimed-r419494.htm
And Ola Ray has something to say:
I was star of Michael jackson's £700m Thriller video... and got paid £600
Exclusive: 25 years on for best-selling album ever
By Deborah Sherwood And Annette Witheridge 03/02/2008
Thriller was the video that changed pop music forever... and turned Michael Jackson into the biggest star in the world.
Made by a top Hollywood director and lasting 14 minutes, it was the most expensive pop promo of its era with a thenunprecedented budget of £400,000.
It helped Jackson's Thriller album to become the biggestseller of all time with profits of £700million.
Made by a top Hollywood director and lasting 14 minutes, it was the most expensive pop promo of its era with a thenunprecedented budget of £400,000.
It helped Jackson's Thriller album to become the biggestseller of all time with profits of £700million.
Now, as a 25th anniversary edition of Thriller is released this week, featuring remixes by stars such as Kanye West, we can reveal how the unknown actress chosen to star alongside Jackson was paid just £600.
Ola Ray was a 22-year-old glamour model trying to break into acting in 1982 when she beat hundreds of other hopefuls to the part of Jackson's girlfriend in the mini-horror movie.
The former Playboy centrefold was a huge fan of the singer and says she was always confident of landing the role. "The minute I walked into the audition I knew it was mine," she says. "I read a few lines, danced to some music and the rest is history."
Ola still had to wait two weeks until she got the good news. But she'll never forget her first meeting with Jackson.
"I was getting changed, so I was crouched down halfnaked on the dressing room floor and he came in and giggled," she recalls.
"I was used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers.
Michael seemed very relaxed about it." Ola, 47 and a full-time mum living in California, knew Thriller was going to be no ordinary video. "It helped that I was crazy about Michael and he seemed taken by the fact I was a Playboy model," she says.
Ola and Michael became good friends during the two-week shoot. She says she loved to flirt with the star, who was then dating actress Brooke Shields. "I teased him, saying I wanted to be his girl," she says.
"After we shared a limo, I sprayed my perfume around so he'd remember me. He was cute but childlike. Michael then was nothing like the Michael of today. He loved chasing me or jumping out from behind a wall."
The Thriller video, directed by John Landis of Blues Brothers fame, was a record-breaking success, helping start the MTV phenomenon.
The album is still the biggest seller of all time, with 104 million sold.
But Ola didn't have a share of the honeypot and ended in financial trouble. She says Michael used to help out with cheques of around £2,500. "I did lots of TV commercials but I wasn't exactly flooded with work," she says.
"Everyone thinks I made millions but I don't care... I wouldn't change anything." She saw Jackson a few years later but lost touch.
In 1992 Ola was charged with cocaine possession and after a stint in rehab she left Los Angeles to start a new life in Sacramento, where she lives with her daughter Iam, 12.
Ola says: "I'm just so proud to have been part of something that's still so special."
104m sold.. no one can Beat It
104MILLION copies of the Thriller album were sold - 50million in the US alone.
It topped the US chart for 37 weeks, was No1 here too, and spent 190 weeks in the charts.
Its sales record is unlikely to be broken thanks to a long-term decline in record sales.
Thriller spawned five Top 10 UK hits, including Beat It, P.Y.T. and No1 Billie Jean.
It cost £400,000 at a time when most video budgets were around £25,000.
Ola Ray was a 22-year-old glamour model trying to break into acting in 1982 when she beat hundreds of other hopefuls to the part of Jackson's girlfriend in the mini-horror movie.
The former Playboy centrefold was a huge fan of the singer and says she was always confident of landing the role. "The minute I walked into the audition I knew it was mine," she says. "I read a few lines, danced to some music and the rest is history."
Ola still had to wait two weeks until she got the good news. But she'll never forget her first meeting with Jackson.
"I was getting changed, so I was crouched down halfnaked on the dressing room floor and he came in and giggled," she recalls.
"I was used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers.
Michael seemed very relaxed about it." Ola, 47 and a full-time mum living in California, knew Thriller was going to be no ordinary video. "It helped that I was crazy about Michael and he seemed taken by the fact I was a Playboy model," she says.
Ola and Michael became good friends during the two-week shoot. She says she loved to flirt with the star, who was then dating actress Brooke Shields. "I teased him, saying I wanted to be his girl," she says.
"After we shared a limo, I sprayed my perfume around so he'd remember me. He was cute but childlike. Michael then was nothing like the Michael of today. He loved chasing me or jumping out from behind a wall."
The Thriller video, directed by John Landis of Blues Brothers fame, was a record-breaking success, helping start the MTV phenomenon.
The album is still the biggest seller of all time, with 104 million sold.
But Ola didn't have a share of the honeypot and ended in financial trouble. She says Michael used to help out with cheques of around £2,500. "I did lots of TV commercials but I wasn't exactly flooded with work," she says.
"Everyone thinks I made millions but I don't care... I wouldn't change anything." She saw Jackson a few years later but lost touch.
In 1992 Ola was charged with cocaine possession and after a stint in rehab she left Los Angeles to start a new life in Sacramento, where she lives with her daughter Iam, 12.
Ola says: "I'm just so proud to have been part of something that's still so special."
104m sold.. no one can Beat It
104MILLION copies of the Thriller album were sold - 50million in the US alone.
It topped the US chart for 37 weeks, was No1 here too, and spent 190 weeks in the charts.
Its sales record is unlikely to be broken thanks to a long-term decline in record sales.
Thriller spawned five Top 10 UK hits, including Beat It, P.Y.T. and No1 Billie Jean.
It cost £400,000 at a time when most video budgets were around £25,000.
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/...riller-video-and-got-paid-600-98487-20307165/
Michael Jackson Mentionings:
This was the eighth Super Bowl of the 21st century, but if you were only paying attention to the commercials, you might have thought it was the 1970s, '80s or '90s.
It wasn't just older themes that played during the between-plays breaks in Super Bowl XLII, such as Budweiser's Dalmatians and Clydesdales, which have been commercial stars during the big game for decades. Sunday's Super Bowl ads also referred to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the Andrea True disco song "More, More, More" and the "Saturday Night Live" skit that led to the 1998 movie "A Night at the Roxbury." And that was just in the first half.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/MNPLUR873.DTL
Creatures Rule in Super Bowl Ad Bonanza
By SETH SUTEL – 5 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — It was an epic battle of the creatures Sunday night in the Super Bowl ads, ranging from the cute to the menacing to the inexplicably rhythmic. A band of lizard-like reptiles cutting the rug to Michael Jackson's "Thriller"? Hey, it's the Super Bowl.
PepsiCo Inc.'s Sobe Life Water brand brought out some dancing lizards to bop along with Naomi Campbell to Michael Jackson's '80s classic "Thriller," whose 25th anniversary edition is coming out later this month.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8cpWAqKFk116UzfnJ1nZqgEjyGAD8UJAIB82
Michael Jackson HIStory:
1997 - "Daily Variety" reported that Michael Jackson had fired his long time personal managers and had signed a contract with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talai.
1997 - Michael Jackson testified in Rome that he did not steal his 1991 song "Will You Be There." Italian singer Al Bano claimed that the Jackson song was stolen from his 1987 song "Swans of Balaka." \
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