New Janet & Michael Jackson duet being released
Janet Jackson has teamed up with her brother Michael from beyond the grave to record a new track for her upcoming greatest hits compilation.
The siblings duetted on hit dance track 'Scream', which also appears on the new Number Ones album, but few fans knew the pair had collaborated on another tune, titled 'Make Me', which will close the two-CD set.
Very little is known about the new track, apart from the fact it was recorded last year.
Jackson's new hits package will be released in November.
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AEG privately predicting "$250m in first five days"
Examiner.com -
According to Nikke Finke's Deadline Hollywood, Sony's forthcoming Michael Jackson movie, 'This is it', could make as much as $250m in its first five days. ...
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Michael Jackson-Penned Posthumous Comic Book Drawing Fair Chatter
By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
While there was some question as to the foot traffic in the rights center during the first day of the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair—one American noted the sparse number of occupied mailboxes as a sign that the fair is sluggish while another pointed to full tables as a sign it’s business as usual—a handful of titles were drawing buzz, and some high advances, after the close of day one.
One book generating lots of conversation is a graphic novel project by the King of Pop. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently Michael Jackson was working on a comic book for years with friend (and son of Deepak) Gotham Chopra and now Random House’s Villard imprint is prepping to release the fruits of this seemingly unlikely collaboration. The book, Fated, is about a Jackson-esque pop icon named Gabriel Star whose fame has left him isolated and emotionally cut-off. After a suicidal swan dive from his hotel one night, Star survives only to see his celebrity grow and discover that he’s becoming, per the publisher, “something not quite human.” No word yet from Random House on foreign sales, but we hear the house is showing bits of the book to foreign houses. The title’s slated for a June 2010 hardcover U.S. release—the art’s black and white and the book is small format—and Mukesh Singh is illustrating.
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Calling All Zombies! Learn 'Thriller' Dance and Break the Record
Bristol Herald Courier
GATLINBURG, Tenn. – Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies will host “Thrill The World,” a worldwide attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous dance with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on Oct. 24 at 8:30 p.m. Thousands of people in cities around the world will learn the “Thriller” dance and perform it in Gatlinburg.
Actress Ola Ray, who was best known for Jackson’s girlfriend in “Thriller,” the most popular video of all times, will lead the dancers in the “Thrill The World” dance at the aquarium.
Ray will be in the area on Oct. 24-25 at the Grand Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Pigeon Forge as part of Adventurecon.com, Tennessee’s largest pop culture and collectors show which features dozens of celebrities.
In 2008, 4,179 people at 72 events in 71 cities in 10 nations participated in “Thrill the World.” Michael Jackson viewed the event in Los Angeles from a helicopter. The largest “Thriller” current record of 881 zombies danced in Austin, Texas on Oct. 25, 2008.
Eleven other cities participated with more than 100 dancers in each city including: Seattle, Austin, Texas; Washington; Los Angeles; Bolton, England; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and more. Gatlinburg was recruited to be one of the participating cities in “Thrill The World” in 2009.
“We are really excited to host this international event at the aquarium and would like everyone to come and participate in the “Thriller” dance so we can help break the world-record,” said Ryan DeSear, general manager of Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies.
Thriller Dance workshops will be taught at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg each Tuesday at 6 p.m. during October or you can learn the dance free online at http://www.thrilltheworld.com/learn/videos.
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Today in
Michael Jackson History
Michael Jackson History
1953 - Toriano Adaryl (Tito Jackson) was born.
1996 - Superior Court Judge Reginald Dunn ruled that Victor Gutierrez must pay Michael Jackson damages for refusing to identify the source that had shown him a video of Jackson allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy.