Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael"/ Excerpt @pg151/New Interview Post 3743

Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Frank should have said a simple, "Yes, they are MJ's biological children" instead of repeating "yes they are his children".

Btw I'm sorry but Frank is very inarticulate in his interviews.
I agree. Does he use the term biological in the book or does he just say Michael's children?

My local library has the book waiting on me, I'll pick it up tomorrow and start reading it.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Btw I'm sorry but Frank is very inarticulate in his interviews.

we agree on that

I agree. Does he use the term biological in the book or does he just say Michael's children?

he doesn't use it.

and in my opinion that's a question that shouldn't be asked (I'm talking about the DJ's question). It's an insult. He loved, looked after, cared for and so on to these kids. He's their father - period.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

If people really have no true intention of learning information rather than just looking for their preconceived notions to be backed up, then no amount of articulation is going to convince them of anything. T. Mesereau is extremely articulate; yet, I still hear ignorant comments by those who have talked to him or listened to his interviews.

For some, they have issues with Michael for whatever reason. For some, the tabloid stories and false beliefs are more important than the actual man. Frank could say the word biological all he wanted; if you were truly crass enough to ask that question in the first place not knowing if his young children could be listening, then you really weren't going to care about believing the use of that word anyway; of course all of this is my opinion.

There is too much out there for people to know much of the crap sprewed about Michael is just that. People continue to choose to believe what they want to due to their own issues and not how articulate Michael's friends are.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

It's a sad world when the media don't even feel what's wrong with them asking if the kids are Michael's biologically. Why do people feel entitled to know every single detail of MJ's personal life? This world and the human race sucks so much.
 
It's a sad world when the media don't even feel what's wrong with them asking if the kids are Michael's biologically. Why do people feel entitled to know every single detail of MJ's personal life? This world and the human race sucks so much.
I totally agree with you.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Frank should have said a simple, "Yes, they are MJ's biological children" instead of repeating "yes they are his children".

Btw I'm sorry but Frank is very inarticulate in his interviews.


Or, simply, he doesn't believe they are MJ's biological kids. There is nothing inarticulate about a simple yes or no..which obviously, he didn't want to answer by a "yes".

Wasn't it obvious he didn't want to go "there"? He kept giving them the same answer to the same question, when a simply "yes" would have shut Joyner up.

Sounds a very simply & direct question to most.

Again, this brings us back to Roger Friedman....Frank most likely being his source, I am not surprised he is emphatic about the kids not being MJ's biologically. He's been told something.
 
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Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

^^^He makes me sick :puke:
And don't ask me who is "he"
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Or, simply, he doesn't believe they are MJ's biological kids. There is nothing inarticulate about a simple yes or no..which obviously, he didn't want to answer by a "yes".

Wasn't it obvious he didn't want to go "there"? He kept giving them the same answer to the same question, when a simply "yes" would have shut Joyner up.

Sounds a very simply & direct question to most.

Again, this brings us back to Roger Friedman....Frank most likely being his source, I am not surprised he is emphatic about the kids not being MJ's biologically. He's been told something.[/QUOTE]

Friedman was also pretty close to Frank Dileo. Some of the things people are so sure came from Cascio could actually have come from Dileo, for all we know.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Hi, I just curious. I don't follow of what happened in the past since I am kind of like a post June 25th fan. I am one of those boring kids when growing up and never into any artist or star. To me, if they are good at what they do, I will listen to the songs and watch the movie but that's that, until Michael's passing. I was crying for no reason and then couldn't stop watching his MV's and started buying all his albums and realised how much I missed out. Anyway, I am probably like a lot here who is "Michaeling" at least 5 hours a day.

I read some many comments etc that I don't know which comes from where but it was mentioned that Friedman use to write horrible stuff about Michael including speculating that his nose is falling off (when was this?). But throughout the 2005, he is one of the few who wrote that Michael in not guilty, am I right? Post 2005 and after 2009, is he still writing mean and speculative stuff about Michael? Or is his style of writing just "on the face" but still balance (aside from the issue of authenticity of the Cascio's songs)?

I might be killed for saying this but after reading Frank's book, it seems like Friedman was writing a lot of horrible stuff about Michael and him in 2003 before the trial begins but once he gave information to Friedman, there was a different tone as there are no longer based on hearsay or fabricated lies. I personally think that that is not necessary a bad thing. I wished Michael's PR team has handled the whole situation much better but I think they really did a bad job especially that "Bob Jones" guy who sell out on Michael and try to take the credits thinking he "created" KOP. What bullshit! Its sad since Frank Dileo left, Michael is always advice by the people who does necessary have his interest in mind and always take advantage of him - from Dietner, to Ramone and Thomme and even perhaps Randy, his own brother. Sigh.....
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Ive got the book, finally ive been waiting a week for it. Im curius and excited to read it. Maybe difficult in english but i dont care im gonna try it.

Btw nice pics :D
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

^ If you are writing at the quality you are you wont have any problem reading it.. don't second guess yourself! You are more advanced than you give yourself credit for
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

I might be killed for saying this but after reading Frank's book, it seems like Friedman was writing a lot of horrible stuff about Michael and him in 2003 before the trial begins but once he gave information to Friedman, there was a different tone as there are no longer based on hearsay or fabricated lies.

Yes, that's exactly the case. Thing about Friedman is that he is always on the side of whoever is feeding him with information. (This is not just the case regarding Michael, but everybody he is writing about.)

So during the trial it wasn't a bad thing that Frank (most probably it was Frank, IMO) fed him with information and in fact most of what he wrote during the trial turned out to be true as well. However his loyality only lasts as long as he is fed with info. During the civil trial MJ vs. Schaffel he obviously got fed by Schaffel's side and you can see that in his writings at the time - which were very anti-MJ and he finished many of his articles by saying Michael should settle with Schaffel if he doesn't want certain "infos" (read: lies) about him to be out in the media. It was basically Schaffel's way, with the help of Friedman, to try and blackmail him into a settlement.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

we agree on that



he doesn't use it.

and in my opinion that's a question that shouldn't be asked (I'm talking about the DJ's question). It's an insult. He loved, looked after, cared for and so on to these kids. He's their father - period.

Couldn't agree more.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Reading these discussions I don't agree with people who's blaming Cascio for telling the truth, I mean not his speculations but about the facts he knew for sure being with Michael for so many years. Why should we read the book, which is really nice and revealing in some ways, and discuss the "real" relationship bewtween Frank and MJ? The disagreements do happen in any relationship including their one. I don't want to jugde Frank he didn't follow Michael's wish to not publish a book about him ever. This is on his conscience and I am pleased to read something new I haven't known before about. Maybe it's selfish from fan's side to be interested in what Michael didn't want us to know. But this is the fan's nature who loves their idol. Some say here, why he wrote about drugs, about girls, about smoking pot (so, what), etc. These are facts had a place in Michael's life. Or we should pretend they didn't? This is the same situation like with Shmuley with his priceless tapes. Who ever he was to Michael - a friend or a fraud (the last I don't believe), or spiritual adviser who annoyed Michael with his advices, his books allow to know MJ better. We need to thank them for sharing interesting things and not to blame them in "selling friendship for money". Don't calculate their profit, appreciate their willing to help people to look at Michael not like at the superstar but like at a human being.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

^ If you are writing at the quality you are you wont have any problem reading it.. don't second guess yourself! You are more advanced than you give yourself credit for

thank you kopv! Thats really sweet! x
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Who is this friedman???
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Who is this friedman???

Roger Friedman - a journalist. He used to have a regular column on the website of Fox News.
 
moodyblue97;3542169 said:
And this is what I have to say with the risk of getting more hate. And I try not to be cryptic this time.

What Michael publically stated wasn´t always accurate. Sometimes he said more than one thing about the same subject. I´ve two versions when it comes to Blanket, one that Michael said on TV and one that he gave me in private.
I have avoided this thread for a long time. Many things in that book is fabricated, they are bits of what happened. Munich 99 for one thing. I know for sure Michael didn´t get propofol there, unless he is talking about the night he spent in hospital, because that I´ve no idea about. During History tour he did have a doctor with him and everyone knows by this point how he got some sleep there, so I´m not in denial about propofol. But in Munich? No

And then at one occassion in 2006 Michael said this (I don´t remember all his exact words, but horrible were something he said multible times.

One of my friends, and I know this happened, told journalists or if it was a column writer that I seduced my fans. And that is not true and it´s horrible such thing were told. And they put women by my side. And some of them went on TV to say they had a relationship with me, that is horrible too, and it´s not true and people around me kept saying it´s good for me, it´s good for me. I found it to be horrible. They didn´t care about what it put the one I love through, as long as they could make me look straight they didn´t care what it could have done with what I already had since a few years back. There is not such thing as women, there is a woman, one woman, except for my mother. And the thought about her being forced to take the stand for me gave me nightmares and is the last thing I would put her through, to be questioned and being mocked by one of the most evil men on this planet. It was horrible.

And the more he talked the faster he talked and in the end it came tears. And he was really upset. I wasn´t alone with him at this time, there were other people around, one of them was one of his photographers. And one girl (as I know now is a follower) were there with another fan (who I don´t know if it´s a follower). And a few more who I think worked with him and not for him, like I did.
I´ve been thinking about this friend being Frank, but of course I can be wrong. Michael talked many times about his brother Eddie and that he is very talented and how he hoped for him to get a few of his songs out there. But he never talked about Frank like that. Who I´ve seen around only a few times and the last time in 2003.

And before anyone say "well, why didn´t he deny it then?" about those going on TV, he got that question from a person being there and he said "I would never humiliate anyone in public by denying, what good would that do to that person? I´m not like that"

Why do you know this? And especially this "Many things in that book is fabricated, they are bits of what happened"? Were you in the same company with MJ and Cascio for the 20 years?
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Or, simply, he doesn't believe they are MJ's biological kids. There is nothing inarticulate about a simple yes or no..which obviously, he didn't want to answer by a "yes".

Wasn't it obvious he didn't want to go "there"? He kept giving them the same answer to the same question, when a simply "yes" would have shut Joyner up.

Sounds a very simply & direct question to most.

Again, this brings us back to Roger Friedman....Frank most likely being his source, I am not surprised he is emphatic about the kids not being MJ's biologically. He's been told something.
I had the same thought. I remember how upset Roger seemed that Jermaine said that all 3 children were biologically Michael's.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Or, simply, he doesn't believe they are MJ's biological kids. There is nothing inarticulate about a simple yes or no..which obviously, he didn't want to answer by a "yes".

Wasn't it obvious he didn't want to go "there"? He kept giving them the same answer to the same question, when a simply "yes" would have shut Joyner up.

Sounds a very simply & direct question to most.

To most but not to everyone. If Frank didn't answer directly it means he was not sure whether the kids biological or not. It's very simple to catch.
 
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Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

If I was Frank, I would have shut Tom up and told him it was inappropriate question to ask.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

And all the contradictory drug addiction talk - in the 20/20 interview he calls Michael a "situational drug addict" and then in the Q&A he emphatically states that "he was not a drug addict!". Which one is it? He was or he wasn't? What is Frank's position on this topic? So if anyone has a link or anything, and would like to share it, that would be amazing. Thank you!

Yes, in addition to that in his book he suspected Michael used propofol but now in a recent inteview he told he never knew about that drug until trial began. I think Frank hesitate regarding this issue because Michael was not a drug addict taking into account that he didn't take any cocaine or LSD but he was a drug prescribed addict. Could it be so new for anyone? Cascio's position is like position of all people who knew about Michael's problem.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

A "Situational Drug Addict" is not an addict.. that is someone with dependancy issues.. He expressed that very poorly, but that's what it is.. He should have discribed it as exactly that "He had dependancy issues but not an addict"
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

A "Situational Drug Addict" is not an addict.. that is someone with dependancy issues.. He expressed that very poorly, but that's what it is.. He should have discribed it as exactly that "He had dependancy issues but not an addict"

That's what I meant. We can call it differently but the the problems between "Situational Drug Addict" or just drug addict are the same. They are all ruin someone's health even more that it was before using those kinds of drugs.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

^ yes! just at different rates.. I don't think people would argue on Michaels addictive type personality.. He showcased it with his perfectionism in many aspects.. ( I don't believe he was a drug addcit)Just a point here:A person dependant on drugs does not mean they are an addict/dependancy issues can lead into addiction very easily though.. There is a very fine line.. A side note: I went into the contraversy area of mjjc a couple days ago and was disgusted with some of the things I saw going on.. Then I noticed with how many pages those horrible things (Like the pallicano) thread had, and I compared it to the Cascio thread.. And it honestly saddens me that a conflict between what fans believe is right or wrong for a friend to say or not say has over 200 pages while another person is straight up trying to incriminate Michael does not even reach double digit pages..I think we should be more focused on much harsher things that go on regarding Michael than nit picking on how Frank words things, or what story we wish was not in the book etc.
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

Hey, for those who read the book, what do you think about the part where Frank talked about Michael asking him to observe on the staff he suspect was not doing their job proper (or even being dishonest).

One of my favourite songs in the History album (my favourite album followed by Dangerous) is "This time around". If you listen to the rap part, you would hear that same feeling that "Michael doesn't even feel safe at home and things goes missing".

Anyway, I chance upon this video which I don't know if it has been posted but WOW, it took my breath away how sexy and Michael look in these drawings. ENJOY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVPUD3lylLU
 
Re: Frank Cascio "My Friend Michael" book release date Nov 15 ,2011 / Excerpt posted at @pg151

This is the same situation like with Shmuley with his priceless tapes. Who ever he was to Michael - a friend or a fraud (the last I don't believe), or spiritual adviser who annoyed Michael with his advices, his books allow to know MJ better. We need to thank them for sharing interesting things and not to blame them in "selling friendship for money". Don't calculate their profit, appreciate their willing to help people to look at Michael not like at the superstar but like at a human being.

I think the thing is a little different in Shmuley's book. His first one is horrible. The part with MJ answering question is priceless. However, the way he wrote the book is just horrible. He twisted so many things just like Martin Bashir. I felt like I was reading the Living with Michael Jackson Part II. The way he did the second book is way better. He made a horrible decision to put his opinions in the first book and twisted MJ's words in a horrible way. I think that's part of the reason why fans against it not just he releasing the content. I also don't think Frank's book can be compared with Shmuley's. Frank is writing "his own story" with MJ. Shmuley is releasing the interview he had with MJ without permission. However, I've to admit that people should also read MJ's answer and ignore all the comments from Shmuley. It really had great insight.
 
Hey, for those who read the book, what do you think about the part where Frank talked about Michael asking him to observe on the staff he suspect was not doing their job proper (or even being dishonest).One of my favourite songs in the History album (my favourite album followed by Dangerous) is "This time around". If you listen to the rap part, you would hear that same feeling that "Michael doesn't even feel safe at home and things goes missing". Anyway, I chance upon this video which I don't know if it has been posted but WOW, it took my breath away how sexy and Michael look in these drawings. ENJOY!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVPUD3lylLU
This reminds me of the story about Emily. Frank said Michael tried to keep the relationship a secret. Emily never stayed in Michael's room as he didnt want people seeing Emily leaving his bedroom. My heart hurt while reading that. Michael never feel safe in his own house.
 
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