Wow..i'm looking at the date of your post to me and i realize it was a long time ago. time moves quickly. anyway..i noticed your signature and it had to be soo hard for Michael. To have 'it', and know it, and how people conveniently wanted to wrongly equate having 'it', with 'being better than somebody else' which is far from what it was and they knew that. How hard that must have been for Michael when people knew he had it, and its rarity made them jealous and they knew it and he knew it and there was nothing he could do about it...them all being Svengalis and knowing it. And they used their jealousy to hurt him, and use him, constantly, just as Liza Minelli said. It would be clear that that kind of massive fame was hard for the people around him to handle and take without envying him, and therefore, hating him. I hurt so much every time i think about it. For Michael it was Mozart times ten.