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Jackson May Still Be Eyeing Vegas Deal
Posted on: Friday, 6 June 2008, 06:00 CDT
By Norm Clarke
Michael Jackson's future was probably part of the dinner conversation Tuesday when he met with Thomas Barrack Jr., the man who rescued the singer's Neverland Ranch from public auction.
Barrack, chairman and CEO of Colony Capital LLC, dined with Jackson in the Las Vegas Hilton's Verona Sky Villa.
Barrack, a real estate magnate, recently paid $23.5 million for the 2,700-acre Neverland property. Jackson released a statement at the time indicating he was working with Barrack, who is a partner with Colony Resorts LVH Acquisitions LLC.
Jackson had defaulted on loan payments on the Santa Barbara County property.
Jackson, who recently met with Donald Trump associates at Trump International Hotel & Tower, has been scouting for a Vegas deal since arriving in late 2006.
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The double act who stormed Britain's Got Talent reveal why they're BOTH proud to be British
Madhu Singh has a vivid memory of a distinct low point in his bid to become a dancing sensation.
Performing at an audition for a part in an eagerly anticipated Bollywood movie, he had impressed a woman on the judging panel and thought he might be on his way.
'But then the director came on, took one look at me and said: "You're too fat",' he says. 'That knocked my confidence.'
He does, to be fair, look like an unlikely twinkle-toes. 'Stocky' would be a kind word to describe him, 'tubby' a less generous one.
Yet together with his dance partner Suleman Mirza's energetic Michael Jackson-inspired moves, Singh's turn as a portly but brilliantly nimble dancing janitor helped the duo nearly clinch the top spot of this year's Britain's Got Talent.
The pair were pipped at the post by 14-year- old breakdancer George Sampson, but Signature, as their stage act is known, have nonetheless become something of a phenomenon, their audition re-run exceeding five million viewers in a single day on YouTube.
Not bad for a couple of self-confessed ordinary guys who until recently were working, in Mirza's case in an East London legal firm as a trainee solicitor, and Singh as an adviser in the Heathrow Terminal 5 branch of PC World, hawking their act around the usual soul-destroying litany of low-key festivals and student parties in their spare time.
'It's unbelievable,' says 29-year-old Mirza, shaking his head.
'We've always been determined, but we still thought we'd be lucky to get through the first audition. We'd been doing our double act for eight years. My parents had been saying: "How far are you going to take this Michael Jackson business? It's been going on for 20 years now."
Which I'll admit is taking it pretty far, to be honest. Yet it seems to have taken on a life of its own.'
By rights, of course, the act could - should - have been excruciating: at first, no one knew what to make of the chunky, apron-wearing, broom-wielding Sikh when he shuffled on stage in the middle of Mirza's frenetic breakdancing.
But their performance was so energetic, and so unexpectedly funny, to boot, that each time they came on stage they got a standing ovation. 'We were glad people found it funny, as the main point of the act is to entertain and make people laugh, definitely,' says Mirza.
'But we also hoped we helped to get a message across. There are different layers to it, too. It's also about overcoming conflict and embracing unity. So often different cultures don't really understand each other, and a lot of that lack of understanding comes from fear. That's the message we're trying to get across.'
Singh's janitor, he says, is a symbol of how individual cultures instinctively distrust new arrivals.
'I guess doing the whole Michael Jackson thing I represent Western culture. Then here's Madhu coming into my space and I'm suspicious, in the way we are of many immigrants.
'I'm looking down on him as well, because he's just a cleaner. But then he shows me what he can do and I'm surprised. And then I think: "To hell with this, let's get on and enjoy this together." It's about unity and trying to understand one another.'
Of course, not everyone in the audience will have recognised this heady metaphor of multiculturalism: to some, it was just an unexpectedly jaunty turn. But in a way, just by appearing together at all, the pair are something of a beacon of integration.
Both the sons of first-generation immigrants - Singh's devout Sikhs from India, Mirza's moderate Muslims from Pakistan - they both profess to feeling proud to be British when they stood alongside their assorted competition rivals in the final.
'Absolutely,' says Singh. 'We hear a lot about the bad side of Britain - the knife culture, the cultural problems - but what struck me about the competition was how decent everyone was. The kids, too, were nice, well brought-up kids.'
As indeed are Mirza and Singh, both amiable types who appear genuinely taken aback by their newfound popularity.
On the surface at least they make for unlikely buddies, though: Mirza, a trainee solicitor who has hauled himself up from life on a rundown East London council estate - 'the ghetto', as Singh playfully calls it - Singh, a quietly spoken shop worker who still lives in West London with his parents, and who by his own admission has never had a girlfriend in all his 34 years.
'I don't know why, I really don't,' he says. 'Of course you do question it. You think: "Am I not attractive enough? Am I not good enough?" But it's just the way it's worked out. Hopefully it will change.'
The pair met when they were both auditioning separately for a student talent contest eight years ago. At the time, Mirza was a full-time economics and business student at the University of Westminster, while across London Singh was working in a shop.
Rather in the manner of a latter-day Clark Kent/ Superman duel persona, however, by night both would shed their workday profiles and unveil themselves as twinkle-toed nifty movers, chancing their arm at assorted auditions or snatching any opportunity to perform, however lowly the gig.
'I just danced wherever I could,' Singh says. 'Sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it, I'm just jigging about on the spot.' When they saw each other audition on that fateful Saturday, they both recognised kindred spirits.
'I'd been doing my Michael Jackson turn which had gone down pretty well and then I saw Madhu,' Mirza recalls.
'To be honest, I'd never seen anything like it, someone of his size dancing like that. I thought it was amazing and I really wanted to meet him. It turns out he felt the same, so when they had drinks afterwards we sought each other out. We bumped into each other and it was like: "You're really good", "No you're really good." We swopped numbers and said we'd meet, and that was that, really.'
They quickly became bosom buddies, and while that student audition didn't lead anywhere, the duo, undeterred, quickly decided to team together their dancing talent and come up with their quirky act.
'I'll admit that it baffled people even then,' says Mirza. 'Whenever we tried to explain it to people, they'd be like: "Eh?" ' Nonetheless the pair ploughed on. 'We have always enjoyed doing it, and we worked well together from the start,' Singh says.
'Although we like to pretend we're quite different characters, we're actually very similar. We're both from quite religious backgrounds and we both have exactly the same sense of humour.'
Singh is billed as the 'quiet one', although he claims that's a myth. 'I'm only quiet because I can't get a word in edgeways,' he says. 'Sometimes Suleman calls me at 3am and he's gabbling down the phone about some new idea, and I'm like: "Do you ever sleep?" '
Both, however, were rather introverted boys who channelled their boyhood energy into dancing. Certainly, growing up on a largely white, not terribly prosperous council estate in Stratford led the young Mirza, the elder of two brothers, to channel his energy into an early onset Michael Jackson obsession.
'I was obsessed with Michael Jackson from an early age,' he recalls. 'I remember my dad bought me a VHS cassette of Jackson and I saw him doing the moonwalk, and I was like: "That's it, that's brilliant." I wanted to be like him. I was quite a stay-at-home kid, and the outside world didn't interest me that much.
'My mum used to say "Don't you want to go outside and play football with your brother?", but all I wanted to do was stay inside and learn to dance.'
As a result, Mirza had his moonwalk polished to perfection before he had even entered his second decade, wearing out the family carpet in the process.
'I literally wore it down to the threads. I got into so much trouble. I remember my dad came home from work one night and looked at it and was like: "What have you been doing?" We didn't have much money so we couldn't afford a new one, so he turned it round to hide the threadbare bit under the bed. A few months later I'd worn it through in a different place, so this time he just put another rug over the top.'
Despite his love of dancing, Mirza did initially have more conventional career ambitions. His father had been an electrician, but Mirza, in the manner of most second-generation incomers, wanted to do something more white collar.
'I wanted to be an investment banker for a time and did a stint in the City, but I realised all I was doing was helping rich people get richer,' he recalls. 'It may work for some people, but it wasn't for me. So I decided to go into law, and not corporate law but legal aid. That way you can actually do something to help people.'
Singh, meanwhile, was also a boyhood dreamer as he grew up in Seventies Birmingham, the fourth of six brothers to Gurdyal and Amerjit, first-generation Indian immigrants who arrived in this country in the late Sixties.
'My father was - is - a Sikh priest, so the Sikh religion played a huge part in my upbringing,' he recalls. 'We had religious music on in the background at home pretty much all the time, and my brothers and I would have to go and sing or play instruments at the local temple at weekends and evenings. It was very much the backdrop to my childhood.'
Singh's family moved to West London 25 years ago, as his father felt there were better opportunities there for his family, although it did little for his young son's ambition. 'I was a very confused child. I didn't know what I wanted to do with myself,' Singh recalls.
'I was a bit of a dreamer, I guess. I used to sneak down in the middle of the night and put Bollywood films on and copy their dance moves. Dancing was always the thing for me.'
After leaving school he took up business studies at his local college, but in his early 20s said he had something of a lightbulb moment.
'My parents didn't have a lot of money. I was about to embark on a media studies course, but suddenly I thought: "I can either take a degree or help my family pay the mortgage." So that's what I did.'
A series of self- confessed 'ordinary' jobs followed, culminating in his current job at PC World, Heathrow Terminal 5, but always with those dancing dreams in the background. 'I always vowed that one day I would make my money entertaining. I think my family never knew what to make of it,' he says.
'It's fair to say my father was worried about it. It was a different world for him. Sometimes I'd be out performing and I'd get in at 3am to find him standing there waiting, checking up on me.
'He worried I would cut my hair, lose focus on my religion, but I would never do that. It gives me peace, and I have no reason to downplay it. But of course it was difficult for him to understand that - that the two could exist together.'
In fact, his parents saw him perform for the first time at the weekend's final, an emotional moment for both father and son. Earlier in the week, Singh recalls, his father had sat him down and, for the first time, told his son he was proud of what he was doing.
'He said "I've got one thing to say to you" and I was like: "What?" Then he said: "Lose some weight," ' Singh laughs. 'But then he said he was proud of what I'd achieved. I had tears in my eyes, as it was a very moving moment for me.'
Similarly, Mirza has seen his parents, Farah and Sajjad, move from bafflement to acceptance. 'Initially my family were a bit apprehensive about the whole dancing thing,' he says. 'Their view has been of the "how long is this going to go on for?" variety. But now they're really proud of me - although my mum did say to me at the weekend: "Whatever happens, finish your training." But that's just mums, isn't it?'
Whatever the precautionary advice of Mirza's mother, it is safe to say that PC World Heathrow Terminal 5 and the East London solicitors are unlikely to see these particular members of staff again for a while - not least because the duo are taking part in a three-week nationwide tour alongside other Britain's Got Talent finalists.
What happens after that, neither can say - Mirza is on a month-long 'career break' from his job while he sees how the land lies, while Singh has been told to take as much time as he needs by his PC World employers.
Whatever their future fortunes, however, this current stint of fame is unlikely to go to their heads. As Mirza points out, it has come at a time when both are old enough to handle it. 'We're not teenagers,' he says.
Singh, however, does have one hope, which is that the duo's popularity might at least bring him a girlfriend. 'That would be nice,' he says, with a wink. It cannot, surely, be too long for romance to befall the dancing janitor.
Homage to master mime Marceau in San José
By Alex Leff
Tico Times Staff | aleff@ticotimes.net
When Marcel Marceau died in September, some might have suspected the master mime took with him an art form he resurrected and transformed into the spectacle it is today – his final act of silence.
Alexander Neander and Wolfram von Bodecker, disciples of the artist credited for influencing Michael Jackson's “moonwalk,” are determined to help the hushed performance to endure. Compagnie Bodecker & Neander comes to San José to perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the Melico Salazar Theater “in homage to our maître,” they said in an e-mail interview with The Tico Times.
http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2008/06/friday_tipitinas_kicks_off_its.html
ActionActionReaction Dance Party to benefit Defend New Orleans at Circle Bar. Cajun-Celtic songstress Beth Patterson sings at the Green Room. Celebrate Michael Jackson's 50th birthday with Who's Bad, "The World's #1 Tribute Band plus The Glitter Boys at House of Blues. Trashy rockers Morning 40 Federation play at Le Bon Temps Roule.
http://www.packetonline.com/article...ton_packet/news/doc48489a1443ec7695453536.txt
Musician and humanitarian Quincy Jones, who has produced records for Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn and Michael Jackson, was one of the five persons awarded an honorary doctoral degree during Princeton University’s Commencement on Tuesday.
http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2008/06/06/news/doc48497686b5fa4318048998.txt
What’s next for Minteu?
Taking the company internationally and helping others in foreign countries.
"One thing I want to do is help people in third world countries learn a trade," Minteu said. "This way, they can support themselves."
http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1419702/*****_may_still_be_eyeing_vegas_deal/
Jackson May Still Be Eyeing Vegas Deal
Posted on: Friday, 6 June 2008, 06:00 CDT
By Norm Clarke
Michael Jackson's future was probably part of the dinner conversation Tuesday when he met with Thomas Barrack Jr., the man who rescued the singer's Neverland Ranch from public auction.
Barrack, chairman and CEO of Colony Capital LLC, dined with Jackson in the Las Vegas Hilton's Verona Sky Villa.
Barrack, a real estate magnate, recently paid $23.5 million for the 2,700-acre Neverland property. Jackson released a statement at the time indicating he was working with Barrack, who is a partner with Colony Resorts LVH Acquisitions LLC.
Jackson had defaulted on loan payments on the Santa Barbara County property.
Jackson, who recently met with Donald Trump associates at Trump International Hotel & Tower, has been scouting for a Vegas deal since arriving in late 2006.
Michael Jackson Mentionings:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-Talent-reveal-theyre-BOTH-proud-British.html
The double act who stormed Britain's Got Talent reveal why they're BOTH proud to be British
Madhu Singh has a vivid memory of a distinct low point in his bid to become a dancing sensation.
Performing at an audition for a part in an eagerly anticipated Bollywood movie, he had impressed a woman on the judging panel and thought he might be on his way.
'But then the director came on, took one look at me and said: "You're too fat",' he says. 'That knocked my confidence.'
He does, to be fair, look like an unlikely twinkle-toes. 'Stocky' would be a kind word to describe him, 'tubby' a less generous one.
Yet together with his dance partner Suleman Mirza's energetic Michael Jackson-inspired moves, Singh's turn as a portly but brilliantly nimble dancing janitor helped the duo nearly clinch the top spot of this year's Britain's Got Talent.
The pair were pipped at the post by 14-year- old breakdancer George Sampson, but Signature, as their stage act is known, have nonetheless become something of a phenomenon, their audition re-run exceeding five million viewers in a single day on YouTube.
Not bad for a couple of self-confessed ordinary guys who until recently were working, in Mirza's case in an East London legal firm as a trainee solicitor, and Singh as an adviser in the Heathrow Terminal 5 branch of PC World, hawking their act around the usual soul-destroying litany of low-key festivals and student parties in their spare time.
'It's unbelievable,' says 29-year-old Mirza, shaking his head.
'We've always been determined, but we still thought we'd be lucky to get through the first audition. We'd been doing our double act for eight years. My parents had been saying: "How far are you going to take this Michael Jackson business? It's been going on for 20 years now."
Which I'll admit is taking it pretty far, to be honest. Yet it seems to have taken on a life of its own.'
By rights, of course, the act could - should - have been excruciating: at first, no one knew what to make of the chunky, apron-wearing, broom-wielding Sikh when he shuffled on stage in the middle of Mirza's frenetic breakdancing.
But their performance was so energetic, and so unexpectedly funny, to boot, that each time they came on stage they got a standing ovation. 'We were glad people found it funny, as the main point of the act is to entertain and make people laugh, definitely,' says Mirza.
'But we also hoped we helped to get a message across. There are different layers to it, too. It's also about overcoming conflict and embracing unity. So often different cultures don't really understand each other, and a lot of that lack of understanding comes from fear. That's the message we're trying to get across.'
Singh's janitor, he says, is a symbol of how individual cultures instinctively distrust new arrivals.
'I guess doing the whole Michael Jackson thing I represent Western culture. Then here's Madhu coming into my space and I'm suspicious, in the way we are of many immigrants.
'I'm looking down on him as well, because he's just a cleaner. But then he shows me what he can do and I'm surprised. And then I think: "To hell with this, let's get on and enjoy this together." It's about unity and trying to understand one another.'
Of course, not everyone in the audience will have recognised this heady metaphor of multiculturalism: to some, it was just an unexpectedly jaunty turn. But in a way, just by appearing together at all, the pair are something of a beacon of integration.
Both the sons of first-generation immigrants - Singh's devout Sikhs from India, Mirza's moderate Muslims from Pakistan - they both profess to feeling proud to be British when they stood alongside their assorted competition rivals in the final.
'Absolutely,' says Singh. 'We hear a lot about the bad side of Britain - the knife culture, the cultural problems - but what struck me about the competition was how decent everyone was. The kids, too, were nice, well brought-up kids.'
As indeed are Mirza and Singh, both amiable types who appear genuinely taken aback by their newfound popularity.
On the surface at least they make for unlikely buddies, though: Mirza, a trainee solicitor who has hauled himself up from life on a rundown East London council estate - 'the ghetto', as Singh playfully calls it - Singh, a quietly spoken shop worker who still lives in West London with his parents, and who by his own admission has never had a girlfriend in all his 34 years.
'I don't know why, I really don't,' he says. 'Of course you do question it. You think: "Am I not attractive enough? Am I not good enough?" But it's just the way it's worked out. Hopefully it will change.'
The pair met when they were both auditioning separately for a student talent contest eight years ago. At the time, Mirza was a full-time economics and business student at the University of Westminster, while across London Singh was working in a shop.
Rather in the manner of a latter-day Clark Kent/ Superman duel persona, however, by night both would shed their workday profiles and unveil themselves as twinkle-toed nifty movers, chancing their arm at assorted auditions or snatching any opportunity to perform, however lowly the gig.
'I just danced wherever I could,' Singh says. 'Sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it, I'm just jigging about on the spot.' When they saw each other audition on that fateful Saturday, they both recognised kindred spirits.
'I'd been doing my Michael Jackson turn which had gone down pretty well and then I saw Madhu,' Mirza recalls.
'To be honest, I'd never seen anything like it, someone of his size dancing like that. I thought it was amazing and I really wanted to meet him. It turns out he felt the same, so when they had drinks afterwards we sought each other out. We bumped into each other and it was like: "You're really good", "No you're really good." We swopped numbers and said we'd meet, and that was that, really.'
They quickly became bosom buddies, and while that student audition didn't lead anywhere, the duo, undeterred, quickly decided to team together their dancing talent and come up with their quirky act.
'I'll admit that it baffled people even then,' says Mirza. 'Whenever we tried to explain it to people, they'd be like: "Eh?" ' Nonetheless the pair ploughed on. 'We have always enjoyed doing it, and we worked well together from the start,' Singh says.
'Although we like to pretend we're quite different characters, we're actually very similar. We're both from quite religious backgrounds and we both have exactly the same sense of humour.'
Singh is billed as the 'quiet one', although he claims that's a myth. 'I'm only quiet because I can't get a word in edgeways,' he says. 'Sometimes Suleman calls me at 3am and he's gabbling down the phone about some new idea, and I'm like: "Do you ever sleep?" '
Both, however, were rather introverted boys who channelled their boyhood energy into dancing. Certainly, growing up on a largely white, not terribly prosperous council estate in Stratford led the young Mirza, the elder of two brothers, to channel his energy into an early onset Michael Jackson obsession.
'I was obsessed with Michael Jackson from an early age,' he recalls. 'I remember my dad bought me a VHS cassette of Jackson and I saw him doing the moonwalk, and I was like: "That's it, that's brilliant." I wanted to be like him. I was quite a stay-at-home kid, and the outside world didn't interest me that much.
'My mum used to say "Don't you want to go outside and play football with your brother?", but all I wanted to do was stay inside and learn to dance.'
As a result, Mirza had his moonwalk polished to perfection before he had even entered his second decade, wearing out the family carpet in the process.
'I literally wore it down to the threads. I got into so much trouble. I remember my dad came home from work one night and looked at it and was like: "What have you been doing?" We didn't have much money so we couldn't afford a new one, so he turned it round to hide the threadbare bit under the bed. A few months later I'd worn it through in a different place, so this time he just put another rug over the top.'
Despite his love of dancing, Mirza did initially have more conventional career ambitions. His father had been an electrician, but Mirza, in the manner of most second-generation incomers, wanted to do something more white collar.
'I wanted to be an investment banker for a time and did a stint in the City, but I realised all I was doing was helping rich people get richer,' he recalls. 'It may work for some people, but it wasn't for me. So I decided to go into law, and not corporate law but legal aid. That way you can actually do something to help people.'
Singh, meanwhile, was also a boyhood dreamer as he grew up in Seventies Birmingham, the fourth of six brothers to Gurdyal and Amerjit, first-generation Indian immigrants who arrived in this country in the late Sixties.
'My father was - is - a Sikh priest, so the Sikh religion played a huge part in my upbringing,' he recalls. 'We had religious music on in the background at home pretty much all the time, and my brothers and I would have to go and sing or play instruments at the local temple at weekends and evenings. It was very much the backdrop to my childhood.'
Singh's family moved to West London 25 years ago, as his father felt there were better opportunities there for his family, although it did little for his young son's ambition. 'I was a very confused child. I didn't know what I wanted to do with myself,' Singh recalls.
'I was a bit of a dreamer, I guess. I used to sneak down in the middle of the night and put Bollywood films on and copy their dance moves. Dancing was always the thing for me.'
After leaving school he took up business studies at his local college, but in his early 20s said he had something of a lightbulb moment.
'My parents didn't have a lot of money. I was about to embark on a media studies course, but suddenly I thought: "I can either take a degree or help my family pay the mortgage." So that's what I did.'
A series of self- confessed 'ordinary' jobs followed, culminating in his current job at PC World, Heathrow Terminal 5, but always with those dancing dreams in the background. 'I always vowed that one day I would make my money entertaining. I think my family never knew what to make of it,' he says.
'It's fair to say my father was worried about it. It was a different world for him. Sometimes I'd be out performing and I'd get in at 3am to find him standing there waiting, checking up on me.
'He worried I would cut my hair, lose focus on my religion, but I would never do that. It gives me peace, and I have no reason to downplay it. But of course it was difficult for him to understand that - that the two could exist together.'
In fact, his parents saw him perform for the first time at the weekend's final, an emotional moment for both father and son. Earlier in the week, Singh recalls, his father had sat him down and, for the first time, told his son he was proud of what he was doing.
'He said "I've got one thing to say to you" and I was like: "What?" Then he said: "Lose some weight," ' Singh laughs. 'But then he said he was proud of what I'd achieved. I had tears in my eyes, as it was a very moving moment for me.'
Similarly, Mirza has seen his parents, Farah and Sajjad, move from bafflement to acceptance. 'Initially my family were a bit apprehensive about the whole dancing thing,' he says. 'Their view has been of the "how long is this going to go on for?" variety. But now they're really proud of me - although my mum did say to me at the weekend: "Whatever happens, finish your training." But that's just mums, isn't it?'
Whatever the precautionary advice of Mirza's mother, it is safe to say that PC World Heathrow Terminal 5 and the East London solicitors are unlikely to see these particular members of staff again for a while - not least because the duo are taking part in a three-week nationwide tour alongside other Britain's Got Talent finalists.
What happens after that, neither can say - Mirza is on a month-long 'career break' from his job while he sees how the land lies, while Singh has been told to take as much time as he needs by his PC World employers.
Whatever their future fortunes, however, this current stint of fame is unlikely to go to their heads. As Mirza points out, it has come at a time when both are old enough to handle it. 'We're not teenagers,' he says.
Singh, however, does have one hope, which is that the duo's popularity might at least bring him a girlfriend. 'That would be nice,' he says, with a wink. It cannot, surely, be too long for romance to befall the dancing janitor.
Homage to master mime Marceau in San José
By Alex Leff
Tico Times Staff | aleff@ticotimes.net
When Marcel Marceau died in September, some might have suspected the master mime took with him an art form he resurrected and transformed into the spectacle it is today – his final act of silence.
Alexander Neander and Wolfram von Bodecker, disciples of the artist credited for influencing Michael Jackson's “moonwalk,” are determined to help the hushed performance to endure. Compagnie Bodecker & Neander comes to San José to perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the Melico Salazar Theater “in homage to our maître,” they said in an e-mail interview with The Tico Times.
http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2008/06/friday_tipitinas_kicks_off_its.html
ActionActionReaction Dance Party to benefit Defend New Orleans at Circle Bar. Cajun-Celtic songstress Beth Patterson sings at the Green Room. Celebrate Michael Jackson's 50th birthday with Who's Bad, "The World's #1 Tribute Band plus The Glitter Boys at House of Blues. Trashy rockers Morning 40 Federation play at Le Bon Temps Roule.
http://www.packetonline.com/article...ton_packet/news/doc48489a1443ec7695453536.txt
Musician and humanitarian Quincy Jones, who has produced records for Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn and Michael Jackson, was one of the five persons awarded an honorary doctoral degree during Princeton University’s Commencement on Tuesday.
http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2008/06/06/news/doc48497686b5fa4318048998.txt
What’s next for Minteu?
Taking the company internationally and helping others in foreign countries.
"One thing I want to do is help people in third world countries learn a trade," Minteu said. "This way, they can support themselves."
• On his iPod: "I’m listening to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thiller.’"
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=19&theme=&usrsess=1&id=207082
Comeback album
R&B singer Ne-Yo has confirmed he is working on pop legend Michael Jackson’s comeback album. The So Sick singer, who has written hits for Rihanna and Beyonce Knowles, is now helping both Michael and Janet Jackson prepare new releases. Ne-Yo, real name Shaffer Smith, reveals working with the Thriller hitmaker is one of his most challenging jobs yet. He says, “I’m submitting songs for his new album. He’s being very selective; very picky, but he’s supposed to be. This is a going to be a really important album.”
Comeback album
R&B singer Ne-Yo has confirmed he is working on pop legend Michael Jackson’s comeback album. The So Sick singer, who has written hits for Rihanna and Beyonce Knowles, is now helping both Michael and Janet Jackson prepare new releases. Ne-Yo, real name Shaffer Smith, reveals working with the Thriller hitmaker is one of his most challenging jobs yet. He says, “I’m submitting songs for his new album. He’s being very selective; very picky, but he’s supposed to be. This is a going to be a really important album.”
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