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MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 24)

Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Thanks Mello for the BB round up so nice to be talking about Mike on the charts again :)
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

thanks Mello1 for all the good news ... T25 doing so well:punk::punk::punk:
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Have ya'll noticed that folks like Diane Dimond, Nancy Grace, the LA Times, etc haven't mentioned how well T25 is doing?
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

I think that this is phenomonal and Michael might be breaking yet another record and that is of the fastest climbing album on the charts, less than a months time! Amazing. Great job to him and his team.
 
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Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

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Have ya'll noticed that folks like Diane Dimond, Nancy Grace, the LA Times, etc haven't mentioned how well T25 is doing?
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Why should they? they don't like the taste of crow!:lol:
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Thanks for all this fantastic news about T25 I guess with all those re-orders being shiped out its going to be up there for the longest time.
It's great to hear Michael got his belongings back too :) 'Way to go Mike'
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Just saw the Sobe Life Water commercial on BET.

Also, the drink is on sale at my local Ralph's grocery store. Gonna go and get me a few!
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Thriller 25 is burning UP the charts! And alllll the people that were not able to buy copies because they sold out so fast will be back at the stores trying to get their copies this weekend!

And on Mike getting this stuff back...

Congratulations, Michael! Glad you were able to get it back! Good goin', Hun! I'm very happy for you! :flowers:

Dude was wrong for trying that. That's why he folded.
 
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Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Amazing how T25 is doing. Just bought the both version of thriller. l was at the store here in Oslo and was informed that T25 was sold out since my sis wanted to purchase a copy for herself.
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

not bad at all consider the lack of any real promotion
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

Hello everyone! Isn't it great how Michael Jackson is doing on the charts.:punk: To think that people have complained for many years that Michael is a has been. :rolleyes: Some artists of today probably wish they were this kind of an has been. Michael congtulations on a job well done and I know you will show people how more of an has been you are when your new album comes out.


I will update this news thread with today's news. There is just some little reviews about T25 for right now and nothing else to report with some mentionings. Everyone have a nice day. ^_^






Michael Jackson News for February 23, 2008:


http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/feb/23Jack_Still_On_Top,_*****_Denied,_Winehouse_Jumps_Up_.shtml



Jack Still On Top, Jackson Denied, Winehouse Jumps Up - A Top Story This Week




Here is a little on how the charts shaped up from Billboard: Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static" sold 179,545 copies in the week ended February 17, according to Nielsen SoundScan, enough to lead the field for a second week. The new 25th anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" would have opened at No. 2, thanks to sales of about 166,000 copies. But as a catalog release, it was ineligible to chart on the Billboard 200. Instead, the No. 2 slot went to Winehouse's "Back to Black," which yielded five Grammys on February 10. It jumped 22 places after selling about 115,000 copies. - more on this story



http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/February2008/22/c5115.html


The exhibition RE-ENACTMENTS from February 22 to May 25 at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art

MONTREAL, Feb. 22 /CNW Telbec/ - From February 22 to May 25, DHC/ART
Foundation for Contemporary Art presents RE-ENACTMENTS. Curated by John
Zeppetelli, the exhibition gathers six media artists (Nancy Davenport, Stan
Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ann Lislegaard, Paul Pfeiffer, Kerry Tribe) whose
work, in some way, critically re-stages films, media spectacles, popular
culture and, in one case, the intimate moments of daily life. The aim is to
generate new meanings and fresh relevance from this source material, often by
reiterating its value in the form of homage or deflating its claims with
critique, but always by rerouting it to mysterious and unexpected places. By
vividly addressing politics, spectacle and subjectivity these re-workings of
cultural texts or events of the past pose compelling questions about the
present.
Jean-Luc Godard is the inspiration for two works in the exhibition: Kerry
Tribe uses Godard's television masterpiece France/tour/détour/deux/enfants,
made with Anne-Marie Miéville, as the starting point for her dual-screen
installation Here and Elsewhere; whereas the extraordinary tracking shot in
Godard's film Weekend is the basis for Nancy Davenport's Weekend Campus, with
its slow horizontal pan composed of hundreds of still photographs set at the
entrance of a university. Two earlier moments in film history by the Lumière
brothers and Georges Méliès are referenced in Davenport's Workers (leaving the
factory) - a speculative, multi-screen take on labour and globalisation. Stan
Douglas' two projector, single-screen film installation Inconsolable Memories
uses the Cuban film classic Memories of Underdevelopment as its foundational
text.
Notorious televised sports and entertainment spectacles inform the three
projects on view by Harun Farocki and Paul Pfeiffer. Farocki's Deep Play
subjects the 2006 World Cup Final to a stunning formal, scientific, and
statistical vivisection over twelve synchronised, real-time video projections.
Michael Jackson is the subject of two Paul Pfeiffer works, Live Evil
(Bucharest), a quasi-mirrored image of Michael Jackson in performance, and
Live From Neverland, an installation concerning the pop star's child
molestation trial. While not directly inspired by a film or television text,
Ann Lislegaard's I-You-Later-There strongly evokes the cinematic experience
nonetheless. The re-enactment in this work projects an inner life onto a
rectangular surface made of floorboards, which becomes a stage or screen.

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is a new exhibition space housed
in a converted, historic building in the heart of Old Montreal. DHC/ART is a
new permanent location for exciting and relevant visual art exhibitions and
projects open since fall of 2007.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Friday from 12 PM to 7 PM, Saturday and
Sunday from 11 AM to 6 PM - Free admission

Address: 451 and 468 St-Jean (corner Notre-Dame) in Old Montreal




http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/thriller-top-of-charts/2008/02/23/1203467449816.html


Jackson's Thriller top of charts 25 years on



MICHAEL JACKSON'S Thriller has returned to the top of the Australian album charts, 25 years after its release.
Thriller is at No. 2 on the ARIA charts, after record label Sony BMG issued a re-release of the classic album.
Music shops have been flooded with queries - particularly from young people. "We've had lots of people buying it, of all ages, but mainly 20-somethings and 30-somethings," said an HMV spokeswoman in Parramatta.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_Buzz/Only_he_can_beat_it/articleshow/2807541.cms


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TOI had written some time ago about how Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan in his new avatar was beginning to look more and more like the beleaguered King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Now our words are coming true.

There’s no Dard, only Disco for SRK! The crazy hysteria surrounding his six-pack abs and Om Shanti Om have only just subdued, that the Khan has plunged into some ‘krazzy’ stuff all over again. SRK will be seen in an ‘item number’ in Rakesh Roshan’s Krazzy 4 .

“Hrithik was to do the song, but due to his knee injury, we were in a dilemma of sorts. I approached Shah Rukh and he very kindly agreed to bail us out,” explains Rakesh. “The song required energy, and that’s what Shah Rukh has in abundance.”

Dancing to the tunes of Rajesh Roshan on an English song titled Break Free, rendered by Vishal, Shah Rukh it seems is set to impress as usual. Director Jaideep Sen tells us, “Shah Rukh plays a superstar performing at an award function. The situation required a larger than life stage and a larger than life personality. Shah Rukh has taken it to another level altogether.”

Gloves, ponytail et al...Talk about the Michael Jackson look, courtesy fashion designer Anahita Shroff, and Sen informs that it wasn’t intended. Choreographer Ahmed Khan elucidates that it’s SRK’s new found lean body and long hair that gives an MJ-hint, and also made him treat this number a little differently. So is SRK India’s MJ? While Ahmed believes, “Michael Jackson is a performer, Shah Rukh is an entertainer.” Producer Rakesh Roshan says, “I’d think so!

Especially after seeing this song! Shah Rukh came and told me ‘I’ve given my best shot, but I think Hrithik will do more justice to it.’

I disagree, Shah Rukh has done utmost justice!” So if Shah Rukh is India’s answer to MJ, what is Hrithik, we ask Papa Roshan. He has no answer to this one!

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Michael Jackson Mentionings for February 23, 2008:

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=11447

After the fight, Jimmo entertained the audience by showing off his break dancing skills.

"To be honest, I use to watch break dancing videos and Michael Jackson videos for hours at a time and practice them on my own," he said. "That's how I learned to break dance.

In other action, Ryan McGillivray got back in the win column after consecutive losses by defeating Jason Zorthian via armbar 4:10 into the first round. After surviving the first 30 seconds of the fight, McGillivray controlled the remainder of the bout on the ground until securing the victory.



http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/305389

Motown's birthplace gets set to celebrate 50th anniversary

A spotlight illuminates the glass case containing the black hat and sequined glove worn by Michael Jackson on the Motown 25th Anniversary television special in 1983. Three blue-toned, sequined gowns worn by the Supremes, a selection of smash-hit album covers and an historical timeline, coupling Motown milestones with familiar events in Detroit and the world, also are on display.


http://www.macon.com/197/story/275326.html

Deputies confiscated 386 illegally taped CDs of artists such as Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, Elvins said. The CDs were valued at $5,790, the investigator said.



http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/LOCAL0104/802230406/1006/LOCAL


Like the "Evolution of Dance," where more than two dozen teachers and staff traveled through time in dance, from "The Chicken Dance" to the "Macarena." Or "Prison Thriller," where nearly the whole cast dressed as prisoners in bright orange scrubs and acted out Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Or "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," which had teachers doing a robotic performance to the punk song.



http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/022308/gymnastics_20080223039.shtml


A last minute change to the lineup didn't get Nikki Childs flustered.
Her skills were nearly flawless.
She performed the moonwalk to Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel,' with ease on the four-inch beam. She was relaxed, yet focused while weaving together her tumbling and dance elements.
Upon the senior's dismount from the beam, she wasn't sure what her score would be. No matter what total she was rewarded with, she would be happy.



Michael Jackson HIStory for February 23, 2008:

1995 - Michael Jackson was awarded the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award.

2000 - At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Carlos Santana received a record-tying eight Grammy's. Michael Jackson set the record back in 1984 when he won awards for "Thriller."



 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

jaydom7 said:
Have ya'll noticed that folks like Diane Dimond, Nancy Grace, the LA Times, etc haven't mentioned how well T25 is doing?
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why would we care what they think?
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

Michael Jackson | Thriller 25th Anniversary Edition (Epic Legacy)
Written by Amy Burger Friday, 22 February 2008
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As they'd say in 1983, from the moment the needle hit the vinyl (this was the pre-CD era), it was on, and it was pure gold.


I was 13 years old and in the eighth grade in 1983 when Michael Jackson's Thriller was first released, creating fervor unlike anything since The Beatles or Elvis. Much as the teens of today go nuts for Hannah Montana or the Spice Girls, all the kids in my junior high and across the nation went wild for Michael, often even fainting in his presence at concerts and public appearances. The entire inside of my locker at school was plastered with Teen Beat photos of Michael Jackson—wearing his signature sparkle glove, donning the studded red leather jacket from the "Beat It" video, rocking zippered parachute pants. And though there have been many acts over the years to drive kids into a frenzy, from New Kids on the Block to Backstreet Boys to N'Sync to Britney Spears (pre-psychotic breakdown), not one of them has ever come close to selling as many albums or leaving the lasting impression of Michael Jackson's Thriller.
"It was Michaelmania," says Mary J. Blige. "It was ‘Billie Jean' that did it. That was the first time you're seeing Michael dance, not as the Jackson 5, but as Michael Jackson. Oh my God, it was electrifying."
Indeed it was, and now, 25 years later, with the re-release of a special collector's anniversary edition, it still is. As they'd say in 1983, from the moment the needle hit the vinyl (this was the pre-CD era), it was on, and it was pure gold. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" may well be the best dance song ever made—and the non-lyrics, "Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-koo-sa," may well be the most sampled, covered and copied in history. After that, the hits just kept on coming, from "Beat It," to "Billie Jean," to "P.Y.T." to the historic duet with Paul McCartney, "The Girl Is Mine."
In order to illustrate just how much of an impact this album had on the industry and the history of recorded music, let's just take a quick look at some hard facts and figures about Thriller—to this day, the greatest selling album of all time:
  • Seven of its nine songs were Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 (the first of only three albums in history to do this)
  • Spent 37 straight weeks at #1 on the chart and 122 weeks on the chart as a whole (nearly two and a half years)
  • "Billie Jean" hit #1 on the chart and remained there for seven weeks straight
  • At the 1984 Grammy Awards, Jackson was nominated in 12 categories for Thriller, an all-time record, and picked up eight awards, also a record win by one artist in a single year. This year, the album will be inducted into the prestigious Grammy Hall of Fame
  • It is the only album ever to be the top-selling U.S. album two years in a row ('83 and '84) and is certified 27x Platinum by the RIAA
  • It has seen global sales in excess of 104 million copies and, in the United States alone, sells some 60,000 copies each year
To say this is impressive is an understatement. Thriller not only represents one of the greatest living recording artists at the very peak of his career, but also a tremendous cultural and historical phenomenon. "Michaelmania" took on a life much greater than even "Beatlemania" ever did.
Thriller didn't just impact the recording industry, either. It had a significant—in fact, defining—impact on what was at the time a small, fledgling cable TV network aimed at the youth of America: MTV. Before Michael Jackson, MTV rarely (if ever) played videos by black artists, or dance artists. This wasn't necessarily a decision made out of prejudice or racism. There just weren't many black artists (or American artists for that matter) making music videos, and MTV's early focus was very much on rock 'n' roll. But Jackson and his record company convinced the MTV execs to air the video for "Billie Jean," and a new era was born. Nothing like it had ever been seen before, with Michael in his sparkling single white glove, black fedora, black suit and white socks performing his signature moonwalk among other incredible dance moves. Videos would never be the same.
"Billie Jean" was only the beginning. Jackson's video for the title song, "Thriller," went where no music video before (or really since) has gone. More of a short film than a video at 14 minutes long, "Thriller" was directed by film director John Landis and shot on a record budget at the time of $800,000. It's listed in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful music video of all time, having sold over one million units. The video featured stunning costume and makeup design and incredible choreography, and co-starred former Playboy centerfold Ola Ray. It even included a haunting and unforgettable voiceover by classic horror movie king Vincent Price. So great was the impact of the "Thriller" video that MTV even aired a one-hour documentary on its making.
So, all of this said and done, is the newly released 25th Anniversary Edition of Thriller worth buying for serious Michael Jackson fans? In a word, yes. Along with the nine incredible tracks that started it all, there are five newly created covered and remixed tracks featuring some of today's brightest hip-hop stars, including will.i.am, Fergie and Kanye West, as well as a previously unreleased track, "For All Time," from the original Thriller recording session. The accompanying DVD includes the original music videos for "Thriller," "Beat It," and "Billie Jean," as well as a legendary live performance of "Billie Jean" from the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever TV special. All of this comes in a fabulous collectors CD package filled with photos from the original videos and press photos of Michael from his heyday.
With everything that Jackson has done to mar his public image over the years, from multiple child molestation charges, "eccentric" (to say the least) behavior, and numerous plastic surgeries that have rendered him virtually unrecognizable and barely even human-looking, this is the Michael Jackson we all want to remember: the smiling, boyish, jubilant face of a true pop star and a talent the likes of which we haven't seen since. | Amy Burger

http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/7275/157/
 
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Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

Thank you all for the news.

As usual, MJ is doing amazing with Thriller 25! I think that the CD is going to sell for a while so maybe someone can check up the status of the CD over at hits daily double.

I am HAPPY that MJ and Janet got their beloongings back. It is funny that the media is not harping about this. Remember when Nancy DisGrace did a whole show about it? I wonder why she is not doing that now? Oh, that's right, she got played.

And who cares what the Demon, DisGrace or L.A. Times think about the continuation of greatness? Haters can't respond when the person they hate is STILL doing the damn thing.
 
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Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

thanks for updates
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

The 10 best sellers albums since the beginning of the year in France (updated February 16) :

1. NRJ Music Awards (Various Artists) 109.000
2. Back To Black (Amy Winehouse) 97.000
3. Mon Paradis (Christophe Maé) 81.000
4. Samedi Soir A Beyrouth (Bernard Lavilliers) 72.000
5. Sheryfa Luna (Sheryfa Luna) 61.000
6. In Rainbows (Radiohead) 60.000
7. Thriller (Michael Jackson) 60.000
8. Life In Cartoon Motion (Mika) 57.000
9. Tecktonik Vol. 4 (Various Artists) 53.000
10. Repenti (Renan Luce) 51.000
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

Rasta Pasta said:
please write the editor Rachel Rigdon at rigdonr@southwestern.edu
about the writer, Audra Gentry, of this article (link below)....

http://www.southwestern.edu/student...ael-jackson-fan-reflects-on-his-past-present/

this person needs to be educated and the editor needs to know that MJ has fans who do care how he is portrayed...
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Ha! I posted a comment on that article. It was shameful and :wacko:
my comment is under "Corinne"
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY


THE MEDIA BUSINESS; EMI to Pay Michael Jackson $70 Million to Manage Music
by ANDREA ADELSON

Published: November 25, 1993

The pop singer Michael Jackson said through his lawyer yesterday that EMI Music Publishing would begin managing his 6,000-title music catalogue, which includes most early Beatles hits, in a deal being described as the most lucrative in music publishing.

Mr. Jackson will receive $70 million in advance against revenue that EMI expected to generate managing the publishing rights to ATV Music. The catalogue, acquired by Mr. Jackson in 1985 for $47.5 million, includes the classic Lennon-McCartney Beatles compositions, as well as songs from Little Richard, Elvis Presley and the Pointer Sisters.

Total revenue over the deal's five-year term is estimated to be $150 million, said Martin N. Bandier, president of EMI Music Publishing, which controls 900,000 songs in its own catalogues. Financing for Acquisitions
As part of the deal, EMI had agreed to provide financing for acquisitions of other music catalogues in a partnership arrangement, in which EMI and the singer would share future ownership.

Such an arrangement increased the value of the deal, making it the largest in music publishing, according to John Branca, Mr. Jackson's lawyer.

The deal comes at a difficult time for the singer. Mr. Jackson, who recently ended a world tour so he could be treated for addiction to pain-killers, is believed to be receiving medical treatment in London, according to British news reports. He is facing a lawsuit in California by a 13-year-old boy, who contends Mr. Jackson sexually molested him. Mr. Jackson has denied the charges. Criminal investigations into the allegations are being conducted, and the boy's civil suit has been set for trial on March 21.
"ATV's use and value is impervious to Michael's own success," Mr. Branca said.

ATV, along with Mijac Music, which controls rights to Mr. Jackson's own song writing, make Mr. Jackson one of the largest independent music publishers in the world, Mr. Branca said. Mijac Music is excluded from the EMI deal. 'Major Additions' "We expect major additions in the next few years," he said, noting that a probable first target would be the Jobete catalogue of the Motown Records Corporation, owned by Barry Gordy. Several years ago, Mr. Gordy turned down a $175 million offer for Jobete, which then had half the revenue of ATV, Mr. Branca said. Last year, ATV had sales of $25 million.

Mr. Bandier of EMI said his company had managed ATV Music under its previous owner, Robert Holmes a Court, the late Australian financier. And EMI had outbid Mr. Jackson by $500,000 for the ATV catalogue in 1985. "But when Michael agreed to go to Perth to perform at a charity benefit I knew we were out of luck," Mr. Bandier recalled. "We can't moonwalk."

MCA, a unit of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, had managed the ATV catalogue under a three-year contract that will expire on Dec. 31.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
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Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

Good afternoon everyone. Here is the news update for Sunday, Feb. 24. Right now there is no new news to report but a few mentionings. Please check back for any updated news.




Michael Jackson Mentionings for Feb 24:


http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/306322

Off the rack: Ideas

Michael Jackson's glove was "an iconic accessory, like Woody Allen's glasses or George Burns' cigar," writes Nick Marino in "What I Miss About Michael Jackson."

"Nothing about the man was an accident; surely the glove had a point. Maybe it was a commentary on the duality of celebrity – the exposed skin of his bare hand symbolizing the mortal Michael, the gentle young man from a sooty corner of Indiana, and the gloved hand representing the flashy showbiz Michael..."
Jackson was also, "probably the last male entertainer to be at least as famous for his dancing as his singing." Today, Marino argues, we prefer male entertainers to be "gangsta roughnecks or sensitive emo boys. The third way, the middle way, no longer exists. Jay-Z does not dance. Kenny Chesney does not dance. Bono does not dance."





http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2008/02/24/features/sunday/12974457.txt

Celebrating Black History Month


Apollo Theater in Harlem, N.Y., is known as the place "Where Stars are Born and Legends are Made" and "home" to thousands of major performance artists, fans and patrons of the arts from around the world. The legendary venue has launched the careers of icons such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, James Brown and Lauryn Hill and continues to maintain its position as the nation's most popular arena for emerging and established black and Latino performers. (From http://www.apollotheater.org/.)


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/feb/24/dreams-take-center-stage/


Costumed kiddie-cats prowl the aisles; the multilevel junkyard blinks and blares with neon and relics of casino signs. Julian Crowder remakes his “Rum Tum Tugger” a la Michael Jackson and leads the ensemble “Jellicle Ball” dance in an extended parody of Jackson’s “Thriller” that cracks up the audience. Choir major Lynda DeFuria, in the lead role of Grizabella the Glamour Cat, sends the show’s big number, “Memory,” soaring, with just the right note of melancholy and faded showbiz luster.



http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/02/25/3449_ntnews.html

DARWINITES of all ages got their groove on yesterday at the Move Me NT dance expo.
Hip-hop, ballet, latin, line dancing, ballroom, folkdance, contemporary and pole dancing were just a few of the many styles to grace the main stage.
The day gave beginners the chance to learn some new moves in workshops run at the Casuarina Secondary College gym.
But perhaps the most thrilling performance of the day was the scary-looking Thriller Dance Group, showing off the moves that catapulted Michael Jackson to fame.
The 10-member group, dressed in their best zombie outfits, wowed the crowd and didn't skip a beat when their lead dancer suffered a surprise, Janet Jackson-esque wardrobe malfunction on stage.
The Chooky Dancers, famous for their Zorba the Greek exploits on YouTube, were surprise guest performers, topping off the expo which was run by Ausdance NT.
Keltikka dancers Laura Kempster, 10, and Alana Townsend, eight, said they loved dancing because it was a fun sport.
"You get to learn some really cool dances,'' Alana said.



http://www.newwest.net/city/article..._but_there_might_be_late_fees_involved/C8/L8/


This suspicion that I was somehow missing out on the culture at large accompanies some of my earliest memories. I remember being in second or third grade when a classmate asked me if I liked Michael Jackson, to which I replied, “no, I don’t like country music,” which I now see was not an irredeemably bad answer but clearly wasn’t the right one. Then there was the family vacation when I joined a crowd of strangers in the motel’s pool-side hot tub (yes, they must have been glad to see me), only to have a middle-aged woman (or so she seemed to me then, meaning she was probably more like 28) ask if I’d seen E.T. the Extraterrestrial. I froze halfway into the water and looked at her quizzically, for I hadn’t the slightest idea what she was talking about, only to have her tell me to leave because the hot tub was restricted for the next hour to people who loved E.T. It only occurs to me now how high she must have been to talk this way to a child.
I did eventually catch the Michael Jackson and E.T. trains while still reasonably young, and those were fun rides, but the sensation of the culture moving on without me still affected me off and on through my teen years. It popped up again for the last time in my early twenties in the form of The X-Files, which I missed the good early seasons of because I was spending long stretches of those years floating around the Bering Sea. I’m not sure if I wanted to see it more because everyone else was and I wanted to have it in common with those around me, or more out of loyalty to the sensibility and tastes I’d had when I was a kid, when a well-written and competently acted program about spies and aliens and shadowy government conspiracies would have put me over the moon. I think it was the latter, almost as if I were nostalgic about how I would have felt about that show if I’d gotten to watch it when I was little.



Michael Jackson HIStory for Feb 24:

1987 - Pepsi aired a Michael Jackson commercial, "The Spring...The Magic Returns," during the 29th Annual Grammy Awards.

1993 - Michael Jackson received the Living Legend Award at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards. The award was presented by Janet Jackson.

2003 - Michael Jackson requested a court injunction to block a television company from releasing unused footage filmed during the making of a documentary.
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 **Billboard Chart Roundup**

jaydom7 said:
Have ya'll noticed that folks like Diane Dimond, Nancy Grace, the LA Times, etc haven't mentioned how well T25 is doing?
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Now ask me do I care....
 
Haven't been here for a while and OI got sooo excited to see how well Mike's doing in the charts , great news
BTW, thanks for the mentionings and updates....always a pleasure to come back here for more accurate news
 
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why would ppl even be bothered. some spend to much time being intrested in what ppl whos opinions are worthless think of mj.
 
Re: MJ Weekend News Roundup Feb. 22-24, 2008 (Update for February 23)

Rasta Pasta said:
please write the editor Rachel Rigdon at rigdonr@southwestern.edu
about the writer, Audra Gentry, of this article (link below)....

http://www.southwestern.edu/student...ael-jackson-fan-reflects-on-his-past-present/

this person needs to be educated and the editor needs to know that MJ has fans who do care how he is portrayed...
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Has anyone noticed how heated this discussion has become - should it perhaps be posted in Enough is Enough?
 
But perhaps the most thrilling performance of the day was the scary-looking Thriller Dance Group, showing off the moves that catapulted Michael Jackson to fame.
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Michael was "catapulted to fame" much long before "Thriller" video; one of early points is maybe driving off Beatles' song from #1 place. Not even during "Thriller" album period the video was the biggest event (though huge anyway).
 
denisrs said:
Michael was "catapulted to fame" much long before "Thriller" video; one of early points is maybe driving off Beatles' song from #1 place. Not even during "Thriller" album period the video was the biggest event (though huge anyway).
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It annoys me so much when articles make out that MJ was made famous by Thriller, when in fact J5 was knocking the Beatles off the charts and were known all around the world. In fact I just read that they broke the Beatles record in the beatles own home town. The Jackson 5 were bigger than the beatles. MJ was being hailed as a legend well before Thriller.:)
 
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