Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 27, 2008 on post # 18)

Dorothy_Marie

Proud Member
Joined
Jul 25, 2011
Messages
2,276
Points
0
Location
Texas
Michael Jackson News:



http://times-journal.com/story.lass...c2&-session=FPTJ:42F948D00a60c27EC2MwU1408211


Follies set to take stage

The Tonight Show will come to life in Fort Payne next week as the annual Krazy Kudzu Follies takes the stage.

Chamber Executive Director Carol Beddingfield said Johnny Carson will be the emcee this year.

“For all of us who are old enough to remember who Johnny Carson is, they will remember how funny he was,” Beddingfield said. “There were always animals showing up and live entertainment. Our Tonight Show will be quite similar.”

She said this year also marks the 25th anniversary of Thriller and a special visit is expected from Michael Jackson.

There will also be a performance by M.C. Hammer, according to Beddingfield.

A record number of performers have pledged their support for the chamber fundraiser.



“More than 75 people have their costumes ready and their acts together,” Beddingfield said.

As it has become a tradition, Dr. Charles Isbell is also featured as a performer. Beddingfield said the longtime Fort Payne doctor has said he encourages everyone to escape the problems of today’s high-stressed daily life through laughter.

“One of the main reasons he is in the Follies every year is to make memories and laugh,” she said.

The performances will be May 1-3 at 6 p.m. at the DeKalb Theatre.

Tickets are $15 each and are available at the chamber office and at Bruce’s Foodland.

Call the chamber at 845-2741.



http://newyork.metromix.com/movies/movie/2008-tribeca-film-festival-new-york/383882/content


2008 Tribeca Film Festival Drive-In


You can't really watch movies from your car at the Tribeca Drive-In, but this free outdoor screening series at the World Financial Center Plaza is the next best thing. The series kicks off Thursday (4/24) with a special screening of Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" video, with director John Landis on hand. Zombie dance instruction included.



http://newyork.metromix.com/restaurants/photogallery/snap-judgment-thriller-night/391989/content

Groovin’ ghouls bust out the moves at downtown’s zombie disco. Aaaaaaowwww!


As part of the free outdoor screenings at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, a freaked-out bunch of zombies, ghouls and, well, Michael Jackson fans flocked to the World Financial Center Plaza to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking "Thriller" video.

M.J. look-alikes were on hand to lend cred to the event, which included a Michael Jackson dance-off, a showstopping number from the contestants on Bravo TV’s “Step It Up And Dance,” and a screening of the “Thriller” video introduced by its director, John Landis. It was a scream.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24314870/


Director: Funds for ‘Thriller’ almost didn’t appear
John Landis says no one wanted to pay for Michael Jackson video at first


Landis, who had made his directorial debut with “Animal House,” took the job because he saw it as a chance to resurrect a genre that had once been a Hollywood staple. “It was a great opportunity to bring back the theatrical short,” he said.

Music videos were new and evolving in 1983, and MTV, where most of them got their play, was just 2 years old. Jackson had done a couple of videos himself, including “Beat It.” But the videos were made to sell records, and when Jackson decided he wanted to do “Thriller,” the album by that name had already been out for nearly a year, and it had already become the biggest-selling album of all time.

The video Landis envisioned was going to be nearly 15 minutes long — and expensive.

“It’s always exaggerated,” Landis said of the video’s cost. The Wikipedia article on “Thriller” claims it cost $800,000. Elsewhere, sums as high as $1 million have been cited.

“It ended up costing $500,000 — still an enormous money at that time for that kind of thing,” Landis said. The average music video in those days ran about $50,000 to produce, and Jackson’s would cost 10 times that.

But because the album had already sold so many copies, neither CBS, Jackson’s record label, nor anyone else wanted to pay for what they saw as a “vanity video.”

What was the point?

“Nobody would give us the money, because the album had already been so successful,” Landis said.

“Michael said he would pay for it,” he continued. “But I wouldn’t let him. He was still living with his parents in Encino behind a supermarket.

‘A brand-new thing called cable television’
George Folsey, Landis’ partner in the venture, then suggested that while doing “Thriller” they also film a 45-minute documentary, “The Making of Thriller.” They could package it and sell it as a one-hour theatrical feature.

Landis and Folsey approached Disney Studios, which agreed to release it for a limited engagement in Los Angeles theaters. At the same time, they decided to take it to a venue no one else had ever considered as a market for a music video.

“We sold that hour to a brand-new thing called cable television and the Showtime network, which at that time had only 3 million homes,” Landis said. It was actually an option that Showtime took, and when the Los Angeles theater release was a huge success, Showtime anted up.

“They paid a quarter of a million dollars for the rights to show it exclusively for, I think, 10 days,” Landis said. When MTV saw it, they called Landis. “MTV went crazy – ‘How can you do that?’ We said, ‘OK, you give us money.’ And they gave us another quarter of a million to show it for two weeks, and that was our costs.”

It was such a hit that CBS decided that it was the most brilliant idea ever, distributing the video for all of its affiliates to air for free. “For a while there, you couldn’t turn on the television without seeing ‘Thriller,’ ” Landis told TODAY.

The album that had supposedly sold every copy it could shot back to the top of the charts, nearly tripling its previous sales.

Landis and Folsey had already produced the first theatrical music video, and had been the first to sell a video to a cable movie network. But that was just the beginning.




Again from out of the blue, Landis got a call from Austin Furst, who had a video business called Vestron, who said he wanted to by the rights to put “Thriller” out as a “sell-through video.” Landis had never heard the term before, and Furst explained that he would sell it directly to consumers at a relatively affordable price: $24.95.

At the time, home videos were shown on the still-new technology of video tape. There were two formats, VHS and Sony’s Beta. But a movie typically cost between $80 and $100. Consumers weren’t going to pay that much, so mom-and-pop operations sprang up to buy the videos and then rent them out. Furst’s idea was to produce large quantities of the film and sell it directly.

The critics just damned me’
Landis said he couldn’t imagine many people wanting to buy a video that had gotten such extensive play on television. It would turn out that more than 10 million people just had to own it.

It’s never ended.

recent incarnation of “Thriller” is the Filipino prison production which has been a huge hit on YouTube, but if you search “Thriller” on YouTube, you come up with hundreds if not thousands of amateurs who have made the video their own.

“The Filipino prison is wonderfully crazy,” Landis said. “But people all over the world perform the ‘Thriller’ dance at weddings, at quinceaneros, at funerals, at bar mitzvahs. It blows me away.”

Landis went on to make many more films, including “Coming to America,” “Beverly Hills Cop III,” “Coming to America,” “Blues Brothers,” and “Trading Places.” He finds it ironic that the two that have become cultural icons — “Thriller” and “Animal House” — were the two that nobody at first wanted.

With “Thriller,” it was a question of who was going to buy it. With “Animal House,” he said, “The critics just damned me. They beat the crap out of me. Then it became this commercial hit. Over the years, it’s in the Library of Congress, and it’s this great American movie.”

Another great movie director, John Huston, had an explanation for it, said Landis: “He said movie directors, prostitutes and buildings grow respectable with age. I’m actually experiencing that.”



http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1586226/20080424/fall_out_boy.jhtml

Fall Out Boy Released 'Beat It' By Accident, But Still Dream Of World Tour With Michael JacksonViews 2,249

Comments 1
Rating 50%
Rate this article
Thumbs upThumbs downAdd to my Profile
Sign In/Sign Up Votes Sign In/Sign Up
Permalink Share Flag
Adult

Hate

Spam

Other


Send to Friend
Print
'I just started playing the riff in sound-check one day,' Patrick Stump says on the set of new video.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Yasmine Richard

Del.icio.us Digg Newsvine Send to Friend Print

When Fall Out Boy decided to record their cover version of Michael Jackson's "Beat It," they had one goal in mind: to make a song so triumphant that it would somehow convince the King of Pop to come out of hiding and join them on the road for an epic (and costly) world tour.

Actually, we're lying. There was no goal. Truth be told, the whole thing was pretty much just an accident.

We never really planned this to happen," Fall Out frontman Patrick Stump laughed. "Basically, I just started playing the riff in sound-check one day, and then we all started playing it, and then we started playing it live, and then we figured we'd record it and put it out with our live DVD. And so we put it out, and then radio started playing it, and then it got huge on iTunes. It was on the top 10 there, and so we were like, 'Psssh, I guess it's a single then.' "

"It was kind of a snowball," bassist Pete Wentz added. "We didn't plan on it being a single, but I hate when bands put out DVDs and they're basically an excuse to have you buy the record twice. We wanted our DVD to have real value, so we did this ... and it sort of spiraled into iTunes and all that stuff. And that's why we're doing this video, because I should be at my house eating honeydew melon."

It bears mentioning that this conversation took place on the set of the "Beat It" video, a super-secret shoot that took place last week in Los Angeles and featured a karate-dance squad, oversize bodyguards in designer shades and a cameo by "Arrested Development" star Tony Hale. And if that weren't proof enough that FOB know only one way to do things — big — consider the fact that their version of "Beat It" also features a white-hot guitar solo from none other than John Mayer, because, well ... just because.

"Back in the day, Eddie Van Halen played on 'Beat It,' and I don't believe he was in the video," Wentz explained. "And we were trying to think about who is a contemporary guitar guy who's going to go down as a legend. And to be honest with you, there aren't as many high-profile young ones. And John really is. ... He's a prolific guitarist. And so I hit him up and asked if he'd want to do it, and he said, 'Yeah.' ... And then he just did it. He's like, 'I'm gonna do it,' and then he e-mailed me five minutes later and was like, 'You wanna hear it?' It was that quick."

So with a high-profile video and an even higher-profile cameo, aren't Fall Out Boy the least bit excited to hear what Michael thinks of their take on his hit? Well, yeah. Even though they're a huge rock band, they're also MJ fans. But they're also realists, and as such, they're not expecting to hear a word from the King of Pop.

"I don't even know if he's even heard our cover of his song, or even heard of my band or anything, so he is absolutely not involved in this in any way, shape or form," Stump said. "I absolutely love Michael Jackson's music, but the likelihood of that happening ... well, let's just say that will not happen. At best, maybe he'll be sitting around, flipping through channels, and he might see the video and go, 'Oh, this is OK.' That's the most I can hope to get out of the Gloved One. I'm not expecting a big 'Let's go on tour together' thing."


Michael Jackson Mentionings:


http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/apr/25/palm-city-elementary-kids-celebrate-schools-50-yea/

Marin, who came to the school in 1973 as a fifth-grade teacher, rode into the event on a bike with balloons. Students showed off dance routines from past era favorites such as Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" and "The Lion King’s" Hakuna Matata


http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/d...rPk=112383&pNodeId=188965&returnNodeId=188965

lawyer who moonlights as a Michael Jackson impersonator makes his debut on Britain's Got Talent.

Suleman Mirza, 29, from London, describes his Jackson act as moonwalking "with a twist".





The twist arrives in the form of Madhu Singh, 34, who makes his way on to the stage with a broom.

In the Saturday night programme, the two engage in a Michael Jackson/Bhangra dance-off in front of puzzled judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan.



http://www.huliq.com/57896/consumer-sentiment-index-declines-1982-levels

Interest rates in 1982 were in the double digits. Inflation was running at 6.16%. The first CD player was sold in Japan. And Times "Man of the Year" was THE COMPUTER. We didn't have personal computers, cell phones, voice mail, text messaging or DVD players. Al Gore hadn't even invented the internet. What did people do all day? I, for one, was playing Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album over and over again.



http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=8476


A member of the DNHS varsity volleyball team, Hadfield hopes for a career as an athletic trainer or choreographer. For her talent, she will perform a self-choreographed dance routine to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." She is the daughter of Robert Hadfield and Jean Anne Crawford.


http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iFR99ZWkdHOgX6I-2N3b-YZP9fHA


Hodges denied that Snipes' celebrity was in any way linked to the unusually stiff sentence.

The judge said he would consider a request from the actor's attorneys to allow Snipes to be sent to a prison close to his home in the northeastern state of New Jersey.

Snipes first rose to fame in the 1980s when he was cast in the video for Michael Jackson's single "Bad."

That proved to be the springboard for a successful acting career characterized by his portrayal of tough-guy characters in movies such as "Demolition Man" and "New Jack City."
 
Last edited:
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (Now Updated)

Wow! Very good news today. I like the John Landis interview. Michael was and still is phenomenal
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (Now Updated)

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/04/tribeca-film-fe.html



Celebrating the 25th anniversary of 'Thriller'

In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably make a small confession before I begin this post. In 1982, when Michael Jackson released his seminal Thriller, still the bestselling album of all time, I may have been sporting Huggies and sucking on a binky. I know, I know. But lest you think I am ill-equipped to fully enjoy a 25th-anniversary celebration of the epic recording, you'd be mistaken. I'm a huge Thriller fan, and even though neither the King of Pop nor iconic producer Quincy Jones were slated to attend, I was as thrilled (sorry) as a 12-year-old schoolgirl to attend the Tribeca Film Festival event.

I arrived at the venue, a large outdoor plaza overlooking the Hudson River, just in time to see the 12 contestants from Bravo's Step It Up & Dance (the only Bravo reality show I don't watch) take the stage in full zombie mode -- tattered suits and flower-print dresses, nappy bed head, and garish green face makeup -- to do their rendition of "Thriller"'s infamous dance scene. Though they're no crew of Filipino prisoners (I did catch a few out-of-sync moments), they mustered a respectable imitation of the living dead.

Step judge and "Thriller" assistant choreographer Vincent Paterson joined the troupe to teach the audience the signature moves, but as I glanced around the nearly vacant press section (which randomly included actor Oliver Platt), I realized I'd be one of the only ones shaking my money maker. I decided I just couldn't part with my dignity long enough to lurch about like an idiot while the five nearby journalists sat silently judging me. So like a party pooper, I stayed firmly planted in my plastic lawn chair while Paterson and the Step kids demonstrated Zombie Walk #1 (head to shoulder on beats 1, 5, and 7), the Rock (step to side and groove), and Zombie Walk #2 (look left, look right, take three steps to the left). Got it? Now you try!


We were then treated to the 14-minute-long "Thriller" video, and as the recognizable hook began pulsing over the PA system I couldn't help but smile and begin tapping my foot to the beat. Shrieks and screams began rising from the crowd while the twenty-something guy sitting next to me began shimmying. Though a big fan, I'll admit it's been a while since I sat through the whole mini-movie, and I realized how much I had never noticed or had forgotten. Does anyone else remember Jackson's message preceding the video? "Due to my strong personal convictions I wish to stress this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult." Weird. Did they show that part on MTV? It also made me a touch melancholy to juxtapose this ridiculously great performance with what has become of the pop icon's career. I miss the explosive, flamboyant Jackson of the '80s. Pretenders to the throne, like Justin Timberlake, just can't touch him.

The highlight of my evening, though, had to be the unexpected outburst from "Thriller" director John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Animal House). As the Making of Thriller documentary began rolling, we were unexpectedly bombarded by a gaggle of commercials from the event's sponsors. Midway through the ads, the disembodied voice of Landis shrieked over the sound system, "I didn't know about the damn commercials! But it's coming." Priceless.

The night ended with a zombie disco, which I just didn't have the energy (or desire) to stay for. But I'm sure Thriller understands. We're both in the throws of quarter life, and that can be pretty tiring.

Some Thriller factoids:

1) The single was originally called "Starlight Love."
2) The Making of Thriller is actually what financed the music video's production. CBS and Sony thought the record had no more money-making potential, so they refused to fund it. So the documentary, nicknamed by the cast Making of Filler, was shot along with the video and later sold.
3) Jackson got the idea for the "Thriller" video after watching Landis' American Werewolf in London.
4) The video took four days to shoot and required 20 makeup artists to transform Jackson and his dancers into the undead.
5) Several crew members make cameos, including makeup artist Rick Baker and Paterson (who also appears as one of the lead gang members in "Beat It").

Permalink
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (Now Updated)

^^now that is one of the most positive articles I have ever read! no cheap shots or nothing... :punk:
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (Now Updated)

Did I read that MJ is supposed to be on the Tonight Show? MJ would NEVER appear on one of those shows!
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (Now Updated)

Michael Jackson Mentionings for April 26, 2008:


http://music.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_1402030.php/Coachella_Day_1_Serj_Tankian_The_Verve_Breeders_Tegan_and_Sara_Aphex_Twin_Fatboy_Slim

I then saw part of Busy P’s DJ set. It was conventional and uninspiring, definitely nothing compared to some of the later players. He did, however, throw Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” into the mix. This redeemed him somewhat.



http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080424/suresh_joachim_/20080426?hub=TopStories


"All my stars were in there: Madonna, the football players -- you know Madonna, right? Even Michael Jackson was there for most albums sold... I thought 'OK, this is a good book.'"



http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/04/26/3410447.htm

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ An appeals court upheld a verdict finding Robert Blake liable for his wife's 2001 death but cut the $30 million jury award in half. The 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the actor's argument of juror misconduct, including complaints that they discussed the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson acquittal cases while considering the amount of damages. The court said the argument intruded on the jurors' method of reaching a verdict.



http://www.kansas.com/sports/story/384821.html


The side windows of a white van in the parking lot, blocked by red lettering that read, "NATIONAL CHAMPS!"

Robinson grooving in his seat to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" as he scrawled his signature on a commemorative ball.

Kaun signing a grown man's back. His clothed back, by the way.



http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=84d18b72-2094-4eb5-9cd3-fc00eb81cd1d

HHH (out of five)

It makes perfect sense, to me anyway, to put a studio cover version of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" smack in the middle of a concert CD.

OK, maybe not, but the track -- good enough on its own and featuring John Mayer -- is a unique addition to this concert recorded last June in, well, Arizona.




http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/04/phil_collins_rb_hero.html


Joining Genesis in 1970 suggested that Collins was a full-time, furrowed-brow progressive rocker, but when going solo in the 1980s, Collins would default to a soul-lite, working with Dusty In Memphis producer Arif Mardin, Earth Wind & Fire's brass section and their singer Philip Bailey. He penned the Oscar-nominated theme to Against All Odds, and his album No Jacket Required was outselling Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1985. Disney's Collins-soundtracked Tarzan cartoon was also recently adapted for Broadway.



http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/entertainment-news/2008/04/26/escapologist-left-red-faced-after-getting-into-tight-spot-on-britain-s-got-talent-86908-20395257/

Returning as a stand-up, he puts on sunglasses "to stop Simon's teeth from blindingme".

There is also a Michael Jackson tribute act with a twist, and a 14-year-old street dancer.



http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/apr/26/30gtpalm-city-school-celebrates-50-years/

Students performed acts from the Village People's "YMCA" to "Hakuna Matata" from Disney's "The Lion King."Donna Jacobsen, whose third-grade class showed off choreographed dance moves to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," said students put in countless hours to make the song come alive.





Michael Jackson HIStory for April 26, 2008:




2003 - In California, the Santa Barbara County Assessor's Office decided that Michael Jackson did not qualify for an agricultural preservation tax break on his Neverland Ranch.

2004 - It was reported that Michael Jackson had dropped his current legal team (Mark Geragos and Benjamin Brafman) in his child molestation case in favor of Thomas Mesereau Jr.
 
Last edited:
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

thanks for all the articles
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

I am not sure yet how this affects Michael financially.. but I am keeping my eye out and you should too...

check out this article..
Sony plans to buy digital media company Gracenote for about US$260 million “plus other consideration,” reports TechCrunch.

The companies expect the deal to close in late May. Gracenote, which provides software that allows compact discs to pull up related information from the Internet, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, the company said in a statement.


Gracenote has signed agreements licensing lyrics rights from many of the world’s music publishers. Through the agreements, the has obtained rights to all the available lyrics from the North American music catalogs of BMG Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Peermusic, Famous Music, and dozens of others. Collectively, these music publishers own rights to the lyrics of more than one million compositions. These licenses paved the way for the first legal mass commercial use of lyrics. Consumer music app services such as iTunes, Yahoo! Music Jukebox, and Winamp use Gracenote for their music detection capabilities.

read more ..click the link:
http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/sony_to_buy_gracenote_for_260_million/

Who is Gracenote??

Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote® powers the biggest names in digital media enabling their products with Gracenote's leading edge solutions. When you see the Gracenote logo on a product you can be assured of a superb digital media experience.

Manage
Media management begins with knowing what's in your collection. As consumers quickly amass thousands of songs, media management is critical to a user's experience. For example, the ability to navigate and organize large music collections is largely dependent on accurately identifying and categorizing tracks, albums, and artists that it contains. Gracenote MusicID® is the essential ingredient for digital media recognition of CDs, digital music files, and streaming audio. With the most comprehensive database of music information in the world, the Gracenote Media Database contains information for more than 80 million tracks and 6 million CDs in 80 natural languages.

Enrich
Gracenote has created technologies for consumers to enrich their media experience in virtually any media device. Gracenote Playlist's™ dynamic playlist generation technology allows the user to generate instant and intelligent music playback with the touch of a button. Designed specifically for music information, Gracenote MediaVOCS™ allows hands-free control of media collections. You speak a command to access playlists and individual songs. While users are enjoying their music, Gracenote also offers a convenient and integrated way to access related content. With Gracenote Music Enrichment™, listeners can access links to purchase full tracks, ringtones, and videos.

Discover
Gracenote's goal is to make it easy for consumers to discover new media. Gracenote Discover™ is a global music recommendation engine that helps consumers find new music that suits their mood and tastes. Recommendations are based on three different types of analysis—music expert editorial review, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) analysis, and global community preferences. Discover is also flexible enough to incorporate unique customer data into the recommendations. Our solutions are embedded in leading media players, including Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Winamp and Napster. Gracenote's technology also powers leading home and automobile consumer electronics brands such as Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony, as well as international mobile music applications for KDDI (Japan), KTF (Korea), and Musiwave (Portugal).

http://www.gracenote.com/company_info/
 
Last edited:
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

OMG! See, I told y'all Mike was waiting for new technology to become available so he could corral his work and be able to track it so he would be sure to get his $$$$$! This just proves I was on the right track!

Ticie,
The JACKSONOLOGIST
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

How can you say that when yu don't even know if Michael is involved in it. Wouldn't he have to tell you so himself?
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

http://http://www.digtriad.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=102438&catid=176

"Thriller" Video Turns 25
Posted by: Sarah Lanse, Web Producer 6 hrs ago (4/27/2008 5:20:08 AM)


The "Thriller" video and album launched Michael Jackson to superstardom.


Undated -- It's the video credited with launching Michael Jackson's adult career and this year it turns 25.

It's the haunting music video that just won't die.

An estimated 2,000 fans moonwalked into lower Manhattan to pay homage to teh seminal 1983 video that made Michael Jackson a superstar.

"So why do you think it's managed to endure after all of these years, we're talking well over two decades here?"

"First of all, it's the genius of the choreography, it's not simple, but it looks simple enough and there are a couple of signature moves that are easy enough for everybody to pick up// This is kind of the swan lake of the pop world, everybody learns it and everybody does it."

The groundbreaking 14-minute long classic has inspired countless imitations.

Inmates at a Filipino prison became an internet sensation when they performed the routine.

This wedding party and these legos have also thrilled online.

Naomi Campbell and a group of lizards work it in this commercial for sobe water. Jennifer Garner gets her groove on in "13 Going on 30." And even Avatars kick up their animated heels in Second Life's "Thriller Dance Party Room"

Source: CNN Pathfire

Copyright: 2008 digtriad.com

Watch the video that goes with the story:

http://www.digtriad.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=102438&catid=176
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

http://http://www.digtriad.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=102438&catid=176

"Thriller" Video Turns 25
Posted by: Sarah Lanse, Web Producer 6 hrs ago (4/27/2008 5:20:08 AM)


The "Thriller" video and album launched Michael Jackson to superstardom.


Undated -- It's the video credited with launching Michael Jackson's adult career and this year it turns 25.

It's the haunting music video that just won't die.

An estimated 2,000 fans moonwalked into lower Manhattan to pay homage to teh seminal 1983 video that made Michael Jackson a superstar.

"So why do you think it's managed to endure after all of these years, we're talking well over two decades here?"

"First of all, it's the genius of the choreography, it's not simple, but it looks simple enough and there are a couple of signature moves that are easy enough for everybody to pick up// This is kind of the swan lake of the pop world, everybody learns it and everybody does it."

The groundbreaking 14-minute long classic has inspired countless imitations.

Inmates at a Filipino prison became an internet sensation when they performed the routine.

This wedding party and these legos have also thrilled online.

Naomi Campbell and a group of lizards work it in this commercial for sobe water. Jennifer Garner gets her groove on in "13 Going on 30." And even Avatars kick up their animated heels in Second Life's "Thriller Dance Party Room"

Source: CNN Pathfire

Copyright: 2008 digtriad.com

Watch the video that goes with the story:

http://www.digtriad.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=102438&catid=176


Sweet! None of this stupid hating on Mike, slowly ever so slowly, things are changing, yes!
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

How can they say tht the thriller video launched Jackson to superstardom. Mj was a superstar when ne went sol. Everybody across the world already knew who he was, he sold a record breaking 10 million copies of OTW. He had doneLJ and BI and was alrady breaking records. How did thriller made him a superstar. Whatever.
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

Thanks for the news /articles...:)
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

thanks for the updates
 
Re: Weekend News Bytes for April 25-27 (updated for April 26, 2008 on post # 8)

Michael Jackson News for April 27,2008:


http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010774402



Amy Beeman - AHN
New York, NY (AHN) -- Twenty-five years after the groundbreaking release of Micheal Jackson's Thriller video, an estimated 2000 people gathered at the Tribeca Film Festival recently in Manhattan to pay homage to the video that became a staple of pop culture worldwide.
The video and song have recently been brought back into the mainstream in dance sequences in commercials, movies, and by a popular Youtube video that shows 1,500 inmates in the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Philippines dancing in unison to the choreography in the video; It is their exercise routine.
Vincent Paterson was a long time choreographer for Micheal Jackson. He said in a televised interview that Thriller "is the Swan Lake of the pop world. Everybody learns it. Everybody does it."
The video, which was released in 1983, is 14 minutes long, and was ground breaking in its combining film making with music. It won the People's Choice Award in 1984. Many argue that there has never been a music video as influential as Thriller has been.














Michael Jackson Mentionings for April 27, 2008:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602240.html


"It's Hova," Arenas said, referring to one of Jay-Z's nicknames. "It's the big dog. If I had three people to talk about me in a song it would be Jay-Z, Michael Jackson and Prince. And Tupac and Biggie, let's be for real. Jay-Z had the time. That means he sat down somewhere, three minutes out of his time he had to write something."



http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/pr...26804&osCsid=08dd922174fa1d753b7b6f25cc6f528f


Talking about the international scene, Victor will likely not forget the first time he stepped out of Nigeria as an actor.
"I must tell you, I have watched on the TV how people revere Michael Jackson when he is on tour. I have seen how people kill themselves just to touch him. That was how it was the first time I travelled out of Nigeria for a tour of Europe. It was a festival.




http://www.hindustantimes.com/Story...66b&&Headline=Mittal+and+the+world+of+fashion

Although, to be fair, check jackets and pleated trousers are back in fashion. Sadly, though, his jacket is far too big and those socks look as if they’ve come from Michael Jackson’s Thriller wardrobe. Perhaps Gates was planning to Moonwalk into the Microsoft offices.”




http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSS2714387420080427

CEBU, Philippines (Reuters Life!) - The central Philippine island of Cebu is renowned as a holiday destination but these days it's the provincial jail not the balmy beaches that's drawing in the visitors.
Inmates at the prison shot to fame last year when a video clip of them gyrating in synch to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as part of their exercise regime became a You Tube hit. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha7VwGJDsrk).
The dance sensation, complete with zombie movies and involving over 1,000 prisoners in orange jumpsuits, has attracted nearly 15 million online views. And now spectators are flocking to the live show.
"It was great. I had fun. Two thumbs up," said Kathleen, a local university student and one of hundreds of people who visit the jail every month to catch the inmates' grooving in harmony.




http://www.blueridgenow.com/article...1/1042/NEWS/NEWS/The_first_Parkhill_Prize_won

David Hall commented, "I could hear Michael Jackson's Bad playing in my head!" Now, it was our turn to be intimidated. We were grateful when Dr. Parkhill joined to give us moral support and referee.

The challenge consisted of the three legged race, sack race, and our least favorite, dizzy bats relay. The first test didn't require much physical power but required synchronization and the faculty won. We were relieved and gained some confidence. At least it was not total carnage.


http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080427/LIFESTYLE/804270306

Local artist Deb Watson designed and created glittering oversized images of arcade mania favorite Pac Man, fancy guitars, swatch watches, Prince, Shelia E., Michael Jackson and Madonna records and the Nike symbol. All stood on easels to serve as accents to the performance platform, as did a super-sized image of an MTV screen.


Members of LaFeté's board appeared wearing purple sequined tops and classic black pants to dance to "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince. New members of the organization grooved to the music of "Pretty Young Thing" by Michael Jackson, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his "Thriller" album, mixed in a little of the memorable footwork into their medley routine.




http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/319707.html


Tonya taught herself by watching Michael Jackson's music videos on television.
"My younger sister (Tiffany) and I would push back the couch and dance to 'Billie Jean' and 'Thriller,'" she said. "If you can do the step, I can imitate it."







Michael Jackson HIStory for April 27, 2008:



1984 - In Philadelphia, the radio station WWSH broadcasted a "No Michael Jackson" weekend in protest of his airwave saturation over the last years.

1984 - Michael Jackson returned to the hospital for further scalp and facial laser surgery stemming from the burns he received filming a Pepsi commercial.

2005 - In the Michael Jackson child-molestation trial, Deborah Rowe testified for the prosecution.

2005 - In California, an appellate court said that the judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial was right to seal dozens of records. The court said the judge had successfully balanced Jackson's right to a fair trial and the public's right to know.









 
Thanks for the news.

1984 - In Philadelphia, the radio station WWSH broadcasted a "No Michael Jackson" weekend in protest of his airwave saturation over the last years.

LOL! I do not even think that radio station exists anymore. LOL.
 
Back
Top