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What do you think of Randy Taraborelli?

mj_frenzy said:
@SmoothGangsta, @Moonstreet: Unlike you, I am not a member of that Michael Jackson online fan forum where members there create threads in order to bad-mouth @MJJCommunity and its owner @Gaz.

@Mister_Jay_Tee, that is very hypocritical on your part, considering that there are quotes from you where you speak badly of @MJJCommunity and its staff.

Show me specifically these parts that you find them "hateful rhetoric" towards Michael Jackson.
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Bringing up years old drama that you weren't even involved in randomly is very normal lol.
 
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mj_frenzy said:
@Mister_Jay_Tee, that is very hypocritical on your part, considering that there are quotes from you where you speak badly of @MJJCommunity and its staff.
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Notice how that has nothing to do with Michael Jackson, which is still who you're accused of slandering lol. Though in print it's libel.
 
@Gaz, please delete my last (and off-topic) post in this thread (post #88).

It is pointless to argue with these people about these things.

Thanks.
 
etoile 37 said:
Depends on his source really. The stories he heard directly from the family back when he interviewed them are reliable. The ones he heard from unnamed sources are not always reliable. He also often makes up dialogues (he obviously was not in the room, so he could not possibly know what was said in such details).
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yeah, he makes up a lot of dialogues đź«  it is weird
 
83magic said:
he posted this just an hour ago

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this is his latest post on facebook. he talks about the first edition of the book. how he feels about it today, and michael’s reaction to it. there was only one piece of information that I was previously unaware of. this was still interesting though..

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83magic said:
this is his latest post on facebook. he talks about the first edition of the book. how he feels about it today, and michael’s reaction to it. there was only one piece of information that I was previously unaware of. this was still interesting though..

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"So, in a sense he invented the idea of audio books because this was waaaaay back."

He's getting a bit carried away, there! Michael didn't invent audiobooks. They've been around since the mid-1930's.
 
I honestly don't know what to think about J. Randall Taraborelli. The only book of his I ever attempted to read was his updated biopic on Michael, and I couldn't even get more than a few pages in. I don't think my reaction was due to him being an inherently bad writer, but if you're writing about someone as legendary as Michael Jackson, then you need to be engaging from the start, and stay that way through the whole book. I've seen some interviews with him, and he seems like a nice enough and respectful guy, but since I don't know him personally I can't really go any further than that. I have read about several people accusing him of purposely lying in his books, or embellishing to make what he writes sell better. This is a direct quote that I found, on an archived page from the online blog Gawker, where Mr. Taraborelli talks about his biography on Beyoncé Knowles...

"I decided a long time ago that it was my responsibility as a biographer to invade a person’s privacy. Once you cross that threshold, you're good to go. But I also know that she—I have to say, stroking my own ego—she’s so lucky to have me as a biographer. I’m sorry, it’s just the case. I know what I put into my work. I know what my standards are, and I know what the options are in terms of other people who might have written about her. I’m the first guy to do this, to really unpack her life. And I’m doing for her what I did with Michael Jackson. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Beyoncé were completely new terrain prior to my tackling those subjects. It sounds terrible for me to say that she’s lucky that I’m her biographer, but what I’m trying to say to you is that she could do a lot worse. I really care."

His Wikipedia page also contains this quote...

"I think as you get older as a writer, your standards change. When I was a kid, my standard was very simple: If it was true, I put it in my book. That was it. There was no wiggle room to that. I’ve been through enough in my lifetime to realize there has to be more of a standard in biography than just the truth. There has to be an eye toward empathy. There has to be an eye toward understanding interpretation. There’s a lot of nuance that goes into a biography that is bigger than whether or not something is true. When I was a kid, it was a simpler time. Today, I weigh everything on a moral compass. It has to do with: Is it fair? Is it hurtful? Is it going to cause people pain? That’s a big part of my process today that when I was a kid, I never considered."

So at the very least, this guy comes off as somewhat egotistical, and possibly too compromising for my personal taste...but that doesn't make him a liar.
 
@Victorious, it has been suggested that these bruises on his arms (more specifically, on his area between the wrist and elbow) came from shaking hands with fans from the half-opened car window during his arrest transport.

So, contrary to what Michael Jackson claimed, again it appears that there was no police manhandling towards him.
 
mj_frenzy said:
@Victorious, it has been suggested that these bruises on his area between the wrist and elbow came from shaking hands with fans from the half-opened car window during his arrest transport.

So, contrary to what Michael Jackson claimed, again it appears that there was no police manhandling towards him.
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oh jeez, when will you stop with lies and hearsay, thats a new one on me. Where do you get these fiction stories???
 
Moonstreet said:
oh jeez, when will you stop with lies and hearsay, thats a new one on me. Where do you get these fiction stories???
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Well you know, every explanation is good as long as it's not the one given by Michael. But if Michael was the one saying that the bruises were caused by fans shaking his hands, then it would be a lie.

“Why not just tell people I’m an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They’ll believe anything you say, because you’re a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, “I’m an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight,” people would say, “Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He’s cracked up. You can’t believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.” - Michael Jackson
 
Horrorlover656 said:
Mj frenzy seems like ChatGPT honestly...
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He used to be so normal. In 2018 he talked like a real human being, even acknowledged when something he said was his opinion.

Somewhere along the line he got immolated and turned into Darth Vader. A souless machine barely resembling a man.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
He used to be so normal. In 2018 he talked like a real human being, even acknowledged when something he said was his opinion.

Somewhere along the line he got immolated and turned into Darth Vader. A souless machine barely resembling a man.
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Do you think he could be a T-800?
 
mj_frenzy said:
@Horrorlover656, there is currently some sort of a contest running in MJJCommunity.

The contest is about finding @mj_frenzy's most normal (in terms of real human being) post.

@Mister_Jay_Tee and @dethorro have already submitted their entries to this contest.

Considering your great interest in @mj_frenzy's posting behaviour, you may also want to submit an entry to this contest.
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Here's my bid for most normal mj_frenzy post:

Post in thread 'Millennium Concert 1999-2000?'

Millennium Concert 1999-2000?

So I just saw a back issue of MJNI's King magazine on eBay from July 1999 and there was a letter for the fan club talking about a Millennium concert in Hawaii to ring in the year 2000. Why is this the first time I'm ever hearing about this? Can anyone shed more light on this and why it never...
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mj_frenzy said:
@Victorious, it has been suggested that these bruises on his arms (more specifically, on his area between the wrist and elbow) came from shaking hands with fans from the half-opened car window during his arrest transport.

So, contrary to what Michael Jackson claimed, again it appears that there was no police manhandling towards him.
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Well since someone "suggested" it it must be true!

Case closed.


But then why wasn't Michael always covered in similar bruises every day of his life? He was mobbed consistently since the age of 10.

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kelley said:
Well since someone "suggested" it it must be true!

Case closed.


But then why wasn't Michael always covered in similar bruises every day of his life? He was mobbed consistently since the age of 10.

:unsure:
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Please stop entertaining this guy. This thread needs to close already. Don't feed the troll.
 
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