Michael Jackson - RIP [Discuss tastefully (no cruel jokes)]

A little off topic here, but we just lost Billy Mays too. To those outside the US and Canada, he was a famous TV pitchman who made famous the line "But wait! There's more!" He and pitchman Anthony Sullivan had a show called Pitchmen on the Discovery channel. He had gone from being one of the most annoying people in the history of TV to one of the most beloved.

Oh, and I read on a site today that both Teddy Kennedy and Walter Cronkite may both be near the end and could go at any time.

buckethead wrote:

Oh man oh Man,
my little heart cant take all of this in.

He was just on Conan last week, fuming over the Sham Wow guy. Though, the King of Pop is on a slightly different level than a tv pitch man, no offense.

50 year old Michael Jackson, 50 year old Billy Mays. These things tend to go in threes and as Madonna is 50 also....

RIP MJ

Best singer and entertainer, too bad he couldn't do his comeback tour. I feel like he died at the bottom of his carreer. He would've shown the world why he is Micheal Jackson.

If Elvis lived another 10 years, we'd be saying the same things about him. He was on a downward spiral too, but not the long spiral that MJ was on. I blame the people around him for what he became. His handlers and family that

It's a real shame what happened over the years. Look at a young Michael Jackson and see the fire and hope in his eyes. Only a few years later everything seems to be dead inside already. It was only a matter of time and I think nobody believed that he would die old in a rocking-chair.
I'm really upset by Michaels "friends" that now crawl out of their holes and tell the world that they knew this would happen and so on... But I think thats a problem caused by all the money that was involved: At some point people won't tell you what is best for your but instead what you want to hear.

If you get a lot of money, you need to surround yourself with people looking after your best interests, not their own. A shocking number of pro athletes go bankrupt because their "friends" leech all their money off of them. With Michael, I don't think he was ever given great advice. People seemed to be using him left, right and center.

I love "Rock my world" made me realize how much artists take from MJ as far as dance moves go.

It's amazing how many artists really are influenced by Michael Jackson. I guess we were all caught up in the freak show that was the last 18 years and forgot about why he was the King of Pop. Michael performing "Billie Jean" at the Motown Reunion (I think that's what it was) is legendary. When he moonwalked for the first time, everyone went nuts.. and then he grabbed his nuts.

dazdaz wrote:

Sorry to see you felt let down by MJ and you are far from being alone in holding this opinion!

I also grew up with the Jackson 5 and he will forever remain in my memory as the kid with the outrageous talent.

I guess, the entertainer he became is, as you say, down to his talent and the likes of Quincy Jones and the like, without whom, I'm not sure his rise would have been what it was.

I was never privileged to see/hear him in concert but that is now something I will not be able to redress.

May he RIP as his life in the full glare of the media, despite the millions, was probably not something I would have enjoyed.

Regards

AL

RIP Jacko

im shoked about the dead, 50 isn`t real old

Karl Malden just bit the big one. This one is not too much of a surprise since he was 97.

RESPECT to Michael Jackson, despite the late season moronics.

Guy was trapped in a bubble from an early age. Its too bad because if he had any real friends one of them could have slapped him across the face at some point and... i don't know, something.....

Wasn't he friends with Chris Tucker? You'd think that he would have slapped him upside the head and say "What the hell were you thinking, Michael!"