Tragic MJ Timeline: Time Out to Make Some Calls
If I were Dr. Conrad Murray, right about now, I’d be using a lot of sedatives, as many as he gave Michael Jackson on the last night of his life. Yes, Michael was apparently addicted to prescription drugs–as millions of people are, and very persuasive in his demands. But there’s no excuse for Murray’s complete and total negligence in causing the pop icon’s death. His own life, as he knew it, is over....
Conrad Murray: Truly Off the Wall
This could not get more surreal, or more offensive. Dr. Conrad Murray, under fire and under investigation for the death of Michael Jackson, makes a just-released YouTubevideo thanking his so-called supporters-and never once even acknowledging Jackson’s death, much less expressing his condolences to the family. It was absolutely heartless, sickening and shocking to see and hear this man’s pathetic spiel about how he was...
Nursing Michael Jackson
Even as the Las Vegas, NV home and offices of the incompetent, asleep at the swtich Dr. Conrad Murray were being raided, I was having a very interesting conversation with some medical colleagues of Dr. Steven Hoefflin who did (most of) Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeries, including his first or second nose job, depending on who you believe. Apparently loving the limelight that he got from being associated with celebrities...
Arresting Developments: The Harvard Professor and the Cop
OK, the president said it: the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted “stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home. Since then, Obama has backpedaled, but the controversy has only heated up. On the surface, it certainly seems like a case of racial profiling: neighbors call the cops when they see two black men apparently trying to break into a house. It turns out the good professor lived in...
The Pepsi Commercial: 25 Years Later
Although it’s hard to watch, it’s good that the footage of the fire during the Pepsi commercial that burned Michael Jackson’s scalp has come to light. Brings up interesting questions, though–who had it under lock and key for so long, and how much did US Weekly, that paragon of investigative journalistic reporting, pay for it? Now, one of the two LA city fire inspectors that was on set is also speaking out,...