Jackson Memorial: Breaking the Bar
Not since young JFK, Jr. saluted his slain father’s coffin has a child’s reaction to the loss of a parent so moved a global television audience. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson’s spontaneous, heartfelt tribute to her father was the highly emotional capper to the public memorial service for Michael Jackson at Staples Center. If you hadn’t choked back tears when Usher sang “Gone Too Soon,” taking off his sunglasses to gaze at the King...
If He Had a Grave, MJ Would Be Turning in It
The media madness surrounding the sudden death of Michael Jackson continues unabated, fueled by the public’s nearly insatiable decades-long appetite about the talented and troubled King of Pop. One can get whiplash trying to keep up with all the latest developments. The pop star will be buried at Neverland after a public viewing and private service. No, he won’t be. The former long-time nanny to his three children pumped his...
Everyone Needs a Dr. Feelgood….
…and it isn’t Dr. Conrad Murray. There are serious questions about why this cardiologist did not know how to properly perform CPR that could have saved Michael Jackson’s life. And why was there a half-hour delay before 911 was called? And who was that person who made the call? From his continued use of the word “sir,” I would guess an employee of the household who was being directed by Murray, who was...
Commencement Chaos: Speaking Gig Open at UCLA!
Let’s see….UC Merced got Michelle Obama, and UCLA gets actor James Franco. Well, not any more. Looks like the handsome, successful actor got bounced out of the primo commencement speaking gig June 12 by some students who resented the fact that he just graduated, and hasn’t really done anything with his degree in creative writing. Franco started at the Westwood campus in ’96, dropped out and just recently went...
The Perils of Public Transportation
Dial “T” for transport theft. Kevin Bacon gets jacked in a subway station. A brazen thief came up to him while he was waiting for a train at a 53rd and 7th Ave. stop, and ripped off his Blackberry, presumably replete with numbers for wife Kyra Sedgwick and many others from whom he’s separated by only six degrees. All in broad daylight, well, during the day, in the dank lighting of the underground station, where Bacon...
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