Michael Jackson, the man..ish, the memorial

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When does the process of beatification start? It's been almost a week!
 
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They just announced:

Michael Jackson's public memorial will be Tuesday morning (July 7) at the Staples Center. They were able to convince the Ringling Brothers Circus (seriously) to start loading their animals later in the evening.

This is probably surprisingly affordable to put on because AEG was the company putting on the O2 in London, and it owns the Staples Center and new Nokia Theater across the street (in fact they were using the Staples Center as a practice facility before he died). They're going to use the existing massive public screens (and maybe more) to show the service to those who can't get into the arena. This could be enormously popular, especially if it draws from the existing office workers (750k) who work in the immediate area. AEG will also have access to the massive (and adjacent) LA Convention Center.

Damn, I was in SoCal this past week --wish I was still there. I enjoy big public spectacles like sports celebrations and other things. This one promises to be raucous.
 
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I'll be at the dentist Tuesday morning.

I'd honestly rather be there than watching this spectacle on tv.

EDIT: Ringling Brothers had to let them do this because they realized for one day they would no longer be the greatest show on Earth.

They know where the true circus will be July 7.
 
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Lagduf, its that sort of thinking which allows the terrorists to win. :shame:
 
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Lagduf said:
EDIT: Ringling Brothers had to let them do this because they realized for one day they would no longer be the greatest show on Earth.

They know where the true circus will be July 7.
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This will be, without question, the funeral of the century.
 
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SouthtownKid said:
I don't know... you have to figure Pee Wee Herman will die before the year 2100.
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Oh. My. God... that would've been the topper --if somehow Pee Wee Herman had been involved in some sort of mysterious murder-suicide pact.

Toss in Boy George or Joaquin Phoenix and some of those tabloids would've spontaneously combusted.

Maybe its not too late --has anyone seen Paul Reubens???
 
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If they make a biopic of Jackson, I would chose either Spike Lee or John Waters as the writer/director. Actually, I would prefer them to concurrently make the two movies and then release them together.
 
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Oh god, I forgot all about the biopic thing. Good god... We run the risk of having a truly terrible movie foisted upon us next year.

Though John Waters.... That could be pretty good. Let's hope someone as good as him gets to make it. Because make no mistake — that shit's in preproduction as we speak, I have no doubt.
 
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The biopic was kind of an elephant in the room, wasn't it? Dying right before a comeback tour? How made-for-TV is that?
 
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Here's my shortlist of who I think would make an interesting Michael Jackson movie as writer/director (obviously, I highly doubt any would get a chance to --this is more for fun and funny "what if" to try and imagine):

John Waters
Spike Lee
Oliver Stone
Hayao Miyazaki
David Lynch
Werner Herzog
Terry Gilliam
 
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Burton should just re-release Charlie and the Chocolate factory, rename it The Michael Jackson Story.
 
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The Biopic needs to have a conspiracy slant to it. Jackson was murdered.
 
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dullbuoy said:
i vote McG or Michael Bay to direct his biopic.:D
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I want to be able to figure out what's going on, not just have $150m in loud special effects that make no sense.

In that logic they might as well just have Uwe Bol make a movie out of the Moonwalker game. ...actually... :eek_2:
 
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Bobak said:
Here's my shortlist of who I think would make an interesting Michael Jackson movie as writer/director (obviously, I highly doubt any would get a chance to --this is more for fun and funny "what if" to try and imagine):

John Waters
Spike Lee
Oliver Stone
Hayao Miyazaki
David Lynch
Werner Herzog
Terry Gilliam
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Amazing list there truly amazing.
 
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Segata_Sanshiro said:
Who inherits all his debt?
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Ah, this is a bit of a mischaracterization...

That person is going to be very luck, as it will be the person who gets to pay it all off, with money to spare once, they sell MJ's $500m+ share of Apple Corps plus all the royalties his estate is still getting (notwithstanding the incredible surge of purchases in the past week --MJ songs have been nine of the ten top iTunes downloads).

Whoever takes over control, assuming their much wiser than Michael was in his final decade, would simply use those assets to pay off debt and still have a very large sum of money left --including the continual royalties.

Jackson's money problems were from his foolish lifestyle: living like he was still raking in tons of money when his assets weren't growing and taking loans, using his asset as collateral, to cover the difference. If MJ had simply cut back to being a regular multi-millionaire, he would've been okay. But he was too foolish to accept that, and he had plenty of leeches around him telling him he would be okay.

It makes me think of Mike Tyson: I got to hear James Toback (director of Tyson) talk about Iron Mike a few months ago after they screened his documentary at the local film fest, and he said Tyson thinks he's financially in trouble, but he's basing it on how ridiculously rich he was at one time --now he doesn't think having $20m is a lot of money... LOL.
 
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Bobak said:
Ah, this is a bit of a mischaracterization...

That person is going to be very luck, as it will be the person who gets to pay it all off, with money to spare once, they sell MJ's $500m+ share of Apple Corps plus all the royalties his estate is still getting (notwithstanding the incredible surge of purchases in the past week --MJ songs have been nine of the ten top iTunes downloads).

Whoever takes over control, assuming their much wiser than Michael was in his final decade, would simply use those assets to pay off debt and still have a very large sum of money left --including the continual royalties.

Jackson's money problems were from his foolish lifestyle: living like he was still raking in tons of money when his assets weren't growing and taking loans, using his asset as collateral, to cover the difference. If MJ had simply cut back to being a regular multi-millionaire, he would've been okay. But he was too foolish to accept that, and he had plenty of leeches around him telling him he would be okay.

It makes me think of Mike Tyson: I got to hear James Toback (director of Tyson) talk about Iron Mike a few months ago after they screened his documentary at the local film fest, and he said Tyson thinks he's financially in trouble, but he's basing it on how ridiculously rich he was at one time --now he doesn't think having $20m is a lot of money... LOL.
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Errr...aren't his children entitled to that money?
 
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