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From the Voice Archives: Scott Poulson-Bryant Reviews the Michael Jackson/Michael Jordon Collision That is "Jam"
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Below, Scott Poulson-Bryant's review of the Michael Jackson/Michael Jordan convergence that was the video for "Jam," first published in August, 1992. Be Like Mike By Scott Poulson-Bryant August 4, 1992 You've been ruminating on Black Beauty. Not the horse, but the concept. Especially since you're about to jet off to L.A. for the fab beach party that everyone's told you about. And especially since music videos are again a part of your l
June 26, 2009Rightbloggers Mourn Michael Jackson's Death -- As Good News for Obama, Ahmadinejad
It was no surprise to most of us when the death of Michael Jackson on Thursday took over the news, both mainstream and citizen varieties, and even the internet. Americans are suckers for celebrities, and the unexpected demise of one of the world's most famous entertainers was bound to obsess us. Many observers were concerned with the loss of attention the affairs of Iran would suffer as a result. Alarming News' KarolS tweeted: "Biggest losers? The Iranian people." Some hectored their fello
June 29, 2009Academic Press Releases of the Day: Michael Jackson, Friends, Male Vibrator Use
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Experts: Big Tobacco Dead by 2047, Possibly Sooner." But if you're a smoker, they'll certainly outlive you. The University of Rochester: "Rock, Pop Historian Assesses Michael Jackson's Greatness." Sample: "The single glove, his patented moonwalk step, that slightly rebellious yet gentle demeanor--all this youthful charm slipped away over time, as it does for all of us." You can get this sort of thing at our Sound of the City blog, but with swearing and
June 29, 2009More Michael Jackson Reactions
In death, Michael Jackson gets Baba Booeyed. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York eases on down the road of The Wiz: "As is well known, Michael Jackson was most happy in his fantasy lands -- and the New York of The Wiz is pure fantasy. The city that inspired it is gone. Michael Jackson is gone. Roger Ebert wrote yesterday, on the occasion of Jackson's sudden death, 'Oz was where he wanted to live. [Scarecrow] was his most truly autobiographical role. He could understand a character who felt stuffed
June 26, 20095 Things That Were Cool About Michael Jackson
Image (cc) brenheitt bakst. See also the tribute by our own Rob Harvilla and Robert Sietsema's pictures of the MJ Tribute in Union Square. 5. He liked children. We admit that when a politician is -- as Jackson was -- frequently accused and never convicted, we are less inclined to generosity. But that's because politicians give us nothing but misery, whereas Michael Jackson gave us Off The Wall. If, as Faulkner said, Ode to a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies, maybe Thriller was wo
June 26, 2009Monday Michael Jackson News Roundup
The weekend saw a host of news reports that make us all wonder how we didn't see Michael Jackson's death coming. But no matter how many tales of the King of Pop's fragility there are, we still can't believe he's gone. It's impossible to sort through all the speculation, but here are the depressing findings so far:-- First, the autopsy: Los Angeles County medical examiners found Jackson had taken unspecified prescription medication at the time of his death. The coroner's office has also dispelled
June 29, 2009News Roundup: Michael Jackson, Beastie Boys, Drake, Pixies
--As you might have predicted, Michael Jackson is experiencing a posthumous sales surge. Three albums--Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson, and Thriller--each sold around 100,000 copies last week. The King of Pop left behind plenty more opportunities for cash flow, including a high-tech 3-D video, called the "Dome Project," completed a couple weeks before his death. Four sets were constructed for "Dome," including a cemetery recalling the "Thriller" video. Creepy. Meanwhile, a memorial, h
June 30, 2009City Council Honors Michael Jackson, White People Walk Out
Today the city council held a moment of silence for Michael Jackson and councilmembers Inez Dickens and Helen Diane Foster gave the King of Pop a nice tribute, but just as things got underway several members walked out. Staten Island's James Oddo confirmed to Azi Paybarah that he walked out in response to the tribute. His fellow Staten Islanders Erich Ulrich and Vinny Ignizio also left, though Ulrich said he just wanted to talk to Oddo. Lew Fidler said he left because Jackson "was probably a se
June 30, 2009Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror
July 1, 2009This Week in the Voice
Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Harlem, the world. Greg Tate. Michael Jackson. Bed-Stuy. Jean Grae. Michael Jackson. Gary, Indiana. Jessica Hopper. The Village Voice Michael Jackson Archives. We all know about the Albany Coup and how bad it makes everyone look. But who really benefited from the Tom Golisano-Pedro Espada-Republican insurgency? Tom Robbins ticks off the winners: The NRA. Landlords. Barbaric criminal justice and prison practices. In short: The powers that were threaten
July 1, 2009This Week's Voice: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
In this week's Village Voice, we remember Michael Jackson: Greg Tate on the man and his legacy, rapper Jean Grae on what Jackson meant to musicians everywhere, and Jessica Hopper, reporting live from Gary, Indiana the night Jackson died. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla describes the daffy sci-fi audacity of fledgling r&b superstar Janelle Monae. Mike Powell reviews Wilco's newest: "Is there anything dangerous about a pale father of two, comfortable in soft denim, mewling his way through a prescripti
July 1, 2009Michael Jackson's Accuser All Grown Up
Back when little Jordan Chandler was in the middle of those torrid allegations against Wacko Jacko, you'd have to have been SICK to think "He's super hot." But look at Jordie now that he's all grown up and quite woof-y. It's enough to warrant a loud chorus of "Pretty Young Thing"!
July 1, 2009News Roundup: Brooklyn Bowl, Michael Jackson, Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival
--The Brooklyn Bowl is almost open. Curated by former Wetlands owner Peter Shaprio, the 600-capacity Williamsburg space triples as a bowling ally/music club/Blue Ribbon Restaurant. It includes eight massive high-def screens (tickets for a Sept. 24 Lebowski-fest are on sale now). The ally's opening night hasn't been announced yet, but its website says it's soon: "We've decided on our open date, and it's very, very close." To get the official word you need to sign up on the venue's mailing list. U
July 2, 2009Michael Jackson and John Dillinger: The Amazing Parallels
We see people are still talking about Michael Jackson. Also, partly because of some unfortunate comments Jackson made to Lisa Marie Presley, they're comparing him to Elvis -- in gross ways, in tale-of-the-tape ways, in conspiracy theory ways, in Neverland/Graceland ways, etc. Even Christianity Today is doing it. It's gotten so bad some folks are comparing him to Heath Ledger just for a change of pace. As far as this sort of thing goes, we think boldness is a virtue, so we are going to tie Mich
July 3, 2009About that Cover Photo...
Our cover this week has been provoking some strong reactions -- many have expressed how much it means to them to see Michael Jackson so vibrant and on top of the world in a shot that was taken in New York City more than 30 years ago.Jackson was 18 when the shot was taken in September 1976 on a balcony on the Upper East Side by music photographer Michael Putland. We reached him by telephone in France, where the 62 year-old artist now lives, and asked him to tell us more about the circumstances of
July 3, 2009Homeless Shelter Auctions Off Original Michael Jackson "Thriller" Film
Can we get one more Michael Jackson story in before the holiday? You bet! A homeless shelter in Paterson, New Jersey claims to have the 35mm original of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and seeks a buyer. Eva's Village Healthcare for the Homeless says former CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff gave them his own theater-quality print as a donation back in 1985. Now that the iron's hot, they're figuring the celluloid spool could buy them a lot of food and clothing for the indigent, and have p
July 3, 2009Dems Use Pete King's Michael Jackson Dis to Fundraise Against Him
While it's sad that everything is politics in our sick era, at least sometimes it's the kind of sad you can laugh at. This morning we mentioned the now-viral Pete King video in which the GOP Congressman blasts the media for lavishing attention on the dead "pervert" Michael Jackson. Now Huffington Post 's Sam Stein informs us the NY-03 Democratic Nominee Fund is using King's outburst to raise money to defeat him in his next election, under the heading "Michael Jackson Fans AGAINST Peter King." Th
July 6, 2009Jackson Memorial Scheduled for 1PM EST
Michael Jackson's bonkers Staples Center memorial is scheduled for 10AM PST, and is set to feature a random assortment of basketball players, reality TV show contestants, and John Mayer. This Rolling Stone item cites TMZ and contains the allegation that "Michael Jackson's casket will take center stage," meaning I guess that his body will be in the building and everyone will dance and sing around it. (Quoth SF/J: "It is creepy and improbable but if he wanted to really seal that comeback, an Easte
July 7, 2009Rep Peter King Continues Anti-Michael Jackson Rant Into Monday, Observes Reverent, Respectful Day of Silence Tuesday
Angry GOP Congressman Peter King is not backing down from his remarks, posted on YouTube over the weekend, alleging that the deceased pop star Michael Jackson was a "pervert" and a "low life" who "did some dancing" in between molesting kids. CBS 2 HD gave King an opportunity to fan his own flames, asking the congressman yesterday whether he regretted speaking ill of a dead man. Instead he launched into a further tirade about the "orgy of glorification" Jackson's been enjoying since he passed,
July 7, 2009Letters: July 8, 2009
July 8, 2009This Week's Voice: The Apollo's Salute to Michael Jackson, Maxwell, Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno, Memoirs by Lydia Lunch and Reverend Jen, Bard's 'Consider the Lobster,' and More
Tina ChouIn this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla reports back live from the somewhat Michael Jackson-themed Amateur Night at the Apollo: "It is extraordinarily difficult to impersonate, mimic, or pay entirely reverent homage to Michael Jackson without coming across like you're making fun of him." Phillip Mlynar on the slow redemption of DJ Disco Wiz, "hip-hop's first Latino DJ and one of the genre's unheralded pioneers." Clover Hope reviews Maxwell's much-teased fourth album,
July 8, 2009Michael Jackson Memorial Fails to Destroy the Internet
Despite the best efforts of hundreds of simultaneous live blogs, streams on an incredible array of different platforms and websites, and John Mayer's unforgivable jazz face, the internet survived yesterday's midday Michael Jackson memorial with barely a stutter. MSN reported that 50% more people watched the memorial on their site than they did for the Obama inauguration, a statistic tempered by the fact that at CNN, the number was down about 60% percent from the Obama high of 27 million video
July 8, 2009Chinese Drug Addict Performs Touching Baby-Out-Window Tribute to Michael Jackson
The shock waves from Michael Jackson's death continue to be felt around the world. A man in Sichuan Province, China dangled his two-year-old daughter out the window of his apartment in a touching tribute to the King of Pop's similar stunt with infant Prince Michael II, aka Blanket, in 2002. The New York Post tries to play this off as the lunacy of a desperate drug addict, probably because Post owner Rupert Murdoch wishes to cement his sinister ties with the Chinese Communist government, which is
July 8, 2009How Michael Jackson Would Have Looked Without All That Surgery
Michael Jackson used to downplay the amount of surgery he had--I think he copped to one nose tweaking and perhaps an occasional eyebrow tweaze--but we know better. The guy had even more surgery than Kathy Griffin and Faye Dunaway combined. But what if he'd gone au naturel? What if he'd never touched his adorable punim and let it age gracefully, without the benefit of scalpels, drills, and credit cards? Here's what the result might have looked like. As you'd expect, it's way closer to Jermaine t
July 14, 2009Say Something Nice About Michael Jackson
We know that Michael Jackson was a brilliant musical artist, but as a person, he often seemed conflicted and a tad self-loathing. Still, now that's he's gone, it's not polite to remind people of stuff like that, so let's go out of our way to find only positive things to say about the man and his eyeliner. I'll start: "His nose didn't overly dominate his face." "He didn't talk too loudly." "His glove was often very clean." "He was very fond of children." "He gave a lot of money to the Shirle
July 14, 2009Will That Scandalous Jacko Book Finally Come Out For Reals?
In the mid '90s, every single friend of mine suddenly possessed a copy of an underground, hard-to-get book called Michael Jackson Was My Lover, The Secret Diary of Jordie Chandler by an investigative journalist named Victor M. Gutterrez. They all had it because I lent it to them! The incendiary page turner--which strangely lists no publisher--almost caught fire as you touched it, it was that piping hot. The section of visuals alone is hard to look away from, as it serves up various legal docume
July 16, 2009Weird Photos of Michael Jackson's Legs
ABC News has uncovered these upsetting pix of Michael Jackson's legs at a rare moment when they weren't moonwalking. What the shots uncover is a bunch of discoloration and needle marks suggesting IV usage. And these were from 2002! Discuss.
July 16, 2009News Roundup: The Pixies, Bruce Springsteen, Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Michael Jackson
--The Pixies have announced the dates for their Doolittle 20th anniversary tour, where the alt-rock legends will play the album in its entirety. The band will play nine cities, including three New York gigs: November 23, 24, and 25 at the 3,000-capacity Hammerstein Ballroom. We recently talked to Frank Black. --Speaking of playing classic albums in their entirety, the Boss is apparently planning to do it with Born to Run in Chicago (though we'd vote for The River, personally). Rolling St
July 28, 2009'The Be Yourself Tribute to Michael Jackson with Danny Tenaglia'
July 28, 2009"The King of Pop's Going To Lick Your Lollipop"
No, that's not a threat. That's part of a quote from the new book about Michael Jackson in which a male actor is quoted as saying, "The very first time he blew me, he said 'The King of Pop's Going To Lick Your Lollipop'." And the actor was a grownup! The book--thrown together in two days the second the pop star died--is, according to this report on Jezebel, slipshod and sloppy, but it does posit some interesting claims like that one. According to the author, Jackson had sex with adult ma
July 31, 2009VIDEO MADE THE RADIO STAR
August 4, 2009Let's Have a Moratorium on Jacko Remarks
Well, just one, actually. Everyone from me to Bill Maher still thinks it's hilarious to say something on the order of "Michael Jackson started as a black man and he ended up a white woman." You can't turn on the TV or pick up the phone or crawl into a sewer without hearing someone say that very remark, while screaming with laughter at their own rapier wit. But I think it's time to retire it along with LaToya's singing career.
August 12, 2009The Gay Housewives of New York Are Coming!
It was inevitable, folks. The people who brought you all those hit Real Housewives shows have turned to the gays, and I say yay for the inclusionariness of it all! Check out this link for info on just what they're looking for--which amounts to hot, fun, shopping-crazed kooks who are preferably in a relationship, with a younger/older vibe even better. Hmm. Too bad Michael Jackson's gone. He would have been perfect!
August 14, 2009I'm Singing Michael Jackson Songs!
Oy vey, I've gotten hooked into performing at the Hear Me Roar! Project benefit for Sylvia's Place this Thursday August 20 at 6 at Bowery Poetry Club. I don't have an act, having worn out Suzanne Somers's poetry book as if it were a raunchy bottom, so out of desperation, I'm going to dig back to my Motown cover band days and sing a Michael Jackson medley as a sort of bittersweet homage! Accompanied by Evan O'Reilly from Air Kiss on Mars, I will attempt to croon the tunes in a relatively
August 17, 2009Spike Lee Is Throwing Michael Jackson A Birthday Party
This one pretty much can't miss. Jackson, who is set to be buried on his birthday out in Glendale, California, will get a NYC birthday send-off as well--Spike Lee is throwing a block party in his honor at Fort Greene Park. From 12pm-5pm, DJ Spinna will play Jackson jams exclusively, which is not so different from what's been happening all over Brooklyn ever since Michael died. "At the end, we'll all sing Happy Birthday to Michael," Spike Lee told The Root. "We're going to make sure he hea
August 18, 2009Michael Jackson Was Murdered
The AP is reporting that the Los Angeles County coroner has ruled that Michael Jackson's death was a homicide. Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor who administered the propofol that likely killed the singer, is "the target of a manslaughter probe headed by Los Angeles police," according to the report. The Daily News has a harrowing account of Jackson's last day. Tomorrow marks the two-month anniversary of the singer's death.
August 24, 2009Michael Jackson's Death Ruled a Homicide: All of Us Indicted
Now that it's been revealed that the L.A. coroner found Michael Jackson had died of a lethal dose of the anaesthetic propofol, and that his death constitutes a homicide, instead of pointing fingers it's time we all took a hard look at ourselves, and considered: did we ask too much from Michael, and in so doing, weren't we just as responsible to his death as Dr. Conrad Murray, who gave Jackson his final deadly dose of propofol? A grand jury will probably say no. Anybody checked on Murray's wher
August 24, 2009So How Did My Singing Gig Go?
You may recall that the other night, I was all set to belt out a Michael Jackson medley at Hear Me Roar!, a benefit for the Sylvia Project, which helps LGBTQ youth. So how did it go? Record contract? Death threats? Both? Well, people laughed all through the performance--but it was OK nonetheless!
August 25, 2009DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME?
August 25, 2009DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME?
August 25, 2009DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME?
August 25, 2009Thousands Attend Michael Jackson Birthday Event in Prospect Park
Despite sometimes disagreeable weather, thousands showed up in Prospect Park on Saturday for Spike Lee's birthday tribute to Michael Jackson. Borough President Marty Markowitz proclaimed August 29th "Michael 'King of Pop' Jackson Memorial Day." "It was great to see so many people out without anything crazy jumping off," says Mikey McFly. "One highlight," says Black Butterfly, "was a little body who couldn't have been more than four (he was tiny!) jumped out in a fedora and white glove, and sta
August 31, 2009Live: Spike Lee Throws Michael Jackson One Hell Of A Birthday Party In Prospect Park
Pix by Puja Patel, many more below Thousands of people flooded Prospect Park Saturday afternoon for Michael Jackson's 51st birthday party. Hosted by Spike Lee (who worked on the "They Don't Really Care About Us" video), the five-hour event, held together by an epic, all-MJ set from Brooklyn's DJ Spinna, offered the chance to gawk at the King of Pop's biggest (and most impeccably dressed) fans, as well as myriad impersonators and a handful of celebrities roaming the crowd (we spotted Ed Lover, e
August 31, 2009News Roundup: Jay-Z, Them Crooked Vultures, Grizzly Bear/Michael McDonald, Michael Jackson
--Jay-Z held a formal news conference yesterday to discuss plans for his upcoming Answer the Call September 11th benefit show at Madison Square Garden. Sitting beside Governor Patterson, Jay remembered September 11, 2001, the day the original Blueprint was released, and the days that followed. "I turned the TV on September 12th and I saw footage of these heroic actions," Jay said. "People running to buildings and saving each other and I saw the strength of New York. It made me proud. So,
September 1, 2009Pay Homage to the King of Pop at the Church of Michael Jackson
Not sure what the "life and teachings of Michael Jackson" were, exactly, but the Cult of Michael Jackson--a shadowy organization whose first commandment is "You shall have no other pop Gods or Kings before MJ"--promises to reveal them at a chapel they're opening in Williamsburg. The artist Rusel Parish has drawn appropriately ecclesiastical renderings of Jackson for worship; as for the rest of it, well, the thing opens tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Figureworks, at 168 North 6th Street, and you ca
September 10, 2009It's Something, Alright: Stream Michael Jackson's "This Is It"
How we're meant to take a new Michael Jackson song so thoroughly disconnected from any intelligible context relating to the man, his life, his music, etc.--i.e., anything but his death and subsequent (re) deification--well, who knows. This is it, as it were. Slated for the October 28th theatrical film of the same name and the accompanying double-disc CD, which will have a different, less polished version of this same song on it, along with the usual suspects and that still ominous sounding spo
October 12, 2009Why Michael Jackson Never Married Liz Taylor
So I'm finally through with Mackenzie Phillips's book, which got a little dull when she cleaned up, and I'm now on to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's The Michael Jackson Tapes, in which the self-promoting spiritual authority lays out his transcribed 2000-2001 conversations with the noseless king of pop. In it, Jacko freely discusses the high points of his love life, like how Brooke Shields tried to get intimate with him once, but he didn't go for it--wonder why. Another tragic near-miss is that
October 13, 2009Michael Jackson Documentary, Redux: This Is It
October 27, 2009Michael Jackson's This Is It Sells 373,000 Copies, Is #1
So if you're following along: Michael Jackson's Number Ones is already on pace to have a shot at becoming 2009's bestselling record; This Is It, the film, has done $103 million in ticket sales and counting; and now the documentary's companion record has debuted with 373,000 copies sold, "the fifth-best sales week for an album in the U.S. this year," according to Billboard, and Mike's sixth overall #1. This is big, fanatically huge business--in total, Jackson is going to end up outselling
November 4, 2009Bid on Michael Jackson's "Swarovski Crystal Gemmed Stage Worn Socks" Tomorrow in Times Square
Also available: "A painting of Charlie Chaplin done in the hand of Michael Jackson at the age of 9 years old," the acoustic guitar he played on the set of the The Wiz, "chocolate from Jackson's wedding to Lisa Marie Presley," and other memorabilia of the same disturbingly bodily ilk. Tomorrow, Times Square, Hard Rock Cafe New York, 10 a.m. Those interested a crumpled golden ticket inside an envelope with my name on it from the one-time-only New York premiere of This Is It are encouraged t
November 20, 2009
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