Not the first time the undead have taken over Gottingen, but we’ll never see this again. In the Dead of Winter’s annual fundraiser, For the Dead, is a musical exorcism, bringing the Carter Cashes, Patsy Cline, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison and more back to life for just one awesome night. It’s close to midnight and […]
Michael Jackson
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is this it for Michael Jackson?
A prelude to “Smooth Criminal” has Michael Jackson edited alongside Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart in clips from Gilda and In a Lonely Place. Coming from anyone else, this would be unwarranted ego-tripping. But no other pop music artist (not Elvis, not Madonna, not The Beatles) ever made as powerful an impression on film images […]
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Expecting privacy in public places
Michael Jackson’s passing last week at the tender age of 50 shocked me right down to my shoes. “It’s getting deadlier and deadlier for celebrities like us,” I was overheard to remark. The King of Pop’s demise was likely brought on by the stress of rehearsing for 50 concerts starting this summer in London. In […]
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MJ’s gone, but the Thriller remains.
I wonder where the glove is. The original glove. From the earliest time Michael put it on and strutted out to grab his crotch and made people go (not for the first time and most certainly not for the last): “what the hell?” There are traces of his gloves on the ‘net, of course—one supposedly […]