Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Dr Oz, Dr Roizen and Michael Jackson

Let's see what Oprah's favorite Doctors - Dr Oz and Dr Roizen 
said regarding the Michael Jackson medical issues...


Could the Drug Michael Jackson Liked -- Propofol -- Have Played a Role in His Death? 
 
If you Googled “Roizen and propofol” before Michael Jackson’s death, you would have found more references to it (4,210!) than CNN repeats of the 9/11 tape. 
So Mehmet asked Mike why he was quoted so much. 
Turns out Mike may have been the first U.S. doc to do tests on propofol (brand name Diprivan), the powerful anxiety-erasing anesthetic that was found in the star’s home after his death.
Mike also led two research groups that did key studies on the drug.
So for this feature, we transcribed our conversation about propofol. 
Q. When a celebrity dies, like Michael Jackson say, you and other medical people in the media get called on to break down what happened without necessarily having firsthand information. Does that make you uncomfortable?
A. I was out of the country when he died so I actually haven’t done any media on Michael Jackson’s death. But a loss like his is one you have to put in context on a much broader scale. What can we learn from it? If we do talk about Michael Jackson I want to talk about him in the context of the pain he felt in his life that many of us feel in our lives, and why abusing medication to numb ourselves is a very understandable human response to the pain we feel.
 Source: www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/09/12/dr_oz_will_see_you_on_his_own_show/

 Unrelated to the Michael Jackson discussion, but still interesting...

Dr. Oz to Oprah and Michael J Fox: 

"The stem cell debate is dead."

vodpod.com/watch/1508723-dr-oz-to-oprah-and-michael-j-fox-the-stem-cell-debate-is-dead-




Oprah's Michael Jackson show 9/16/09

There are some folks about there who aren't sure that Michael Jackson passed on 
because Oprah hasn't commented on it.   
My guess is that she was on vacation and not available 
and new shows weren't being filmed at that time.    
Tomorrow, 9/16/09 is the air date for her Michael Jackson show:

 Oprah Remembers Michael Jackson
oprah.com/dated/oprahshow/oprahshow-20090903-michael-jackson

 Oprah Remembers Michael Jackson
 Michael Jackson's Life in Photos
 A Literary Moonwalk

Jackson 5 related joke of the day

To really understand this joke, listen to this interview with Jon Gibson.
Interesting comments regarding similarities in Michael Jackson's and Stevie Wonder's music.
The music producer mentions that if you speed up Stevie Wonder's music, it can sound like Michael Jackson.
If you slow down Michael Jackson's music, it can sound like Stevie Wonder's music.
So, taking that a step further, if you slow down the Jackson 5 music,
do you end up with the Osmond Brother's music?

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Update: Listen to the Michael Jackson / Paul McCartney duet "The Man".
This Sweet and Innocent little song sounds a lot like a Donny and Marie duet.
What do you think?

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Happy 51st Birthday Michael Jackson

Happy 51st Birthday Michael Jackson
Check out what Google used for their google.com logo today.

500 Michael Jackson fans gathered in Leicester, U.K. 
to wish Michael Jackson a happy 51st birthday 
by re-enacting the "Thriller" video.



More Dance tributes...


Michael Jackson Tribute - Stockholm. July 8, 2009
Quote:
This is the official clip from BOUNCE &; Friends. More than 300 dancers met at 15.30, got informed and then learned the choreography in 30 min. Less then 1 hour later they performed it.


These are two performances made at Segels Torg and the Central Station.

Michael Jackson Tribute - Stockholm. July 8, 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

Michael Jackson's Inspiration

Michael Jackson's Inspiration
What inspired Michael Jackson to create some of his music videos, signature moves, etc.?
Watch these videos and see what you think...
Bill Bailey from 1955 -- Is the Moonwalk this old?
Origins of the Moonwalk
Fred Astaire + Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [short film] HQ

Michael Jackson + West Side Story

Michael Jackson imitates James Brown
I really recommend watching all of the above videos.
I'll probably subscribe to AbejaMariposaJr's Youtube page.
He has some really interesting videos there.
The below concert video is unrelated to the above topic, but I'll link it anyway...



The Six Degrees of Michael Jackson


The Six Degrees of Michael Jackson
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.  (Quote from Wikipedia)

Between the Liberian Girl video and the We are the World video, finding anyone in the mainstream entertainment world more than 4 degrees of separation from Michael Jackson's work would be difficult.

Folks appearing in the We are the World video include:

Dan Aykroyd
Harry Belafonte
Lindsey Buckingham
Kim Carnes
Ray Charles
Bob Dylan
Sheila E.
Jane Fonda
Bob Geldof
Daryl Hall
Dan Hill
James Ingram
Jackie Jackson
La Toya Jackson
Marlon Jackson
Michael Jackson
Randy Jackson
Tito Jackson
Al Jarreau
Waylon Jennings
Billy Joel
Quincy Jones
Cyndi Lauper
Huey Lewis
Kenny Loggins
Bette Midler
Willie Nelson
John Oates
Jeffrey Osborne
Steve Perry
Anita Pointer
June Pointer
Ruth Pointer
The Pointer Sisters
Lionel Richie
Smokey Robinson
Kenny Rogers
Diana Ross
Paul Simon
Bruce Springsteen
Tina Turner
Dionne Warwick
Stevie Wonder
The list of celebs in the Liberian Girl Video is also impressive.
Paula Abdul
Rosanna Arquette
Dan Aykroyd
Mayim Bialik
Bubbles
Jackie Collins
David Copperfield
Emily Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss
Corey Feldman
Lou Ferrigno
Debbie Gibson
Danny Glover
Steve Guttenberg
Jasmine Guy
Whoopi Goldberg
Sherman Hemsley
Olivia Hussey
Amy Irving
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Beverly Johnson
Quincy Jones
Don King
Virginia Madsen
Olivia Newton-John
Brigitte Nielsen
Lou Diamond Phillips
Ricky Schroder
Steven Spielberg
Suzanne Somers
John Travolta
Blair Underwood
Carl Weathers
Billy Dee Williams
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Boy George




Jackson 5 with Diana Ross on TV All those years ago...

Jackson 5 with Diana Ross on TV 
All those years ago...

One news channel aired the end of this video over and over in the corner of their screen as they reported on other Michael Jackson related news.

Jackson 5 with Diana Ross on TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZoXZW7GC34

Start at the 3:15 mark to watch Diana Ross move Michael who was dancing in the front, to the second row so she could dance in the front row.

This is really funny.