Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Jose Antonio Vargas: Michael Jackson Online — A Singular Attraction

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Online, Michael Jackson is a singular attraction. We saw this on June 25, a day that will live forever in online infamy, when the King of Pop’s death literally stopped the Internet. Within a day, Jackson’s main Wikipedia article was viewed more than 6 million times. Twitter and AOL Instant messaging went berserk. Text messages flooded phones. (I, for one, didn’t learn about Jackson’s death from TMZ.com or CNN; a cousin had texted me with “Michael Jackson is dead.”) Which is not at all surp


Jose Antonio Vargas: Michael Jackson Online — A Singular Attraction

Forbes magazine: Yves Saint Laurent, not Michael Jackson, is top-earning dead celebrity

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

more images more images Richest dead celebrity? It’s not Michael Jackson NEW YORK ? According to Forbes magazine, the richest dead celebrity isn’t Michael Jackson. Although the King of Pop’s estate has been big news since his death in June, the top-earning dead celebrity is French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Forbes released its ninth annual poll Wednesday. According to

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Forbes magazine: Yves Saint Laurent, not Michael Jackson, is top-earning dead celebrity

MJ’s This Is It: Too Giddily Exciting To Actually Tell Whether Or Not It’s A Good Movie

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Occasionally, publicity people will mistake us for actual journalists / famous people and give us tickets to movie premieres, and if we manage to keep a straight face long enough (you realize my job is to Photoshop poop onto pictures of Robin’s Top Chef dishes?), we get to attend those premieres. Following a gracious and likely accidental such invitation from Sony, a friend and I were given tickets to the premiere of Michael Jackson’s This Is It last night, parked myself in the second row


MJ’s This Is It: Too Giddily Exciting To Actually Tell Whether Or Not It’s A Good Movie