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THIS IS IT review

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Mocked and misunderstood in life, deified in death – is it any wonder that Michael Jackson appears in the form of a crucifix on the posters for his new film, “This Is It”? Understandably, this comparison of JC and MJ may be unsettling or odd, but aside from the fact that Jackson led a life that was often unsettling and odd to many, that is where that analogy breaks down. Michael Jackson, the late, self-proclaimed “king of pop”, died (was killed?) in late June of this year, and he isn’t comi


THIS IS IT review

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

Michael Jackson’s This Is It Reviews and Video Trailer

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Michael Jackson’s This Is It reviews and video trailer below. The saving grace of Michael Jackson ’s swan song This Is It , a grab-bag of rehearsal footage, on-camera interviews and backstage moments captured on the fly, is that its contents were never intended as a film, according to telegraph . King of Pop Michael Jackson’s This Is It Reviews: According to Wikipedia Michael Jackson’s This Is It is a 2009 American concert film documenting Michael Jackson’s rehearsals of the concert


Michael Jackson’s This Is It Reviews and Video Trailer