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I think it'll be WAY more than a week. First the UCLA Medical Center will f up his labs, or some lawyer will claim that they did. Then the autopsy will be a bone of contention. Then the doctors who "cared" for him will come under the microscope for giving him a questionable cocktail of drugs to "help" him due to his complications from plastic surgery. Lawsuits will abound over what's left of his estate. Then the ethics of the plastic surgeons who agreed to his perverted wishes will come under question because it was them who caused him to take whatever eventually killed him. And on and on and on and on...
I can see this lasting years...ugh.
jayboat
Banned
Maybe, maybe not. Even though he still had the ability to generate huge money, I believe he was technically broke. The only thing he had left of real value was his music catalog, and even that had been parceled out over the last few years to settle various debts.
Andrew Sullivan posted a fairly compassionate view of his life this afternoon:
There are two things to say about him. He was a musical genius; and he was an abused child. By abuse, I do not mean sexual abuse; I mean he was used brutally and callously for money, and clearly imprisoned by a tyrannical father. He had no real childhood and spent much of his later life struggling to get one. He was spiritually and psychologically raped at a very early age - and never recovered. Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life.
But he had no compass to find one; no real friends to support and advise him; and money and fame imprisoned him in the delusions of narcissism and self-indulgence. Of course, he bears responsibility for his bizarre life. But the damage done to him by his own family and then by all those motivated more by money and power than by faith and love was irreparable in the end. He died a while ago. He remained for so long a walking human shell.
I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.
I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours' and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.
I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.
Dude. I'm sorry...I hate to laugh at that, but I must admit, it got a chuckle out of me.
RIP Farrah Fawcett.
MOBILEMERCMAN
Founding Member / Competitor
I would rather see specials on Farrah this evening
catastrophe
Registered
Hated his lifestyle....but you can't take anything away from his musical ability and his groundbreaking events that helped others that follwed him.
Largest impact on music bar none.
Watch how much his estate will make now.
Largest impact on music bar none.
Watch how much his estate will make now.
Bobcat
Founding Member
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
and on a side note
oh please, he had a father (few and far between) who pushed him a bit, sounds like bing crosby's kids whining about how tough they had it growing up, he was no different than elvis, once you make that leap into superstar and can't leave the house without being mobbed you will eventually turn into a freak, gosh if he just got a hug from dad he wouldn't have to share his jesus juice with the caulkin boys. he is dead fug him (his music was for girls) ROCK ON METALLICA !!!!!:26::26::26:
I guess it is time to sell that oxygen chamber
LaughingCat
New member
this is a rough crowd.
His music had a positive impact on my life. That's how I'll judge him.
RIP
His music had a positive impact on my life. That's how I'll judge him.
RIP
Davidmnc
Contributor
I agree, but I would have NEVER left my son alone with him. He had a huge impact on my generation, and he will be remembered as one of the greatest artists of all time. RIP
LaughingCat
New member
Agreed on that too. no kid needs to spend the night at Uncle Jack-o's house when he has no kids.
Dude! Sweet!
Charter Member
Word! :sifone:
JupiterSunsation
New member
For you older guys......was the MJ death a bigger or smaller shock than Elvis?
StraightJacket
In Fond Remembrance.
I heard that they can't cremate him due to all the plastic surgery, so they are going to just melt him down and make him into LEGO's so little boys will be able to play with him now.
Ratickle
Founding Member / Super Moderator
This is a tough crowd.....
My wife says it's not fair to Farrah. She deserved her own day and should not have to share with the weirdo.......
I, think he was the best musician of our time. But a weirdo.....
Offshoredrillin
New member
now that right there is funny! :rofl:
cuda
Banned
It made me sick listening to people harp about what an impact he had one their lives. You'd thought he invented penicillin or something. Does anyone here think the world be be worse off if Jackson had never been born? Fug that child molester. If you need sympathy for his soul, you'll find it in the dictionary right between sh!t, and syphillis.
LaughingCat
New member
I agree. Reminds me of the day Warren Sapp announced his retirement. Brett Favre trumps him a few hours later and steals all spotlight, then un-retires.