http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F3t2Gc0Qpo&feature=fvwrel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bashir
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Michael Jackson interviews
In 2003, Bashir conducted a series of interviews with pop singer Michael Jackson, as part of a documentary for ITV. Following the broadcast, which was viewed by 14 million in the UK and 38 million in the US, several media personalities accused Bashir of yellow journalism, claiming that he deliberately doctored the recordings in order to paint Jackson in an unflattering light, as well as emphasising the allegations of child molestation made against Jackson. The New York Times called Bashir's journalism style "callous self-interest masked as sympathy."[5]
In response, Jackson and his personal cameraman released a rebuttal interview, which showed Bashir complimenting Jackson for the "spiritual" quality of the Neverland Ranch, thus contradicting the journalist's previous statements that it was a "dangerous place" for children. Bashir also describes Jackson as a wonderful father and says that Jackson's relationship with his children "almost makes him weep".[6]
Dieter Wiesner, the pop star's manager from 1996 to 2003, stated about the influence of Bashir's documentary on Michael Jackson:
Bashir later said of Jackson during ABC's coverage of his death,"It broke him. It killed him. He took a long time to die, but it started that night. Previously the drugs were a crutch, but after that they became a necessity."[7]
"When I made the documentary, there was a small part that contained a controversy concerning his relationship with young people. But the truth is that he was never convicted of any crime, and I never saw any wrongdoing myself."[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Mottola
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Thomas Daniel "Tommy" Mottola (born July 14, 1949) is an American music executive, co-owner of Casablanca Records in a joint venture with the Universal Music Group. He is the ex-husband of Mariah Carey, and is married to Mexican singer Thalía. He headed Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia label, for nearly 15 years.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Branca
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John G. Branca (born 1950) is an entertainment lawyer[1] who specializes in representing rock and roll acts, as well as independent investors, music publishing catalogs, and independent music labels. He has represented 29 acts in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, Carlos Santana, Aerosmith, The Beach Boys, ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Bee Gees and The Doors, which is believed to be more than any other entertainment attorney.
Other clients have included Alicia Keys, Berry Gordy, Dick Clark, Dr. Dre and the Backstreet Boys. Among his clients outside the music world: Forbes magazine, Penthouse magazine, Playboy magazine, investor Ron Perelman, MCI and Mike Tyson.
JOHN BRANCA WAS FIRED IN 2003 & HE WAS NEVER REHIRED BY MICHAEL! - Muzikfactory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO8PUNcNVhQ
http://www.johnbranca.com/ensuring-michael-jacksons-legacy
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ENSURING MICHAEL JACKSON'S LEGACYWhen Michael Jackson tragically died in 2009, John Branca was appointed Co-Executor of his Estate. In accordance with Michael's wishes and to ensure the health of the Jackson estate, Branca with Co-Executor John McClain took immediate steps to refinance and substantially reduce the estate's debts with a plan to ensure that Michael Jackson's mother and children would be provided for.
To these ends, past and future projects include:
- "This is It" - This is the largest grossing concert film in history.
- A new Sony recording deal credited as the largest record deal in history to involve the release of 10 CDs over time, some of which will contain previously unreleased recordings as well as reissues.
- Two Cirque du Soleil shows based on Michael's music -- one to be a touring show, and the other to be a permanent show residing in Las Vegas.
- Licensing Michael's music for use in videogames, movies, and theatrical performances.
- Maximizing his assets, including his co-ownership of the Sony-ATV music catalog.
- Cracking down on counterfeit Jackson-related merchandise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Perelman
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Ellen Barkin
http://www.oxy.edu/x2986.xml
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JOHN G. BRANCA ’72 is a partner with Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman in Los Angeles. The Bronxville, N.Y., native received an A.B. degree in political science from Occidental and a J.D. degree from UCLA School of Law. A specialist in entertainment law, Branca has represented 26 members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He previously served on the Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1996.
http://michaelsguardian.blogspot.com/2010/04/michael-jacksons-circles-of-influence.html
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He also fired him in 1990 because David Geffen had told Michael that Branca had too much influence and control over Michael and his business.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/22/business/fi-botox22
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Medavoy's suit against Klein and Allergan made headlines when it was filed last year, and not only because she was the wife of movie producer Mike Medavoy, the studio chief behind "Rocky" and "Annie Hall." Klein, 59, was a clinical professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, an unpaid position, and well known in Hollywood, where his celebrity patients included Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson. Last month, UCLA announced that some of Klein's friends had anonymously pledged at least $1 million to endow a dermatology chair in his name.
Medavoy, 45, claims in her suit that Botox shots administered by Klein made her ill and that Klein and Allergan misled her about the drug's safety. He and the company have denied the allegations.
Klein's contract with Allergan, as outlined by Allergan's director of aesthetic marketing in court documents, provided Klein with quarterly payments of $25,000 for all his consulting duties. If Klein attended meetings at the request of Allergan, he received an additional $10,000 a day, plus travel expenses. When local sales reps scheduled an appearance for him, Klein collected $2,000 to $4,000.
http://www.skinandaging.com/content/a-qa-with-frederick-beddingfield-md-phd
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Frederick Beddingfield, MD, PhD, is the Chief Medical Officer of Allergan Medical and Vice President and Head for Global Dermatology R&D at Allergan, Inc. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine/Dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=2736708&page=1
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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-28/justice/justice_california-conrad-murray-trial_1_ed-chernoff-propofol-comeback-concerts?_s=PM:JUSTICE
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Jackson's personal assistant began his testimony after Jorrie's, telling jurors about the chaos inside the pop icon's bedroom in the minutes after Murray realized Jackson had stopped breathing.At the start of court proceedings Wednesday in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, Paul Gongaware, an executive with the company promoting Jackson's comeback concerts, was on the stand.Under cross-examination by the defense, Gongaware said he noticed that Jackson had "a little bit of a slower speech pattern, just a slight slur in the speech" after a visit with Dr. Arnold Klein.Murray's lawyer contends that Klein is partly responsible for Jackson's death since he was giving him Demerol shots in the last weeks of his life, without Murray's knowledge.The lawyer who drew up AEG's contract with Murray testified that it was her understa
nding that Murray did not want the CPR unit or the additional doctor until he arrived in London with Jackson in July 2009 for the "This Is It" concerts.
http://michaelsguardian.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-aeg-to-sony-michaels-new-friends.html
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From AEG to Sony – Michael’s New Friends
I am writing with a bit of a bitter heart tonight. I am trying to keep things real, but if you detect a slight flavor of biting sarcasm, that is why.
Drilling down into some background, we know Dr. Murray’s background. Murray was hired as Michael’s personal doctor for the “This is It” concerts. Let’s take a closer look at the people involved in “This is It.”
At this link here you can see a list of the cast and crew to include vocalists, dancers, instrumentals and producers.
Interesting list of producers, for a sloppily edited sorry attempt of a movie. Did they REALLY need nine producers? NINE??? I laughed out loud when I saw this.
Definition of a producer, in show biz terms: a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works, someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work, (reference)
So a producer either finances or FINDS financing for a film, program or similar work. So all nine of these people FOUND the money to make “This is It”. I thought this was an AEG production since they were supposedly paying all of Michael’s living expenses, doctor, security, etc? So if AEG put out the money for this concert-that-never-was, then how did Branca, McClain, Payne, Bearden, DiLeo, Feghali, Ortega and Gongaware get placed as producers? Let’s look at the backgrounds (short version) of each of these fellas. We’ll leave Randy out for now, because it’s general knowledge that he worked for AEG anyway.
Paul Gongaware, Producer: His filmography includes “Michael Jackson’s This is It” and “IMAX Michael Jackson’s This is It.” So he cut his teeth on Michael Jackson . . . not the FIRST person to do that. Paul has been a production assistant and a concert promoter through AEG. You can find more information on his body of work (which isn’t much to be honest) here. He currently works for AEG, as what I have no idea. Maybe he and Phillips arm wrestled for the position of promoter.
Kenny Ortega, Producer: He was also the director of “This is It”. He’s been associated with Michael Jackson over the years as his choreographer. Kenny began as a dancer and broke into directing in the 1980’s. Among those was the hit Dirty Dancing (choreographer) and the High School Musical series. His first feature film was “The Rose” in 1980. Kenny became associated with Michael in the early 1990’s creating and designing the Dangerous World Tour 1992-1993 and the HIStory World Tour 1996-1997. Reference
Interesting note in Wikipedia says “Ortega directed the Michael Jackson Public Memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles memorial service, which was broadcast live on several networks on July 7, 2009. It reached a television audience of 31 million in America, and hundreds of millions (statistics even say billions) more worldwide and via the internet. At the end of the service, he introduced a rendition of Jackson's 1985 charity single "We Are the World" created for the This Is It concerts, featuring Jackson's backing singers on lead vocals with his dancers performing around them. He directed Michael’s memorial service. Think about that one.
Did he and Michael ever have a falling out? I have not been able to find anything. If anyone has a link to something concerning any falling out Michael had with Kenny in the past, please let me know on the comments below.
Randy Phillips, Producer: Randy was the former manager of Rod Stewart and head of Gasoline Alley Record Label before he joined Anschutz Entertainment Group in 2002. AEG owns the Staples Center in L.A. while Sony owns the O2 Arena in London. I have more information on Randy Phillips on this article.
Chantal Feghali, Co Producer: (What is that?) Has worked on “Terminator Salvation” and “World Trade Center” previously before “This is It”. Has worked as production manager and/or Visual Effects supervisor for numerous other films, credited and non-credited. Reference. She has a facebook page, but no biography available on any of the sites I looked up, only filmography. I don’t know who she is or how she is connected to AEG other than maybe the special effects.
Frank DiLeo, Co-Producer: (Again, what is that? There’s nine of them!) Frank’s filmography includes “This is It”, “Wayne’s World”, “Kiss of Death” and “Goodfellas”. Frank was Michael’ s manager for five years through “Thriller” and “Bad”. Michael had his then lawyer fire him, presumably because Frank failed to secure the theatrical release of “Moonwalker”. Frank says he did but not for the sum that Michael wanted, and he was fired “without warning”. Reference. Now he is suddenly back as a “co –producer” for “This is It.” Before Michael, He began his career in the music industry in the late 1960s, shortly after high school, as a rack jobber (distributing records to retail stores) in Pittsburgh. Following a number of brief, higher-profile jobs, he was hired as a promotion staffer in Cleveland by CBS Records subsidiary Epic Records in 1968. Reference. Sony now owns Epic Records, so I guess we know how Frank DiLeo came back into picture with Michael via “This is It.”
Michael Bearden, Associate Producer: Michael Bearden’s filmography includes “This is It”, “America the Beautiful”, “Constellation” and “Redrum”. Musical director and composer, Bearden’s pre-Jackson credits include recording with the likes of Madonna and Dizzy Gillespie. He is now the bandleader for “Lopez Tonight”. He was the musical director for “This is It”. Good article here. He went to high school with Michelle Obama, worked with Mary J. Blige and Usher (which is how Michael may have come in contact with Bearden).
Travis Payne, Associate Producer: Filmography includes “This is It”, “The Ten Commandments, the Musical”, “Date Movie”, “A Man Apart” (with open captions). Travis Payne is a choreographer and worked with Michael and Janet on the video “Scream” and Michael Jackson’s “Ghosts”. He has also worked with artists “Salt N Peppa”, “En Vogue”, and with shows “Ally McBeal” and “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”. Is Travis Payne a friend? Travis also worked with Michael on his “Dangerous Tour”. I have seen no falling out reports between Travis and Michael. Reference.
John Branca and John McCain, Executive Producers: Filmography, the only one listed is “This is It”. John Branca and McCain are also the executors of Michael Jackson’s will. Branca was allegedly fired as Michael’s lawyer when it was discovered that Branca was also representing Sony and owned 5% of the Sony/ATV catalog. Allegedly, Branca never turned over the will and after Michael’s death, Installed himself back on as the Jackson Estate attorney. How he came about being an executive producer of “This is It”, is a mystery. Sony owns the O2 Arena, but it does not own AEG unless there is a partnership that has not yet been unearthed.
This link describes the bid Sony made for the movie rights to “This is It.” It is speculated that Sony was awarded the bid because John Branca was still on the board of Sony (As Michael’s representative in the Sony/ATV music catalog?) and is an executive producer of “This is It” Branca and McClain also get 10% of any increase in the Jackson estate. Interesting bedfellows, aren’t they?
I am sending this blog to the D.A. in Los Angeles. DiLeo’s connection to Epic records alone and John Branca’s smooth maneuvering to get as big a chunk out of Michael as he can should have been enough to suspect premeditated murder and brought about a charge of Murder 2 at the very least!
I am still battling some “Hoax” people, since this latest TMZ exclusive involving the stun gun, Grace and Michael’s boys. The story as told does not make sense. Speculation runs that Grace is trying to make Katherine look like a bad parent to get control of Michael’s children and get custody. Aside from the fact that she is of no relation to them and would have to fight at least nine other siblings, how about the plain and simple fact that SHE is the HIRED NANNY! If anyone looks bad because one of the kids almost got hurt, I would think the problem would be nipped in the bud if they got rid of Grace and hired a more responsible Nanny. Where was Grace when this happened?
Thank you for reading. Please feel free to comment. This is turning into the Greatest Show on Earth. Michael would be proud if this wasn’t so sad. Leashes getting tight yet?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=2736708&page=1
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What Laura Bush Can Teach You About Skin Cancer
"While the vast majority of people who develop this type of skin cancer can be successfully treated usually with surgery alone, squamous cell carcinoma does account for about 2000 deaths a year," said Dr. Frederick Beddingfield, a dermatologic surgeon and assistant clinical professor at UCLA.http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-28/justice/justice_california-conrad-murray-trial_1_ed-chernoff-propofol-comeback-concerts?_s=PM:JUSTICE
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Jackson's personal assistant began his testimony after Jorrie's, telling jurors about the chaos inside the pop icon's bedroom in the minutes after Murray realized Jackson had stopped breathing.At the start of court proceedings Wednesday in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, Paul Gongaware, an executive with the company promoting Jackson's comeback concerts, was on the stand.Under cross-examination by the defense, Gongaware said he noticed that Jackson had "a little bit of a slower speech pattern, just a slight slur in the speech" after a visit with Dr. Arnold Klein.Murray's lawyer contends that Klein is partly responsible for Jackson's death since he was giving him Demerol shots in the last weeks of his life, without Murray's knowledge.The lawyer who drew up AEG's contract with Murray testified that it was her understa
nding that Murray did not want the CPR unit or the additional doctor until he arrived in London with Jackson in July 2009 for the "This Is It" concerts.
http://michaelsguardian.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-aeg-to-sony-michaels-new-friends.html
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From AEG to Sony – Michael’s New Friends March 5, 2010
From AEG to Sony – Michael’s New Friends
I am writing with a bit of a bitter heart tonight. I am trying to keep things real, but if you detect a slight flavor of biting sarcasm, that is why.
Drilling down into some background, we know Dr. Murray’s background. Murray was hired as Michael’s personal doctor for the “This is It” concerts. Let’s take a closer look at the people involved in “This is It.”
At this link here you can see a list of the cast and crew to include vocalists, dancers, instrumentals and producers.
Interesting list of producers, for a sloppily edited sorry attempt of a movie. Did they REALLY need nine producers? NINE??? I laughed out loud when I saw this.
Definition of a producer, in show biz terms: a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works, someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work, (reference)
So a producer either finances or FINDS financing for a film, program or similar work. So all nine of these people FOUND the money to make “This is It”. I thought this was an AEG production since they were supposedly paying all of Michael’s living expenses, doctor, security, etc? So if AEG put out the money for this concert-that-never-was, then how did Branca, McClain, Payne, Bearden, DiLeo, Feghali, Ortega and Gongaware get placed as producers? Let’s look at the backgrounds (short version) of each of these fellas. We’ll leave Randy out for now, because it’s general knowledge that he worked for AEG anyway.
Paul Gongaware, Producer: His filmography includes “Michael Jackson’s This is It” and “IMAX Michael Jackson’s This is It.” So he cut his teeth on Michael Jackson . . . not the FIRST person to do that. Paul has been a production assistant and a concert promoter through AEG. You can find more information on his body of work (which isn’t much to be honest) here. He currently works for AEG, as what I have no idea. Maybe he and Phillips arm wrestled for the position of promoter.
Kenny Ortega, Producer: He was also the director of “This is It”. He’s been associated with Michael Jackson over the years as his choreographer. Kenny began as a dancer and broke into directing in the 1980’s. Among those was the hit Dirty Dancing (choreographer) and the High School Musical series. His first feature film was “The Rose” in 1980. Kenny became associated with Michael in the early 1990’s creating and designing the Dangerous World Tour 1992-1993 and the HIStory World Tour 1996-1997. Reference
Interesting note in Wikipedia says “Ortega directed the Michael Jackson Public Memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles memorial service, which was broadcast live on several networks on July 7, 2009. It reached a television audience of 31 million in America, and hundreds of millions (statistics even say billions) more worldwide and via the internet. At the end of the service, he introduced a rendition of Jackson's 1985 charity single "We Are the World" created for the This Is It concerts, featuring Jackson's backing singers on lead vocals with his dancers performing around them. He directed Michael’s memorial service. Think about that one.
Did he and Michael ever have a falling out? I have not been able to find anything. If anyone has a link to something concerning any falling out Michael had with Kenny in the past, please let me know on the comments below.
Randy Phillips, Producer: Randy was the former manager of Rod Stewart and head of Gasoline Alley Record Label before he joined Anschutz Entertainment Group in 2002. AEG owns the Staples Center in L.A. while Sony owns the O2 Arena in London. I have more information on Randy Phillips on this article.
Chantal Feghali, Co Producer: (What is that?) Has worked on “Terminator Salvation” and “World Trade Center” previously before “This is It”. Has worked as production manager and/or Visual Effects supervisor for numerous other films, credited and non-credited. Reference. She has a facebook page, but no biography available on any of the sites I looked up, only filmography. I don’t know who she is or how she is connected to AEG other than maybe the special effects.
Frank DiLeo, Co-Producer: (Again, what is that? There’s nine of them!) Frank’s filmography includes “This is It”, “Wayne’s World”, “Kiss of Death” and “Goodfellas”. Frank was Michael’ s manager for five years through “Thriller” and “Bad”. Michael had his then lawyer fire him, presumably because Frank failed to secure the theatrical release of “Moonwalker”. Frank says he did but not for the sum that Michael wanted, and he was fired “without warning”. Reference. Now he is suddenly back as a “co –producer” for “This is It.” Before Michael, He began his career in the music industry in the late 1960s, shortly after high school, as a rack jobber (distributing records to retail stores) in Pittsburgh. Following a number of brief, higher-profile jobs, he was hired as a promotion staffer in Cleveland by CBS Records subsidiary Epic Records in 1968. Reference. Sony now owns Epic Records, so I guess we know how Frank DiLeo came back into picture with Michael via “This is It.”
Michael Bearden, Associate Producer: Michael Bearden’s filmography includes “This is It”, “America the Beautiful”, “Constellation” and “Redrum”. Musical director and composer, Bearden’s pre-Jackson credits include recording with the likes of Madonna and Dizzy Gillespie. He is now the bandleader for “Lopez Tonight”. He was the musical director for “This is It”. Good article here. He went to high school with Michelle Obama, worked with Mary J. Blige and Usher (which is how Michael may have come in contact with Bearden).
Travis Payne, Associate Producer: Filmography includes “This is It”, “The Ten Commandments, the Musical”, “Date Movie”, “A Man Apart” (with open captions). Travis Payne is a choreographer and worked with Michael and Janet on the video “Scream” and Michael Jackson’s “Ghosts”. He has also worked with artists “Salt N Peppa”, “En Vogue”, and with shows “Ally McBeal” and “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”. Is Travis Payne a friend? Travis also worked with Michael on his “Dangerous Tour”. I have seen no falling out reports between Travis and Michael. Reference.
John Branca and John McCain, Executive Producers: Filmography, the only one listed is “This is It”. John Branca and McCain are also the executors of Michael Jackson’s will. Branca was allegedly fired as Michael’s lawyer when it was discovered that Branca was also representing Sony and owned 5% of the Sony/ATV catalog. Allegedly, Branca never turned over the will and after Michael’s death, Installed himself back on as the Jackson Estate attorney. How he came about being an executive producer of “This is It”, is a mystery. Sony owns the O2 Arena, but it does not own AEG unless there is a partnership that has not yet been unearthed.
This link describes the bid Sony made for the movie rights to “This is It.” It is speculated that Sony was awarded the bid because John Branca was still on the board of Sony (As Michael’s representative in the Sony/ATV music catalog?) and is an executive producer of “This is It” Branca and McClain also get 10% of any increase in the Jackson estate. Interesting bedfellows, aren’t they?
I am sending this blog to the D.A. in Los Angeles. DiLeo’s connection to Epic records alone and John Branca’s smooth maneuvering to get as big a chunk out of Michael as he can should have been enough to suspect premeditated murder and brought about a charge of Murder 2 at the very least!
I am still battling some “Hoax” people, since this latest TMZ exclusive involving the stun gun, Grace and Michael’s boys. The story as told does not make sense. Speculation runs that Grace is trying to make Katherine look like a bad parent to get control of Michael’s children and get custody. Aside from the fact that she is of no relation to them and would have to fight at least nine other siblings, how about the plain and simple fact that SHE is the HIRED NANNY! If anyone looks bad because one of the kids almost got hurt, I would think the problem would be nipped in the bud if they got rid of Grace and hired a more responsible Nanny. Where was Grace when this happened?
Thank you for reading. Please feel free to comment. This is turning into the Greatest Show on Earth. Michael would be proud if this wasn’t so sad. Leashes getting tight yet?
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