There's a strange phenomenon among Iraqi refugees in Damascus -- most are nocturnal. Virtually everyone sleeps all day, wakes up late in the afternoon, and stays awake until the small hours of the night.
I know I'm not alone when I say Michael Jackson had been absent from my life... But in the documentary This Is It, he is back!
I went to see This Is It the way one might go see a horror picture. What I encountered instead was an artist at the absolute top of his game.
Because we share so much history together, I am hereby announcing that I have decided not to protest Johnny's outrageous victory over me in this year's list of the Sexiest Men Alive.
For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.
The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.
I am grateful that we have this documentary as the final legacy of one of the greatest entertainers of the century. With this film, it almost seems that Michael never left us.
The festival-circuit darling Precious has debuted with $1.8 million on just 18 screens. Yes, that's $100,000 per screen for three days. That's the twelfth-biggest per-screen average of all time.
Michael was at home on stage. He commanded it. He walked it, owned it, like a panther stalking prey. He knew every inch of the stage. It was his, and there's no denying it.
The documentary "This Is It" is a chronicle of the rehearsals for Michael Jackson's comeback tour. The late King of Pop's fans should love this final homage to their idol.
Was Michael Jackson a sick drug addict? No way. Did we, the public and the media, hasten the death of a man who felt for the planet and wanted to deliver a message of love? Probably.
The Voodoo Music Experience just wrapped its 11th year, and volume-wise it goes to 11 (to borrow a phrase from Spinal Tap).
Nirvana's August 30, 1992, performance at Britain's Reading Festival is considered to be one of the finest moments in rock history. Now, a clean, color-corrected version is now available.
No matter what Nikki Finke and the critics try to tell you, This Is It, now the highest-grossing concert film of all time in just five days, enjoyed a rock-solid debut,
"Personal Branding" is a term that gets bandied about at every cocktail party despite not having any real discernible meaning.
The newly released Michael Jackson album This It It, a twenty track, two-CD set accompanying the release of the movie of the same name, features one of Jackson's poems, called "Planet Earth."
If we choose to believe that Michael Jackson was happy and healthy at the time of his death we are wrong. We would also be missing the point -- that we can learn from Michael's tragic death.
Michael Jackson's This Is It elicited strongly conflicting emotions as I watched a screening this week. It reveals so much about Michael Jackson as a human being.
"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.
Pre-Internet, before we could follow celebrities on Google, Twitter, MySpace and Wikipedia, Michael Jackson was an unparalleled global star on the world stage, touching fans across borders, time zones and languages.
Alive, Michael Jackson was a problem for the guys at AEG. Dead? He's the best investment in the history of the business. You can almost hear them thinking, "Hey! Why didn't we think of this sooner?"
