LOS ANGELES — In his final days, Michael Jackson was robust and active. Or dangerously thin and frail. Begging for access to powerful prescripti...
Fred Silberberg | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media
In the past two weeks, American soldiers continue to die in Iraq. Economic issues continue to plague our country. Thousands of Americans havlost their jobs, their homes, and their health insurance coverage.
Tom Gregory | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson's life has always been a contradiction of outlandish oddity and pinpoint perfection. Now in death, with the unknown location of his body, the enigma continues.
Nick Johnson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson didn't become the Michael Jackson we know today in a vacuum. He was, in part, what we made him.
people.com | Charlotte Triggs | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
For years, fans looked on as Michael Jackson radically transformed his appearance. But despite his obviously altered look, the singer only ever admitt...
Reuters | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
Chinese developers are commemorating the late Michael Jackson by building a scaled-down replica of his Neverland Ranch on an island off Shanghai, a st...
Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
A picture is emerging of Michael Jackson's copious consumption of prescription pills that is downright disturbing. CNN obtained a confidential docume...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
It seemed as though Jackson chose his own path to death while there are so many others who are literally thrown into the Grim Reaper's grip like carrion to the wolves.
people.com | Charlotte Triggs | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson's dermatologist has said he's not the father of the singer's children -- to the best of his knowledge. Now, in a new interview Dr. Arn...
Nancy Chuda | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
Like Joan of Arc, Michael Jackson embodied some of the same vulnerabilities and courage.
Nelson Montana | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
Why has nothing been written about the doctors who continued to disfigure Michael Jackson? Or those advisors and lawyers who sat idly by as his finances imploded? Why did no-one step in?
Gigi Levangie Grazer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
What happened to Michael Jackson could only happen in LA, a city where elegant, moneyed suburbia, and its favorite accessory and most insidious symptom -- the elaborately gated community -- isolate its residents.
Susan Isaacs | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Take away the gloves and hats, toss in a hundred thousand hearts, cut to London from LA, and it's Princess Di all over again: weepers, wailers, scribblers, T-shirt buyers.
Disgrasian | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
There was something so chilling about mourning a man in the most public of ceremonies whose great tragedy was that he had never had a private life. Even in death, there wasn't any way for Michael Jackson to walk -- or be driven in a casket -- down the street unnoticed.
Rick Smith | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson offers a stark reminder that material success is so often a false goal; He attained the ultimate level of talent and success, and yet he seemed to live a hollow, sad and lonely life.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson is hereby transmuted -- to the choir strains of a rather extraordinary send-off -- into not just a holy figure but a living icon of the racial and political wars.
Carl Jeffers | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
More has been written and said about the life and death of Michael Jackson in the past two weeks than about the passing of any famous person in the past 25 years
WWD | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
THE EARLY NUMBERS: With the estimated 30 million to 40 million U.S. viewers who were expected to tune into Michael Jackson's memorial service Tuesday ...
The Des Moines Register | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
The Michael Jackson dairy debate continues: The Iowa State Fair today announced that it will let the public vote on whether the recently deceased King...
Ad Week | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
NEW YORK Some 20,000 people on Tuesday morning filed into Los Angeles' Staples Center to bear witness to Michael Jackson's memorial service, and while...
Irene Monroe | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Clearly Sharpton's statement hinted at the racism Michael Jackson endured in the music industry. But he totally ignored, as many have, the issues of gender and sexuality that clearly impacted the star.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Modern media have created the false impression that we know our celebrities, but all we really know is an image. We are mourning the creation of our own imagination.
Trey Ellis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
It would be nice if we in the black community would more closely examine the tragedy of the most famous black man in the world burning off his blackness and hacking off his African nose.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
For the global mass media, and especially corporate media in the United States, the death of pop music icon, Michael Jackson, was an unheralded business opportunity.
Steven Weber | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Having witnessed as much as I could take of Michael Jackson's star-studded memorial LIVE from the Staple's Center I am now certain there is an afterlife: it's called marketing.
AP | Posted 08.12.2009 | Entertainment