It’s obvious that the media made this the big ‘controversy’ for this week even though it’s a non-story. I have the Memorial Tribute on my DVR and upon reviewing it after the controversy broke I looked at it more closely and the entire “In Memorium” tribute only lasted about 4 minutes and each person memorialized only got around 4.5 seconds on the air. Most of the people in the tribute were writers, directors, producers, people behind the scenes that few people except industry insiders have heard of. Then there were the actors that most people knew such as Patrick Swayze, David Carradine, Ron Silver, etc. I was not surprised that Michael Jackson was in, I expected that he would be because he was a global pop icon, he recently was in a movie “This Is It”, he had been in “The Wiz” and the media has stories about him daily. There is no question that he was a huge influence on our culture. “Thriller” was recently inducted into The Library of Congress” and it is the first short film of it’s kind (music video) ever to be inducted. Only about 20 films are inducted into the Library a year. So that is a huge honor for him. A week before the Academy Awards aired, his 3D film “Captain EO” re-opened at Disneyland and it got a very positive reception. Face it, people love his music and they love him. I read that he has sold around 30 million music cd’s since he passed. Millions of his DVD’s have also sold. There is no way they could have excluded this man. I feel bad for Farrah’s fans that the Academy excluded her, but it is in no way the fault of Michael Jackson. That they blamed him is highly unprofessional of them. They easily could have put her in their memorial tribute, now they are scapegoating Michael. It’s ridiculous. It’s also sad. I won’t bother watching next year. Hollywood makes me ill and so does the so called media.
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It’s obvious that the media made this the big ‘controversy’ for this week even though it’s a non-story. I have the Memorial Tribute on my DVR and upon reviewing it after the controversy broke I looked at it more closely and the entire “In Memorium” tribute only lasted about 4 minutes and each person memorialized only got around 4.5 seconds on the air. Most of the people in the tribute were writers, directors, producers, people behind the scenes that few people except industry insiders have heard of. Then there were the actors that most people knew such as Patrick Swayze, David Carradine, Ron Silver, etc. I was not surprised that Michael Jackson was in, I expected that he would be because he was a global pop icon, he recently was in a movie “This Is It”, he had been in “The Wiz” and the media has stories about him daily. There is no question that he was a huge influence on our culture. “Thriller” was recently inducted into The Library of Congress” and it is the first short film of it’s kind (music video) ever to be inducted. Only about 20 films are inducted into the Library a year. So that is a huge honor for him. A week before the Academy Awards aired, his 3D film “Captain EO” re-opened at Disneyland and it got a very positive reception. Face it, people love his music and they love him. I read that he has sold around 30 million music cd’s since he passed. Millions of his DVD’s have also sold. There is no way they could have excluded this man. I feel bad for Farrah’s fans that the Academy excluded her, but it is in no way the fault of Michael Jackson. That they blamed him is highly unprofessional of them. They easily could have put her in their memorial tribute, now they are scapegoating Michael. It’s ridiculous. It’s also sad. I won’t bother watching next year. Hollywood makes me ill and so does the so called media.
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