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Scottie Shaffer worked for Michael Jackson from approximately 1991 to 1997. He was known around Neverland by the nickname “House.” Shaffer went off to start his own business- he does product placement for movies and is very successful. But he always stayed friendly with all the Jacksons. He’s…
I’m looking around the house for him and I go into the master bedroom and there’s no mattress on the bed. I go into another bedroom, there’s no mattresses on the bed. I finally open up a room that was kind of like an empty room and all the mattresses are on the floor lined up so Michael can sleep there with the three kids.
They can play. They can jump up and down. That’s Michael. He was very comfortable in that Romper Room-type environment.
He loved those children more than anything else in the world. He was a great father. In the 22 thousand square foot mansion there were beds in every room. The master bedroom was probably bigger than the size of my house and he took all the mattresses off all the beds in all the rooms, put them into one room so that he can sleep, play, jump up and down on the mattresses with his three kids, and they all will be together in one room.
I always said that Michael was very creative, tremendously creative on one side of his brain. On the other side he was always thirteen, he was just a child at heart, he was always a child, he acted like a child. If he was in a room and part of the room had adults and part of the room had children he would gravitate towards the side with the children. He loved children, he loved his children, he would be most comfortable in that environment.
The wrong people came into his life and ultimately caused his demise. One part of his brain was tremendously talented in terms of music and creativity, the other side of his brain was very trusting like a twelve year old.
Over the years I always thought that maybe if I didn’t move Michael from Ireland back to America, back to Las Vegas, that maybe Michael would be alive today.
” Jack Wishna - Michael’s former Vegas promoter president of Rockrena (via alchrista)(со страницы lidean)
When I met Michael Jackson while working in Vegas in 2003 he came and to the magic shop and asked me about different illusions for a show he was planning. He said he was thinking of using a choir for “Man in the Mirror”. I suggested the illusion of the Choir Vanish. He LOVED the idea. Although he never got to do that show in Vegas, I still thought it should see the light of day…I thought about that meeting with him while on stage last week. It was a really memorable moment for me.
Scott Alexander-Former competitor on Season Six of NBC’s America’s Got Talent
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”[…] Michael’s propensity to give of himself taught me that giving, not so much in monetary terms, but giving of yourself as a person, is the most important thing you can do in your life. The way he treated me and treated the people around me with such dignity and respect, and given that he was such a huge celebrity; many celebrities treat their friends, hired help, colleagues and even family, terribly, but Michael was just the opposite. Michael gave of himself and treated people with respect and dignity because that was who he really was as a person, even though he had his share of issues. That helped me, because when you see a celebrity of such magnitude like him being a humble person with tremendous humility, and like I said, giving of himself and sometimes sacrificing himself to his own detriment (…) […] He was (also) very, very funny. His mission in life was to create peaceful love in this world. There were numerous examples of that including the song “Heal the World,” the Heal the World Foundation and various other things he did; quiet things he did in a charitable way. So, to have an opportunity for of all his fans to work together; to preserve his legacy and his image, would be something that he would be tremendously emotional about.”
~ Stuart Backerman, Michael Jackson’s former publicist.
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”[…] Michael’s propensity to give of himself taught me that giving, not so much in monetary terms, but giving of yourself as a person, is the most important thing you can do in your life. The way he treated me and treated the people around me with such dignity and respect, and given that he was such a huge celebrity; many celebrities treat their friends, hired help, colleagues and even family, terribly, but Michael was just the opposite. Michael gave of himself and treated people with respect and dignity because that was who he really was as a person, even though he had his share of issues. That helped me, because when you see a celebrity of such magnitude like him being a humble person with tremendous humility, and like I said, giving of himself and sometimes sacrificing himself to his own detriment (…) […] He was (also) very, very funny. His mission in life was to create peaceful love in this world. There were numerous examples of that including the song “Heal the World,” the Heal the World Foundation and various other things he did; quiet things he did in a charitable way. So, to have an opportunity for of all his fans to work together; to preserve his legacy and his image, would be something that he would be tremendously emotional about.”
~ Stuart Backerman, Michael Jackson’s former publicist.
via Michael Jackson’s Legacy FB Official Page
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Dean Denton with his family and Michael
It is the picture that inspires memories of an extraordinary brush with mega-stardom for a well-known Perth music family.
Dean Denton, frontman of former Perth pub rockers the Frames, and his family have revealed details about a…
I first met Michael Jackson on Sunday, 11 March 1981. Diana Ross introduced us as he was to appear on her TV Special that Diana had she also asked me to work on with her. At the time I had been doing all of her stage and TV shows. Michael Jackson was to be a guest and when he turned up for…
by Al Bell
The last time I met with Michael, we saw each other from across the room and he made a point of coming over to say “hello.” Instead of greeting me with something like, “Al – it’s great to see you,” he instead simply grinned at me and said, “By the time I get to Phoenix!”
He related to…
“What can you write about a man who gave so much and contributed completely and wholeheartedly to the happiness of millions of people throughout the world through his music, not to mention the many sick…children…he visited in hospitals [throughout the world?]…[He] lifted [children’s] spirits,…
“Michael was – he was one of the – most spiritual men [I have ever met.] He called me up one day back in 1991, after I’d written a book called ‘Real Magic’, and asked me if I wanted to come out and bring my family (over), which is, you know a whole plane load [laughs], so all 8 of my children…
“But even though his knees were in pain, he still gave everything he had” Dancer Frank Gasto Jr - right in pic, remembers Michael
The first time I met Michael was when I danced in the video for “Smooth Criminal,” and for some reason I remember his fingernails, because they were so well manicured. That was my first job in L.A. as a dancer. And it was the most amazing job — I made $10,000 because the job was for three months. Just the dance section. Isn’t that something? There were, like, 40 dancers on the job. You know the scene in “Smooth Criminal” when he gets on the table? I’m standing right there because they wanted me to spot him, so if he fell, I would catch him. And he would never fall.
I had gone to see his show in Europe, where it was, like, 100,000 people and they don’t have seats on the main floor of the stadium. They just stand up and they’re like cattle shoulder to shoulder. And that was just amazing, seeing all the medics come in and out because people were fainting, people were crying. I can’t explain it. It was like the Holy Ghost: if you ever go to a black Baptist church, people shout, ladies faint. That’s the only thing I can describe that’s like how it was. And Michael told me one thing too: When people would grab him when he was walking through from backstage, and they could grab him or something, he said it was like fire—because they would grab him and they would pull him. They didn’t want to hurt him; it was that they just wanted a piece of him.
Most people, when they’re rehearsing a dance movement, they don’t do it full-out. Michael would always do everything to the fullest in rehearsal. He would do it like he was onstage, every time. And as a dancer, you would be like, Why is he doing it that hard? Every chromosome worked, the minute he moved. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen when he was going to court (in 2005), he got on top of his car. Even in that moment, he didn’t dance like he was on top of his car, he danced like he was onstage. He danced like every chromosome was working, right there, on top of a car. And when you really look at that tape, when he jumps on top of the car, he hurts his knees. He has to land on his knees when he jumps on the car from the ground. But even though his knees were in pain, he still gave everything he had. If you rewind it and look at it one day, you’ll know what I mean” Director and choreographer Frank Gaston Jr.
Frank won accolades for Beyonce’s Single Ladies and today works with many of todays top artists.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1907409_1907413_1907554,00.html
via UK Loves MJ
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