Michael Jackson ~ Thriller for US (2019) 🐰🎬🕚
US (2019)
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julio 17, 2019
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Michael Jackson’s artistic legacy explored in London show
London (AFP) – Michael Jackson’s legacy as a pop-culture and artistic icon is explored in a new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery opening Thursday.
«Michael Jackson: On the Wall» — a play on the title of classic 1979 album «Off the Wall» — follows the king of pop, who still captivates artists nine years after his death, through his multi-million selling career.
The exhibition features paintings, photographs and sculptures from artists such as pop-art pioneer Andy Warhol, German sculptor Isa Genzken and US photographer David LaChapelle.
The man with the best-selling album in history, «Thriller», continues to shape modern culture through his body of work.
Each of the exhibition’s 14 rooms explores a facet of the singer’s life, which ended in June 2009.
In the «American Jesus» room, the visitor is met by four giant LaChapelle pictures, each surrealist, kitsch, colourful and full of religious symbolism.
One shows Jackson with angel wings on his back, praying and trampling on a red satan.
The exhibition also showcases the star’s final commissioned portrait «Equestrian Portrait of King Philippe II» by US artist Kehinde Wiley, in which the singer sits on horseback, while two angels — one white, one black — wrestle above his head.
«We wanted interesting portraits of Michael Jackson,» said Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery.
«It was not about the fame of the artist or their age,» he said.
Other pieces include evening jackets worn by the singer, his black moccasins, magazine covers dedicated to him and some of the objects that adorned his bedside table.
«The exhibition is not a biography of Michael Jackson,» said the director.
«We are just looking at him through the prism of contemporary art,» he said, adding that Jackson meant «different things to all types of people».
The gallery chief believes the world will never again see such a cultural phenomenon.
«There will never be another Michael Jackson,» he said.
«Some say that Beyonce is the new Michael Jackson, but even though she is great and I have a lot of respect for her, it is not comparable: he is unique».
The exhibition will run in London until October 21, before heading to Paris, Bonn and Finland.
Michael Jackson’s legacy as a pop-culture and artistic icon is showcased at a new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery opening Thursday (AFP Photo/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
New Michael Jackson Thriller project revealed by John Landis
Michael Jackson fans are to be thrilled all over again with a ‘spectacular’ new top secret Thriller project, original director John Landis has revealed during a visit to Sheffield.
The Hollywood legend says he has just finished work on it but details won’t be out until next year.
It is believed it may be in celebration of the groundbreaking video’s forthcoming 35th anniversary.
The 13-minute Thriller video helped the album to sell 65 million copies and itself sold nine million copies when it was release on VHS tape in 1983.
Hollywood director John Landis on a visit to Yorkshire has revealed a new Michael Jackson Thriller project. He was the special guest speaker at Sheffield Hallam University to promote the forthcoming Celluloid Screams horror film festival at Sheffield Showroom Cinema from October 21 to 23, 2016.
Corey Feldman Responds to a Tweet from Paris Jackson:
Corey Feldman is reaching out to Paris Jackson to address bullies and his memories with her father.
Feldman made headlines when he gave a curious performance of his song «Go 4 It» on the Today show. He’s received a lot of support since the negative social media backlash, and even a surge on the Billboard charts. But now, the musician and actor, 45, took to Twitter to share a positive message with Michael Jackson‘s daughter Paris.
«@ParisJackson U don’t deserve ANY of it! I hope 1 day we can talk, as Id LOVE 2 tell U + things about your father when he was a young man,» Feldman said in response to a tweet he received from the 18-year-old model on Saturday.
Jackson tweeted out to Feldman with the message, «@Corey_Feldman anything you do that makes u happy, people are going to hate on it.. but if you’re happy then it doesn’t matter. hope ur well.»
Jackson has dealt with harsh criticism on social media, particularly when she was harassed for not posting a Father’s Day message honoring her late father in June. Earlier this month, Jackson shared a since-deleted Instagram video pleading fans to be more kind, according to TMZ.
Jackson joins several others – including his Stand By Me costar Jerry O’Connell and Kesha – who has stood by Feldman, who tearfully expressed his agony over the negative comments about his performance.
Feldman continued to talk about his experience on The Talk last Tuesday.
«I wanted people to see the real emotion I was feeling,» he said. «I wanted people to see, I am not fake, I am a real person and this affects me – I am made of flesh and blood and emotion.»
Corey Feldman Responds to a Tweet from Paris Jackson: ‘I Hope One Day We Can Talk’ About Michael|. Corey Feldman, Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson
Conrad Murray I Didn’t Kill MJ … Blame His OTHER Docs!
Conrad Murray still insists he didn’t have a hand in Michael Jackson‘s death — despite his guilty conviction and 2 years in jail — and even believes he wasn’t the worst doctor in MJ’s life.
Murray was on «TMZ Live» to talk about the new book he wrote about Michael, who was his patient and friend. But Murray claims Jackson concealed details about other drugs he was on — besides the Propofol administered by Murray.
Watch the clip … Murray refused to own up to having any role in Michael’s homicide — instead he backed up the bus over the late Dr. Arnold Klein.
By the way, Murray’s claims about getting railroaded by the coroner and Propofol not being in Michael’s system? Read the report … he’s got it wrong.
You can see the rest of the interview on Tuesday’s «TMZ Live.»
Judith Hill Reveals She Was on Prince’s Plane the Night of Emergency Landing
Judith Hill had already endured more than her fair share of heartache and disappointment before competing on The VoiceSeason 4 or appearing in the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom. In 2009, she lost her mentor, Michael Jackson, just as she was set to perform with him at that year’s much-hyped This Is It London concerts. She ended up singing “Heal the World” at Jackson’s memorial service instead.
Five years later, Hill found a new mentor in another legend, Prince – who produced her debut album, Back in Time – only to experience an even more devastating loss, when Prince passed away suddenly this past April 21.
Judith has laid low ever since, only addressing Prince’s shocking death in a couple of heartbreaking social media posts. But now, in a new interview with the New York Times, she has revealed that she was actually with Prince on his infamous April 15 flight from Atlanta, the one that made an emergency landing after Prince fell unconscious.
Hill recalls that Prince’s “eyes [became] fixed” while the two were dining on vegetables and pasta and chatting about music during their flight to Minneapolis after Prince’s gig at Atlanta’s Fox Theater. “Thankfully, I happened to be looking into his face,” she says – noticing his change in demeanor – which allowed her to act quickly, even though she was “very freaked out.”
“He wasn’t dreary or drowsy, or anything,” Hill recalls in her NYT interview of the hospital visit. “He wanted to watchZootopia. He loved those films. I was going to pull it up on my phone. He said, ‘No, no, no, not here. We’re going to pick a special time and place to watch that.’» Hill hoped that this was a one-off incident; Prince returned to Minneapolis the same morning of his health scare.
At the time, the press reported that Prince was merely suffering from the flu. But it turned out that his April 15 Atlanta concerts would be his final performances; six days later, he was dead from a fentanyl overdose. Hill tells NYT she had no idea that Prince was abusing prescription meds due to his hip pain, saying, “I only know what everyone knows about his pain – I read about it… He was quick on his feet. Never said anything, that this is hurting, never a sign of struggle. That’s why it’s all very shocking.”
Hill does reveal to the New York Times that she was among the friends who were instrumental in getting Prince the help to beat his opiate addiction. “He [sought treatment] because he was concerned, and he wanted to do the right thing for his own body,” she says. “And that’s the part that breaks my heart, because he was trying. He was trying.”
Speaking to Yahoo Music last year, as she was preparing to release the Prince-produced Back in Time, Hill recalled her first meeting with her future friend and advisor. Prince unexpectedly invited Hill to his Paisley Park studio in Minneapolis after randomly catching a TV interview with Hill in which she spoke of her dream to work with him. She was floored. “He said, ‘I’d like to call Judith,’ and he reached out to my management,” Hill recalled incredulously. “He personally called me on my cell phone. It was an unknown number. Oh, they prepped me. They said, ‘Prince is going to call you today.’ I was shaking.”
Hill then joined Prince at Paisley Park in winter 2014 for a whirlwind recording process, that, true to the album’s title, was totally old-school: all-analog, the result of freeform Paisley Park jam sessions. One track on Back in Time, “Turn It Up,” even amusingly featured Prince yelling in the background, “Omigod, Judith, I saw you on The Voice!”
“It was so inspiring and refreshing, because it was like going back to the old days of just jamming… just hit ‘record,’ one take, organic. Nothing was too overthought, just what we felt at the time,” Hill told Yahoo Music. “His process is really amazing, and I learned a lot… He pushes you to excellence and he just wants the best for you. And he lives in a whole ‘nother world. So it rubs off on you, and you just grow so much musically.”
At the time of her Yahoo Music interview, Hill noted a common thread between Michael Jackson and Prince, two of the 1980s’ greatest musical icons, when it came to work ethic. “There’s a lot of great similarities in terms of their epicness and how they approach things,” she said. “The attention to detail, being very specific about everything they want. They see the big picture and they’re very involved. I just learned as an artist that it’s so important to be hands-on.”
But “Michael was different,” she now tells the New York Times, because she only knew Jackson “as a fan and as someone that worked for him.” Prince and Hill, on the other hand, were very close. While Hill doesn’t confirm to NYT that she was romantically involved with Prince, she does say “there was a very intense relationship. I deeply cared for him… He told me that he loved me and that he would always be there for me… Now he’s gone, and I realize I was leaning on him a lot. And that’s what’s scary. I’m on my own.”
Michael Jackson’s physician Conrad Murray tells Prince’s doctor to «get a good attorney»
Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray says he was «saddened» by the news of Prince’s death in April. The former physician, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter following Jackson’s death, has also issued a warning to Prince’s doctor to hire a good legal team.
It is yet to be publicly revealed how Prince died at the age of 57, on 21 April, but a doctor who is believed to have treated the legendary musician shortly before his death is said to have been questioned but not charged. Speaking about Prince’s passing, Murray told Inside Edition on 16 May that he was «saddened» by the singer’s death, adding: «I thought about him and I thought of Michael.»
Sharing his advice for Prince’s doctor, Murray said: «I would say clearly he needs an attorney, and a good one, because we have what we call ‘regular justice’ and ‘celebrity justice’.» According to Murray, who supplied Jackson with the powerful anaesthetic propofol causing the singer’s overdose in June 2009, the king of pop did not like Prince because of what he describes as «an inherent competition». The former doctor said: «I think Michael always felt that he had set himself apart. I think he felt Prince was a ‘want-to-be’.»
During a televised trial, it was revealed that Murray had supplied Jackson with propofol in the singer’s Californian home when it is solely meant for hospital use. After his conviction in November 2011, Murray was sentenced to four years in prison but only spent two years incarcerated due to good behaviour.
Murray, who was stripped of his medical license, still maintains his innocence despite his conviction. He said: «I have lost a great deal. I’ve lost everything. Everything I’ve amassed has been taken from me as a result of an unjust verdict. I am and I remain an innocent man. On the bottle there are clear instructions. If Prince as an adult chooses to take 15 pills every six hours versus two pills every six hours, in the absence of a doctor, do you hold him responsible?»
The cause of Prince’s death was not revealed after the autopsy and the coroner has stated it could take weeks before it is publicly disclosed.
NEW VIRTUAL MICHAEL JACKSON UNDERWAY!
On May 5, an announcement came from Executive Chairman of Pulse Evolution Corporation at the Canadian Music Week that the company is working on a new virtual Michael Jackson which is looking much more realistic than their version from the 2014 Billboard Music Awards!
Canadian Music Week welcomed keynote speaker John Textor, Executive Chairman of Pulse Evolution Corporation (PLFX), pioneer and leading developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for holographic live performances, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, as part of this year’s Digital Media Summit on Thursday, May 5. Widely credited as the pioneer of the new industry of Holographic Entertainment, he is responsible for the 2012 appearance of Virtual Tupac Shakur at the Coachella Valley Music Festival and the 2014 performance of Virtual Michael Jackson at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, the latter generating more than 35 million YouTube views and 98 billion Internet impressions worldwide. In 2015, PLFX’s new hologram music industry secured ‘pop culture status’ as Textor and his partner Frank Patterson were parodied in the ‘Hologram episodes’ of the globally successful animated sitcom, South Park.Currently, Textor is active in the development of entertainment properties across a broad spectrum of venues and technology platforms. In addition to his leadership in the extended uses of photo-realistic, digital humans, he is also currently a Producer of Art Story, an original animated feature film currently being developed by Disney veteran filmmaker Aaron Blaise, as well as Producer and Executive Producer of Ender’s Game, a science fiction fantasy film released in November 2013.
The 30 minutes talk happened at the Digital Media Summit in Toronto, Ontario, at 2:30 p.m. on May 5, 2016.The Digital Media Summit is Canada’s premier social media and interactive marketing conference. It is presented in conjunction with Canadian Music Week in Toronto and features thought leaders in the digital and social media space. Textor featured in a keynote interview entitled “Master of Surreality.” The interviewer was Ted Cohen, managing partner of TAG Strategic and a former Sony Music executive.
In March, 2016, Pulse Evolution announced a landmark partnership with Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment. Pulse and Fuller — the British impresario who created the American Idol franchise and has worked with the Spice Girls, Amy Winehouse, Annie Lennox, and David and Victoria Beckham — aim to combine the highest quality visual imagery, including hyper-realistic digital humans, with the most advanced and rapidly evolving display technologies to create immersive content for stage, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
Earlier this year, Pulse Evolution received investments from China’s Original Force Computer Animation Co. Ltd. and Shanghai U9 Game Co. Ltd., both of which are portfolio investments of Tencent Holding Limited, a $200 billion global conglomerate.
Mind Is The Magic 