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Is Michael Jackson - and along with him U2 and Madonna - the last vestige of a music industry in its death throes? For Switzerland’s Nachrichten newspaper, Patrik Etschmayer writes in part: “Ever since Michael Jackson, King of Pop, extra-terrestrial, and whatever else he was dubbed, shuffled off this mortal coil, commentators around the world have absolutely flipped. “What’s rarely...

THE LITTLEST LAZARUS How can you have died? No, no. ‘Tooo young, tooo young,’ hoot the owls in the night pines… How can you have died with your wings spread out so beautifully, two little silver-gray fans with vanes perfectly aligned, literally zipped shut so as to make your feathers air-tight, impervious to being split by wind… All so you could fly. So you could sing. And fly. Weren’t...

The planetary Rorschach test that is Michael Jackson’s death continues with this article from Brazil’s Folha newspaper. For Folha, Joao Pereira Coutinho delves into the inevitable conspiracy theories surrounding Jackson’s death - and how the singer failed to grasp the myths he himself adopted and altered for his own purposes. Joao Pereira Coutinho writes in part: “Poor Michael Jackson....

His death, at the age of 97, won’t get nearly the attention that Michael Jackson’s got, or perhaps even that Farrah Fawcett’s got, but Karl Malden was truly one of the great American artists of the last century, an exceptional film actor who starred in over 50 movies, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 — for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), On the Waterfront...

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Could this ultimately end in charges of criminal manslaughter?

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The remarkable global outpouring of emotion and opinion about Michael Jackson’s death shows no sign of abating. Questions about his relationships with children, his decades-long attempt to whiten his skin, and his tendency to do everything most people do in reverse, are all touched upon by Le Figaro’s Yann Moix, in this thought-provoking defense of Michael Jackson and the way he was compelled...

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As in North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Oceania are united in at least one way: shock over the death of Michael Jackson. As part of our coverage of this cultural border-shattering event, we present this editorial by Sebastien Le Fol of France’s Le Figaro newspaper, which investigates why Michael Jackson’s demise has had the incredible impact reverberating around the world today. For...

1969 was the year I began my career as a journalist with a leading Indian daily. That was also the year when a memorable event called The Woodstock Festival took place in a far-away rural town of Bethel, New York, and caught my fancy. As The Independent recalls: “Performers flying in on helicopters – a portentous sight in the Vietnam era – food and drinks spiked with LSD, acts going on 14 hours or...

Here is a roundup of media and blogger reaction to the death of Michael Jackson on Thursday.

Today (or, rather, she died on Saturday, but I just saw the notice today), it’s Gale Storm, sitcom pioneer and, arguably most famously, the star of the long-running 1950s show, My Little Margie (which I remember watching, so there you go).

Michael Jackson died on Thursday, June 25. The online entertainment tabloid, TMZ.com, was the first to report the news, although the reports of his death had not been officially confirmed at the time. You will notice in the brief story TMZ filed, the word “confirm” or “confirmed” did not appear:

His passing is yet another reminder of how pop culture consumes its icons. At 50, Michael Jackson outlived Elvis by almost a decade, but neither was destined for the old age that Sinatra and Bing Crosby reached in an earlier era. When Presley died in 1974, he was a grotesque caricature of himself, obese and drug-damaged, planning a comeback tour, but a cynic called his sudden death on a bathroom floor “a...

This doesn’t seem to be a good week for celebrities with word now coming that pitchman Billy Mays has been found dead in his Tampa home at the age of 50. Mays Dies

You’ve probably heard the 911 call by an anonymous man asking that an ambulance be sent as soon as possible. It turns out while on the 911 call, the phoner says that the doctor is applying CPR (and doing everything) to Mr. Jackson and that Jackson is not breathing yet. The doctor is Conrad Murray, who is said to have practices across three states. The doc has a few problems, as stated by ABC news: Dr....