Last things
I got it, I got it, please stop sending me this video.
Here’s a clip from The Little Prince (1974), in which Bob Fosse plays the Snake. His moves are stunningly familiar, except that he did them earlier. (If you have not seen All That Jazz, watch it. Now.)
So Elvis Presley stole rock ‘n roll from the black people, and Michael Jackson stole the moonwalk from the white people.
Elsewhere, Steve Martin attempting the moonwalk in 1983. Do not try this at home.
Read the angry comments accusing Steve of opportunism. . .for a parody he did a quarter-century ago. Cretins.
There’s a scene in David O. Russell’s film Three Kings that sums up our conflicted feelings about Michael Jackson. In the scene, American soldier Mark Wahlberg is being tortured by his Iraqi captors. Between electric shocks the torturer asks: “What is the problem with Michael Jackson?! Is he not the King of Pop?!” You don’t know whether to laugh or be horrified, so you do both.
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June 30th, 2009 at 16:47
On BBC Q.I. Stephen Fry had a quite interesting discussion on the origins of the Moonwalk, or the “Backslide” as they called it back then. Here’s the clip from Youtube.
www(.)youtube(.)com/watch?v=TyTpuW4PJKU
June 30th, 2009 at 17:59
FOR JESSICA ONLY. DO NOT PUBLISH PLS.
Things like emerging love can last.
“I love you baby and if it’s quite alright I need you baby
To warm this lonely night
I need you baby
Trust in me when I say.”
June 30th, 2009 at 23:41
And Im sure a dozen people has sent you this video as well: Hugh Laurie interviews Michael Jackson.
July 1st, 2009 at 17:54
‘. . .a dozen people have sent you this video. . .’
-CHF
July 1st, 2009 at 18:46
To #2:
It is useless to assume multiple identities, freak.
You are immediately exposed by your pedestrian tastes.
Begone.
-CHF