Friday, June 26, 2009

Diana Ross on Michael Jackson’s Death

Diana Ross on Michael Jackson’s Death I can’t stop crying,” Diana Ross says. When I first learned of Michael Jackson’s death suddenly at age 50, one of the first people I thought about was Diana Ross. While the news talked to Donna Summer and plenty of other people giving their comments about Michael Jackson’s death, I asked my husband, “I wonder where Diana Ross is?”
That’s because everyone knows how much little Michael Jackson adored Diana Ross — as portrayed in Dreamgirls, with Beyonce as Diana Ross inside the room with her cohorts while the little actor playing Michael Jackson waits outside the door, listening, waiting for “Deena” as Diana Ross. So I’m checking Google News here for any “Michael Jackson” and “Diana Ross” news reports listing any statement she’s made.
Michael Jackson was fascinated by celebrity tragedy. He had a statue of Marilyn Monroe in his home and studied the sad Hollywood exile of Charlie Chaplin. He married the daughter of Elvis Presley. Jackson met his own untimely death Thursday at age 50, and more than any of those past icons, he left a complicated legacy. As a child star, he was so talented he seemed lit from within; as a middle-aged man, he was viewed as something akin to a visiting alien who, like Tinkerbell, would cease to exist if the applause ever stopped.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Sanford Maria

Sanford’s Maria emails were already in possession of one publication six months ago, says online reports today. So why did the publication allegedly withhold them? Sanford wrote to a woman named Maria in Buenos Aires. But reports tonight say that on Wednesday, one U.S. publication that has a reporter in Buenos Aires went to Maria’s apartment building reportedly pictured above.
The location: the Republica de La India in Buenos Aires in the Barrio Palermo. The State, the publication that revealed the emails between Maria and Mark tonight, had in the original copy of the emails Maria’s last name. The State’s reporter went to Maria’s apartment, and when she answered, she responded to the complete name listed in the emails (since redacted_.

“The State reports that one of its reporters attempted to get an interview with Maria at her apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday. After answering the door and responding to the name mentioned in the e-mails, Maria declined to comment on the story.”

Leslie Schuler

Nathaniel Turner, dead Wednesday, his father Leslie Schuler arrested. Nathaniel Turner died from an alleged beating from his father, on Father’s Day. Turner was 7 years old. The Turner case however is raising eyebrows today on one core question - how did Leslie become the caretaker of Turner suddenly - a child who was a stranger to the man. Reports say the father never had legal custody nor visitation rights for the child.
The only existing court order appears to give custody to the biological mother, Alicia Taylor. However, due to the mother’s mental problems, the maternal grandmother, Christine Taylor, cared for the boy, records show. Her legal guardianship of him apparently lapsed about four years ago. Child-protection has yet to comment on the matter. But reports say Schuler did want visitation rights to be granted, writing to court.
Leslie Schuler, who appears to be gainfully employed, was charged with seven counts of assault and battery on a child, one count of assault with intent to murder, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Basically, every kind of unspeakable abuse one man can heap upon another human being, to say nothing of his son.
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