King of New York
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IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Drug lord Frank White (Chrstiopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Ngyen), and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer (Janet Julien). After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank’s past won’t let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo), frustrated at the lack of clues to nail Frank on for the current street killings, decide to take matters into their own hands. |
Actors: Walken Christopher,Caruso David,Fishburne Laurence,Argo Victor,Snipes Wesley,Chin Joey,Esposito Giancarlo,Calderon Paul,Buscemi Steve,Thomas Leonard L.,Smith Roger Guenveur,Abuba Ernest,Action,Crime,Drama,
Questions about some of the Michael Jackson items at the Music Icons auction in New York City this weekend?
Hopefully, I will only get responses from sincere people here, but I can only wish.
I browsed the online catalog for the big Julien’s Music Icons auction that is taking place this Saturday in New York City. I am interested in it due to the number of extremely interesting items that are up for auction having to do with The King Michael Jackson, including the Holy Grail of all MJ items, the left-handed glove he wore for his performance of Bille Jean on the Motown 25 television special where we all watched him moonwalk into the stratosphere for the very first time.
I have a couple of questions (and thoughts) on some of the items I saw in the catalog.
1.) Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Wedding Souveneir Chocolate Bar – Since when did MJ and LMP have a wedding? They were secretly married in the Dominican Republic and I have never heard anything about a wedding celebration taking place after the fact. Have you? I was surprised to see this item. Let me clarify that I am a lifelong fan starting way back with the Jackson 5. I am 43 and literally grew up on J5 and MJ. I never really paid attention to nor followed much tabloidy stuff about him though, especially when it came to his private relationships. So, am I the only fan who is perplexed by this very traditional wedding souveneir being placed up for auction? Please fellow MJ fans, enlighten me!
2. This is probably more my own thought but I would like to hear the opinions of others on it as well. Of course, as I flipped through page after page of Michael’s life and memorabilia (and therefore my own life and memories), I first felt excited about the prospect of owning one of these items, then I felt sort of contemplative, then I felt a cold and hard feeling in the pit of my stomach, and finally I felt overwelming sadness and broke down into uncontrollable sobbing. I just felt the worst kind of sadness. Sadness for the greatness that was, sadness for what we have lost, sadness for his children, sadness for what the memories of his career represent for my own life and the loss and pain I have experienced…with his soundtrack playing behind it all the while, sadness for a mother who has lost her son, sadness for all he gave and never received back, sadness for all we took and never gave back to him, sadness to watch a man’s life…any man’s life…roll by on a computer screen with dollar amounts attached to their meaning, sadness for the pain and betrayal he suffered throughout his entire life, sadness for so many things. Just the worst kind of lonely and cold sadness. I haven’t felt this awful since I first heard the news of his death. Obviously, I didn’t know I was going to have this reaction or else I never would have looked at the catalog at all.
But now that I have seen it, there are specific items that I feel should be in the hands of his children and not some corporation or millionaire collector who would view them as "cool trinkets." Wouldn’t it be truly wonderful if one or more of the many very wealthy celebrities/friends who claim to have loved Michael so much stepped up to bid on and win these items and then gave them to his children?
Specifically: The Motown 25 Holy Grail glove described above, the Jackson 5 original oil painting, his worn BAD World Tour jacket, all of his original drawings and sketches (these are so personal), the original handwritten "Beat It" lyrics, the black "Fantasy" glove, the blue "Fantasy glove, the original hadwritten lyrics to "T.S." and "Granite".
Lisa Marie? Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa? Any of you greedy Sony bast*rds? How about you, Jordan Chandler? You have the cash.
What are your thoughts or opinions on this?
P.S. I’m sorry this was so long. You know how it is when you cry and type at the same time. I have to go get some more tissue and take out my conacts now…they’re all blurry. Thanks…I really appreciate it.
P.P.S. Please think twice before writing something really mean…I don’t think my heart can take it right now. Thanks.
1. they have a wedding, in dominican republic, i have the clip, it was removed by youtube.
2. your question is?
Wouldn’t it be truly wonderful if one or more of the many very wealthy celebrities/friends who claim to have loved Michael so much stepped up to bid on and win these items and then gave them to his children?
like all of them are sincere… haha… for those that care, they would bid silently without publicity.
Christabel ~ | Nov 18, 2009
Dick says hi!
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