Word: jacksonism
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...canvases seemed contrived for no greater purpose than to proclaim his muscular intention to proclaim muscular intentions. The other route an artist can pursue is to borrow from readily understood sources in pop culture. That would describe Basquiat's graffiti-derived gestures and Koons' life-size renditions of Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. Even if you don't know about Basquiat's debt to the scribble paintings of Cy Twombly or Koons' connection to Marcel Duchamp, you know what graffiti and the Pink Panther are. You have...
child, that meant the kid was 7 or 8," says Chester Jackson, associate executive director of You Gotta Believe, a New York City adoption agency that specializes in placing teens. But today the odds are much improved for adolescents like Amber. Of the 119,000 children awaiting adoption in the U.S., roughly half are 9 or older and about 40,000 are 11 or older. In 2002--the last year for which there are federal statistics--about 10,000 such kids found adoptive families. That's up sharply from 1998, when 6,000 were adopted, and most experts believe that...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There ... Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain...
...According to USA Today, Randy, Jermaine and Tito Jackson have been showing up every day at the Michael Jackson trial, but Janet Jackson hasn't. Apparently, it has something to do with Janet having a job." --CONAN O'BRIEN
Have you been asked to be a witness in the Michael Jackson trial? That's too much of a hot stove. There's a trial going on, so I can't say a word, and I'm pretty happy about that...