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When you have fame and money, who needs a brain, a personality and proper perspective?

The dangerous, outrageous behavior of Michael Jackson and Phil Spector (some just alleged, some not in dispute), in court on the same day last week, has been enabled by the money and power generated by their wild success. Be careful what you wish for. I discuss this at MSNBC: Hidden …

The Bronfman deal for the Warner Music Group we discussed last Friday has gone through: Time Warner agreed today to sell its Warner Music business to Edgar Bronfman Jr. and a group of investors led by Thomas H. Lee Partners for about $2.6 billion in cash. The purchase creates one …

Right here in sweet little Portage County, Ohio: Ravenna- A man who impregnated his 16-year-old stepdaughter with a syringe should not get custody of the boy who was born as a result, an appeals court ruled yesterday. ….Shenna Grimm gave birth to the boy in 1999 after she was inseminated …

A picture may be worth a thousands words, but this one leaves me speechless – it looks like a morgue shot. The BBC does a good job of going over the legal terrain of the new Jackson case: The charges of child abuse against Michael Jackson may, at first sight, …

One thing leads to another: since I ran my interview with Mike Watt from late-’92 and we talked a lot about the business of music and how his band the Minutemen hooked up with SST Records, I figured I might as well run my interview with Greg Ginn – also …

We really are a prurient nation, at least that’s what commercial television seems to think based upon the JackoTV schedule: Almost all the networks and cable channels are feverishly at work on, or are getting ready to re-air, a string of Michael Jackson programs. Among the upcoming programming highlights: Barbara …

This is complicated, follow closely: A man who had to endure a three-day erection after penile surgery was awarded $3 million by a jury two years ago, but an appeals court ordered a Monmouth County judge to lower the award. So Superior Court Judge Alexander Lehrer did – by one …

Two weeks ago, Sony Music and BMG agreed to merge into one big-ass music company, and it appeared that Warner Music Group and EMI were going to do the same. But now WMG has apparently spurned EMI and is going with a group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr.: Time Warner …

Innocent victim of of a conformist world and money-grubbing leeches or demented pedophile? King of Pop or Emperor of Uranus? Eccentric or freak? Michael Jackson’s latest round of troubles may bring his carefully constructed world crashing down once and for all, but they can’t take Thriller away from him, can …