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...Meghan McCain (McCainBlogette): prayers go out to the King of Pop's family, a sombre...
...California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Schwarzenegger): We lost a great entertainer and a pop icon. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Jackson's family, friends and fans...
...March 25, 1983, Michael Jackson took one small, backward step onto a television stage - and one giant leap into dance-floor history. The thin, angular pop star was only 24 years old when he took an obscure break-dancing move and transformed it into one of the most recognizable routines of all time. Jackson debuted the moonwalk during his performance of "Billie Jean" on the ABC television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and the heavy rotation that the song's video enjoyed on MTV injected it into America's pop-cultural consciousness. The moonwalk is so fluid, so effortless...
...iconic I don't know. If you think back, no one knew who Farrah Fawcett was. Charlie's Angels didn't come out until six months later. But this poster came out and sold millions of copies at, I think, $3 a pop. I think the reason it was such a success is that Farrah had such a fresh face. She was the girl next door. So if you were a teenager, you could bring this in the house and put it up in your room - as long as Mom didn't look too closely. Once her poster became such...
...moment. When you think about the French paintings in the late 19th century, we all think about Impressionism. We all know that Van Gogh was ignored, that he only sold three paintings in his lifetime. But he's the person we learn about. Nobody cared about Van Gogh. In pop music, you see that all the time. In romance novels or movies, you see people in the 1920s going out dancing, and it's a hot black band. That wasn't very common in white areas. It ends up being like [explaining] the history of Germany in the 20th century...