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Michael Jackson's fiery mishap renews concerns about safety The elaborate $1.5 million commercial for Pepsi-Cola was being taped in front of 3,000 fans at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Four times Singer Michael Jackson glided down a staircase toward Jermaine and his three other brothers as a pyrotechnic display was set off behind them...
According to Jackson's associates, Giraldi asked the singer to move more slowly and ordered the fireworks "heated up" a bit. The combination proved volatile. On the fiery fifth take, as pop music fans the world over swiftly learned, sparks from a smoke bomb ignited Jackson's hair, sending the singer to the hospital with second-and third-degree burns on his scalp. Jackson is expected to recover fully, though he may require cosmetic surgery to replace his hair in the burned area. His physician last week stressed that the injuries could have been much worse...
...Rivera has set up housekeeping in Manhattan with Singer Brenda Feliciano...
...maker of such pastiches has been as acute as Coward, who entirely rewrote Let's Do It for his nightclub act: "Teenagers in jeans do it/ Probably we'll live to see machines do it." But that was merely Noël the singer. There was also Noël the playwright, Noël the actor, Noël the director, Noël the short-story writer, Noël the memoirist and, at the end, Sir Noël, knight of the British Empire. Yet of all his roles, Coward is likely to be remembered...
AILING. Michael Jackson, 25, top pop-record and video performer (Thriller); from second degree scalp and back burns after an exploding smokebomb canister ignited his hair during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial. A Los Angeles doctor who treated the singer said that he might need reconstructive surgery...