Word: somethin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pillow on her head. I said, 'I like you, so don't feel bad.' Somethin' like that. I never said that to her before. Then we started talking about college, because she's going to college now, she knows what I feel. We talked and talked, but we didn't look at each other. All the time she was looking out the window and I was looking at my sleeping brother, but we were talking to each other. I was scared to look at her face. Then I made a joke, and she started laughing. And I started laughing...
...also plans a new book of verse, a novel, a collection of articles past, and a nonfiction work on Ireland, a place he has not lived in since 1953. "I had a dream the other night," he remembers. "A voice with a brogue whispered, 'Would you moind puttin' somethin' down about me?' It was Nick, my cab driver from Dublin. I had been storing him for 30 years. How can you ever run out of ideas with a subconscious like that...
When the brothers get down to music and launch into Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Michael, in good voice and fine form, steps forward again. The brothers blaze their way through a set of 16 tunes, and except for three compositions by his older brother Jermaine, Michael sings lead on them all. He spins, prances, glides, soars and generally gives a vivid illustration of why, after the Victory Tour ends, he will resume flying solo. Michael is the clear star of the show-a Thoroughbred running with pacers-but he always was, even in the Jackson 5 days...
...through to the hot, angry heart of Billie Jean; the boy who has an uncanny sense of what his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable business of giving it to them; the gentle, slightly self-mocking teen-ager in Thriller ("I've got somethin' I want to tell ya...I'm not like other guys") who turns into one of the grisliest werewolves in screen history and enjoys the transformation the way another adolescent might heat up on a first heavy date...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...