November 16th, 2009
Nov 16, 2009
"He was the one that was administering, I think he is responsible."
Janet Jackson Believes Dr. Murray Is Responsible For MJ’s Death

Janet Jackson, who is currently promoting the release of her new greatest hits album Number Ones, sat down with ABC News for a new interview where in she talks about, among other things, the untimely death of her older brother Michael Jackson. According to Janet, MJ‘s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray is to blame for his death and should be made to pay the price by losing the ability to practice medicine:

Speaking out five months after Michael Jackson’s death, Janet Jackson placed blame on Dr. Conrad Murray, saying the doctor should no longer be allowed to practice medicine. “He was the one that was administering,” she told ABC’s Robin Roberts. “I think he is responsible.” Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, remains the focus of a manslaughter investigation into the pop star’s death. Murray has admitted to administering the anesthetic propofol, but has denied giving Michael anything that should have killed him. Jackson, who has walled herself in silence, fiercely guarding her private thoughts about the death of her beloved brother, Michael, opened up to Roberts in an exclusive interview that will air, Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 10 p.m. ET. “It’s been a tough year,” she said. “You have your days where it’s just really — it’s hard to believe. And a day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about him.” Jackson recounted the details of the morning of June 25, before she learned that Michael had collapsed, and her world turned upside down. “I was at my house in New York. You know, another day. Another morning. And I get a call … [my assistant] said, ‘Your brother’s been taken to the hospital. It’s on CNN right now,’” she told Roberts. “I called everyone’s. There’s a line busy or — someone wasn’t picking up. I spoke to mother. I spoke to Tito. I spoke to my nephew Austin. I spoke to my sister La Toya.” “I told them to call me when they got to the hospital. And I remember thinking nobody’s calling me back, so I tried calling again, and that’s how I found out that he was no longer … I couldn’t believe it,” she said. Jackson said the she and the entire family were in a state of disbelief. “It just didn’t ring true to me. It felt like a dream,” she said. “It’s still so difficult for me to believe. It’s, you know, you have to accept what is. But it’s hard. You have to move on with your life. You have to accept what is and I understand that.” For Jackson, Michael’s memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where the late King of Pop was surrounded by love ones, helped her come to terms with her brother’s death. “My brother’s favorite song is ‘Smile.’ And I thought Jermaine sang it beautifully, beautifully. And that’s his favorite song as well. …There being some sort of a closure, I suppose, at that time,” she said, getting emotional. Janet, who has sold 100 million records and became a five-time Grammy award-winning artist, was the youngest of nine children in the brood. Growing up, she said that she was always closest to Michael. “We were incredibly close,” she said, “A lot of similarities, his love for children and me being a baby … We would practically do everything together from morning to night every day. Everyday.” She recalled how the two would play after school, feeding the animals together at the family’s Hayvenhurst compound in Encino, Calif. “We’d feed all the animals, took care of the babies. All the animals — giraffes, mouflon sheep, deer, they had fawned. All kinds of animals, all kinds of birds. And I remember I would come home from school with the hay like I’m going to a ranch,” she said. In later years, she famously wore the key to the animal cages in all her music videos — a memento from her youth. But Jackson does not look back on all of her childhood memories as fondly …

Janet‘s chat with Robin Roberts continues from here. After the jump, read Janet‘s not-so-fond memories of growing in the Jackson household and how her upbringing impacted her and her famous siblings …

Brings along a few kinky friends
Adam Lambert Prepares To Film A New Music Video

Adam Lambert, newly single from his boyfriend Drake LaBry and a member of Out magazine’s Out 100 Honor Roll, was spotted on the LA set of his new music video (presumably for his new single For Your Entertainment) with a few of his closest, kinkiest friends … behold:

LMAOOOOOOOOOO … this video is going to be AWESOME because I can just tell it’s gonna be AWESOMELY BAD! You gotta love the guy in the third photo who is pinching is own nipple so that it can be all nice and perky by the time he shoots his scene in the video. The bald-headed guy in the loincloth thong is another nice touch. I’m not sure if I can handle all the cheese but methinks that Glambert is gonna give us all the cheese he can come up with. I’m sorry, y’all, but I have such a hard time taking this kid seriously … I mean, seriously. I hope he knows what he’s doing … it’d be such a shame for so much talent to go to waste because the poor guy sabotages his own career by overexposing his ridiculous image. Does any of this look impressive to you?

[Photo credit: INFdaily]

Home to roost
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner Return To SoCal For The ‘New Moon’ Premiere

As some of you may be well aware, The Twilight Trinity made up of Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson spend most of the last week doing promo work at photocall/premiere events in Europe but this weekend they have returned home to SoCal to gear up for the big Hollywood premiere that will be happening in Westwood, CA tonight. Twilight fans in the area have been gearing up as well as hordes of rabid Twilighters have already begun to line up for prime spots for tonight’s premiere event. Here are a few pics of The Twilight Trinity as they made their arrival at LAX Airport and some deets about tonight’s much-anticipated premiere:

Fans of “Twilight” Sunday lined up in Westwood for Monday’s premiere of “New Moon.” Some fans came from as far away as Australia to be part of the vampire mania. The first person in line drove from Arizona and arrived Thursday morning. By Sunday morning, hundreds were camping out for Monday’s premiere at Mann’s Village Theatre and Bruin Theatre, and hoped to get a glimpse of the stars. The movie, based Stephanie Meyer’s series of “Twilight” novels, opens nationwide Friday. It stars 23-year-old Robert Pattinson as heartthrob vampire Edward Cullen; Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan; and Taylor Lautner as werewolf Jacob Black. The first film, “Twilight,” sold more $383.6 million in tickets worldwide and producers hope “New Moon” will outdo it. More than a week before its release, “New Moon” had sold more than four times as many tickets as “Twilight” at MovieTickets.com at the same point in the sales cycle, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Chances are that if you are reading this then you are prolly not waiting in line for the premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon tonight … and if you’re not in line by now, it’s prolly too late to get a prime spot. Nonetheless, the Hollywood premiere of New Moon will take place tonight and will surely satisfy the ardent fans who braved the cold last night in order to get close to these Twilight stars. I believe there will be an NY premiere event later on in the week … but tonight is all about Hollywood. Are y’all ready?

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]

Up, Up and Away!
Michael Jackson’s Children Learn How To Fly At Universal Studios

All of Michael Jackson‘s children — Prince Michael Joseph, Prince Michael Joesph II aka Blanket and Paris Michael Katherine (not pictured) along with Omer Bhatti (MJ‘s long-rumored secret love child) — were on hand for a day of fun and frivolity at the Universal Studios theme park here in LA, CA over the weekend. Here are photos of the Jackson kiddies learning how to fly at the iFly ride:

I find it SO INTERESTING that Omer Bhatti is still hanging around the legitimate MJ kids … so many months after MJ‘s death. I understand that Omer has been in SoCal since MJ‘s untimely death in June and has been treated just like one of MJ‘s kids ever since. I’ve been pretty convinced for some time now that Omer is actually MJ‘s child … this only solidifies that belief. It’s just a shame that MJ wasn’t able to claim and spend as much time with Omer as he did with his other children when he was alive. At least now, all of MJ‘s kids can be together at all times from here on out. He really has become a bona fide member of the Jackson family.

[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin]