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Michael Jackson was the perfect star for an era of suspended reality. MEETING Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s was one of the creepier experiences of my life. I was an editor at the New York Daily News and had to present him with an award in a large room with just a handful of onlookers and a photographer at Madison Square Garden. I wasn't put off by the fact that Jackson, then in his mid-20s, couldn't make small talk. Lots of people have trouble with that. There was something about his overall behaviour that unsettled me. He seemed, even then, to be a person who was trying with all of his being to step outside of reality and leave it behind. Emmanuel Lewis, the child star of the TV series Webster, was with Jackson that evening. The undersized Lewis was probably 13 at the time, but he looked much younger, maybe seven or... [read full story]
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American Auto Transporters has, for the second consecutive year, answered the request from _Homes for our Troops_ (HMT) to support the returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. _Homes for Our Troops_ is a non-profit organization...
