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12/02/09--21:41: Re: The Way You Make Me Feel (chan 2560995)

He was not emaciated (according to autopsy) he was not high (according to all people who were actually around him for months in rehearsal) he was not about to die until a doctor over dosed him with propofol - don't you watch the news? Freakish is in the eye of the beholder - I thought he looked good - better than the last few years anyway and he certainly acted normal. He was visually reimagining every song and dance. His direction to the music director to make it sound like the record was specific to him trying to make the director understand what he was saying about changing the rhythm behind the beat not on top of it. Listening to the record, which was done that way, is an easy way to learn that rhythm.

Other than that a pretty good review.
Posted by Tom Joyce


12/03/09--10:13: Re: The Way You Make Me Feel (chan 2560995)

I agree with Tom about the lapses in your review, but you did a great job of zeroing in on the subtlety and depth of his rhythmic responses. "He is the music" could not be better put and a nice piece of writing around that. Any individual gesture that you isolate, especially in the solo dancing like Billie Jean, but perhaps most of all Human Nature, is almost negligible, a hand raise, a turn of the head, a step, but the fluidity and in-the-momentness of his dance is beyond anything one has ever seen or imagined. When I think of *that* body stilled for ever, I do just weep to this very moment.
Posted by FaustaBarra