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Michael Jackson Opus Picture of The Day & Excerpt: Spike Lee

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Opus Picture of The Day & Excerpt: Spike Lee


Another "MJ Opus Picture of the Day and Excerpt". Check out a letter written to MJ by Spike Lee and a picture taken from the video that Spike Lee created for the song "This Is It".


From the This Is It shot by Spike Lee

October 10, 2009

Dearest Michael,

Last week I made a pilgrimage to your birthplace, Gary, Indiana. I stood inside your family’s modest three-bedroom home on 2300 Jackson Street. I felt the magic. It started there, nine kids plus your parents, jam packed, livin’ on top of each other pursuing The American Dream. For this alone 2300 Jackson should be declared a National Landmark. One has to go back to the beginning to clearly see the entire journey. Gary, Steel town, Midwest, blue collar, hard workin’, hard livin’, great work ethic and simple basic values. It’s there early where you learned ‘you had to sing and dance like your life depended on it’ which it did. You and your family made the dream a reality. But as we all finally learn (sooner or later) dreams have costs and costs have consequences. I truly cherish the short time we worked together, visiting my home in Brooklyn, huggin’ and kissin’ my newborn daughter Satchel, as if she was your own daughter, our fantastic journey to Brazil to shoot the video for ‘THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US.’ I regret never getting to inform you that our video was directly responsible for the great film CITY OF GOD being conceived and made. Michael, your life touched people the world over you will never know. Michael, I’m one year older than you, we grew up together. I had my Afro just like you. I wanted to be like you. Wanted the cute girls to fawn over me the way they did you (the girls were not going for it. They’d rather make goo-goo eyes at your pictures plastered all over their bedroom.) At that young age I had no notion of what I wanted to do in my life. You made me see the possibilities even though I could not sing or dance a lick despite coming from a musical family. You, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Marlon showed us the way. You guys were young Black boys like us. Upon us was a new day, a new world and it’s on us to make the most of it. In closing Michael, you checked out of here way, way too soon but while you walked this earth in your physical form you changed it. You changed the World, changed the Game forever.

May you rest eternally in Peace.

Love,

Spike Lee

P.S. Brooklyn luvs ya!

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MY SWEET ANGEL

Posted by Emma Jackson on Aug 04, 2010 at 5:59 PM

Dear Michael

With great joy I have been able to add to your official site so that, I have so many things that to say, in first loved mine, that these alive, I have investigated without stopping day and night of you, that by security finjiste your death, gives as much joy me that you can be reading the commentaries of my companions and mine, I am only wanted recordarte what already there am dico to you in several ocaciones. I understand you did so that it, wanted to be able abrir him eyes to entire world, daria what outside to change all the things absurd, painful, humiliating that you have had to face, you are great human being that merecias what step, wanted to curse to the police of Santa Barbara by as they tried to you and they locked up to you, hurting du arm, would want to take the heads to them to which they photographed and they took videos to you from your body, luckily have not been managed to strain in Internet those things, would not want that all the press that is a sweepings retractara of infamias which they have said of serious you… but to turn to me into one of them and that never! , I am wanted to turn into somebody like your, I do not own your talendo of course, but beyond the trivialities that have said of you, the important thing is that your you have helped all, you have changed my life from the day that finjiste your death, of there, I have listened to the letters of your songs as they are HEAL THE WORLD, EARTH SONG, YOU PLOWS NOT ALONG, MAN IN THE MIRROR, I WILL SEES THERE, and i a.m. sure you plows an angel! , I thank for much that you have changed my life with the peace messages which they take all letters, I am so proud of you, that I have realized that is truth! all we can be united and to that great esnseñanza, master your joy, your love by others, master the devotion that you have the children to him, you are the only person, like Martin to luther king, like ghandi, you are but great that John lennon, your you have helped the children! , encantaria me who all human being is able to say " they see the children of the street? , who I am to try not to see his needs? , I am going to make a change in my life, and am going to begin by the man in espejo" , you know? I am going to study medicine, so that I am going to you to go to look for, I want to alleviate your health so that the world needs to you, all we needed to you and I hope that many people are united to us, so that next to you, we take love to all the humanity it would want to make a call to all the press, so that they do not hurt but to Michael Jackson, we know that it is going to return, please they do not attack it, they do not hurt it, ayudenos, please they do not destroy the being but wonderful who nor you yourself is, more good contruyan, acompañenos and unanse to construct a better world, to construct a full world of love, we do not leave the government, we do something by brother muestros anywhere in the world, he is so beautiful to share, there is children that needs to us, in Haiti, South Africa, anywhere in the world, we take care of to the animal, we love each part of the nature, we do not forget the message love and aprovechos peace have left that us, people who already have died and that we have the King of the MGP, we learn of, before also he goes away to us, all the humans, please levantemonos we back leave our titles nobiliary, we are the one who we are, we help, is what this world needs We understand that Michael Jackson is beyond that a great singer or sexy dancer Thanks michael, you mamos and god bless you to Prince Michael, Paris, Blanket, Katherin, Jackie, Jermain, Marlon, Tito, Randy, the Toya, Janett, Jessy, until a your father Joseph they take care of of Michel, is a great human being so that soon we will be united to in its fight and we waited for Michael to you in the scenes soon when you decide your it we loved to you, God blesses to you

I REALLY LOVE YOU THE KING OF MY DREAMS, thank you for change my live, MY SWEET ANGEL

Emma

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Posted by switgurl on Apr 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM

what a sweet letter Mr. spike lee, thank you very much..i am crying right now...i miss the site..its been two weeks that i wasn't able to visit it..working hard...carry on guys..hope we always keep in touch through this site..for MJ....miss ya all..i really do.office partitions Brisbane

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He was happy again, I saw it in his eyes. Why couldn't he have stayed to see his name cleared, to see how many ppl really love him, GOD, I pray he knew that WE (who love him) out weigh those who despise him. I pray that he really is Resting In Peace. online fax

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I don't think this world got it...they are still lacking compassion, they are still abusing him, they are still lacking love. Why did he have to go? He was happy again, I saw it in his eyes. Why couldn't he have stayed to see his name cleared, to see how many ppl really love him, GOD, I pray he knew that WE (who love him) out weigh those who despise him. I pray that he really is Resting In Peace.Download toolbar

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