Michael Jackson's Hair On Fire Exclusive!

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL FOOTAGE from the 1982 Pepsi Cola commercial in which Michael Jackson's hair caught fire, causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns to face and scalp... and kicked off a serious, long-running addiction to opioid painkillers...

Living With Michael Jackson

IN 2003, Michael Bashir, the TV journalist who made his name interviewing Princess Diana, made an official documentary, "Living with Michael Jackson" which included lengthy interview footage with the star, as well as clips of Jacko fooling around at his Neverland mansion, etc etc...

Here's the entirety ~ the first 9 parts are the documentary, part 10 is news coverage, part 11 a "megamix"...



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



Part 5



Part 6



Part 7



Part 8



Part 9



Part 10



Part 11

The Duchess: film trailers

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was a "star of her time"...

Here's the film trailers, starring Kiera Knightley

Why the strained parallel with Diana? Almost all English aristocracy are interrelated on some level or other...



Here's the American trailer. Strangely it repeats nary a 2 sec clip of the top one...

The Young Victoria trailer

Directed by Martin Scorsese, I really wanna see this...

Freddie Mercury Documentary "A Kind of Magic"

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



Part 5

Queen Mother Tribute

BEFORE she did die, I'd heard rumours British television would be cut off for an entire week for endlessly repetitous bluster and guff about her life. Thankfully in actuality things were done in a dignified and stately way.

I remember waking up, the TV having blared out all night as I slept (as often happens). As the Queen Mum's funeral played out on BBC 1, her daughter, the Queen's tribute played over and over, that we should remember her in happiness...

I woke up tearful, not for the death of a public figure, but because I heard one woman's private grief in a public message, and just then I felt really sorry for the Queen....

The PM and Jade

Here the Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays tribute to cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody who marries fiancee Jack Tweedy tomorrow. The Home Office even granted him a 24-hour break to his curfew so the couple can spend their wedding night together...

He spoke about her twice this week, on two separate occasions:~