Thursday, June 25, 2009

+Michael Jackson+...Nato 1958 Morte 2009....THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL.

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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

EARLIER IN THE WEEK, JOHNNY CARSON'S SIDEKICK, ED MC MAHON, DIED SUDDENLY AFTER MUCH SUFFERING.

24 HOURS LATER IN LOS ANGELES, we have lost both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

EVEN IN A HUGE CITY LIKE LOS ANGELES WITH NO BOUNDARIES AND UNCONNECTED COMMUNITIES, WE WERE IN AFTER SHOCK AFTER ED MC MAHON DIED JUST A FEW DAYS AGO.

WE ARE STUNNED AND VERY SAD, NOW.

THESE THREE PEOPLE WERE ONCE YOUNG AND VIBRANT: ED MC MAHON MADE US LAUGH AND FARRAH FAWCETT'S BEAUTY TURNED OUR HEADS AND HER SUFFERING WITH CANCER WAS PERSONALLY DEVASTATING TO US AND MICHAEL JACKSON'S MUSIC/DANCING ON STAGE MADE OUR BODIES AND OUR LIPS MOVE AND ALSO MADE US QUESTION HOW THIS VERY YOUNG AND TALENTED CHILD COULD BE SO THOROUGHLY MANIPULATED AND DISTORTED BY THE DEMANDS OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE GREED OF HIS FATHER'S AMBITIONS...

TODAY, WE ARE LOOKING AT ONE ANOTHER AND ASKING EACH OTHER, "WHO IS NEXT?"

THEIR DEATHS AWAKEN THE REALIZATION OF OUR OWN MORTALITY.

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.

Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50

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Michael Jackson performed during the Super Bowl XXVII halftime show in 1993 in Pasadena, Calif. More Photos >

By BROOKS BARNES

Published: June 25, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the fallen King of Pop, is dead. The singer, songwriter and dancer whose career reached unprecedented peaks of sales and attention, died Thursday. He was 50.n)]

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Farrah Fawcett

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Farrah Fawcett dies at 62; actress soared with, then went beyond, 'Charlie's Angels'

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A rare cancer claims the 1970s pinup beauty. First known for her looks and hairstyle, she captivated critics with 'The Burning Bed' and other serious roles. Later, she chronicled her illness.

By Valerie J. Nelson

June 26, 2009

Farrah Fawcett, who soared to fame as a national sex symbol in the late 1970s on television's campy "Charlie's Angels" and in a swimsuit poster that showcased her feathery mane and made her a generation's favorite pinup, died Thursday. She was 62.

Fawcett, whose celebrity overshadowed her ability as a serious actress, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2006. She died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said Paul Bloch, her publicist.

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Three months after she was declared cancer-free in 2007, doctors at UCLA Medical Center told her the cancer had returned and spread to her liver, and she repeatedly sought experimental treatment in Germany.

Actor Ryan O'Neal, her longtime companion, called her cancer fight "long and brave" and said her family and friends took comfort in "the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world."

Kate Jackson called her "Charlie's Angels" costar "an inspiration" who "showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness."

"When I think of Farrah, I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile," Jackson said in a statement.

Another "Charlie's Angels" costar, Jaclyn Smith, said in a statement, "Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels."

As an actress, Fawcett was initially dismissed for her role as Jill Munroe in "Charlie's Angels," one of the "jiggle" series on ABC-TV in the late 1970s.

But she transformed her career and some popular perceptions in 1984 with "The Burning Bed," a television movie about a battered wife that brought her the first of three Emmy nominations. She further established herself as an actress in the play and later feature film “Extremities,” about a rape victim who takes revenge on her attacker.

Robert Greenwald, who directed "The Burning Bed," told The Times on Thursday, "She was incredibly gutsy, courageous and a risk-taker. She had this wonderful beauty, this very successful career and, unlike many people, she used it to open doors and take big chances."

Yet for many, the poster of her wearing a wet, one-piece swimsuit and a blinding smile endured.

"If you were to list 10 images that are evocative of American pop culture, Farrah Fawcett would be one of them," Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, told The Times. "That poster became one of the defining images of the 1970s."

Fawcett was part of a new generation of celebrities whose fame was fueled by heightened coverage of their ongoing personal dramas, Thompson said.

She had many: a failed marriage to actor Lee Majors; a stormy, long-term relationship with O'Neal; a son who fought drug addiction; a writer-director boyfriend, James Orr, who was convicted of assaulting her; a Playboy video that featured her using her naked body as a paintbrush; and a spacey 1997 appearance on David Letterman's late-night TV show that caused critics to question her mental state.

For her part, Fawcett once said all she had to do to get on the cover of People was to "have a new boyfriend or even a new dog," Texas Monthly reported in 1997.

At first, her mane nearly eclipsed her fame.

"Charlie's Angels" showcased the long, feathered tresses that framed her face, launching a national fad of copycat haircuts. Many Fawcettphiles believed the hair had as much to do with the poster's sales as anything, The Times reported in 1977.

Within six months, the poster sold five million copies, outstripping the records of such previous sex symbols as Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. It wound up selling a reported 12 million copies.

"You were a real man if you had her poster. She was our pinup girl," Mike O'Meara, a radio show host who was in high school when it came out, told the Baltimore Sun in 2006.

Fawcett quit the series that brought her initial fame in 1977 after a single season, saying producers were preventing her from growing as an actress. With Jackson and Smith, Fawcett had played a private investigator whose main talent seemed to be the ability to wield a gun while going braless and shouting, "Freeze, turkey!"

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PROFILES IN COURAGE: with her multi-colored hair in tow, A YOUNG FEMALE 12th GRADER STANDS UP TO THE LAUSD + TAS -THE SO-CALLED "ACCELERATED SCHOOL."

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CHRISTINA HOUSE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

AURORA PONCE, A 12 TH GRADE VALEDICTORIAN, SPEAKS OUT VEHEMENTLY AGAINT THE OPPRESSIVE BUREAUCRACIES OF THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE SO-CALLED TAS -THE ACCELERATED SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES, whose former teacher, COREY LAY, was previously mired by accusations of inappropriate/illegal child pornography in August of 2004. Please review the LA Times article below AND the Google link.

SHE WAS PREVENTED FROM SPEAKING AS THE SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN BECAUSE SHE UTILIZED HER FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO CRITICIZE THE ULTRA-CORRUPT CUTBACKS/POLICIES FROM THE GRUBENATOR AND THE LAZY CALIFORNIA STATE SO-CALLED ELECTED LEGISLATORS IN SACRAMENTO AND THE CAPRICIOUS SCHOOL BOARD FROM THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT...

SHAME ON YOU, LAUSD'S CORTINEZ AND THE GRUBENATOR, FOR BULLYING THIS COURAGEOUS YOUNG WOMAN AND PICKING ON HER!

VERGONIA!

WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN IS WRONG.

WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN IS ILLEGAL.

WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN IS HIGHLY IMMORAL.

ALL STUDENTS HAVE INALIENABLE RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH AS GUARANTEED BY OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION -IT IS FEDERAL LAW AND STATUTE AND CODE.

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.

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Valedictorian says Accelerated School barred her from making speech

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Aurora Ponce, 18, speaks about being barred from making her valedictory speech after participating in a student sit-in protesting increased class sizes and teacher layoffs as Arcelia Diaz, an Accelerated School parent, holds an inquiring sign.

Aurora Ponce says she was also deprived of a tutoring job she was counting on to help with coming college expenses after she took part in a protest over school cuts. Officials aren't talking.

By Seema Mehta
June 25, 2009

Aurora Ponce is senior class president, boasts a near-perfect A average and is UC-bound with plans to study engineering.

But according to the 18-year-old and her supporters, officials at the Accelerated School, a collection of South Los Angeles charter schools, have barred Ponce from making her valedictory speech at Saturday's graduation as punishment for participating in a student sit-in to protest increased class sizes and the elimination of college prep classes. They have also taken away a summer tutoring job and other honors, she said.

"I see it as retaliation," said the South Los Angeles teen. "I just want to speak during graduation."

Officials involved in the actions regarding Ponce did not return calls seeking comment. They include Patrick Judd, who is in charge of the umbrella organization that oversees the Accelerated Schools; Elizabeth Oberreiter, principal of the Wallis Annenberg High School, Ponce's campus; and Sandra Phillips, principal of the Accelerated School's K-8 school. At least one referred questions to school co-founder Johnathan Williams, who said he was not familiar with the matter and would not release student information to the media in any event.

"All I'll say is this school is doing wonderfully by the children and the families and all the rest," he said. "There's no story here. Everyone is treated fairly here at the Accelerated School and Wallis Annenberg High School."

Dozens of parents and students who protested outside the school Wednesday, many carrying posters calling for Judd's firing, disagreed.

"I'm so angry because they are abusing our kids and the parents and the teachers," said Aurelia Teodoro, whose three children attend the schools. Teodoro said one of her children, an eighth-grader, was suspended for two days for participating in the sit-in.

The Accelerated School's family of schools serves more than 1,300 students from preschool to 12th grade. They are charters, public schools that are run independently of a school district and free from some rules that govern traditional schools. Accelerated's students perform better on state standardized tests than those of many other schools with similar demographics, but they are still well below the state average.

The schools are popular, with long waiting lists for admission, but critics charge that in recent years, what was once a collaborative environment rich with teacher and parent input has given way to top-heavy management that is not responsive to parents and students and is no longer transparent in its decision-making.

These concerns, along with class sizes increasing, popular teachers departing and some college-prep offerings being eliminated, led scores of students to stage a silent sit-in May 15 outside the Annenberg auditorium.

"We, as students, we feel like we are not being heard," Ponce said. "The administration treats us like we're ignorant."

It's unclear how many students were punished, but Ponce said she was immediately escorted off campus without her parents being notified and was suspended for two days.

Other punishments have dribbled out since. She said she was not allowed to attend grad night with her classmates at Disneyland. On Wednesday, she was scheduled to give a speech at the sixth-grade commencement ceremony. Her name and her title of senior class valedictorian were printed on the program, but the administrators running the program declined to recognize her, she said.

Before heading to UC Davis in August, Ponce had planned to spend the summer tutoring students at the Jaime Escalante Tutoring Program, which will be housed on the Accelerated School campus.

She volunteered with the program last year, and now that she has taken nearly a dozen college-level courses, she said she would have been paid to tutor 25 hours a week. But Ponce said a school official recently told her the job was no longer hers.

"I'm going to college, I'm going to be broke," she said. "I was going to save that money for books. It's going to be hard."

seema.mehta@latimes.com

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

+Michael Jackson+...Nato 1958 Morte 2009....THE FINAL CURTAIN CALL.

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Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50

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