I can't claim to not have found Michael bizarre & to not have mocked him in the last however many years - but I couldn't listen to Jackson 5 songs (abc 123, whatever), without reflecting on what a pure sweet innocent voice he had (or looks in the pics) and what 40 some years in the public eye corrupted him into.

I was reading the New York times yesterday - and one of the articles on Farrah Fawcett's death really irked me. Well, maybe it was 2 of them... one was about how she'd been very public with her anal cancer and how NBC or CBS (whoever did the tv show on it) had been glad to exploit it... but they'd both missed the real public safety message, which was to get the HPV vaccine because anal cancer is usually sexually transmitted. The second was...."Let's remember Farrah as someone who TRIED" ... she tried to be something other than a sex pot, and she tried very hard. Then it summarized her career & her various efforts at trying to be taken seriously.