Michael Jackson turns 50, shadow of a superstar
August 30th, 2008 | by admin |By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Michael Jackson turned 50>
Unlike Madonna’s 50th birthday bash and launch of another world tour earlier this month, the singer who wishes he was Peter Pan appears to have no special celebrations planned and a much-touted musical comeback has so far come to nothing.
A semi-recluse since his harrowing 2007 trial and acquittal>
In a telephone interview with ABC television program “Good Morning America,” Jackson said he will “just have a little cake with my children and watch some cartoons,” and he added that he feels “very wise and sage, but at the same time very young.
Recent pictures of Jackson in Las Vegas showed him dressed in pajamas and slippers, and>
Long-time Jackson family friend and lawyer Brian Oxman told Reuters the singer sometimes used the wheelchair to get around unobserved. “It is not an indication of any health problems. It is an effort to be unseen,” he said.
Oxman added that for the 50th birthday, “no-one is planning anything special. He is just being quiet these days.”
Billboard senior music analyst Geoff Mayfield saw nothing unusual in Jackson’s low-key birthday. “I don’t think our celebrities are real hot>Continued…
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