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A conversation on celebrity, race, pedophilia and the Church sex abuse scandal
by Mirlande Jeanlouis and Tom Gibbons CSP
The sudden death of Michael Jackson this past summer took the world by surprise and led to spontaneous fan tributes around the globe and countless conversations about the King of Pop's place in popular culture. Many of those conversations are bound to be revisited with the release this week of This Is It, a film that promises behind the scenes footage of Jackson's final days as he was preparing for sold out London concerts. While many of the discussions sparked by his passing have dealt with his enormous ...
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