The Score Magazine - Archive August 2009 Issue | Page 14

The Score Magazine | Snide Memoriam
You love the guy
You hate the guy
Whatever!
The vicious world of entertainment
is notorious for their double-takes.
Our pick of the best verbal turn-
arounds for the moonwalker
“Michael’s life is in serious decline ..
My criticism of Michael is his self-
absorption; the whole celebrity
thing where he needs to feel like he’s
worshipped.”
- RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH, CNN -
2004.
“Now that his muse has forsaken him
to the point where relative disap-
pointments like ‘Bad’ and ‘Dangerous’
sound like half successes, he’s become
more of a fairytale figure than he ever
imagined: He’s pop’s Lost Boy.”
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S DAVID
BROWNE
– LISA MARIE PRESLEY, MICHAEL’S EX-
WIFE
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“I became very ill and emotionally ex-
hausted in my quest to save him from
self-destructive behavior and from the
awful vampires and leeches he would
always manage to magnetize around
him”