#3 True story: Two weeks after 9/11, my sister traveled to NYC for a conference. My mom and I tagged along for the weekend. The city was so quiet and the agony still hung in the air. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis, and since the hotel was so empty, we had a room overlooking Times Square. The rest of the hotel was given over to FEMA and Red Cross employees, as well as dozens of men and women wearing Deloitte & Touche badges. I originally thought that they were part of my sister's conference, but found out later that they had lost their offices at WTC and were renting the bottom four floors of the hotel. They took out all the beds and brought in desks and phones.
The mood as you may guess was very somber. Times Square was so subdued, with the NASDAQ stock quote ticker thingy urging us to give blood, and missing persons flyers everywhere. Nathan Lane and the other B'way performers did a song-n-dance thing right in the middle of the square to ask folks to please come see some shows, and outside my hotel window was a hundred-foot long banner for "Michael Jackson: Invincible".
A few months later he was whining that no one bought his crappy album because of racism. Any bad thin that's happened to him since 1984, he's earned. What a loathesome person. I am so glad I never spent even one penny on Michael Jackson anything. |
World’s top pop singer Michael Jackson, who recently settled down in Manama has donated a huge amount of money, the figure was not disclosed, for building a state-of-the-art mosque near his luxury palace in the Bahraini capital, according to his spokesman. The proposed mosque would be designated for learning the principles and teachings of Islam, as well as teaching of English language, for which high-standard teachers would be brought from United States under his personal supervision, the spokesman said.