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Topic：http://Tricky Steps From Boy to Superstar
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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/ ... .html?_r=1
Which Michael Jackson will be remembered? The unsurpassed entertainer, the gifted and driven song-and-dance man who wielded rhythm, melody, texture and image to create and promote the best-selling album of all time, “Thriller”? Or the bizarre figure he became after he failed in his stated ambition to outsell “Thriller,” and after the gleaming fantasy gave way to tabloid revelations, bitter rejoinders and the long public silence he was scheduled to break next month?
In the end, the superstar and the recluse were not so far apart.
Mr. Jackson built his stardom on paradox. As a child star he was precocious; as an adult he was childlike. His only competition was himself. Within the razzle-dazzle of his songs, he sang about fears and uncertainties in that high, vulnerable voice: flinching from monsters in “Thriller,” wishing he could just “Beat It” when trouble began.
He was a racial paradox, too: an African-American whose audience was never segregated, but whose features grew more Caucasian and whose skin grew lighter through his career, to discomfiting effect. His own face had become a mask.
All of Mr. Jackson’s show-business skills — the ones he learned under his father’s sometimes brutal instruction and then within the Motown Records hitmaking assembly line — were at once a way to please the broadest possible audience and to shield himself from them, safe within his own spectacle.
Questions:
1.Are you familiar with Mr. Jackson? please describe him.
2.Have you heard "Triller", the best selling album, how do you feel ? what kind of song is your favorite?
3.Do you agree the plastic surgery can solve many problems such as lat noses? what's your opinion of Mr. Jackson about his skin and noses?
4.What Mr. Jackson meant to you? What does he affect the whole world?
5.Do you think he can complete the shows in London this summer, if Mr. Jackson don't pass away?
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