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So between Marjorie and an e-mail from a friend, I'm going to recant a bit about Paris Jackson speaking at her father's funeral.
I can’t take back that on a gut level I found the entire spectacle
off-putting, but I ought to have reminded myself that being in the
limelight can be tough, especially when you're having real feelings.
What's genuine seems staged, what's staged is supposed to be genuine,
it's hard to parse the difference, and the difference hardly matters ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Whew Willa, you offer some tricky psychoanalysis here.
None of us can say what the Jacksons were thinking on that stage with
Paris, or what they were trying to project to the YouTube audience.
What we can safely say is that despite being a dysfunctional family,
they are clearly a family in grief. I think it’s unfair to try to
interpret their intentions. Would it have been better, or more
believable, if they had not embraced Paris and just stood off to the
side and whispered to her to suck it up? Is it really that implausible
that with Michael now gone they would want to surround his children in
a protective cocoon? ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Jessica, I saw nothing cruel or exploitative
about allowing Paris Jackson to speak about her dad and I’m inclined to
believe the Jackson family didn’t force her to do so. According to
several news reports, Janet Jackson was slated to speak but let Paris
speak instead because she wanted to say something about her father. I
watched the whole thing and found the memorial to be tasteful and
well-executed, not the bizarre spectacle you describe ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Sorry Dana, but I’m with Jess on Paris. The contrasts contained in the moment of her speech, to be really eloquent about it, freaked me the eff out. Here’s a young girl, a daughter, having a genuine, raw moment of grief
and she’s surrounded by a bunch of… actors. Her authenticity was
matched in pitch only by the performativeness in the people surrounding
her ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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