这期的 Entertainment Weekly 封面是MJ 在网路上看到部分内容 访问了一些参与 This is it 的工作人员，还有AEG老板 Randy Phillips 但看了後感觉还是一团迷雾啊 其中一篇︰http://tinyurl.com/yh5njmh How Jackson fought for Dr. Conard Murray MJ 替 Dr. Conard Murray 说话 Though outsiders wondered whether Michael Jackson could pull off the physically grueling task of mounting 50 concerts, Jackson’s collaborators were reassured as they watched some of the world’s best young dancers struggle to match his moves. Still, the pop star did look awfully thin. “I was always handing him Boost drinks and meal-replacement things,” says choreographer Travis Payne. “We all encouraged him to eat as much as he could. But at the same time, I understand: When you eat a lot and then you dance, it hurts. It was all for his art, I think.” 虽然外界一直质疑MJ的体能是否可承受50场演唱会的挑战，但MJ的合作夥伴强调，他们看 到这世界上最好的年轻舞者需要很努力才能跟得上MJ的舞步。不过，MJ看来非常瘦。“我 一直给他补充能量的饮料和代餐。”编舞者 Travis Payne 说︰“我们鼓励他尽量多吃。 但我也了解︰当你吃很多而又要跳舞时，你会很不舒服。我想，这都是为了他的表演。” Jackson had insisted on retaining a full-time private physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who was paid through the show’s budget to oversee his medical needs. Dr. Murray is now the focus of a manslaughter investigation. “Michael was very confident in the doctor,” Randy Phillips, president of concert promotion firm AEG Live, says. “I actually tried to talk him out of hiring him. I didn’t want to spend $150,000 a month on a doctor, since we were playing in London, which has phenomenal medical resources. It was the first time Michael and I had cross words with each other. He admonished me that he needed a doctor 24/7, the same way Barack Obama did, because his body is what fuels this whole business. Michael prevailed on that. And I guess, looking back, we know why.” MJ坚持要请一位全职私人医师，Dr. Conrad Murray，由演唱会的预算来支付其薪水。 Dr. Murray现正被调查中。“Michael很信任这位医师。”AEG的总裁Randy Phillips 说︰“我曾试着要让他解雇他。我不想一个月花$150,000请一位医师，我们要去伦敦 表演，那里有很好的医疗资源。这是Michael和我第一次意见不合。但他告诉我他真 的一周7天、一天24小时都需要医师，像Obama一样，因为他的身体就是就是这整个 事业体的基础。他说动我了。不过我猜，现在再回头看，我们知道为什麽了。” （这是说MJ乱用处方药？麻醉药吗？） 另一篇︰http://tinyurl.com/yfw6o5l Michael Jackson's collaborators share new details of pop star's final days MJ的合作夥伴分享他最後时日的一些细节 In interviews for this week’s EW cover story on This Is It, Michael Jackson’ s collaborators shared new details about the pop star’s final rehearsals for his planned comeback concerts and the day the shocking news of his death broke. Throughout the rehearsals, those around Jackson were often concerned about his health but didn’t see any major cause for alarm. Choreographer Travis Payne remembers, “Michael would come in and say, ‘I didn’t sleep last night.’ But then we’d be on set and you’d see he had his A-game, so you didn’t really question it.” As for Jackson’s apparent prescription drug abuse, director Kenny Ortega says, “Honestly, we were clueless.” 在整个预演的过程中，MJ身边的人都担心他的健康，但没人看到任何重大警讯。 编舞者 Travis Payne回忆︰“Michael会进来然後说︰‘我昨晚都没睡。’但当我们 开始工作时，你又可以看到他表现一级棒，所以没有人真的怀疑些什麽。”至於MJ的 处方药滥用问题，导演 Kenny Ortega 说︰“老实说，我们一点线索都没有。” On June 25, when Jackson was rushed by paramedics to UCLA Medical Center, Randy Phillips, the president of the concert promotion firm AEG Live, followed the ambulance and watched as the emergency room team tried to save his life. “I’ll never forget this: There were all these people running around, frantically trying to revive him. [Jackson's personal physician] Dr. Murray was in there, and he was completely a mess. A nurse came out and said, ‘Where is Mrs. Jackson?’ Michael’s parents weren’t there yet — they’d gotten lost. They’d gone to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. The nurse said, ‘He’s on life support.’ I said, ‘What exactly does that mean?’ She told us he was brain dead but still breathing.” Phillips says he himself informed Jackson’s children of their father’s death. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever lived through. I’ll never forget the look of fear in their faces.” 这段谈到6/25 MJ送医的情况，不细翻了。 As doctors struggled in vain to save the singer, his collaborators on the concerts were waiting anxiously at L.A.’s Staples Center and trying to sort rumor from fact. The plan that day had been to rehearse a David Copperfield-style illusion that would serve as a transition between the songs “Dirty Diana” and “Beat It.” When the irrefutable news of Jackson’s death finally came, says Payne, “There was just this general feeling of numbness. People didn’t know how to process it.” 当医师在抢救MJ的生命时，他演唱会的合作夥伴正在 LA 的 Staples Center 焦急的等 待，想厘清谣言与事实。那天原本的计画是要排演一场 David Copperfield 式的幻觉秀， 作为“Dirty Diana”和“Beat It”两首歌中间的过场。当MJ逝世的消息传来， Payne 说︰“就只有麻木的感觉，大家都不知道怎麽办才好。” In the weeks and months that followed, those closest to Jackson were still struggling to make sense of his death — and his often troubled life. “I was in awe of his talent, but at the same time I pitied him, because I felt his life was so unfulfilled,” says Phillips. “He had been almost chased into this isolation.” Says Payne, “I knew Michael led a very lonely life at times, just because of the nature of who he was. But I choose to focus on the fact that now Michael is not suffering. Now he doesn’t have this daily struggle he had to be who he was. And the world is going to have his music and his art forever.” 之後的几周、几个月，这些和MJ亲近的人都在努力适应他已过世的事实。“我钦佩他 的天赋，但同时，我也替他感到可怜，因为我觉得他的人生很不圆满。”Phillips这麽 说。而 Payne 说︰“他几乎是被驱赶到这样一个孤独的状态的。我知道 Michael 有时 候过着非常孤独的生活，而这都是因为他是MJ的关系。但我想要专心想着一件事，那就 是︰Michael 现在不用再受苦了。他现在不用再为他是MJ的事情而日日挣扎。而世人会 永远怀念他的音乐和艺术。” --

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