Sorry, but I am getting disenchanted w/ Solons' writers and attitudes.

This memorial/funeral was beautiful. Just plain beautiful. It was classy and also extremely personal, and they made those watching, (those who cared and were not just there because of a press pass...) but for the rest of us little people out here, we truly felt a part of this, feeling the families grief, and sharing in what a great humanitarian Michael Jackson was. Ever listen to his songs? The words? Can you understand the points he was trying to get across? He touched so many people, and this is why so many of us cared and were honored to be able to feel apart of his "goodbye".

For those who still want to slam him, remember this, #1 he was human and had faults like the rest of us, also, yes he was eccentric as anyone living that kind of life would be, but he was never ever convicted of a single crime. None. Even the one who had accused him in the 90's and got millions, came out just a week ago and said his dad had forced him to do that, that Michael was 100% innocent. The trial a few years ago, was ridiculous, and this man was dragged over the coals, accused of everything, and none of it held up in court. None. Imagine yourself, accused and having to go broke defending yourself because of ego trips, gold diggers and media slander. Imagine it. If you still find it justified to slander this man, I hope even a smidgen of what you dish out, comes back at you. You deserve it.

and let's hope Fraudulent Franken is having fun.

Look, a shiny object! Go chase after it!

Jacko had not been Black for quite a while. About the only worse Black Role Model would be OJ.

Considering who is presently in the Oval Office, there's really no excuse for that.

A totally boring report with nothing to say. Shallow, vapid, meaningless.

Thank God for sweet children who love their parents. May each of us have such a child to speak well of us, when we die. Period.

Well Mariah Carey was there, so right off the bat it's disqualified as "classy" by any stretch of the imagination.

It was a money-grubbing family trying squeeze a few more bucks out of there cash cow and assorted has-beens pushing their way in front of a camera.

Classy would have been a quiet private service. The circus is many things, "classy" isn't one of them. And yesterday the elephants arrived before the clowns.

Okay, so another take from another media person on this entire scenario. So what. Who cares. I lived through the MJ era and no doubt he had and was an incredible talent all on his own, without his family. It is only tragic he chose to go down roads he should not have. And again, this is a person who made his mark in the entertainment world, he had "people" supposedly to advise and to guide him not only in business matters but also of a personal nature. Just where were those highly-paid so-called "advisers" when he first started the drug taking and the surgery, etc. Again, another tragedy that someone did not speak out and get this man help. I am no great fan of Michael Jackson but I certainly respect his talent and his abilities and his love of life and the fact he was able to live the majority of his life as he wished and be the child-like boy-man he smurfed into. It is one thing to dream of a wonderful childhood, another to live it, on-going, even to age 50. The only negative I hae about yesterday's events were this:

1. Why did Mariah Carey feel she had to apologize for her singing performance? And could she perhaps have dressed down a tad and not flashed her breasts in her low-cut gown, this was a funeral after all.

2. Why do people who know nothing about the family or Michael's children see fit to point fingers and say the daughter's short words at her dad's funeral were "staged". I don't believe that was the case.

3. Any why did all those people, family, entertainers, etc., feel the need to keep their shades on, indoors no less! Give me a break with the shades already. Only Stevie Wonder deserved to wear the dark glasses.

4. And quit bringing the racial element into this situation. So MJ was black, so he was partially white, so what! Rspect the man for his talents and respect his memory.

And furthermore, what's with the jab at Maya Angelou? Yes, her ubiquity can grow tiresome, but she is a powerful and poignant writer who does not deserve that disrespect.

As far as the service being weird, comparing against what I saw on TV yesterday, my own Grandma's funeral was more bizarre. I thought the service was an appropriate and respectful send-off for the King of Pop.

I'm sad for people who never experienced MJ's music the way that I did. Over the last few weeks I've remembered times that my whole family laughed together trying to moonwalk, and as an adult after a bad day, I still dance it off to Beat It. I never thought I'd be this sad over a celebrity death, but this one is really getting me.

RIP MJ

Not nearly as crowded or wild as expected by whom? A "somber" service for someone DIED, yes, how "strange."

This author is showing once again it's lack of depth. How unfortunate for the author to have missed the good and delibertly looked for the dark side and couldn't find it so in it's extreme disappointment tried unsuccessfully to put it's hateful slant on the purety of the event. So much darkness in her heart and troubled mind. So sorry you need help for your invalidating spirit. Just didn't work here. You need a blood test and a good dose of ddt.

for your superiors. We trolls will soon rule the world from under the bridge.

Michael's glad he bleached his skin so his ghost would be white.