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Sobre todo esta interesante el segundo de los articulos, donde se dice que la culpa del problema en "Heal The Kids" es del Rabino Shmuley Boteach y no de Michael.
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NBC wanted the unedited Michael Jackson tapes from his documentary last week so badly that they offered to bump tonight's Dateline for it.
Of course, tonight's Dateline is a special two-hour look at Michael Jackson. But apparently NBC wanted the material so badly they were willing to kill the Dateline show in favor of the Jackson outtakes.
NBC's executive vice president of business affairs on the West Coast, Marc Graboff, made the offer to Jackson and his team on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Graboff was acting on information sent to him by Dateline executive producer David Corvo. In a memo to Jackson's camp obtained by this column Graboff wrote: "Unlike with other networks, the acquisition of the rights to the special on NBC will have the added benefit of pre-empting NBC's planned broadcast of the one hour Dateline scheduled for February 17th."
Calls to Corvo were directed to an NBC spokesperson who said last night: "We strongly deny that. We were always going to incorporate the material."
The memo also includes a monetary offer of $5 million from NBC to Jackson's team for the rights to the outtakes and a new interview.
And even though Fox TV beat NBC to the punch and bought Jackson's version of the Martin Bashir documentary, let me state clearly right here that neither Fox nor any of its participants, employees, or relatives sent me this information. I got the info from inside sources at NBC who told me about the offer.
I wonder how the folks at Dateline will feel when they find out they were almost bumped by this other material. It would imply that NBC was so desperate to get something on Jackson that they didn't care which point of view it expressed -- theirs or his.
In last Friday's New York Times, NBC entertainment and news chief Jeff Zucker said, "Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him." But evidently it's an accident that NBC wanted very much to be in on. So did ABC, for that matter.
According to my sources, an ABC vice president was in the process of flying out to Los Angeles to make a pitch to the Jackson people as well when Fox won the bidding war.
Interestingly, none of the participants balked at the involvement of Jackson's friend and producer, F. Marc Schaffel, who also produced Jackson's never released "What More Can I Give" project. Schaffel, a former director and producer of porno films, has been used a few times as excuses for people pulling out of Jackson projects.
But Schaffel claims to have left the business three years ago while many video directors like Gregory Dark still work in the industry while making videos for the likes of Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, LFO, Ice Cube and the Counting Crows.
Jacko Charity Trouble: Spitzer Should Call Shmuley
A story ran on The Associated Press Friday that New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer had questions about Michael Jackson's charity called Time for Kids, or Heal the Kids.
Mr. Spitzer, if you read this column, you'd know all about it. We've been writing about Jackson's charities for two years. But let me fill you in.
Heal the Kids was launched in 2000 with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who runs something called the L'Chaim Society. Boteach was investigated by the British Charitable Commission for misusing funds from the Oxford L'Chaim Society in the United Kingdom. He was bounced from that group, and the rabbinate took away his right to have a pulpit, according to published stories.
The L'Chaim Society told this column they had nothing to do with him long after Boteach continued to use their name as his calling card.
Exactly two years ago -- Feb. 14, 2001 -- Jackson and Boteach put on a crazy night at Carnegie Hall that was a forum on "children's rights." They only filled three-fourths of the hall, and charged $40 a ticket.
The lecture group they did this through no longer exists. And once the money was collected, there was never any sign of it again. Or a record. Soon after, this column exposed Boteach, and Jackson parted company with him.
We asked where the Carnegie Hall money went a long time ago. No one ever answered. Where do things stand today?
For one thing, Jackson's original charity, the Heal the World Foundation, no longer exists. So we can excuse him for the Carnegie money. He probably thinks Shmuley took care of it.
The Oxford L'Chaim Society filed an annual financial report with the IRS for the year ending Dec. 31, 2001. They didn't file until Nov. 15, 2002. Their financial officer, who signs the papers, is Deborah Boteach, Shmuley's wife.
The charity -- it's unclear what they do -- claimed total revenue of $38,384. Was that the Carnegie money? Who knows?
The group's expenses, however, came to $85,547. You do the math. They were in the red for $47,163. There is no breakdown for salaries or other expenses.
But for the previous year, L'Chaim Society claimed it had a total of $140,000 in salaries including one lump sum of $117,000 -- possibly Shmuley's pay. This came from public support of over $200,000. It's unclear whether or not this was the Carnegie Hall money. But L'Chaim Society did have personal donations from anonymous donors totaling almost that much.
If Spitzer's office wants to investigate something, going after Jackson is the wrong approach. The answers are all in the papers of Shmuley Boteach. Spitzer should follow the British Charitable Commission's lead. Jackson has a lot of problems. This is one thing that is not his
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78742,00.html
Sobre todo esta interesante el segundo de los articulos, donde se dice que la culpa del problema en "Heal The Kids" es del Rabino Shmuley Boteach y no de Michael.
http://pub20.ezboard.com/fkingofpopdiscussionnewsandreviews.showMessage?topicID=14105.topic
NBC wanted the unedited Michael Jackson tapes from his documentary last week so badly that they offered to bump tonight's Dateline for it.
Of course, tonight's Dateline is a special two-hour look at Michael Jackson. But apparently NBC wanted the material so badly they were willing to kill the Dateline show in favor of the Jackson outtakes.
NBC's executive vice president of business affairs on the West Coast, Marc Graboff, made the offer to Jackson and his team on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Graboff was acting on information sent to him by Dateline executive producer David Corvo. In a memo to Jackson's camp obtained by this column Graboff wrote: "Unlike with other networks, the acquisition of the rights to the special on NBC will have the added benefit of pre-empting NBC's planned broadcast of the one hour Dateline scheduled for February 17th."
Calls to Corvo were directed to an NBC spokesperson who said last night: "We strongly deny that. We were always going to incorporate the material."
The memo also includes a monetary offer of $5 million from NBC to Jackson's team for the rights to the outtakes and a new interview.
And even though Fox TV beat NBC to the punch and bought Jackson's version of the Martin Bashir documentary, let me state clearly right here that neither Fox nor any of its participants, employees, or relatives sent me this information. I got the info from inside sources at NBC who told me about the offer.
I wonder how the folks at Dateline will feel when they find out they were almost bumped by this other material. It would imply that NBC was so desperate to get something on Jackson that they didn't care which point of view it expressed -- theirs or his.
In last Friday's New York Times, NBC entertainment and news chief Jeff Zucker said, "Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him." But evidently it's an accident that NBC wanted very much to be in on. So did ABC, for that matter.
According to my sources, an ABC vice president was in the process of flying out to Los Angeles to make a pitch to the Jackson people as well when Fox won the bidding war.
Interestingly, none of the participants balked at the involvement of Jackson's friend and producer, F. Marc Schaffel, who also produced Jackson's never released "What More Can I Give" project. Schaffel, a former director and producer of porno films, has been used a few times as excuses for people pulling out of Jackson projects.
But Schaffel claims to have left the business three years ago while many video directors like Gregory Dark still work in the industry while making videos for the likes of Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, LFO, Ice Cube and the Counting Crows.
Jacko Charity Trouble: Spitzer Should Call Shmuley
A story ran on The Associated Press Friday that New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer had questions about Michael Jackson's charity called Time for Kids, or Heal the Kids.
Mr. Spitzer, if you read this column, you'd know all about it. We've been writing about Jackson's charities for two years. But let me fill you in.
Heal the Kids was launched in 2000 with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who runs something called the L'Chaim Society. Boteach was investigated by the British Charitable Commission for misusing funds from the Oxford L'Chaim Society in the United Kingdom. He was bounced from that group, and the rabbinate took away his right to have a pulpit, according to published stories.
The L'Chaim Society told this column they had nothing to do with him long after Boteach continued to use their name as his calling card.
Exactly two years ago -- Feb. 14, 2001 -- Jackson and Boteach put on a crazy night at Carnegie Hall that was a forum on "children's rights." They only filled three-fourths of the hall, and charged $40 a ticket.
The lecture group they did this through no longer exists. And once the money was collected, there was never any sign of it again. Or a record. Soon after, this column exposed Boteach, and Jackson parted company with him.
We asked where the Carnegie Hall money went a long time ago. No one ever answered. Where do things stand today?
For one thing, Jackson's original charity, the Heal the World Foundation, no longer exists. So we can excuse him for the Carnegie money. He probably thinks Shmuley took care of it.
The Oxford L'Chaim Society filed an annual financial report with the IRS for the year ending Dec. 31, 2001. They didn't file until Nov. 15, 2002. Their financial officer, who signs the papers, is Deborah Boteach, Shmuley's wife.
The charity -- it's unclear what they do -- claimed total revenue of $38,384. Was that the Carnegie money? Who knows?
The group's expenses, however, came to $85,547. You do the math. They were in the red for $47,163. There is no breakdown for salaries or other expenses.
But for the previous year, L'Chaim Society claimed it had a total of $140,000 in salaries including one lump sum of $117,000 -- possibly Shmuley's pay. This came from public support of over $200,000. It's unclear whether or not this was the Carnegie Hall money. But L'Chaim Society did have personal donations from anonymous donors totaling almost that much.
If Spitzer's office wants to investigate something, going after Jackson is the wrong approach. The answers are all in the papers of Shmuley Boteach. Spitzer should follow the British Charitable Commission's lead. Jackson has a lot of problems. This is one thing that is not his
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78742,00.html
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