We have spoken out in horror against Michael Jackson's inexplicable, unforgivable baby dangle - don't forget to enter the caption contest.
Jacko has apologized for the incident - not forgiven freak boy - but USA Today notes that this is just the latest in a very long line of strange behavior. By the way, I don't much care about strange, but I do care about dangerous, and he has proved himself to be dangerous to children:
- * 1981. First indication of plastic surgery — slightly more definition on the tip of his nose. By some published or broadcast estimates (including one by sister LaToya), Jackson has had up to eight surgeries on his nose alone.
* 1983. Around the release of Thriller, more work on the nose, and the first noticeable lightening of his complexion.
* January 1984. Hair catches fire during filming of Pepsi commercial. Also that year, eyelid surgery, and for the American Music Awards, he takes 13-year-old TV star Emmanuel Lewis and Brooke Shields to the awards, and carries Lewis onstage.
* 1986. Introduces Bubbles the chimp, who has matching outfits and his own bodyguard. Before Bubbles eventually finds a home at a zoo, Jackson insists that the chimp attend recording sessions for Bad. Also that year, Jackson plants a phony story in The National Enquirer about his life-prolonging catnaps in a hyperbaric chamber.
* May 1987. Attempts to buy, for up to $1 million, the skeleton of John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed Elephant Man of the 19th century.
* 1988. Surgery to install a cleft in his chin.
* 1990. Takes Madonna to the Oscars. It's a baaaaaaad date. Her on him: ''A wimp.'' Him on her: ''A heifer.'' First reports of his wearing surgical masks in public.
* 1991. Puts 11-year-old Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin in a music video; also accompanies Culkin on vacation in Bermuda and visit to Disney World.
* February 1993. In interview with Oprah Winfrey, says his lightened skin is the result of vitiligo, a skin disorder.
* September 1993. A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles accuses Jackson with sexual battery, claiming the singer seduced and abused a 13-year-old boy. In August, Elizabeth Taylor rushes to his side in Singapore. He hosts a tea party for her at which the only other guests reportedly are six orangutans.
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