Rants and raves from around the celebrosphere

The Jacksons were presented with the Lifetime Achievement BMI Icon Award earlier this month during the BMI Urban Awards held in Los Angeles.

Resembling a Manson Family reunion, Jermaine, Tito, Randy, Jackie, Marlon, LaToya, Janet, Rebbie, and mother Katherine and father Joseph were all together in one room. Janet presented the award to her brothers, who gained fame in the late 1960s as the Jackson 5, then later as simply The Jacksons.

“It’s a great honor to know your music influenced a generation,” Tito said. “We’re very proud of this moment.”

I guess we can’t use the Clark Kent argument: Since there are photos of the event showing all of the Jacksons in the same picture, we can no longer argue that LaToya, Janet, Michael and Jermaine are actually all the same person. (We already know Tito is a different person; he is big enough to be about five LaToyas or Michaels.)

Well, almost. Once again, family patriarch Michael was a no-show. We are wondering if, because it was an evening geared at adults, he felt no need to go.

Marlon Jackson put it even better.

“I don’t know (where Michael is). I think he’s in Egypt riding a camel or something.”

We could not have put it better ourselves.

But we’ll try.

Since he now resembles not only a space alien, but a disfigured space alien, what is the point of traveling all over the world? Everyone knows what he looks like, who he is, and what he did.

Michael should have spent a day at the beach, gotten a tan, and then gone to the BMI Urban Awards with his family. It would be a good reminder that he is a grown man.

An African American grown man. An African American grown man who needs to convince people at some point to buy a few of his records, so that he can actually have something to retire on; a little cash to rent out those Egyptian camels.