If I land anywhere on the did he/didn't he it is on the side of him being an adult child who just never grew up. I guess my thoughts are similar to Squirrel in that he lived his childhood once he became an adult. I mean how many of us think or react to things based on something that happened to us as teens and children. I know sometimes I do. Something will happen and I realize that the inner child is the one reacting not the adult. For me and I think most of us, we have people around us and our own internal monitors that allow us to realize what we are doing. I just don't think he had that. "Extreme celebrity is something none of us can even begin to imagine." The closest experience I had to this is when I traveled to China in March. Black folk are definitely not the norm and everytime me and my son went out (either alone or together) people would stare, sometimes laugh as well as trying to take our picture. If I stopped even for a minute a crowd would soon gather around me and ask questions and/or ask if they could take pictures. I must say midway through my trip there were times I would seriously think about whether I wanted to go out because of it. Many times people would ask my DS if they could take his picture and if he said yes, suddenly there would be a line a mile long of people who wanted to take his picture with him. Others would take pictures of the people taking pictures of him. In the beginning when they asked me I said yes but after awhile I began to say no because once you said yes you could be there sometimes up to 30 minutes or more taking pictures. After awhile I just felt uncomfortable and said no. That experience gave me just a small glimpse into what it must be like to be a famous celebrity. Towards the end I would sometimes think twice about going out because of it mainly because it was relentless and it did get tiring. Of course I totally understood why, we were not the norm. I guess what I'm saying is if my experience caused me to react this way, imagine living your life like that everyday. Maybe you just want to go for a walk but you can't because the minute you step outside you become an instant attraction. Just another POV.

Some things are so serious that you need to pay heed to the rumors even if the person never went to court. I was sitting with a couple of women discussing restaurants in town. One of them mentioned a "certain" restaurant and I told them that the owner was thought to be a pedophile. A waitress who worked there for years told me he was taken to court for molesting a child. One woman said, why would you say that about someone who was not found guilty in a court of law? I said, "because he had over night parties for kids at his home". Now why would a bachelor do that. I said rumors or truth, it doesn't matter, would you let your grand kids stay overnight there, even if it was a rumor and unproven in court. The other lady said, "my grandchild went to one of those parties". She was white as a sheet and said I wish I had known about the rumor.

Unbelievable. Farrah suffered so long, and poor Michael fought his own demons.

Awesomely cool. As a flutist, I truly enjoy bottle blowing and now I want to go do that. Dang.