Jacksons thank Harry Connick Jr for sticking up for them on ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’
By ANISaturday, October 10, 2009
MELBOURNE - Late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s brothers have thanked American singer Harry Connick Jr for sticking up for their family on ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’.
A Red Faces skit featuring black faces had left Harry Connick Jr uncomfortable on the reunion, reports the Herald Sun.
But Marlon, Tito and Jackie Jackson also said that they felt the Red Faces impersonation, which had left the world aghast, was not a personal attack on them.
The sketch where six Sydney doctors of mixed ethnic background donned wigs and blackface make-up to perform The Jacksons’ hit ‘Can You Feel It’ has been widely condemned in America where blackface is associated with racist minstrel shows of the 19th century.
Connick, 42, from New Orleans, was a guest judge on Red Faces when the sketch was performed and was visibly upset.
Host Daryl Somers later offered him an apology, and Connick thanked him for being gracious enough to allow him to speak out against the sketch on live air. (ANI)
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April 6, 2010: 1:04 pm
Just remember Australia! Connick Jr. is not a native of New Orleans. He’s a rich phoney from Weston, Connecticut, where he attended public school from 1970-1982. He has a career in show business only because his real father was never the D.A. of New Orleans: He is or was one of the presidents of Sony Music and a stockholder in Sony Pictures, hence his less-than-talented son’s career choice. The father himself had a career in show business and even appeared in a film with M. Monroe and Y. Montand entitled “Let’s Make Love’. Read the credits Down There! |
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