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01-30-2002, 03:35 PM
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Michael Jackson wants global children's holiday
Reuters
Jan 30 2002 6:01PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson thinks children are so cool that the world should set aside an annual holiday to celebrate them.
"There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day," he said in the upcoming cover story of Vibe magazine.
"It would mean a lot. It really would. World peace. I hope that our next generation will get to see a peaceful world, not the way things are going now."
Jackson, 43, who has two children of his own, paid a multimillion-dollar settlement in early 1994 to resolve an accusation of child molestation. He often surrounds himself with tykes, and buses in terminally ill children to play at his sprawling Neverland Valley ranch north of Los Angeles.
In the Vibe interview, he said he unwinds by holding water-balloon fights involving slings and cannons in a fort on his property.
One water-balloon fight with children in Germany left him so happy that he immediately ran upstairs in their house and wrote a song, "Speechless," which appears on his new album, "Invincible."
On life as a single parent of five-year-old son Prince and three-year-old daughter Paris, Jackson said he has never had so much fun in his life.
"Because I am this big kid, and now I get to see the world through the eyes of the really young ones. I learn more from them than they learn from me."
The Vibe issue will reach newsstands Feb. 5.
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"My review of 2001 the year is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey- overlong, hard to follow, and only enjoyable if you're really really stoned." - Lewis Black
"a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"- joseph stalin
Michael Jackson wants global children's holiday
Reuters
Jan 30 2002 6:01PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson thinks children are so cool that the world should set aside an annual holiday to celebrate them.
"There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day," he said in the upcoming cover story of Vibe magazine.
"It would mean a lot. It really would. World peace. I hope that our next generation will get to see a peaceful world, not the way things are going now."
Jackson, 43, who has two children of his own, paid a multimillion-dollar settlement in early 1994 to resolve an accusation of child molestation. He often surrounds himself with tykes, and buses in terminally ill children to play at his sprawling Neverland Valley ranch north of Los Angeles.
In the Vibe interview, he said he unwinds by holding water-balloon fights involving slings and cannons in a fort on his property.
One water-balloon fight with children in Germany left him so happy that he immediately ran upstairs in their house and wrote a song, "Speechless," which appears on his new album, "Invincible."
On life as a single parent of five-year-old son Prince and three-year-old daughter Paris, Jackson said he has never had so much fun in his life.
"Because I am this big kid, and now I get to see the world through the eyes of the really young ones. I learn more from them than they learn from me."
The Vibe issue will reach newsstands Feb. 5.
[/quote]
"My review of 2001 the year is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey- overlong, hard to follow, and only enjoyable if you're really really stoned." - Lewis Black
"a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"- joseph stalin