Michael Jackson’s legacy won’t be decided in court (Los Angeles Times)
No lawyer or handler can guide the transition from celebrity to myth. Just ask Presley, Monroe, Custer and Dillinger. On Aug. 16, 1977, the day Elvis Presley died, folklorist William R. Ferris remembers that in Memphis "it was like the ground began to shake." Within hours, hundreds of pilgrims had descended on Graceland, and the process by which a beloved public personage is transformed into a ...