Driving to a clients house this afternoon, I hear a DJ at some top 40 station talking about (duh) Michael Jackson. Specifically, how the people behind the new movie "Bruno" ( released the same day as Jackson's death) cut out a scene from the movie that had Latoya Jackson in out, "out of respect for the family". The DJ commented on the amazingly quick editing skills, and then added "obviously this was the right thing to do".

uh... seriously?

So, let me get this straight... it's perfectly good taste to:

Stalk and photograph every surviving Jackson family member wherever they go.
Eagerly find and promote the 911 call from Jackson's house.
Exploit his death by shamelessly promoting memorabilia and "tribute" items and programing on every possible media outlet.
Huddle around the computer screen awaiting the gory details of his dissected still-warm corpse...

But, show a completely unrelated movie with a completely unrelated scene in it featuring his sister?
No, THAT'S over the line. THAT'S "in bad taste".

What the frak is wrong with us?


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EDIT:

Entertainment Weekly describes the scene:

Ms. Jackson, who did not appear to be in on the joke, gamely tried to answer Bruno's questions even as he interrogated her about her brother Michael and tried surreptitiously to find Michael's number on her cellphone. The scene ended, as most things in Bruno's world do, with a moment of raw, funny discomfort.

Ok... so that would be a creepy scene to leave in.