Farrah and 'Bea' should certainly have been included this segment of the show, but it's highly illogical to suggest this is somehow Michael Jackson's fault.

This is just another media created story to tag Michael's Jackson's name into some sort of cheap 'face-off' with Farrah to garner hits and comments.

Rather predictably, we have all taken the bait.

While the press are falling over themselves to cover this 'debate' - where were they when British journalist Charles Thomson's interview with Jennifer Batten story broke?

For those that don't know: Jennifer Batten, Jackson's long-standing guitarist who was present on all three of Jackson's solo tours, went on record a week ago to completely refute Gene Simmons's recent accusations about Michael Jackson's alleged misconduct on tour - as being totally false.

This story was effectively silenced by the press. For those that don't like having their access to information manipulated and denied, please go to:

Why is Michael Jackson's inclusion in the Oscar's In Memoriam, a reason for Farrah's exclusion?

Farrah and 'Bea' should certainly have been included this segment of the show, but can anyone not see that it's highly illogical to suggest this is somehow Michael Jackson's fault.

This is just another media created story to tag Michael's Jackson's name into some sort of cheap 'face-off' with Farrah, to garner hits and comments. And, rather predictably, everyone has taken the bait.

While the press are falling over themselves to cover this 'debate' - where were they when British journalist Charles Thomson's interview with Jennifer Batten story broke?

For those that don't know: Jennifer Batten, Jackson's long-standing guitarist who was present on all three of Jackson's solo tours, went on record a week ago to completely refute Gene Simmons's recent accusations about Michael Jackson's alleged misconduct on tour - as being totally false.

This story was effectively silenced by the press. For those that don't like having their access to information manipulated and denied, please go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-thomson/michael-jackson-its-time_b...

- and read a real story.

MJ knows nothing about This is it, and I sure hope it is!

I was really pissed that they did'nt mention Farrah, they sure mentioned MJ, and they passed away the same day. A beatiful woman, who did so many wonderful things, and a pervert. We will never watch it again period.

Michael has been in eight feature films, besides he's DEAD, how the hell is it his fault that Farrah wasnt included, people can be so ignorant its unbelieveable. He was an actor although he was not primarily known for that because he was the worlds biggest entertainer. But you cant say he doesnt belong their as much as Farrah, The academy should have made the segment a bit longer cut a few speeches short. Blame the academy not MJ , give the man a break ,hasnt he suffered enough because of the media bloodsuckers and public haters when he was alive?.Geez.

1978 The Wiz
1986 Captain EO
1988 Moonwalker
1997 Ghosts
2002 Men in Black II
2004 Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls
2009 Michael Jackson's This Is It

Michael Jackson's "This is it" film is the highest grossing documentary of all time making 260 million dollars surpassing michael moores farenheight 9/11 that made 222.6 million. so yes he does deserve to be there. RIP to them Both.

also missing was Henry Gibson, he was in "Nashville", "The Long Goodbye", "The Blues Brothers", "The Burbs", "Magnolia", and "The Wedding Crashers", among many others..he was a very talented character actor

Actually, Montalban passed away last January.

Ricardo Montalban was also left out.

How about the first three people who couldn't be seen at all to the TV audience because they were focusing on the very much alive, James Taylor. No offense to him, of course.

I'm thinking Farrah is in heaven totally unconcerned about the oscars. Let the dead bury the dead.

If they really wanted to make it a dignified salute, they would mute the audience applause.

They DID attempt to rectify the stage vs. screen situation, though--they just weren't completely successful. On stage they had one main image and two side images. Once they switched to the full-screen view (after losing the first 2 or 3 people in the live shot), they showed the main image at the top of the screen (with annoying reflections on its left and right) with the two other images below it. So the home audience saw the same thing as the live audience.

They just might get it right one of these days. I give them credit for perfecting the screenwriting presentations, and continuing to refine the best actor/actress presentations (missing: almost any shots of the honored actor and the speaking actor in the same real frame, without editing tricks. They spent nearly the whole time focused on the honoree's face, ignoring the interaction going on.) Also, someone should've told Colin Firth not to cover his mouth with his hands :)