Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Michael Jackson Impersonator Mo Diddles in Las Vegas

NOW THAT SOME TIME HAS PASSED WITH THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF POP LEGEND

MICHAEL JACKSON, MANY OF HIS FANS HAVE BEEN LEFT WONDERING, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOST

WELL KNOWN MICHAEL JACKSON IMPERSONATOR, MO DIDDLES. OUR OWN BARTY MASHIR CAUGHT UP WITH

MO, WHO'S BEEN WORKING HARD ON HIS MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE, IN THE EVER-APPROPRIATE CITY

OF LAS VEGAS NEVADA. WELL BARTY SOUNDS LIKE THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL JACKSON MIGHT LIVE ON.

WITHOUT A DOUBT JANE, WITHOUT A DOUBT. NOW BARTY, YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING MO'S PROGRESS

FOR SEVERAL WEEKS NOW, AS HE GETS READY TO DEBUT HIS NEW ACT, "POST THE LIFE OF THE KING

OF POP". WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HIS PERFORMANCE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING MO'S ACT

SINCE 1985, IMMEDIATELY AFTER JACKSON RELEASED THRILLER. AND I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO

FOLLOW HIS CAREER THROUGH THE YEARS. AS YOU KNOW, MO HAS BECOME ENTRENCHED IN HIS IMPERSONATION

OF THE STAR. GOING SO FAR AS TO HAVING COSMETIC SURGERY DONE. AS WELL AS CONTROVERSIAL RELATIONSHIPS

WITH YOUNG TEENAGE BOYS. BARTY, WHAT WERE THOSE ALLEGED ALLEGATIONS ABOUT WHAT MANY

CONSIDERED "INAPPROPRIATE" RELATIONSHIPS? WELL JANE, TO BE HONEST, THAT WHOLE THING

IS A STICKY SITUATION. BESIDES TALK OF "TICKLE WARS" AND "BOYS-ONLY SWORD FIGHTS", THERE

HAVE BEEN QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE EVER SO POPULAR GAME OF "TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS"

AND PLAYING "GUESS WHO'S HAND IT IS". PERHAPS THE MOST DAMNING PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT GOT

MO HIS SEVEN YEAR PRISON SENTENCE, WAS THAT CONTROVERSIAL SEQUIN GLOVE, WITH THE BROWN

FINGER. I REMEMBER THAT, I RECALL NUMEROUS MEDIA OUTLETS COIN THAT "THE STINKY PINKY".

BUT REGARDLESS OF HIS JADED PAST, FANS STILL FLOCK TO HIS PERFORMANCE. AND NOW MORE THAN

EVER. DIRECTLY BEHIND ME IS A LINE OF FANS HOPING TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF MO, IN HIS CURRENT

PERFORMANCE AS THE LATE KING OF POP. A PERFORMANCE THAT HAS ALREADY RECEIVED RAVE REVIEWS. HAVING

ALREADY GOT A SNEAK PEAK, I HAVE TO SAY THAT MO HAS REALLY PERFECTED HIS PERFORMANCE, AND

IT APPEARS AS THOUGH MICHAEL HAS NEVER LEFT US. BARTY, HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO

ANY OF THOSE DIE-HARD FANS AND FIND OUT MORE ON THEIR DEDICATION TO MO? I HAVE JANE, I

WAS ACTUALLY SPEAKING WITH THIS GENTLEMEN HERE. TED AND JANE, THIS IS SHAWN TALBOT FROM

LINCOLN NEBRASKA. NOW SHAWN, WHAT IS IT THAT HAD YOU TRAVEL ALL THE WAY FROM NEBRASKA,

TO SEE MO HERE IN LAS VEGAS. WELL BARTY, MY WIFE AND I ARE MO'S BIGGEST FANS. WE HAVE

FOLLOWED HIS CAREER EVEN FROM THE BEGINNING. BACK FROM WHEN HE WAS STILL BLACK. WHAT DO YOU THINK

ABOUT THOSE ACCUSATIONS THAT HE MOLESTED CHILDREN. NOT TRUE, NOT TRUE AT ALL. EVEN DURING HIS

TRIAL HE EXPLAINED, THE REASON WHY HE HAD HIS HANDS DOWN THAT LITTLE BOY'S PANTS FOR

TEN MINUTES, IS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE HAD A TEMPERATURE. IF YOU ASK ME, I THINK THE

PROSECUTOR HAD IT OUT FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE. WOW, HE REALLY MAKES A GOOD POINT JANE.

I HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT. STANDING NEXT TO ME IS MS. JOAN THOMAS FROM VIENNA VIRGINIA.

NOW JOAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BIGGEST PART OF MO'S ACT THAT HAS THE AUDIENCES RETURNING?

WELL THERE'S NOT JUST ONE SINGLE THING, IT'S GOTTA BE THE WHOLE COMBINATION OF THINGS.

IT'S LIKE A WHOLE CIRCUS ALL WRAPPED UP IN ONE, YOU GOT THE SURGERIES, YOU GOT THE SILLY

ESTATE. HIS OBSESSION WITH THE ELEPHANT MAN. [THE COLOR CHANGES] YA THE COLOR CHANGES, THANK YOU DARLING. AND

WHO COULD EVER FORGET THAT DAMN MONKEY. I'M ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT MO DIDDLES JOAN, NOT

MR. JACKSON. OH WELL THE TICKETS WERE FREE AND WAYNE NEWTON WAS ALL SOLD OUT, SO. WELL

IT APPEARS THE LINE IS MOVING AND WE'RE FINALLY GOING TO SEE MO AS HE IMPERSONATES THE ONE

AND ONLY, KING OF POP, MICHAEL JACKSON. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! MO HAS REALLY EMBRACED THE FEEL OF

MICHAEL. HE EVEN SMELLS LIKE PROPATHOL! HE HAS PERFECTED HIS PERFORMANCE AND GOT ALL

THE MOVES DOWN TO A SCIENCE. WE MAY HAVE LOST THE KING, BUT WE APPEAR TO HAVE FOUND A PRINCE.

THIS IS BARTY MASHIR LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS NEVADA.