Most of Michael Jackson’s official music videos on YouTube can’t be embedded here, but this video of a performance in 1992 seems fitting:

And here’s an interesting note, brought to my attention by my colleague Erica Smith: Michael Jackson holds the patent for the “Smooth Criminal” lean — or the “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.”

The Clintons’ longtime feline companion, Socks, died on Friday after a three-month battle with throat cancer. From People.com:

A stray cat rescued by the Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, Socks lived in the governor’s mansion in Arkansas and later moved with the family to the White House.

The Associated Press reports:

A family friend says Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died. She was 81. Andrew Freedman says Kitt died Thursday of colon cancer and was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Kitt, a self-proclaimed “sex kitten” famous for her catlike purr, was one of America’s most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and getting a third nomination. She also was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Grammy.

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