Randy quote #2

SHOCKER #1: The Daily News story quotes an email sent by This Is It director Kenny Ortega to Phillips after the AEG Live boss failed to respond to an earlier email telling him that Jackson appeared too “weak and fatigued” to rehearse the previous night, “trembling, rambling and obsessing” to the point Ortega recommended a psychological exam. In the follow-up message, Ortega wrote: “I honestly felt if I had encouraged or allowed him on stage last night he could have hurt himself.” That got an alarming response out of Phillips: “It is critical that neither you, me, or anyone around this show become amateur psychiatrists or physicians,” he wrote, adding that he was in touch with Dr. Conrad Murray and had gained “immense respect” for the cardiologist. “[Murray] said that Michael is not only physically equipped to perform [but] that discouraging him to [perform] will hasten his decline instead of stopping it. You cannot imagine the harm and ramifications of stopping the show now. It would far outweigh ‘calling this game in the 7th inning.’ I am not just talking about AEG’s interests here, but the myriad of stuff and lawsuits swirling around MJ that I crisis manage every day and also his well-being.” Signing off as “Randy,” he added: “Please stay steady. Enough alarms have sounded. It is time to put out the fire, not burn the building down.” (9/10a)