"MJ is not in shape enough yet to sing this stuff live and dance at the same time, " Bearden wrote.

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An e-mail written by "This Is It" band director Michael Bearden to Ortega 11 days before Jackson's death was displayed in court.

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Patrick Bearden, a salesman at a Home Depot in Dallas, used a First Phone to rescue several sales on a recent Saturday.

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In the past, Mr. Bearden would have had to walk to the front of the store and look up available inventory on a personal computer.

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Starting in 1967 Bill and Camille Cosby built a collection of 400 works dating from the 18th through the 20th century and including artists like Bearden, Lawrence, late-19th-century landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, self-taught 20th-century artist Horace Pippin and 1960s abstract painter Alma Thomas.

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