It was the eyebrow tilt viewed round the world.

While it was Susan Boyle's performance on 'Britain's Got Talent' that launched a viral video watched more than 79 million times on YouTube, the most memorable moment of that seven-minute clip was not Boyle's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from the musical 'Les Miserables,' but the reaction of judge Simon Cowell, whose subtle expression of astonishment spoke to anyone who ever judged a book by its cover, or a singer by her appearance.

Once again, a 'Lost' season finale effectively rebooted the franchise. With a nuclear-bomb blast climax, the two-part episode, titled 'The Incident,' seemed to set all the characters on a new timeline. calling into question all we'd seen so far in five seasons of 'Lost.' That head-trippiness is what 'Lost' fans live for, but it would be just academic if the episode didn't explode with equally devastating emotional power.

Upon hearing the sad and stunning news of Michael Jackson's death this past summer, many of us couldn't help but think of perhaps the most mysterious aspect of Jackson's life (and there were many): his children, and what his death would mean for them.

Over the years, on the rare occasions that Prince Michael, Paris, and Blanket were seen in public, they were usually wearing masks and surrounded by a phalanx of bodyguards to fend off the clamoring paparazzi. Theirs was not a typical life. Surely they couldn't be typical children.

And yet when Michael's young daughter Paris, just 11 years old, took the stage to speak at his memorial service, that is exactly what the world saw: an ordinary child, heartbroken by the loss of her father. The heartfelt simplicity of her words was instantly identifiable: