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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Hitmaker

Other FBI files revealed that how the 'Thriller' hitmaker was interrogated when he was accused of making obscene phone call to a British schoolboy.
The boy, who was 13 years old at the time, said the star told him he was fondling himself. (ANI)

Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20091225/906/ten-obsessed-janet-jackson-fan-threatene.html

Could you please explain to me what "hitmaker" means in this context?

Also, I wonder whom the "himself" referred to here. The 13 year old boy or the person who called him. I mean I want to know if he(the other person) said "I like myself very much", or "I like you(the 13 year boy very much".
  

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The star of Thriller is called a hitmaker because he is responsible for its being a hit. "Fondling himself" could be described as actively pleasuring himself sexually. BTW, the use of "that" in your citatation would be ungrammatical in the US.

— Avangi

  • The star of Thriller is called a hitmaker because he is responsible for its being a hit.
  • "Fondling himself" could be described as actively pleasuring himself sexually.
  • BTW, the use of "that" in your citatation would be ungrammatical in the US.
  • I believe it should be omitted.
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The star of Thriller is called a hitmaker because he is responsible for its being a hit.

"Fondling himself" could be described as actively pleasuring himself sexually.

BTW, the use of "that" in your citatation would be ungrammatical in the US. I believe it should be omitted.
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