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Two documentaries, two very different looks at Michael Jackson's life, and death.
The first, Michael Jackson: What Really Happened?, made several years ago by UK journalist-filmmaker Jacques Peretti, was intended to be one lifelong Jackson fan's effort to put a human face on the mystery man who moved an entire generation, and yet whose private life left many of even his most ardent fans feeling perplexed. Parrot, an occasional reporter and op-ed writer for the Guardian newspaper, one of the UK's most prestigious and influential newspapers, insisted that Jackson insiders talk on-the-record and, remarkably, for the most part, they did.
The second documentary, which will air this Friday on CNN, the most sober of the U.S. cable news networks, is CNN-anchor Don Lemon's attempt to separate the facts from the fiction surrounding the King of Pop's death, one year ago to the day after Jackson was pronounced dead-on-arrival at a Los Angeles area hospital.
Anderson Cooper, presently doing yeoman work in the Gulf of Mexico — a personal calling for the career war correspondent and lifelong outdoor adventurer behind CNN's multi-year documentary series Planet in Peril — did a credible and heartfelt job summing up Jackson's life, and death, that fateful day last summer.
The Peretti film aired earlier this week on CBC News Network, and will be repeated over the weekend.
During the making of his film, Peretti learned more than a few off-the-wall details about Jackson's strange and yet influential life, including:
• While lying on a stretcher, after being burned during the filming of a Pepsi commercial, Jackson told paramedics to, "put the sequined glove on; the press are here."
• Jackson visited the set of Steven Spielberg's E.T: The Extraterrestrial and wrote in his diary afterwards: "I really miss that guy". He cried for two days, saying ET was one of the few people he'd met that he could really get along with. Spielberg later said that ET should really have landed at Jackson's house, not Elliot's.
• At the height of fame, Jackson was a devout Jehovah's Witness; he would knock on strangers' doors with his mother, peddling copies of Watchtower while wearing an unconvincing mustache-and-beard disguise. At the start of the Thriller video there is a disclaimer renouncing Satanism; Jackson reportedly insisted it be inserted because of his faith.
In perhaps the strangest twist of all, given the recent fallout over a certain judge's exit from American Idol, Simon Cowell was rumoured to be brokering a Michael comeback on The X Factor.
How would that have played out in the ratings? We'll never know. As Peretti noted in a 2007 op-ed piece for The Guardian, Jackson truly was "the man who fell to earth."
The CNN documentary, meanwhile, is less sensational and more intimate, with reflections from Tito and Jermaine Jackson on how a not-so-simple family mourned the loss of a beloved brother, son and friend. Well worth a look, it airs Friday on CNN at 8 ET/PT.
Source: http://communities.canada.com/share...ned-straight-from-the-cutting-room-floor.aspx
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Two documentaries, two very different looks at Michael Jackson's life, and death.
The first, Michael Jackson: What Really Happened?, made several years ago by UK journalist-filmmaker Jacques Peretti, was intended to be one lifelong Jackson fan's effort to put a human face on the mystery man who moved an entire generation, and yet whose private life left many of even his most ardent fans feeling perplexed. Parrot, an occasional reporter and op-ed writer for the Guardian newspaper, one of the UK's most prestigious and influential newspapers, insisted that Jackson insiders talk on-the-record and, remarkably, for the most part, they did.
The second documentary, which will air this Friday on CNN, the most sober of the U.S. cable news networks, is CNN-anchor Don Lemon's attempt to separate the facts from the fiction surrounding the King of Pop's death, one year ago to the day after Jackson was pronounced dead-on-arrival at a Los Angeles area hospital.
Anderson Cooper, presently doing yeoman work in the Gulf of Mexico — a personal calling for the career war correspondent and lifelong outdoor adventurer behind CNN's multi-year documentary series Planet in Peril — did a credible and heartfelt job summing up Jackson's life, and death, that fateful day last summer.
The Peretti film aired earlier this week on CBC News Network, and will be repeated over the weekend.
During the making of his film, Peretti learned more than a few off-the-wall details about Jackson's strange and yet influential life, including:
• While lying on a stretcher, after being burned during the filming of a Pepsi commercial, Jackson told paramedics to, "put the sequined glove on; the press are here."
• Jackson visited the set of Steven Spielberg's E.T: The Extraterrestrial and wrote in his diary afterwards: "I really miss that guy". He cried for two days, saying ET was one of the few people he'd met that he could really get along with. Spielberg later said that ET should really have landed at Jackson's house, not Elliot's.
• At the height of fame, Jackson was a devout Jehovah's Witness; he would knock on strangers' doors with his mother, peddling copies of Watchtower while wearing an unconvincing mustache-and-beard disguise. At the start of the Thriller video there is a disclaimer renouncing Satanism; Jackson reportedly insisted it be inserted because of his faith.
In perhaps the strangest twist of all, given the recent fallout over a certain judge's exit from American Idol, Simon Cowell was rumoured to be brokering a Michael comeback on The X Factor.
How would that have played out in the ratings? We'll never know. As Peretti noted in a 2007 op-ed piece for The Guardian, Jackson truly was "the man who fell to earth."
The CNN documentary, meanwhile, is less sensational and more intimate, with reflections from Tito and Jermaine Jackson on how a not-so-simple family mourned the loss of a beloved brother, son and friend. Well worth a look, it airs Friday on CNN at 8 ET/PT.
Source: http://communities.canada.com/share...ned-straight-from-the-cutting-room-floor.aspx
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