Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Is This “It” For Michael Jackson?
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Posted by:
Michael Medved at
6:35 PM
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When Michael Jackson died in June, I commented that he had always blurred distinctions—between black and white, gay and straight, grown up and child. Now he’s erasing the most important dividing line of them all: between alive and dead. Four months after his sudden death, Jackson’s the star of a big new movie, “This is It,” assembled from rehearsal footage for the final concert tour he never got to begin.
For the most part, the late “King of Pop” looks unexpectedly healthy, strong and agile. Despite reports of his suffering and illness, he showed that he was still a phenomenally graceful and expressive dancer. But the “Thriller” segment—as he emerges from a grave yard surrounded by opened tombs, full of ghosts and zombies with rotting flesh—is, under the circumstances, creepy and deeply disturbing.
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