AP's Linda Deutch has snooped around and come up with some new information about the Michael Jackson case, which was apparently set in motion by the freakfest Bashir documentary of Jackson that aired in February.
Here are some of our reactions to the doc at the time - Sydney Smith:
- There were many telling moments in last night's Michael Jackson interview on 20/20, both explicit and implicit. But the most telling were these:
1) When his first son was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit soon after his birth, Michael's prayer wasn't, "Please don't let my child be sick," but "Please don't let me have a sick child."
2) The portrait hanging on the wall of his Neverland home that portrays Michael as Apollo, wrapped in loin cloth and surrounded by adoring and adorable cherubim.
Shudder.
- What Jackson doesn't get is that we saw his interaction with his own and other children for ourselves - who cares what the documentarian said in voice-overs? It's all about Michael and always has been: the children are merely props in his grand story. He cares about them only as they relate to him: not "please don't let my child be damaged," but "please don't let me have a damaged child." Jackson - with his money and fame - may be a boon to the children of the world in the macro, but he is a menace to them in the micro, kind of like Ted Kennedy and women.
I can't help but wonder where Michael would be without all of his money to shield him: jail or dead I imagine.
- "Living With Michael Jackson" may have triggered the child molestation case that threatens to destroy Jackson and his multimillion-dollar music empire.
Exactly what happened is a matter of dispute, but interviews with several sources close to Jackson and the accuser's family reveal one consistent thread: The documentary set in motion a series of events that led to the pop star's arrest last month.
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