Michael Jackson's Unrealized Dream: Career in the Film Industry

Jul 22nd, 2009 - Rolling Stone

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Michael Jackson had an itch to get in to the movie business, Claire Hoffman reports in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands today. When Jackson began talking about staging a grand comeback with Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live (the company that ended up promoting Jackson's This Is It concerts), the King of Pop wasn't just focused on making an album and hitting the stage: he also wanted to star and direct in big-screen films...

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