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#Michael jackson man in the mirror movie#
Above all, this was a movie that was probably rushed into making, like many TV movies that aren't on HBO. It even pales in comparison to "Mommie Dearest", and that's saying a lot. If this movie as it is was released into theaters, it would gain a profit only because of its tackiness. It was a nice try, but it just didn't work.
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the time he hung his infant child over a balcony in Germany) was interspersed into the movie in real time. It was even more distracting when footage of the real Michael Jackson (i.e. This kind of suspension of disbelief that the director expects can't hold up to TV viewers in the 21st century. It's also amazing to me that the film documents Jackson going under the knife to get cosmetic surgery, yet in the next scene, Alexander still has the same size nose. The Caucasian makeup on Alexander's face makes him look more like a reverse minstrel show, and everyone who has been in a grocery store knows that Jackson's nose is not as big as Alexander's. Furthermore, the director's efforts to make Alexander look like Jackson are completely foolish. On a shoestring budget, though, one can only depend on what they see in the tabloids, and those do not necessarily give an accurate representation. It would admittedly be pretty hard to find someone who accurately portrays Jackson without meeting with the King of Pop himself and studying his methods of madness. Flex Alexander did what he could in playing Jackson, but he came off more like an SNL caricature by the likes of Tim Meadows and Amy Poehler. This movie tried to tell too much in three hours, and needless to say, it failed. It's no doubt that Michael Jackson has led perhaps the most interesting life so far of any musician, let alone modern day pop star, to date, and his story would probably take six Behind The Music specials to tell accurately. However, this movie already bites off more than it can chew, cramming too many details in this overly ambitious project. It probably would have made a great ending to this docu-drama. What I mean by that is the movie was filmed and, for that matter, aired before Michael Jackson's acquittal from his child molestation charges, which I think was one of the most significant periods of Jackson's life and career so far.
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Garrett shared co-billing with Jackson on the number one pop/R&B gold single "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," another single from Bad.This movie is like so many biopic TV movies I have seen: formulaic, exaggerating, poorly acted, and most importantly, happening too soon. From his Bad LP, the gentle "Man in the Mirror" went to number one R&B and had a two-week run at number one pop in early 1988. During the recording session for the song, which included the Andre Crouch Choir and the Winans, Jackson kissed Garrett on the cheek. A couple of days later, Jones told her that Jackson had OK'd it. Then he added that if Jackson took a pass on the song that they'd record for Garrett's Qwest debut. Jones liked the song but tempered Garrett's enthusiasm with the warning that he'd been trying to find songs for Jackson for two years. After completing a demo of the song, Garrett hurriedly called Jones and told him that she thought that she had a hit song for Jackson. While brainstorming, Garrett begin singing a melody about "a man in a mirror." Ballard heard the beginnings of a great song.
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Ballard suggested that they try to come up with something for him. She told him that Jones was looking for songs for Jackson. The following day, Garrett, who'd been signed as a solo artist to Jones' Warner Bros-distributed Qwest label, met with her songwriting partner, Glen Ballard. After getting lost, she arrived an hour late.Jones stressed that Michael Jackson needed hit songs for his upcoming album. During the spring of 1987, Garrett was invited to Jones' home for a songwriters meeting. Her groupmates wanted a publishing deal, so she was essentially pushed into songwriting. Siedah Garrett didn't start writing songs until she was picked to be a member of Deco, a group assembled by producer Quincy Jones. Some have to "claw" their way to success while others seem to stumble into it.