King of Pop’s personal library is ‘It’
The final curtain call. $21.3 million in sales. Top of the box office. If the near penniless Michael Jackson were alive to perform the scheduled 50 concerts, his comeback would be riveting, a class act frozen in time; as young viewers, our emotions would mirror those of our parents in the 80s as we realized his ultimate artistic greatness.
“This is It,” culled from over 100 hours of film, portrays Jackson in a process that the humble perfectionist may have never wanted us to see: a 50-year-old man holding back on songs, saving his voice for the people on the big day, yet still filling...