Michael Jackson's journey MJ的假期

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Michael Jackson's journey Margo Jefferson takes a look at how his predicament is a product of American culture BY JANE AMMESON Times Correspondent This story ran on nwitimes.com on Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:06 AM CST The story of Michael Jackson would seem to call for a thick, scandal-ridden tome similar to those books written by Kitty Kelley on such subjects as the Reagans, Frank Sinatra and the Bush dynasty. But Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, has instead penned a poetic, quick-moving book about Jackson and his family and their place in our pop culture that deftly sums up and helps us sort through the complexities of this multitalented man's life in her book "On Michael Jackson" (Pantheon, 2006). Jefferson, who is from Chicago, remembers dancing to Michael Jackson's music back when he was the sweet-faced youngster from Gary who sang with his family in a group known as the Jackson Five. That was more than three decades ago and through the years we have all watched with horrified fascination as Jackson has morphed into a man charged (but acquitted) of child molestation. Then we watched his face change into a weird mask because of numerous plastic surgeries and followed his fortunes as they rose from superstar and then spiraled down into a bankrupt, isolated artist who lives in a surreal world called Neverland. "I wanted to write something that would really put Michael in context with our very, very complex culture," says Jefferson who explores Jackson's fame as it is ingrained in our lifestyle, a journey that leads her to look at American society from the time of P.T. Barnum, Peter Pan and Edgar Allan Poe up until now. "He's extreme in his appearance, the accusations and the family," Jefferson says. "But he's not alone in this. He's part of this history of maimed child stars and outsized celebrities that crash and burn." Jefferson believes that Jackson's story follows an arc of what we as a culture desire. "There's no such thing as a superstar that doesn't mirror what our society wants," she says. "We abhor the sexualization of children, but then we get absorbed in young models, the Olson twins, all of that." Jefferson, who considers Jackson to be a performer of immense talents, writes a moving book that seems to effortlessly sum up all the parts of his story. "I hope that people reading this won't make people look at MJ in just one way," says Jefferson, who describes herself as having many feelings about Jackson. "I want them to reconsider how they look at him. There's no happy ending for Michael. There's just guilt and folly."

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