Michael Jackson: Life in the Magical Kingdom

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 389 from February Rosetta Stone Spanish 17, 1983. This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story .Its noon, and somewhere in the San Fernando Valley, the front shades of a row of condos are lowered against a hazy glare. Through the metal gate, the courtyard is silent, except for the distant splat of a fountain against its plastic basin. Then comes the chilling whine of a real-life Valley girl. "Grandmuther. I am not gonna walk a whole block. Its humid. My hair will be brillo." And the soothing counterpoint of maternal encouragement: "Be good pup, Jolie. Make for mama." All along the courtyards trimmed inner paths, poodles waddle about trailing poodle-cut ladies on pink leashes. "Not what you expected, huh?" From behind a mask of bony fingers, Michael Jackson giggles. Having settled his visitor on the middle floor of his own three-level condo, Michael explains that the residence is temporary, while Cheap Rosetta Stone Software his Encino, California, home is razed and rebuilt. He concedes that this is an unlikely spot for a young prince of pop. It is also surprising to see that Michael has decided to face this interview alone. He says he has not done anything like this for over two years. And even when he did, it was always with a cordon of managers, other Jackson brothers and, in one case, his younger sister Janet parroting a reporters questions before Michael would answer them. The small body of existing literature paints him as excruciatingly shy. He ducks, he hides, he talks to his shoe tops. Or he just doesnt show up. He is known to conduct his private life with almost obsessive caution, "just like a hemophiliac who cant afford to be scratched in any way." The analogy is his. Run this down next to the stats, the successes, and it doesnt add up. He has been the featured player with the Jackson Five since grade school. In 1980, he stepped out of the Jacksons to record his own LP, Off the Wall, and it became the best-selling album of the year. Thriller, his new album, is Number Five on the charts Rosetta Stone English. And the list of performers now working with him — or wanting to — includes Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross, Queen and Jane Fonda. On record, onstage, on TV and screen, Michael Jackson has no trouble stepping out. Nothing scares him, he says. But this.... "Do you like doing this?" Michael asks.

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