Wacko Jacko

February 1, 2005 -- "Michael Jackson's Mind"
Tonight at 8 on Court TV

Tonight's special, "Michael Jackson's Mind," on Court TV is a good, er, summation of what brought the world's once-most-famous pop star to rack and ruin as his trial begins. From his ruined face to his ruined life, creep-freak Jackson is revealed for what he is. While there's not a lot here that you haven't seen before, it's great to finally hear people being honest about what they've seen and what they've discovered without fear of reprisals. In this documentary, the cops from the first investigation, particularly Det. Ernie Rizzo, spell it out in no uncertain terms. "When he gets [a] little boy he falls in love with," Rizzo says, "he can't live without him." He spends hundreds of hours talking to "his little boyfriends," going so far as to miss business appointments to stay on the phone with them. Having been the first reporter to reveal Jackson's relationship with the first kid who accused him a decade ago, it stuns me to see what the public accepts as true about his "child-like" mind. A psychologist on the show says instead that M.J. may be reliving with other kids what traumatized him at that very same age.

In addition, there is Court TV's Diane Dimond — on the story since the beginning — who describes and shows horrifying photos of Jackson's kiddie room which can only be entered through a hidden stairwell inside his closet door. The room, she says, has photos of children all over it, including photos of babies in diapers! Yuck! Also interviewed are shrinks including Carole Lieberman, the L.A. psychologist who first called authorities and forced them to investigate Jackson after watching the 2003 Martin Bashir documentary where Jackson said he invited children to sleep in his bed.

What they don't address, however, is what has always spooked me — why brood mare Debbie Rowe actually sold (let's be honest) her children (who clearly don't have any African-American blood in them) to this alleged pedophile monster. Why isn't she indicted for child abuse, too? Experts in "Michael Jackson's Mind" keep referring to him as Peter Pan when in fact, M.J. is more like J.M. Barrie the author of "Peter Pan." After all, Barrie was an alleged pedophile who created the fairytale land of Neverland, a private place where little children never grew up and evil pirates preyed on the innocent.


This could very well be an interesting show. Definitely going to Tivo this one.