The Wiz (film) a threat to the Jacksons group cohesion. Cohen moved Michael and his sister La Toya Jackson into a Manhattan apartment, allowing him to be on his own for the first time. During the production, he became a frequent visitor to New York's famous Studio 54. Jackson was dedicated to the Scarecrow role, and watched videotapes of gazelles, cheetahs and panthers in order to learn graceful movements for his part. The long hours of uncomfortable prosthetic makeup by Stan Winston did not bother him. During the production of the film, Jackson asked Quincy Jones who he would recommend as a producer
Michael Jackson and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. According to "Forbes", as of August 2018, Jackson's total career pretax earnings in life and death is $4.2 billion. Jackson's estate earned $825 million in 2016, the highest yearly amount ever recorded by the magazine." Forbes" ranked Jackson as the top-earning deceased celebrity for the seventh consecutive year in 2018. Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, a part of the Chicago metropolitan area, on August 29, 1958. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in