The Wiz (film) certain we didn't use anything from it. They made a brilliant movie, and even though our concept is different – they're Kansas, we're New York; they're white, we're black, and the score and the books are totally different – we wanted to make sure that we never overlapped in any area." Michael Jackson, a former Motown star and close friend of Diana Ross was cast as the Scarecrow. By the start of development on "The Wiz" in 1977, he and his brothers The Jacksons, had left Motown for Epic Records, though Jackson had yet to make a solo album since
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson her house where he played the drums and her brother played guitar. She said the relationship ended when she was 12, after he asked her to go to the premiere of "The Wiz" with him, but her agent disapproved, "maybe because they thought he wasn't a big enough star yet", and she did what she was told because she was a child. While she claimed they never spoke after that, they were actually shown to be together a number of times after this would have happened. Jackson also spoke about O'Neal in 2001 with Rabbi Shmuley. He described holding hands