Michael Jackson mime. His ability to keep one leg straight as he glides while the other bends and seems to walk requires perfect timing." Gordy said of the performance: "From the first beat of 'Billie Jean', I was mesmerized, and when he did his iconic moonwalk, I was shocked, it was magic, Michael Jackson went into orbit, and never came down." In November 1983, Jackson and his brothers partnered with PepsiCo in a $5 million promotional deal that broke records for a celebrity endorsement. The first Pepsi Cola campaign, which ran in the United States from 1983 to 1984 and launched its
The Beast with a Million Eyes together and unite, fighting against the alien menace to thwart its plan of conquest. "The Beast with a Million Eyes" was the third of a three-picture deal Roger Corman had with the American Releasing Company following "The Fast and the Furious" (1955) and "Five Guns West" (1955). Only $29,000 remained to make the film for Pacemaker Productions. The tiny budget meant music in "The Beast with a Million Eyes", credited to "John Bickford", is actually a collection of public-domain record library cues by classical composers Richard Wagner, Dimitri Shostakovich, Giuseppe Verdi, Sergei Prokofiev, and others, used to defray the cost