Pop Culture Capsule — Michael Jackson 1982 Ebony Magazine Spotlight
I came across this while browsing the fantastic Google Books magazine archive, as I am wont to do. It’s a special on Michael Jackson from the December 1982 issue of Ebony. Jackson had just released his landmark Thriller album and had contributed the song “Someone in the Dark” to the storybook for the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The article is clearly from the age when M.J. could do no wrong, and the ugly rumors and innuendo that dogged his professional and personal lives had yet to surface. He was still simply Michael, beloved pop singer on the cusp of mega-stardom.
But what’s really fun — and a little sad — is to look at all the pictures, featuring Michael looking happy and rubbing elbows with the biggest names in entertainment at the time — Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Diana Ross, Tatum O’Neal, Brooke Shields, Donna Summer, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie, Sidney Poitier, Paul McCartney, and even Seals & Crofts. Oh yeah, and E.T.
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Pat
Dear JET-I was a US Marine Corps 1st Lt stationed at Parris Island, Fall of 1982. In addition to the Dec 1982 Ebony issue story of Michael Jackson was a feature on Captain Denise Williams and Capt Gail Jennings, USMC, both of whom were in charge of one of the two female recruit training companies. EBONY sent Marilyn Marshall and the late, great Moneeta Sleet, the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photographer, to PI that fall to do a story, prompted by a letter of information I mailed to Mr Johnson earlier in the summer. Denise insisted that the last picture taken by Mr. Sleet include myself and our Sergeant Major. After 9 moves and a 20 years USMC career, I can’t locate my copy. Anyway I can find a digital copy on the Internet? Thanks!!!