MJ: Many people are wondering, why would I put my private, private home movies on television? Well… I thought it was time to do so because many people have opinions about me and they haven’t even met me. They don’t even know me [smiles]. So, I thought it was time to open up, to show them who I really am. I’m just simply… Michael Jackson.
[Brace Yourself plays to Carmina Burana’s O Fortuna]
Host: This is the Michael Jackson the world knows, the legendary superstar who’s been at the forefront of the music industry for virtually his entire life. One of the most electrifying performers the world has ever seen. He’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars for charity and sold more than two hundred million albums. But who is Michael Jackson when he’s not in the spotlight? You’ll find out in the next two hours as you are allowed an unprecedented look into the personal life of one of the world’s greatest entertainers.
[Brace Yourself reaches an end; ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ plays with clips of the documentary appearing]
Host: You’ll see Michael at home with his children and travelling with his most intimate friends. You’ll be allowed inside the gates of Neverland for a reunion with the Jackson family and share personal, never before seen moments between Michael and some of the world’s biggest celebrities: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jordan, Macaulay Culkin, Chris Tucker and… Princess Diana. All tonight on Michael Jackson’s Private Home Movies: The King of Pop Up Close and Personal.
MJ: As far back as I can remember I’ve been in front of the camera, not just the TV cameras, but I’m talking about my family taking home movies of me when I was really, really little.
[Clip of Gary and the Jackson house]
MJ: We lived in Gary, Indiana. My father worked in the steel mills and er, we lived on a street called Jackson Street. Coincidentally, that was the name of the street.
[Clip labelled 1964]
MJ: Imagine, nine kids living in a two bedroom house and er, waiting in line to take baths and that’s a snowball fight, I think.
[Scene of brothers playing in the snow]
MJ: Wrestling in the snow. That’s me on the far… right. I don’t want nothing to do with it, hmhmhmhmhm… [laughs]. They were pretty rough and er, that’s me, I’m freezing. Think that’s Tito on the ground.
[Clip of brothers performing]
MJ: This the living room, where we had all the furniture and I remember, we would dance and perform. We loved it! You can see the smile on my face. I loved it. And um, my father was standing right in front of us and making sure we did everything just right.
[Scene of Katharine holding baby Janet]
MJ: That little girl that my mother is holding is Janet, who is now Mrs Rhythm Nation hmhmhmhm… [laughs]. And er…
[Scene of people dancing]
MJ: …that’s a party! We played a lot of parties. We’re actually performing the music that they’re dancing to. That’s the guitar. If you look at the back, you can see me spinning around right there. And my mother made all of our costumes. We did parties, we… [pauses] opened shopping centres. We did any kind of thing, you know. We travelled, travelled, travelled, constantly, every night.
MJ: … das ist eine Party! Wir veranstalteten eine Menge Partys. Wir spielten sogar die Musik, zu der sie da getanzt haben. Das ist die Gitarre. Wenn Sie in den Hintergrund schauen, können Sie mich dort herumwirbeln sehen. Und meine Mutter hatte all unsere Kostüme hergestellt. Wir machten Partys, wir… [macht eine Pause] eröffneten Shoppingzentren. Wissen Sie, wir machten alles Mögliche. Wir reisten, reisten ständig, jede Nacht.
Life on Tour
MJ: The record company usually like for you to support your album and go on tour and er, [smiles] I don’t like to. I do like relating to the fans, giving the fans a chance to see you face to face…
[Scene of Michael with fans]
MJ: …as you go from Hong Kong to Africa to…
[Clip of Michael in India being presented with flowers around his neck and moving to the drums being played for him]
MJ: …China to Brazil, you know, to Singapore, Switzerland, London, Paris, Russia and the stadiums are just jammed and the energy is great.
[Scene of fans in audience doing a wave]
MJ: It’s fantastic and we have er, I mean I don’t know how they enjoy the show.
[Clip labelled Wembley Stadium 1988]
MJ: This… [stutters] it’s festival seating. They don’t want chairs. Even if there were chairs, they’d stand on them and just…
[Scenes of girls being carried on stretchers]
MJ: So we have a tent on the side with… there’s usually like five thousand faints every night and we have all these doctors and paramedics, but it’s a difficult thing to tour.
[Scene of a helicopter landing, followed by Michael walking into the airport with his team, labelled Japan 1988]
MJ: You go from one continent to another. You’re sleepy, the time zones are different. You can’t sleep after a show…
[Clip of Michael on stage running towards the camera with a smile]
MJ: …the adrenaline is up here.
Director: Can we just do it again? Without the negative, saying you don’t like to tour… just…
MJ: [to director] I don’t like it though.
Director: I know, but this just…
MJ: I go through hell.
Director: Standing up though…
MJ: I go through hell touring!
[Crosstalk]
Director: Touring is…
MJ: [to director] Okay then I’ll… I’ll make it positive then.
Director: Yeah, just a…
MJ: [to director] Just… you know the truth.
Director: Yeah… [laughs]… And action, Michael.
MJ: I love to tour. I just…
[All start laughing loudly]
MJ: [laughing] You guys messed it up! Why you all start laughing? I was ready to get into it!
Director: Just say…[laughing].
MJ: Hehehehehe… [giggles], no, no. No, but seriously there is a good part of touring. It’s the fans.
[Clips of fans dancing in the streets]
MJ: I love my fans. You go to any city, anywhere in the world, they know all the songs, all the dance moves, everything. They even come with the tapes on their fingers, the hats, the gloves and everything. It’s just a wonderful experience. I love it.
[Clip of fans chanting: We want Michael, until he appears at the window to wave]
MJ: The fans are the reason why I do the tours and um, it’s very important to give the best show we can possibly give them.
[Clip of Michael after a Bad show talking to his team]:
Michael: As far as cautiousness, being alert and musicianship, you guys were all wonderful.
Team member 1: Thanks.
Michael: I wish I could say the same for wardrobe and technology but I can’t. They made a couple of mistakes yesterday. You were great Chris. It wasn’t your fault… okay.
Team member 1: All right. Thank you very much.
Team member 2: Thank you.
Team member 3: Okay, so…
Team member 4: Okay, here we go!
[All hold hands and perform a lively cheer]
MJ: It’s a spiritual thing also, cos when certain songs we play…
[Scene of Michael performing ‘Earth Song’ on stage, with the audience lit up]
MJ: …like ‘Heal the World’, ‘We Are the World’ or ‘Man In the Mirror’, we could… the whole stadium is lit up with these er, stick lighters they use and they know when to do it. They, you hit one chord and they know exactly what it is. It’s, it’s very emotional. I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s fun and I love to entertain. That’s one of my favorite things.
[Scene of Michael performing ‘Beat It’ from a crane]
MJ: I think the fans see that. Actually I, I know they see it because when I walk out on stage, they give me so much love and that’s everywhere I go, every time I walk on stage.
[Clip of a marching band on stage approaching Michael]
MJ: One of the best moments is right here. Right here. It’s right in the middle of the show and it’s my birthday and I’m thousands of miles away from my family.
[Band plays while Michael hides his face]
MJ: When they surprised me with the full marching band and then they brought out this huge, beautiful birthday cake…
[Happy Birthday is performed by the band; clip labelled Michael’s Birthday 1993]
MJ: I realized that I’ve got family all over the world. Everywhere I go, because my fans really show me the love and I love them just as much.
Michael: [wiping his face] This is wonderful. Thank you so much.
Michael’s first Christmas
MJ: I’ve met a lot of people in my life and very few are real, real, real friends. You could probably count them on one hand. And Elizabeth is one of the most loyal, loving, caring people that I know.
[Clip of the Neverland gardens and house plays to Christmas music]
MJ: She decided to transform Neverland into its first Christmas because I, I don’t celebrate Christmas.
Elizabeth: It is 1993 and this will be Michael Jackson’s very first Christmas. It has taken me, I would think, about five years of talking him into celebrating Christmas at Neverland because I understood that if you were raised a Jehovah’s Witness, they don’t celebrate Christmas.
[Scene of Elizabeth decorating the house]
Elizabeth: When he quit being a Jehovah’s Witness, I said to Michael, ‘I think Christmas is a wonderful way of celebrating love. It’s a celebration of love.’ And I can’t see Christmas without Michael and Michael without Christmas.
[to cameraman] It’s pretty isn’t it?
MJ: I had no idea she was planning this. This was, er, a real surprise.
Elizabeth: [approaching room] Michael?
MJ: That’s my bedroom that she’s coming to now.
Elizabeth: Michael? It’s the spirit of Christmas, come to haunt you!
MJ: I’m not usually awake up.
Elizabeth: Michael?
[Door opens]
Elizabeth: … by the sight of my little dog.
MJ: She know I don’t like that dog cos, because I’m afraid of dogs. They’re little, but they bite.
Elizabeth: Morning, sweetie [kissing him]. Come on. Welcome to your first Christmas.
[Elizabeth walks Michael out into the room]
Michael: [gasps] Oh my God. It’s incredible heh… [laughs]. I can’t believe this hahaha… [laughing]. This is the first time!
Elizabeth: I know!
MJ: Heh… [laughs], she decorated the entire house.
(Michael looks at the room and touches the tree, approaching the presents)
Elizabeth: That’s yours!
Michael: Santa came?
Elizabeth: Santa from Bel Air! [cackles].
Michael: Santa from Bel Air! Heh… [laughs]. Can I open it?
Elizabeth: Sure!
MJ: At the same time, it was exciting, I felt guilty too at the same time. I remember going to the bathroom crying, later…
[Michael touches the presents and looks at the small dog]
MJ: …because I felt I’d done something wrong, cos I was raised not to ever celebrate it.
[Michael opens a present, which turns out to be a red sweater]
Michael: Oooh! I love it!
Cameraman: Are you gonna put it on?
Michael: Yes! I’m putting it on right now! [pulling it on].
Elizabeth: [to cameraman] Are you realizing you’re photographing me without any makeup on? [smiles].
Michael: [opening present] Love it! Supersoaker! [holds it up, making a fist at the camera]. Now I know how to wake up Elizabeth tomorrow!
Elizabeth: How?
[Michael and the cameraman start laughing]
Elizabeth: Oh! God!
Michael: You’re gonna like it, don’t worry!
Elizabeth: You’re gonna shoot me.
Michael: [opening another present] This is a supersoaker. I can feel it and tell! Hahaha! [laughs].
Elizabeth: You!
[Both laugh madly, while Elizabeth starts playfully hitting Michael]
Michael: [laughing] Ouch! Ouch! Hahaha!
[Michael stands up and Elizabeth grabs a present off him]
Elizabeth: I want a squirt gun! I want a squirt machine gun!
Michael: [taking present back] She’s snatching presents!
[to Elizabeth] May I have this one? It’s for you, but can I have it?
Elizabeth: [smiling] Yes.
Michael: Thank you.
Elizabeth: What it is?
Michael: It’s a water gun [laughing].
Elizabeth: What?
Michael: A water gun!
Cameraman: How do you know it’s a water gun?
Michael: Cos I see it… [laughing] right… [points to top of box].
Elizabeth: Oh!
Michael: [laughing] Water gun!
Elizabeth: That’s not fair!
Michael: This is a supersoaker! [holds up another present].
Cameraman: Thank you.
Michael: Thank you! You’re too kind! [laughs].
[Elizabeth opens a present]
Elizabeth: Hahhhhhhhhh! [screaming madly].
Michael: Ohhhhhhh! [laughing]. Look at her!
Elizabeth: Supersoaker! Yeah!
MJ: If you’re wondering why I love supersoakers so much, it’s because if you come to Neverland, it’s a rule that you are bound to get wet. Either be thrown in the pool, or you have a water balloon fight or a supersoaker fight. And… [smiles] I love all of the above.
[Clip of Janet at the ranch]
MJ: That’s Janet. We think so much alike.
Janet: I love this!
Michael: [laughing behind her] You just missed… [laughing].
MJ: Here come Macaulay Culkin.
Michael: You ready? [laughing].
Janet: Come on Daddy.
Michael: [laughing] Come on Daddy! Come on.
[Mac throws a bucket of water at Janet]
MJ: See, Mac takes big buckets of water and throw them on. He cheats a lot. But he’s fun [smiling]. He loves to have fun, just like me.
[Mac drives Michael in a cart, whose arms are held out, smiling at the camera]
MJ: We’re all to the field. Supersoakers are, are really high tech. They got some great ones now.
[Shed door opens and Michael and Janet come out. Michael runs at someone with a water gun, but he aims a bucket of water at Michael]
Michael: Ahh! You! You win.
MJ: Hmhmhmhmhm… [laughs]. That’s Mac’s older brother, Shane.
Mac and Michael: Ahhhhh! [at camera].
[Scene of the water balloons]
MJ: Okay, this is, we’re preparing the water er, balloon fight.
Michael: What’s the name of our group this time?
Mac: [to Michael] What do you feel we should be?
Michael: [to Mac] What were we last time? That was okay.
Mac: [to Michael] Okay. Go ahead.
Michael: Okay. Visions of… no [talks to Mac].
Mac: [talks to Michael].
Michael: [to camera, smiling] Visions of doom!
[Scene of the fight as it begins]
MJ: We had teams. We used the whole ranch. My favorite thing to play, if you call it a sport, it’s a sport, is a water balloon fight heh… [laughs]. I love the way they splatter when they hit! [laughs]. I’ve never lost a water balloon fight. I’m the Michael Jordan of water balloon fights.
Mac: Aww… Michael!
Michael: Visions of doom! [holds up Mac’s arm triumphantly].
Mac: Yeah!
Michael: We won the fight again… and again.
Cameraman: But Janet, what’s it like on the winning team?
Shane: [running away from Michael] He’s gonna get me!
Janet: It’s great!
Michael: Whoa! Whoa!
Michael: [to Janet and Mac]: Is this the face of someone who’d do something like that? I’m of the innocent…
[to camera] Right? Hehe… [laughs].
Cameraman: [laughs].
MJ: I mean, I went through this entire water balloon fight…
[Clip of the three in a golf cart]
Janet: Victory!
Michael: Victory!
MJ: … completely dry.
[Clip of Michael dancing on the diving board]
MJ: But knowing Macaulay Culkin, he made sure. He schemed on me. He told me to go up on the diving board and I went up there like a nut.
[Mac pushes Michael off the diving board]
Michael: Ahhh! No!
[Michael surfaces from the pool]
Michael: I’m gonna kill you! I’m gonna kill you Mac! I’m going to annihilate you!
[‘Beat It’ plays to concert and fan scenes; clip of children talking, labelled India]
Child 1: Michael’s the king of pop!
Child 2: Michael’s the king of pop.
Child 3: Michael Jackson’s the king of pop!
Making a monster… Thriller
[‘Thriller’ video plays]
MJ: With ‘Thriller’, my mission was to make a short film, a story. So it was like watching a mini movie.
Michael: It’s only a movie
Ola: It’s not funny.
Michael: You were scared weren’t you?
MJ: It wasn’t just a video, just a lot of abstract you know, craziness that didn’t make sense.
Michael: I have something I wanna tell you.
Ola: Yes, Michael?
Michael: I’m not like other guys.
Ola: Of course not. That’s why I love you.
Michael: No, I mean I’m different.
Ola: What are you talking about?
[Clip of Michael in a room]
MJ: This is rehearsal, what you’re seeing, practicing my acting.
Michael: I’m not like other guys. I mean I’m different.
Cameraman: That’s for sure [laughs].
Michael: I’m a monster.
Cameraman: Uh-huh.
Michael: When the moon is full, I metamorphosise into an ugly demon… I’m a monster.
[‘Thriller’ video continues]:
Michael: Go Away!
Ola: Aahhhh!
[Back to rehearsal]:
Michael: [crosses eyes] One other thing I have to get straight. Um, people always tend to be rude to me. And I’m just not taking it no more… Rob, how close are you?
Cameraman: I don’t know. Pretty close.
Michael: [indicating] Like this? Like this? Or can you see chest?
Cameraman: I can see right about where your Nike is.
Michael: [looks down and checks] What a jerk! Back up! Awh… dimwit! [gets up]. There. That’s how you backup. Okay.
[Clip of Michael dancing in glitter socks in front of a mirror]
MJ: This is me experimenting with socks for ‘Thriller’. Glow socks, light socks, bright silk socks. I tried everything. I didn’t wanna copy people. I wanted to be an innovator, a pioneer.
[Scene of the making of ‘Thriller’]:
John: Okay, let’s go! Action!
[Michael playing a prank on John Landis]
MJ: I just cracked that thing over John Landis’ head. I love John Landis. He’s great to work with.
Cameraman: Let’s go!
[John Landis jumps down from the stage, demonstrating an acting scene for Michael]
John: Go Ahh!
MJ: Great man. He always turns me upside down.
[Scenes of John Landis holding Michael upside down]
John: Let me know when you need Jackson!
Cameraman: Cut!
[Scene of Michael and Brooke Shields leaving their car at an awards ceremony]:
Girls: Michael! Michael!
Reporter: I was wondering if you’d…
[Walking to the Grammies; Clip labelled Grammy Awards 1983]
MJ: Oh this is on the way to the Grammies. I had gotten a record thirteen, I think, thirteen nominations for ‘Thriller’. And we, well, I didn’t know what was gonna happen really. That’s Emmanuel Lewis, one of my best friends.
Brooke: Oh you’re here too, Emmanuel [laughs]… Brilliant!
Girl: Hi Michael.
MJ: That’s Gladys Knight, the person I just hugged.
Child: Michael!
MJ: Her and Diana Ross are responsible for launching the Jackson Five. Er, we got a contract with Motown and um, we started from there.
[Michael greeting people and hugging Chuck Berry]
MJ: Oh there’s my man. The real creator of rock n roll, Chuck Berry.
[Chuck Berry lifting Brooke Shields]
Brooke: [laughing] I’m Michael’s size remember!
[Crosstalk]
Brooke: I’ll take that as a compliment.
[James Brown meeting Michael]
James: I love you man. I’m glad you look good!
Michael: Thanks for everything.
MJ: That’s one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived. That’s James Brown. I idolize him. I think we’re on our way inside the building.
Michael: [calling behind him] Thank you very much!
Cameraman: That’s it, we’re on our way in.
MJ: Emmanuel. He started to rope onto her dress! He’s a flirt. See, I liked her and he liked her too. So, it’s competition.
[‘Thriller’ playing at awards as Michael walks into the audience]:
Host: Welcome to the twenty sixth Annual Grammy Awards!
MJ: That’s me walking on. When we walked in, we got a huge, like a tumultuous applause. People really were excited.
Host: Michael Jackson!
[Scene of Michael being given the awards to hold]
MJ: This is after I’d won the Grammies. It was a world record. I had won, er, I won eight!
Man: Michael!
MJ: Thriller, still to this day, is the largest selling album worldwide. So I can’t even catch up with my own albums. Mahaha… [laughs]. It’s sixty something million now.
[Scene of Quincy and Michael]
Girls: Michael, Michael!
MJ: I was very happy and I thanked God cos it was my dream. It had come true.
[Scene of Michael leaving and waving from his car window]
Girls: Michael, Michael!
Michael goes shopping
MJ: As I said on one of the, um, one of my interviews, it’s my dream to go on a supermarket and just shop and be like everybody else and put things in a basket, cos I can’t do it. Cos if I… when I try to do it…
[Clip of Michael surrounded by fans on a shopping trip]
MJ: …people crowd around, you know. They want autographs and they want you to sign things and take pictures. That’s why I love disguises so much.
[Clips of Michael being dressed for a film and at Disneyland]
MJ: I can sit on a bench at Disneyland and see what people really do and talk about. But when they see it’s Michael Jackson, they change. I don’t see the real thing. You know it’s… so I, I wanna see the real world, what it’s really like. And it’s very difficult.
[Clip of a shopping store labelled 2003]
MJ: So a good friend of mine who owns this mall, he had them close a whole shopping mall and um, he, er, had people in there that I knew, pretending as if they were shopping so I felt like, this… this real entirement.
Man: Aisle three…
MJ: Had my cousins dressed as if they were bag boys and I, I… I went shopping. It was great. They planned everything, right down to the music.
[Michael puts on a cap and moves to the store’s instrumental ‘Billie Jean’]
Man: You need the glove now!
[Michael puts on a rubber glove]
Cameraman: Now people will know who you are, if you put the glove on.
[Laughter]
Michael: Where’s the gum?
Cameraman: Big Red! [laughs]
Michael: Big Red! [picks up gum]
MJ: It was a lot of fun. It gave me a chance to see, in my way, kind of what the world’s like, even though it wasn’t the real thing.
[Michael starts swinging on his cart]
MJ: Hehehehahaa! [laughs]. Eventually, I started recognizing people. Like the woman in the blond wig is my nanny hehe! [laughs] Even Elizabeth Taylor was there. She was on a cover of er, this magazine.
Michael: That’s what I’m talking about [holds up the magazine with a thumbs up].
Cameraman: What’re looking at? Where’s your cart?
Michael: I don’t know.
Cameraman: There is it. That one right there.
Michael: Oh.
MJ: Everybody was messing with me, trying to steal my cart.
Woman: Is there a problem here?
Michael: That’s my cart.
Woman: I’ll trade carts with you.
Michael: This is all women’s stuff in here. These are my things [takes them out]. Where’d my cart go?
Cameraman: Right there.
Woman: He was trying to steal your cart, right?
Michael: A hundred percent!
Man: If you can’t keep track of your cart, you shouldn’t shop!
Michael: Uh hehe… [laughs]
[Michael plays Frisbee with someone]
Man: You gonna buy that?
Woman: Michael, wait.
Man: Oh ho! No!
[Laughter as they pour cream onto Michael’s hat]
Michael: Why me? This is my first shopping experience in thirty years!
Cameraman: Michael… Michael Jackson ice cream!
MJ: We just… it was like being at Disneyland, in my opinion. Cos I got to do something that I usually don’t get to do.
[Michael posing with his friends]
Making my family proud
[Clip of Janet and Katharine miming to ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ as Michael performs, labelled 1988]
MJ: That’s Janet and my mother, backstage at one of my concerts. They’re singing almost as loud as me hehe! [laughs] I remember one thing my mother said to me. We were at the Copenhagen, I think. And there was just a sea of people. It was like over two hundred thousand people and her eyes were watery. She was on the side of the stage. And I said Mother, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? She said um… [pauses and looks down], when you were a baby and I was holding you in my arms, I would never dreamt it. You would, you could, you would do this. You would have this kind of effect on an audience like this. And I gave her a hug and tried to get her on stage. She’s so shy, she, no matter what, she will not go on stage… [laughs] But I thought that was really sweet of her.
Bad
[Bad video plays labelled 1987]
MJ: With ‘Bad’, er, we did this in the subway of New York and Martin Scorcese was the director.
[Clip of a dance rehearsal of ‘Bad’]
MJ: This is at rehearsal at the MC Palace, choreographing it hmhmhmhm! [laughs]
Michael: Once we get inside we go BAMBAMBAMBAMBAM! We gotta hold that a while [demonstrating a move]
MJ: We had two days to choreograph. I love that rushing.
Michael: It’s gotta be more tense.
[‘Bad’ video and rehearsal scenes play simultaneously]
MJ: It’s, it’s mostly spontaneous movement, which it should be, cos to have everything choreographed would be kind of hokey for this type of song. And this was Wesley Snipes’ first acting part. So I cast him in this, this piece.
Wesley: So that’s the way it goes down, huh?
MJ: The word on our set that was totally taboo was video. I wouldn’t allow it. Because I didn’t like videos. They were so abstract it made no sense at all. So if you watch pieces that we were doing, that I innovated, you know, you could follow a story. So there is an outcome. And to be entertaining as well, that’s what we did.
[‘Dirty Diana’ plays to kids talking, labelled India]
Child: Michael Jackson. He is the king of pop. He help the poor people. He loves the small children and I love him because he’s very good with small children. He dance good of all people. Everyday he help poor people and he, he…
Other children: Heal the world!
Child: …heal the world! I love you as big as the ocean!
Living in Neverland
MJ: Neverland appeals to the child inside of every man, woman and child.
[Clip of the gates opening]
MJ: It’s a place where I feel that you can return to your childhood. Er, you find grownups, you know, doing things they haven’t done since they were like, ten years old. It’s er, it’s a fun pace to be. It’s er… so much to do, er, I always wanted to have a place where you’re just busy all day and there’s just, er, unlimited space to go on quads, and mountains and horseback.
[Clips of adults playing and Michael on bikes and horseback riding]
MJ: All kinds of fun things. Was, er, it’s just a fun place. I love it. And er… I will always love it and I will never, ever sell Neverland. Neverland is me, you know. It’s, it represents the… [pauses] totality of who I am. It really does. I love Neverland.
[Scene of Mac, Kieran and Michael at the top of a sliding board]:
Michael: Okay, here we go. On three. Wait! Okay, wait, wait, don’t cheat.
Mac: Ready?
Michael: No, no, put, your hands got to be inside the pockets. That’s it.
Mac: No, no [laughs].
Michael: I’m gonna beat you.
Mac: Ready?
Michael: Are we ready?
Kieran: Wait, no, no, no.
Mac: Ready?
Kieran: No.
Michael: [to Mac] I’m crazy for doing this. No, you gotta stretch. Mac, you gotta… [reaches over and fixes Mac’s bag].
Mac: Whoa… whoa…
Kieran: I’m not doing the…
Mac: Ready? Set, go.
Michael: You cheater! Whoa!
[Sliding down the board, heads first]
MJ: He cheats a lot, [laughs] but he’s fun. He loves to have fun.
[Clip of Michael with wet hair animatedly talking and gesturing]:
Michael: And it took a lot of body co-ordination and a lot of kung-fu and pranks and…
[Kid pushes him into the pool]
MJ: That’s my cousin, Elijah. He just pushed me in the pool. That’s Levon, my other cousin. And Mariz.
[Kids push a robed Michael back in]
Michael: No! Ahh!
MJ: I dried off. They pushed me right back in.
Kids: Get him! [laughing and screaming].
[Michael comes out of the pool and runs away, throwing off his robe]
MJ: I can’t believe that. First shot of me without my shirt on hahahahaha! [laughs]
[Clip of kids giggling and pulling Michael to the pool]:
Michael: I’m a nice person! I just took a shower! And I washed my hair thoroughly! Ahh!
[Kids giggle and throw him in]
Kids: Yeah!
MJ: See what they do to me?
[Clip of Mac driving Michael and Kieran in a cart]:
Michael: Ahh! Please… Mac…
Mac: [laughing while jumping out of the cart]
MJ: Mac is the most reckless driver, oh my God.
Michael: Hehahahaha… hahahaha! [laughing while leaving the cart] You almost killed us!
MJ: You can see his brother Kieran on the back.
Michael: Did you see that leap? You pushed…[laughing] you pushed his hand over!
MJ: They’re good kids, though.
Mac: I know. He act like…[laughing]
Michael: This is what he did, look. He had the camera and he went… [gestures and laughs again] …hahahahahaha!
[Scene of Michael joining and leaving someone on a trampoline]
MJ: That’s me and my cousin on the trampoline.
Michael: Hahahaha! [laughing] That was close.
Kid: Yeah!
[Clip of Michael holding a basket surrounding by friends, labelled Easter 1991]
Michael: Egg hunt day!
Kid: Yeah!
Michael: And we’re gonna… how many eggs are there?
Woman: Forty-five.
Michael: How many?
Woman: Forty-five.
Michael: [gasps] Forty-five?
Woman: Yeah.
Michael: We’re looking for forty-five eggs.
Woman: And we have, there’ll be special prizes.
Michael: Do we get prizes?
Woman: Yeah.
Kids: [screaming happily]
Michael: A trip to Bermuda!
Kids: Yeah!
Michael: And er, a trip to Florida Disneyland!
Kid: Let’s start now! Let’s start now!
Michael: One, two, three, go!
[All spread out and start searching]
MJ: Whoever finds the golden egg gets the biggest prize.
Michael: Oh, I have no fortune. Nothing. [to camera, whispering]: Please, do you know where it’s hidden? Tell me… please. I wanna win this game… Hey! Yeah! My first egg!
[Michael runs away to find his egg near a statue of a chef, as the kids approach him]
Michael: My first…
Kid 1: My sixth egg!
Michael: Oh my God…
Kid 2: This is my seventh egg… thank you [puts egg in the basket]
Michael: Thank you. He’s the egg hunter around here. Is that nice? He steals my eggs.
Man: Who’s got the most?
Man 2: Michael?
Michael: Yeah? [screams and laughs as he grabs the egg from the statue] Hehahoo! Hoohoo! [laughs madly while being followed around a table by a kid] He went to reach the thing and I grabbed it! Hoohoohoo… [laughing]
Kid: Hey Applehead… come on Applehead [whining]
Michael: Aww… you said Applehead. That’s the… [inaudible]
MJ: Most kids never call me by my name Michael. Either Applehead or another name which I don’t wanna say! [laughs] It’s not a bad word [smiles].
Kids: Applehead? Applehead?
[Michael starts skipping with his basket]
Michael: I’m skipping with the eggs.
Man 2: In someone’s pocket there’s an egg.
[All start screaming and running around]
Girl: I found it! I found it! Yeah, cos I heard what he said… ten!
Boy: We have…
Michael: Here’s our winner… [inaudible] Fourteen eggs…
Girl: Thirty-five.
Michael: Seventy dollars.
[A kid starts teasing Michael and running around him, while Michael cowers]
Kid: Come on Applehead!
Michael: No…
Kid: Look down! Look down! [pulls Michael down]
Michael: [groaning and covering his face after taking off his hat] Awh…
[The kid cracks an egg on his head]
Michael: Thank you… [gets up and puts the hat back on] Why did I let him do that?
Man: [laughs]
Kid 1: Egghead!
Kid 2: Now he’s an egghead!
Michael: I was born an egghead…
