Corey Feldman sure loves to make it seem like him and Corey Haim were close even though Haim stopped talking to Feldman before he died.
That's just another thing I'm noticing from these Feldman articles.
I don't really believe much of anything the Feld Man says anymore. He is a conman who was horrible to his so-called best friend and was abusive towards his Angels. Note that Feldman said that the Angels were vulnerable and from broken homes. He took at risk young women into his home just to play Hugh Hefner while simultaniously acting out his piss poor Michael Jackson 2.0 fantasy. And he couldn't even bother to pay the Angels and starved them. He sure made sure he had enough drugs though.
Corey Haim's actual friends have said that he and Feldman had not been close in a very long time because of Feldman's jealousy fueled shenanigans. The friendship was toxic. The wrong Corey was taken from us.
Anyway, I haven't seen the documentary yet as I am still stuck on a stupid mobile device (PC died) so I don't think torrents are an option. Unlike Surviving R Kelly, which I found easily enough this is HBO and they don't mess around. But I watched some of the Oprah interview although not enough to judge anything yet.
When I was a kid MJ was huge. But even then a lot of people thought he was a weirdo and had too much plastic surgery. My mom had said it was because he was obsessed with Diana Ross and wanted to look like a woman. Back then I kind of believed it. We just sorta watched him morph through the years and after awhile you didn't think of it anymore. I mean you knew it was weird and he was turning white. But it was something you expected so after awhile you'd see those "Michael Jackson's nose is falling off" headlines, glance at the scary melting clown face and just shrug and go back to whatever you were doing.
It was a weird time. I don't think we will ever live through such bizarreness on that level again with a celebrity. If you missed it then you missed out on a very strange chunk of music and celebrity history. Much stranger than the idiotic stuff that goes on today with social media slapfights and which former Disney/Nickelodeon starlet turned pop star is in rehab this week.
MJ was huge. I had MJ merchandise and I remember going to parades and faires and vendors would sell stuff like whistles with his face on them. Whistles. Obviously bootlegs but anything to cash in on the phenomena. Gossip was spread through tabloids and TV shows like Evening Magazine and Entertainment Tonight. There was no social media. It was very different. No blue check marks trying to police people's opinions and condemning anyone based on feels. You wanted diversity? Go watch Donahue interview transexual midgets who struggle with diabetes or any of the other freakshows of the era. MJ's weirdness was actualy right at home back then. Before Oprah had the book club and the celebrity exclusives she was doing the same trash TV.
I think that is part of the reason why, at least for awhile, MJ's weirdness wasn't really seen as being as weird as it really was. When you look at it from a modern lens, yeah Wacko Jacko seems twenty times more wacko.
I don't think we will ever know the whole story. The Jackson clan will never spill anything they might know. No one is gonna risk being cut off from legacybux since most of them don't do anything anyway. Latoya was rather vocal about a few things for awhile. And she even claimed in her book that Joe at one point choked her. He got really mad about that.
MJ was a child star with no childhood. It's no wonder he grew up to be Wacko Jacko.
I feel like MJ was definitly inappropriate with some of these boys. Maybe he just wasn't going to risk doing anything to Macauley because at the time he was the biggest child star in America and his father was an abusive nut job. Or maybe it was because it mirrored his own chilhood situation a little too much.
Feldman was really big too for awhile. Maybe it was because of that and the fact that his career picked up when he was already a teen and might have been a little too old for MJ. I find the whole thing more creepy on Feldman's side actually. Dude is obsessed with being an MJ mini me despite having absolutely no singing or dancing talent.