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Looks like only showing in UK.. Wish it was in US as it looks very interesting.
Jacques Peretti Documentary Explores Jackson's Final MonthsRecap of Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened Jul 14, 2009 Tina Costanza Writer and filmmaker Jacques Peretti is among the thousands of people wondering what happened to end the life of pop star Michael Jackson, and he set out to find out. The documentary Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened is the result of Peretti’s probe into the 50-year-old entertainer’s final months, from the announcement of his 50 concerts at the O2 arena in London to have started July 13, 2009, to his death in Los Angeles months later, on June 25, 2009. Peretti interviewed Jackson’s friends and associates to try and piece together why fans received a memorial instead of a comeback.Michael Jackson's Relationship with Lou Ferrigno“These will be my final shows,” a clip in Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened showed him saying. “This is it, the final curtain call.” Peretti’s documentary examines speculation surrounding Jackson’s preparedness for a grueling 50 performances and talk of drugs playing a role in his death. To find answers, Peretti talked to former Incredible Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno, who knew Jackson for 20 years and had been training him for his comeback shows.Ferrigno, who met Jackson through a doctor friend, when Jackson was getting ready for his World History tour, took Peretti to the gym on his property. It was here where he demonstrated Jackson’s exercises: Crunches, lifting a big rubber band for weight resistance, and rolling on a ball doing situps. Jackson loved the gym, Ferrigno said, though it seemed to Peretti that Jackson was not there to work out, but to confide in Ferrigno.Ferrigno revealed that Jackson had said he felt like a little Hulk, because of the pain anger he held toward his father’s alleged abuse of him. Ferrigno also said Jackson had been excited about the tour, but that the stress was “humongous” to him. In Britain, tickets to the London shows sold out in minutes.Effect of Child Abuse Allegations on Michael JacksonNext up on Peretti’s list in Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened was lawyer Tom Mesereau, who successfully defended Jackson against child abuse allegations in 2005. “I think he was a very broken man,” Mesereau said of Jackson, adding that he looked like skin and bones. “Poor fellow could hardly smile even after he was acquitted.” The trauma of the trial and the reality he had to leave his California home, Neverland, probably caused lots of confusion in Jackson’s life, Mesereau said.Peretti raised the rumoured conflict surrounding Jackson’s agreeing to do 50 shows with Terry Harvey, a friend and associate of the Jackson family. “He’d never do one show,” Harvey said. “I believe Michael agreed to do 10 shows.”Fifty shows, Harvey said, is a lot, and Jackson hadn’t performed in years. “Like an athlete, you’ve got to train for that,” he said.Michael Jackson Training for London Comeback ShowsJackson did train for that, but little at first, according to Johnny Coswell, owner of Centre Staging rehearsal studio. Jackson was due to start rehearsals on March 7, but he didn’t show up. He did show up toward the end of March, Coswell said, and was there for all of April and May. It was going to be the biggest show ever, was all Coswell could say about the production, due to a confidentiality agreement.“People were saying he was back to form, back to when he was 18,” Coswell said as he stood in the huge rehearsal space. “I mean, this can’t be true, the man died a few weeks later.” The question of what exactly killed Jackson remained by the time he would have put on his first show in London.Harvey claimed Jackson had been on prescription medication for 20 years but nobody wanted to say “no” to him. Dr. Drew Pinsky, who treats addicts, rattled off a list of drugs Jackson was alleged to be on to Peretti: pain medication, codeine, maybe even injectable drugs and OxyContin. One drug, Diprivan, would have been outlandish to use outside a hospital, Pinsky said.Michael Jackson Drug Allegations“You can’t fault Michael, he was a drug addict,” Harvey said. No one stepped in to help Jackson, Harvey said, because of money. Peretti revealed that Jackson ran up a bill of $100,000 US at one pharmacy. While drug enablers surrounded him, Harvey revealed that Jackson’s father tried to get him help. He also claimed he was ousted from the house when he tried to intervene.Pinsky speculated that the cause of Jackson’s death was accidental. Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened leaves viewers with the impression that Peretti is pointing his finger to drugs as the cause of Jackson’s demise, and as the documentary pointed out, a celebrity’s death that includes the question of drugs shoots them into the stratosphere — Jackson, as the documentary indicated — is on top again.
Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood(Documentary)more4Channel not right? Click here to customise your lineup...Thursday, December 30th, 20109:00pm to 10:00pm(Other show times...)[add an image]Jacques Peretti lifts the lid on how the weird world of Hollywood really operates behind the scenes. For the first time since Michael Jackson's death, key players - including his lawyer, agent, private eye, a former classmate and personal spiritual advisor - shine a fascinating light, through Jackson, on Hollywood's hidden underbelly. Peretti gains unprecedented access to some of the people who really pull the Hollywood strings. He offers a rare glimpse into the Hollywood behind the smog and shows that Jackson, far from weird, was a perfectly normal Hollywood customer. He demonstrates how the machine created to service the star ultimately destroyed him.