So I saw “Changing Lanes” last night. I was expecting an exciting movie with a big car chase at the end. Instead I got a 98 minute movie which tried to judge the moral compass of the average American. Two guys get mad at each other. Both do over the top things trying to outdo each other. Erasing someone’s credit. Sabotaging someone’s tire on their car. In the end they decide to be friends and move on. Whoops! Did I reveal the plotline of the movie? My bad.
So this whole Michael Jackson thing is just plain weird. I watched the specials. I found out he actually planted that tabloid story of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber. He had one of workers call up a tabloid and give them a picture of him in the hyperbaric chamber. News commentators speculated that it was his attempt to be edgy. But it came out as being just plain weird.
Then there was the accident on the set of the Pepsi commerical. You remember that one? The one where his hair caught on fire? Michael acted as though he was in pain, yet he was able to pick up his glove and wear it out the ambulance. One of the most surreal scenes was of him waving to the cameras and fans as he was being lifted out of the ambulance on his way to the hospital. Strange indeed. Michael Jackson may well be the new Howard Hughes.