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[night--and--day]

Selected pictures from the official Ghosts premiere program (Cannes Film Festival, 1997)

[night--and--day]

"When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I adore Michael Jackson. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. What makes Michael more unique may be the fact that all of his accomplishments, his rewards, have not altered his sensivity and concern for the welfare of others, or his intense caring and love for his family and friends, and especially all the children the world over. I think Michael is like litmus paper. He is always trying to learn. He is so intelligent that he is alarmingly bright. He is also very curious and wants to draw from people who have survived. People who have lasted. He is not really of this planet. He is filled with deep emotions that create an unearthly, special, innocent, childlike, wise man that is Michael Jackson. I think Michael appeals to the child in all of us, and I think he has the quality of innocence that we would all like to obtain or to have kept. He has one of the sharpest wits, he is intelligent and he is cunning -that is a strange word to use about him, because it implies deviousness and he is one of the least devious people I have ever met in my life. He is honesty personified -painfully honest- and vulnerable to the point of pain. He is so giving of himself that, at times, he leaves very little to protect that beautiful inner core that is the essence of him. That is the thing that I love so much about him and that makes the world identify with him in the way it does. Michael Jackson is, indeed, an international favorite for all ages, an incredible force of incredible energy. In the art of music, he is a pacesetter for quality of production, in the vanguard for high standards of entertainment. What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -that's all. And just when you think you know him, he gives you more... I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul."

-Elizabeth Taylor [from the 1997 Ghosts premiere program, Festival de Cannes, 1997]

[night--and--day]

"What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

This is art in its highest form. Those moments of enlightenment are what I continue to live for."

Details from the official Ghosts premiere program (Cannes Film Festival, 1997)