Michael Jackson's 1989 Celebrity Menagerie

Videogum - 4th Jul 2009

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Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson's 1989 Celebrity Menagerie In the outpouring of reminiscences about Michael Jackson's life and career over the past few days, it has been mostly overlooked that in 1989, he built a private celebrity menagerie, and he put all of the celebrities in there so that he could watch them mingle. Seriously, all of them. Uh oh, Richard Dreyfus just pooped on Whoopi Goldberg! (Gross, sorry.) (P.S. This video is amazing.) there are so many celebrities in this thing it is ridiculous! I can... Read full story at Videogum


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