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On this, the dep,sst:; ,Margaret Ma/rlrnarlo, boys won their first talent thirteenth day of shooting .lermuiue Jr. anrl.lennaine show) and the braided rug the ABC miniseries, The .luchson; actressAnge/a IJus.sett she threw down to protect get'ea /rug; haclg,ounrl tnusirianst Jacksons: An American h., floor from kids who Ange/a IJas.setr .s urroan rlerl lty fier Dream, Mrs. I(atherine loved dancing to TV dtilrlrzr: [,,uurenr.-e-LIi/ton the triple Jackson, matriarch of the .Iatgbs g nrl Ange/a f) assetr; bunk bed in the boys' bed- clan, progenitor of the Jerrnaine.Iatksonund ltis son. room that harboredfive Dream, emergesfrom son Jermaine'strailer "to brothers and a thousand dreams. Moving watch the children dance." . Entering the ware- slowlS with the limp retainedfrom a childhood house,the stout woman with long red nails and bout with polio, I(atherine bypassesa director's a purple Lakers cap circumvents a relic so far chair with her name on it and, finding no room removed from her life it might never have exist- on the crowded set,joins a claqueof stagemoth- ed: Rising on the soundstage, entangled in ers peeringthrough afake picturewindow into moviemaking equipment,is the re-createdhouse her past. Beyondthe hunchedshoulders of the from 2300 Jackson Street, Gary,Indiana. Two cameracrew are the children, dancing in the liv- z bedrooms, one bath. Five hundred dollars ing room.The yearrs 1957,and Joseph Jackson 76.US OCTOBER 1992 PHOTOGRAPHS BY TON RAGEL o T H s (played by Lawrence-Hilton has roused them from their world of riches and superstardom beyond even their own Jacobs) 'lfhile sleepto perform for his friends. Sfatching in a nightgown, cradling wildest dreams. not entirely ignoring the turmoil that infant Marlon, is Angeia Bassett,the actressportraying I(atherine. accompanied their success,the miniseries would culminate "He always did that," sighsthe sixty-two-year-old grandmoth- with the launching of 1,984'sVictory Tour - the last time they er in the soft, trademark voice of the family. "Pull the kids out o{ performed together as a family and before, as Maldonado bed at all times of night to dance." The mothers of the mostly admits wryly, "things get really crazy." unknown children crane to hear this oracle of stage-mothering. But, despite having published an autobiography, Katherine Michael Peters,choreographer of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was reluctant, insisting "nobody's interestedin my story." and "Thriller" videos - and of all the dance sequencesin the "'!7e should do something as a family," implored Maldonado miniseries- brings her a chair. (by now her daughter-in-law),"to setthe record straight." Sheand "No," she says,nodding at the others,"they can't see." Jermaine went ahead and formed a production company (Kath- " We can see," they respond in unison. erineJacksonFilms) to keep "it in the family's control." Then they put together a crack team of miniseriesspecialists, beginning with executive producer Stan Margulies dancersat that age." (Roo/s, The Tborn Birdsl, director "Yesterday,"says Peters quietly, I(aren Arthur (Fall From Grace\ and "we were filming BosieThompson coexecutive producer Suzanne [thedance double for the nine-year- dePasse(Lonesome Doue). ln fact, it old who playsMichaell and Mrs. was dePassewho, as a twenty-one- Jacksonwas just sobbing.I said, year-old assistantto Motown's Berry 'Really takesyou back.'And she Gordy in 1.968, arranged the 'Not Jackson said, only that, but you cantell 5's audition and went on to manage how muchhe lovesit. Michaelloved their career,before becoming presi- it and that'swhat it takes."' dent of Motown Productrons. Although they finally received ITHATIT TOOKTO GETTHIRTY-NINE Katherine's blessing,the couple still years in the life of the world's most neededsomeone eise's approval - and successfulperforming family into a it wasn't Michael's. "My husband four-hour package for ABC (airing wasn't too ready to agree," admits on November 15 and 18) was, Mrs. Jackson, "becausehe had been according to coproducer and second thinking about doing it, too." wife of Jermaine Jackson, Margaret That, coupled with the sticky prob- - Maldonado, a lot of pleadingwithin lem of how to depictJoseph Jackson the family's fractious ranks. The seed LaToya wasn't the only one to make was planted, she says, "when all accusationsagainst a man who had LaToya's nonsensecame out." fathered a child out of wedlock and As a way of coping with her daugh- almost been divorced by his wife on ter's tell-all book (which included 'l'rte * alle- exetutiae ro r/u(er, S az(t tttt ( more than one occasion made it gations of physical and emotional 7s seemlike a nearly impossible task. So abuse at the hands of her parents), rlePasse.lner //teJat|rous in I968. how did they persuadehim? "Well," Katherine Tacksonwould sit for hours sighsI(atherine, "we just told him that in front of the television set with Maldonado and talk about the we think it's time to do it. \ile finally talked him into sayingyes." early days of the family's life together. "Pretty soon, watching TV "People like to hear negativethings," says the woman who was of no interest," recalls Katherine Jackson, "and I started knows whereof shespeaks. "I hope this comesoff positive enough telling her things that I've never even told my own children." to let them know that all the lies they're hearing, especially Maldonado, who moved into the family's Encino estate with from my daughter [LaToya] and this qazy guy she's running Jermaine and the child she bore him (while he was still married around with [husband-managerJack Gordon], are not true." and having a third child with his wife) was "fascinated by the Iove story" of Joseph and Katherine Jackson and of their BEFORETHE CLEFT,THE CHIMP,THE HYPERBARIC CHAMBER AND A Horatio Alger-like pursuit of the American Dream. She kept wedding for Liz, there was a five-year-old boy standing alone in Katherine talking while reporting the details back to Jermaine. front of a PTA meeting in Gary, Indiana, singing for the first time "Finally, one day," recalls I(atherine, "she and Jermaine in public. The scenewas restagedhere just last week. 'Climb came in and said they were going to make a miniseriesabout "I was there," saysJermaine softly, "Michael sang my Iife and I thought, Oh, my God." Ev'ry Mountain.'That was our first time seeinghim really, real- From the outset, the budding producers were determined to ly sing.That was when I knew that he had it." keep Joseph and Katherine at the center of their story. They Until that day in L963, nine-year-old Jermaine Jackson was wanted to show how his fierce discipiine, coupled with her the lead singer of his father's still-unnamed band. From then on, unyielding love (and a littlehelp from the kids'talent), enabled he stepped back into his brother's shadow, emerging later in the family to rise from its lower-middle-class background to a futile attempts at a solo career (usually orchestrated by his then 78.US OCTOBER 1992 o N T H E s E T father-in-law, Berry Gordy) and finally departing the band alto- Betty Shabazz,widow of Malcolm X, in Spike Lee's movie on gether, leaving the family, it's been said, with a broken heart. the siain leader. Jacksons director Karen Arthur, aware of her The unspoken irony (around here anylvay) that Jermaine, of all star's discomfort, gently coaxed her through a difficult scenein the brothers, is the force behind just this production; is another rwisr which Katherine arrives home lugging bags full of Salvation in the relentlessly strange saga of the Jacksons. Only last year he Army clothes only to meer Joseph in the driveway with a van releaseda song denouncing .,Word Michael, enritled to the Badd.,, full of musical equipment - and a depletedsavings accounr. rVhen questioned about the degreeof Michael,s involvement, \fhen they finished,Bassert allowed herselfa peek acrossthe like everyoneelse, is ..He,s Jermaine, evasive. been very cooper- streetand saw Mrs. Jacksonin tears."I caught hir eye," recalls ative and when we're 'It finished, we,re gonna throw a big party at Bassett."She said, was good.' That calmed me down.,, his place.
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