Ebony

MICHAEL JACKSON DIDN’T LIVE UP TO EBONY’S PREDICTION


Our much admired correspondent from The WOW Report, Stephen Saban, discovered this amusing Ebony magazine article. We ADORE looking back at predictions of the future (why did no one predict cell phones?) In 1985, Ebony hired a Chicago artist to illustrate how celebrities would look in the year 2000. It’s funny how Michael Jackson did NOT live up to this portrait, which more closely resembles Billy Dee Williams in his prime.

THE NORMALIZATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON

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Ebony magazine is TOO kind to Michael Jackson! Michael had a recent photoshoot with the magazine and they generously retouched his face to make him look YEARS younger, and they even gave him a more normal looking shade of skin. His augmented hair doesn’t look as wiggy as usual either. Compare the altered picture with a recent paparazzi shot of Michael and the difference is staggering.