Roger Ebert on Michael Jackson

Perhaps the best piece I've ever seen written about Michael Jackson was produced today by legendary film critic Roger Ebert.

He talks about Michael as an abused child, an adult who never wanted to grow up and an amazingly talented, sad man.

Read the piece in its entirety here.

And yes: Jackson did have a film connection that warranted Ebert's attention—he was one of the stars in the 1978 movie THE WIZ.