In the mid-1980s, I directed a TV series entitled The Disney Family Album.  Michael Jackson was a fan of the series, as he was of all things Disney.  He was particularly interested in the episode about the Sherman Brothers, Richard and Robert, who had written the music for Mary Poppins and a lot of other Disney music, including hit pop songs for the superstar Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello.

One day, Michael’s assistant called my office and asked if my producing partner, Cardon Walker Jr., and I would come to lunch, and could we bring the Sherman Brothers with us?  The four of us spent a very interesting afternoon with Michael at his house in Encino. 

This week, on the evening Michael died, I commemorated the story of our visit that day by tweeting it.  In the interest of brevity, I wrote it as a two-person scene between Michael and me.

The tweets are all hashtagged as #michaeljackson.  Here they are in chronological sequence:

mid 1980s, Michael invited me to lunch at his house in Encino. He was a fan of a TV series I directed, Disney Family Album (more…)