A persona that floated above reality

Weightlessness was a defining characteristic of the phenomenon that was Michael Jackson - and I’m not just thinking of his dazzling moonwalk. I’m thinking of the air of unreality that came to envelop and eat away at his life. (To no one did John Updike’s definition of celebrity as “a mask that eats into the face’’ apply more literally.) (Full article: 377 words)

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