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OUR VACATION WITH MICHAEL JACKSON

What would you do if the world's biggest superstar suddenly invited himself on your family vacation? Twenty-three years ago this actually happened to the Goldstein family of Orlando, Florida. In a bizarre twist of events Michael Jackson went on vacation to Bermuda with the Goldsteins via child actor Macaulay Culkin. Luckily, Alan Goldstein videotaped the entire trip but never released the footage until now.

In a new one hour television special Alan, Lynn and their son, Brock, talk about their phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime experience of hanging with Michael Jackson at the very height of his fame. The
program
also includes intimate, home-movie footage shot by Alan Goldstein and a wealth of personal photos from the trip.

Our Vacation with Michael Jackson not only shows The King of Pop as we've never seen before but provides an intimate glimpse into the troubled yet innocent world he lived in. "I was shocked when he got off that elevator for the first time," says Alan Goldstein. "I didn't believe it was really him but, more importantly, where was everyone else? I mean no handlers, no agents, no groupies, just him, all by himself."

This quiet little get-away turned into an extended fun-filled, escapist dream of an adventure. Money was no object and things got wild when the richest star of his day decided to party; five star hotels, a bottomless shopping spree at a toy store, a stomach-churning speed boat ride with Ross Perot, water gun fights, pie fights, ocean swims, and more. This was possibly Michael Jackson's last, fully free, innocent time to do as he pleased before his life started to close in on him with mind-numbing accusations of molestation and criticism for his off the wall behavior.

In 1991 Brock Goldstein was ten and an aspiring child actor. He happened to get cast in a Macaulay Culkin film that was shooting in Orlando, "My Girl," and developed an immediate friendship with Culkin. Several months later, when Brock's parents announced that the family was going to Bermuda on a vacation, Brock asked if Macaulay Culkin could come along. Then a few days later Brock mentioned that a friend of Macaulay's wanted to join them in Bermuda. Alan Goldstein explains: "So, I said to Brock-who's the friend? And he goes, 'Michael Jackson' and I thought it was just the fantasy of a ten-year-old. But when we got to Bermuda, who shows up the next day but Michael Jackson!"

Michael Jackson was desperate to re-capture his stolen childhood and escape the non-stop glare of the media. Jackson's friendship with Macaulay Culkin apparently allowed the child inside him to come out. The Bermuda footage shows a surprisingly unguarded Michael Jackson literally re-living his childhood with two ten-year-olds. "I think that was one of the few times he was able to have that sort of freedom," says Brock Goldstein. "It seemed like he didn't want the vacation to ever end."

Our Vacation with Michael Jackson also explores the motivation behind Michael Jackson's yearning for childhood play and why he was wary of adults. "Kids are honest," Jackson told Lynn Goldstein one evening during the trip. "You can trust them. I haven't been around hardly any adults that haven't ended up wanting something from me."

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OUR VACATION WITH MICHAEL JACKSON
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is this being released to home formats??? gotta know more about this, thanks.
 
STATUS: Development


So...Being put together as we speak..../type ?


:wild:!!!!!
 
Wowowowowow! I 'd love to see this. :heart:





P.S. I was here in Orlando the whole time, Mike! How I wish that our had paths crossed at some point during your trips to Florida.
 
Let's hope it's something decent.

i'm sure it will be, that trip looks fantastic! have you seen the various photo's? it was the same trip as when Michael & Mac were messing around with those fire snaps at the hotel right?
 
^"Me and mac are Looking for treasure" video ?

i believe this is from the exact same trip.. i hope we get to see more unseen footage like this! i'm guessing it will be upscaled if the interviews are 1080p

 
Yeah That's the bit :lol:I hope it will be from this trip too. I'm loving this thread
 
It'd be so priceless to watch Michael openly being himself with no shame whatsoever. I love watching that kind of footage because it gives us a glimpse how Michael Jackson, the human being was. :girl_aww:
 
Video: Michael Jackson Rocks Bermuda’s World
March 13, 2013


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When self-styled Peter Pan Of Pop Michael Jackson descended on Bermuda in June, 1991 with 11-year-old child star Macaulay Culkin in tow, a media frenzy broke out at the Princess Hotel in Hamilton.

The local press — which for decades has taken a hands-off approach to visiting celebrities, allowing them to enjoy their Bermuda vacations unmolested — uncharacteristically descended on the hotel en masse to interview and film the odd superstar couple. Reports about the singer-songwriter — who had just renewed his contract with Sony for $65 million, a record-breaking deal at the time — vacationing in Bermuda with the young “Home Alone” star were picked up by tabloids and gossip magazines around the world.

Mr. Jackson’s former publicist Bob Jones — who coined his former employer’s title “The King of Pop” — later recalled the extensive Bermuda media coverage was engineered by the “Thriller” and “Bad” recording artist himself.

The King wanted to impress Mac, as he likes to impress everyone, with the fact that he is sought after by the media,” Mr. Jones recounted in his 2005 book “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind The Mask.”

“He wanted to demonstrate to Mac that he was so popular that people would go wild for him no matter where he’d go. To prove this point, we had to bang the drums, if you will, to create a stir without letting anyone know that the furor had been fabricated within our own camp.”

Mr. Jones and his staff had been delegated by Mr. Jackson to not only tip off the local press about his visit but to mount an entire “mini-PR campaign” which would ensure maximum world-wide media exposure for the Bermuda trip.

A friend and confidante of Michael Jackson’s since the multi-talented entertainer burst onto the international music scene as a member of the Jackson 5 in the early 1970s, Mr. Jones said such public adulation was a substitute for the love the superstar felt he had been denied during his days as a child musical prodigy.

As a one-time child star himself, Mr. Jackson had started courting prominent young celebrity entertainers in his post-”Thriller hey-dey in the mid-1980s because he said he could identify with the isolated fishbowl existences they lived.

He had befriended Macaulay Culkin after the release of the young actor’s blockbuster film “Home Alone” in 1990, asking him to appear in the epic 11-minute video for his 1991 song “Black Or White.”

When Mr. Jackson — who was then 33 years old — heard Macaulay was accompanying friend Brock Goldstein on a family vacation to Bermuda, he essentially invited himself along.

He turned up “at their hotel in Bermuda with a shy smile on his famous face, and a trunkful of squirt guns, race cars and stink bombs on his bed in the VIP suite” Brock’s parents Alan and Lynn Goldstein told the “Washington Post” in a 2005 interview.

Mr. Goldstein recalled getting a call from the superstar asking if he could join the family and Macauley in Bermuda.

The “Post” account said: “The world’s best-selling voice came on the other line. ‘Well, I just need a break’, Mr. Jackson explained. ‘Would you mind?’ Mr. Goldstein, who then lived in Florida, started scrambling to find suitable quarters, until Mr. Jackson called back and said he had it all arranged — two suites at the luxurious Hamilton Princess.

Mr. Goldstein swallowed hard. ‘I can’t afford that’, he admitted. ‘Don’t worry’, Mr. Jackson assured him, ‘everything’s on me.’

“He turned up the next day in ‘his standard red shirt, black pants, yellow socks and wide-brim hat’, Mr. Goldstein, recalled … Mr. Jackson invited the gang up to his suite.”

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Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin greet admirers at the Princess Hotel

“He’d brought this huge trunk. He threw it up on the bed and opened it up,” Mr. Goldstein said. “It looked like he’d raided a Toys R Us. He’s got water guns, race cars, chewing gum that made your mouth turn black, snap-and-pops … ”

Mr. Jackson travelled to Bermuda alone, and the role of surrogate-manager fell to Mrs. Goldstein, who made sure the star’s meals were vegetarian and that hotel management kept fans at bay.

“But with Jackson on board, dreams of sunny days on the beach disappeared, and they all became Vacationers of the Night, venturing out in the wee hours to protect Jackson and Culkin from being mobbed,” said the “Post” report. “That meant 2 a.m. dips in the hotel pool, room service instead of restaurants, shopping trips arranged after stores closed to the public.

“We were talking one day about how it might be fun to try diving,” Alan Goldstein said, “and next thing you know, we’ve got a dive boat to ourselves with some dive masters to teach us.”

When the family wanted to see a variety show at the Southampton Princess hotel, the cast put on a private performance at one in the morning in an otherwise empty auditorium, the Goldsteins said. “There was a Michael Jackson impersonator, which was a little awkward, but Michael was fine with it,” said Mr. Goldstein.

Brock Goldstein remembered the “once-in-your-lifetime” excitement of his favourite music star suddenly becoming a playmate. He remembers Jackson pulling out a small laser light and taking the boys out on the balcony to shine the beam down on bewildered beachgoers

“We’d try to get them to follow it,” he recalled. “We’d be calling out: ‘Follow the red liiiiight, follow the red liiiight. The red light has a present for you! Look, it’s a red balloon!’ ” The three would then hurl water balloons at their targets, ducking behind the balcony and collapsing in laughter.

Michael Jackson’s 1991 “Black Or White” video featuring Macaulay Culkin

While on the island Mr. Jackson]/b] and Macaulay Culkin went boating with millionaire businessman Ross Perot — the part-time Bermuda resident who twice ran as an independent candidate for the US Presidency — but declined an invitation to visit the West End estate of “Saturday Night Fever” producer and Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood.

Bermuda radio personality Ms Thang [Kristy Burgess] has recalled meeting the King of Pop at the Princess Hotel when she was a little girl.

She ran into him when the visiting superstar was getting into a taxi at the entrance of the hotel.

“”He shook my hand and gave me a big hug,” she told a local newspaper following Mr. Jackson’s death in 2009.

Ms Thang was then invited to get into the taxi with the pop icon where they had a conversation which lasted for about five minutes. The DJ said at that moment she was “the happiest child in the world.”

“He was on his own, he was wearing a red shirt, black trousers and his usual hat. He was very softly spoken, he asked my name and my age, he was like any normal person.

“I told him I’d been his fan forever, then I told him I thought he was gorgeous and he blushed.”

She added: “I was smitten with him and I still am.”

In 2005 Macaulay Culkin testified at Michael Jackson’s California trial when the singer was charged with abusing children staying at his Neverland Ranch. Questioned about the Bermuda trip, the one-time child star — who was then 25 — said the singer never molested him or touched him in improper ways, calling such suggestions “absolutely ridiculous.”

Mr. Jackson was acquitted on all counts at that trial; in 1993 he was also accused of child sexual abuse, but that case was settled out of court.

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Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin in the lobby of the Princess Hotel

The Goldstein family also adamantly denied that anything untoward happened in Bermuda in their 2005 interview.

Mrs. Goldsten said during one conversation in Bermuda, she recalled, Mr. Jackson turned to her and said wistfully: “‘You know, kids are different than adults. Kids are honest with you. You can trust them. I haven’t met an adult who has been my friend without ending up wanting something from me.’ ”

“He was like one of us,” Brock Goldstein said of Mr. Jackson, and his childlike antics in Bermuda. “It makes perfect sense to me because he never had a childhood.”

The pop icon died in Los Angeles in 2009 of a heart attack brought on by prescription drug abuse when he was on the eve of mounting a major comeback tour. He was 50 years old. Widely recognised as one of the most successful entertainers of the 20th century, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion — along with his highly publicised personal life — had made him a global figure in popular culture for more than four decades.

- Photos courtesy of Ernie McCreight, Visual Impact Photography
http://bernews.com/2013/03/video-michael-jackson-rocks-bermudas-world/
 
this is pretty cool. I would love to see footage from this vacation. broke my heart though reading that michael said "kids are honest". not all kids are honest and sadly he later found that out.
 
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Awww. I'm really looking forward to this. It says it's going to be a one hour TV special.

Anyone know which channel and which date it will be shown? I'm assuming they are going to try to time it to coincide as close to June 25th as possible?
 
i'm sure it will be, that trip looks fantastic! have you seen the various photo's? it was the same trip as when Michael & Mac were messing around with those fire snaps at the hotel right?
I know the footage is great but I also know everything can be twisted and made to be something awful. Especially with stupid commentary.
 
I really hope this tv special will genuinely be in michael's favor. maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't trust anybody, anymore. I do not want another bashir incident.
 
Vacation home movies get turned into tv specials now? That's new.
I guess Michael kind of started this when he released his own home movies special. lol
I can't lie , I would watch this footage and probably enjoy it a lot.
Still somehow it feels kind of weird, pretty sure when this was recorded he didn't think it would turn in to a tv special one day. Only Michael.
 
The footage looks fun and from the preview it does not seem like the makers have a sinister agenda with it (at least so far), so let's hope no media will try to make them "spice it up" a little with innuendo and suggestive narration. Unfortunately even if the narration will totally be nice and innocent and the film itself totally positive, I can see the media trying to go in some trash direction with it in reviews. :ermm:
 
I really hope this tv special will genuinely be in michael's favor. maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't trust anybody, anymore. I do not want another bashir incident.
Me too. Honestly, it's just sad and disgusting how the world is and how I've become. When I first read this article, I was so excited about it-actually getting to see Michael having a fun "family" vacation and being relaxed and happy-and he does look happy-getting away from all the pressures at home and work-then it went to worry as I was imagining a "sinister, creepy voiceover" on innocent fun and then thinking how many of these kids were going to "suddenly remember everything" when it airs. I am suspicious of everyone now.
 
I'm fairly sure the Goldstein family were friends with Michael... why would they be out to get him? this footage is so precious, i'm honored that we'll soon be seeing such an intimate look at Michael being himself! i hope he plays some pranks, like he normally did with Macaulay! His normality of life is so beautiful.. and i just wish he could've been able to express his free living spirit more often.
 
Feel torn about it... sure it would be fun to see Michael happy and having fun with this family... then again it feels as if nothing but really nothing he ever did could stay private ever. He's sold out.
It is/was his private life.
Doesn't he has a right for a tiny bit of privacy?
I can't help it.
Aside from my curiosity rooted in my endless admiration for Michael, it does make me sad for him.
I can not imagine how incredible awful that must had felt when he was alive.
So honestly if they would keep it for themselves, I could take it also. It would feel Michael was protected... at least once.
 
Me too. Honestly, it's just sad and disgusting how the world is and how I've become. When I first read this article, I was so excited about it-actually getting to see Michael having a fun "family" vacation and being relaxed and happy-and he does look happy-getting away from all the pressures at home and work-then it went to worry as I was imagining a "sinister, creepy voiceover" on innocent fun and then thinking how many of these kids were going to "suddenly remember everything" when it airs. I am suspicious of everyone now.
this is exactly how I felt/feel too.
 
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