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Michael worked with Sir John Mills?

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Ok forgive me I'm overly curious and have a bad memory when it comes to MJ's work history :lol:

So I was watching an old interview episode of Parkinson and his guests were the Bee Gees and Sir John Mills. This interview is from a while back (around 2001) as it was before Maurice Gibb passed away.

The Bee Gees were great btw and during their interview they were talking about how the press try to shape an artist's image and the effects of Saturday Night Fever on them and he asked "Did that have a big impact on you" and Barrys replied with something along the lines of "oh course it has an effect" and he sighted folks like Michael.

Then Sir John Mills came on and this is what was said.


Parkinson: "So what I want to know is, at 93 why are you still working?"

Sir John Mills: "Um Mike, I don't think I've worked for a living, I've done a hobby, and I love it and I still do it and I still enjoy it."

P: "Do you ever think of retiring?"

JM: "uh, er no"

then a personal story occurred then Parkinson led the conversation to:

P: "You're going to do a BBC .. ah you've done a BBC Film... and you're going to work with Michael Jackson?"

JM: [excited] "YES!"

P: [chuckling] "What on earth are you going to do with Michael Jackson?"

JM: [very quickly] "Well we're very much alike you know"

[laughter from the crowd]

P: [laughing] "Well he's a tad younger than you"

The conversation moves on to asking him how he goes about working these days considering he can't read the text in the scripts and is hard of hearing :lol:
But they never came back to discussing what he and MJ could be working on back then.


This interview would have occurred around 2001.

So now I'm highly curious :wild:




Does anyone know what Sir John Mills worked on with Michael?



Is it something that made it to some kind of release? Or was it something that never got finished?



I'd love any thoughts on this :flowers:
 
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Sir John Mills was a legendary British actor who made more than 120 films and whose career spanned seventy years. He was meant to be fantastic on stage, but he also starred in films like: Great Expectations and won an academy award for his role as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mills
 
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hmm interesting! i never knew of this, but if you google their names, it seems that John was involved in the 30th Anniversary concerts.
 
http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=101

part of the guest list

Among those were: Muhammad Ali, Carroll Baker, Ann Blyth, Marlon Brando, Kobe Bryant, Petula Clark, Macaulay Culkin, Willem Dafoe, Angie Dickinson, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Patty Duke, Rhonda Fleming, June Haver, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Kim Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Anne Jeffreys, Magic Johnson, Jennifer Jones, Quincy Jones, Eartha Kitt, Piper Laurie, Janet Leigh, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Gina Lollobrigida, Ann Miller, Reggie Miller, Sir John Mills, Hayley Mills, Liza Minnelli, Patricia Neal, Liam Neeson, Franco Nero, Margaret O'Brien, Master P, Gregory Peck, Jane Powell, Vanessa Redgrave, Debbie Reynolds, Barbara Rush, Jane Russell, Ann Rutherford, Lizabeth Scott, William Shatner, Penny Singleton, Jill St. John, Elizabeth Taylor, Chris Tucker, Robert Wagner, Ruth Warrick, Esther Williams, and many more.
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hmmm I dunno if it's that but I guess it must be :(

thought it might have been something else. He seemed rather excited about the prospects of working with MJ
 
this colaboration with Sir John will not be happening (unless they recorded something in advance) because Sr John Mills passed away in 2005.

I can imagine Michael being interested in Sir John's work because his films included 'War and peace' and 'great expectations', from the same era as katherine hepburn and sophia loren's films.
 
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