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Jacko TV Special Will Omit Guest Stars submitted by: Lisa D. source: Fox News 411 Date: October 4, 2001 By Roger Friedman The word is out at CBS: When Michael Jackson's special airs in mid-November, most of those loony guest stars who appeared with him at Madison Square Garden will be cut out. You will not, for example, be seeing Marlon Brando's rambling speech about children being hacked to death with a machete. If there's a God, you will also not see Liza Minnelli in her strange makeup with a facelift, boy singer Billy Gilmer enchanting Jackson with "Ben," or the weird salute to The Wiz that is still not fully comprehended. Television viewers will probably not see Whitney Houston's skeletal frame singing "Wanna Be Starting Something" either. Sources at the network told me that most of that footage was unusable or unwatchable. "At best," my source says, "you may see snippets of some of the performances." The source continues: "It's a two-hour show, and what you're going to see is Michael's reunion with the Jackson 5, 'N Sync joining them for a few minutes, and Michael performing 'Billie Jean' and 'Beat It.' That stuff was magic. The rest of it, you can forget about." The TV version will also omit Jackson singing "The Way You Make Me Feel" with Britney Spears. Spears is appearing on HBO and has a clause in her contract forbidding her from being on any other network show for 30 days. And a strange moment in this freak show — when Michael told the audience they could make requests, pretended he was being asked to sing his new "You Rock My World," and then proceeded to sing it — what a surprise! — will probably not make the final cut. CBS is still deciding when to air the show, for which they paid $5 million. But a source said to look for it in the first or second week of November. Site design by: Dolphin Webpage Designs © 1996-2001