When Michael Jackson was a child ... wrote in her 2004 autobiography "A Paper Life." "He'd played the Scarecrow in The Wiz, the urban remake of The Wizard of Oz, which starred Diana Ross as ...

Jones produced the soundtrack for "The Wiz," which starred Michael Jackson as the scarecrow. Latifah, a friend and collaborator throughout Jones' life, was featured on several tracks of his 1995 ...

Almost every Black person of a certain age remembers being terrified by something in The Wiz. For me ... Tinman (Nipsey Russell), and Scarecrow (Michael Jackson) in the 1978 movie musical that ...