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 ...

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 ...