My colleague Ted Rodgers shares:

Disney reportedly will start showing the Michael Jackson 3-D movie “Captain EO” at its theme parks in January. Jackson spent $30 million to make the movie and persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to direct, George Lucas to produce and Anjelica Huston to co-star in it. Disney played the movie at the parks in the 1980s and ’90s, then pulled it.

From The Associated Press:

Us Weekly magazine has obtained video it says shows never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson’s head catching on fire during filming of his 1984 Pepsi commercial.

Jackson suffered severe burns after a pyrotechnics mishap caused his hair and scalp to catch afire. Still photos of the accident have been seen before, but the new video on Us Weekly’s Web site shows the moment Jackson’s hair caught on fire and the top of his head became engulfed in flames.

Most of Michael Jackson’s official music videos on YouTube can’t be embedded here, but this video of a performance in 1992 seems fitting:

And here’s an interesting note, brought to my attention by my colleague Erica Smith: Michael Jackson holds the patent for the “Smooth Criminal” lean — or the “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.”

This next video apparently was among Time magazine’s 10 most-popular viral videos of the year last year, though we had never seen it until a co-worker shared it with us today. Thanks, Gary.

A concise description of the video from Time:

“Orange-jumpsuited accused murderers, rapists and drug dealers paid homage to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ in a dance performance filmed at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines (CPDRC).”