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          The new documentary Michael Jackson "The Life Of An Icon" is a must see. I always wanted to see a documentary that would compare to the classic movie, The Jackson's "An American Dream" . The movie adaptation was excellent and rang very true to me. The casting for the movie was dead on; the documentary shows early pictures of Katherine Jackson, and Angela Bassett resembles the young Katherine. Family members Katherine and Tito Jackson appear in this work and narrates for us. The documentary sheds light on the music industry as it was back in those days; the seventies and the eighties, still very segregated.             What I found to be interesting was the story behind Bobby Taylor, the one who discovered the Jackson Five and Berry Gordy, the president of Motown. For years everyone thought that Diana Ross discovered the group, that was only due to the marketing strategy of Berry Gordy. Bobby Taylor was the one who...