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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sarah Left

Courting celebrity

A little-reported California law states that every high-level celebrity trial needs to create at least one more celebrity, just to keep the industry ticking over. The OJ circus, for example, created the entertaining if short-lived career of "professional freeloader" Kato Kaelin.

So someone's career needs to profit from the Michael Jackson sexual abuse trial, and no one is in a better position to cash in than long-time Jackson impersonator Edward Moss. Moss has been hired to portray Jackson in Sky and E! Entertainment's nightly reconstruction based on the day's court proceedings, seeing as the judge has this time wisely banned television cameras from the courtroom.

Someone - apparently his manager - has put together a site carefully detailing Edward's career, including pictures, video and the news that he appeared on ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel's show "destroying Hollywood Boulevard as a Godzilla-sized Michael Jackson".

And this publicity shot suggests that if the Jackson impersonation business ever drops off, Moss could have a future in the currently very hot Iranian film industry.

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