Thriller

Dear Interview,

How utterly predictable that Michael Jackson [August 2003] would turn the Pharrell Williams interview into an opportunity for self-promotion, going so far as to compare himself to Jesus. Who is he fooling? Interview is for the hip and the cool, certainly not for desperate-for-publicity has-beens like Michael Jackson. He never was that great in the first place!

JOHN HOWTON Via the Internet

Dear Interview,

Regarding the "interview" with Pharrell Williams by Michael Jackson: How about Jackson once again making an ass out of himself?. The comparisons he makes to himself (Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi) are preposterous. Let's be real: The success of Off the Wall and Thriller had much more to do with Quincy Jones than it did with the pre-egomaniacal Jackson. Is Williams unaware of the names Einstein, Churchill, even Lennon and McCartney? It just mystifies me.

PETER M. AMBROSE Brooklyn

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