"Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland"

    Zitat von Korgnex

    SUPER! :wau



    Das wird seinem Image einen großen Aufschwung geben. :top


    Glaubst du echt? :) Ich glaube diese Doku wird untergehen...die Leute sind glaube ich weniger offen dafür, als für einen neuen Skandal über ihn...


    Es sollte auch nicht nur über VH-1 ausgestrahlt werden, was die wenigsten haben, sondern über andere Sender. Dann steigt vielleicht die Chance auf eine Image-Besserung. :)

    Upcoming Documentary: The Untold Story of Neverland


    Coastal View News ran a story on March 26, 2009 discussing a fresh documentary produced by Larry Nimmer. The documentary, titled "Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland" has been a work-in-progress since 2005 when Mr. Nimmer was called to shoot footage at Neverland and to subsequently testify in court as part of the defense's case. Nimmer is part of a demonstrative evidence company and has put together more than 1,000 multimedia exhibits for a wide array of court cases in California. In the Michael Jackson trial, Mr. Nimmer was called, in part, to record raw footage which directly contradicted key allegations from the Arvizos--mainly involving the interior alarms and security in place at Neverland.


    This new documentary, which is currently being shopped to networks including VH1, "goes beyond the gates of Neverland and into the life of the accuser, Gavin Arvizo, and his family...it is revealed that the downtrodden family has anything but a squeaky clean past, and that the decision to turn on Jackson could have been spurred on by ulterior motives to collect money from the man that the family once considered its celebrity savior." In addition to examining the questionable history of the Arvizo family and the premises of Neverland, the documentary also explores the media at large and the Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office--spearheaded at the time by Thomas Sneddon. Nimmer is said to narrate the film in a "soft-spoken, matter-of-fact" manner and is also expected to include outtakes from the Martin Bashir documentary which paint an entirely different picture on the 2003 accusers and on Michael Jackson.


    Larry Nimmer's forthcoming documentary is a much welcomed counterpart to the other in-production book and film by tabloid gossipmonger, Ian Halperin. Followers of Michael Jackson may remember Ian Halperin as the person who claimed for months that Michael Jackson was half blind, near mute, and gravely ill with a string of life-threatening diseases including Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, lung disease, severe emphysema, gastrointestinal bleeding, and so forth. After news broke that Michael Jackson would be performing in concert this summer and that he underwent an intensive five-hour, 50-point medical examine to ensure perfect physical fitness, Ian Halperin unleashed a whole new line of unfounded Michael Jackson rumors ranging from plastic surgery, to adoption, and more. Ian was most recently called out by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, whom Ian claimed hired Michael Jackson to perform a June concert--like all of Ian's past claims about Michael Jackson, there was no truth to this rumor, either. Last year, MJJR.net posted an exclusive report detailing Ian's checkered background and widely confirmed lies.


    Source: MJJR.net / MJDreams / Costal View News

    Zitat

    This is excellent news. Larry Nimmer is highly professional and I really look forward to this. He wrote a lengthy and excellent article about his experience working at Neverland as part of the trial shortly after Michael was acquitted. This documentary BETTER get more publicity than the farce of a mockumentary that the no-named creep Ian Halperin is independently producing (with the cooperation of none other than Diane Dimond). And, after VH1 aired such atrocities like Michael Jackson's Secret Child and Man In the Mirror, they really ought to consider this one especially now that Michael is on the comeback trail.


    Source: TSCM, MJJC

    Ich finds auch blöd dass die Sache wieder zur Sprache kommt.
    Vielleicht hat sowas aber jetzt mehr Gehör bei einigen und wird auch von vielen geguckt.
    Schaden wird es Michael sicher nicht.
    Entweder es wird einfach niemanden, außer uns Fans, interessieren, weshalb es dann keine Einschaltquoten hat. Oder es gucken viele und wird einigen die Augen öffnen.
    Hm.

    [CENTER]Michael, Ich werde dich immer lieben. Ich hoffe es gibt ein "da oben" und es geht dir gut dort. Wir werden dich alle so sehr vermissen.[/CENTER]

    Zitat von Screamlouder

    ...Und es bringt Michael einfach NULL wieder damit in Verbindung gebracht zu werden...egal ob positiv oder negativ...es bleibt ein Reminder an Dreck.


    normal wäre das schon so...
    aber in diesem fall braucht es keine "reminder" ...das thema ist in vielen
    köpfen (neben thriller) doch immernoch nr.1 was michael jackson angeht..
    und wird es wohl leider auch für immer bleiben.
    also ist alles was ein bissl in richtung positive aufarbeitung geht gut.
    find ich... :)

    @Wisch die Leute haben doch bereits ihr Bild. Es wird auch keine Doku geben, die versucht Thriller nun doch als ein nicht wichtiges Album dartzustellen. Es ist was es ist, egal ob wahr oder nicht. Genau so ist es mit dem Skandälchen und völlig egal was in der Doku erzählt wird, es bleibt der Reminder an "ah da war doch was"....deswegen ist es 1000mal besser das nicht zu thematisieren...egal wie. Um so mehr der Künstler im Fordergrund steht um so besser für Michael.

    Zitat von Screamlouder

    @Wisch die Leute haben doch bereits ihr Bild. Es wird auch keine Doku geben, die versucht Thriller nun doch als ein nicht wichtiges Album dartzustellen. Es ist was es ist, egal ob wahr oder nicht. Genau so ist es mit dem Skandälchen und völlig egal was in der Doku erzählt wird, es bleibt der Reminder an "ah da war doch was"....deswegen ist es 1000mal besser das nicht zu thematisieren...egal wie. Um so mehr der Künstler im Fordergrund steht um so besser für Michael.


    Ich bin natürlich größtenteils deiner Meinung. Aber leider wird es gg. Juni/Juli, pünktlich zu den Konzerten, auch wieder (mindestens) zwei Dokumentationen geben, eine von unserem allseits bekanten "Journalisten" und "Biograf" Ian Halperin (gekoppelt mit seinem neuen Buch), und eine von "Channel 5", die sehr negativ ausgelegt sind und diese Thematik auch erneut aufgreifen werden.


    Diese Thematik wird dieses Jahr also so oder so leider wieder behandelt. Deswegen ist es gut, wenn es auch vernünftige Dokumentationen geben wird. Ich denke aber, dass aufgrund der Konzerte, alles andere sowieso größtenteils in den Schatten gestellt wird.

    Hier etwas zur Dokumentation von Channel 5. Sie soll größtenteils negativ werden:



    Five orders Simon Cowell and Michael Jackson docs

    Hier mal ein älterer Artikel über den Dokumentator:


    [mjforweb]



    July 19, 2005


    Defense team videographer Larry Nimmer says Michael’s more normal than we’ve been led to believe



    Michael Jackson photo by KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/AFP/Getty Images


    If you think Michael Jackson is an alien, an experiment in plastic surgery, a freak with a mental disorder or a child-molester who can’t stop touching his own (and apparently everyone else’s) crotch, you’re not alone. It seems just about everyone these days, from the TV newscasters to the tabloid magazines to everyday citizens going about their lives, think the King of Pop uses his royal power for strange (at best) or evil (at worst) deeds—whether they believe the “not guilty” verdict or not.


    But the Carpinteria-based videographers who worked with Jackson’s defense team on the trial say that just because In Touch and Court TV say Jackson’s w@cko doesn’t mean he is. In fact, according to videographer Larry Nimmer and the two people who helped him film and edit video for Jackson’s defense team, the pale-faced, high-voiced star might not be (gasp!) a freak. And he might just be innocent too.


    “I found him a lot more normal a person than he’s perceived,” said Nimmer, whose company Nimmer Legal Graphics helped Jackson’s defense team with everything from filming a tour of Neverland Ranch to editing outtakes from previous interviews to show during closing arguments.


    During the process of working on these videos, Nimmer discovered that public and media perception of the pop prince may be seriously skewed. And he suspects the common suspicion that Jackson is, indeed, a child molester might be a result of the same sensationalist media and conservative culture that has most of America assuming Jackson just got away with a crime.


    “My personal opinion is that no, he didn’t do it,” said Nimmer.


    Nimmer’s assistant Tom Friedman agreed.


    “Within about five minutes (on Neverland Ranch), I was convinced Jackson was innocent and is a generous, big-hearted person,” Friedman said.


    What does Nimmer (and his team) know?


    Larry Nimmer isn’t just a Jackson fan, blinded by devotion, who also happens to have some video editing skills.


    Instead, he’s an upper-middle-aged multimedia producer in Carpinteria who makes his living with Nimmer Legal Graphics, a company that provides video, scale models, graphs and other visual aids for court cases. With an impressive resume that includes shooting music videos (he was doing it two years before MTV started airing them), working for the CBS TV news affiliate in San Francisco, creating numerous documentaries and overseeing the Santa Barbara Film Festival—and that’s all in addition to carving a place for himself as the premier legal graphics producer in the tri-county area—Nimmer’s the real deal: an objective, professional media producer with no personal stake in this, or any trial’s, outcome.



    Larry Nimmer lets assistant Chrissy Strassburg hold the camera outside Neverland. (Photo
    by Jeff Clark)


    And his assistants were similarly un-invested in the trial or their image of Jackson. Tom Friedman, who frequently works with Nimmer on documentaries and legal videos, said he was never really interested in the pop star, but “like most people did, I thought he was a strange, potentially bizarre individual.” Another assistant, Chrissy Strassburg, said she’s always respected Jackson’s music, but distrusted his seeming insecurity and his obsession with his looks.


    All made a commitment to approach their job as objectively as possible. When Friedman and Nimmer went to Neverland to film the tour, for example, Nimmer said he didn’t want to use any videographic “trickery” to create a sentimental or skewed view of the ranch. And the video they made, which showed a beautiful, rolling and surprisingly conservative estate, wasn’t just the selection of the more pleasant or normal aspects of Neverland—it was, said Nimmer and Friedman, an accurate portrayal of what it was like to be there.


    “There were no weird pictures of kids, no pornographic titles on the shelves,” said Friedman. “I didn’t see anything at all that made me think, ‘If they see this, he’s going to fall.’”


    The ranch


    Three days of filming by Nimmer, with lots of help from Friedman and assistance on nighttime shots by Strassburg, led to a 19-minute video that jurors in the Jackson case saw. Originally, said Nimmer, Jackson’s defense had wanted to give jurors a tour of the ranch, which would not only give them a sense of Jackson’s personality and character, but would also relate directly to accusations of where and how the alleged molestation happened, or where and how the accuser’s mother said she was held against her will. But the judge wouldn’t allow it.


    So since Jackson’s defense team couldn’t bring the jurors to Neverland Ranch, they had Nimmer Legal Graphics bring Neverland to the jury.


    The process started with several days of visits, including all-access tours for Nimmer and his assistants. Jackson wasn’t there, since he was in court, and his kids were kept out of sight, per Jackson’s request, but otherwise Nimmer could see anything he wanted. He rode the trains on the property, visited the amusement park and the zoo, had lunch in the family dining room and peeked into the private wing of the main house, where Jackson and his kids have bedrooms.


    “The prosecution made it out to be a place where only bad things happened,” said Nimmer, a tall, slender, bespectacled man with graying hair who could easily pass as someone’s science teacher. But he and his team said the mythical ranch is profoundly different than people might expect.


    Yes, there are elements that are fantastical, whimsical or opulent, but for the most part, “it feels very normal, like a nice mansion,” said Nimmer. “It’s kind of a cross between Disneyland and a Montecito estate.”



    Fans gather at the gate of Neverland Ranch, which they’ve decorated,
    to celebrate the “not guilty” verdict. (Photo by Jeff Clark)


    The video seems to confirm this. Unlike the visions many of us might imagine—a colorful plastic landscape that would appeal to Tim Burton à la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or a raucous, creepy, 24-hour carnival reminiscent of AI’s sin city—the ranch seems rather, well, tame. A modest gate with a low fence leads visitors onto a property of rolling lawns, idyllic lakes and ponds and lush, green trees. The real gate, up ahead, is only slightly bigger, and has only one security guard in a tower checking visitors.


    Inside, there is Jackson’s house, a Tudor-style mansion in hues of browns and reds; the amusement park, which is impressive but not sprawling, all-encompassing or even, at that moment, running; the zoo, which resembles the stables and barns on many area ranches except that this one has giraffes and monkeys instead of horses and ponies; and the trains, which even seem tasteful and muted, more like enlarged model trains (which they basically are) than amusement park rides. There is a full-sized movie theater, with posters of Disney movies in the foyer and display cases full of free candy that is handed out by staff. Visitors also get freebie toys and sweets at the main train station.


    But on the video, none of these elements seem anything other than ordinary. The only extraordinary thing about them is that they’re all on one property and that they seem to be made for the use of people who don’t live there.


    The only thing Nimmer found a little strange was the constant music coming from speakers throughout the property. “It was kind of neutral and happy … and at first it was kind of fun, and then kind of tedious. I wonder how his kids react to it,” said Nimmer.


    But otherwise, Nimmer and his team were impressed by how beautiful, tranquil and not that weird the ranch was. Especially Friedman, who’d imagined, “here’s this guy running around in his little, sad wonderland with giraffes frolicking in the fields when there’s so much poverty in the world and so many better ways to spend your money,” he said.


    But once at the ranch, Friedman said it was obvious the property was made for the benefit of other people—and not to fulfill Jackson’s own stunted-childhood fantasies or to provide a backdrop for child abuse. The amusement park was clearly built on the scale for large groups of kids to visit, he said, many of whom probably arrived on the luxury bus Jackson had parked on the property, and didn’t seem to cater to any kind of one-on-one or private activity at all.


    “This guy doesn’t get on his Ferris wheel every night and go whooping and screaming,” said Friedman. “I doubt very much he’s out there with a little balloon and a noisemaker riding it himself.”


    In fact, the video shows a small, modest jungle gym behind the main house made of wood, the kind “you’d see in a very moderate public park, like in Carpinteria,” said Friedman. This seems to be the place where Jackson and his three kids actually spend their time.


    “My guess is that he probably spends more time there with his kids than he does frolicking around the amusement park,” said Friedman. Instead, said Friedman and Nimmer, it seems clear that the park is there for the reason Jackson says it’s there: as a 700-acre fantasyland for sick and underprivileged kids who don’t have a chance to experience the real thing. After seeing it for himself, Friedman said it’s too bad Jackson gets a bad rap for something that’s so extraordinarily good.


    “Even though it’s his private estate, he’s given a great deal over to the public good. Who else does that? Tom Cruise? Does Bill Gates do it? Does Steven Spielberg do it? Does Barbra Streisand do it? Turn over vast landholdings to access to people? To kids?” said Friedman. “He’s very, very unique … and he’s sacrificed his privacy to do it.”


    The house


    Going inside Jackson’s mansion was even more illuminating for the video team, said Nimmer. The video shows a surprisingly grown-up house, with gold ornamentation and heavy furniture inspired by traditional French royalty. The only odd touches were paintings of Jackson with children, one of him as a kind of pied piper and one of him reading to a circle of kids, and several mannequins. But the paintings only seemed strange in a narcissistic, not a pedophiliac, sort of way, agreed Nimmer’s team.


    And though the prosecution tried to paint Jackson’s mannequins as something strange, Nimmer said the dolls—one of which was a life-like butler at the front door holding a real plate of cookies, while another was a child playing upside down on a chair—“seemed to me kind of playful and fun.”



    Fans show their support for Michael. (Photo by Jeff Clark)


    Friedman agreed, saying the mannequins were “not threatening … If he’s got the money and it tickles his funny bone, why not? ... I don’t think it’s sinister or creepy or implies that the guy’s a sexual predator,” he said, comparing Jackson’s penchant for mannequins to other people’s hobbies of collecting coins or photos of dogs.


    Friedman also noted that the house itself, while large, wasn’t excessively so. The rooms were human scale, he said, reasonably informal and reasonably comfortable.


    “There were no grand public rooms, no mirrored ballroom where Michael, in the certain moment, would appear and come down off a large balcony,” he said. “It was more like a ranch house than a palace.”


    And both men noted that there were signs of real life all over the house and the property: from Jackson’s kids’ jackets hanging on pegs in the hallway to the sound of their giggling upstairs while Friedman and Nimmer ate lunch. There were photos of the kids all over the house too, said Nimmer, but most were turned around by staff so they wouldn’t get caught on videotape—which was part of Jackson’s request to protect the privacy of his family.


    Outside on the lawn, there were also tricycles that obviously had been used over and over.


    “The scooters and little bicycles were battered and just regular … it showed the presence of regular little kids,” said Friedman. “He could get each of those kids a solid gold jet-propelled tricycle, but he just had regular little tricycles. It shows there’s a very human side to this guy.”


    Nimmer agreed and, in fact, made sure he got shots in the video of the trikes, the jackets and even a note reading “I love you even more than that … get well soon” that Jackson’s daughter Paris scrawled to him on a chalkboard.


    “I wanted to convey to the jury the fact that he is a father and they’re real kids and they have a real relationship,” said Nimmer. In addition to the items he saw around the house, Nimmer also said Jackson’s relationship with his kids was clear from the other videos and interviews Nimmer had to sort through to make the tape for the closing argument, including outtakes from the documentary Living With Michael that seemed to imply Jackson liked sleeping with boys. Those outtakes, said Nimmer, showed “how much he likes talking about his kids and how close he is to the kids … which doesn’t really ever seem to come out in the press.”


    In fact, Nimmer took particular issue with the documentary, made by Martin Bashir, which showed Jackson holding hands with a boy, who later became his accuser, and saying he liked sleeping in beds with boys.


    “Bashir did not include a lot of the positive stuff about Michael that was shot in the documentary,” said Nimmer.


    The verdict


    But when it came to deciding whether Jackson was innocent or not, said Nimmer and his team, the facts were the most important part of the trial—a component Nimmer said most of the media seemed to ignore.


    “I found it surprising how the media could come up with so many stories based on so little information, when each day there wouldn’t be that much more to report on … They spend a lot of their time speculating,” said Nimmer, who still said he found media coverage—and the spectacle outside the courthouse—entertaining. It was just too bad it was at the expense of someone’s life, he said.


    Nimmer said the media seemed to perpetuate the myth of Jackson as a freak, and therefore as a possible molester. And he credits a lot of that to Jackson’s childlike nature, which he witnessed mostly while editing interviews like Bashir’s. Nimmer says Jackson cultivates a childlike nature for composing his music, creating his dances and promoting humanitarian causes.


    “People in our country tend to be very conservative and suspect bad intentions and in general think Michael Jackson’s a fool because he’s childlike, whereas I think it’s really refreshing,” said Nimmer. “I’m kind of upset how people automatically dismiss him because he’s childlike.”


    As for the accusations themselves, Nimmer and his team said most of them just didn’t add up. For example, the accuser’s mother said she was held at Neverland against her will, without any way to leave or any idea what time it was. But Nimmer’s video shows the posh guest house the woman easily could have left, the clocks all over the property and the scores of staff—including security guards, housekeepers, an administrative team and groundskeepers—who were too numerous, and seemed too down-to-earth, to make likely conspirators or captors.


    “I didn’t see any cameras in the trees, monitors on the walls, didn’t see any bloodhounds or electrified fences, any pits with sharpened stakes,” said Friedman. “She could have walked to the road and climbed over the fence.”


    Another accusation was that the accuser’s brother came up the stairs to Jackson’s bedroom and saw the pop star touching the boy inappropriately. But Jackson’s defense team argued that an alarm system set up in Jackson’s private wing would’ve been triggered by the brother’s approach, thus making the story impossible (and therefore all the stories not credible)—a fact Nimmer proved with his video.


    The prosecution’s claim that Jackson had a house full of porn seemed less likely, said Nimmer, when he visited Jackson’s library of 200,000 books—which ranged in topic from art history to old Hollywood to child-rearing to religion, and made up only a part of the star’s full 700,000-book collection.


    And assistant Chrissy Strassburg said, after seeing video of the accuser’s mom saying how much she trusted Michael during a time when she thought the camera was off, that there was no way she could believe the woman was telling the truth about being held at Neverland.


    The man


    With the evidence seemingly stacked in Jackson’s favor, Nimmer, Friedman and Strassburg were relieved and reassured to know that they were working for the “right” side. And in the process, they learned even more about Jackson.


    Nimmer, who only actually met the pop star once, the day Jackson thanked the videographer when he testified about the Neverland video in court, said Jackson was shy, humble, kind and “taller than I thought he would be. I thought he would be a short guy.”


    From video footage, though, he and his team got all kinds of insight into the star’s life: the debilitating chiding he got from his father and cousins about his “fat” nose and bad skin, which may have led to the plastic surgery he had later in life; the young Jackson’s practice of using the money he made performing to buy candy for the neighborhood kids, which naturally extended to a place like Neverland; the way Jackson tried over and over to correct Bashir when he implied that he liked having sex with boys, when what the pop star said was “When you say the word ‘sleep,’ you said it as if it’s sexual. ‘Sleep’ is getting in bed with somebody because they don’t want to be alone when they sleep,” Strassbourg quoted.


    And like the jury, they all came to a unanimous decision: Michael didn’t do it.


    What’s more, they understand where he’s coming from.


    “I don’t believe it’s necessarily wrong to sleep in a bed with a child,” said Nimmer, who used to share a tent with his sons and their friends on Indian Guide camp-outs. “It was kind of like a sleepover, and clearly there wasn’t anything sexual going on there.”


    Friedman agreed.


    “I don’t see anything wrong with him having kids sleep in his bed with him,” said Friedman, who used to look forward to sharing a bed with his grandfather during childhood holidays. “It’s a sweet gesture. I think it’s very intimate.”


    The bottom line, says Nimmer, is it makes him sad that Jackson has had to go through all of this simply because he wants to give back to children and he enjoys their non-threatening company.


    “It’s an incredible hoax that the accuser’s family has pulled off to, one, monopolize the life of a superstar and, two, monopolize the world media by coming up with a bogus story,” he said. “Which I believe it is. And which the jury seems to believe it was.”


    Source: Midas57, KOP Board

    Exclusive: “Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland,” Interview with Larry Nimmer



    “Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland,” setting the record straight!


    By Marie for MJJCommunity.com


    Filmmaker Larry Nimmer, a producer of multi-media since the late 70's, is now out with a new documentary about Michael Jackson, “Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland.”


    During the 2005 trial, Mr. Nimmer's footage helped show the jury exactly who Michael Jackson is, contradicting the images portrayed by the Santa Barbara Sheriff's department. Mr. Nimmer testified in the case, and his footage was used to acquit Michael Jackson.


    “I think it was wonderful how Michael Jackson created Neverland as a refuge for thousands of kids as well as his own inner kid. It’s a shame how one family’s bogus story lead to him, and future inner city kids, losing Neverland. I guess I like that my documentary will help continue Neverland, at least in our shared history,” Larry Nimmer tells MJJC.


    In the documentary there will be never before seen footage inside Neverland, outtakes from the Martin Bashir documentary he did not want us to see, the video that the sheriff's shot of their raid of Neverland where they went through all the Neverland private areas, the Arviso family's own video where the accuser family praise Michael Jackson and say what he is like and what it's like to stay at Neverland, the sheriff's video, which were given to Nimmer from Jackson's attorneys, where the accuser describes how he was molested, an interview with jury foreman Paul Rodriguez where he describes what went on behind closed doors as they where deliberating the case, an interview with Tom Mesereau about his client and the case, Larry Nimmer's own video tour of Neverland which includes Jackson's bedroom, the guest quarters, the zoo, arcade, amusement park, theater etc and clips of Michael Jackson during his career.



    How has the trial changed your outlook on Michael Jackson?


    “I’m more sympathetic to him now. I am upset to see how the media will try to sensationalize a story to get higher ratings and make more money. I learned first hand how people go to great lengths to take advantage of celebrities like Jackson. I have more respect for him when I hear how he uses his childlike nature for creative purposes. I have great sympathy for him seeing how he wanted to do good for the Arviso family and how they put him through hell,” Nimmer says.


    At first Larry Nimmer did not have any opinion if Michael Jackson had abused any kids or not, but after getting a closer look, he figured out he is not a pedophile.


    “Michael has been so insulated from the everyday public that he showed bad judgment in thinking people would not find wrong in the fact that he shares his bed with other kids. I believe he did not molest any kids, but practically speaking, most people in the American culture will not accept an adult sleeping in bed with kids that are not their own. He seems to be a unique adult who has channeled his childlike nature for creative and professional purposes,” he says.


    “Looking at MJ’s life and work, I am more impressed with his multi-dimensional creativity: He is outstanding as a singer, dancer, composer, choreographer, music video filmmaker and children’s humanitarian,” he continues.


    What was Neverland like from your own point of view?


    “It was a well manicured place designed to have fun and to be friendly to visitors. I loved riding on the trains and having his staff willing to do anything I requested. It's great being able to walk up to his kitchen counter and request anything that I want,” he says.


    Nimmer also explains how he was overwhelmed with the number of things in the house. Artworks, toys, fancy furniture, signed photos, tapes upon tapes and statues of every shape and size.


    “The only odd thing for me was hearing the piped in music throughout the grounds. It sounded like what you would hear at Disneyland, and all the TVs in the house were set to the Disney channel. But it's fun riding around on the property in Golf Carts.”


    What do you think about Michael Jackson as a performer and as a person?


    “As a performer, there is none better. I love how he performs from his gut and from his soul. How he is totally uninhibited when he performs, as opposed to how he is in everyday life. As a person, he seems to be a wonderful guy, although, he has not surrounded himself with the best advisors, and maybe because of this, he has shown poor judgement on how the world will react to him.”


    Nimmer goes on to say that he doesn't think he is so strange, and that the ways in which he is different is refreshing.


    After his work on the trial, how has Michael Jackson affected your life?


    “I like to think about using my childlike nature for creative and humanitarian actions. I enjoyed working on the case, making the documentary, following MJ’s career and I enjoy people being impressed that I worked for MJ. My son’s, ages 22 and 25, have new respect for me for having worked for Michael Jackson.”


    What have you been up to lately since we last heard from you?


    “I have been producing documentaries, informational videos and various projects to make people feel good about themselves. These include “Generation Exchange” where I have school kids meet seniors and interview one another. “Love taps” which also does unsolicited little acts of love to unsuspecting people. And I also dance for peace which I put on YouTube.”


    If you could say anything to Michael right now, what would it be?


    “Would you care to make a short message to put on my doc? Otherwise, I feel a little guilty about being one more person trying to benefit from my association with you… but, I do believe I have a positive agenda. One way that I’m like you is that I’m often more comfortable hanging out with kids in social situations than with adults”.


    “I’m happy to do my part with “Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland” which will hopefully help set the record straight of what happened at Neverland,” he says.


    And last, but not least. Are you going to one of his concerts this summer in London?


    “I hope to go. I wasn't able to buy any tickets. But I would like to go and make myself available for interviews about my documentary and my thoughts about Michael Jackson.”


    The documentary will be broadcast sometime soon. Larry Nimmer will also make it available for sale on Amazon or for rent at Netflix. If you want any more information about this upcoming documentary, or if you have any questions, you can email Larry Nimmer at larry@nimmer.net



    Source: MJJC MOD 1, MJJC

    My Emails With Larry Nimmer, Regarding the Documentary of MJ!


    Hey all! I just wanted to share with everyone what the scoop was with Larry Nimmer and his documentary he is planning on Michael Jackson. I recently found contact with him via email (YAY!!!!), and he was very nice and polite in answering some of my questions.


    I also gave him the link to King of Pop Discussion so that he may check out the fan base and get some feedback on his project. -Hope ya'll don't mind someone peeping in on us from time to time! (Hey, if MJ were doing it, you wouldn't have a problem, right?)


    Anyway, the emails were as follows -and NO, I will not post his email address here. If you wish to know something, please PM me or let me know here, and I'll see what I can do.


    EMAIL 1:


    Mr. Nimmer,


    Allow me to introduce myself as Annie. I am a huge Michael Jackson fan who recently (5 minutes ago) found out that you may be doing a documentary on MJ. Is it true? Do you know when it would be out?


    Of course, I understand the legal issues you may have and won't be able to tell me all details, but at least tell me if its true!


    I guess the REAL reason I'm here writing to you is because the fans have reviewed what your "plans" are for this documentary. Although it isn't any of our business how you plan on doing it (or not), I think we've pretty much come to the conclusion that we don't want to see very much trial stuff. It's over. Let it be over. The only worry for us is that since all the trial hype has died down some, we don't want the tabloids and other untruthful media's to get wind of it and start pointing fingers again. I think what the fans really want to see is more of the closing of Neverland. Kind of like, a tragic end... but a new beginning type thing!


    Please consider it, if it isn't too late. I will be waiting for your doc to either air or be available to own on amazon (which is what the rumor is).


    Don't hesitate to respond, you may add me as a friend if you wish.


    Thank you and good luck!


    God Bless,
    Annie W.


    P.S.- We're all waiting to give you the "seal of approval" from the fans!
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    EMAIL 2 (Response)


    Anne... It's nice to hear from you. You sound like you're doing good work. I understand that you and others want to focus on the future rather than rehash the trial and that makes sense to me. However, I happen to have knowledge, and the footage, of what happened which is contrary to what most people believe. Perhaps my documentary will be seen by the media and they will be less likely to make fun of MJ and believe the child molestation talk. I wish I could do a documentary about Michael's music and heart... but, what I happen to have is material relating to the trial and I feel it my duty to set the record straight, as I know it. But, having said this, the documentary is not only about the trial... it's also about Michaels history and his work... how the media used him to make money by portraying him as someone he isn't.. how the Sheriff's may have had a vendetta against him... and last but not least, what Neverland was... in it's glory... a place Michael built for other kids... so, as Neverland closes, my video is a sort of goodbye.


    Anyway, I'll let you know as soon as my plans are made to either broadcast it and/or release it on DVD.


    Anne... where do you live and what do you do for a living. Nice to hear from you.


    Best,
    Larry


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    EMAIL 3 (MY response)


    Larry,
    Thank you so much for your reply! I have to admit, I didn't think I would get one. Either that, or someone who wasn't you would reply (like a fan base). Would it be alright if I post a portion of this email on the MJ fanboards for others to view? I would like them to understand more about what your plans are. If not, its fine but I'm just curious.


    I live in Ohio... BORING! And I work at a local drug store. As long as my hubby sticks with me, combined we can pay the rent! Became a fan at the age of five and haven't "grown out of it," (As my parents thought I would). I've never seen MJ live because well, he doesn't perform in the U.S. of A anymore. I'm 24 years old, and would give my kidneys to see him! Not to mention the tickets are pricey.


    Anything else? Oh yes, the fan message board that I was thinking of posting can be found below. You may have to become a member to post, but feel free to check out our MJ community!!!


    King of Pop Discussion


    (Notice the year. Most of us are behind you on this!)


    -Anne


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    EMAIL 4 (Mr. Nimmer's Response)


    Anne... yes, you have my permission to post my correspondence to you. I'm curious what other people think. That's cool that you're in Ohio... MJ has admirers everywhere.


    Best,
    Larry


    Source: Smilethenscream7, KOP Board

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