There he was, in a most improbable place, wearing a red satin shirt with brocade and blue sergeant stripes. He waved to fans. He flashed a "V" sign. He signed autographs.
On April 1, 2004, Michael Jackson was in the House -- the House of Representatives. For all the trips I had made to Capitol Hill as a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, I had never seen anything so incongruous.
As a career journalist with experience in Washington and elsewhere, I’m as cynical as anybody, so I was about to make fun of the Army rolling its military might -- think M1 tank and armed Humvees -- down Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills Wednesday night in support of a 30-minute, pro-military film, "American Identity," that’s premiering at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Michael Janofsky is a veteran journalist who spent 24 years at The New York Times, where he was a Washington and national correspondent .Now an L.A.-based writer, he remains a big fan of politics, movies and his hometown Baltimore Orioles.
