Article: Shelley Vision; Letting public decide was a Jedful cop-out.(News)

Byline: JIM SHELLEY

IT was movie night on The X Factor. And I had already been to the flicks - to see Michael Jackson's This Is It. Big mistake.

Every moment of that heavily slated, half-finished portrait of the greatest walking corpse in pop music had more emotion, energy and relevance than anything in Saturday's TV "spectacular".

And that was just his dancers and his backing band.

Michael Jackson had hundreds of moves, melodies, sighs and shuffles that really did have "The X Factor".

Simon Cowell still has three big problems ...

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