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"Weird Al" Yankovic: Michael Jackson
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[I]n 1988, Yankovic returned with the platinum-selling Even Worse, its title and album cover a reference to Michael Jackson\'s recent Bad LP. "I\'m Fat," the first single and video... parodied the lavish Martin Scorsese-directed clip for Jackson\'s hit "Bad"; shot on the same subway set used by Jackson, the video -- which portrayed Yankovic as a grotesquely obese tough guy -- won him his second Grammy. The next year, he starred in the feature film UHF, which he also co-wrote; a soundtrack appeared as well.
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In 1989, Yankovic starred in a full-length feature film, co-written by himself and manager Jay Levey, and filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma called UHF. A satire of the television and film industries... starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop.[60] However, it was unsuccessful in theaters, likely due to a release in mid 1989, going up against Ghostbusters II, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, and others.
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For the past 20 years, Yankovic has made a career out of poking fun of the music industry. Few have escaped his whimsical wrath; fortunately, his victims - from Michael Jackson to The Presidents of the United States of America - are flattered enough to allow it.
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