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(In Photos: Late 70's- MJ drew his sister La Toya as a prank)
Below is a story from Katherine Jackson's My Family (The book I always red and love obviously) and I thought you'd like this little story of Mike and Toya, "partners in prank" as Mrs. Jackson quoted:
Because they still lived at home, Michael, Janet, and LaToya were
especially close. Somehow, Janet and LaToya had the ability to turn my
increasingly private, driven son into the lighthearted Michael of old -- if only
for a little while.
They loved to play practical jokes on one another. Michael especially
enjoyed tormenting LaToya with fake spiders and tarantulas. He’d place one
of his plastic creatures atop the phone in her room, call her, and listen for her
shrieks. Knowing how particular she was about her room, he’d also delight in
charging through the door and bouncing off her bed, with its white-satin
sheets.
“I’ll teach you to be so picky!” he’d exclaim amid her furious screams.
Having been informed by Michael that he was so proud to be working with
Sidney Lumet, LaToya conceived the revenge prank of all time.
One day shortly before Michael left for New York to begin filming, he
received a call on his private line from “Mr. Lumet’s secretary." Mr. Lumet
was in the neighborhood, the voice announced, and would be stopping by in
five minutes to take him out to dinner.
Michael didn’t know what to do first; he wasn’t dressed, and his room was
a mess. Somehow in five minutes he made himself presentable, tidied up, and
ran from door to door informing everyone excitedly, “Sidney Lumet is coming
to take me to dinner!” He then sat down and waited for our security to inform
him that Mr. Lumet had arrived. And Waited. I sat with him; I, too, believed
that the director was coming.
Finally, LaToya confessed, “Michael, Sidney Lumet isn’t taking you to
dinner. That was me on the phone!”
I’ve never seen Michael so angry. He dragged LaToya outside and wet her
from head to toe with the hose.
