If either of the two (Madonna or Michael Jackson) is the logical heir to Marilyn Monroe, it is clearly Michael Jackson, who is the more bruised and authentically vulnerable of the two... Not only is he black and white, male and female, but also young and old, hip and square, the crotch-grabbing self-appointed guardian of the world's children.
An Inclusive Litany
4/7/93
Anne Taylor Fleming on the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour," April 7, 1993: