London — A comic film about Michael Jackson was dropped by British makers on Friday after the late US pop star’s daughter said the episode, with a white actor playing her father, was vomit-inducing. Paris Jackson tweeted angrily on Wednesday that she was "incredibly offended" by the tongue-in-cheek episode in trailer released on Tuesday for the Urban Myths series made by Britain’s satellite TV channel Sky Arts. The 30-minute episode cast British actor Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson in a comedy dramatisation of a road trip the Thriller singer is said to have taken in 2001 with movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. "We have taken the decision not to broadcast Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon ... in the light of the concerns expressed by Michael Jackson’s immediate family," Sky Arts said. "We set out to take a lighthearted look at reportedly true events and never intended to cause any offence. Joseph Fiennes fully supports our decision." Michael Jackson, whose vitiligo medica...
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