This is not Wacko Jacko. This is Edward Moss, the impersonator playing Jacko on the daily “Michael Jackson Trial” TV show on E!
Today’s New York Times has a brief profile of Moss:
Mr. Moss got his start in 1996 while working at a McDonald’s in Southern California. “They were having a costume contest at my job and the prize was $200 and I thought, O.K., I’m going to try and win this,” he said. He bought a $12.99 wig, donned gray jeans and applied face paint he made out of baby powder. “It was kind of scary,” Mr. Moss said. “But it worked and I was $200 richer at the end of the day.”
Sensing he was onto something, Mr. Moss, a Los Angeles native, took his act on the road, well, actually, down the road, to Mr. Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There Mr. Moss would perform with little more than a boombox and a well-placed hat for tips. The tourists ate it up. “I would walk away from there in an hour with $100 to $200,” he said. “I thought if they want me this bad, this is something that I should really get into.”
