Michael Jackson deserves the benefit of our doubt. I hope the charges are not true. I hope he blows the cloud away. I hope he continues to give us terrific entertainment.

Jackson’s estate and publisher Sony Music are rereleasing the 36-year-old album with a DVD of the film “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to ‘Off the Wall’” on Feb. 26.

Kenny Ortega, Michael Jackson and Simon Fuller. “This is it,” Michael Jackson says. Of course, Kenny Loggins sang that nearly 30 years ago, prophesying, “The waiting is over.” ...