Thanks for the revealing and informative article. Just for the record, it was a Pepsi commercial that Michael Jackson was filming when his hair caught on fire. The event is all over the news today and looks worse than described when it happened. He was given the narcotic Demerol to ease the pain, very likely the origin of his addiction to painkillers. Perhaps Jackson's plight will cause people to pay attention to such addictions, a growing problem in the U.S. As has been pointed out before, Jackson probably suffered from some form of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, thus all the plastic surgery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder