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Juicy

"Just when I thought that I was
out, they pull me back in."

— Michael Corleone in "Godfather Ill"

W

hen the FOX network
announced last week they
would air a two-hour O.J.
Simpson special based on his upcom-
ing book If I Did It on Nov. 27 and 29,
it wouldn't be any stretch of the imagi-
nation to know that the news media
onslaught would kick into overdrive.
We all know the sordid story from
the "Trial of the Century" that brought
us white Ford Broncos, Bruno Magli
shoes, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace
and Court TV.
Simpson was criminally
acquitted in 1995, but found
liable in 1997 for the 1994
murder of his wife, Nicole
Brown Simpson, and her
friend Ron Goldman.
O.J. owed $33.5 million to
the families of the victims,
but some legal wrangling has
made collecting that amount
a bit more difficult.
The Juice gets to live off
of his NFL pension and,
by moving to Florida, property laws
protect him; and he is living a quite
comfortable life.
After his acquittal, he said he would
continue the search for the real killers,
which has led him on a decade-long
search through public golf courses of
this country.
In 1995, CNN and other networks
made a big deal that the reaction to the
verdict was drawn along racial lines.
I wonder how many people who
thought he was innocent then are
rethinking their position?
What is the motivation for the Juice
to write a book detailing the crime "if"
he would have done it? It's not money
— O.J. will have to give up any pro-
ceeds from the book, estimated at $3.5
million, to the victims' families.
Would an innocent husband and
father write something like this about
his murdered wife? Does it bother him
that his children might read this about
their mother?

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Celebrity court cases have become big
business, and the network machines
have fine-tuned their coverage.
When actor Robert Blake and music
producer Phil Spector came along with
their murder trials, Greta and Nancy
and the rest of them took their places

for a limited time only.

in front of the courtroom, started
yammering and we were all the better
informed for it, weren't we?
Armed with that knowledge, if Paris
Hilton should go to court for crawling
drunk into her Bentley and backing
over her Chihuahua, we'll be able to
form a pretty convincing argument at
the water cooler, won't we?
Juice will be interviewed in the
TV special by Judith Regan, pub-
lisher of ReganBooks, a subsidiary of
HarperCollins. Regan just happens to
be publishing his book, which will be
out Nov. 30.
YouTube has an excerpt showing
Juice breaking down while reading
a excerpt about Nicole's
knifing, but you can't tell
if he's really emotional or
if he was using the acting
skills he developed in The
Naked Gun 21/2: The
Smell of Fear.
Regan defended the
program, telling FOX News
that "she wanted Simpson's
`confession because she
herself was once a victim
of abuse."
According to a story on the FOX
News Web site, she said, "To publish
does not mean To endorse;' it means 'to
make public.'"
"If you doubt that, ask the main-
stream publishers who keep Adolf
Hitler's Mein Kampf in print to this
day.... There is historical value in
such work ... for anyone who wants
to gain insight into the mind of a
sociopath."
Pretty high-minded stuff, Judith.
Just wondering what motivating fac-
tor inspired Regan to publish How To
Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna
Jameson in 1994.
In the weeks to come, the media
barrage will increase on the subject
that overtook the country 11 years ago,
when daytime television was a cesspool
of talk shows.
The talking heads of FOX News net-
work will offer us days of moralizing
and finger wagging at the FOX Channel,
in effect providing a place for both
sides to feel comfortable, while Rupert
Murdoch, who owns FOX, FOX News
and HarperCollins (ReganBooks) rakes
in the whole pot.
Brilliant, but it's down-right socio-
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