Courtroom gawkers
indlude celebrities
! PS SiiPSON TRIAL
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 28, 1995 - 9A
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - You know the
public is gawking at the Trial of the
Century, but so are the people who
usually get gawked at: celebrities.
As if the O.J. Simpson trial couldn't
getm ore surreal, there in the courtroom
-- among participants who have them-
selves become inadvertent celebrities
- are luminaries who usually com-
mand our attention.
Some, like former baseball great
Stve,Garvey and his wife Candace, are
from the circles that O.J. and Nicole
Simpson themselves once moved in.
Others, like movie actor Richard
Dreyfuss, are preparing for courtroom
roles.: And a few occupy that uncom-
fortable stratum of celebrity media
types: When Barbara Walters shows up
at court, is she covering the trial, or are
the media covering her? Or both? No
matter what the nominal reason, once
they. enter that courtroom, celebrities
--ike the rest ofus-become voyeurs
at one of the most riveting public spec-
tacles of our time.
TheGarveys came to court yesterday
morning, as did 1976 Olympic gold
medalist Bruce Jenner and his wife Kris
(onke.the wife of Simpson pal and attor-
ney Robert Kardashian). The sports star
couples, once friends of the Simpsons,
ended up walking the same gantlet of
media cameras and microphones usu-
ally trained on the lawyers and family
members.
No less shy than the lawyers, both
couples obliged reporters with sympa-
thetic comments for the yictims and
their families. Candace Garvey, who
testified months ago at the beginning of
the trial, sported an angel pin like the
one that Brown family members have
worn before.
"Well, Ijust think they're circling the
bases for a home run," opined Steve
Garvey, the former Los Angeles Dodger
and San Diego Padre first baseman, of
the prosecution's closing. "I think they
laid a very compelling, systematic story
of what happened and who did it."
Kris Jenner, in court at the invitation
of the Browns, told reporters that her
friend Nicole knew she was in danger
long before she died. "She told me,
'He's gonna kill me and he's gonna get
away with it,' " Kris Jenner told a re-
porter, confessing to a certain amount
of guilt that Nicole's friends didn't re-
spond more aggressively. "Much as she
said ... 'He's gonna kill me,' ... you
never really expect it's really going to
happen," said Jenner.
But a lot of celebrities say they're
playing student when they enter Judge
Lance Ito's courtroom. Playwright/ac-
tress Anna Deavere Smith, who created
"Twilight," the one-woman play about
the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has been in
court doing research for a screenplay
- completely unconnected to the
Simpson trial. Actress Barbara Bosson
came in June to study the prosecutors
for her own portrayal of a district attor-
ney on "Murder One," the new televi-
sion drama being produced by her hus-
band, Steven Bochco. Bosson kibbitzed
with reporters in the hallway as they
waited to enter the courtroom.
Above: Defense attorney Johnnie
Cochran Jr. dons a knit ski cap
yesterday afternoon during his closing
statements, attempting to disprove the
prosecution's theory that double-
murder defendant O.J. Simpson wore a
cap to hide his identity the night of the
murders.
Left: Los Angeles resident Arnold
Glasker shows his support for the
Simpson jury outside the Criminal
Courts Building in Los Angeles.
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