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...damn right ole Faye Yager has got a dog in this fight, honey. If she hadn't helped Ellen Dever Shah disappear, Yager twangs, Ellen would have gone the way of Nicole Brown Simpson...
...from Lalique crystal and cavorted with bimbos on the set of Apocalypse Now while his crew suffered from hookworm and rabies. How about Martin Scorsese, who was so wired at Cannes in 1978 that he sent a plane to Paris just to score cocaine? Or Top Gun producer Don Simpson, whose idea of a fun date was dressing up as an animal trainer while prostitutes humiliated themselves in S&M games...
...Fleming's work the extreme close-up is on Simpson, who, along with his partner, the more stable Jerry Bruckheimer, produced the hits Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Crimson Tide before his 1996 death from an overdose. Aside from his obvious pop-culture smarts, Simpson's main contribution to cinema was his dictum that a blockbuster must have an easily described plot with three acts: explosive incident, impending crisis, triumphant resolution. His own story, however, was far more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson...
...Simpson's infamous life-style serves as an apt metaphor for the overindulgent '80s and '90s, Biskind's book delivers what's known in screenwriting jargon as the backstory--the preamble sparked when Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider caught fire. Those avant-garde youth movies emboldened a whole new pack of hip filmmakers to make their own iconoclastic films during the '70s: M*A*S*H, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces and Paper Moon, among others. Biskind's history lesson also has its fair share of tantalizing dope and sex lore--at times the horrible stories from former spouses...
...Petrocelli?s exhibit B is the now-infamous Esquire interview, in which Simpson puts forward the theory that if he had committed the crime, it would have to be ?because I loved [Nicole] very much.? And his motive? ?He?d like to win back the public,? Petrocelli suggests, ?and if admitting it would get him there he might do it.? O.J. says Petrocelli has a motive of his own -- to drum up controversy for his new book...