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...Finally, Simpson gave his version of life with Nicole Brown Simpson, whom he married in 1986 after a seven-year courtship. Most of their relationship, to hear Simpson tell it, was idyllic, filled with the luxuries that only a combination of financial wealth and true love can bestow. Said Simpson: "We traveled all over the world. Our house was always packed with people and full of friends...
Theirs was not a violent relationship, Simpson maintained, with the exception of a single incident on New Year's Eve in 1989. Of the other encounters introduced by the plaintiffs, such as when Nicole called 911 in 1993 after Simpson kicked down an exterior door in her home, Simpson was dismissive: "It was a reflex action...
Although it was not by any measure riveting testimony, it may have been effective. While praising Nicole's skills as a mother, Simpson managed in his narrative of the last two years of Nicole's life to make passing reference to her alleged drug use, to her acquaintance with a known prostitute and to an abortion. Said Laurie Levenson, dean of Loyola Law School: "The whole contention is 'I'm a wonderful person, and I wouldn't have done this.'" Even the plaintiffs noted privately that there was little they would challenge. "It's his script, and we all know...
Will O.J. Simpson prosecutor MARCIA CLARK become the next William Shatner? Her hair has already been the punch line of almost as many jokes as his. And now, Clark--who just last week officially resigned from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and has almost, almost finished up Without a Doubt, the book for which she was paid a reported $4.2 million--has been chosen as host of LadyLaw, a new TV show. The "reality-based" program--meaning a show that uses really bad actors--is made by the people who brought us Rescue 911 (hosted by Shatner...
...show, co-created by Simpsons writer Glen Daniels, came about when Peter Roth, then president of 20th Century Fox Television, approached the animator about coming up with "a Mike Judge equivalent to Homer Simpson," as part of a production deal Judge had signed with the network's parent company. "I went back to my sketchbooks," recalls Judge, who has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1993, "and I found all these bubba types. I wanted to do something about four or five guys who were really into their power tools...