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...tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie Cochran (Ving Rhames), canny, blustery and beset by late doubts about the client; Robert Shapiro (Ron Silver), shrewd and preening; and F. Lee Bailey (Christopher Plummer), bloviating but deeply loyal to the Juice...
...says it was released in 1987, while on the liner it says 1984. It is also poorly mastered and fuzzy-sounding, as though made on a home recorder. But it does contain a few treasures, such as this track (as well as a beautiful rendition of the Harland Howard/Hank Cochran classic "You Comb Her Hair" that's far superior to the version on Razor & Tie's "George Jones: The United Artists Years...
When the devil offers you seven wishes, you'd better have Henry Kissinger or Johnnie Cochran nearby to read the small print. For a start, you'll probably get only six; for another, Beelzebub has an impish sense of foul play that turns any wish into a curse. Ask to be rich, powerful and married to your dream girl and--poof!--you'll become a cuckolded drug lord. Say you want to be a star athlete, and you'll be missing some important jock equipment. Request a smart Satanic comedy, and you'll get this bag of old tricks...
...allowable limit. The scorn greeting this claim was as deep as Sydney harbor. "Impossible," said the International Olympic Committee's Jacques Rogge. "The only way to have such levels is either by injection or taking pills." Even if Rogge is correct, Hunter may get off. His lawyer is Johnnie Cochran--yes, O.J.'s Johnnie Cochran--and Cochran will present Hunter's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, nine athletes were found guilty of drug use. On appeal, all but two verdicts were overturned...
...Everyone in Sydney was pretty amused when O.J.'s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, showed up to help C.J. But remember, years ago, when Marion was accused by the track federation in the States of missing a drug test, and they were going to suspend her? Remember that? It was Cochran who got her out of that one. He's been counsel to Team Marion for a while...