Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman were first murdered, I didn't want to believe that O.J. had done it because I didn't want my image of the bubbly announcer and bumbling cop in "Naked Gun" to be shattered. But fifteen months later, reason has made it impossible to accept the conclusion of the nine black, one white, and two Hispanic jurors...
...lost one in almost 10 years, says the evidence against Simpson is as strong as any she has argued. But it took her too long to understand that Fuhrman's virulent racism, which she recognized early, could poison the entire prosecution case. "Marcia knew Fuhrman was a bad cop, but she felt certain he hadn't planted evidence," says a deputy district attorney in her office. "They felt they could use Fuhrman anyway. Well, you can't use a racist cop. If you know you got a bad cop on your case, you drop...
...among blacks. "I think it's possible for the Los Angeles police department to be corrupt and racist and for Simpson to still be guilty," says Julianne Malveaux, the African-American host of a radio show in Washington. "The evidence has clearly shown you can be a clean-cut cop like Fuhrman and still be a racist liar, or be a nice guy like O.J. who smiles all the time and still beat the hell out of women." The cops may have tried to frame a guilty...
...repaired. Expectedly, the town is a backwater, the hotel is run-down and the townspeople are suspicious, ignorant and/or misogynistic, Of course there is conflict--it is dealt with; the whole town befriends the visitors, and the queens wave a tearful good-bye. Everyone, except the homophobic cop and the wife-beater, is a better person, and they all live happily ever after...
...drag queens and other gay people are Martians, etc.), the movie is peppered with overt political correctness. Because the trio are presented as asexual, the word "gay" is shoehorned into their lines to appease those ticket-buying gays who might want the movie to be more "out." The homophobic cop is a racist, bumbling fool. The wife-beater is evil and even teams up with the cop. (Of course a man in a dress beating him up doesn't really empower the woman he beats, but whatever...