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...also ruled that the brothers be tried together, as the separate juries last time created too much confusion. Abramson--surprisingly, given her penchant for publicity last time around and her telegenic presence for ABC as an expert commentator on the Simpson case--requested and was denied a gag order to prevent the prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this time the prosecution will focus on the murders themselves, rather than get derailed by the defense's claims that Lyle...
...LAWYERS. The carnival atmosphere surrounding the courtroom led to so many antics that the case's substance of a horrible double murder was often lost in the din. West Los Angeles public defender James Bendat believes judicial gag orders on lawyers in spectacular cases are the best remedy. "That would have been the right decision in terms of dealing with the media and preventing this buildup of frenzy," he says...
...approach paid off. National correspondent Jack White joined Cochran on a four-hour flight to Cleveland. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante and correspondent Sylvester Monroe got the cops to open up despite an L.A.P.D. gag order. While photo researcher Martha Bardach scoured the town for pictures, correspondents Margot Hornblower and Patrick Cole and reporter Dan Cray sought out more Simpson lawyers and the Goldman family. And Lafferty's deep connections within the D.A.'s office came through with surprising details about what prosecutors believe really happened the night of the murders. "We think we've seen...
...Keaton the end came abruptly, sadly, in the late '20s. His producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today...
Eszterhas must be great at pitching stories, because the screenwriting craft eludes him. A mild gag here--the mispronouncing of Gianni Versace's name--is tortured into an endless motif. Nomi has a clouded past, but that doesn't explain why she is such a gratingly annoying creature. The giddiest moment in this All About Evil by way of 42nd Street comes when a club owner is asked whether the revue should close down because the star is out sick. "Not a chance!" he actually says. "The show goes...