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...network filth-mongers themselves haven't realized the extent of their degradation just yet; they are too busy grappling with a present dilemma precipitated by the profusion of grotes-queries. The next courtroom appearance for O.J. happens to coincide exactly with that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...
...after his incarceration, Simpson's next-cell neighbor was Erik Menendez, the younger of the Beverly Hills brothers who murdered their parents. To ensure that Simpson and Menendez would not overhear each other's telephone conversations, Block ordered Menendez moved to another part of 7000. (Brother Lyle is in a different, equally high-security block of the jail.) That left Simpson alone in an isolated row, or module, of seven cells...
...disturbing subtext runs through our recent media fixations. Parents abuse sons -- allegedly at least, in the Menendez case -- who in turn rise up and kill them. A husband torments a wife, who retaliates with a kitchen knife. Love turns into obsession, between the Simpsons anyway, and then perhaps into murderous rage: the family, in other words, becomes personal hell...
...reasons of the Constitution and drama on presuming his innocence. Anchors are thrown together with people they are not used to working with -- at times it looks as though Peter Jennings would like to stuff a sock in the mouth of Leslie Abramson, who defended one of the Menendez brothers. The anchors all seem to resent being pressed into service during soap-opera time...
...Menendez brothers, who admitted to slaughtering their parents and were unknown before their trial, can be made human enough to deadlock two juries, the prosecution has its work cut out for it. Much of the public thinks it already knows Simpson from his role of good guy. In a celebrity-struck culture, it will be fascinating to see if the prosecution can show that the public didn't know this man at all. They only knew the one he played...