Word: profitable
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Viner is hardly alone in his efforts to profit from the Simpson case. Starting with the mass-market paperback O.J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy (Pinnacle), which materialized about two weeks after the murders, a total of 12 books related to the case have landed in stores to date. Some half-dozen more-including a memoir by Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Cochran Berry (Basic Books), and works by regular trial watchers Dominick Dunne and Joe McGinniss (both published by Crown) and Jeffrey Toobin (Random House)-are still to come. How much more will the market bear? Says Thomas...
...latest jurors to be dismissed, Francine Florio-Bunten, got in trouble with Judge Ito in part because of charges, which she has denied, that she was meeting with a literary agent. Although the California legislature attempted to end this chaos by making it a misdemeanor for any juror to profit from a criminal case until 90 days after the conclusion of the trial, that statute has already been successfully challenged by Dove, which recently convinced the courts that Michael Knox's First Amendment rights were being violated...
...television of flooding the country with "nightmares of depravity.'' Warning that the more extreme products of pop culture threaten to undermine American kids, he called on the large media companies to swear off the hard stuff. "We must hold Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry accountable for putting profit ahead of common decency,'' Dole said, then raised the heat considerably by singling out one company, Time Warner, the media giant that includes the largest American music operation, the Warner film studio and a stable of magazines, including Time. One day after Dole's speech, William Bennett, the former Education Secretary...
Those producing this garbage tell us we're naive. Natural Born Killers isn't an attempt to profit from murder and mayhem, says Oliver Stone. It's a send-up of the way the tabloid press exploits violence-a claim that would be a lot more convincing if Stone would contribute to charity the multimillion dollar profits the movie earned last year. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company produced Natural Born Killers and has put out much of the most offensive music, says that rappers like Ice-T are misunderstood: when Ice-T chants...
Another vulture has descended on Oklahoma City to profit from the tragedies of grief-stricken people there. Johnnie Cochran Jr. has filed a class action against a Texas company that made the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22]. That's like blaming knife sellers for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Jean Wilson Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...