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...sorry state of what passes for bookworthy news these days--or the sign of a publisher desperate to protect a $4.2 million investment--that the big newsbreak that will be trumpeted out of Without a Doubt (Viking; $25.95), Marcia Clark's long-awaited memoir of the O.J. Simpson trial, is that the former prosecutor was raped at the age of 17. This highly personal detail, which can be found on four pages in the middle of the nearly 500-page volume, is sure to surface during the tearful interview with Barbara Walters, bob up again with Oprah and then again...
Clark is, at the very least, a victim of lousy timing. In the race to get out books on the Simpson case, she only barely made it to the track. (The book's official publication date is not until May 9, but on Saturday TIME obtained one of the first copies to reach stores.) Which Simpson principals haven't we heard from yet? Only Denise Brown and, perish the thought, Simpson's children, when they come of age. Currently competing for last place is former O.J. girlfriend Paula Barbieri, who only last January signed a reported $3 million deal. While...
...teenager, or the potency of a painful memory that she says resurfaced only when she tried to prosecute her very first rape case, or the greater good done when rape victims anywhere find the courage to break their silence. And let no one ever forget that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were also the victims of a crime that, in all likelihood, had more than a little to do with sexual violence. But in feeding the insatiable publicity maw, Clark has been forced to devalue her own life story...
...wanted badly to like this book. For one thing, as life stories of people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...