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That may be easier to do now that the Black Entertainment Network has broadcast what amounted to an hour-long infomercial for O.J. This was Simpson doing what he does best--selling himself--and it flopped. BET, which promised a "no-holds-barred" interview, was trying to polish its reputation as a news operation. Simpson's goal was to hawk the $29.95 home video in which he gives his own version of the night when Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were butchered. Simpson reached out to BET because none of the networks or major cable operations would...
...Simpson, who could earn as much as $3 million from the tape if sales are hot, still owes his criminal-defense team hundreds of thousands of dollars and has not paid the lawyers in his civil trial one thin dime. Three weeks ago, when some of Simpson's friends came to his home to look at the video, he complained that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything. I've got to try to do something with blacks." So alarmed were Simpson's lawyers by the prospect of a public appearance the same week he was being...
...broadcast shed no new light on the killings, but it did provide considerable insight into Simpson's dream world, which is as out of touch with the black community as it is with the white one. He seems to think most white people like him, despite polls that show they believe he got away with murder. Nor does he understand that ostracism is an age-old way of showing disapproval; Fatty Arbunkle, a much bigger star, saw his career collapse after he was acquitted of murdering a starlet. Some of Simpson's lawyers advised him to quietly reach...
Toward the end of the broadcast Simpson stared into the camera, clenched his jaw and implored the audience, "If you don't like me, leave me alone." It's a deal...
...ANGELES: With rumors flying over what he said last week during depositions in his civil trial, O.J. Simpson phoned CNN Monday to give his side of the story. In a surprise hourlong call-in to CNN's "Burden of Proof" show, Simpson denied he abused his ex-wife Nicole and suggested that police planted evidence against him. It was the most extensive public interview Simpson has granted since he was acquitted. He had previously given one other long interview, to Black Entertainment Television, but refused then to discuss the facts of the case. Simpson told a panel of lawyers...