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...gross domestic product. After seven additional months of merchandising, that figure begins to look a tad low when you account for all the revenue streams: legal fees; at least $60 million in gross revenues from various books; $5 million to $10 million in O.J. phone cards; $5 million in Simpson statuettes; $1.5 million in O.J. trading cards; Al Cowlings' 900 line--the whole affair begins to rank on a par with the annual sales of a mid-size company. A tentative accounting...
...Simpson is out an estimated $6 million to $10 million, most of which goes to his lawyers. While he has recouped a hefty amount from the sale of various O.J. products, it's still not clear whether his bout with justice will turn a profit. The question remains: Can he write off the trial as a business expense...
...neither here nor there. The point I'd like to make is that my hours and hours of "O.J. time" were richly rewarded. Forget ER and Murder One. For anyone sentient, the trial was the most compelling show on television. In fact--this may sound odd given that the Simpson saga will probably go down in history as the signal TV event of the 20th century, outstripping even the Kennedy assassination, the first moon walk and any number of very special episodes of Silver Spoons--I think the trial ultimately transcended television. As testimony dragged on and on, slowly accreting...
...social whirl, gentlemanly "work" that consisted of getting paid to play even more golf. Unfailingly gracious, our hero would receive representatives of the striving classes with equanimity. But Denise Brown, for one, discovered the perils of social climbing when she was so unrefined as once to suggest that Simpson was neglecting her sister Nicole; according to Brown's testimony, he literally threw the two of them...
...nation came to a standstill on Tuesday as Americans from the President on down--57% of the country, according to one poll--tuned in to hear the jury's decision in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. Coming with unexpected swiftness, after less than four hours of deliberation, the not-guilty verdict by the mostly black jury caused a whiplash of reaction--from stunned disbelief to ecstatic cheers of joy. The immediate postmortems polarized along racial lines even as the first jurors to speak to the press said they had based their decision strictly on the prosecution's failure...