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...case, Simpson could use an influx of cash. The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows. Frank Vuono, president and CEO of Integrated Sports International, which handles a score of pro football players, says Simpson could probably demand a six-figure sum from card-show organizers. "He's a novelty," says Vuono. "I imagine you'll see O.J. Websites and O.J. collectibles and all sorts of stuff. That's the crazy world we live...
MEANWHILE, TWO PUBLISHERS have reportedly rejected the sequel to his best-selling book. It was rumored that Simpson would stage a lucrative pay-per-view television interview, but it seems even the folks who broadcast pro-wrestling extravaganzas have their standards. Sniffs Hugh Panero, president and ceo of Request Television, one of the largest pay-per-view networks: "If Mr. Simpson wants to correct misrepresentations that occurred during the trial, he can do it by talking to the mainstream press. I don't know if it is tasteful to do it for $29.95 on a pay-per-view basis...
...Simpson's career as a legitimate sports commentator or a product pitchman, even in this numbed, post-Tonya Harding age, may be over. Fox, for one, has stated publicly that it won't hire him. "Athletes in the past have transcended the race issue," says Vuono. "That's the beauty of sports. But O.J.'s case has polarized people...
...Some say Simpson should rededicate his life to a meaningful cause or at least something that will keep his face off the E! channel and Court TV. A group of black activists headed by civil rights leader Celes King III held a press conference in Los Angeles last week to announce that since many blacks supported Simpson through the trial, it was time for him to start giving back to the black community in some way. Robert Fisher, owner of a Woodland Hills, California, consulting firm that specializes in burnishing tarnished images, suggests that a Greta Garbo vanishing...
...might also grate on his children, who Simpson claims are his first priority. "The more commotion and instability there is in a child's life, the more difficult it will be for them to adjust," says Steven Kanter, a Cleveland child psychologist. "There's also the added factor of the death of their mother. That scar will never completely heal." Still, Simpson might well learn something about equanimity from the way one of his children is dealing with her pain. Juditha Brown says that after she gave the kids over to Simpson, Sydney called on the phone to console...