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Because he is a murder suspect, Simpson wears the red wristband of a high- security inmate. When he is taken to meet with his defense lawyers in the large attorney's room on the ground floor, he wears handcuffs and a waist chain. When the lawyers give him legal papers to read, they are extended first to a deputy sheriff, who searches through them before handing them to Simpson. He has so far not had much time to read books. When he does, they will have to come directly from the publishers; no privately delivered reading material is allowed, since...
...jail receives more than 2,000 letters a day addressed to Simpson; of these, his lawyers select a handful for him to read. Block reports that his office gets 50 to 100 phone calls every day asking about Simpson. Many are messages of sympathy and support. Most are merely curious -- people, says the sheriff, who "want to know what he's wearing and what he's eating." One irate Minnesotan phoned last Thursday demanding to know how the sheriff's department was planning to celebrate O.J.'s 47th birthday, which, coincidentally, fell last Saturday, one day after he was remanded...
Every star needs supporting actors. Simpson's have come, almost literally, from Central Casting. Brian Kaelin, with his sleepy-surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy...
America has a strange taste in atrocities and an elastic attention span for them. The 10,000 African children who die each day of starvation can hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble...
...also an education in TV watching. With no laugh track, no sobbing violins, viewers had to decide for themselves how to react to this bizarre and compelling summer series. How, for example, to decipher the soul behind a face as beautiful, iconic and unknowable as O.J. Simpson's? On Friday he listened to the coroner's droning, explicit testimony of the wounds that caused Nicole Simpson's death. Raw emotion played on his features, but what emotion? Shock? Remorse? Fury? We have spent thousands of hours watching cop shows and love stories, intuiting feelings from faces. A glance...