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When O.J. Simpson reflects on his childhood in San Francisco, it is not the house on the hill he remembers most but the football field up the street. Simpson grew up in a low-income housing project, but he lived on the fields and in the gym of the public sports park nearby, honing the skills that would take him to the pro-football Hall of Fame. The well-maintained facility was home to leagues in virtually every sport. "For the gangs of those days, the rec center was the focus of activity," Simpson recalls. "There was always room...
...Foreigner is the story of a small Georgian community which is suddenly electrified by the arrival of a "foreigner." The audience meets Betty Meeks (Jeanne Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend...
...woman of the lodge, Betty amuses the audience with her awe of foreign cultures. She marvels over a spoon "made in Taiwan," bows when serving Charlie tea and brags that she enjoys an "extra-circular communication" with him. Simpson masters both the joviality and the irony of her character--"If Charlie wants to put a glass on his head (when he eats) that's what they do in his country...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
Advertising Sales Director: Cleary S. Simpson...