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...other hand, the public psychology can be attuned to the lowest note on the scale almost indefinitely. Did the public psychology ever get tired of the O. J. Simpson case, for example? Or of postmortem programming about Princess Diana and John Kennedy Jr.? In fact, the decade of the '90s, by a weird dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap...
This business does not exactly have the Shakespearean intensity of the O. J. Simpson trial. But the historical and constitutional context is fascinating. And the cast of characters is rich...
...cases, infallibly, without the need for juries. It ran testimony through polygraph analysis; it crunched legal algorithms on a team of supercomputers. Media from the San Francisco Chronicle to CNN covered Solomon, which had just done what a much criticized jury of humans had not. It had found O.J. Simpson guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman...
...show has a certain Vegas-y rock-'n'-roll sleaze appeal, but underneath it all, CSI is the geek Quincy, in which the true stars are the nail clippings, computer records, carpet fibers and above all DNA, performing like clockwork the same magic that they didn't on Simpson...
...that human messiness that is captured in CBS's excellent and disturbing Simpson mini-series American Tragedy (CBS, Nov. 12 and 15, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on a book by Lawrence Schiller and former TIME correspondent James Willwerth, with a script by Norman Mailer--and contested in court by O.J., who tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie...