Hollywood lawyer Robert Shapiro was one of the legal team who represented OJ Simpson during his trial. “And whether you believe he did it or not, that was something that I personally didn’t care about [at the time of the verdict]”.
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Tell Us: Which side has the better argument so far? Many boycotted the book, which purported to present Simpson’s explanation of how, hypothetically, he would have murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. This episode doesn’t even answer that question, which in O.J. Simpson’s case was eight by the end of the trial.
Although the drama reconstructs now notorious scenes, such as when police and news helicopters chased OJ down the Los Angeles freeway in his white Ford Bronco after murder charges had been filed against him, American Crime Story’s twist on the well-known narrative is telling the OJ story from the lawyers’ perspective, exploring the extensive behind-the-scenes wrangling, and the factors that gave the jury reasonable doubt.
The exasperated father told his kids he didn’t want them to talk about the trial anymore, but they protested, saying that everyone was talking about it because Bruce Jenner, her new Olympian husband, and their father were all “famous”.
The casting of the 61-year-old star of Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction in his first television role since the late 70s is a coup for the miniseries, but Travolta admits he had reservations.
“I’m not black, I’m O.J.!” the harried suspect shouts at Shapiro and a skeptical F. Lee Bailey (Nathan Lane) later in the episode, in one of the series’ more laughable, yet very fitting, pieces of dialogue. “But I saw the social significance of the story, and its relevance to so much that is happening today”. While Alan and Robert Shapiro right away bump heads (and egos), Barry offers his DNA analyzing services, which were just on the cusp of becoming a big part of criminal law. “Listen to me. You know your grandparents”. Rob Jr. beams. In the show, it’s the first time the Kardashian kids see their father as someone famous, and Robert turns it into a teaching moment about fame.
It’s easy to see how the Kardashians might take offense at their portrayal, but more and more it seems that the goal of the show’s producers is not to take preemptive shots at the celebrity world’s easiest targets, but to illustrate the ways in which the widespread mentality that compromised the Simpson trial is still alive and well. Kardashian’s public profile subsequently soared.
From there, Toobin explained, Shapiro’s team was able to paint Fuhrman as someone capable of interfering with the crime scene and planting one of the gloves in an attempt to frame Simpson. Ross/David Geller/Schwimmer plays Robert Kardashian (who didn’t actually speak in court), whilst Kris Jenner is played by (wait for it) Selma Blair. The early episodes of this season showed how racial tensions coming off the Rodney King riots set the stage for O.J. being viewed in a sympathetic light by some in Los Angeles.
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They were recorded between 1985 and 1994, and in them he boasts of extensive police brutality against the black community. The David Beckham of the U.S. if you will (although obviously David Beckham never got caught up in a huge murder case). The performances across the board continue to be stellar – specifically as we explore the relationship between Marcia and Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran and O.J.’s defense team. He claimed his duties as an officer turned him into a “bigot” and his file described incidents of “beating up and attacking black people”.
