American Crime Story - The People v. OJ Simpson (spoilers)

brsmith

I don't think they are casting OJ in a very good light, you think he's receiving money?

LBlack14 Watched the 1st episode. They lost me with Cuba as OJ. Really? That's the best they could do? His squeaky voice, not OJ. The way Travolta looks is disturbing and why do they seem to key on Marcia Clark's smoking??? The SHOW is piss poor if you ask me. They did get Darden and Cochran right though as far as characters go.

Travolta is absolutely terrible in this. Worst part of the series by a country mile. Also didn't love Cuba, but in a sense he's not much of the focus.

I haven't watched it but I'll binge watch it and get all caught up soon. I had to go see for myself how these characters looked. OJ doesn't look that bad, although, I love Cuba Gooding Jr. so I might have some bias.

Johnnie Cochran looks pretty well cast as does Marcia Clark. Travolta (more like Revolta) is supposed to be Shapiro?

See for yourself, if you haven't seen these characters:

ValueGolf

I would think if you are using his name and likeness in a fictional series, which is what this "docudrama" is, he would be entitled to something, and I imagine this was negotiated before taping ever began.

mcavoy

Thanks, but I am not a Amazon guy. Zeta virus.

ValueGolf

Kinda hard to cast a double murderer n a good light!

brsmith

OJ lost a civil suit by the families of his victims. So far they have collected about 1% of the judgment as it seems OJ hid most of his assets. It is ironic, but when he burglarized the room in Vegas, he claimed he was trying to reclaim assets taken from him. For OJ this turned out to be a problem, because these were assets he had claimed in previous court documents not to have in his possession.

The Goldman family has not stopped pursing his assets. They have repeatedly stated it is not about the money, but rather the only justice they will ever get from our justice system. I suspect they already have made claims for any proceeds.

OJ is due for a parole hearing for his 33 year burglary sentence in about 3 years. You can be sure the Goldman's will show up to testify as to why he should be denied parole. OJ does have a 20-25K a month NFL pension which the courts could not touch. So he has money for legal counsel which can be present at his hearing. However, the actual hearing is only about parole and the members of the parole board convene in private for their deliberation after the hearing.

More wounds, and then this little nugget surfaces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/oj-simpson-knife-lapd.html?_r=0