(November 4, 2017 at 11:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(November 4, 2017 at 10:55 pm)Fireball Wrote: OJ was just another form of entertainment, being an American footballer (not an actor), but your point still stands.
I seem to recall an old ditty about "Another star is born on the casting couch".
It seems that deference/worship to/of royalty/religion still exists in the US, whether it is royalty/religion/sports or TV. Parse that at your own peril!
I do personally consider OJ part of the Hollywood circle; after all, He did have a sizable filmography, including supporting roles in the Naked Gun trilogy, And a brief role in the first episode of Roots. And Then, his murder trial became its own form of entertainment, one that has come to dominate the news media's rhetoric on celebrity crime, one that seems to revel in the prospect of someone accused of a crime being punished.
When I was younger, my mother used to watch a block on HLN I liked to call "Two Hours Hate," because, as different as Jane Velez-Mitchell and Nancy Grace may seem at first glance, their shows were largely interchangeable, two women reporting on crimes with such vitriol that you almost began to feel sorry for the monsters they rightly reviled. And it stopped being almost when it turned out some of the people they fingered Were actually innocent (see the Duke Lacrosse scandal and Grace's reporting of the Elizabeth Smart case for more details.) it became clear that's they didn't really care who was guilty or innocent just as long as someone was punished for the horrific deed of the week.
Both shows are off the air, but I'm concerned that this mentality seems to be alive and well when we talk about such scandals. I just hope we can take the time and investigate what happened before we jump the gun and decide someone's guilty or innocent. At this point, it seems very likely that Spacey's guilty, but jumping to conclusions (especially in matters like this) is a fundamentally dangerous thing, even if those conclusions are right, and it is statistically far more likely than not that the people who come forward are telling the truth. Let's just see where the evidence takes us beforehand we break out the pitchforks. I hear the London PD are looking into it. Let's see what they have to say.
Oh, yeah. He was in movies, too. I forgot about that. And yeah, until some serious facts (which now seem to be emerging) surface, people should be given some room. But the people in the US (where I live) love to see dirt, even if it isn't there. Otoh, they idolize crime figures. Take Bonnie and Clyde, for example. Or the criminal-in-chief stumbling around the White House.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
