After a judge ordered that all payments owed to O.J. Simpson from his past acting roles were to be paid directly to the family of murder victim Ron Goldman, lawyer Yale Galanter surely violated some attorney-client boundary in his smug response.
"Last year Simpson's royalty checks from all of his movies were less than 39 cents," Galanter said, according to CNN.
Simpson was acquitted of murder in the 1994 slayings of Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, but he still owes most of the $33.5 million judgement against him in the wrongful death lawsuit. Given that Naked Gun probably aired once in 2006, it means the movie would have to air another 85.9 million times, or 1.3 million times more than Lethal Weapon 2, for the debt to be repaid.
I'm assuming there are federal laws that prevent the use of public airwaves to subject taxpayers to such a fate as that, but then there's QVC to prove me wrong.
To the credit of the American viewers, public opinion was able to forestall the publication and airing of Simspon's TV show If I Did It, in which he was to explain his theory of the crime, from a purely hypothetical standpoint, of course.
Simpson reportedly said he only participated in the projects to secure his children's future; but when the Goldmans sued to collect any advance money paid for his musings, Simpson said it already had been spent.
On the search for the real killer and a double espresso, no doubt.
The irregular and irreverant musings of a working mom, born and raised in the South, who never has confused a Mr. Pibb with a Dr Pepper.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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