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I don't know about that. They had other connections to celebrity besides the OJ trial that had more to do with their eventual rise to fame, so I think it would have happened anyway. Kris Jenner was on Entertainment Tonight this week. She says the whole scene with the kids watching the chase like that didn't happen (starts with a teaser for next week's episode, if you consider that a spoiler):

Probably one of the more surprising results since American Sniper went wide last year: even if I didn't think The Force Awakens could make that much money in a December weekend, it was still Star Wars. Ryan Reynolds as an a R-rated superhero? I can't believe it's going to sell more tickets than multiple X-Men movies.

It could have been that the OJ/Marguerite marriage had broken down but they were still living in the same house (you see stars doing this now for the kids, though that's more of a modern conscious uncoupling mentality). Or, OJ going out with his future second wife right under his first wife's nose was the very thing that led to the final breakdown of his first marriage. Other women were clearly a problem in Marriage #1, which OJ addressed in that 1977 People interview: I'm too young to remember OJ's football days but it's so strange for me to picture him taking the sort of acting roles he did, while still so active in the NFL. Usually star athletes who appear in movies or TVs are just cameo appearances or they're playing athletes very similar to themselves in bit parts, whereas OJ was in Roots and playing an interracial romance (a very controversial subject at the time) with Samantha from Bewitched. I can't even begin to picture the modern equivalent with a current NFL guy...Tom Brady and McDreamy play a couple in a Netflix movie? I guess back then there wasn't the sports media machine to make "he's not concentrating enough on the game!" into a perpetual story.

How Much Screen Time Did This Year’s Supporting Oscar Nominees Actually Have? Ranked in both minutes and percentage of the movie's run time. Mara and Vikander are above the 60% mark. All of the Supporting Actor nominees are in less than half of their movies, though Stallone is at 49%. Still, I feel a combination of factors determines the lead/supporting line and think a rule about screen time to prevent category fraud would end up backfiring or having unintended consequences. Secret ballot: Oscar insiders reveal their votes

Here's an interview with O.J. from People Magazine's archives, from the issue dated October 17, 1977. The whole thing is an interesting time capsule of his personality and fame at that point, but these quotes stood out in particular: At the time he'd just bought the house on Rockingham and the article mentions that he and Marguerite have three kids, Arnelle, Jason and Aeren, who'd just been born September 24 that year (she died about a month before her second birthday, in August 1979). Also, OJ had just starred in a TV movie with Elizabeth Montgomery (yes, Samantha Stevens) where they played police partners in an interracial romance.

The rumor about Robert Kardashian disposing of a bag for OJ goes back to the 1990s, but I wonder if the addition of Kris to the story now is The Enquirer engaging in a bit of real person fan fiction to give the story more contemporary appeal. With Robert dead, OJ in jail and the bag long gone, that's more or less that. With Kris allegedly holding onto key evidence in the case they can cook up headlines speculating where the bag could be hidden, or how she's a hypocrite making a big show of her friendship with Nicole while harboring supposed evidence of her murder. It's a story painting a Kardashian in a bad light, low-hanging fruit for a tabloid and plays right to the group willing to gleefully latch onto any negative headline about Kris & Co. as 100% truth, manna from heaven and a sign of their inevitable downfall. Color me a skeptic on this particular angle.

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Here's an LA Times article from July 1994 about the OJ-Robert friendship. It (misspells Kris' name) and briefly mentions his career at the time: remember Movie Tunes? The music that used to play in movie theaters before the movie, before theaters came up with those 20-minute clip packages of upcoming TV/movies to play instead. Anyway, he was running Movie Tunes (I've heard Kim talk about how she was put to work mailing CDs to the different movie theaters, as a teenager). He was also involved in the founding of the old music industry magazine Radio & Records and made about $3 million when it was sold back in the late 1970s.

People on Twitter are taking it as a retirement announcement (a peace emoji and a picture of his football cleats hanging in the air = peace out, he's hanging up his cleats). On those lists of tips to save water, they always suggest not running the water as you brush your teeth so it would seem to be a thing.

Maroon 5? I'm pretty sure they'll be asked if The Voice is still a thing by the time it's NBC's turn to show the Super Bowl again.

It stars Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke, and was supposed to come out last August before getting yanked from the schedule. This new release date was just publicized at the end of January. No ads and a Super Bowl weekend release date = dumped. It's going to be on Amazon in a month. It did come out last year overseas in some places, like Spain (the director is Spanish) and the UK.

Normally, I think of Chip as a good-natured goober, but watching the clip job show loaded with a full our of his antics nearly gave me an anxiety attack. Joanna has the patience of a saint to put up with him. Did anyone see the Fixer Upper rip-off that had a test run a couple of weeks ago? It was called Home Town and had a married couple fixing up houses in Mississippi. It copied the formula pretty closely, from the home search to the picturesque slice of small town life to the proposed home designs (the wife carried around a sketch pad rather than a laptop) to the pit stop with a Clint-esque figure, to the wife's having her own design quirk (mirrors) to the reveal. The reveal itself was kind of sad, actually, because they couldn't copy how Fixer Upper has a giant picture of the old house on wheels, with Chip and Joanna pulling apart the pieces to showcase the "after". Home Town just brought the homeowners to the renovated house, covered their eyes and stood them on the street with their backs turned, until it was time for the reveal. If it becomes a regular series, they'll have to think of something more telegenic.

Maybe it's because I got into the series five books in and read them all in two months, so I never had the time to wonder about all the things Claire should have done to get back to poor brokenhearted Frank instead of falling for Jamie. It's not that I hate Frank, but he's left behind very early in Book 1, and Book 2 starts off by skipping ahead two decades, when he's been dead a few years, and we're eight books in now. You get glimpses of the sort of person Frank became and his life with Claire and Bree in Boston, but it's clear that Gabaldon doesn't care about making him a central character, otherwise she would have written the story that way. Just reading the book jacket flaps, the inherent premise made it glaringly apparent IMO that Claire's heart would be with the guy in the past, because these are fictional romance-ish novels and the woman-out-of-time element makes for more fertile storytelling ground. Claire and Frank are clearly meant to be that couple who might have had a nice enough life together, but for the stones, but she did go through the stones, so that's that. He's not the villain of the piece, but it's not about him. Maybe there's a great story to be told from the perspective of a guy who lost his wife to a time traveler, the unfairness of it all and how this terribly fickle woman wronged him, but Outlander is not that story. I can understand how people who've just watched S1 have a wildly different impression of Frank and his place in this universe. Maybe non-book people think Frank will find a way to go back to the past, and hope for a more evenhanded love triangle or something, IDK.

February 5–7, 2016 Estimates: 1 (1) Kung Fu Panda 3 $21,000,000 | 3,987 Theaters | $5,267 Avg. | $69,050,957 2 (N) Hail, Caesar! $11,439,000 | 2,232 Theaters | $5,125 Avg. | $11,439,000 3 (2) The Revenant $7,100,000 | 3,018 Theaters | $2,353 Avg. | $149,703,403 4 (3) Star Wars: The Force Awakens $6,890,000 -38% 2,262 Theaters | $3,046 Avg. | $905,961,469 5 (N) The Choice $6,085,000 | 2,631 Theaters | $2,313 Avg. | $6,085,000 6 (N) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies $5,200,000 | 2,931 Theaters | $1,774 Avg. | $5,200,000 7 (4) The Finest Hours $4,715,000 | 3,143 Theaters | $1,500 Avg. | $18,380,660 8 (5) Ride Along 2 $4,517,760 | 2,172 Theaters | $2,080 Avg. | $77,204,590 9 (7) The Boy $4,098,000 | 2,214 Theaters | $1,851 Avg. | $26,895,684 10 (6) Dirty Grandpa $4,050,000 | 2,567 Theaters | $1,578 Avg. | $29,389,753 Regression $31,000 | 100 Theaters | $310 Avg. | $31,000 Best Picture Watch: The Martian $228,006,339 Mad Max: Fury Road $153,636,354 The Revenant $149,703,403 Bridge of Spies $71,963,976 The Big Short $63,730,476 Spotlight $36,113,108 Brooklyn $32,325,943 Room $11,252,823 Total/Average Gross: $746,732,422 / $93,341,553 Other Contenders: 45 Years $511,500 | 155 Theaters | $3,300 Avg. | $2,022,512 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films $400,000 | 150 Theaters | $2,667 Avg. | $1,186,399 The Hateful Eight $351,000 | 373 Theaters | $941 Avg. | $53,014,841 Joy $235,000 -59.1% 286 -161 $822 Avg. | $55,839,190 Creed $224,000 | 242 Theaters | $926 Avg. | $109,001,531 Carol $210,000 | 236 Theaters | $890 Avg. | $11,803,856 Anomalisa $160,000 | 147 Theaters | $1,088 Avg. | $2,236,307 The Danish Girl $126,000 | 155 Theaters | $813 Avg. | $10,600,359 Son of Saul $100,393 | 54 Theaters | $1,859 Avg. | $884,534

The CNN coverage would segue in and out of commercial breaks with this whole montage with graphics and music. I don't know if it was original or not but here's a bit of it toward the beginning of this preliminary hearing coverage: There's a little more of it in this CNN ad for OJ trial coverage: But I remember the whole "theme" going on much longer than that.

Wasn't it on live TV, like everything else about the trial? My school had TVs but had them shut off for the verdict, afraid students would riot.

No spoilers, but there's probably going to be a scene where Robert and Kris argue about the case, possibly as the kids overhear. Sure, OJ had a Dream Team and Nicole had more than one friend, but how many other OJ lawyers and Nicole BFFS were a divorced couple on opposing sides, in the thick of the Trial of the Century? It was a pretty dramatic scenario that might have been exploited (to a lesser degree, granted) even if the Kardashians hadn't gone on to notoriety.

She actually made a couple of changes to her hair during the ordeal. Here's a 1995 LA Times article about her "new look", including an interview with the hair stylist:

I think he played OJ in the TV movie done in the mid-90s, so he's probably in his late 50s, early 60s by now. Kato Kaelin is on Entertainment Tonight, saying they portrayed him as Garth from Wayne's World and they embellished what a stoner he was. I remember the trial, though, and he was regarded as a complete flake at the time, fair or not.

Figures, the one I've blocked out. I'm wondering if his family knew about it, because you'd figure it would have come up at some point during the Michael/Kay marriage, if they had. Also, when applying for a license, you're often asked if it's the first marriage, though a person could always lie about that.

I didn't like Kay at all but especially in the movie. When she dates Michael it's the mid-1940s, so even if the myth of the mafia wasn't what it became in later years, it's not like she wouldn't have been familiar with bootleggers and bank robbers, how the feds like to go after them and that it often doesn't end well for them. It's obvious the Corleones are gangsters of some sort from what Michael tells her about his family at the wedding, not to mention the attempt on Vito's life. If she really had a problem with that she shouldn't have married him to begin with, but she wouldn't be the first woman to make a bad decision out of love. Did Kay ever learn about Apollonia?

It's the same as the movie, but the timeline of Rizzo's pregnancy scare makes zero sense. Maybe they gave Sandy strict parents so that her new look is more about rebelling than changing to hold a man's interest (a common criticism lobbed at the story).

I was thinking more about how a girl being forcibly dragged off as she protests and another teenager having her dress pulled over her head in public goes over with a 2016 audience, some of whom aren't familiar with the musical/movie or wouldn't find those scenes humorous.

It's Joe Jonas: his group DNCE also does the song "Cake by the Ocean". Sandy left the dance floor on her own and whatshername didn't have her dress pulled over her head--minor tweaks that play better to contemporary sensibilities.

The gap seems to be closing, with Brooklyn making more per weekend for the past month. If Spotlight wins Best Picture, though, that boost might put it ahead for good. Fifty Shades of Black did only cost $5 million but parody movies have seen better days at the box office.