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For anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again, Fox is apparently repeating Grease Live! on March 27th.

Since the Juniors & the last season of adult PR both showed at Fashion Week, they had to be filming at the same time/close together, right--or would they have had to? Cool that Tim managed to juggle both shows simultaneously, if so--& it's totally understandable, now, how frustrated he got with the adults during the last season (which I think was mentioned in the adult show's forum) if he truly was working with both groups simultaneously, & after having seen both sets of Fashion Week finalists' collections.

He also was on ABC's The Chew at some point after he won FNS.

I know you can download the eps/all of season 3 from iTunes & Amazon.com Instant Video. At least if you're in the US. Also, S3 DVDs can currently be pre-ordered from at least Amazon.com in the US--they'll be released in the US on March 1st. Hopefully, FX will re-air S3 before S4 starts (this is their usual pattern, to rerun the previous season before the new season starts), but they haven't yet & if they do it'll be in a pretty late night timeslot--like from about when your late local news airs until FX goes to infomercial programming in the pre-dawn hours (again, another usual pattern of theirs).

OJ's (former?) business manager has issues with Cuba Gooding Jr.'s portrayal of OJ. http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20984854,00.html?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

Ron & Kim Goldman's dad is named Fred, not Ron, Sr. Robert Kardashian's the figure in the case with a namesake son.

Pet Peeve: Getting a longterm illness that basically keeps you housebound, then finding out your most favorite singer is coming to your hometown on what's expected to be his last major concert tour (& you haven't missed any of his previous 5 shows in your hometown & don't wanna miss this 1 either). Sigh...

I get they were going along with "school cafeteria traditions" in allowing the kids to trade their lunchbox ingredients (kids always trade the crappy stuff from their lunchboxes/sometimes from their hot lunches for better stuff they think their friends have/stuff they like but their friends don't). But was it really fair they got to trade for better stuff this week since they haven't gotten to trade away ingredients they didn't like/didn't know how to prepare/were all WTF? about in earlier weeks? I mean, working with something you're familiar with/you prefer might give you some sort of advantage the original ingredient you were given/stuck with didn't.

Here's another book people might wanna look into, especially anyone who believes OJ is (somehow) actually innocent of the murders--other than just because that's what the jury found. O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It by William Dear. Published in 2012. Dear has been studying/following the case all this time & claims to have the murder weapon & other evidence which he says will exonerate OJ of involvement in the killings. I posted about this in the Media thread--so if you're interested, you can go read the source article, from The Hollywood Reporter, I linked to there--because this guy, a PI in Dallas, has been shopping around a proposal for a multipart miniseries based on his book in Hollywood & he's being aided in this by legendary actor Martin Sheen. I wanted to get the name of the book & author over here too, since some posts here are recommending books related to the case. The guy's probably a crackpot, but I also wanted to bring this up because there are at least 2 sides to every story so I thought I'd mention this in that spirit, if you will.

A private eye from Dallas says he has evidence which can prove OJ's innocent of the killings (not surprisingly, he's also written a book--in 2012--about this); he's currently shopping a proposal for another multipart miniseries based on his claims, with help from legendary actor Martin Sheen. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-sheen-helps-shop-new-861411

At least some of his fellow inmates in the Nevada prison where he's currently incarcerated on the charges involving trying to get his property back before it was sold to go towards the judgment against him in the civil trial (or whatever the situation was) also apparently call him "Juice". I read that in an article earlier this week. I think it was on People magazine's website & it was talking about whether or not he may have CTE, based on his behavior both currently & at least as far back as the time of the killings.

Kim Goldman is unhappy with the way the first episode depicted her brother, Ron--which is, not as a hero who died trying to save Nicole from her killer. http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20984766,00.html

And on TV, Aaron Tveit was also in the cast of the show Graceland, which recently ended (after something like a 3-season run) on USA Network.

Zoey licking Bill reminded me of when Will went through a similar phase, which we also saw on the show. I think it was around when they went to India to pick up Zoey; I think I remember Will licking Bill's hand or arm when he left the hotel room when he & Jen were on the way to the orphanage to get Zoey. The place where Bill took Zoey to eat after the exam by Dr. Ho & the shots was a local Houston place called Bernie's Burger Bus. I follow Bill & Jen on Twitter & there were a couple of Tweets/Retweets between the restaurant & Bill about the mention on the show on his Twitter earlier today. I got my ears pierced, by my hair stylist at the time at her salon, by my choice when I was 15 (the summer before I started High School). She did my ears separately (but at the same appointment) &, as I remember, I thought it felt like getting a rubber band snapped, maybe a little hard, against my earlobe. I didn't think it was too horrible, but also maybe not what I expected.

Al Michaels is Lead Commentator on NBC's Sunday Night Football telecasts, paired with former Cincinnati Bengals Quarterback Cris Collinsworth. He also does NBC's Olympic coverage. He may be best known for calling the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics Hockey Game ("Do you believe in miracles? ... Comes true!") when the US unexpectedly defeated the then Soviet Union team & went on to win the Gold in the competition, when he worked for ABC Sports.

I mentioned that upthread, when the thought was mentioned that the writers wrote this as if OJ has/had CTE--the only recently-discovered (or at least only recently making huge amounts of news) degenerative brain condition which has been found during autopsies of former (mostly NFL) football players (it can only be found, so far, in a post-mortem exam of the brain of someone suspected of having it). 1996 was, as I remember, way early for this brain condition--named CTE then, or not--to be in the news, & the thought (by the Dr. credited with discovering the condition/correlation between it & repeated head trauma suffered by football players--a man played by Will Smith in the recent movie Concussion, by the way) that OJ probably has it/had it at the time of the murders (because his behavior back then is the same as has been exhibited by those who are later found to have the condition) has only been in the news in the last couple of weeks before the premiere of this miniseries. So Jeffrey Toobin, the author of the source material, probably couldn't have written in his book about OJ having that specific condition. Depending on when this was written, in connection to when CTE, by whatever name/description, started making news, it's possible the miniseries' writers could've given that "OJ may have CTE" slant to their writing here.

Robert Kardashian's Wikipedia page says he died of esophageal cancer, which is the same thing I've always heard. He died in 2003, only 8 weeks after being diagnosed.

Jordana Brewster's playing Nicole's dark-haired, basically look alike, sister Denise Brown, not Nicole. They supposedly found an un to little known alleged look alike to play Nicole.

Her wig really is terrible. It's short in front & long in back, but comparison pics of the real Marcia Clark at the time of the trial show her real hair as being just the opposite--long in front & short in back.

Maybe "Juice" is a stupid nickname, maybe not. But I get how it probably started--with him being called by his initials, "OJ", which many people use as a short form for "orange juice", instead of his given name, "Orenthal James". And, seeing as we don't actually know him, "Juice" could perhaps be indicative of other things/characteristics about him too. But I always figured "Juice" came from his first & middle initials being "OJ".

They've already announced a second season will/would be about Hurricane Katrina (presumably how badly the disaster/recovery was mismanaged by the governmental officials involved, on all levels). Sadly, if OJ hadn't introduced us to the Kardashians I think we'd have still been destined to be overly exposed to the women of the family, given that Kris Kardashian did eventually divorce Robert, Senior, before his death & go on to marry Bruce, now Caitlyn, Jenner. Even if Nicole & Ron hadn't been murdered, & the Simpsons, Kardashians, et al, hadn't been thrown into the spotlight/a bigger spotlight by the trial, the Kardashians' marriage probably still would've ended, she would've still married Bruce Jenner--before he became Caitlyn, of course--& they'd have had their 2 daughters together, & the Kardashian/Jenner women would've gotten their foothold into fame via Kris' marriage to the now former Bruce Jenner. Yes, it's a total of 10 episodes (9 to go, now) in the miniseries.

The book this is based on is The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, by Jeffrey Toobin, which was published in 1996. I thought CTE wasn't talked about until much more recently than that, but maybe I'm wrong on that.

And Steven Kiley, MD from Marcus Welby, MD/Peter McDermott from Hotel, among others, & the current Mr. Barbra Streisand. Just saying.

Here's the link to the forum for the FX OJ Simpson show that starts airing in about an hour in the Eastern/Central Time Zones as I write this. http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2171-american-crime-story/

I doubt it. I don't think any of the real-life people involved in the case were consulted by the production team beforehand--though I know some of the actors did meet their characters' real life counterparts either during or after filming.