Post by brody on Mar 16, 2016 15:48:32 GMT
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/people-v-oj-simpson-episode-7-recap
The prosecution had always planned to have Simpson try on the gloves—but a duplicate pair of the exact ones found at the scene (extra-large Isotoners) that they ordered from the manufacturer, not the bloodied glove from evidence and not with a latex glove underneath. And it was Judge Ito who made the crucial call to have Simpson try on, withlatex gloves underneath, the actual blood-soaked (and possibly shrunken) crime-scene glove, not the duplicates the prosecution had intended.
Did Chris Darden whisk Marcia Clark off on a weekend getaway to San Francisco?
Yes. But. According to Without a Doubt, it was a trip to visit Darden’s family and his teenage daughter:
“We made the five-hour drive in Chris’s Toyota Camry. I was so paranoid about being spotted that when we stopped at a gas station, I pulled the hood of my parka over my face. But the farther north we got, the more relaxed I felt. We could talk for once without running the risk of being overheard. We vented about Fuhrman, Johnnie, Ito, the goddamned media. TFC, TFC, This * Case.
“That weekend I was in a state of absolute euphoria. Chris and I checked into the Fairmont—taking separate rooms, for those of you keeping score. He introduced me to his family. One night his sisters and I went out to a place near the wharf. People recognized us—hell, all that airtime had made us the two most recognizable civil servants in the country— but they kept their distance. I felt lighter, more hopeful than I had in months. It seemed possible that someday life might return to normal. On the trip home I remained enveloped in this euphoria . . .”
But Darden’s book is the source material for the hotel “Good night” scene in San Francisco: “I was grinning like a kid as I met Marcia on the side of the [Fairmont Hotel] . . . For Marcia and me, it was a world without jurors, experts, and television cameras . . . Much later, we paused at our separate doors, ten feet of papered wall between us. She faced her hotel room door in a trademark Marcia dress, short and black. She looked down toward her shoes. “I’ll see you in the morning,” I said. “Good night, Chris.”
Both Darden and Clark have not revealed whether they had a romantic or sexual relationship, but they each write about the other with true affection and admiration. Clark has said they were “closer than lovers,” and Darden spends a lot of time wondering about entering into a relationship with her in his book. “She and I were two passionate people thrown together in a trial that left us exhausted and lonely. … Of course the question the media ask is more base. It is a locker-room question . . . My parents taught me that locker-room talk isn’t at all gentlemanly. I refuse to surrender the last posts of privacy that we have . . .”
Gossip magazines regularly reported seeing the two at bars and hotels around Los Angeles, and People magazine went so far as to claim that they planned to marry. From a Daily Newsstory from 1995: “The New York Post cites a source in the Los Angeles' prosecutors office who says, “ ‘Everybody knows about them. Everybody's saying that it shows at least one good thing came out of that wretched trial.’ ”
If a scene like the one between Darden and Clark in front of her hotel room really took place, then it has stayed between the two of them. In choosing to have Darden rebuff Clark’s apparent willingness, the writers of the FX series did two smart things: kept the sexual tension going (which it did throughout the trial and even after the verdict), and given a more dramatic motive for Darden’s going for the glove. The viewer’s heart breaks twice over for one of the few genuinely likeable characters in the series.
Yes. But. According to Without a Doubt, it was a trip to visit Darden’s family and his teenage daughter:
“We made the five-hour drive in Chris’s Toyota Camry. I was so paranoid about being spotted that when we stopped at a gas station, I pulled the hood of my parka over my face. But the farther north we got, the more relaxed I felt. We could talk for once without running the risk of being overheard. We vented about Fuhrman, Johnnie, Ito, the goddamned media. TFC, TFC, This * Case.
“That weekend I was in a state of absolute euphoria. Chris and I checked into the Fairmont—taking separate rooms, for those of you keeping score. He introduced me to his family. One night his sisters and I went out to a place near the wharf. People recognized us—hell, all that airtime had made us the two most recognizable civil servants in the country— but they kept their distance. I felt lighter, more hopeful than I had in months. It seemed possible that someday life might return to normal. On the trip home I remained enveloped in this euphoria . . .”
But Darden’s book is the source material for the hotel “Good night” scene in San Francisco: “I was grinning like a kid as I met Marcia on the side of the [Fairmont Hotel] . . . For Marcia and me, it was a world without jurors, experts, and television cameras . . . Much later, we paused at our separate doors, ten feet of papered wall between us. She faced her hotel room door in a trademark Marcia dress, short and black. She looked down toward her shoes. “I’ll see you in the morning,” I said. “Good night, Chris.”
Both Darden and Clark have not revealed whether they had a romantic or sexual relationship, but they each write about the other with true affection and admiration. Clark has said they were “closer than lovers,” and Darden spends a lot of time wondering about entering into a relationship with her in his book. “She and I were two passionate people thrown together in a trial that left us exhausted and lonely. … Of course the question the media ask is more base. It is a locker-room question . . . My parents taught me that locker-room talk isn’t at all gentlemanly. I refuse to surrender the last posts of privacy that we have . . .”
Gossip magazines regularly reported seeing the two at bars and hotels around Los Angeles, and People magazine went so far as to claim that they planned to marry. From a Daily Newsstory from 1995: “The New York Post cites a source in the Los Angeles' prosecutors office who says, “ ‘Everybody knows about them. Everybody's saying that it shows at least one good thing came out of that wretched trial.’ ”
If a scene like the one between Darden and Clark in front of her hotel room really took place, then it has stayed between the two of them. In choosing to have Darden rebuff Clark’s apparent willingness, the writers of the FX series did two smart things: kept the sexual tension going (which it did throughout the trial and even after the verdict), and given a more dramatic motive for Darden’s going for the glove. The viewer’s heart breaks twice over for one of the few genuinely likeable characters in the series.