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From: Jasper
Date: 4/10/02
Time: 5:28:16 PM
Jean,
The former LA cop writer that you're trying to think of is Joseph Wambaugh. If you wonder why certain actors like James Woods, Ronny Cox, Pat Corley, James Woods and Ed Lauter keep popping up in the movies I call "the Fuhrman collection" in The Smoking Gun, you'll find the answer in Joseph Wambaugh's screenplays. You will also find a significant number of connections to Fuhrman - but only if you assume that Fuhrman is the killer and got his ideas for manipulating evidence and testimony from the movies.
Wambaugh wrote The Choirboys, the Onion Field, The Glitter Dome, the Blue Knight and the New Centurions - all of which were made into movies or television shows with strong ties to Fuhrman's version of the Bundy murders. Fuhrman's dream connection to O.J. is never more than one actor or one character removed from the characters derived from Wambaugh's books and the actors who played them.
George Kennedy (The Blue Knight TV series) is Ed in The Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen and Drebin and O.J. as Nordberg. William Holden plays the same character as Kennedy in the movie version of The Blue Knight. Holden appears with Faye Dunaway (implied fellatio in the chess game with Steve McQueen in the Thomas Crown Affairs) along with Steve McQueen and O.J. Simpson in The Towering Inferno.
In The Towering Inferno, O.J. is a security guard who saves the life of a cat. The cat belongs to a woman who rescues two children - a boy and a girl - and dies a horrible death. Cats, by the way, and security guards are VERY big in the Fuhrman collection. Cat hair was found on Nicole's dress although she hadn't owned a cat in six months.
Steve McQueen was suppose to have been at the house where and when Sharon Tate and her houseguests were murdered by members of the Manson family (the case that made Vince Bugliosi famous). Bugliosi, of course, is the man who wrote the foreword to Fuhrman's first book. George DiCenzo, who plays Bugliosi in the made-for-television movie Helter Skelter, is an alumnus of a Wambaugh movie.
You should probably mention one other category of sociologically retarded people who see themselves as above the laws that apply to everyone else. That's a sociopath. On the Laura Hart McKinney tapes Fuhrman describes how he would see something that he figured needed to be done (no matter where it fell morally or legally) and do it. He said that he would look around and see that he was always the only one with the "guts" to break through barriers that hold most people back.
There was no moral component in his concept of courage - no sense of selfless duty to others. He describes a character like that in Murder in Brentwood when he is writing about his methods of interrogating a normal murder suspect. He said that you had to make an exception with a person who cannot be bullied or shamed into confessing because he just doesn't care about things that would frighten or shame other people.
Did he know that he was talking about himself? I think he did. --Jasper