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From: Jasper
Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Time: 02:01:20 PM
Solitairea1, …You’re right. I hate to see this from Fenjves, who I believed made an honest effort on the witness stand to be as accurate as possible. The only misstep he made was his “plaintive wail” characterization of the sound he said he heard from Nicole’s dog between 10:15 and 10:20 on the night of the murders. …………… It sounded to me at the time like a calculated TV news “sound bite.” But when I learned that he was a profession screenplay writer it sounded more like something that such a writer would say out of old thinking habits. It’s the sort of things book writers do to describe dramatic events in a way that would translate well in a screenplay. Anyone else would have called it “howling” or “whining.” Then I learned of the screenplay he wrote before the murders that began, in his words, with “the plaintive wail” of a siren. It was a great line to set the tone for what was to come in the movie. It was so good that he clearly could not resist using a slightly modified version of it again to describe what he heard to set the tone for what happened across the alley from him in real life. ……………The “If I Did It” book speaks for itself as far as authorship is concerned. It is packed with adverbs and adjectives that only a fiction writher would use the way the writer used them. The rhythm of the prose rarely misses a beat. The bridges between thoughts are all where they need to be for a professional flow. These are the reasons that professional ghost writers (and “as told to” writer like Dan Moldea who actually wrote “Vannatter and Lang’s” Evidence Dismissed) are used. It has many PAGES of solid DIALOGUE that are supposed to be O.J. recalling what was said in conversations he had with Nicole. ALL of that dialogue in every chapter has a rhythm and flow that exists nowhere in literature other than in works of fiction written by professional writers. …………. Arnelle said that the book project was brought to her by a lawyer “friend.” She said that she talked about it with her brothers and sister and eventually took it to their father. That sequence of events was undisputed by anyone until Fenjves claimed that it was O.J.’s idea. Nonsense. Even his old National Enquirer buddy and ReganBooks boss Judith Regan said that it was HER idea “to trap him into making a confession.” It took a lot of maneuvering to bring O.J. aboard – all of means that Fenjves part of the “trap.” ………….O.J. claimed that the book project was sold to him as a work of fiction. This is what you see with books and movies “based on true stores.” If you’ve ever seen a docudrama you saw what O.J. said he contributed to the book – the “docu” part of the drama where you try to get the “based” on part of the story right. O.J. could tell Fenjves about his relationship with Nicole. He could give his motives for saying or doing this or that and give his spin on what was “hypothetically” going on in Nicole’s mind at various times. He claimed that he couldn’t contribute to the chapter on the killings because he didn’t do it. Those claims are consistent what what’s in the book and what isn’t. …………..The book does give you a good feel for O.J.’s perspective on what his life with Nicole was like shortly before she was killed. Fictional and hypothetical were the words he used to describe the book in general. That’s what it is. --Jasper