OJ Simpson dead at 76 (1 Viewer)

[Tommy R]

All I'm going to say is this, the conversation at the pearly gates is going to be interesting.

I hope Leslie Nielsen is the first to intercept him with a phone call.

Nielsen: O.J., a phone call from hell is here for you.
O.J.: Hell? What is it…?
Nielsen: It’s a fiery place where murders go to suffer, but that’s not important right now…

 

[TravisR]

nevermind

 

[Tino]

RIT. Rest in torment killer.

 

[Edwin-S]

This is the strangest obituary thread I've ever seen. I would say RIP; however, if there is a God, it's a foregone conclusion that won't be happening.

 

[joshEH]

 

[joshEH]

I hope Leslie Nielsen is the first to intercept him with a phone call.

Nielsen: O.J., a phone call from hell is here for you.
O.J.: Hell? What is it…?
Nielsen: It’s a fiery place where murders go to suffer, but that’s not important right now…

Video-footage from O.J.'s hospital:

 

[Walter P. Thatcher]

As much as I enjoyed "The Naked Gun" trilogy of movies and would've been revisited many, many times, I can't watch them because of Simpson. I've tried several times but as soon as his character Nordberg appears, off the movie goes. I am repulsed. Even his old commercials disgust. There's no way I can laugh with or even at that brutal murderer in anything.

 

[Tino]

Can the OP or an MOD edit the title to remove the RIP? Maybe just say OJ Simpson dead at 76. Seems more appropriate.

 

[Sam Favate]

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

- Clarence Darrow or Mark Twain, depending who you believe.

 

[Jack P]

Its always been easier for me to take seeing SImpson again in a dramatic role (Towering Inferno, Capricorn One) and I can certainly handle watching an old NFL game with him. But the Naked Gun stuff has been unseen by me since 1994 and I can never look at them again because when its a comedy that's when I can't suspend disbelief. Even if I mocked him as I watched, it would still be bad taste from my standpoint.

 

[Tommy R]

I haven’t seen The Naked Gun movies a plethora of times, but I don’t seem to remember his character having a particularly large amount of screen time.

 

[Into The Archives]

Well.....I would hate to be the person in charge of the AMPAS/TCM/SAG "in memoriam" reel for 2024 now.

 

[garyrc]

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

- Clarence Darrow or Mark Twain, depending who you believe.

"Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee." -- John Donne,

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

If you don't have anything nice to say about a person...

The MSM paint him as a saint, the opposite paint him for what he truly was

I've never seen him painted in the mainstream media as a saint. The general consensus has long been that he got away with murder.

I will say that his trial is an example of the difference between "not guilty" and "innocent". The defense was able to use the LAPD's reputation for racism and misconduct to create reasonable doubt in the juror's minds. The jury wasn't asked to decide whether Simpson committed the murders or not, only whether a reasonable person might have doubt that he did. The civil case, which had a much lower bar, went the other way.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I've never seen him painted in the mainstream media as a saint. The general consensus has long been that he got away with murder.

Agreed on both counts. I have never felt that the mainstream media painted him out to be a saint. Just the opposite.

 

[TravisR]

I've never seen him painted in the mainstream media as a saint.

Which is clearly evidenced by the fact that the media coverage across the board has been "OJ the murderer died lol".

 

[Desslar]

Don't have any time for murderers, but do love the Naked Gun movies. Otherwise, never saw much of OJ, other than in some cheesy Hertz commercials with Arnold Palmer.

 

[Tommy R]

Man, do I miss Norm! I can just hear him say:

“O.J. Simpson has died today. This NFL player turned actor was known mostly for…DOUBLE HOMICIDE!”

 

[Jeffrey D]

Well.....I would hate to be the person in charge of the AMPAS/TCM/SAG "in memoriam" reel for 2024 now.

Probably not a grand idea to include O.J. in this segment. Not a lock that he’s not included though.

 

[Desslar]

Well.....I would hate to be the person in charge of the AMPAS/TCM/SAG "in memoriam" reel for 2024 now.

Heh, my aunt coordinates that. Or at least did - not sure if she will be doing it again.