![]() Simpson! Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark! Nathan Lane as F. The miniseries, which boasts a stacked cast, – Cuba Gooding Jr. (Plus the lie-detector test the NFL icon had failed, plus the history of domestic violence.) "On about page three, I say: guilty, guilty, guilty," he adds, reflecting on the more than 60 pieces of physical evidence linking Simpson's home and car to the house of his murdered former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. "My book is not exactly a whodunit," he quips during an appearance in Palm Springs, Calif., as part of a recent "Book to Screen" series. did it?"įor Toobin, that's never been the question. To underline matters: Boris Yeltsin's first question when he met Bill Clinton, a year later? "Do you think O.J. It was so massive that more people, in 1994, watched Simpson's now-infamous Bronco chase than that year's Super Bowl. (pre- Survivor, pre- Housewives, pre-everything). Both a soapy peephole thriller and a legal composter, Toobin's account is considered the In Cold Blood of the Simpson case, one that aptly captures a saga that has been alternately called noir (though more Twin Peaks than Double Indemnity) and/or television's first reality show. Toobin's story later morphed into a book, 1996's The Run of His Life, on which this new 10-part TV series, hatched by Ryan Murphy, is based. The writer knows a thing or two about the case: His pretrial story in The New Yorker was the first to report that Simpson's lawyers planned to use the "race card," and accuse Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence. ![]()
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