When our Great Americans go, we know how to mourn them. But there’s a Great American subset — where the adventure rocks the infrastructure and the life leaves a gash. In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment. Are we still in Great American territory? In a place some call “La La Land,” no less.

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Persons: Simpson, What’d, spoofery, O.J, Folks, LeVar Burton, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, beckoning, ” Organizations: Great Locations: O.J, Africa, La