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☆ 'Terminator' writer says O.J. Simpson was never considered for the part, debunking a claim by Arnold Schwarzenegger
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"The Terminator" writer Gale Anne Hurd addressed a rumor about O.J. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last year that Simpson was once in line to play the Terminator. AdvertisementGale Anne Hurd, the producer and co-writer of "The Terminator," debunked a claim about O.J. Hurd knocked down the assertion by Arnold Schwarzenegger that Simpson was at one point in line to play the Terminator, rather than him. Hurd disputed that, saying Simpson was "never even considered" for the movie, which premiered in 1984 and made Schwarzenegger's career.

Persons: Gale Anne Hurd, Simpson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hurd, — Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Opinion | J.D. Vance: The Math on Ukraine Doesn’t Add Up
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( J. D. Vance | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. The Biden administration has applied increasing pressure on Republicans to pass a supplemental aid package of more than $60 billion to Ukraine. Mr. Biden suggests that a $60 billion supplemental means the difference between victory and defeat in a major war between Russia and Ukraine. $60 billion is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor. Fundamentally, we lack the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Republicans, Senate Locations: Ukraine, United States, Russia

☆ The New York Times News Quiz, April 12, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Simpson, the football star who was tried and acquitted over the murder of his former wife and her friend, died this week at 76. Years after his high-profile trial, Simpson served several years in jail for what?

Persons: O.J, Simpson

☆ Opinion | What the O.J. Trial Taught America About Domestic Violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Rachel Louise Snyder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For years now, I’ve had advocates who work with survivors of domestic violence tell me that two events in 1994 changed entirely the landscape for victims’ services in their field: the passage of the Violence Against Women Act and the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. In fact, many advocates cite her death in June of that year as instrumental in Congress’s prioritizing the passage of the Violence Against Women Act that September, which in turn authorized the creation of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Simpson trial. It was the first time many Americans were even made aware of the domestic violence services offered in their own backyards. Yet it’s worth taking a moment to remember the ways his case, even in light of the outcome, had profound and lasting consequences for domestic violence victims, for their advocates and for court systems.

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Simpson, center, appears in court on charges which include kidnapping, armed robbery and assault, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in September 2007. Simpson was released from prison in 2017 after serving about nine years of a 33-year sentence for a kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas. In the 2007 robbery, Simpson was part of a group that raided a hotel and casino to steal sports memorabilia from two dealers at gunpoint. Simpson was convicted on charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Simpson was granted an early parole discharge in 2021, according to the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Clint Karlsen, pitchman, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron Goldman Organizations: Nevada Department of Public Safety, NFL Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, Las Vegas

☆ The Life of O.J. Simpson: A Timeline
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Simpson, who died on Wednesday at 76, lived a life that made him one of the most famous people in America, as well as, at various times, the most celebrated and most reviled. A Heisman Trophy winner when he played football at the University of Southern California, he reached superstar status as a running back with the Buffalo Bills. As a commercial pitchman and a Hollywood actor, he became a household name across much of America. But fame turned to infamy when he was charged in the 1994 double murder of his former wife and her friend. He was acquitted after a trial that riveted the nation.

Persons: O.J, Simpson Organizations: University of Southern, Buffalo Bills Locations: America, University of Southern California

☆ All the times Zendaya served looks on the ‘Challengers’ press tour
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But her latest press tour is, well, a grand slam. Scroll to see Zendaya’s best looks from the “Challengers” press tour. Zendaya's press tour began with the Australian premiere of "Challengers" in Sydney on March 26. Emmanuel DunandAFP/Getty ImagesIn one of her more literal looks, Zendaya wore a custom Loewe dress to a photocall in Rome on April 8, clearly designed to mimic a classic tennis outfit with its pleated skirt and classic lined v-neck. Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesDuring the “Dune: Part Two,” press tour, Zendaya’s co-stars, including Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson and Timothée Chalamet, matched her commitment to the sartorial ‘bit’ with their own red carpet wardrobes.

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☆ How Hertz Turned O.J. Simpson Into the ‘Superstar in Rent‐a‐Car’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Executives at the rental car company Hertz knew what they wanted to project to potential business travelers in the 1970s: speed, reliability and efficiency. They quickly realized that one man radiated all of those qualities. So they made the football player O.J. Simpson, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76, the first Black star of a national television advertising campaign. “They had a slogan — the Superstar in Rent‐a‐Car — and I was the current reigning superstar as far as the competition was concerned,” Simpson told The New York Times in 1976.

Persons: Hertz, O.J, Simpson, “, ” Simpson Organizations: New York Times

☆ Mister Cee, ‘legendary’ New York City disc jockey, dead at 57
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“As a family at HOT 97 and WBLS, we’re deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved Mister Cee,” reads the statement posted on Hot 97’s site. LeBrun’s childhood friend Kevin “DJ 50 Grand” Griffin helped rapper Christopher Wallace record his demo, which launched him into infamy as The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls. “The first time I met him was when his DJ 50 Grand, rest in peace, [DJ 50 Grand died in 2022] brought Big to my house. The plan was we were going to redo the basement demo that he and 50 Grand put together,” LeBraun told Rock the Bells last year. (Death of Auto-Tune)” by saying, “I made this just for Flex and Mister Cee.”

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☆ O. J. Simpson, el atleta cuyo juicio cautivó la atención de EE. UU., muere a los 76 años
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

O. J. Simpson, que saltó a la fama en los campos de fútbol americano, hizo fortuna en el cine, publicidad y televisión con un personaje de típico estadounidense negro, y fue absuelto de los cargos de asesinato de su exesposa y un amigo en un juicio celebrado en 1995 en Los Ángeles que cautivó al país, murió el miércoles. Un jurado en el juicio por asesinato, que mostró un espejo agrietado de un Estados Unidos blanco y negro, absolvió a Simpson, pero el caso arruinó su mundo. Pagó poco de la deuda, se mudó a Florida y luchó por rehacer su vida, criar a sus hijos y mantenerse alejado de los problemas. En 2006, vendió el manuscrito de un libro, If I Did It, y una posible entrevista televisiva, en la que relataría “hipotéticamente” los asesinatos que siempre había negado haber cometido. Una protesta pública puso fin a ambos proyectos, pero la familia de Goldman obtuvo los derechos del libro, añadió material en el que imputaba la culpa a Simpson y lo publicó.

☆ O.J. Simpson Died at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Simpson lived a life that made him one of the most famous people in America. Then, in 1994, he was charged in the double murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Simpson, who was 76, died yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America and mesmerized the nation, which followed along on daily national television broadcasts. He sold a book manuscript giving a “hypothetical” account of the murders, but after a public outcry, Ronald Goldman’s family secured the book rights.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, Ronald Goldman’s Organizations: Buffalo Bills Locations: America, Las Vegas

☆ Opinion: What we may never understand about O.J. Simpson
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Gene | Opinion Gene Seymour | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Walter Iooss Jr./Sports Illustrated via Getty Images Simpson competes during a track event at the University of Southern California in 1967. Focus On Sport via Getty Images Simpson gets ice applied to his bandaged right foot from his wife Marguerite in 1967. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Simpson poses with the Heisman Memorial Trophy after receiving the award in 1968. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Simpson is brought down by another football player during the Hula Bowl in 1969. ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Simpson acts in a scene from the 1978 film "Capricorn One."

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☆ Kari Lake Backs G.O.P. Effort to Drop 1864 Abortion Law in Favor of 15-Week Ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Kellen Browning | Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A handful of Arizona Republican legislators looking to overturn a 160-year-old state law that bans nearly all abortions have a new high-profile supporter: Kari Lake, a prominent Senate candidate and a close ally of Donald J. Trump. Now, some Republicans are looking for a way out of their political dilemma after their party blocked efforts to reverse the law. They see Ms. Lake, who is in a competitive race that could determine control of the Senate, as an important ally. Ms. Lake has called a handful of state legislators to offer her support in any effort to repeal the law and revert to the 15-week abortion ban that was in effect in Arizona, according to a person familiar with the outreach. Ms. Lake herself had praised the 160-year-old ban during her 2022 run for governor, calling it a “great law,” but on Tuesday condemned the court decision, saying it was “out of step with Arizonans.”

Persons: Kari Lake, Donald J, Trump, Roe, Wade, Lake, ” Organizations: Arizona Republican, Arizona Republicans, U.S, Supreme Locations: Arizona

It would become an indelible memory for those who could not help but watch and watch and watch: a white Ford Bronco steadily traveling along the cleared freeways of Southern California, a trail of police cars not far behind. Simpson, and the two-hour chase on June 17, 1994, that interrupted regular programming transfixed a nation. I wasn’t getting off the TV. Who was getting off the TV on a chase like that?” said Richard Smith, 67, who gathered that day with his family to see it all unfold on television in their South Los Angeles apartment. The saga of Mr. Simpson, from the chase to the criminal trial to the aftermath, would be followed, debated and dissected closely by millions, etching itself into Los Angeles history and thrusting the city into what seemed the center of the universe.

Persons: Simpson, “, wasn’t, ”, Richard Smith, Mr Organizations: Ford Bronco Locations: Southern California, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles

☆ Nicole Brown Simpson documentary coming to Lifetime with family’s participation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Lifetime is set to air a documentary centered around Nicole Brown Simpson later this year, according to a source close to the production. Brown Simpson’s family and friends are participating in the project, the individual said. Simpson’s death on Thursday at the age of 76. The project is not yet complete, according to the production source, and conversations are now ongoing on whether to incorporate Simpson’s death. Brown Simpson, who was married to Simpson from 1985 to 1992, was killed on June 12, 1994 outside her Los Angeles home.

Persons: Nicole Brown Simpson, Brown, Brown Simpson, Simpson, Ron Goldman, Goldman’s, Wendy Williams, Gypsy Rose Blanchard Organizations: CNN, Lifetime Locations: Los Angeles

☆ O.J. Simpson dies at age 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ O.J. Simpson dies of cancer at age 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Doha Madani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Simpson, the former NFL star who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife in a televised trial that gripped the nation, has died of cancer at age 76, according to a statement from his family. Reports circulated in February that Simpson had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was in hospice care as he underwent chemotherapy. Simpson denied that he was in hospice in a video posted to X, but did not address whether he or not he'd been diagnosed with cancer. When Los Angeles Police officers went to Simpson's home to speak to him about the murders, Simpson did not answer the door but officers noticed blood on the door of his vehicle. Once a revered athlete, Simpson went from a Hall of Fame icon to a murder suspect.

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☆ OJ Simpson's TV moment is never going to be replicated
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But also a true thing: In 1994, when Simpson fled police in his white Bronco, 95 million people watched the slow-motion chase on TV, in real time. In 1994, AOL, the service that popularized the "World Wide Web," had a little more than a million subscribers. AdvertisementAnd the notion that we're never getting a TV event like the Simpson affair is not a new one, either. Digital media can certainly focus a lot of people's attention on one thing, but it can't compel everyone to watch one thing. Now I'm going to go stream June 17th, 1994 — ESPN's documentary about the Simpson chase.

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☆ Meet O.J. Simpson's kids, including 2 with Nicole Brown
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Simpson died on April 10, according to a statement from his family. He was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, in a highly publicized 1995 trial. He had two children with Brown and three with his first wife, Marguerite Whitley. Simpson's family confirmed on Thursday that the former football player had died on April 10 after being diagnosed with cancer. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Nicole Brown, Brown, Marguerite Whitley, —, Simpson's Organizations: Service, Business

☆ O.J. Simpson, Athlete Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The cause was cancer, his family announced on social media. The infamous case, which held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, cleared Mr. Simpson but ruined his world. He paid little of the debt, moved to Florida and struggled to remake his life, raise his children and stay out of trouble. In 2006, he sold a book, “If I Did It,” and a prospective TV interview, giving a “hypothetical” account of murders he had always denied committing. A public outcry ended both projects, but Mr. Goldman’s family secured the book rights, added material imputing guilt to Mr. Simpson and had it published.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald L, Goldman, Goldman’s Locations: Los Angeles, America, Florida

☆ European diplomats in DC scramble to gain access to Trump allies for insights
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Kylie Atwood | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“We are not that nervous because we know that with Trump it is all about relationships,” said one veteran European diplomat who has been in DC since the Trump administration. “The logic of doing it at Heritage was not lost on us,” said Victoria Coates, a deputy national security advisor to former President Trump who is now a vice president at the think tank. The comments sent European diplomats into over-drive, eager to understand exactly what Trump meant. “If they are worried about how President Trump is going to react to them, they hold it in their hands to do something about it,” Coates said. But European diplomats are not only worried about NATO.

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☆ O.J. Simpson dead at 76, family announces
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Simpson, the ex-football star who was acquitted of murder at his highly publicized trial in 1995, died on Wednesday, his family announced. AdvertisementSimpson had been diagnosed with cancer, his family said. "He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren," they wrote in a post on X.Simpson was 76. This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

Persons: O.J, Simpson

☆ O.J., Made in America, Made by TV
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the strangest quotes I can remember associated with O.J. Simpson came from the broadcaster Al Michaels during the notorious freeway chase in 1994. Michaels, a sports commentator now covering the flight from the law of one of America’s biggest celebrities, said that he had spoken with his friend Simpson on the phone earlier. Simpson, during and after his pro football career, was a creature of the media business. With the freeway chase, and the acrimonious trial on live TV, he would essentially become the media business.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Al Michaels, Michaels, “ Al, ” Michaels, “, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron Goldman

☆ Who’s coming to the White House’s Japan state dinner: the Clintons, De Niro, Bezos
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The guest list also includes Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield and White House chief of staff Jeff Zients. NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, who is the president of the White House Correspondents Association, will attend, as well as Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin. First lady Jill Biden chose Simon to perform at the state dinner because Kishida also “shares an appreciation” for his work, a White House official said. The state dinner for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol featured a Broadway star’s performance of Don McLean’s “American Pie” – a personal favorite of Yoon. It led to one of the iconic state dinner moments of the Biden presidency – Yoon picking up a microphone to serenade guests with a few lines from the song.

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☆ Johnson to Join Trump at Mar-a-Lago for ‘Election Integrity’ Announcement
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Speaker Mike Johnson plans on Friday to join former President Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to make what he called a “major announcement on election integrity.”It was not immediately clear what the pair were planning to discuss at their joint appearance, though Mr. Trump has continued to insist falsely that he was the true winner of the 2020 election and groundlessly accuse Democrats of attempting to interfere in the 2024 contest. Their first public event together since Mr. Johnson was elected to the top job in the House last fall comes at an awkward moment in their relationship. The embattled speaker is facing a threat for his ouster from one of Mr. Trump’s top loyalists in Congress, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Georgia Republican. And even as Mr. Johnson has worked to show enthusiastic support for Mr. Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee is stoking G.O.P. divisions and undermining the speaker’s legislative agenda in Congress.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Donald J, Trump, groundlessly, Johnson, Trump’s, Marjorie Taylor Greene, stoking Organizations: Georgia Republican, Mr, Republican Locations: Lago, Florida

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