ESPN Virgin

~ Clarissa

I have watched ESPN for the very first time in my life to see the new documentary O.J.: Made in America. It’s very well-made and problematic as hell. I do recommend.

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  1. Believe me — for those of us old enough to have watched the original trial play out everyday on the TVs brought by some employee to our offices, seeing it once was enough.

    We remember watching O.J. get away with murder, followed by the farcical “poetic justice” of his second criminal trial, when he was given a ridiculously long sentence for “armed robbery and kidnapping” for making a clumsy, armed attempt to take back his property from low-lives like him who had taken it, legally or otherwise, from him. The long sentence that he got for the second offense reflected the judge’s anger at O.J.’s acquittal at his first trial — not the proper sentence for his second offense.

    O.J.’s a bit fatter and less healthy than he was in the 1990’s, but still relatively young (69), and he’s eligible for parole next year, so he just might get out of prison while he’s still live.

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  3. I’m watching this right now. Makes me wish there was a market for documentaries in India. There are so many stories that deserve to be told in all their complexity.

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      1. One important by-product of well made documentaries is how they make the country’s popular culture, art, politics, and history accessible to not only the citizenry but outsiders as well. Wish I had some documentaries to link to when someone asks me a question about something specific that happened in India.

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