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There will be no holiday for the Howland Dynasty, because there WILL be a Holiday.
Fresh on the heels of getting the best recruit in this year’s class, Ben Howland has gone out and duplicated the feat for 2008. Giving Freshman Kevin Love a reason to stay for his Sophomore year, Howland just got a commitment from Studio City Guard Jrue Holiday. Holiday was the Daily News’ Player of the Year last season, and the most-coveted of the FOUR phenoms that UCLA now has on their way to Westwood. The previous three are Jerime Anderson, Drew Gordon, and Malcolm Lee. All of them are big names on the recruiting scene, but Holiday, with his 23.1 points, 9.4 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 4.2 steals a game as a Junior, is the one who really has fans buzzing…about Banners.
And while Bruin fans enjoy their barbecues today thinking about their Dynasty, trojan fans can burn their weenies while pondering the near-future outing of their hero as the murdering SCum that he is.
Yesterday it was announced that Fred Goldman beat O.J. in Court once again, this time winning the rights to O.J.’s hypothetical confession book, and to O.J.’s likeness. The Goldmans will now shop around the book, and a MOVIE of the book, with the profits going to partially fulfill the $33 Million judgment against Simpson. And with a title like “Confessions of a Double-Murderer,” this is one “Whodunit” where you KNOW who done it. And the DVD will NOT have any alternate endings. But it might have O.J.’s mug shot inlaid on the disc. Maybe the movie posters will feature a knife-wielding O.J. hovering over his victims… on every bus shelter in South Central.
But can a Goldman-produced feature, or even a 14-hour mini-series, portray Simpson in a more evil light than REAL LIFE does? Maybe not, after Simpson’s latest – and possibly second-SCuzziest – crime:
During the Court proceedings for the book deal, the Judge said that O.J. set up a Foundation, using O.J.’s daughter’s name, to fleece the victims’ families out of money that was legally theirs.
The judge said that Simpson perpetuated a fraud with the daughter’s Foundation, to the tune of $630,000. The money was from the book, laundered into the Foundation (the book’s “owner”), then embezzled out to Simpson to pay all his personal expenses. Of course all monies earned by Simpson are supposed to go to Fred Goldman et al, so this is just one more attempt by Simpson to stick it to his ex-wife’s survivors. If O.J. has one penny left when he hits his deathbed, he’ll probably swallow it and get buried with it just so the victims’ families can’t ever see it.
So now that a Judge has basically busted Simpson for Fraud, will he finally see the inside of a prison cell (and get a close-up view of the floor in the shower) that’s nicer than an sc dorm? Doubtful -- It’s hard to tell from the available information, but it appears that the ramification of this Fraud IS the losing of the book rights, so that the Goldmans can FINALLY start to collect on what O.J. has owed them for years. It sounds like nothing, but that is the one thing that O.J. has sworn he would NEVER let happen, and now it’s happening, BIG TIME. It’s just got to KILL him. Speaking of which, if only the Real Killers (Marcus Allen and O.J.’s son?) would come back and tie up that last loose end (which is, coincidentally, what O.J. would be called after that inevitable soap-dropping rendezvous).
Final question: Do you think O.J.’s daughter was willingly complicit in the Fraud, or did he coerce her, or did he do it completely behind her back? Regardless, Simpson continues to embody all the core values of trOJandom, like winning and material wealth being way more important than anything else, including respect for one’s own family, justice, and two innocent people’s lives.
It’s no wonder why O.J. is usc’s Favorite Son, and why he always will be.
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