From: rovaan
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2007
Time: 04:48:33 AM
Posted: Thurs., Jan. 4, 2007, 8:30pm PT Mark Fuhrman The Gold Standard: How the movies -- past and present -- changed our lives By ROBERT HOFLER In the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, detective Fuhrman found notoriety and lost his job with the LAPD. Still, he has nothing but admiration for his old profession, especially as embodied in the iconography of Steve McQueen. In fact, Fuhrman calls himself a "trivia hound" on the subject of the movie's blond tough guy. "I don't think he said 30 words in any movie, but he had this ability with his face and body to convey so much that never needed to be said. I'm not sure if his film 'Bullitt' specifically pointed me to law enforcement," says Fuhrman. Nonetheless, it is a favorite film. "McQueen is the king of cool. In 'Bullitt,' his job and his case trumped everything in his life. That is a level of integrity that's in short supply." Now hosting a radio talkshow host in Spokane, Wash., the ex-detective has followed his first book, "Murder in Brentwood," with an even bigger crime story, "A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963 http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117956755.html?nav=goldstandard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt