From: Jasper
Remote Name: 192.168.7.9
Date: 26 Apr 2008
Time: 14:55:01 -0400
Mark James Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie has a driving lesson scene with Tommy Skakel jokingly calling Martha Moxley “Sulu,” the helmsman for the United Federation of Planets’ Star Ship Enterprise. The 23rd century’s Federation headquarters sits on the southern side of the Golden Gate Bride occupied by The Presidio in 1986. ………….The S.S. Enterprise was skippered by Captain James T. Kirk. We learn in the 1994 movie Star Trek: Generations, that Kirk retired to live in the wilds of Idaho. In the 1989 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, we learn that Kirk was born in Iowa http://smartfellowspress.com/smokinggun/Smoke_3/smoke_3_chap_2.htm (last four paragraphs). We also get a bird’s-eye view of the San Francisco Bay Area as Sulu, piloting a captured Klingon Bird of Prey star ship executes a slingshot maneuver around the sun to travel back in time to 1986. ………… In Fuhrman’s letter to the city attorney in 1989 he wrote that he was on Rockingham in the “fall or winter of 1985) where he saw a baseball bat and reported that both Nicole and O.J. said that O.J. used the bat to shatter the windshield of a Mercedes Benz. In Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie he uses teenagers smashing pumpkins with baseball bats on “Hacker Night” a visual metaphor for Michal Skakel smashing Martha Moxley’s skull with a golf club. …………. None of the above seems to have anything to do with our recent discussions about baseball stadiums and earthquakes or our old discussions about Fuhrman’s special interest in the 1984 World Series between the San Diego Padres and the Detroit Tigers. However, one baseball player brings them all together. His name is Kirk Gibson, the left fielder for the Tigers in the ’84 Series who hit a dramatic home run in the fifth game that dominated the next day’s sports page headlines with the Tigers winning the Series in Detroit. Mark Thurmond lost two games for the Padres …………On June 10, 1987, Thurmond pitched relief for the Tigers against the Milwaukie Brewers. An earthquake during that game affecting several Midwestern states was hardly felt in Detroit except for Tiger Stadium (a large structure built in 1912) where Kirk Gibson was at bat when it hit. http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/28927.asp Kirk Gibson’s middle name, by the way is, Harold – as in Bradford Harold Roberts. …………The name “Gibson” has another strong link to the Tigers, namely Bob Gibson, the fearsome pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the ’68 World Series between the Tigers and the Cardinals. You need only look at the House on Carroll Street to see the links between the Tigers and the Cardinals in that movie and on the map of the area around Dodger Stadium. Kirk Gibson puts us in every baseball stadium we have discussed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Gibson . …………Gibson is also a name-link between the characters in Long Gone (’86), with Henry Gibson as the owner of a minor league baseball team and actor Mel Gibson in Bird on a wire with Goldie Hawn. Gibson and Hawn were regulars on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0296837/ . In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman compared himself to William Wallace in Braveheart played by Mel Gibson. –Jasper