From: Jasper
Date: 10 Jun 2009
Time: 05:32:11 AM
Rovaan – Thanks a million for pointing out the duplicate paragraph. The differences in them are a result of trying to do the work in Word and copy it to Front Page. The programs are not entirely compatible so it was hard to keep up with the editing changes in Word and the technical tinkering I had to do with it in Front Page. I ended up making some changes in Word and others in Front Page without realizing it. Four or five hours of sleep a day while I was working on this would have helped. .............. Yes, I’m saying that Fuhrman started thinking of using movies as his guide to do SOMETHING to put himself in the spotlight during his leave of absence, and Goldie and the Boxer prompted him to focus on using O.J. to do it. I’m saying that he made a mistake in thinking he could do it in on his own in ’84 with a big arrest involving cocaine trafficking, illegal sports betting and kiddy porn, and started dealing himself new cards to go at it another way. What I mean by “new cards,” are partners, informants and unwitting networks of helpers to define, refine and execute a plan most likely to succeed. .............. Laura Hart was an unwitting helper. ...............When Fuhrman appealed the LAPD rejection of his stress disability claim and lost, he made every violent, racist thing he told the psychologists’ public record. Before he could cash in on anything he did to promote himself at O.J.’s expense, he had to turn that liability to his advantage. That was something I think he neglected to do when he purchased his house in Redondo Beach and paid his first visit to Rockingham in 1984. I think he saw that he couldn’t get around it when he thought through all of the directions the case could go in the spotlight turned on him. This is where I think his first practical use of the movies as a guide to action came in. ................ In the pilot episode of Columbo, a killer psychiatrist sees through Columbo’s intentional exaggeration of his unimpressive appearance to hide his exceptional intelligence and lure his opponents into underestimating him. That’s exactly what Fuhrman did with the Laura Hart McKinney tapes. Instead of hiding his flaws, he showcased them, amplified them and ultimately used them to show that he was “play acting,” and puffing himself up to impress a naďve aspiring screenwriter. It worked for the same reason Columbo’s act worked on television – it was founded on principles grounded in reality. ................One advantage of taking ideas from movies is that they give you a head start on planning and testing real world variations on a given theme. The more of them you use, the better because they become harder for others to follow. The mere idea that anyone would actually do it sounds so crazy that it’s a thought-stopper right up front. It sounds too much like something that only a fictional character in a TV series would do. ............... Remington Steele, a fictional character in a TV series, did it in nearly every episode. It seems unrealistic that anyone could find parallels to so many movies in “real” cases and use them to predict or plan what would happen next. But if you follow enough episodes you can see how and why they would work if you planned them. –Jasper