From: Jasper
Date: 12 Nov 2009
Time: 06:17:11 PM
Rovaan – Simply put indeed. You nailed it. .............. I’ve been waiting for the spam attacks to resume since I started updating the animations and more people started coming to the site. The only surprise about that for me was that it didn’t happen before you posted your link to Fuhrman and Art Harris on that radio talk show. When I played the tape of the radio interview it was easy to see what brought the spammer back when you couple it with this “Who was on call” thread. .............. Fuhrman couldn’t resist a movie reference that linked to O.J. in The Cassandra Crossing by way of Richard Harris (the murdered Caesar in Gladiator) and Charlotte Rampling (Fuhrman’s birthday) in the ‘93 movie Hammer Over the Anvil with Russell Crowe. He used the name of the actor, not his character, which ties Crowe to movies he appeared in with other actors, like Denzel Washington, Kevin Spacey and Sharon Stone. Crowe is a New Zealander and a New Zealand actor without a speaking role in the movie Fuhrman produced in New Zealand is a Kevin Spacey lookalike. The plot of L.A. Confidential with Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey as LAPD detectives in the early 1950s revolves around the infamous LAPD “Hat Squad” and lookalikes of movie stars. Gladiator gives you all of these actors. It therefore give you all of their work with key elements that showed up distinctly in Fuhrman’s subsequent big self-promotion projects. You'll recall that they began for me in the Fuhrman at the Movies chapter of Iago in Brentwood with O.J. Simpson’s blue knit cap in The Naked Gun. .................I didn’t miss how closely Fuhrman’s Russell Crowe reference tied into the radio show discussion of the Robert C. Hurd murder investigation (bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Las Vegas) and the name Russell (an alias of Michael “Spencer” McClinton). I didn’t miss Fuhrman’s chess game analogy, his behind the scenes method for squeezing his targets’ “inner circle” members to become snitches. I didn’t miss his understanding of how the media works (a blank spot in the Iago hypothesis), particularly the characteristics of the “cast members” in a real murder case that insure media attention. I don’t think our spammer missed those references, either. –Jasper