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From: Jasper
Date: 9/30/03
Time: 2:33:15 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.199.162
Charlie,
In Murder in Brentwood, pages 272-273, this is how Fuhrman describes what he believed happened with the tapes. The caps and the parenthetical information are mine:
“After the Simpson arrest and preliminary hearing, Laura and I met once at my house. She brought her two children and met my wife and kids. We talked about a last-ditch effort to sell the screenplay now that I was, temporarily at least, a minor celebrity. Even at this late date, I never thought about the tapes having an impact on the trial or any negative reflection on me. We were doing background for a fictional screenplay. I didn’t think we had done anything wrong.
“At one point DURING THE TRIAL we had a a meeting in Westwood with Laura and someone else whom I believe was connected in some way to actor Fed Dryer (a former football star with the Los Angeles Rams. He was the star of the TV cop show Hunter). Laura’s agent had previously contacted Fred Dryer’s people and given them the screenplay to read. They seemed interested in it, and wanted me to meet with Fred Dryer. I didn’t think this was a good idea, but said I’d talk to his representatives.
“The lunch meeting took place at Alice’s Restaurant in Westwood Village. We discussed the screenplay, and Laura taped the conversation, as she always did with her mini tape recorder in plain view. Nothing came of the meeting, and the screenplay wasn’t sold.
“Or was it?
“When I testified in the Superior Court trial, I did not think about the tapes. Bailey asked me if I had ever used the “N” word in addressing a person. I could truthfully answer that I had not. I never that that screenplay notes and character dialogue could be misrepresente4d as my own words…”
This is why I agreed with Kari about her Same Time, Next Year parallel with Mark and Laura’s sexual affair and why I added that the movie came from a play. In conjunction with Furman’s explanation of why he attend the producers meetings with McKinney when she flew into town and how he behaved, he said, “In other word, I was on stage.”
And yes, Charlie, I remember very well that bit of drama that Fuhrman added to his testimony when he waited so long to answer the question about his association with Clark and Lewis. I remembered their reaction but I didn’t recall that Maria’s divorce had something to do with her having an affair with a cop. I only guessed that Fuhrman was intimately involved with Clark AND Lewis by Bailey’s question to Fuhrman and their reaction to it (among other things).
Clark’s brief stay in her post with the DA’s office is another matter. She held higher-ranking post with the DA and took a step down in ’93 or ’94 to become Bill Hodgman’s assistant. I thought that move was VERY interesting. –Jasper