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Chapter 31

Creating an Image

Mark Fuhrman's tendency to attribute his questionable actions, hidden motives and negative traits to others stands out boldly in Murder in Brentwood when he pounds on the vulnerability of O.J.'s massive ego.

Before O.J.'s arrest for the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson, somebody leaked a rumor to the press that "the police" found a bloody ski mask in O.J.'s bedroom closet. You saw in the 1992 movie C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa with O.J. as Nick Murphy and Lorenzo Lamas as CIA agent Mark Graver, that a black ski mask has a movie link to O.J., a man named Mark and a Stiletto, not to mention the Bruno Magli Lorenzos. Memoirs of an Invisible Man ('92) has a link to the CIA, the name Nick (O.J. or Nicole) and the Swiss Alps (Swiss Army knife). The end credits show the name Ron Simpson superimposed over a skier wearing a black mask. When an egomaniacal houseguest in the movie speculates that Nick, the invisible man, committed suicide, a friend of Nick's says that his ego was too big for him to have done away with himself. He adds that if Nick did kill himself he should have had the decency to leave a note.

The most likely source of the ski mask rumor was Fuhrman's 17^th Bundy note. Fuhrman wrote the note, searched the closet and used a rumor to explain his actions. He had a history of using rumors strategically as a police detective and benefiting from them as a potential murder suspect.

In 1994 two police officers gave a signed statement to Asst. Prosecutor Lucian Coleman that Fuhrman started a rumor in 1992 of having an affair that year with Nicole. Writer Steven Singular learned about it long before Coleman did from an anonymous source. He used it in his book Legacy of Deception to show that Fuhrman knew from Nicole herself that O.J. was "continuing" to abuse her, to show why Fuhrman was so sure that O.J. was the killer and to explain what motivated Fuhrman to plant the bloody glove on Rockingham. Obviously this was a risky rumor for Fuhrman to circulate if he was putting his words in Nicole's mouth to frame O.J. for her murder. By the same token, it would have been a useful one if he had been caught planting evidence. Either way he would have been exempted from the defense's list of murder suspects.

The best documentation for the way Fuhrman used rumors is in Murder in Brentwood where he says that he started a rumor to get potential informers to come forward in another murder case. He describes a big fuss he made about discovering many months after he gave his notes to Ron Phillips that the RHD detectives didn't read them. Later in the book he talks about Chris Darden hitting the ceiling over a rumor about a practice session for his upcoming testimony that someone leaked to the press. He suggests that Darden's outburst made him the best suspect.

When Fuhrman wants to praise himself effusively in Murder in Brentwood he tells a story that puts his words of praise in someone else's mouth. He frequently uses people of color to do the honors or recalls an incident where his greatness is proclaimed by an old friend, a stranger or a well-known character in a movie. He attributes negative aspects of his character to others when he can see them and boasts about them when he can't. You don't have to be a psychologist to see that these patterns are symptomatic of an obsessive, egocentric personality.

Fuhrman's history before the Bundy murders reveals incident after incident of his obsession with blood, violence, social status, and power. He told Diane Sawyer that his stories about such things were all imaginary, designed to entertain or to create a useful image of himself for fun or profit. He said, "I have been known to run a good line of bull."

In Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Chevy Chase as a stockbroker named Nick Halloway has a secretary who tells him, "You are, without a doubt, the biggest bullshit artist I have ever worked for." He thanks her. Shortly thereafter, when a freak accident makes him transparent, he becomes obsessed with his image because he literally doesn't have one. At first he wonders if he is a ghost. Near the end of the movie, Sam Neil as a CIA agent named David Jenkins (wearing leather gloves), corners Nick and tells him, "If I can't have you no one can." In Murder in Brentwood, that's the way Fuhrman describes O.J.'s attitude toward "Nic" by way of his gratuitous reference to the movie Ghost (Sam is the ghost) in O.J.'s VCR.

Fuhrman refers to O.J.'s obsession with Nicole as well as O.J.'s obsession with his image. He talks about Darden and Cochran's obsession with race, Margaret York's obsession with "Men Against Women" and Marcia Clark's obsession with domestic violence. He writes that he told Clark that he told Nicole, "It's your life," when she declined to make "a crime report" against O.J. over the baseball bat incident. He used those "prophetic" words, never before recorded, to answer a charge that no one in his book leveled against him. He says, "The statement would have shown that far from having an obsession with either O.J. or Nicole…."

Mark Fuhrman's obsession with the movies pushes him to invoke characters and situations from movies and TV shows repeatedly with Mark Fuhrman as the smartest, the funniest or the coolest guy "on stage."

He compared his true self, when he was under attack by the media for what he said on the McKinny tapes, to Mel Gibson's character in Braveheart ('95). He describes his appearance on the witness stand as being "on stage." He equates the Rockingham estate at the end of the "slow speed chase" to a movie set and says, "The scene was too much like a cop movie in which we weren't sure of the script." He compares all of his stories, with him "playing the role" of a racist, sexist cop, to Joe Wambaugh novels and screenplays. He compares the character he said he was playing on the McKinny tapes to Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue, though Ronny Cox (the detective in Wambaugh's The Onion Field), as Dick Jones in RoboCop somehow comes to mind.

Fuhrman said the cop who called the ATM robber a "nigger" had red hair. What do you want to bet that he also called the robber a cocksucker – an epithet that was used more than once in RoboCop? NYPD Blue's first season ('93) starred the redhead David Caruso as Sipowicz's partner John Kelley. To make the O.J. connection, you have to recall O.J.'s role as astronaut John Walker on a staged trip to Mars in Capricorn One with Sam Waterston as Willis. In Serial Mom Waterston is the husband of Kathleen Turner (Jane Blue in Undercover Blues/ Peggy in Peggy Sue Got Married/ Mattie Walker in Body Heat.) who calls a redheaded neighbor a "cocksucker." You have to remember Fuhrman telling Laura Hart that Margaret "Peggy" York "fucked and sucked her way to the top."

Now, look at what Fuhrman says after the McKinny tapes showed the world how his used words like "cocksucker" and "nigger." He says, "The depression I felt made me remember movies I had seen where the shipwrecked survivor watched the ships pass, time and time again."

Robinson Crusoe on Mars ('64) is such a movie. It stars Paul Mantee as a stranded astronaut on Mars unable to bring an orbiting space ship down to the surface. Mantee starred in Cagney and Lacy from '86 to '88. Loretta Swit, best know as Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in M*A*S*H ('72-'83), was the first of three actresses to play fictional New York City Det. Cagney. Margaret York was the model for Det. Lacy.

Tyne Daly is the only actress to play Det Mary Beth Lacy. She is the white, ex-wife of Georg Stanford Brown, the black doctor with the bloody gloves in Bullet ('68). Georg Stanford Brown is the "special guest star" in the episode of Police Squad! ('82) with Leslie Nielsen as Det. Frank Drebin going undercover to keep a boxer from throwing a fight. Brown is a scientist named John Fischer in Colossus: The Forbin Project ('70)… Bloody gloves, boxer, Georg and Forbin. Remind you of anyone? How about the boxer George Foreman?

Mark Fuhrman had no choice but to use a boxing metaphor somewhere in his book to validate his claim that George Foreman was his favorite athlete. Fuhrman's courtroom battle with F. Lee Bailey was a logical place to insert it. But for some reason, which is probably consistent with his assessment of how Margaret York advanced in the LAPD, he couldn't resist using Marcia Clark's line about Bailey's glove size ("Size small —Must be Mr. Bailey's.") to get in a "jab" of his own against Marcia Clark.

Chances are, you missed it unless you noticed that Fuhrman always saves the best lines in Murder in Brentwood for himself or someone singing his praises. In that case, you may have noticed that his story doesn't end with Marcia's punch line about the gloves, which magically transforms any or all of Bailey's digits into a symbolic penis. It ends with Fuhrman's comment on her line – which puts the small, symbolic penis in her mouth. He says that Marcia's wisecrack "was obviously sexual."

If the sexual symbolism was so obvious why did Fuhrman choose to spell it out? He wouldn't have unless it meant something to him that wasn't so obvious, something perhaps, that made him remember a movie.

One good candidate for such a movie is The Naked Gun ('88) with Elvis Presley's ex-wife Pricilla as Jane nursing on Frank Drebin's index finger. Kathleen Turner does the same thing with Steve Martin's finger in The Man with Two Brains ('83). In Crimes of Passion ('84) a crazy preacher calls Turner, as a make-believe whore named China Blue, a "cocksucker." She calls herself a "musician." She says she plays the flute and slips down in front of a "John" to demonstrate. In this scene, she is wearing gloves that expose most of her small hands. You can't see what she is doing. You can only hear her obviously sexual comments. In another obviously sexual scene, she takes off a man's sock and sucks his big toe. Marcia Clark made her "obviously sexual" joke about Bailey's hand size with respect to the glove he wanted to use in court to show that Fuhrman could have carried the second Bundy glove to Rockingham in his sock. How can you not see the connection?

You see it again in a restaurant scene with Daryl Hanna's fingers and thumb in Memoirs of an Invisible Man when Nick's friend George invites him to their table. Only this time, you might catch a subtle but important difference. The sexual symbolism is not something that Hanna imposes on her character; a documentary producer named Alice Monroe. It is something that the viewer must impose on Alice through the eyes of Nick Halloway – or Mark Fuhrman.

Paul Mantee, the stranded astronaut on Mars, is the invisible glue that holds all of these elements together.

Mantee appears in a movie about Mohamed Ali (Alice) called The Greatest ('77) in which Ali defeats Joe Frazier in '71 and George Foreman in the '74 "Rumble in the Jungle." Mantee is a police detective in Helter Skelter (the '68 murder of Sharon Tate and her four houseguests) with George DiCenzo (The Ninth Configuration) as Vincent Bugliosi. He is Frank in Framed ('75). In several episodes of the TV series Hunter, with former football great Fred Dryer as the title character, Mantee is Hunter's boss. One of these episodes is called "Ex Marks the Spot" (Nicole was O.J.'s ex and Mark found the spot of blood on O.J.'s Bronco). Mantee plays the same role in a two-part episode of Hunter called "Fatal Obsession." All three episodes were aired in 1991.

In Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman traces the disclosure of University of North Carolina instructor Laura Hart McKinny's infamous tapes to a 1994 meeting that they had with Hunter producers in Alice's Restaurant.

This is only part of the picture of Nick in the restaurant with George and Alice in Memoirs of an Invisible Man. To see the whole picture you have to know that Daryl Hanna is the ghost of a woman named Mary who was stabbed to death by a jealous husband in High Spirits. You have to recall that O.J. is Joe Gallagher, the boxer in Goldie and the Boxer, and an executive for a football team called the Bulls in HBO's 1^st & Ten.

You have to recall that Fuhrman named boxing champ George Foreman, and basketball superstars Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls and Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics as his favorite athletes. You have to know, as a basketball fan would know, that Jordan played his college basketball at the University of North Carolina and Bird played his at Indiana. You have to now that St. Johns, Villanova and Seaton Hall are Catholic universities and that all of these schools fielded perennial favorites in the "Final Four" NCAA basketball championship tournament. You have to know that in Memoirs of an Invisible Man Alice Monroe is Catholic and George is played by Michael McKean. One more thing… When Nick sits down between George and Alice, you see a glass of O.J. on the table between Alice and Nick.

Lawyer, sexual symbolism, Alice, restaurant, producer, George and Alice, jungle, Jane, Kathleen, redhead, beautiful blond, basketball fan, Michael, North Carolina, documentary, Boston, Indiana, Catholic, Final Four, orange juice. Did you get all of that? Mark Fuhrman would have.

For starters, E! TV's Kathleen Sullivan used to baby-sit O.J.'s older children. Maurine O'Sullivan, the redhead who plays Jane in Tarzan the Ape-Man, is the mother of Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby/Death on the Nile/Alice). Again, that's just for starters. The significance of all these links to the probability that Mark Fuhrman saw them is not that they appear in the same ninety-minute movie, but that they appear within the same three minutes of the same movie. All but two of them appear within the same two minutes…and wait till you see the Mia Farrow (MF) links.

The string of connections in Memoirs of an Invisible Man to Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood begins with Nick's visit to a men's club in San Francisco after his secretary gives him a load of material to read from a woman named Kathleen. He is talking to someone on the phone about bets for the teams that he thinks will appear in the Final Four. He puts in his bet for St. John's, Villanova, Duke and Carolina just as the bartender informs him that George is trying to get his attention. I saw no connection to any boxer until the end of the movie when Jenkins, wearing leather gloves over his "dukes," punches George, who was also wearing leather gloves, in the gut.

Because I missed the George link to the Ali in Alice I also missed the full significance of George and Nick talking on the side about basketball while Alice and George's wife Ellen discussed Alice's brief career as a Boston lawyer. A few weeks later I saw Mel Gibson as a big "bullshiter" with Goldie Hawn as a lawyer and the black actor/director Bill Duke in Bird on a Wire ('89). It was easy to picture Goldie Hawn as Alice in the restaurant scene with Nick. As Judy in Private Benjamin ('81) she "goes down" on a man in a car. She is a lawyer in Seems Like Old Times ('82) with Chevy Chase as Nick. Beverly D'Angilo as Chase's wife Ellen in National Lampoon's Vacation appears to go down on him in a car. In Maid to Order ('86) Beverly D'Angilo is Allie Sheedy's fairy godmother.

Two of George's Final Four picks are Indiana (Larry Bird) and the University of Nevada Los Vegas. Las Vegas is a popular venue for professional fights (Bird's fistfight with Dr. J). In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman tells of going to Las Vegas and consoling a woman named Connie Law. An unknown attacker beat her uncle to death with a hammer. In No Place to Hide ('93), O.J. as Allie (Alice, Ali?) Wheeler kills a man with a hammer before a man with one leather glove kills him.

For most of Forman's boxing career, he was seen as a quiet, menacing character who never smiled. He had a full head of hair and a perfectly toned body. His fights did not go the distance because he knocked out his opponents in the early rounds. In the '74 Forman-Ali fight Forman lost his Championship tittle on a technical knockout when Ali improvised a risky tactic that tired him to the point that he could not defend himself. In short, he lost because he couldn't go the distance.

After his defeat, Foreman retired from the ring. He started his comeback in 1977 with a new image. He shaved his head. He lost his muscle tone. He did a lot of talking and he displayed a terrific, self-effacing sense of humor. He did commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken ("finger lickin' good") and McDonalds. On top of that, he started winning again, and eventually regained his title by knocking out Michael Morer (The Moore of Venice?), an opponent that the Los Vegas odds makers favored heavily. If you had bet on Forman, you would have won a lot of money.

In chapter seven you saw why I believe Fuhrman bet heavily on big sporting events and won big money on the Morer-Forman (MF) fight. If you don't see what that has to do with Memoirs of an Invisible Man let me remind you that Fuhrman was an invisible man before the Bundy murders. The McKinny tapes gave him a bad image. He used a "boxer's" bloody gloves (O.J. as the boxer Joe Gallagher) and his memoirs in Murder in Brentwood to give himself a popular new image.

When you see the first restaurant scene in Memoirs of an Invisible Man remember that the documentary film of the Forman-Ali fight is called Rumble in the Jungle. Look at the scene through Mark Fuhrman's eyes and listen with his ears. This way you see Michael McKean as George Forman and Michael Morer. You see a knockout (Daryl Hanna) as Alice, and you hear Alice talking about finding herself in a jungle as an assistant producer on a documentary film. The clincher comes when Nick sees Alice licking her fingers and thumb (Kentucky Fried Chicken) and he asks her what she missed the most when she was in the jungle. She says, "Hot showers and cheeseburgers." Then with a gesture that tells Nick that she knows he is more interested in the basketball tournament than he is in her career, she leans toward him and whispers with a smile, "I think Seaton Hall will go all the way."

The finger-licking link to George Foreman's KFC commercials in no way weakens the link to oral sex. You see this clearly with Helen Mirren as Georga performing oral sex on a man in the ladies room of a restaurant in the R-rated movie The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover ('89). Mirren is Jane Tennison in the BBC TV series Prime Suspect ('92-'96). The PG-rated Memoirs of an Invisible Man ('92) settles for a kissing scene with Alice and Nick in the ladies room of the restaurant and some tame talk about sex. But the tame talk has a special significance to Nicole Simpson and the taped 911 call she made where you can hear O.J. yelling about what she was doing with her head in a restaurant manager's lap. When Alice asks Nick, "What is this?" He says, "I hope it's foreplay."

Foreplay can take many forms, as we see with Faye Dunaway as an insurance investigator in The Thomas Crown Affair ('68). Her character will stop at nothing to have Steve McQueen's character arrested for a multi-million dollar robbery. With her finger in her mouth and her eyes on his eyes over a chess game, she uses the promise of giving him what Faye Resnick calls "the Brentwood salute" in her first book about Nicole Simpson. Any doubt about the intended sexual symbolism of her finger in her mouth goes away when you see how she strokes her bishop (the chess piece shaped most like a penis) rubbing the head of it with the same finger. There is, likewise, no mistaking the fact that she's using the promise of performing oral sex as a distraction to insure her dominance in the chess game as will as in the deadly serious game it clearly represents.

For most heterosexuals oral sex is usually foreplay leading to genital-to-genital sex. As a Catholic, who was not permitted to use contraceptives, that common sexual progression presented a problem for Nicole. Oral sex was as far as she went because she couldn't "go all the way." So, when Fuhrman told his drinking buddies that he was having sex with Nicole, he could have meant only one form of sex. The dominant component in Nicole's preference for taking the active role becomes clearer when you think about the real power inherent in that role and recall the way Faye Dunaway used it in The Thomas Crown Affair.

In To Protect and Serve you saw the power component of the "Brentwood salute" on the receiving end with the cop, the hooker and her black pimp in the squad car. You see it again with Dustin Hoffman as the Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz and Nicole Kidman (a redhead) as a gangster groupie with a homosexual husband in Billy Bathgate ('91).

When Schultz's henchmen fit Bruce Willis as her Jewish gangster boyfriend with cement overshoes on a rocky boat at sea, Schultz offers her the chance to live by becoming his girlfriend. Nicole Kidman's character is sitting on a bunk weeping with mortal fear. Dutch Schultz is standing in front of her about six inches away looking down as he speaks. He presents his offer with a lit cigarette held about belt high. She tearfully accepts by lowering her head, taking the cigarette between her lips and giving it a visible, scene-ending draw.

James Woods as an incarcerated cop killer named Powell in Joe Wambaugh's The Onion Field ('79) establishes his dominance over a black prisoner named Jimmy the same way Dutch Schultz does it in Billy Bathgate. You know what's happening by the position of Jimmy's head at the end of a scene in a prison shower when Jimmy tearfully tells Powell, who is the only one who can save his life, that he want's to be his friend. Before they were caught by a cop played by Ronnie Cox, Powell robbed a liquor store wearing false, bushy eyebrows and a false mole. Powell told Jimmy that he would be identified by the eyebrows and the mole, his most prominent features. You can see why that would work just like the red hair of the cop who Fuhrman says called the ATM robber he shot five times a nigger.

In Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Daryl Hanna as Alice is Catholic. Chevy Chase as Nick is not. They don't have sex until Nick becomes invisible and they learn that their feelings for each other go beyond the physical. When Alice asks Nick if he's Catholic and he tells her that he isn't, she says, "That could be a problem." Looking at the sex scene (actually, it's an after sex scene) through Fuhrman's eyes, you have to wonder exactly what they did. You get some help with the thumb sucking shot in the restaurant. You get more help later on when Alice learns that Nick is invisible and uses her makeup to give him a face. She uses a wig, a pair of goggles and painted teeth to give him a whole head. Only when you see Nick's head in a subsequent restaurant scene and realize that the rest of him is still invisible, does it hit you that she only gave Nick a head.

Take the "a" out "gave Nick a head" and what do you get?

Nick doesn't say what his religion is. For all we know he could be Jewish – like the screenplay's third co-writer William Goldman. You might remember Goldman as the man who wrote the screenplay for Magic ('78) with Ed Lauter as Duke wearing a wig (Bill Duke in Bird on a Wire also wears a wig). Lauter, like so many other actors who appear repeatedly in the Fuhrman collection, is an alumnus of a Joseph Wambaugh screenplay. He is Calloway in The New Centurions.

Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson had their last meal at the same restaurant. Her makeup was found on his face. Her hair (Alice's wig) was found on his shirt and pants. In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman makes a big point of not knowing the identity of the blond or the dead man. He says that as far as he knew the woman could have been the babysitter (Kathleen Sullivan). To emphasize the point, he relates a story about being on the scene with the two unidentified bodies and telling a joke.

In Memoirs of an Invisible Man you see Nick Halloway in the wig, the goggles (the glasses that Goldman picked up at the restaurant) and brown leather gloves. He is sitting with Alice at a restaurant table. Alice says, "See, nobody's staring at you. Whatever they think they certainly don't think that you're invisible." Screenwriter William Goldman's last name and the question of Nick's religion take on a sobering significance here, as Nick jokingly replies, "No. They're just seeing a beautiful blond and a dead man."

Nick then lifts his wineglass to Alice and says, "to Elvis." If you didn't see the first link to Pricilla Presley as Jane sucking Frank's finger in The Naked Gun, and the oral sex link to F. Lee Bailey's gloves (remember, Alice is a lawyer as well as a producer) maybe you'll see it now.

Fuhrman said that he used people he knew and people he only imagined for the composite characters he created on the McKinny tapes. That's what I did with my characters in all of my books in The Random Factor science fiction trilogy. That's what all fiction writers do. The trouble with Fuhrman's "imagination" is that he doesn't seem to have one.

Some of Fuhrman's characters do come from real life. The rest of them come from film and television. That's why so much of what he says in Murder in Brentwood, so much of what he said he did on the crime scenes and what he said O.J., Nicole and Ron Goldman did, looks so familiar. You probably saw it in a movie released prior to June 12, 1994.

When my sister said, "He thinks he's Tarzan. I bet his wife's name is Jane," she had little to go on. She knew that Fuhrman was a hunter with primitive ideas about women. She knew that the Bundy murder victims were killed from ambush in a jungle-like setting like the ambush victims in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. But the thing that triggered her thought about Fuhrman and Jane was the photo of Fuhrman crouching at Goldman's feet and the corresponding scene in another movie.

You can draw the same quality of inferences from other clusters of information about Fuhrman and the Bundy murders going from Fuhrman to a movie, a movie to Fuhrman or one movie to another. You should expect to see clusters of fellatio links in Alice if Fuhrman made fellatio associations with Jane and Alice to O.J.'s character Joe Gallagher in Goldie and the Boxer. If you hadn't seen Alice before, you might expect to see the original "Jane's" daughter Mia Farrow as Alice Tate using her finger in a symbolic representation performing fellatio. I know that the slightest hint of Mia Farrow simulating oral sex in any role is a lot to expect. Nevertheless, if you're doing more than just guessing about the source of Fuhrman's "imagination" it's what you have to expect.

In Alice, Joe Montagna as a Duke Ellington fan named Joe is at a private school to pick up Gina Gallagher as his daughter when Mia Farrow as Alice Tate puts some wicked moves on him. Under the influence of a magic potion that has turned her into a wanton seductress, Alice asks, "What do you do, Joe?" He answers, "I'm a musician." Alice says, "Saxophone?" Joe replies, "How did you know?" With her knuckle to her lips, her eyes on his crotch and her tone oozing sex Alice says, "You look like you blow tenor to me." Then she asks, "What number reed do you use?" Stunned by the message he thinks he's getting, Joe stumbles. Alice "helps" him out by touching her finger to her lips.

You may know that Mia Farrow's mother Maureen O'Sullivan is Jane in Tarzan the Ape-Man ('34). You may know that Mia Farrow is a sword swallower in Woody Allen's Shadow and Fog ('92) and that she slits a woman's throat in Death on the Nile. But did you know that Mia Farrow, as the title character in Alice, is "a good Catholic" who wears a crucifix around her neck (Nicole)? Did you know that she takes a potion that makes her invisible (Nick Halloway)? Did you know that she has two young children, a boy and a girl? Did you know that her husband fools around a lot (O.J.)? Did you know that her husband is a stockbroker (like Nick Halloway) and her sister is a lawyer (like Alice Monroe)?

All of these things are true. In a restaurant scene Joe tells Alice about having sex with his ex in a women's lavatory. There is even a brief scene where a basketball game is being played on TV in the background.

When you see Alice Tate as a redhead who wears a crucifix around her neck you may not be able to help yourself from seeing the blond Sharon Tate as a redhead in The Fearless Vampire Killers ('67). If you're talking vampires, a crucifix, a sharp stick (Fuhrman at Rockingham) and a hammer (Fuhrman in Los Vegas) go with the territory. But if you're looking for Fuhrman links to Sharon Tate, Alice Tate and Alice Monroe you have to find something more exotic to make the point.

Try this…

You know the story of Sharon Tate's ghost conjured up in a séance and Fuhrman's discovery of the movie Ghost in O.J.'s VCR. You know that Fuhrman is an artist. In Alice, Alice Tate conjures up the ghost of her former boyfriend who, like Fuhrman, was an artist. Alec Baldwin is the Ghost. He was also cast as a ghost by Janet Jenkins and Jane Fineberg in Beetlejuice.

Fuhrman quotes Johnnie Cochran describing him as a "great witness direct for central casting."

Notes to myself on this unfinished chapter -- stuff from Memoirs of an Invisible Man that I didn't include because it made the chapter too long. A new chapter made the book too long. It's way too long now...

In the first Memoirs of and Invisible Man scene, Nick puts a chunk of bubble gum in his invisible mouth, chews it and blows a bubble. Then he spit it into a trash can near a potted plant. You see only the pink gum and teeth impressions. He does this to prove that he is real. He says, "I'm making this tape because in a few hours I could be dead."

Nick: "He knew my patterns. It was only a matter of time before he caught me."

Nick's buddy George says, "Somebody's been wearing my clothes. My hidden key is missing and my Jacuzzi is back on the timer."

George: "Knowing Nick, he probably came here to shack up with somebody's wife."

A house guest named Richard says, "I got a really funny vibe, like he's dead."

Richard's female companion: "Well why don't you have a séance Richard? Get out your Oji board and call up his spirit from the dead."

George: "Seems to me if he was going to commit suicide in my house he'd have the common decency to leave a note…"

George joking: "Nick, Nick, if you're here with us give us a sign.

Richard tells Alice: "There's something I haven't told you. My wife left me – three months ago. God, I'm such a mess. Can't work. Can't sleep."

Jenkins tells one of his men: "I want him. If I don't get him you will be the next person to disappear."

Jenkins: "I'm the one that kills people, not you."

Nick: "I've never noticed how important it is to bee seen. You know, acknowledged."

George to Alice: "Look, I left the number of a good therapist I know in town. If you just feel like talking she's very understanding. She's helped Richard a lot."

Alice: "Oh, Nick. You have a face again."

Nick: "If I had eyes and teeth I'd be a whole head."

Alice: "You can go to any ballgame or movie for free."

Helicopter spots Nick and Alice driving away in a Jeep Cherokee.

Rain causes Nick to become partially visible (Ghost).

Nick and Alice board train number 12 to Mexico.

Nick says he can make stock trades anywhere in the world with a computer.

Alice: "You mean anywhere. Like Paris, Rome…"

Nick: "I was thinking of Switzerland. A guy could get away with wearing a ski mask all year round."

Nick tricks Jenkins by getting George to dress up with a hat, dark glasses and bandages covering his face and leather gloves on his hands. Jenkins says, "I'll say this, your friend Halloway has a flair for the dramatic."

Helicopter pilot (John Carpenter). Helicopter overhead. Nick takes off gloves and drops them on the ground.

Nick to Alice: "What, did you lose a contact lens? (Goldman was not wearing glasses when he was killed -- Did he wear contact lenses?)

Jenkins to subordinate: "You didn't see anything. You don't know anything… Clean it up. It never happened."