Casting for the TV series American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson looks pretty good, so far.
Cuba Gooding Jr. as (Photo: Getty Images) O.J. Simpson
Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark (Photo: Gregg DeGuire, WireImage)
John Travolta as Bob Shapiro (Photo: Philip Cheung/Getty Images)
David Schwimmer as (Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images) Robert Kardashian
So far as appearances are concerned, these actors are believable as the characters they’ve been cast to play. The series is reportedly based on a book , The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, by New Yorker magazine writer Jeffrey Toobin. My greatest hope for this series is that it won’t follow Toobin’s account of a visit to Ito’s chambers by Larry King. Because it’s wrong. I don’t know where Toobin got his information about the description of the meeting and conversation, but setting the meeting up was my idea. Ito agreed to it only because I suggested it would be an opportunity to thank King personally for granting two requests Ito had made concerning media coverage, which he thought would complicate jury selection. While King’s visit turned into a fiasco, which I describe on page 65 of Anatomy of a Trial,the exchange Toobin relates didn’t happen. “…he provides a great example of why courts don’t permit hearsay testimony,” I wrote. It had to be hearsay because Toobin wasn’t present during King’s visit. I know, because I was. I was escorted King and his entourage to and from the visit. At no time was Toobin there.
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