That zenith of the Respectable Publishing World, The NY Post, has a front-page article today (slow news day?) about O.J. Simpson’s interview with Scientologist/Tee-Vee Hostess Greta Van Susteren:
June 4, 2004 – LOS ANGELES — In an interview marking the 10th anniversary of Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder, O.J. Simpson virtually blames his ex-wife for her own slaying . . . The disgraced grid legend makes the offhanded comments in a TV interview with Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren. During the interview, which airs Monday at 10 p.m., Simpson shamelessly plugs a prank reality-TV show he claims to be developing. Simpson compared it to MTV’s show featuring actor Ashton Kutcher pulling stunts. “It’s a takeoff on something called ‘Punk’d.’ It’s me doing gags as, as Juice. Juice. What they call ‘juicing’ people,” he said. “[On a scale of 1-10], it’s 7 or 8, that it’s gonna happen.”
[I guess a “10” would be him slashing contestants to death?]
In commenting on Kobe Bryant’s case, Simpson appeared to mock the concept of date rape, saying “no” doesn’t always mean “no.” “I have certainly in my life, had girls come to the room, and say ‘no’ or say whatever. And when I was a kid growing up, just about every girl said ‘no’ once,” a laughing Simpson said. “You know, they had to, because you’d think they were a slut or something. In my opinion, ‘date rape,’ and ‘stranger rape,’ are two different things entirely.”
With the grisly June 12 anniversary next week, Simpson said he and the two children he had with Nicole — Sydney, 18, and Justin, 16 — have already toasted their mom’s memory. I don’t look at the anniversary. I regret the fact that we even had to know that this is the anniversary. I did [mark the occasion] a few days ago. I did have my kids at dinner, at a Benihana-type place," Simpson said. "And, I said, ‘OK, we gotta toast. This would have been your mother’s 45th birthday.’ "
[“Hey, kids—to celebrate your Mom’s birthday, let’s go to a restaurant where they hack up meat right in front of you!”]