A C Cowlings

O.J. Simpson's best pal from high school. Football teammate in college and the pros. Gatekeeper at Nicole Simp son's funeral. Pilot of the Bronco up a freeway and into O.J.'s driveway. Provider of the welcoming bear hug as Simpson returned home a free man. Same driveway. "My name is A.C. You know who I am, goddamn it!" And it will be a long time before the world--or the Highway Patrol officer at the other end of that tense cellular phone call from the fleeing Bronco--forgets.

O.J. Simpson's best pal from high school. Football teammate in college and the pros. Gatekeeper at Nicole Simp son's funeral. Pilot of the Bronco up a freeway and into O.J.'s driveway. Provider of the welcoming bear hug as Simpson returned home a free man. Same driveway. "My name is A.C. You know who I am, goddamn it!" And it will be a long time before the world--or the Highway Patrol officer at the other end of that tense cellular phone call from the fleeing Bronco--forgets.

Al "A.C." Cowlings invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination for the second consecutive day Wednesday during a deposition in the wrongful death lawsuit that accuses O.J. Simpson of responsibility for the June 12, 1994, murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman.

Al (A.C.) Cowlings, who led police on a nationally televised 60-mile chase with friend O.J. Simpson, has appeared only infrequently in public since then. A week after the chase, he attended a banquet for the adult film industry and was photographed dancing. Reporters outside Men's Central Jail have not seen Cowlings visit Simpson. Cowlings is due in court July 15 to learn if prosecutors will press charges regarding the chase.

Attorneys pressing a lawsuit against O.J. Simpson revealed Wednesday that they will call several of Simpson's friends to the witness stand in an apparent effort to impeach the former football star's testimony. The plaintiffs Wednesday released a list of 32 remaining witnesses they plan to call before wrapping up their side of the case, being tried in the Santa Monica courthouse. The list includes Simpson friends Al "A.C."

O.J. CITY One week of news, in capsule form, from this, the base camp for the Trial of the Century, the home of America's favorite whodunit, the very center of the Universe of News. Read this, and understand everything of importance--apparently--that happened last week: O. J. SIMPSON JURY TOURS CRIME SCENE O.J. SIMPSON NEIGHBORS COPE WITH 'CIRCUS' O.J. JUROR WEARS 49ER CAP; PROSECUTORS TROUBLED (Prop. 187 ruled unconstitutional) BEFORE TOUR, JUDGE ITO ORDERS PICTURE OF O.J.'

This year in rock, by most media accounts, pretty much consisted of Kurt Cobain going to his grave, Elvis Presley rolling over in his grave, Trent Reznor wishing he were dead and the kicking of a dead horse at Woodstock II. MTV focuses on Cobain, Reznor and Woodstock (stock having been the operative word there) in the 1994 edition of "The Year in Rock," eulogizing the late Nirvana leader at greatest length but stopping just short of wistfully proclaiming the day the music died.

Move over, "Murder One" and "Law & Order." There's another courtroom drama coming to television. E! Entertainment Television today will start featuring reenactments from the O.J. Simpson civil trial, with actors portraying Simpson, his friend Al "A.C." Cowlings and other figures in the murder case. E!

In a televised chase only slightly faster than the infamous pursuit involving a Ford Bronco, a man suspected of stealing a motor home in Huntington Beach led police on a 50-mile trip Tuesday afternoon up the San Diego Freeway to his home in Van Nuys before pulling to the curb, flopping spread-eagle on the pavement and surrendering. The leisurely chase--carried live on at least three local television stations--averaged about 50 mph.