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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.'

LAS VEGAS - On this day, there was no Johnnie Cochran. There was no brash fist-pumping former Heisman Trophy winner in a tailored suit hugging his lead defense attorney after beating murder charges in a California courtroom. After a nearly five-year absence, in which he was locked away in a northern Nevada prison cell, O.J. Simpson returned to the public spotlight Wednesday. The 65-year-old fallen football star, once known for his manic bursts of speed on the field, has been in scores of end zones, TV commercials, movie trailers and two well-publicized Los Angeles court trials.

O.J. Simpson's performance in his as-yet incomplete deposition has created new problems for his own lawyers and new opportunities for the attorneys representing the families and estates of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in their wrongful death suits against the former football star, leading legal analysts said Saturday. The Times' publication Saturday of extended excerpts from Simpson's five-day interrogation by Daniel M.

O.J. Simpson is back on the run, thanks to Fox. Fox and FX Productions are developing a movie based on Simpson's murder trial as part of its long-form "event" slate. "The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson" will be based on legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin's book of the same name. Also planned is a new version of "Shogun," based on the novel by James Clavell, which will revolve around the brutal world of feudal Japan. "Shogun" was produced as a 10-part miniseries for NBC in 1980.

DirecTV said "the evidence was overwhelming" against O.J. Simpson. But the ex-football star's lawyer said he did nothing wrong. The satellite TV giant on Tuesday was referring to its civil court victory in which a Florida judge ordered Simpson to pay $25,000 for allegedly stealing its signals. The case stems from the recovery in 2001 of two "bootloaders" in Simpson's home that allowed viewers to tap into DirecTV signals without paying for them.

UCLA law professor Peter Arenella and Loyola University law professor Laurie Levenson offer their take on the O.J. Simpson trial. Joining them is former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Robert Philibosian, who will rotate with other experts as the case moves forward. Today's topic: Back to the crime scene.

Contrary to widely circulated reports, O.J. Simpson said Thursday he won't be the star of a reality television show, but might consider becoming a news commentator for actor Robert Blake's murder trial. "I have no plans in any way to do a reality show even though people have approached me about it," Simpson said in a telephone interview from his Miami home. "I'm not looking to do anything." Urban Television Network Corp.

O.J. Simpson, serving a 33-year sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, had a problem many people had earlier this month: How to throw the best Super Bowl party. According to the New York Post, Simpson held a Super Bowl party in his cell on the day of the big game because he had the one thing that any good Super Bowl party requires: A TV. "If you have the money, you can buy a TV at the inmate store and put it in your cell," Simpson's friend, Norman Pardo, told the Post.

Members of the O.J. Simpson defense "dream team" were back in action 17 years after the legendary murder trial, this time defending the name of their late colleague, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. It all started last week in New York, when former Simpson prosecutor Christopher A. Darden alleged to a law school audience that Cochran tampered with the infamous "bloody glove," a key piece of evidence in the murder case. During the trial in the stabbing deaths of Simpson's former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Lyle Goldman, Simpson tried on bloody gloves.

Philip Vannatter, the Los Angeles police detective who led the investigation of the 1994 slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, has died. Vannatter died of complications from cancer Friday in Santa Clarita, his wife, Rita, said. He was 70. "He was a real blue-collar detective," O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden said in an emotional interview Sunday. "He did his job the best he could and he was a fine detective, one of the best. " Vannatter was among the first detectives to arrive at former football star Simpson's mansion in June 1994 after the stabbing deaths of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Goldman.

Will JPMorgan Chase & Co. play its part in makingO.J. Simpson's house into a "Meat Is Murder" museum? That is the question the animal rights group PETA is asking in what must be the most bizarre letter received by the bank Thursday. PETA wrote a letter directly to JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon asking if the bank would donate Simpson's former home in Florida to the group for use as a museum. "Our museum will contain exhibits that give visitors a sense of the terror that animals used for food experience.

The media coverage on the Casey Anthony murder case drew comparisons to the trials of O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers nearly two decades ago. A look at some coverage and its impact: •Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, truTV, HLN, along with local and other national networks, carried Tuesday's verdict live. •More than 600 press passes were doled out for media coverage, and every major broadcast network has had at least one reporter at the trial. •CNN and NBC built two-story air-conditioned structures across from the courthouse for reporters and crews.

Juice! A Novel Ishmael Reed Dalkey Archive Press: 336 pp., $14.95 paper Nobody renders the aphorism, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you," more vividly on the page than Ishmael Reed. From the beginning of his career in the '60s to this allegedly post-racial moment, Reed has written dispatch after furious dispatch from the complex milieu in which black Americans have always lived but which their fellow Americans have never been able to fully recognize.

It's telling that the title of Marcia Clark's murder-mystery debut is smaller than her name on the novel's cover. Clark is best known as the lead prosecutor in the media circus known as the O.J. Simpson murder trial. She's less recognized as an author, even though her 1998 book about the case, "Without a Doubt," spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Co-writing a book about one of the most notorious trials of the last century "didn't have much leeway. I had a story that had to be told, and the facts were there," Clark said.

For celebrity-obsessed visitors to Los Angeles, it's no longer enough to take a tour of the palatial homes of their favorite stars. As the city's $12-billion-a-year tourism industry rebounds, tour operators are now offering visits to the sites where stars and B-level celebrities have died, dined, fought, committed crimes and thrown headline-grabbing tantrums. Next month, the largest tour operator in Los Angeles, Starline Tours, will team up with the celebrity news source TMZ to create a guided tour that cruises past the sites where TMZ has reported its biggest celebrity scoops.