O.J. Turns To Movie Criticism He Blasts Hollywood As A ‘Culture Of Whores’

O.J. Simpson - in yet another bid to polish his image - blasts Hollywood as a “culture of whores” and pans violent movies for glorifying “gangsters” in a magazine interview.

Simpson, who was acquitted last year of killing his ex-wife and her friend, told Esquire magazine: “I like how ‘Pulp Fiction’ was put together, but what’s goin’ on when the hit men become the good guys?

“Man, when I was growin’ up, my hero was Roy Rogers.”

Echoing Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole’s recent criticisms of the movie industry, Simpson says: “‘Casino,’ ‘Heat’ … what do you call a movie that celebrates gangsters?”

He praised the film “The American President,” saying: “Wish they’d make more pictures like that. Such a positive story.”

However, the first flick Simpson went to see after his release from jail last year was the violent, erotic thriller “Jade.”

Spurned by Hollywood since his acquittal in October, the athlete-turned-actor has appeared in such movies as “The Naked Gun,” “The Towering Inferno,” “A Killing Affair,” and “Roots,”

During the interview with Tom Hedley, to appear in the magazine’s September issue, Simpson said he considers himself “a relatively moral guy because of the way I was brought up. … Never before have there been so many rock-bottom people (in Hollywood). They’ve lost control of their lives ‘cause they’ve got no morals.