Improved Race Relations? Let’s Hope For The Day-O

So who haven’t we heard from in the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson verdict?

How about Harry Belafonte. The Harlem-born singer, actor and activist is executive producer of “The Affair,” an HBO-BBC movie dealing with race relations during World War II that debuts Saturday.

“The media created the environment that pushed certain aspects of this story to the forefront on which they could then capitalize,” he told the Los Angeles Daily News.

“I’m sure there’s more to America and blackwhite relations than O.J. Simpson and his wife. I’m sure there’s more to what goes on in black life than some new violence inside the inner city. I’m not saying that should not be reported, but it is certainly not, on balance … the major characteristic of what goes on in black life in America.”

Loose talk

TV gab guru Larry King, on the thought of landing an interview with O.J. Simpson (in U.S. News & World Report): “If we had God booked and O.J. was available, we’d move God.” Maybe Tonya will be throwing her a big bash

Nancy Kerrigan turns 26 today.

Over there, Maude, isn’t that Marsha Clarke?

And now, back to O.J.: Ignore any reports you might have heard that demonized detective Mark Fuhrman was working on his tan in Bermuda. It was actually Mark Furman, a Boston attorney, who called his mistaken identity “not a positive kind of thing.”

And an important paycheck to be cashed

Christopher Darden has joined fellow Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark in signing with Hollywood’s William Morris Agency. Said Darden, who plans to write a book: “Looking into the deeper issues raised by the recent trial, I believe there is an important human story to be told.”

They must have show business in their genes

Meanwhile, Simpson “Dream Team” members Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld are reportedly working on a network TV drama series to be modeled after their New York-based Innocence Project, which uses DNA evidence to free defendants they think are wrongly accused.

At least something finally gave them paws

Not everyone has been able to capitalize on their connection to the case. Dove Books, publisher of Faye Resnick’s “Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted” and Michael Knox’s “Diary of an O.J. Juror,” has rejected a pitch from a UCLA professor who claims to have psychically networked with Nicole’s Akita, Kato.

Believe us, silenced will never be Goldman

The final word (not): Satirist Harry Shearer’s “O.J. on Trial: The Wall of Silence,” on display in a Los Angeles museum, features eight video screens showing closed-mouthed Simpson case figures from Gil Garcetti to Fred Goldman to Geraldo Rivera “captured in the rarest moments of all: keeping their thoughts to themselves.”

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