I've pretty well established that I cannot stand the OJ Simpson story and the attention it's getting (I try to keep my opinions out of this blog but this one ... ugh).
In any case, the New York Times has an interesting piece on the hotel where OJ is said to have committed his infraction and their refusal to rent out the room in question. It strikes me as a nice moment of pride over profit.
How do you feel about "tragedy haunting"? Should the place Nicole Brown was killed be on a Hollywood tour map? Should Anna Nicole's suite be open to the public? Do the media promote this kind of voyeurism?
Friday, September 28, 2007
An OJ story that interests me
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Being from Los Angeles, I grew up surrounded by a fascination with celebrities and people who are famous for no reason. The day OJ killed his ex-wife, he was at the same dance recital I was in watching his own little girl dance. For the following months, our neighborhood was engrossed in the case. People would drive by my house asking how to get to OJ's house or the scene of the murder. People have a very morbid fascination with people's live who they know nothing about. It was a very good day when a developer knocked down the condo complex where she and her companion were murdered, because there was at least a smaller interest in seeing the scene.
Just because they're famous, doesn't mean they're more interesting, I've come to see that being famous just means they get away with more.
Concerning this article, I don't necessarily think the OJ focus was the most attention-catching part. People's fascination with all things death-related is the interesting thing. It goes beyond "paying respects" to those celebrities passed away, it's people's weird way of walking in their favorite celebrity's last footsteps. Morbid is right.
People are obsessed with celebrities because they like living vicariously through their fantastical lives. I think that if enough people are interested in something it is going to be sought after regardless if it's printed on a map or not. Things like murder and deaths caused by things unknown are two things that people are always going to be curious about. Why shouldn't they be able to visit the places where these things happen?
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