O.J. Simpson has found God, according to his manager Norman Pardo. He is now planning to become a televangelist after he is released from prison.
“O.J. is very religious now, and he’s been counseling other inmates with Bible studies for months,” Pardo told The Enquirer. “When I talk to him on the phone, all he wants to discuss is religion. He’s obsessed!”
The disgraced former NFL player has spent five years at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada. The 66-year-old is serving a sentence from a 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction.
Simpson has reportedly spent his time in prison mending his ways and relationship with God, and he now wants to share his peace in a worldwide crusade dubbed “Holy Safari.”
But one unnamed source is skeptical of Simpson’s motives.
“O.J. will tell you that he wants to bring people together, but that’s BS as far as I’m concerned,” the insider told The Enquirer. “There’s a lot of people sending bucket-loads of money to these TV preachers, and O.J.’s just looking to rake in millions from poor, unsuspecting Christians.
“It’s a dangerous idea to think of Simpson as a self-styled prophet who can reach people all over the world.”
The report says Simpson has been inspired by TV evangelist Frederick Price, whose Ever Increasing Faith Ministries broadcasts reach more than 15 million people very week.
“If he can do it, so can I,” Simpson said, according to a source.
Though Simpson is not eligible for parole until 2017, he has petitioned the court for a new trial. His people say they’ve gotten word the judge will rule in Simpson’s favor and let him out on bail. A source told The Enquirer he expects to be out by Christmas.
In the meantime, Pardo says he’s negotiating with religious TV networks to carry Simpson’s crusade. The “Holy Safari” poster they’ve designed features Simpson dressed in white with his arms outstretched. A large shining cross is in the center of the image.
Saylors Brothers Entertainment is working with Simpson and Pardo on a documentary about his life, based on taped interviews.
“O.J. has rediscovered his faith and we’re interested in working with him,” Kenny Saylors, the documentary’s director, said. “We’ve come to the conclusion that prison has actually set him free.”
Simpson reportedly believes he’ll be welcomed into homes, despite the fact that many Americans still believe he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman—crimes he was acquitted of in 1995.
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To provide for his family’s future after he is diagnosed with lung cancer, a chemistry genius turned high school teacher teams up with an ex-student to cook and sell the world’s purest crystal meth.
When chemistry teacher, Walter White, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives with his wife and teenage son, who has cerebral palsy, in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, White embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular hard working man and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade
Giancarlo Esposito, the actor best known for his role as meth kingpin Gus on Breaking Bad, gave an interview with The Wrap about his new show, “Revolution,” on NBC, his potential nomination for an Emmy, and about growing up the child of an Italian father and an African American mother.
Most surprising about the interview, however, was when Esposito– who you may also remember as Buggin’ Out in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing— shared the story of a recent and tense standoff with the NYPD. From The Wrap:
Days before the interview, Esposito was stopped and frisked by New York police while walking out of a theater where he was rehearsing a play. After several frantic minutes – with him and officers screaming, and their guns drawn – they realized they had the wrong guy. Their suspect had a hoodie, and Esposito was wearing a suit. When it was over, one of the officers recognized him, from his recent turn on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time.”
Now, you’d think Esposito would be upset at what seems a sadly familiar tale of racial profiling in New York– 87 percent, after all, of the 684,330 NYPD stops in 2011 were of blacks or Latinos. But Esposito didn’t step into the escalating debate over the controversial police practice. Instead he talked more abstractly about the importance of personal healing:
“I refuse to walk around, carrying that sack of racist crap,” he said. “Luis Buñuel made great movies. And in all his movies there’s one old guy… who walks through the background with a big pillowcase, a sack of shit. That’s your stuff. So when I’m healing, I’m healing my stuff.”
“I came to a wonderful understanding through working with Spike [Lee] on those movies and disagreeing with him about race,” said Esposito, who has acted in numerous of Lee’s films. “He was completely pro-black and anti-white, and I didn’t feel that way in my heart. I felt like I wanted to be a human being and represent myself as such, but every time you walk out into the world, you’re treated a certain way.”
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