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- from FOXNews.com Tuesday November 21, 2006

LOS ANGELES —  "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards made a satellite appearance on the "Late Show With David Letterman" Monday in which he offered a brief explanation and an apology for the racial epithet-laced tirade he unleashed during a stand-up comedy routine.

"For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry," said Richards, 57, who played Seinfeld's eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit 1989-98 sitcom. "I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," he added, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself.

Richards described himself as going into "a rage" over the two audience members who interrupted his act Friday at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood.

The interview with the actor aired on the CBS show Monday night along with an appearance by Richards' former co-star Jerry Seinfeld.

Seinfeld, who had issued a statement saying he was "sick over this horrible, horrible mistake" and calling it offensive, was scheduled as a Letterman guest Monday. He encouraged Richards to make a satellite appearance to talk about the incident, a CBS publicist said.

Richards deserved the chance to apologize, Seinfeld said on "Late Show."

"He's someone that I love and I know how shattered he is about" what happened, Seinfeld said.

Richards' Laugh Factory tirade began after the two clubgoers shouted at him that he wasn't funny. Richards retorted: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f------ fork up your a--."

He then paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.

"You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now mother------. Throw his a-- out. He's a n-----!" Richards shouts before repeating the racial epithet over and over again.

Moderating his tone at one point, Richards tells the audience, "It shocks you, it shocks you" and refers to "what lays buried."

While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and people respond with "ooh" after Richards uses the n-word.

Eventually someone calls out: "It's not funny. That's why you're a reject, never had no shows, never had no movies. 'Seinfeld,' that's it."

Richards' explanation was reminiscent of Mel Gibson's assertion that he wasn't anti-Semitic after he let off a barrage of Jewish slurs during a traffic stop last summer: despite what came out of his mouth, that's not what is inside him.

Industry colleagues were in no hurry to accept Richards' apology.

Veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included comedians George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, called Richards' remarks inexcusable. Comics often face hecklers without losing their cool, he said.

"I've never seen anything like this in my life," Levine said Monday. "I think it's a career ruiner for him. ... It's going to be a long road back for him, if at all."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

最近看新聞有好多爭議性的主題，”Laugh Factory”一直是我最喜歡的Comedy Club，那裡的水準一像很高，很多有名的人都被邀請到那邊作秀，在舞台講脫口秀的人，大部分都能說的不帶贓字和有關性器官的笑話。而這件事影起了相當大的反應和反彈，在美國人愛好和平的口號下，對於這個昔日的喜劇演員，有著明顯的失望。作為一個公眾人物，不只要幽默的喜劇感，美國人所重視的，也只不過就是人權上的平等，最基本的尊重。

from FOXNews.com Tuesday November 21, 2006

If O.J. Simpson Did it, This is How

NEW YORK —  News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special "If I Did It."

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

1994年的辛普森殺妻案，又再度被炒作，炒作的對象不是別人，正是殺妻案主角辛普森先生，上個星期聽到這個電視節目要撥出並且將出書，曾經一度質疑美國的傳播媒體。就在一個星期後，FOX終於被強大的與論打敗，決定不播出該訪談，並且撤銷所有書籍，並且由高級主管公開聲明，這個訪談和出書決定是一種變態的行為，公開道歉。

延伸閱讀 : Judith Regan’s book about OJ 雖然作者表明不會給辛普森先生任何錢，但是還是被與論強力反彈。被害者家屬也透過媒體表明簡直是不可理諭的行為。並且設立網站，決心和辛普森對抗，讓他一毛錢都拿不到。DontPayOJ.com

延伸閱讀 : 關於訪談及書被撤大眾的反應

- from abc7.com  Weller Convicted of 10 counts of Vehicular Manslaughter

LOS ANGELES, October 20, 2006 - George Russell Weller, who drove his car through a Santa Monica farmers' market in 2003, killing 10 people and injuring 63 others, was convicted Friday of 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

經過了三年漫漫時間，終於有了結果。但是現年已經89歲的他，行動不便，就算被判了18年的牢獄，緩刑五年。我想他應該是沒機會去吃牢飯了。法官說這是對他最好的懲罰，就算判了他牢獄，也是要花納稅人的錢。然而判決當天，老人家不舒服，未到庭聆聽審判。被害人家屬當場大哭，他們要的，其實也不過就是個道歉而已。老人家卻硬是不給。

這些就是感恩節前夕的新聞。

阿們。