Robert Blake now in the joint...
Anyone have any thoughts/opinions/commentary/rant on this?
Another L.A.-based, celebrity-involved brutal murder.
One big difference.
I'm predicting he gets the chair.
Too bad he didn't play football and is...well, you know. He might have a fighting chance. You know: make it about LAPD racism, corruption, who might've uttered "nigger" once, skin color, etc. Basically about everything except what it's SUPPOSED to be about.
Kinda like that LAST big celebrity murder trial a few years ago.
Ahem...
Nah, Baretta is gonna fry!
[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: pscates ]</p>
Another L.A.-based, celebrity-involved brutal murder.
One big difference.
I'm predicting he gets the chair.
Too bad he didn't play football and is...well, you know. He might have a fighting chance. You know: make it about LAPD racism, corruption, who might've uttered "nigger" once, skin color, etc. Basically about everything except what it's SUPPOSED to be about.
Kinda like that LAST big celebrity murder trial a few years ago.
Ahem...
Nah, Baretta is gonna fry!
[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: pscates ]</p>
Comments
As a white guy, it doesn't bother me in the least to see another white guy carted off to jail...especially if he did something truly bad...LIKE SHOOT HIS WIFE IN THE HEAD OR CUT HIS EX'S THROAT SO DEEPLY THAT SHE'S BASICALLY DECAPITATED.
You probably won't see a roomful of idiot "Baretta" and "Our Gang" fans cheering his acquittal months from now.
SOME people's loyalties and support go deeper than skin color. And unfortunately, as recent history has shown, some people's don't.
If Blake DID do this, or had an active role in the planning/soliciting of it (and I truly believe he did), then I hope the mother****er fries.
Or at least sits behind bars for the rest of his life.
<strong>Anyone have any thoughts/opinions/commentary/rant on this?
Another L.A.-based, celebrity-involved brutal murder.
One big difference.
I'm predicting he gets the chair.
Too bad he didn't play football and is...well, you know. He might have a fighting chance. You know: make it about LAPD racism, corruption, who might've uttered "nigger" once, skin color, etc. Basically about everything except what it's SUPPOSED to be about.
Kinda like that LAST big celebrity murder trial a few years ago.
Ahem...
Nah, Baretta is gonna fry!
[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: pscates ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Blake should get the apropriate sentence regardless of his "fame" if you want to call it that. And for your some what prejudicial overtones on the O.J Simpson case, I will debate you anytime on his being guilty BASED ON THE CASE EVIDENCE as shown on the trials on tv. But this would have to be on another forum I suppose..(new topic)
[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: Robertp ]</p>
Cochran and the legal defense's tactics, along with many black citizens (L.A. and otherwise) showed more "overtones" and "us vs. them" mentality than ANYTHING I posted above.
Whatever.
As soon as the Simpson trial became about "a black man getting a fair trial" and less about a has-been, washed-up, insanely jealous ex-footballer hacking his ex's head off, it all went down from there.
I don't care to debate you on anything.
As for "prejudicial overtones", bug off. You don't know me.
What did I say above that WASN'T true or DID happen?
Maybe it'll make my DVD a collector's item.
Seriously though, too bad for Blake that he killed his wife after OJ killed his... you just know they're not going to let another star off.
<waiting for Robertp>
You have to take into consideration that he is a B-movie actor. That doesn't get you a lot of friends or respect in Hollywood.
Oh, and yes... O.J. was also a B-movie actor (if an actor at all) too. But he had a long and successful football career too. And yeah, he is black. But a black man who lived literally in a white world.
Sadly, I think Baretta is going to the chair. But I wouldn't be surprised if he gets life. What better way for him to live the rest of his life? I can see them now...the annual ET prison interview with Robert Blake...
at least OJ had some kind of alaby. Blake was "having a drink at the bar" even though he had gone back for his jacket or wallet or something
I.E. getting his gun and shooting his wife <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Actually, I think I might just turn off the TV for a week. Won't miss much anyhow.
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>at least OJ had some kind of alaby. Blake was "having a drink at the bar" even though he had gone back for his jacket or wallet or something</strong><hr></blockquote>
He was going back to get the gun that he had left in the restaurant (!?!) and came back to find his wife dead.
I am pretty sure that he did it, as I was with O.J.. The only difference I can see is that the people in the Simpson case were prettier and lived in a better part of town.
Didn't know the chick was basically a wannabe prostitute to the stars.
Yucky story only gets worse, I can't see anyway he'll get off.
Jeff
[ 04-22-2002: Message edited by: jeffyboy ]</p>
<strong>Artman, I'm watching the E True Hollywood story as I post...
Didn't know the chick was basically a wannabe prostitute to the stars.
Yucky story only gets worse, I can't see anyway he'll get off.
Jeff
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Me neither. He truly is a psycho himself. Sad. Oh, and E! really ain't waiting aren't they? Jeeez, it won't be another 4 months until all this is over...