Moreover, characters from the trial became fodder for other genres – Judge Lance Ito lives on in the world of memes, while the Jackie Chiles character on Seinfeld parodied the Simpson defence attorney.īut as The People vs. drove as he fled the police on Interstate 5, or black Isotoner gloves like those shown during a pivotal courthouse scene suddenly took on fresh associations. For instance, common white SUV trucks like the one O.J. Simpson's indictment in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman – and his ultimate acquittal – defined a great deal of popular culture for the rest of the decade. For those not yet alive to see the 'trial of the century', it is difficult to overstate public fascination with it for most of 1995.
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Both of Long's projects revisit mass media events that were formative for a generation now in their thirties seemingly ready to dedicate, or binge on, ten plus hours considering the details – interpersonal and arcane – that were obscured by the headlines. Unsolved is the work of Kyle Long, a director and producer on the 2016 installment of the anthology American Crime Story: The People vs.
Tupac Shakur played by Marcc Rose in in Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., 2018–ongoing. The murders remain unsolved, and in the pop historicizing tradition of Oliver Stone, the show attempts to add rich detail to a high-profile case two decades earlier, while also undertaking – or at least performing – suggestive forensic work of its own. West Coast' rivalry that dominated rap music at the time. In the mid-'90s, conspiracy theories abounded as to the connection between the two deaths, though many put the murders down to a gang-related spill-over from the 'East Coast v. Courtesy: USA Network / NBC UniversalĪ carefully-made procedural drama, the show is typical of our current era of 'prestige' (high-quality, important, serious) television and seeks to tell the story of the killings of Biggie Smalls and his chief musical rival Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot the year before, in September of 1996, in Las Vegas. All of this finds resonance in the USA Network's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., which began airing in the US last week.Ĭhristopher 'Biggie' Wallace played by Wavyy Jonez in Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., 2018–ongoing. At the same time, fatalistic themes run throughout the rapper's back catalogue too, particularly a macabre sense of the finitude of a life lived in the streets of Brooklyn's Clinton Hill and of the hedonistic or anesthetizing pleasures one might enjoy in the meantime. It was widely remarked at the time that the record – released posthumously – was eerily titled, presaging, as it did, the unsolved shooting of Biggie in plain sight in Los Angeles. That spring day in 1997 should have been one of celebration for Combs and Wallace, since it would see the release of his exceptional double-album, Life After Death. The 9 March marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, the standard bearer for Sean 'Diddy' Combs's New York-based Bad Boy label.
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