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Donald Winfred Ohlmeyer Jr. (February 3, 1945 – September 10, 2017) was an American television producer and president of the NBC network's west coast division. He fired Norm Macdonald from Saturday Night Live in early 1998, a move that is widely believed to have been motivated by Macdonald's refusal to stop making jokes at the expense of Ohlmeyer's friend, O. J. Simpson.
Downey and Macdonald subsequently became a team, working away from the rest of the cast and crew. They were both fired from the show in 1998 at the request of NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer. Downey believes that it was a result of various jokes on Weekend Update calling O. J. Simpson a murderer; Ohlmeyer was a good friend of Simpson's. [2]
Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson has died at the age of 76 following a battle with cancer.. On Thursday 11 April, Simpson’s family announced his death on his Twitter/X account. “On April 10th ...
Macdonald, who died in 2021 aged 61, later claimed he was fired from SNL over the repeated jibes. “In his book, OJ Simpsons says he would’ve taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for Nicole.
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her ...
Clark is well known as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. [10] Prior to the Simpson trial, Clark's highest-profile trial occurred in 1991 when she prosecuted Robert John Bardo for the murder of television star Rebecca Schaeffer .
Twenty years ago, it was called the "Trial of the Century." Hall of Fame football star O.J. Simpson was charged with the June 12, 1994, murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend ...
This was the biggest play in what is regarded as one of the greatest football games of the 20th century, [24] and pictures of the play were published in many national magazines. [25] Another dramatic touchdown in the same game is the subject of the Arnold Friberg oil painting, O.J. Simpson Breaks for Daylight.