Thursday, April 24, 2003

The Dixie Chicks have posed nude for Entertainment Weekly... Not many people left who haven't already seen that...

Orenthal James Simpson is the newest reality-television star and he is the subject of an unscripted series, slashed together from footage shot in Miami in 2001-02.

Texas-based Urban American Television Network has inked a deal with a Florida concert promoter to distribute 13 weekly episodes featuring Simpson to its 75 station affiliates this June.

Unlike Anna Nicole Smith or the Osbournes, Simpson did not sign off on the series. The show will be edited from 60 hours of candid O.J. footage captured onstage and behind the scenes at several rap concerts during the former football great's stints as a concert emcee.

Among the concerts Simpson attended was an August 2001 Florida gig featuring such artists as Wyclef Jean, Lil' Mo, Noreaga and Foxy Brown, where he signed autographs and spoke to a largely receptive crowd. Simpson didn't fare as well at a Connecticut hip-hop concert that December, when less than 100 people showed up to gawk at the embattled athlete-actor and the evening's act, R&B group Allure. The concert was canceled due to the poor turnout.

No mention of his emcee intros at any Dixie Chick concerts.