O.J. Simpson and Elizabeth Montgomery

Since O.j. is back in the news...here an old made-for.t.v. movie he did with the star from Bewitched. They play two cops looking for a killer but fall in love with each other despite O.J. 's character being married.
Here's some movie stills...
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The movie is called "A Killing Affair"..if anyone's seen it ...let me know how it was.I'm curious.

Sidenote...does anyone think O.j. looks a little like Lenny Kravitz?

 

Actually I saw it back in the day & to be honest it was a pretty good made for tv movie. I was a 'Liz fan from her days on Bewitched & OJ was considered a somewhat cool bro back then with some potential acting skills before he became the most hated man in America...especially to white folks.:smt021

PS>Nice pics!

 

Never heard of it. But by reading the plot breakdown it further proves that the 70s was more bold with producing IR material between black men and white women (relative to the IR out there at the time) than what we ahve been getting the past 20 or so years. Could you imagine even a made for TV flick like that today when a white female and married black male fall in love today? I can't.

 

you're right.

that show was waaay ahead of its time.

 

The thing is that these days, you have to be politically correct. You don't want to have a trail of angry sistas on your trail do you? Let's not forget the usual suspects: ie, the black psychologists, black authors, black academic leaders... Plus you have white men who are just as insecure, if not worse now that they were back then.

I wasn't around in the 70s, but from what I understand, no punches were pulled. Things were in-your-face. They were groundbreaking and bold. Things were just cooooooool.

 

To be honest I think a "made-for tv" movie like that could work today with somebody like a Taye Diggs who's already not cool with black women for being married to a white woman. Out of all of the group you mentioned the Hollyweird white guys would have less of a problem with it as long as it made money & had good ratings. Plus around that time OJ was still considered to be a cool brotha that was crossing over but still married to a black woman just like in the movie. I don't think he was involved with Nicole yet.

 

I saw the movie. Although it wasn't exactly a classic, Elizabeth Montgomery gave a pretty good performance. OJ...well, OJ was OJ.

I think it's true that there was more risk-taking back then. In the 60's and 70's, people didn't just push the envelope, they pushed the envelope and did it in a public way. They wanted to make a statement against "the establishment" and by doing so, thought they'd change the world. Heck, they were changing the world. I don't think they were ahead of their time at all, I think that we just dropped the ball.

 

Also & keep in mind that a "made-for-tv" IR flick like that could now more easily be shown on a cable network like HBO or Showtime instead of just the Big 3 networks. We have more options now to watch shows like that that we didn't have back then.

 

That's my point, noble. They have all these other options and outlets and still nothing comes of it on the IR front when it comes to BM/WW. Even on a basic cable channel like the Sci Fi Channel all the IR (TV shows and movies) are almost exclusively WM/BW. Its a joke.

Hey, onto a nother rant....forget about IR. What about black characters being the leads of those dozens of cheap, made-for-TV horror/action flicks that debut on Sci Fi each weekend? All of them have white people in the leads. There has been well over a hundred of those type of flicks made and they cost so little one doesn't not have to worry about them not making a profit. And yet even that won't get producers/directors/network executives to place black actors in the lead roles of just a handful of such flicks. Its 2008, folks. And our network TV shows are still almost 100% dominated by white lead characters. Hello? Progress?

Getting back to IR the blackploitation era, for whatever you think of the quality of films, was the one and only time in Hollywood history in which not only was the black-white IR coupling in the favor of black men, but movies would give audiences actual raw love scenes between black men and white women. For goodness sakes this was the decade following the Civil Rights Movement and you tell me America was more open to that type of stuff then than it is now?And you are telling me that there was less open backlash in the black community (particularly by black women) than there is now for such types of pairings? Talk about a backwards nation.

 

True that and just for the record I enjoyed alot of the blackexploitation era flicks like Superfly & Shaft!

Also you're right about most if not all of the tv series especially these last 2 weeks where I've been catching up with season premieres and very few blacks are in lead roles.

 

Let us NOT forget the films of Fred Williamson. :smt070

 

A Killing Affair

Wished it could be remade with more love scenes.