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The only good news out of OJ's slow speed chase - Off-Ramp for June 14, 2014
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Episode 6602
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The only good news out of OJ's slow speed chase - Off-Ramp for June 14, 2014

The CBS and NBC pilots chasing OJ 20 years ago are transgender; someone is killing the peacocks of Rolling Hills Estates; crowning the savior of the Wigwam Motel on Route 66.

O. J. Simpson talks to Trojan football players about desire, dedication and talent. Photo dated: September 16, 1987.
O. J. Simpson talks to Trojan football players about desire, dedication and talent. Photo dated: September 16, 1987.
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The old OJ, 1987. James Ruebsamen/LAPL Herald-Examiner Collection
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The CBS and NBC pilots chasing OJ 20 years ago are transgender; someone is killing the peacocks of Rolling Hills Estates; crowning the savior of the Wigwam Motel on Route 66.

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Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with Zoey Tur and Dana Vahle, who 20 years ago were Bob and Dirk, macho TV chopper pilots competing for video of OJ slow-speed chase.
Of all the artists of over a century ago, James Ensor would probably have done best in Zap Comix. Much of his work is rooted in obscenities akin S. Clay Wilson's and R. Crumb’s.
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O.J. Simpson had said he'd surrender that morning, avoid all the cameras and the hoo-ha, but then he cut and ran, and for hours, it was a game of where's O.J.?
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In bucolic Rolling Hills Estates, a murder mystery is unfolding, featuring local politics, warring neighbors and at least 50 victims.
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Only in America could Rialto's Native American-themed Wigwam Motel be lovingly restored by an Indian-American born on Route 66.
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LACMA has just opened one of the most impressive displays of 20th Century European painting in its history. It’s about the Expressionists, and how they got that way.
Supporters of the Figueroa-Riverside Bridge hold a wake to mourn the historic bridge's imminent demise.
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Harry Hall was born in 1913, and he’s lived in San Pedro ever since. Friends, family and fans flocked to the English pub last Friday to celebrate Harry’s 101st birthday.
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A push-pull ambivalent Happy Father's Day from Off-Ramp commentator Dylan Brody to his MIT playwright father, Alan.