Simpson and Gloves

Who said O.J. Simpson can’t act? He should win an Oscar for that glove-tugging performance, complete with grimaces, in front of the jury (June 16).

MARK BERNSTEIN

Los Angeles

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Regarding Simpson and the “tight fit” of the bloody gloves, I have some advice for defense attorney Johnnie Cochran: Keep your day job. You’ll never make it as an acting coach!

I will admit, I thought Cochran did a pretty good job when he guided Simpson’s reactions through the testimony and the grisly autopsy photos of his ex-wife. The sighs, eyes cast upward toward heaven and the deep breathing were quite effective. But, on June 15, to have Simpson smile and act so cavalier and jovial as he tried on the gloves soaked with the blood of the mother of his two small children was a bit much.

DEIRDRE GIBSON SEAMAN

Tustin

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I don’t know how the rest of Los Angeles taxpayers feel, but I understand that the county is in deep financial trouble and yet it has to spend millions to try and convict a man who very well might be innocent! I wonder how much it cost us to have a clerk from New York’s Bloomingdales on the witness stand?

The time on unnecessary details and testimony that the prosecution has presented is astronomical and I as one taxpayer resent the whole expensive circus!

HILARY HOPE RAINES

Los Angeles

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Forget shrinkage or a latex glove underneath. Did it ever occur to anyone that the reason that the perpetrator lost the glove in the first place during an action that he had the upper hand in was because it did not fit very well to begin with?

BOB MATTIA

Burbank