August 14, 1999 - Well, it was another big week, This Week in Crime...And as we presciently and eerily predicted just one week ago, from this self-same column, on this self-same website…"it's the crime at our very own front door step that we must remain ever vigilante about". Little did we know it then, but in a few short days time, our lives here in Los Angeles would be turned upside-down, in perhaps irreparable ways, that could, in no way, have been forseen. All in just a few short minutes of time on a quiet, sunny, Summer afternoon in The Southland. I'm speaking of course, of… Actor David Duchovny's recent shocking lawsuit against Twentieth-Century Fox. The implications in this suit against the producers of his hit Television Show The X-Files are enormous and troubling for those of us who call LA our home, and the Entertainment Industry our lifeblood!
Duchovny has alleged the studio secretly conspired to cut him out of millions of dollars in potential profits, and that Series Creator and Executive Producer Chris Carter was indeed paid "hush money" by Fox - to cover up a clandestine back-end profit sharing agreement. This season is scheduled to be the actor's 7th and - no, duh - final season with the show. Though few may want to listen now -- the truth is …often difficult to hear -- Duchovny insists the conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Yes, all the way to Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, William Mechanic. We hope he'll soon find The Truth… It is out there… {Sing the eery X-Files Theme Song now in your mind…} In other local crime news -- and on a lighter note -- In Granada Hills, a crazed Neo-Nazi with an Uzi entered the lobby of a Jewish Community Center full of senior citizens and pre-schoolers, sprayed the place with over 100 rounds of ammo in a matter of minutes, left the building, shot a postal worker (in an ironic twist, I might add), car-jacked a Toyota, dropped it at a hotel, hailed a taxi-cab to Hollywood, got a haircut, bought a new shirt, looked unsuccessfully for a prostitute, and then hailed an $800 taxi-cab ride to Las Vegas, Nevada.
In case you had trouble finding information about this incident in the always cautiously responsible News Media this week,…you may have missed the rarely reported detail that the gunman, upon turning himself in, told authorities that he did this as - quote - "A wake-up call to America to kill Jews". In the interest of thorough and responsible news reporting, let me repeat that once again in case you missed it, care to jot it down, or wish to set a reminder for yourself; He did it as a - quote - "wake-up call to America to kill Jews." The perpetrator of This Week's Mass ShootingÔ …or often under-reported "wake-up call to America to kill Jews" - was, to no one's surprise - named; "Buford".
Such incidents have by now becoming routine here in America. Indeed Starbucks has offered to sponsor Next Week's Mass ShootingÔ , planned for a Boy Scout Camp near Des Moines. But still…as routine as these tragedies have become in this country, each one seems to top the next with a stunning new twist or seems to offer a shocking new mystery. In this case, now that this sort of tragedy has indeed "come home" for all of us -- Angelenos have been scratching their heads for days, wandering about with dazed and sullen looks, asking themselves the same disturbing question over and over again; How the hell, did Buford Oneal Furrow, manage to hail, not one, but two taxi-cabs in the City of Los Angeles?! And that's this week's, This Week In Crime...
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