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When you would walk up the grand staircase, there was a large wall with pictures of the family. Pictures of friends. Reporter tonight, a rare look inside o. J. s infamous rockingham estate. The problem was the overwhelming majority of pictures were of caucasian friends. Reporter yes, there was the glove. If it doesnt fit, you must acquit. Reporter but there was also this longforgotten trip the jury took to o. J. s house. The jurors, nine africanamericans, eight of them women. Took all his white friends down, put all these black people up, pictures hed probably never seen before, we made him blacker. Reporter o. J. s agent gilbert and defense attorney douglas speaking out on the plan to sway the jury, ruling on the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and ron goldman. Lead prosecutor marcia clark said she objectioned time and again to blatant defense tactics. She said, carl, you know damn well he has never had this many black people on his wall his entire life. I said, marcia. What are you talking about . How dare you accuse us of such things . That is very dirty pool. If we had had a latin jury, we would have had a picture of him in a sombrero. There would have been a maturiai band out front. Reporter many of the key players in the trial of the century in o. J. made in america exploring bitter Race Relations plaguing lapd for decades. So Many Americans say, yes, theres racism in this country. Yes, theres police brut and yet o. J. Simpson seemed to use those facts to get away with murder. Well, his defense team did. The defense teams job, as karl douglas and anyone else will tell you, is to use all the arrows in their quiver. Did the defense team cross a line ethically . They crossed a line every time they walked into court. Every single time. What was the most egregious . I think the sheer extreme nature of the way in which race was injected went too far. You get this allegation, that you were amoral, that you crossed ethical lines, that you lost your moral come pass. And i take great umbrage with that perspective. There was a judge calling balls and strikes. It is my job to push, push, push. Reporter even though its been more than two decades, the o. J. Case continues to fascinate. Im trying to win. Reporter who could forget that made for tv drama . Im not black, im o. J. Reporter the hit fx this has got to stop. Choose a side. Reporter just last summer the world got a glimpse of an older o. J. At 68, gray, paunchy, at 235 pounds. Locked behind bars for the last eight years for robbery. A shadow of the charismatic young man who once graced the covers of magazines. At the university of southern california, they have a Living Legend reporter who won a heisman for those agile moves as a running back. When you saw him on campus it was like, wow. Theres o. J. Im just celebrating my award. Reporter a celebrity who didnt just cross color lines, he seemed to erase them. He was one of my heroes. O. J. Really was one of the first black men to be fully accepted in white america. Nobody does it better than hertz no black athlete had ever been on tv hawking products. He had deals with chevrolet and rc cola. Reporter his recordsetting years with the unstoppable even by peter jennings. I never had much doubt id miss him. That was o. J. Simpson. Reporter o. J. s legendary status forever eclipse the by accusations of Domestic Violence and a double homicide. We do have sufficient evidence to convict him and prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Reporter the moment marcia clark says she tried to stop from ever happening. O. J. Simpson struggling to put on those nowinfamous bloody gloves. I didnt want to do it. I knew it was a mistake and i objected. I said, the latex is going to screw up the fit, they shrunk. The rest is history. Reporter douglas, a member of simpsons defense dubbed the dream team. This is part of our efforts to prove an innocent man falsely accused. Reporter Johnnie Cochran, robert shapiro, and robert kardashian. Tens of millions of americans were riveted by the unfolding drama. For prosecutor marcia clark, it was a much more personal attack on her appearance and her curly hair. I was pretty sure the jury didnt care about my hair. What was the focus to the extent the judge treats me like less than, the jury takes their cue from him. And so it would be mr. Cochran, mr. Shapiro, and marcia. Reporter every move in the courtroom scrutinized. You said that o. J. Was pretty much the quarterback, not the running back, in that team. There were occasions when he would bring us over to make sure his questions were asked. I remember during the closing arguments he would take notes feverishly, making sure that Johnnie Cochran and barry scheck would hit his points that he thought was important. And o. J. Knew how things played. Reporter what played out in the courtroom was the racial tension outside the courtroom. His famous quote, im not black, im o. J. He achieved this sort of colorlessness. And yet when he was charged with murder, he used sort of his racial identity as his defense. Well, thats sort of one of the great ironies of the story. I dont call it the race card. We were playing the evidence card. We were playing the credibility card. Where the credibility of the central witness was at issue. Reporter so when audiotapes surfaced of the Police Officer who found the bloody glove ranting racial slurs anything out of the [ bleep ] the first five or six sentences is [ bleep ] lie reporter it was seen as a touchdown for the defense. Who says things like that . It was so foul. It was so despicable. That i mean, it was nauseating to listen to. It was like manna from heaven. It was indeed a gift. When you heard those tapes did you think, this is a get out of jail free card . It was a blockbuster. We knew that some of the things that he was talking about would resonate with this jury. Reporter after nine grueling months of testimony, the jury reached a verdict in a matter of hours. Find the defendant Orenthal James simpson not guilty of the crime of it was very painful. Two innocent people were brutally murdered and i thought, no one cares. No one cares. It was extremely heartbreaking. Did you lose your faith in the criminal Justice System . I did. I really did. It wasnt just the verdict, i have to tell you, it was watching the insanity of the circus every single day. I couldnt get the judge to pick up the reins at any point during the trial. Watching Something Like that happen, its like, i have nothing left to believe in. I cant do this. Reporter but life after the not guilty verdict was not as o. J. May have imagined. He was found liable in the civil trial and ordered to pay 33 million to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and ron goldman. We finally have justice for ron and nicole. O. J. Wanted nothing more than to be beloved by all of america. And yet thats most of what he lost after the verdict. Because he was no longer accepted i and i think that really sent him into a tailspin. Reporter o. J. Left brentwood for florida. Even starring in his own prank tv show, juiced with o. J. Simpson. Posing as a used car salesman selling a white bronco. Hopefully theres no bodies in this thing. I can guarantee the car has escape ability. Reporter 13 years after the verdict, a baffling attempt to steal back his own memorabilia. This time a different verdict. Guilty. Reporter landing him in prison with a 33year sentence for robbery. That must feel like some sort of vindication for you. Hes not serving time for the murders and thats what would be vindicating. Reporter the former prosecutor has since left the courtroom, fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming a crime novelist. The country is going through this reexamination of you. What do you think of that . I think its really nice to be understood. Its really nice. Reporter for nightline, im juju chang in new yo. Next, ryan gosling talks about how aspects of his role in la la land closely resemble his own life. Later, hollywood goes political. Which cause celeb will get the most celeb attention at this Years Academy awards . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Both made me turn around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. 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Reporter and his nomination in the best actor category, the second of his career at the oscars. Ryan gosling was a teenager from cornwall, ontario, who moved to l. A. To be an actor. Its not easy to leave your hometown and your family and come out to los angeles to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor. Reporter that same yearning sustains his and emma stones characters in la la land. Its like a pipe dream. This is the dream. Its conflict and its compromise. Its very, very exciting. It helped reinvigorate my understanding and love for l. A. , i think. It can also be a place where really incredible things happen. Reporter not much more incredible than goslings quiet rise to the top of the alist, bolstered by offbeat and heartfelt films. From the brash drive. To the tender blue valentine. You always hurt the ones you love he won a national meth competition in china reporter the up to the second ensemble the big short. Im sure of the math. Reporter in la la land goslings pianist finds his jazz dream going south fast. Youre fired. Its christmas. Yeah, i see the decorations. Good luck in the new year. Thats the worst time to meet a potential Love Interest but thats exactly when he meets her. I just heard you play and i want reporter he and stones mia click amid lots of old school showbiz magic. His onscreen chemistry with emma stone, its their third film together, is a major plus for the writerdirector. You put them on the screen together and they create this magic. Its the best reporter theyd review gene kellys singing in the rain notebooks. A visit to kellys widows home nearly ended in disaster. She had a little dog, we forgot to close the door, it ran out into the street. It was damian and i chasing this dog through traffic. Looking at each other like, this has to end in a nice way. We caught him and everything was fine. Im relieved just thinking of it. Reporter the History Lesson paid off with gosling and stones magic hour duets. We were never asked to do things that we couldnt do, because if we werent meant to be like broadway performers. You danced before. You had dance experience. Well, 90s hiphop doesnt seem to translate into softshoe. This performance part of his preteen days at a toronto dance studio. Wearing the hair and pants. Hair and pants. Reporter onstage pizzazz like that helped earn a Young Gosling his firsbr just over this bridge is my hometown, cornwall, ontario. Reporter he was part of the cast of the allnew Mickey Mouse Club assembling a stagger array of talent. Britney, christina, justin, keri russell. Two decades later, la la land returned gosling to music as he learned jazz piano. Its a lot of time alone. You become quite antisocial. And every time i tried to have a conversation during that rehearsal period with anybody i was a bit like bambi on ice or something. Its beautiful music. I have to say. When i met with damian, we met at a bar near my house. When i walked home, the theme for the film was in my inbox. It was so beautiful i thought, wow, he really does have a chance at making Something Special here. City of stars are you shining just for me then i had to play that piece every day. And i should be sick of it. But im not. So i think its a testament to how good it is. All that i needs that crazy feeling reporter audiences are likely to agree as the boy from cornwall, ontario, now a father of two young daughters by Longtime Love eva mendes, discovered what he returned to canada for a screening. It cast a spell on people. I saw it in toronto. A very unique experience. Maybe im not good enough. Yes, you are. Maybe im not. Ive also been a fan of this genre of musical and it seemed like that ship had sailed. So it was really amazing to have the opportunity to make Something Like this. Reporter for nightline, im Chris Connelly in los angeles. 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Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out, youll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts which are not the arts. Reporter most recently joy villas make America Great again dress that set the carpet abuzz and record sales soaring. This isnt the first time Hollywood Alisters have used award shows to take a political stance. From protesting a president s policies shame on you, mr. Bush, shame on you reporter to the lack of diversity. Well, im here at the academy awards. Otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. Reporter while were not quite sure what this guy was protesting as for this years speeches, well know sunday night. Who doesnt love oscar night . It was oscar winner Audrey Hepburn who said, everything i learned, i learned from the movies. Thank you for watching abc news. As always, were online at abcnews. Com and our Nightline Facebook page. Thanks for the company, america. Good night. 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