OT: Real Life Parallel To Oz (The Prison Show)

[Ash]

First....read this article and look closely at the accused:  

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Sports/Jayson_williams_040114-1.html

If you've watched many episodes of OZ and know the series very well, you will no doubt notice the UNCANNY resemblance of Williams and the actor in OZ who played the basketball star Jackson Vayhue who was incarcerated for murder.
Remember those episodes with him?
Here's a link :  
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289213/photogallery

Damn strange if you ask me!



Post Edited (01-15-04 08:33)

[raj]

The Jayson Williams thing's been going on for a year or two.  Did Oz rip this story from the headlines, as Law & Order does?

[jmc]

No, Williams started his small role on OZ during that show's first season, which would make it about seven years ago.

[raj]

Thanks.

[jmc]

Wait, I got confused, I don't mean Williams, I meant Rick Fox...anyway, the subplot about the basketball player sent to Oz was during that show's first season, around 1997 I believe.  The character was locked up for a Tyson-like rape charge.

In later years the shows really got ridiculous about having things similar to stuff in the headlines--at one point they had the Nazi guy's son sent there for dragging a black man to death behind a pickup truck right after the James Byrd incident in Texas and I think they had at least a couple of other "topical" things.

One of the things about Oz I never understood was that apparently it must have been the only prison in that state because everyone got sent there...there were fathers, sons, cousins, and brothers all locked up in that one prison.