A woman who testified against Phil Spector at his murder trial last year has died, but prosecutors vowed Monday that the loss would not substantially affect the music producer's second trial.
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/08/ap/music/main3684887.shtml
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Verdict to be announced in an hour.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
regardless of what they decide, this whole thing is still depressing in about 20 different ways.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Why does everyone in the comments seem to hope he goes down? (yeah, I know, don't read news site comments, it's bad for my nerves, but I can't help it)
― StanM, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Why does everyone in the comments seem to hope he goes down?
because there's every indication that he is, in fact, guilty as fuck?
― wassup rockers? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I had the impression that it wasn't as clear as that, but if it is, then OK.
― StanM, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno i read a couple long form articles about it that -- even accounting for what i would suspect was a anti-spector bias -- seemed to suggest that him and his lawyers story was mega suspect at best, pretty much sounded like outright bullshit.....not withstanding the man's considerable history with guns, being abusive, crazy, paranoid, etc etc etc
― wassup rockers? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Spector's defense - that she was drunk and depressed, took his gun (after it got his prints on it), and shot herself in the face - is a little um wtf. Especially given that immediately afterwards he wandered outside, gun in hand, and said to his driver "I think I killed somebody". Plus a history of being an abusive mysoginistic loon and habit of threatening all kinds of people with firearms... yeah I think the guy is guilty as fuck. so to speak.
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah his alibi wouldn't have even supported a 15 minute episode of Matlock IMO
― wassup rockers? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
and said to his driver "I think I killed somebody"
LOL
― StanM, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I think for people who knew him, the reaction wasn't "phil shot someone?!" it was more "surprised that didn't happen sooner ... and lucky it wasn't me."
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
guilty
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
cannot find video of Beavis saying "give him the chair"
― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i couldn't find the story, is the verdict out now?
― wassup rockers? (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, its a headline along the top on the bbc site
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/phil-spector-verdict-lana-clarkson.html
― StanM, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this a death-penalty case? (It may no longer be now, for other reasons, but was it ever?)
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 13 April 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
no its not. he's facing 18 years (I doubt he'll get that much)
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Spector arrived in court Monday wearing a "Barack Obama" button.
― Simon H., Monday, 13 April 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
no, I just wanted to play Beavis
― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
where's Marcello
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Marcello has a cast iron alibi so don't even try it.
― featuring Strawberry and the Shortcakes (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz - nah there was just some other thread where Marcello was giving me shit for assuming Spector's guilt and I was sorta flabbergasted that anyone (esp someone who's researched Spector exhaustively) would buy his alibi
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oops its 18 years TO LIFE... dude's gonna duy in the can
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
die even
It's like I should feel sadness or pity about this entire tragedy, but we always knew that Spector was nuts so the fact that his stupid habits finally led to someone's death isn't much of a surprise. It feels like nothing has really changed, and therefore I don't feel much of anything at all about this.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess for the family of the murdered woman there's some satisfaction about justice being done. But she's still gone.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"He can't hide behind the wall of sound now..." opening line of the 11 O'clock news (CBS Los Angeles).
― nickn, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
"He Shot Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"You've lost that murder retrialBaby, that murder retrial..."
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Stay classy, CBS Los Angeles
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Prison folks will sing 'Be my baby' as the welcome song
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, was coming here to see if anyone asked this. no doubt he's on a plane, with a list of the jury's home addresses, to give them the hairdryer treatment.
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Yesterday's mug shot: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/spectormugshot1.html
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Ehhhhhh... imo Spector lives (and brings to life in his music) the creepy pathologies that Nick Cave has made a career out of method-acting.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
tru, forever classic just for that
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
because obviously actually killing people is way more awesome than just singing about it.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
it's more authentic
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it's time to stop romanticizing the whole "dude pulled a gun on the Ramones in the studio!" stuff...
― henry s, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno if people romanticized that sort of thing -- the moral of those stories was always that Phil was a weird, fucked up dude, not that Phil was supercool or something.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:57 PM I Love Music Thread: Phil Spector: Murderer? had its title updated to: Phil Spector: Murderer!
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz
― Pre-Beatles Yoko Ono (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
who will play Phil Spector in the TV movie
malcolm gladwell
― m coleman, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't tom cruise supposed to play him at some point?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Crispin Glover?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't John Turturro play him (or someone like him) in a movie?
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― Pre-Beatles Yoko Ono (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 April 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link