Phil Spector: Murderer!

(homo = human, auto = self, imho, but that doesn't matter now)

homos = same

cide?

probably gang related. eascide, wescide.

homo + caedo (perf. = cecidi) = homicide (man + slaughter)

homos + sexus = homosexual (same + sex)

the latter is a bastardisation of a greek prefix and a latin suffix, the former is entirely latin

oh noes, sonned in an internet greek/latin beef :-(

POSSESSUS

Hang on a minute, I'm getting confused here - is Spector being accused of shooting Westlife now? Surely he should get the keys to the city!

http://www.myspace.com/hamburgramnes

(Hamburg Ramönes - album: Free Phil Spector)

Give me strength!

I mean, they might actually be good! But, hey let's free the guy OK so he might have killed someone but hey it's the famous/genius Phil Spector!!!

What next, the Hamburg Mike Leanders?

It's time he came up with something new, why not let him ponder Wall Of Jail for a while?

Don't know them, but they can't be any worse than Starsailor.

Mike Leander never killed anyone.

No but then the "Hamburg Mike Leanders" new album being "Free Gary Glitter" etc...

Does this mean that Dale will stop playing My Sweet Lord, Imagine, Unchained Melody etc. whenever they come up on POTP?

bump before andi's head explodes

Kaboom?

haha I take it you locked it. So what's the latest? I don't watch cable news or anything.

I'm not sure myself. Something about contempt of court against one of the lawyers.

i was completely kidding around in that other thread. i'm surprised that got locked. sorry, i guess?

i was serious in my second post of it, though.

his ex-lawyer didn't want to testify against him. she didn't say a word. she's been held in contempt, now.

bruce cutler's soul past through me, that's all i can say.

A bit off track, but "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound" is a totally addictive read. The interviews between the author and Spector took place a mere six weeks before "the incident".

UH:

The week’s most dubious highlight came when the defense played Lana Unleashed, Clarkson’s portfolio video designed to showcase her comedic talents. Prosecutors Alan Jackson and Pat Dixon begged Fidler to block the screening but the judge ignored their pleas. The video quickly made clear why Clarkson did not have her own Comedy Central show. Her self-written sketches, intended to demonstrate Clarkson’s range of characterizations and dialects, appeared desperately unfunny on the courtroom screen. She was dying up there — all over again.

It also became obvious why Spector’s lawyers fought to have the video shown. In one segment Clarkson performs a black-face impersonation of singer Little Richard selling a line of African-American cosmetics on TV. The sketch was nothing more than a coon show and seemed to drag on for hours as reporters kept an eye on the jury’s three black members, who watched with frozen expressions. (“Little Richard’s” cosmetic kit — called “Makeup Kit for Dummies” — included minibar bottles of liquor and plastic pieces of a black man’s face.)

Obviously this doesn't excuse Spector in the slightest but Jesus H.

Court TV has the video.

Obviously this doesn't excuse Spector in the slightest

I mean maybe she went into her "routine." Justifiable homicide.

The other lawyer who quit today.

why would that video of her shitty comedy be admissible?

Jury cant reach a verdict.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001886.stm

I didn't know she was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

she was the science teacher's bombshell wife

http://img.search.com/thumb/0/0a/Fast_Times_Vincent_Schiavelli.jpg/250px-Fast_Times_Vincent_Schiavelli.jpg

appalling

Have a heart, he just switched to Sanka.

why would that video of her shitty comedy be admissible?

I think because it fit the defense argument that she shot herself in a desperate attempt to bring attention to her failing career. Focusing on a terrible audition reel would make sense if you think she was so unfunny she would have needed an insane stunt to raise her stock up. And if you ignore the forensic evidence.

the forensic evidence seems so massively stacked against him.

money buys "justice" once again.

aww man I just....I mean, none of us were on the jury, we didn't hear the whole trial, but...it does seem like he shot that poor woman.

I think its all his prior behavior combined with the forensic evidence that's really damning (but yes I'm not in the courtroom etc.)... still the whole inevitability of it, this is the kind of thing practically everyone that's known/worked with Spector has predicted would happen for so long and now that its happened he's gonna ... well what is he gonna do exactly? he can't become any more of a recluse/outcast than he already is...

In ten years, he'll be jacking people at conventions, stealing memoribila.

he's been crazy as fuck for years. why on earth would you go to a washed-up celebrities house after work and then decided to commit suicide at the last minute?

Maybe now that OJ's been arrested again there needs to be a new getting away with murder posterboy.

new on pichfork:

Phil Spector's Murder Trial Declared Mistrial

After about five months of testimony, the trial of legendary "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector ended in a mistrial today, September 26, according to an AP report.

Spector is charged with second-degree murder for the gun death of actress Lana Clarkson four-and-a-half years ago, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declared the case a mistrial after each juror told him they were unable to reach a verdict.

Fidler made the decision on the 12th day of deliberations, and the foreman of the nine-man, three-woman jury revealed that there was a 10-2 deadlock without specifying which way they were leaning.

So far, there has been no talk of a retrial.

Also related to the trial-- though apparently not factoring into the decision to declare a mistrial-- is authorities' investigation into a possible threat to Fidler made via a post to a "Team Spector" MySpace page.

The post said, "I love Phil Spector" and "The Evil Judge should DIE!!!!." It was signed "xoxo Chelle"-- a reference to Spector's wife Rachelle-- and later taken down, according to Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini.

Christopher Plourd, one of Spector's defense attorneys, denied Rachelle Spector's involvement in the incident.

A few weeks ago, Fidler and Rachelle Spector clashed over her communication with the media about the case outside of court, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case

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

Verdict to be announced in an hour.

regardless of what they decide, this whole thing is still depressing in about 20 different ways.

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)

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?

I had the impression that it wasn't as clear as that, but if it is, then OK.