Phil Spector Du Jour

Another interesting turn in the Phil Spector trial today, as the deputy medical examiner, Dr. Louis Pena, acknowledges a few boo-boos occurred during evidence collection. It seems…well, details may be too gory for the Peak Blog. It’s a family website after all. If you really want to know, follow the link above. Sheesh.

Time To Do Our Daily Phil Spector Welfare Check

Let’s see how Phil has been doing... He didn’t fare so well yesterday with the coroner testifying that Lana Clarkson’s body showed signs of resistance injuries. That’s a fancy phrase meaning bruises were found on her arm as though she was struggling with someone trying to inflict harm on her. If you really want to read the gruesome details,they are right here.

Today In The Spector Spectacle

Expected to take the stand today are crime lab technicians and a coroner in the trial of Phil “Wall Of Sound” Spector. Read all the fascinating details.

Phil Spector’s Trial Today: Forensic Evidence Hidden From Prosecution

A piece of Lana Clarkson’s fingernail believed to have had traces of a passing bullet on it is believed to have been removed from the crime scene at Spector’s castle and hidden from the prosecution. What this means is that Spector is actually guilty because it would show that Clarkson resisted having the gun stuck into her mouth. So…bad day for Spector.

Phil Spector needs a Daniel Powter song, doesn’t he?

Spector Trial Latest: Does That Chauffer Speak English Very Well?

Whether or not the chauffer speaks English well doesn’t make Spector innocent or guilty. Or does it? Spector’s defense team spent yesterday trying to convince the court that chauffer Adriano De Souza wrongly implicated Spector with his poor English language skills. Did De Souza hear Spector say, “I think I killed somebody,” or “I think I shot somebody.”

Phil Spector: The Devil Inside

While Phil Spector is hardly an INXS song, he does have the devil inside. More specifically, he says, “I have devils inside that fight me.” That sounds a lot like the “devil made me do it” defense… That comes from a Mick Brown interview. Mick Brown, you may or may not know, was the last person to land an interview with Spector before his arrest. He was also the first person to land an interview with Spector in 25 years.

We’ve Heard Of The Twinkie Defense But This Is Ridiculous

Phil Spector is too short to have pulled the trigger on Lana Clarkson. That’s the latest from the former Beatles producer in his murder trial. He says he stands at 5’5” and Clarkson stood at 6’2” in heels. Given the downward angle from which the bullet went into her mouth, it therefore couldn’t have been Spector who pulled the trigger. It had to have been Clarkson pointing the weapon into her own mouth.

That’s the latest from the trial today, anyway. Here are more details.

The Phil Spector Spectacle: It’s Never A Good Idea To Say “I Think I Killed Somebody”

Phil Spector’s driver head a “pow” before being approached by Spector who said exactly the above phrase. The driver then got a look then at the body of actress Lana Clarkson. More testimony from the driver, Adriano De Souza, is expected today.

Get more Phil Spector Dope.

The Spoof has still more fun at Spector’s expense. Apparently, he pulled a gun on the Wall Of Sound too.

Spector Spectacle Day 7: Philly’s Still Got A Friend

Finally, someone who still likes Phil Spector took to the stand to defend his character. Spector pal Kathy Sullivan said her buddy was fatherly and protective. As for his gun-toting ways, Sullivan says she has witnessed it, but thought of him as being funny with the gun – like Elmer Fudd. But Fudd hunted wabbits and not B movie actresses.

Read moreabout the FOP’s testimony – that’s “friend of Phil.”

This Canadian paper has a nice column reminding us that Spector isn’t the only extremely talented musician who’s totally crackers.

The Ways We Can Make Fun of Phil Spector Now Are Endless

This one is pretty funny. Imagine the Spector trial being cancelled altogether because it's not as interesting as Paris Hilton becoming canned heat...

The Spoof seems to be having quite a bit of fun at Spector's expense as well. Imagine old Phil gets convicted, then executed by a Wall Of Sound.

The Phil Spector Spectacle Continues

The trial of what could be the next O.J. Simpson continued in it’s sixth day yesterday with Rommie Davis testifying that there was “something wrong” with Spector. She dined with him on three consecutive nights before the murder of Lana Clarkson and said, “He was not his usual self.” In other words, he wasn’t the threatening, gun-waving lunatic he usually was? She said she hadn’t seen him drink alcohol until the night of the murder when she warned him that drinking with the medication he was taking would be a “lethal combination.”

More from Davis.

Former Spector Dates Testifying About Him Pulling A Gun On Them Are A Dime A Dozen

Yet another woman took the stand today in the Spector Spectacle to say that the “wall of sound” producer had once pulled a gun on her. Stephanie Jennings testified that Spector threatened her with a gun when she refused to come to his hotel suite at 3 a.m. one night in 1994. On this particular night, Jennings and Spector had been partying. Spector was drunk and Jennings had gone back to her suite to sleep before being awoken by Spector’s bodyguard. Spector was demanding she join him in his suite.

So how many more days can the prosecution find women formerly accosted with guns by Spector? We shall wait and see!

More Dope!

The Latest in the Phil Spector Trial

The Spector Spectacle began again yesterday and its most interesting development was testimony from Diane Ogden, Spector’s former assitant. Ogden said on the stand that Spector once threatened to shoot her in 1989 when she refused to have sex with him. Ogden also said he was demonic and chased her with an Uzi once. The jury also got to hear an answering machine message Spector left for 1993 girlfriend Dorothy Melvin that said, “Be very careful what you say to me because nothing is worth your life.”

This is getting very tiresome. How are we to get addicted to the Spector trail if it never happens?

At the earliest, the Spector Spectacle will be back next MONDAY. That would be Monday, May 7, as in the first day of May the trial is set to take place. That’s only if Spector’s lawyer, Bruce Cutler, can get his sugar under control by then, or his diabetes meds, or whatever it is. It seems every news outlet or gossip rag has something different to say about Cutler’s health. Maybe it’s just the karma Cutler gets for having defended John Gotti.

Do lawyers bill differently when they are home working on delayed cases than they do actually arguing their cases in courtrooms? Just wondering.

This gives Spector plenty of free time to go wig shopping for the rest of this week. Perhaps he can go with Britney Spears or Cher? Maybe we’ll see a new ‘do when court is back in session. Again, just wondering. How is Spector spending his days off?

Day Whatever of The Spector Spectacle!

Don’t get excited, it’s the same deal as yesterday. Everyone has been sent home because Spector’s attorney, Bruce Cutler, is still ill. Word is he’s having problems with his diabetes medications. There’s also the big immigration march going on to mess up traffic around the courthouse. The prosecution has been busy though, filing a motion yesterday against Spector’s attorneys for withholding forensic test results. The detail in question is the six-foot blood spatter of Lana Clarkson. Gross.

Moving on…

The folks at Radar are saying that if Phil Spector is found innocent, he will be “The New O.J.” Ouch. That’s quite an insult!

Read A History Of Violence.

Too Sick For Court – And It’s Not Who You Think

Day Three of the Spector Spectacle didn’t really happen…Phil Spector’s lawyer has called in a sick day. There are no details on the lawyer’s illness, but jurors got the day off today. So hopefully we’ll have the official Day Three of the trial tomorrow so we can get our money’s worth out of following this thing. It’s already starting to feel like the Michael Jackson trial again – except it was Jackson and not his lawyer who was always calling in sick.

Get more info here.

We Have To Wait All Weekend For More Of The Spector Spectacle

Phil Spector's murder trial won't be back until Monday. So we have all weekend to wonder if he really didn't kill actress Lana Clarkson simply because she was taller than him. The trial has only just begun and we're awaiting some juicy details. So far we have learned that he once pulled a gun on Joan Rivers' former manager. Though that is not nearly as exciting as one pulling a gun on Joan Rivers -- something we imagine many have wanted to do over time -- it is one interesting detail nonetheless. We've also heard his gun-brandishing legends before. So we'll wait and see what comes out in Day Three of the trial on Monday.

More on the manager's testimony.

Day Two Of The Spector Spectacle: Science Will Prove His Innocence

Today is Day Two of Phil Spector’s murder trial and his defense says science will prove actress Lana Clarkson killed herself. The prosecution called Spector “sinister and deadly.” This is all not terribly exciting, but that’s what we’ve got for you right now.

The Many Eccentricities of Phil Spector

He’s a hermit.

He’s a bit of a recluse, living first behind gates and “keep out” signs and then – a castle. He kept his mansion dark all the time and didn’t really leave at all.

He didn’t grant an interview to anyone for a good 25 years until talking to Mick Brown of the Telegraph in the UK. He didn’t work for about 23 until producing two songs for a Starsailor record.

He put up an electric fence around his mansion and employed bodyguards – as if the fence weren’t enough.

Not an average kid…

Cheated at Monopoly and Scrabble as a kid.

Dreamed of being strangled in his youth.

In his early years of songwriting, he told all he met he was a genius.

His parents were first cousins.

His given first name is actually Harvey.

Temper, Temper!

He held ex-wife Ronnie prisoner in their mansion when they were married.

When she was on tour with the Ronettes, he’d call make her leave the phone next to her face on the pillow so he could hear her breathing all night long.

He bought her a mannequin replica of himself for her to keep in the front seat of a sports car he bought her. He was a bit possessive of her because he was afraid she’d “run off” with a Beatle, according to biographer Richard Williams. Then Spector hooked up with the Beatles himself, salvaging a Let It Be album in which the title track was devoid of strings and choir at that time.

Spector once pulled a gun on The Ramones during an argument as they were recording. That’s not all though; he allegedly held a gun to a former girlfriend/employee’s head in two separate incidents. His violent, curse-ladden outbursts were legendary. If you think Alec Baldwin’s voicemail to his daughter was bad, you never were on the receiving end of one of Spector’s ragefests.

According to the prosecution today, Spector had a pattern of getting drunk, taking a woman back to his place, then when she wished to leave he’d forbid her. He’d threaten her with a gun to force her to stay.

Had a reputation the preceded him as a control freak.

Phil Spector Links:

A rare Spector interview by Mick Brown

Richard Williams, Biographer, speaks about Spector

The Prosecution’s Opening Argument today