OPENING THIS WEEK (3.5 CHILES) THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR Vikram Jayanti's documentary about the life and career of the famous "wall of sound" producer juxtaposes a lengthy interview with Spector alongside clips from his 2007 trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson and performance footage of several of Spector's best-known songs. The result is an impressionistic portrait of a brilliant man who was found guilty of murdering another human yet appears to feel victimized by a world that never fully appreciated his genius. Not rated. 102 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Robert B. Ker) See review, Page 54.
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court panel has refused to reconsider the case against record producer Phil Spector, who is appealing his murder conviction. The three-justice panel from the 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense's May 18 petition for a re-hearing on a May 2 decision upholding Spector's conviction for the Feb. 3, 2003, shooting death of Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his Alhambra mansion.
On the last night of her life, Lana Clarkson was doing what a lot of beautiful, out-of-work actresses do in Hollywood. She was working a $9-an-hour job as a hostess in a nightclub. As she greeted patrons at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Clarkson didn't know who Phil Spector was when he arrived with a date near closing time looking for a table.
After more than six years of legal wrangling and two high- profile trials, legendary music producer Phil Spector was behind bars at year's end following his second-degree murder conviction for shooting an actress to death in the foyer of his Alhambra mansion. Spector was sentenced in May to 19 years to life in prison for killing Lana Clarkson in February 2003.
COURTS: Testimony of five women is replayed, along with video footage of victim Lana Clarkson. By Linda Deutsch
LOS ANGELES -- Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in the music producer's home six years ago. Spector, 69, looked straight forward and showed no emotion as Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered a term of 15 years to life for second-degree murder plus four years for personal use of a gun.
The Grammys weren't just bad on Sunday night, they were thrillingly bad. It's been years since I've been so exhilarated by a TV show so awful and in such an exemplary way. Three entirely miscellaneous thoughts on the grandeur of the Grammy awfulness. Phil Spector may be suffering behind bars in the joint for murdering Lana Clarkson but his triumph over televised American popular music in the year 2010 has been total. The personal "wall of sound" he concocted out of the sounds in his head has now become a corporate battlement keeping out almost everything individually virtuosic. Almost everything we heard was over-produced visually and sonically to the point of absurdity. Except for Pink's hilariously wacko Trapeze show, it was the ultimate in corporate music --busy, busy, busy eclec...
Phil Spector 's defense attorney told a jury in closing arguments Tuesday that scientific evidence proves actress Lana Clarkson pulled the trigger of the gun that killed her in the music producer's mansion six years ago. On a large courtroom screen, attorney Doron Weinberg listed 14 points of forensic evidence, including blood spatter, gunshot residue and DNA, that he said were proof of a self-inflicted wound.
LOS ANGELES -- A mistrial was declared Wednesday in the murder case against Phil Spector when the jury reported that it was deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting the music producer of killing actress Lana Clarkson more than four years ago. The prosecutor's office announced it would seek to retry Spector, and the family of the actress also pledged to press on.
LOS ANGELES - The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial on Thursday gave the deadlocked jury new instructions with several scenarios as to how the record producer might have killed actress Lana Clarkson, including that the record producer forced her to put a gun in her own mouth and it went off. Spector's attorneys had vehemently objected outside the jury's presence that Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler was turning the defense against itself at the last minute because they had presented scientific evidence that Clarkson had probably pulled the trigger herself, either by accident or in a suicide..
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