Sunday, March 24, 2013

Phil Spector - Entertainment Weekly - But Did He Kill That Woman?



From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 PM
Subject: But Did He Kill That Woman
To: Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>


Hi Mr. Riordan,

Entertainment Weekly is raising the question - but did Phil Spector kill that woman?  I personally thought the forensic was conclusive.  No, he didn't kill the woman.  I don't have HBO and won't be watching the film but that's fine - I know Phil Spector, love him, and have seen and heard him millions of times.  He has indeed been rendered unrecognizable.  Even the articles that are posing the probability of his innocence appear intent to adding in dramatic flourishes that in no way represent Phillip.  This article doesn't mention Leonard Cohen.  Knowing that Leonard Cohen has three versions of his highly embellished gun stories before LA Superior Court (I'm counting the one the prosecutor continues to conceal) and he continues to get press off of Phil Spector is nauseating.  Truly disturbing.  Leonard Cohen knows what the news media likes  carefully crafted, highly scripted, completely embellished stories.  He sees right through most journalists and if they happen to be groupies he knows how to tantalize them.  It worked beautifully with my so-called prosecutor also.  It doesn't work with the people who are now emailing me privately about Cohen, how sick Gianelli is, etc.

Love,
Kelley


But did he? The reason that all of Mamet’s It’s not a true story! dissembling is annoying baloney is that a major aspect of why we want to watch Phil Spector is to see, and to take seriously, the film’s vision of whether or not he was guilty of murder. Mamet opens the film resonantly, with a calm, distant black-and-white shot, scored to “Unchained Melody,” of Spector and then Clarkson leaving a cocktail lounge and getting into his car. But he never actually shows us what happened back at Spector’s castle. Instead, he presents the items of evidence that came to define the trial, and they play around in your head like pieces of a conspiracy-theory puzzle. Shortly after the shooting, Spector’s chauffeur told the police that Spector had come out of the house and said: “I just killed someone.” That’s Exhibit A. Exhibit B is Spector’s white jacket, which he was wearing when the shooting occurred. But there was a mininum of blood spatter on the jacket (it was almost invisible) — or on Spector himself. If he had pulled the trigger, standing right next to Clarkson, it seems more than likely that that wouldn’t have been the case.

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