• Hollywood Homicide, "Hunting Phil Spector"

    From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 15:04:16 2024
    I gave this Netflix series a try while changing my guitar strings this
    morning. The episode that came up turned out to be about Spector and
    the murder of Lana Clarkson. It was alright, and answered a few nagging questions I had about events.

    Clarkson had no idea who Spector was when he entered the Hollywood club
    where she worked when between acting gigs. In fact, she initially
    attempted to decline serving him. "Do you know who I am?" he asked,
    "I'm Phil Spector." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Spector," she said to him, "but I
    can't serve you." Clarkson's coworers intervened, instructing her to
    "treat him like gold."

    So why did Clarkson accompany Spector to his limo? Because he had
    gotten drunk and was unable to get to the car on his own. For some
    reason -- likely her coworkers' instruction -- Clarkson agreed to visit Spector's mansion. Upon reaching it, she said to Spector's driver,
    "Hold on; this will be quick."

    Yet *hours* passed before the driver heard the sound of a gun going off.

    Creepily, Spector had had the lock to his door set up so that visitors
    could not exit without his help.

    Clarkson eventually fell asleep, and that was the point at which Spector
    shot her.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 13 12:41:01 2024
    The episode of Hollywood Homicide also got into Spector's threats
    against John Lennon (which he didn't realize the seriousness of) and
    Leonard Cohen.

    One of the police officers who arrived at the scene of Spector's mansion mentioned that it was crawling with rats and cockroaches. Clarkson's
    last hours must have been horrible; I don't see how she had fallen
    asleep unless Spector got her drunk, too.

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