Phil Spector Buys Freedom, World Shrugs, "Lana Who?"

Sure pays to be rich in this town. Especially if you like guns. Poor Lana Clarkson. If only someone had told her NO NO NO you DON'T "make connections" following nutty powerbrokers back to their mansions at three in the morning. Go home, get a good night's rest and work on your scene from Streetcar for tomorrow's class. I don't know what to say so I'll let some of the commenters on today's L.A. times story on Spector do the talking. (See below)

Or as Steve Lopez said in his column today:

Does anyone out there believe some penniless schmo with a dead woman in his house and a gun in his hand would beat the rap if his lawyer was a no-name and he couldn't afford a parade of favorable witnesses?

One thing I will offer -- my services to the prosecution when (if?) they retry the case. FACT: ALL actresses are depressed. BUT NOT SUICIDAL. If so there would be hundreds if not thousands of unemployed-actress-suicides here every day. The acting profession, especially in L.A., is a DEPRESSING vocation. But few people kill themselves over it. Are you kidding me? Everyone is too narcissitic for THAT! Even the most successful actors and actresses are beset with anxiety. And the ones who do commit suicide (Freddie Prinze) or try to (Owen Wilson) are in more anquish over their drug problems than their career. Everyone involved wonders WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING IN THIS RETARDED CRAZY BUSINESS!!?? (uh...oh yeah. Decent Health Insurance. And the occasional free designer outfit.) Portraying Clarkson as just 'depressed' over her acting career can only illicit the following response... yeah, so??? What else is new? Besides, as one of Clarkson's friends who left a comment on the L.A. Times site (see last comment below), she wasn't despondant at all. In fact, she was quite optimistic. Besides, the liklihood of Clarkson offing herself over her anemic resume is pretty far-fetched. And for her to have done so in such a manner is... well, what's the point of saying any more? An expensive defense team could convince any of us that we pulled the trigger that night. The district attorney's office is probably contemplating having a nightcap at Spector's mansion right about now. Talk about depressed!

From the comment page to the L.A. Times story "Money Helped Spector More Than Celebrity":

Can't you see how this happened? She picked up her purse and went towards the door, and then stopped, deciding, "No, I'll kill myself instead of going home." Why can't you see the logic of this?
Submitted by: AnnHenry

Let's see... Phil's gun, Phil's history of using guns on women, and most importantly Phil saying,"I think I killed someone." Nope, that's not enough evidence it had to be someone else... perhaps the man from Mars! I'm sure the defense would spin that one if they could. This guy is guilty, guilty, guilty. Also, tell his wife to quit posting the ridiculous comments in his support. We aren't buying it. Bring on the retrial. he's gonna fry!
Submitted by: IhateLA
8:39 AM PDT, Sep 27, 2007

I really wonder if this beautiful woman was your daughter, sister, mother, best friend (not pi) and was the victim of this freak with a gun,would be saying the same thing about manslaughter,and not guilty! Just askin'
Submitted by: me
8:37 AM PDT, Sep 27, 2007

Knowing what Spector was like around Lennon, Nilsson etc... I think this was the scenario: She wanted to leave, he pulled out the gun to show control, power, he fired and actually killed he. I think he's a scrawny punk who probably couldn't purposely hit a barrel but this time he hit and killed someone.Not like Mal Evans digging the bullet out of the recording studio ceiling after he waved the gun at Lennon and Nilsson.
Submitted by: hms
8:32 AM PDT, Sep 27, 2007

I was with Lana the night she was offered the hostessing job at House Of Blues, and I was with Punkin numerous times following Lana's murder. At NO time did Lana express anything but hope, determination, and enthusiasm for her future, and networking with the world's most legendary music producer would have been exactly the kind of opportunity she thought the hostessing job might provide. And at NO time, EVER, did Punkin Pie express anything but horror and hatred that 'Phil Spector murdered my best friend'-- UNTIL she testified. The prosecution was aware of this and ignored it.
Submitted by: CW Cressler
5:09 AM PDT, September 27, 2007