For years, conventional wisdom has held that Phil Spector is crazy -- the question usually was not if he had a screw loose, but if he was charmingly eccentric or genuinely dangerous. Long before Spector was accused of the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, stories circulated about Spector’s uncertain temperament and fondness for guns, and Leonard Cohen cited one unnerving incident during a 1977 recording session: “At a certain point Phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder, and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ I said, ‘I hope you do, Phil.’”
The...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins