Phil Spector and his spectacular hair convicted of murder

A Los Angeles jury today convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago. At left, Spector, as seen in a previous Boing Boing post by Mark.

Here is a New York Times piece about the trial, and the killing for which Spector was today found responsible.

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Anonymous

Good. Gravy. Was that do supposed to help the jury take him seriously?
takeshi

@ #10:

One of the prosecutor’s names is Truc Do, so I guess it’s ‘do vs. Do. Or, if you prefer, doDo. I prefer the former.
Richard Metzger

@ Takuan, #16 Nicely droll!

There was a BBC documentary about Spector recently and he gave them LOTS of intimate looks into his UTTER INSANITY. It was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. We watched it in stunned disbelief. My wife had a nightmare about him that very night. Fans of “mondo” films should hunt a copy down, it’s seriously tweaked.
Anonymous

“What? Wall of what? Sound? No, I said hair! WALL OF HAIR!”
Bruce Arthurs

The tribble made him do it.
Oshkosh John

Whatever became of the smarmy, little ferret in the back seat of the limosine in the opening of Easy Rider?
DWittSF

Rod Blagojevich, this is your future.
garyb50

Hair jokes aside – ha ha ha – this asshole KILLED a woman.

Isn’t that funny?
Blaine

I’d be more impressed if he was convicted and his hair was acquitted…

Or even better, the reverse!!
Takuan

a white man spent millions and is STILL going to jail? The system is broken.
takeshi

@ garyb50:

Spector was convicted entirely on circumstantial evidence. I have a feeling he’ll win his appeal. No powder burns, in my opinion, makes it far more likely that he convinced Ms. Clarkson to kill herself. It’s not much better, but it may prevent people like you from proclaiming his guilt, when the simple fact is: YOU DON’T KNOW.

Sure, he was convicted the second time around. If that conviction is upended, will you be the first to say he’s innocent? Doubtful. My guess is that you’ve been saying “he killed a woman” long before he was convicted. Or at least you were thinking it. Spector has a history of gun problems. That doesn’t make him guilty, and from what I’ve read it seems fairly evident that not everyone on the jury was as convinced as you. Particularly in the first trial.

Still, if it makes you feel better about yourself to chastise others for making jokes about Spector’s hair, super. Ambition is healthy.
ill lich

#14 GARYB50

Yup, he killed someone, and now he’s going to jail for it.

By the way, there was a recent post here on boingboing about a 1920′s film re-enactment of World War 1 starring dogs, you might want to go weigh in on that, seeing as how they were basically making jokes about what was the most horrific war known to mankind (knock on wood).

Which reminds me, have you watched “Dr. Strangelove” lately? Despicable.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Just because we sing Hitler Had Only One Big Ball doesn’t mean that we don’t take WWII seriously.
Takuan

ja!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YHD-z_Pp4
Alex_M

This happened in *2003*.

SIX YEARS. The slowness of the US legal system is effing ridiculous. Seriously, the state of things is a real violation of the sixth amendment.
inkfumes

That hair will get him everywhere in prison.
Anonymous

I’m just here for the hair…
nanuq

I’m thinking Phil won’t like some of the places that hair will get him in prison. Better he switches to a mohawk.
CVR

That hair is ancient history. The Philster actually looks scarier this week than he did back then (2+ years ago I think), but the hair is considerably toned down:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/4/13/1239658953740/Phil-Spector-arrives-at-c-002.jpg
General Specific

Is it wrong that I prefer the Hair Bear Bunch style from before to what he’s got now?
Ian70

There’s a “Sideshow Bob” reference in here somewhere, but I’m too tired to figure it out.
strider_mt2k

Oh man he look like the periodicvidoes Prof!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_zdap8ycE&feature=channel_page
agraham999

Actually I hear the hair has filed an appeal.
Geoff Sebesta

That’s a wig, by the way. He was badly injured in a car accident in 1974 and wears the wigs to cover the scars.

He was thrown through the windshield of his car and had more than 700 stitches on his head.

Explains a lot, if you ask me.

Explain
adonai

@CVR – he now seems to look more like Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula…
Takuan

no?
http://www.pictureshowman.com/images/articles/Articles_graphics/Day_Earth_Stood_Still/earth_3.jpg