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Spector (Showtime), a four-episode limited series doc from directors Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott, revisits the sordid story of Phil Spector, the producer of iconic rock hits like the Ronettes\u2019 \u201cBe My Baby\u201d and the Beatles\u2019 <\/i>Let it Be who in 2009 was convicted for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. This is a true crime situation through and through, delving into the backgrounds of both killer and the killed, and considering questions of what made Spector do it; his daughter Nicole is interviewed, along with journalist Mick Brown, LAPD homicide detectives, and friends and family of both Spector and Clarkson.<\/i>
Opening Shot:<\/b> February 3, 2003, Alhambra, CA, and an aerial drone shot of a lavish mansion known as the Pyrenees Castle. \u201cMy name is Adriano, I\u2019m Phil Spector\u2019s driver \u2013 I think my boss killed somebody.\u201d\u00a0
The Gist:<\/b> The 911 operator asks the caller to repeat that, asks him why he thinks there has been a murder. \u201cBecause he has a lady on the floor and a gun in his hand.\u201d It\u2019s a pretty strong indictment of Phil Spector\u2019s involvement in the death of actress Lana Clarkson, who he had been seen with that evening at the Los Angeles House of Blues. But as Spector <\/i>plays audio of the record producer\u2019s encounter with responding officers, it\u2019s already clear that nothing is set in\u00a0 stone. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s a dead woman here, I\u2019m sorry this happened, the gun went off accidentally\u2026\u201d
This could be the beginning of a Dateline: Secrets Uncovered<\/i>, or of an episode of 20\/20<\/i>. Difference is, Phil Spector was a groundbreaking record producer whose work defined the golden age of teenage rock and pop, elevated the career of Tina Turner, and in general established the concept of the producer and a recording studio as creative tools in and of themselves. If rock \u2018n\u2019 roll music is made by lonely people for the benefit of lonely people, journalist Mick Brown says, then Phil Spector was that person, and the studio room the incubator of his genius.
It was also where his worst traits as a person were acted on and enabled, controlling behaviors and erratic outbursts that came to define Spector as much as his accomplishments behind the mixing board. Spector<\/i> delves into the producer\u2019s past, his father\u2019s suicide, and his combative relationship with his mother and sister; it also lends context to the life and career of Lana Clarkson, the woman whose murder he would eventually be convicted of in 2009. Questions of genius, celebrity, paranoia, sensationalism, and legacy are all in the mix as Spector<\/i> spools out into four episodes.\u00a0\u00a0
What Shows Will It Remind You Of?<\/b> The framing and presentation of Spector<\/i> feels so similar to the stalwarts of TV true crime, right down to blurry archival footage, reenactments of Spector\u2019s father\u2019s suicide, and talking head interviews with authorities, family, friends, and collaborators. and that\u2019s before footage appears of a much younger version of longtime Dateline<\/i> correspondent Keith Morrison, who reports that Lana Clarkson was \u201choping she\u2019d be famous too, and now, ironically, was.\u201d It\u2019s another ugly instance of Clarkson\u2019s slaying being presented by the media as something she somehow planned for attention, or as a career boost.\u00a0\u00a0
Our Take:<\/b> Remember Phil Spector<\/a><\/i>, the 2003 HBO film written and directed by David Mamet? Following closely on the heels of his eventual conviction \u2013 it took two trials to finally put him away \u2013 the movie featured Al Pacino as Spector and Helen Mirren as Linda Kenney Baden, his defense attorney, and was criticized for being disingenuous and loose with the facts. So perhaps Spector <\/i>is a reaction to that film\u2019s legacy in the media space, an attempt to present the facts of Spector\u2019s case free of the spectacle of Pacino in a wig and tanning booth sheen. But to do that, it has to grapple with a dicey central question, which is how to align Spector\u2019s accomplishments as a groundbreaking music producer with the reality that he became a convicted murderer. But it also seems intent on rehabilitating the character of Lana Clarkson, the woman he shot and killed, whose reputation was sullied by Spector\u2019s legal defense and suffered relentlessly in the media, which never tired of limiting her to the dismissive descriptive \u201cB-movie actress.\u201d\u00a0
Nicole Spector, the producer\u2019s daughter, and journalist Mick Brown, who interviewed Spector extensively in the weeks before the incident, are both featured prominently here. But they\u2019re also listed as \u201cconsultants\u201d in the credits, which suggests that they\u2019re the ones who wish to set the record straight. The lengthly look at Phil Spector\u2019s upbringing and his eventual immersion in the record industry and music production that consumes most of episode one connects his father\u2019s 1949 suicide not only to the themes of teenage heartbreak that permeated his music productions, but also to his erratic behavior, especially with women. But did that make Phil Spector a frustrated genius, since he became a Hall of Fame record producer? Or is this just the same sad tale of a killer and a victim on a collision course that exists at the heart of so much of the true crime genre? At times, Spector<\/i> doesn\u2019t seem to know how to align the man\u2019s competing legacies. But it does its best to portray a fuller picture of the woman who paid the ultimate price for his behavior.
Sex and Skin:<\/b> Nothing in the first episode.
Parting Shot:<\/b> As \u201cTo Know Him Was To Love Him\u201d closes, its circles back to its beginning, with grainy archival news footage of the Spector mansion surrounded by police lines, still photos of the crime scene, and more context from the perspective of the LAPD homicide detectives who worked the case. And there\u2019s another surfacing of the description that would cling to Lana Clarkson in the breathless scrum of media coverage surrounding her murder, and go on to inform the tone of Phil Spector\u2019s legal defense. \u201cBeautiful B-movie actress.\u201d
Sleeper Star:<\/b> There\u2019s a fascinating subtext to the interviews in Spector<\/i> with singers Darlene Love and The Crystals\u2019 La La Brooks, who each speak to the mood and tone of 1950s and 60s recording sessions with not only Phil Spector but the larger music industry itself, where they were compelled to look out for themselves as women, as artists, and as professionals in a toxic climate of disrespect and casual disposal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Most Pilot-y Line:<\/b> We might transpose the views of an uncredited 1950s reporter disparaging the new pop sound that Spector was largely the creator of onto local news of today trying to categorize viral TikTok hits. \u201cNever in the history of popular music has the recording industry been so completely in the grip of America\u2019s teenagers. This new type of music has been described as the teen feel, and the dumb sound. These new songs are usually about broken romances and unfulfilled love. The lyrics are simple-minded and repetitive. The sound is loud, weird, and driving as possible. The singers are young and often inexperienced. The new generation has turned Tin Pan Alley into \u2018Teen Pan Alley.\u2019\u201d\u00a0
Our Call:<\/b> STREAM IT, certainly from the perspective of true crime heads. That\u2019s the genre where Spector<\/i> truly wishes to exist, the genre its structure emulates; trouble is, that creates friction with how to reconcile Phil Spector\u2019s life and accomplishments before Lana Clarkson\u2019s death by his hand.
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