I’ve been playing a little catch-up on the Phil Spector trial, and I came across two very different stories, each connecting the legendary rock producer to a Hollywood myth.

The first story, posted by The Shamus (AKA The Artist Formerly Known As That Little Round Headed Boy) at NewCritics, is more or less a review of a new biography written by the last journalist to interview Spector before the shooting incident that landed him in court. The Shamus describes that interview as particularly evocative of Spector’s overall state of mind:

You get the sense of a man desperately trying to get through each day without slipping over the edge, a rock