Playbill

June, 2003

Phil Spector met Lana Clarkson one evening in February, and within hours she was lying on the floor of his foyer, dead of a gunshot wound. This month Steve Pond reconstructs the fatal convergence of the once-powerful producer and the aging starlet. Bob Love, Playboy's new Editor at Large, directed Pond's efforts. The result is an atmospheric journey through the less glamorous side of Hollywood, replete with shades of Sunset Boulevard. "Even as strangers Spector and Clarkson were bound by a...