I've heard that The Ronette's biggest hits began as pillow talk between Ronnie, the tempestuous 'original bad girl of rock and roll', and Phil Spector, her brilliant but completely fucking crazy husband and producer. That's hot. It must have been back when Phil was just crazy enough to be mistaken for passionate and uninhibited. Well, that soon passed, and by the time Ronnie left him in 1973, Phil had left the station.

The good die young; Phil Spector lived long enough to prove the point. Yesterday he was convicted of murdering Miss Lana Clarkson, a beautiful former B-movie star (Barbarian Queen). Shot her dead in the foyer of his mansion after bringing her home from the House of Blues, where Ms. Clarkson played the role of the 'waitress trying to make it in Hollywood'. Amazingly, Phil Spector is the first celebrity to be convicted of murder in Los Angeles in 40 years. His longstanding and well-documented obsession with firearms, along with his penchant for using them in a threatening manner, pretty much sealed his fate.

His stylist should do time as well.