I watched Jaws the other night, and in my opinion, this is the best movie ever made!
After my last post, some people may conclude I’m trying to exploit the gruesome death of my niece by turning it into an HBO series. For weeks I have talked to attorneys, and, it looks like justice will not be served in Bullhead City. What is the solution? How can everybody come away – smelling like roses?
How about making a movie that changes everyone’s name, including the name of the city where Drew Taylor Rosamond Benton – DIED SOMEHOW?
Drew’s mother was married to Rick Partlow, whose best friend, Lana Clark, was murdered by Phil Spector. You can’t make this shit up – or sweep it under the carpet!
The Spector of Bullhead Shark City
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESETVED
Eleven fifty-five P.M. in Bullhead Shark City, An ambulance pulls up slowly at the Flintstone Rock Hospital THE SIREN is turned off so as not to give the drunken gamblers a bad headache. Let them sleep till midnight, before they head off for another rigorous night of gambling. A bloody woman is wheeled in.
“What do we got here, Ken….another Bullhead Shark attack?”
“Hardy-har! You know better than that, Pete. There – are no Bullhead Sharks in Bullhead Shark City!”
Pete and Ken slow-walk the bloody woman to ER.
“She tried to take her life – by stabbing herself in the legs twenty-two times – after she beat herself black and blue with her Oscar! When that didn’t work, she tried to pull all her teeth out with a pair of plyers. Finally, she jumps of a three-story balcony! There was blood everywhere!”
“Well, you could have fooled me. Looks like a Great White tried to eat her – too!”
“Uh oh! Her hearts stopped beating while we stood here!”
“She’s….dead!”
“I hope she’s a nobody, a drifter-hooker who blew into town!”
“Yeah! And she’s got no family or friends.”
“Works for me!”
“Put her back in the meat wagon and take her to the morgue! I think we got another case of a woman HEARING VOICES, then, attempting to kill herself the hardest way she could think of!”
“Yep! This one also wrote a suicide note – in her own blood – too!”
“MAKE THE WALL OF VOICES – STOP!”
“How many does that make this week……sixteen?”
“What is she clutching her hand?”
“It’s her……Oscar!”
“What’s an…..Oscar?”
My ex-wife lived with Thomas Pynchon in Mexico and Manhattan Beach. Perhaps he will help me with the screenplay?
This article is about Phil Spector’s music production formula. For other uses, see Wall of Sound (disambiguation).
The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound)[1][2] is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as “the Wrecking Crew“. The intention was to exploit the possibilities of studio recording to create an unusually dense orchestral aesthetic that came across well through radios and jukeboxes of the era. Spector explained in 1964: “I was looking for a sound, a sound so strong that if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record. It was a case of augmenting, augmenting. It all fit together like a jigsaw.”[3]
Phil Spector and Rick Partlow
Posted on December 15, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just discovered Rick Partlow was very close with the actress, Lana Clarkson, who was murdered by Phil Spector. Rick was married to my late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, in 1977-80. Rick is an actor who won an Emmy for his Foley work. Rick and Christine were at my wedding reception, after I married Mary Ann Tharaldsen, the ex-wife of the writer, Thomas Pynchon.
Jon Presco
Lana Jean Clarkson (April 5, 1962 – February 3, 2003) was an American actress and fashion model. During the 1980s she rose to prominence in several sword-and-sorcery films. In February 2003, Clarkson was fatally shot by songwriter and producer Phil Spector in the lobby of his mansion. Spector was charged and convicted of second degree murder on April 13, 2009.[1]
Set during the days of the Roman Empire, a simple village is preparing for the wedding of their king and queen. Suddenly, it is raided by Roman troops, and most of the people are whisked off to be slaves or killed. The queen, Amathea, (Lana Clarkson), and two of her best female warriors survive the attack and set off to liberate Amathea’s sister (Dawn Dunlap) (who had been raped in the raid and is set to become the Roman centurion’s concubine) and king Argan (who is sent to the gladiator arena).
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/thomas-hart-benton
Phil Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector,[1][2] later Phillip Harvey Spector,[3][4] December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, songwriter, and the originator of the Wall of Sound production method. At the height of his career, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound, and produced more than twenty-five Top 40 hits from 1960 to 1965, writing or co-writing many of them for artists such as the Ronettes and the Crystals. Following collaborations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Dion DiMucci, and the Ramones in the 1970s, Spector remained largely inactive. In later years, he became infamous as the subject of two trials for murder and a second-degree conviction.
Spector is often called the first auteur among musical artists for acting not only as a producer, but also the creative director, writing or choosing the material, supervising the arrangements, conducting the vocalists and session musicians, and masterminding all phases of the recording process. He helped pave the way for various music genres, with numerous artists later citing his work as a major influence. His Grammy Award-winning co-productions number the Ronettes’ “Walking in the Rain” (1964), the Beatles‘ Let It Be (1970), and George Harrison‘s Concert for Bangladesh (1971).
For his contributions to the music industry, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 as a nonperformer. In 1997, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[5] The 1965 song You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, produced and co-written by Spector for the Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. airplay in the 20th century.[6] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #63 on their list of the “Greatest Artists of All Time”.[7][8] Spector-produced albums that have ranked within Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” include Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1964),[9] A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (1963),[10] and Back to Mono (1991).[11]
In 2009, Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life.[12]
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