Post by fourthousandholes on Feb 21, 2007 15:11:45 GMT -5
I thought there was already a thread about this, but the Search engine said no.
www.nypost.com/seven/02202007/tv/spector_to_phil_o_j__shoes_tv_michael_starr.htm
SPECTOR TO PHIL O.J. SHOES
By MICHAEL STARR
February 20, 2007 -- TV buzz is starting to grow around a little-reported court decision late last week in California - Phil Spector's spectacular murder trial will be televised. Wall-to-wall.
It will be the first celebrity trial to be televised in L.A. since the O.J. Simpson circus in 1995.
"We have to get by that case," L.A. Judge Larry Fidler said last Friday after ruling that cameras can broadcast Spector's trial, expected to begin in April.
"Public scrutiny is a good thing," he said.
It sure is a "good thing" for Court TV, which made its bones televising Simpson's murder trial and announced over the weekend its plans to air gavel-to-gavel coverage of Spector's trial.
The potential "stars" of the trial are Spector himself - a legendary pop music producer - and attorney Bruce Cutler, John Gotti's bombastic former lawyer, who is on Spector's defense team.
"Spector is a strange guy . . . and I think there's a lot of public interest in the case - and that's the draw for us," says Court TV exec Tim Sullivan.
Spector, 66, is accused of killing B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003 after a night of drinking.
He's been free on $1 million bail since his arrest.
Sullivan says Court TV expects Spector's trial to last several months - but doesn't think it will generate the media-circus atmosphere of the O.J. case.
"Spector is no longer a celebrity the stature that O.J. was [during his murder trial] . . . and race was an issue in O.J.'s case . . . and that's not present in this case," he says.
"But people are curious about [Spector] like they were about Michael Jackson, and I think that's what's at play here."
www.nypost.com/seven/02202007/tv/spector_to_phil_o_j__shoes_tv_michael_starr.htm
SPECTOR TO PHIL O.J. SHOES
By MICHAEL STARR
February 20, 2007 -- TV buzz is starting to grow around a little-reported court decision late last week in California - Phil Spector's spectacular murder trial will be televised. Wall-to-wall.
It will be the first celebrity trial to be televised in L.A. since the O.J. Simpson circus in 1995.
"We have to get by that case," L.A. Judge Larry Fidler said last Friday after ruling that cameras can broadcast Spector's trial, expected to begin in April.
"Public scrutiny is a good thing," he said.
It sure is a "good thing" for Court TV, which made its bones televising Simpson's murder trial and announced over the weekend its plans to air gavel-to-gavel coverage of Spector's trial.
The potential "stars" of the trial are Spector himself - a legendary pop music producer - and attorney Bruce Cutler, John Gotti's bombastic former lawyer, who is on Spector's defense team.
"Spector is a strange guy . . . and I think there's a lot of public interest in the case - and that's the draw for us," says Court TV exec Tim Sullivan.
Spector, 66, is accused of killing B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003 after a night of drinking.
He's been free on $1 million bail since his arrest.
Sullivan says Court TV expects Spector's trial to last several months - but doesn't think it will generate the media-circus atmosphere of the O.J. case.
"Spector is no longer a celebrity the stature that O.J. was [during his murder trial] . . . and race was an issue in O.J.'s case . . . and that's not present in this case," he says.
"But people are curious about [Spector] like they were about Michael Jackson, and I think that's what's at play here."
