Phil Spector envisioned Pacino as the best
actor to portray him. So David Mamet took Phil's advice for this upcoming HBO flick.
This teases well. But the scope of Spector's life is the real cinematic puzzle, not
the sad-sensational end. Who's going to tackle that? Maybe Mamet's
piece will be the pilot to a series, starting at the end and ending at the beginning: Spector's father committing suicide by rerouting the family car's exhaust.
Though no one knew it at the time, Spector's first hit record with his own group, The Teddy Bears, was about his father's sad end. Spector on the right:
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