Though renowned for his music, Phil Spector also harbored an ambition to direct and produce movies, and in 1966 asked me to drop by his house so he could explain his plan.
At the time, I was a reporter covering politics for The New York Times in Los Angeles and had met Spector at a political party.Spector, then 25, was already pallid and rather fragile in appearance.
He lived in an imposing Edwardian mansion and, as I approached, I saw Spector’s limousine parked outside. It bore a bumper sticker stating ‘Send Batman to Vietnam.”Once inside, I could see several young women frolicking in his pool.
Spector was cordial. He told me his first movie would be titled The Last Movie and would be ‘an art movie.’ “I am an admirer of Truffaut, Kubrick,
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