I could believe his parents were related!
Posted on 05/29/2007 10:39:24 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
PHIL SPECTOR fears his emotional and mental difficulties can be linked genetically to the fact his parents were first cousins, according to a new biography.
British author Mick Brown spent a day with the music mogul two months before he was arrested and charged with the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, and he has since turned the producer's candid comments into a book. In Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound: The Rise & Fall Of Phil Spector, Brown looks back over the eccentric mogul's life and career with the help of his subject's commentary.
The author admits he was shocked when Spector hit the headlines as an alleged murderer, because he felt sure the producer had battled his mental demons - and won. Brown says, "What I really hadn't expected was that he would be so candid about the emotional and mental difficulties that he had suffered over the years. "He talked with great honesty about his parents having been first cousins and his fears that that had left some sort of genetic mark on him.
"Looking back, I think he felt able to be so candid about all of that because he genuinely thought it was all in the past." In the book, Spector reveals, "I've been a very tortured soul... I have not been happy. I have devils inside that fight me." The record producer is currently on trial for Clarkson's 2003 murder. He stands accused of shooting the actress in the head.
I could believe his parents were related!
“I am an inbred American.”
The ultimate “bad hair” day?
Here’s an excuse we haven’t heard before.
Same thing’s probably true of Arlen Specter. Some severe brain damage there, too.
oops, at first glance of headline I thought this was about Arlen, but his is spelled Specter:)
I guess any excuse to keep the needle pathway to hell from being used is good. If this were true, half of Mississippi and Tennessee would be dead from killings.
What’s wrong with marrying your first cousin? Many Muslims have been doing it for fifteen hundred years and more, and look how they’ve turned out.
That is so much BS..........
Bad parenting, not bad genes.
My impression was that the marriage of first cousins was once fairly common among immigrant families. As the families became more assimilated, these marriages were sometimes cause for embarassment.
A number of prominent people, including psychologist Abraham Maslow, were the products of first cousin marriages.
Remember,
“If you go to a family reunion to meet women....”
Imagine if FDR and Eleanor were Republicans.
Do you think a day would go by without hearing about that?
That was funny! McGreevey was an unbelievable grifting, betraying, pole smoking brazen scumbag. It is a good analogy.
Finally an explanation...the entire Demoncrat party are the offspring of first cousins! Who would have thunk it?
And the Arabs were inbreeding like that thousands of years before Mohammed.
That looks like a wall of hair.
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