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.
First of all that’s not inbred; that’s line bred. Not that screw ups don’t happen; they do; but he is not inbred.
Wasn’t Rudy married to a cousin?
My grandmother’s two parents were first cousins. And her husband’s parents were second cousins. All four were related to each other. My father, may he RIP, was about as inbred as you can almost be. Plus many of his ancestors behind his parents and grandparents were first and second cousins. This family has been healthy and long-lived through the generations. And we’re not killers. Bad excuse, Spector.
Hey, now, no posting Squantos and Eaker’s graduation pic without pinging them!
That’s absolutely right. It’s only dangerous if they are perpetuating already bad genes.
A fresh, new excuse. It’s as good as any I suppose.
Spector: Proof that though your cousin may be hot, your kids certainly are not.
It’s just too easy.
Comming soon to a theater near you.
Stephen Hunter’s Dirty White Boys.
Man, do these guys look like STARS??!!!!!!!!!!
The ultimate “bad hair” day?”
It’s actually NO hair.
Everything we see him in is wigs, I have been told by friends in Hollywood.
That’s um Eaker on the left........he’s the ugly one !
Hey thanks. I didn't know that, and I'm sure my parents were not related. Think I will relax about it :-).
Funny what you run into doing your family history. It turns out my sister is married to her 10th cousin, met him in Washington, DC where both were doing post-graduate work. Neither of them knew it until she asked me to do her husband's family history in the course of which I got in touch with his first cousin who had already done a lot of it unbeknownst to him, and in sharing data, I noted she had the common ancestor that I had already picked up on my side way back in about 1600.
Thanks for the Google-check on the actual quote.
I guess I’m just a reactionary conservative...and thus incorrectly
inserted the “proud” adjective.
But McGreevey sure did seem proud to make his proclamation (well,
at least to me!).
Yes, it looks like Phil Spector has pulled solidly ahead of Brian Wilson in the “Which One is Crazier” race...
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