INTERNATIONAL CHINA DAILY THURSDAY APRIL 5, 20079 ‘Phil Spector held a gun to my head’ Wild tales of anger and weaponry asked to admit into evidence a conver- and may have pulled the trigger. sation Spector reportedly had with a Spector has pleaded not guilty and dominate run-up to legendary record retired police offi cer has been free on $1 million bail since at a party at the home of Joan Rivers his arrest. If convicted, he could face producer’s trial of the century in the late 90s. life in prison. Vince Tannazzo, who was working s the clock ticks down to Spector placed a shotgun against her as a security guard at the party, said n a more than 40-year long career the trial of legendary re- forehead when she tried to leave the he was asked to escort Spector out Spector went from dominating cord producer Phil Spec- producer’s home after a party. after a commotion. Ithe sound of in the US tor for murder — an event “Spector, who was drunk, made While they were leaving, Tannazzo before the arrival of , to expected to eclipse even some sort of joke and then said, ‘Just said Spector made numerous profane, becoming a virtual recluse. Athe Michael Jackson trial — ominous so you know, I’ll blow your head off’ disparaging and threatening remarks In the first half of the 60s he tales of drunken gunplay have sur- or ‘If you try to leave, I’ll blow your about women. oversaw the creation of a host of “Wall faced in prosecution evidence. brains out,’” according to the court “They all deserve to die. They of Sound” pop classics including Da Prosecutors have asked the judge documents. all deserve a bullet in their head,” Doo Ron Ron, and You’ve to allow testimony from a former Robitaille told Spector to “knock Tannazzo quoted Spector as saying. Lost that Lovin’ Feeling. While later employee and one-time girlfriend of that off and put that away,” and he “That’s why I got permits for all on he produced the Beatles’ Let It Be, Spector who said the producer pointed eventually let her leave. over,” Spector went on. “Wherever I John ’s Imagine and George a gun at her head. A similar incident occurred a go, I always keep a gun, because… Harrison’s critically-acclaimed All In court documents filed on decade later when she claims Spector …they’re all no good.” Things Must Pass. Tuesday, Deputy District Attorney again put a gun to her head in the Prosecutors allege that, while But as the years wore on Spector Alan Jackson said the testimony foyer of his home after a night of drunk, Spector shot Clarkson to retreated into his faux-castle mountain demonstrates a “long history of gun- drinking. death on February 3, 2003 in the above and worrying related violence directed at women” A hearing has been scheduled foyer of his home. stories of eccentricity began to surface. and should be admitted as evidence for next week to consider the The former B-movie actress was He is said to have shot up the studio during Spector’s upcoming trial on prosecution’s request. working as a hostess at the House of while Lennon recorded his Rock ‘n’ Roll charges he shot and killed actress Blues nightclub when she went home album, threatened and in February 2003. nder a separate motion, appar- with Spector that night. forced to play his bass Devra Robitaille, who worked at ently reinforcing the image of The coroner’s office called it at gunpoint. Warner Spector Records from 1974 to USpector as a violent man who homicide, but noted Clarkson had 1977, told investigators that one night hated women, the court has also been gunshot residue on both of her hands Agencies Hair I am: Spector shows off a unique cut at an earlier court hearing. File

City beaches a joke to the WORLDSCENE UNITED STATES rich, holiday for the poor 300 kg lady trapped in bathroom A 318-kilogram woman was rescued MEXICO sharp class divisions. Wealthy from her bathroom by fi refi ghters Mexicans pack the world-famous who cut away part of an exterior While wealthy Mexico City residents resorts during the country’s two- wall and removed a window before fl ock to upscale coastal resorts like week Easter holiday, when Mexico lowering her to the ground, a fi re Acapulco over Easter, this year City is at its seasonal hottest. But offi cial said on Tuesday. some are opting for a cheaper beach the millions who earn the minimum The woman, identifi ed as Patty getaway — right here in the smoggy wage of $4 a day can never afford a Brown, called emergency services capital 2,240 meters above sea level. holiday. in Trenton, New Jersey, after Hundreds of families on Tuesday Juan Hernandez, a 31-year old becoming trapped late on Monday packed the first of four urban street collector for the Red Cross, when she fell in the second-fl oor “beaches” that Mayor Marcelo said his two young sons have never bathroom and was unable to get up. Ebrard plans to open in the capital, seen the real seaside. Medical personnel were unable to where they sunbathed and played “It will be fantastic,” Hernandez move her, and so called the city’s volleyball in the shadow of apartment said. “You need a place to escape to fi re department, which dispatched buildings. in these baking, hot days.” three fi re engines and some 25 Ebrard’s plan has been lampooned But Claudia Rodriguez, a 23-year- offi cers. as a joke and a waste of money by old marketing graduate looking for Mexico’s rich, with commentators work at the stock exchange, chortled Star Trek ashes ready for launch chuckling that sun bathers will choke at the idea. The ashes of James Doohan, who on exhaust fumes. “It’s absurd, illogical having played chief engineer Montgomery But the mayor’s supporters welcome beaches in Mexico City,” she said. “Scotty” Scott on the original Star the sand as an affordable getaway for “Sun bathers will risk being hit by Trek TV series, have been loaded millions of poor residents who have passing buses.” into a rocket that is set to launch in never seen a beach in their lives. New Mexico later this month. The difference refl ects Mexico’s Agencies A girl enjoys the shade of an apartment block while relaxing on one of Mexico City’s new urban beaches. AP The remains of Doohan and some 200 others were loaded into the rocket on Friday by Charles Chafer, chief executive of Celestis, a Texas company that contracts with rocket snorted fi rms to send cremated remains into Talking spy cameras to shout space. “And we’re ready to go,” Chafer said dad’s ashes with coke after inserting the silver canister. Stone son’s life was relatively orders at litterers, vandals AUSTRIA innocuous, it was a different story Rolling Stones guitarist Keith when Keith found himself in his most UNITED KINGDOM Reid said in a statement. “It uses Britain is the most watched country Giant bunny stolen Richards admits ingesting all life-threatening drug experience. modern technology to allow camera in the world, with an estimated 4.2 Police want residents of the southern manner of substances in his time. “Someone put strychnine in my More of the UK’s CCTV cameras are operators to speak directly to people million CCTV cameras, or one for Austrian city of Villach to keep an But none quite as bizarre as his dope. It was in Switzerland. I was to be fitted with loudspeakers to on the streets to stop or prevent them every 14 people. eye out for a pair of giant ears. latest confession: he snorted his totally comatose, but I was totally allow security staff to berate people acting anti-socially.” Louise Casey, a The government already faces Pranksters stole a large Easter father’s ashes. awake.” spotted dropping litter, fi ghting or civil servant who co-ordinates the accusations that planned identity bunny that had decorated the In an interview published yester- “I could listen to everyone, and vandalising property, the government government’s Respect campaign to cards and a national computer database square in front of city hall in day, the 63-year-old veteran of te- they were like, ‘He’s dead, he’s dead!’, said yesterday. tackle bad behaviour, said people of personal details will increase state Villach, authorities said. quila breakfasts and drug marathons waving their fi ngers and pushing me Britain’s Home Secretary John could “face the shame of being intrusion into people’s lives. Investigators said they have no claimed he once sampled his father’s about. I was thinking, ‘I’m not dead!’,” Reid hopes the shouting cameras publicly embarrassed.” The privacy watchdog warned last leads in the caper, but they’re ashes mixed with cocaine. “The he recalled. will help cut crime, but critics say the “Talking CCTV... is aimed at November that Britain was turning hoping someone will spot the strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? He said his longevity in the face of idea is another lurch towards Britain the small minority who think it into a “surveillance society”. missing rabbit so it can be returned My father. I snorted my father,” he multiple drug abuse over decades was becoming a “surveillance society”. is acceptable to litter our streets, “More and more information is to the square in time for Sunday’s told the UK’s NME magazine. just luck, and advised others not to The government has given local vandalise our communities and being collected,” said Information holiday celebrations. “He was cremated and I couldn’t follow his lead. “I’ve no pretensions authorities nearly 500,000 pounds damage our properties,” she said. Commissioner Richard Thomas. It shouldn’t be too diffi cult to spot: resist grinding him up with a little bit about immortality... I was number ($1 million) to pay for the new Council chiefs in areas where the “Humans must dictate our future, Including its large ears, the plaster of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared, one on the Who’s ‘Likely To Die’ list cameras in 20 areas after trials cameras have already been installed, not machines.” bunny stands 2 meters tall and he didn’t give a sh*t. It went down for 10 years. I mean, I was really around the country. say they help reduce littering, Liberal Democrat party leader weighs 60 kilograms. pretty well, and I’m still alive.” disappointed when I fell off the list.” Staff monitoring pictures from vandalism and fi ghts. Menzies Campbell accused Tony Bert Richards died five years “Some doctor told me I had six cameras will be able to talk directly But civil rights group Liberty has Blair’s government earlier this year UNITED KINGDOM ago at the age of 84. He had been months to live, and I went to their to anyone suspected of anti-social described the new cameras as a “hi- of “snooping” into every part of a factory labourer and wounded in funeral.” behaviour. tech toy (that) gives camera operators people’s lives. XBox ad banned World War II. “Talking CCTV is another tool massive powers to invade the lives of A TV advertisement for the XBox But if this episode of his Rolling Guardian in creating safer communities,” ordinary people”. Agencies 360 games console is to be pulled after the industry watchdog criticized it for “glamorising street car racing”. The Advertising Standards Agency NEWSMAKERS said the advertisement, which featured a driver weaving in and Halle Berry gets star role alongside Billy Bob Thornton sitting on his planet is hunched constantly questioning the incon- out of traffi c, being chased through in Monster’s Ball. She won an over a list of numbers, busily gruities of human life. a busy city center, “could be seen to on Walk of Fame Emmy and a Golden Globe for her counting stars he calls his own. Although the story was written condone dangerous driving”. title role in Introducing Dorothy “I am very pleased at the discov- for children, it struck a chord with It shows the car overturning and Halle Berry already has an Emmy, a Dandridge. ery. I was a bit moved to see a draw- adults for its profoundly philosophi- the driver getting out and being Golden Globe and an Oscar. Now she Berry, 40, co-stars with Bruce ing by Saint-Exupery,” said Francois cal undertones. handed a police badge by his has a star on the Walk of Willis in the upcoming fi lm, Perfect D’Agey, 81, nephew of the eccentric pursuers. Fame too. Stranger, which opens in the US on writer who disappeared on a fl ight A teary-eyed Berry received the April 13. mission during World War II. Charles: ‘I’m mocked AUSTRALIA 2,333rd Walk of Fame star in a “Although I’m usually wary for my love of pigs’ ceremony on Tuesday in front of the of my family’s enthusiasm Two weeks beneath the surface Kodak Theater. Lost Little Prince (at supposed discover- Prince Charles says he has been An Australian marine biologist “I am so emotional... as soon found in Japan ies)... because we tend to ridiculed for years for his dedication chicken,” Charles said. yesterday began an unusual as I saw the crowds of people and become very sentimental, to protecting native breeds of pigs, “And sure enough now, surprise, feat he hopes will prove a point friends here, I started to cry,” she A drawing found in Japan has the drawing is very prob- sheep, and chickens, in an interview surprise, they’re beginning to about sustainability — he will live said. turned out to be a lost page ably the original,” he told to be broadcast by BBC radio. come back. But the craziness of underwater for two weeks. Berry won the best actress in the original edition of a news conference. Charles gave the interview to BBC what we’ve done to this world. Lloyd Godson, 29, believes he can Academy Award in 2001 for her Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince radio’s Gardener’s Question Time Lunacy!” survive inside his airtight steel classic The Little Prince, the is world-famous radio show to mark the program’s Charles also spoke of his fondness box by growing algae to produce French aviator-turned-writ- for its ostensibly 60th anniversary. for his collection of hosta plants, oxygen and to eat, and by riding a er’s nephew said yesterday. simple story about Organic farming and conserving even though they attract slugs. stationary bike to generate power. The previously unknown a stranded aviator Britain’s traditional farming meth- And he told the program that “I’ve always liked a challenge and watercolor, signed by who befriends a ods and livestock are well-known as he and Princess Anne, his sister, I couldn’t have picked a bigger the author, depicts young golden- issues close to the Prince’s heart. began gardening as children. They one than this,” he told ABC radio. a scene from the haired “Which is why I have been going had a small vegetable patch in the “To build and live in your own iconic 1943 prince on for all these years to a chorus grounds at Buckingham Palace, he underwater house — that’s pretty book in which fallen of ridicule about the importance of said. cool.” a bulky busi- from the protecting and preserving rare na- nessman skies and tive breeds of cattle, sheep, pig and Agencies/AFP Agencies