Friends of Lana Clarkson say HBO’s “Phil Spector” murders truth. Hollywood publicist Ed Lozzi protested last week outside a free screening of the Al Pacino movie in LA, and told Page Six: “Shame on HBO for green-lighting it. Shame on David Mamet for writing it. And shame on Barry Levinson for going for the quick buck.” Lozzi repped Clarkson, whom Spector was convicted of murdering in 2009. He said, “Their campaign has always been deceitful, evil and defamatory to our beloved friend.” As for the film’s disclaimer that it’s a “work of fiction,” Lozzi said, “They are portraying real people and using their real names. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” And he’s also critical of Clarkson’s first name being mispronounced throughout the movie to rhyme with banana, when he says it was really Lah-nah. “The horror of it is, it’s a good movie,” he summed up. “Five million people will watch it Sunday night and think there is reasonable doubt that Spector is guilty. The movie implies he wasn’t even in the room when he shot her in the head.” A rep for HBO responded that the film is “[Mamet’s] exploration of the client-attorney relationship between [Spector] and his defense attorney . . . Mamet approaches the story of Phil Spector as a mythological one, not as a news story, and the film is not an attempt to comment upon the trial or its outcome. HBO’s goal is to provide a creative platform for three great artists… While there may be many disparate interpretations of the film’s intentions, we feel the film speaks for itself.”
‘Phil Spector’ speculation
