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The directors deserve great credit for this nuanced and even-handed account of Spector’s misdeeds

Sky’s subscription service has some great new content dropping in December

In a new docuseries, the life of the abusive music mogul is contrasted with that of Lana Clarkson, the woman he was convicted of murdering

While detailing the music producer’s history of studio success and bizarre behavior, the Showtime true-crime series also makes time to remember the slain Lana Clarkson as more than just a ‘B-movie actress.’

LOS ANGELES — It's been nearly two decades since Lana Clarkson, the statuesque sword-wielding star of "Barbarian Queen" and other action films by Roger Corman, was murdered by songwriter and music producer Phil Spector at his sprawling faux French chateau in Alhambra known as the Pyrenees Castle.

For most of television history, talk shows have been benign yet entertaining distractions, with pleasant guests offering amusing if not entirely memorable chatter. But on several occasions, talk shows departed from their safe realm into explosions of bizarre and remarkable happenings. 

Cracks within the band were beginning to show by the late 1960s

Ronnie Spector was the lead singer on ‘Be My Baby’, a 1963 track which sold more than a million copies

Forget The Dirt, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman: music biopics used to be badly researched, badly scripted, badly acted and badly received