Murder trials aren't known for their laugh-a-minute hilarity, but Phil Spector's murder trial is different, thanks to a waitress taking the stand yesterday to compare the sight of Phil Spector dressed in plaid and carrying a huge shotgun to Elmer Fudd.
Kathy Sullivan used the Elmer Fudd comparison to describe the sight of Phil Spector gripping the gun and muttering about protection after she and a friend had stayed in his LA castle a decade ago. Although there may not be that many superficial similarities between Phil Spector and Elmer Fudd, cast your minds back to the little-seen 1949 Warner Brothers cartoon Rabbit In Court where Elmer Fudd dons a ridiculous lesbian wig, goes to a bar, brings back Bugs Bunny who'd been working there as a hostess and shoots him in the mouth, killing him instantly. Or, you know, doesn't do any of that. Depending on how guilty of murder Phil Spector gets found to be.
It's good to see that, no matter how uncertain other things become, you can always guarantee that each new day of the Phil Spector murder trial will bring at least one woman telling a story about Phil Spector and guns. After the judge deemed these women's testimonies as relevant, all kind of females have stepped forward to tell the court their Phil Spector gun stories. So far there's been the woman who said that Phil Spector hit her in the head with a gun, the woman who said that Phil Spector tried to rape her at gunpoint and two more women who claim that Phil Spector pulled guns on them.
And yesterday at the Phil Spector murder trial, there was more of the same – although yesterday's news was unique because the woman giving the testimony didn't have any guns pointed directly at her terrified head. Waitress Kathy Sullivan took to the stand to describe the scene when she and her friend Susan had stayed at Spector's house overnight and he decided to lead them to their cars with a giant shotgun in his hand, as the San Fransisco Chronicle reports:
She said the next morning as they were about to depart, Spector left them in the foyer and returned carrying a long gun. Sullivan said she asked Spector what the weapon was for. "He said, 'Protection,'" she testified. Sullivan said that Spector kept the gun pointed down as he walked them to Susan's car and that she never felt threatened by him. But she and Susan "were both very shocked by it and just (said) 'What was that?'" she testified.
This testimony caused some controversy in court, with defence lawyers claiming that it was irrelevant and prosecution lawyers arguing that it was proof that Phil Spector had constant access to weapons, and therefore acts as proof that Phil Spector was capable of fatally shooting Lana Clarkson in the mouth at his home in 2003.
Further argument came when a squabble broke out between the defence and the prosecution over the veracity of Kathy Sullivan's claims that Phil Spector looked like Elmer Fudd, with the defence at pains to point out that Spector wasn't like Elmer Fudd at all, and if he was like any cartoon character he'd be a less threatening one like Bugs Bunny, but Bugs Bunny when he dresses up like a sexy six-foot-tall lady rabbit, or that Roman centurion Martian thing. Or a Care Bear. Or something.
None of that last paragraph actually happened. Nobody sue us.
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Waitress Tells Of Spector Gun Episode – San Fransisco Chronicle