It's clear that Phil Spector and Punkin Laughlin should totally hook up – between his views about wanting to shoot all women in the face and her views about wanting to electrocute Phil Spector to death you've got a pretty hilarious sitcom premise.
As a witness for Phil Spector's defence, it's Punkin Laughlin's job, in essence, to stand up and tell the world that Lana Clarkson shot herself in Phil Spector's home because she was a drunken depressed drug-addict, while implying that Phil Spector couldn't possibly have murdered her. That job would be a lot easier to accomplish, though, had Punkin Laughlin not gone to a wedding right after Clarkson's death and told people "We need to fry that bastard for killing Lana." Now that Laughlin's testimony has been effectively discredited, the only witness left for Phil Spector to rely on is his trusty wigmaker, who says that Phil Spector is a lovely man who he's only had to tell off for screaming about all the "fucking cunts" who he wants to shoot three or four times.
Wow, it's like Phil Spector really can't cut a break in this trial for murdering Lana Clarkson by firing a gun into her mouth. Every time Phil Spector makes some kind of headway into convincing the world that he didn't do it, events just keep conspiring against him. Phil Spector can't claim that he's usually a placid guy thanks to all the times he held guns to womens' heads in the past, he can't claim that Lana Clarkson was a ghost-seeing lunatic because the judge won't let him, his chief forensic scientist appears to be an evidence tamperer and any claims that Lana Clarkson was depressed have been slightly overshadowed by the whole 'fucking cunt' incident.
But Phil Spector's last great hope was Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin, a friend of Lana Clarkson who goes by the inexplicable nickname of Punkin Pie. Earlier this week Punkin claimed that not only was Lana Clarkson suicidally depressed, but also it was Transformers director Michael Bay that made her so depressed, and if blaming Michael Bay for the death of a woman isn't a populist cry to the masses, we don't know what is. However, Punkin Laughlin's credibility as a witness for Phil Spector's defence has been compromised by the fact that she apparently wished death on Phil Spector at a wedding. E! Online reports:
Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin, a close friend of Lana Clarkson's who goes by the above nickname, denied ever saying, "We need to fry that bastard for killing Lana," while at a wedding shortly after the actress' death. "I never believed that, so it's something I wouldn't have said," Laughlin told Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson under cross-examination Tuesday morning, her third day on the stand. "You think you might have said it, then lied?" Jackson pressed.
It'd be a cause for concern if one of Phil Spector's centrepiece witnesses was a woman who wanted to electrocute him for being a murderer, but luckily Spector's team had other fish to fry, like forensic toxicologist Robert Middleberg who claimed that urine samples taken more than 13 hours after Lana Clarkson's death couldn't prove that Phil Spector was drunk when the shooting happened, meaning that Phil Spector either murdered Lana Clarkson sober or he murdered Lana Clarkson drunk and the booze wore off, or he was either drunk on sober shen she killed herself. They may as well just set Phil Spector free after conclusive evidence like that.
But back to Punkin Laughlin. What a foolish thing to say that Phil Spector needed to be fried. Not because of her standing as a defence witness, of course, but because Phil Spector's nylon hair would short out the entire west coast of America if anyone tried to actually electrocute him. Duh.
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Witness: I Didn't Say Spector Should "Fry" Exactly – E! Online
R Cole says
the inexplicable name Punkin Pie…
she has been called Punkin since she was a little girl in Medford, OR. It is not a Hollywood affectation. It’s just her nickname.